The Tri-County Greens are pleased to announce the candidacy of David Doonan for mayor of the village of Greenwich.
Visit Dave's campaign site at www.daviddoonan.com. There, you can learn about his platform and running mates and even make suggestions.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Author of bio on German Greens leader to appear in Glens Falls
Author and journalist Paul Hockenos will be in Glens Falls next Tuesday. He will read from, discuss and sign his latest book: "JOSCHKA FISCHER AND THE MAKING OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany."
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Bio: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist and author who has written about South Eastern Europe since 1989. He joined ESI as a Berlin-based analyst November 2002 to December 2003. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, The New Statesman and Society, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.
Hockenos is the author of "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, '93). From 1997-99 he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, Paul has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin.
He received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research and write Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003). He is currently working on ESI's migration and development project within the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA), concentrating on Kosovo.
About the book: Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to becomeGermany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany.
Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany.
He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along theway. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates.
Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Bio: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist and author who has written about South Eastern Europe since 1989. He joined ESI as a Berlin-based analyst November 2002 to December 2003. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, The New Statesman and Society, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.
Hockenos is the author of "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, '93). From 1997-99 he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, Paul has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin.
He received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research and write Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003). He is currently working on ESI's migration and development project within the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA), concentrating on Kosovo.
About the book: Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to becomeGermany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany.
Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany.
He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along theway. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates.
Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.
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