Alter The Press! (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Baroness will be touring Europe in January. 01/18 Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013 01/19 London, UK @ TBA 01/20 Manchester, UK @ Islington Mill 01/21 Glasgow, UK @ Nice N Sleazy 01/22 Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hound 01/23 Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie 01/24 Karlsruhe, Germany @ Die Stadtmitte 01/25 Munich, Germany @ Feierwerk 01/26 Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang 01/27 Copenhagen, Denmark @ The Rock 01/28...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Visitors place roses in cracks in a remaining section of the Berlin Wall during the 20th anniversary observance of the wall's fall. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the moon landing of my generation. A rare, seminal event crystallizing the notion that anything is possible. This is why it was so important for the world to revel last week in the 20th anniversary celebrations marking the wall's welcome...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Monday's celebration in Berlin was a brilliant closure. The opening of a European foreign policy looks more shaky Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of the wall in Berlin night a genuinely, even an unexpectedly moving affair. The organisers, presumably guided by Angela Merkel, got almost every accent right. Freedom, Europe and the wider world...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I believe in miracles. They happen everyday. Like Reuters, of all news outlets, acknowledging the role that religious faith played in the dissident movements in East Germany leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Sarah Pulliam Bailey picked up on that in a November 9 post at Get Religion yesterday: With Bon Jovi, Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev likely to steal the spotlight at the...
Chibebräu--the Chibes' online homebrew log (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Twenty years ago the Wall fell. I think it's hard for many of us to truly understand the devastation caused by the erection of the Berlin Wall. For starters, I encourage you to watch this six-minute documentary: To get a better idea of communism's impact in Germany, I recommend checking out two movies: Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives of Others) and Good Bye Lenin! The former is a drama and the latter...
Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
By Randy Sly 11/9/2009 Catholic Online ( http://www.catholic.org/ ) The date of November 9, 1989 has special meaning for the citizens of East Berlin. That is when the wall between East and West was breached. The voice of the people, fueled by hope and joined in solidarity which both began when Pope John Paul II visited Poland, took down a wall and the tyranny that had erected it. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic...
APM: Marketplace (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
How is the reunification of East and West Germany going 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Amy Scott visits Leipzig, one of the region's most successful cities, to explore the long-term effects of democracy and capitalism.
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In 2002, I was one of the guests of honour at a science-fiction convention in Leipzig. I had a fine old time. My hosts took me and the other guests to the top of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal War Memorial, the largest war memorial in Europe, and held a celebratory dinner in Auerbach’s Keller, the cellar restaurant where Goethe is supposed to have received inspiration for Faust . I visited the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Individuals caught up in the end of the cold war recall the fall of the Berlin Wall The final baby – The last scream of the old regime Sarah Klier was born in Leipzig two minutes before midnight on 2 October 1990, the last child to be born in the GDR, which ceased to exist the following day when East and West Germany were reunited I was known as the "last scream" of the GDR when I...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It’s twenty years now since a great tsunami swept across Eastern Europe, smashing the Berlin Wall with huge force, smashing the communist certainties. Of course I never knew the old Germany, that part of Europe frozen in ideological permafrost, but I’ve heard stories. Father used to travel to what was called the German Democratic Republic on business, staying in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin....
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
With celebrations underway across Germany to celebrate the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Communist East German regime, a new survey says a surprising number of Germans wouldn’t mind seeing the barrier go back up. Performed by the Leipzig Institute for Market Research for the daily Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper, the pollsters conducted interviews with 1008 representative...
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Two photos today. My partner, Pauline Powell and I visited East Germany and West Berlin in 1984. The first picture is a shot of the Berlin Wall from the western side, and seems appropriate as tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of its fall. The second shot, taken inside the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig, announces [...]
Taiwan Matters! (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Remembering the events that brought about the fall of the Berlin Wall On November 9, 2009, Germans will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years ago on October 7, 1989, the 40th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic (AKA East Germany), the communist leadership wanted adulation, but the people offered defiance. The East Germans were supposed to be celebrating...
wrongful-convictions (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Peter Shellem, whose relentless digging into dusty court records, erroneous crime-lab reports and coerced confessions during his 23 years as a reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., led to the release of five wrongly convicted prisoners, died Oct. 24 at his home in Gardners, Pa. He was 49. In one case, a man who was a teenager when he was convicted of killing a neighbor was released after...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Leipzig, Germany - Sabine Gugutschkow is a tour guide in her home city of Leipzig in eastern Germany. In many cases, it is schoolchildren whom she takes to the original locations where Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution took place in 1989 - the demonstrat...
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