politics

23.08.2023

Jerome Foster

Jerome Foster II (2002-) is a young African-American climate activist and virtual reality developer. He is the Executive Director of OneMillionOfUs, which is an international youth voting & advocacy youth organization that aims to educate, energize and empower a movement …

22.08.2023

Gaylord Nelson

Gaylord Nelson (1916-2005) was an American politician and governor of Wisconsin who was very interested in the environment and always wanted people to be aware of the importance of taking care of it.  As a senator, in 1970, Gaylord Nelson …

22.08.2023

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th president of the U.S. in 1901. He did a very good job during his presidency and, apart from all the bureaucracy, what he achieved environmentally-wise was astonishing: he established 150 national forests, 51 federal …

18.08.2023

Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right)

Omas gegen Rechts is a citizens initiative in Germany and Austria founded in 2017. The movement began when the conservative People’s Party had just formed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party in Austria. The group protest extreme right-wing political …

29.07.2021

Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple, 1830)

The picturesque image of Liberty leading the July Revolution in France Author: Sylvia Borissova Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by the French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix (1798—1863), dedicated to the July Revolution of …

04.09.2020

Human Flow

Human Flow is a German documentary film co-produced and directed by Ai Weiwei about the current global refugee crisis. In the film the viewer is taken to over 20 countries to understand both the scale and the personal impact of …

20.08.2020

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

The movie plot is based on the Rwandan genocide in the spring of 1994. It tells the story of Paul Rusesabagina – a man who tries to save his family and the lives of more than a thousand other refugees …