Tusovka

a rendez-vous of political ideas, analyses and experience ... and more.

Pilot Issue 

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• Editorial: Why this newsletter?
• Multicolored Greens - Strategy and Action (review of Sergey Fomichev's book)
  A history and assessment of the green movement in Russia.
• A more effective industrialism -- A critique of the ideology of sustainability (by Christoph Spehr)

The discourse on sustainability has weakened the environmental movement. Christoph Spehr looks at its underlying assumptions, and at the way it has distracted the attention of political struggles away from the real reasons for pollution, depletion of resources, and overexploitation of the environment and of people.
• Homosexuality in the Soviet Union and in today's Russia (by Anne Bütikofer)

People who do not comply with the heterosexual norm imposed by society have to find their own strategies for building a place for themselves in this society. Anne Bütikofer writes about the historical and current situation of lesbians in Russia.
• What did your father buy a rifle for ...? (by Elena Ch.)

Enjoy!
• Interview with Lena G. (by Anne Bütikofer)

Lena G. has made her private collection of material on lesbian and gay life in Russia and elsewhere available to the public.
• read me -- How do we speak about bio-technologies? (by Stephan Geene & Renate Lorenz)

This article looks at the images used in speaking about bio-technologies, and the ways in which these technologies are being made attractive.
• Squat in Warsaw -- A diary (by Zaczek)

So many buildings just remain empty and unused! Take them! Live there!
• Communication Guerilla (by Sonja Brünzels & Luther Blissett)

Saying "the truth" is not enough if nobody listens. How can we communicate in such a way that people's attention is called to the arbitrary nature of their certainties?
• Financial Warfare (by Michel Chossudovsky)

An introduction to the mechanisms of financial markets.