Sunday, November 17, 2019

Czechs And Slovaks celebrate Velvet Revolution anniversary with music and marches

Czechs celebrate Velvet Revolution anniversary with music and marches

The festivities took after 250,000 Czechs rallied against PM Andrej Babis and President Milos Zeman over concerns the pair are chipping away at democracy.


Cold River: The Cold Truth of Freedom: Jozef Imrich ...




Google on Velvet Revolution



ABC’s Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue (from 0730 to 0900 or on their website  in case you miss it).
Ehud Yarri on the changing face of the Middle East
After the Wall: November 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the start of a reunification process that, arguably, still continues today. Anna Funder, author of  Stasiland  and a long-time observer of East German politics, reflects on the legacy of this event.
Retail sales are down but have we stopped buying – or just changed the way we spend? Welcome to the world of Rent the Runway, “frictionless” experiences and Insta-shopping. Guests: Clare Press, fashion and sustainability journalist, Vogue Australia  and Pippa Kulmar, co-director, Retail Oasis.
Don’t follow the leader: Lord Christopher Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong and now Chancellor of Oxford says we are suffering a dearth of transformational global leadership – and his own Conservative party is not exempt from blame.
In “Our Women on the Ground”, Lebanese-British journalist Zahra Hankir brings together the voices of 19 female journalists reporting on the Arab world.

Story image for prague wall velvet from TIME

Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution Started 30 Years Ago ...

TIME
On Nov. 17, 1989, student protesters filled the streets of Prague. It was eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the same tide of freedom ...
Story image for prague wall velvet from The Business Times

Czechs, Slovaks mark 30 years of democracy won in Velvet ...

The Business Times-1 hour ago
An estimated quarter-million Czechs flooded central Prague on ... in the former Czechoslovakia, just weeks after the Berlin Wall crumbled.
Story image for prague wall velvet from Expats.cz

Prague's John Lennon Wall opens with new murals and new ...

Expats.cz-8 Nov 2019
The new look of Prague's famous John Lennon Wall is becoming clear, ... made the new logo for the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
Story image for prague wall velvet from Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty

Thirty Years Ago In Prague, Student Protests Snowballed Into ...

Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty-14 Nov 2019
... Ago In Prague, Student Protests Snowballed Into The Velvet Revolution ... In 1989, just eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a student protest against communist rule was violently put down in Prague, the Czechoslovak ...
Story image for prague wall velvet from Sacramento Bee

Prague Museum Displays Totalitarian-Era Surveillance Tech

The New York Times-16 Nov 2019
Hoping to reach East Germany, before the Berlin Wall sealed off its ... of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution by looking back at the ...
Story image for prague wall velvet from Irish Times

Velvet Revolution memories bittersweet as Czechs worry for ...

Irish Times-14 Nov 2019
When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th, Prague began to believe that Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin would stick to its new “Sinatra Doctrine” ...
Story image for prague wall velvet from Tablet Magazine

Metamorphosis in Prague

Tablet Magazine-28 minutes ago
German troops marched into Prague the next day; Bibi never saw her ... Waiting for them on Narodni Street was a wall of riot-ready ... It was Klimova who described what was going on in her country as a “velvet revolution.

How history shaped the John Lennon Wall in Prague

The New Indian Express-19 Oct 2019
How history shaped the John Lennon Wall in Prague ... In its third avatar, after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 which ended Communism in ...
Story image for prague wall velvet from The Guardian

Democracy is under attack in post-Wall Europe – but the spirit ...

The Guardian-30 Oct 2019
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe's velvet .... I will take the train from Bratislava to Prague, crossing what is now an ...
Story image for prague wall velvet from Irish Times

Russia and China, controversial friends of the Czech president

Irish Times-15 Nov 2019
“It was a huge embarrassment for Prague Castle, because Zeman chose Ye ... The peaceful Velvet Revolution toppled the communist regime in the ... newly renovated and repainted 'Lennon Wall' in Prague on November 7th.