Greece prostest photos - 29. june 2011

Greece prostest photos - 29. june 2011

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/buhs425185hvdfs/29-6-11.rar

Active Stills - Photos and Videos

Active Stills - Photos and Videos



INFO:
http://www.activestills.org/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Activestills/286357017072
http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/

ActiveStills´s Video Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ActiveStills

The Activestills collective was established in 2005 by a group of Israeli and international documentary photo-graphers, out of a strong conviction that photography is a vehicle for social change. We believe in the power of images to shape public attitudes and to raise awareness on issues that are generally absent from public discourse. We view ourselves as part of the struggle against all forms of oppression, racism, and violations of the basic right to freedom. We do work on various topics, including the grassroots movement and the popular struggle against the Israeli occupation, women’s rights, immigration, asylum-seekers, social justice, the siege on Gaza, and housing rights inside Israel.

The work as a collective is based upon the belief that mutual work serves each photographer‘s personal statement, and that joint projects will create shared statements that are more powerful than individual ones. The collective, now consisting of ten photographers, operates in Israel/Palestine and focuses on social and political documentation, project production, publication, and exhibition.

Israeli public opinion is shaped first and foremost by the mainstream media, which is shifting to become more racist and violent. The impact of this shift is evident in increased public support for violent military operations, racist legislation, and discriminatory policies. We wish to challenge these changes with our work. Each time our photos are published, either in the mainstream media or in alternative channels, they convey messages that challenge oppression and bring the voices of the unheard into public discourse.

Activestills often uses public space for exhibitions in order to more directly influence public opinion and bring about social change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEghxmLJWYA


Excerpt from the documentary "Breaking Frontiers", featuring Shachaf Polakow, photographer with the activist collective Active Stills (www.activestills.org), who took part in a demonstration in Bilin against the land grabbing and the Israeli occupation.

Ranua rescue

Ranua rescue
...is a campaign which set up a protest camp against uranium mining in lapland



For more information:
www.ranuarescue.blogspot.com
www.nuclearfreefinland.org
http://ranua.nuclear-heritage.net/

(en) Today all around the world mining companies are in a blind rage to dig all world's natural resources. These companies are focused to get maximal profits out of their activities, what means that they don´t care about the social and ecological disasters that these mining operations bring along. In most of the cases mining companies are coming from the ´first world´ countries and so they try to exploit the ´third world´ countries as much as possible. It's always a lot easier to start digging in places where the environmental laws are not taken so much into account, where people live who don't have a voice in the decisions that are made and where violations against human rights are not such a big deal. Well…

Also in Finland we see the same thing happening. The decesionmakers are pro-nuclear energy, and that we can see quiet clearly. Four powerplants are nowadays active, one (olkiluoto 3) is under construction, while there are several plans to make more completely new nuclear powerplants. More globaly, this nuclear industry is trying to make a comeback as the solution of the world´s increasing demand for energy and the threat of the dramatic climate change. In our world of today we have around 430 operating reactors, while 52 are under construction. 135 are already planned (and will most probably be ready within 8 years) and 295 are proposed (which means they will be most probably ready within 15 years). (www.world-nuclear.org/ info/reactors.htm)

Nuclear powerplants don´t function without uranium and for that we need to dig it out of the earth. In that sense it would be quiet normal that if finnish people are using electricity that comes from nuclear energy, that they have to accept also uranium mines in their own backyard. It would be in a way a lot more ethical than wasting the land in other countries. Anyway, the whole nuclear industry is not fair or ethical in any sense. Decisions are made by a little amount of people and the rest has to follow or… inform themselves and raise their voice.

So, on the 26th of august a protestcamp was set up in Ranua, southern Lapland. with the aim of monitoring Areva´s activities and support the resistance against the uranium mining in Ranua, but as I already explained, also to protest against nuclear industry as a whole.
At this moment, the camp exists almost for two months. Bit by bit the camp got more and more attention. Local people are supporting the camp, bringing food and clothes, inviting us for sauna or a shower… Together with the local people of Ranua, we organised a documentary evening, an information moment on the market square and we try to inform as much people as possible. One of the big problems is that lots of people simply don’t know about the consequences of uranium mining or nuclear energy as a whole. So it’s a big challenge to inform the people. And important, to convince the people of the council who are going to vote on the 16th of november about willing a uranium mine or not. A no-vote from the council will be, at least, a little step in the good direction…

AN ONLINE SLIDESHOW ABOUT THE PROEST-CAMP:
http://telenautik.de/grimm/rr_slides1/1.html

Ranuan uraanivoimanvastainen leiri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-uqoU65wKg