Translation of my article about anti-government protests in Austria, February / March 2000, appearing in the Viennese feminist magazine Anschlaege

Boo-calls, Cops, and Babies at the Ballhaus Never has a government—already at its onset—been greeted with such resentment   Wi-der-stand [re-sis-tance] roars rhythmically and persistently against the closed doors of the Hofburg. Whistles, drums, pots, and horned instruments sound accompaniment. The barely sworn in government acts as if it’s robbed a bank and flees through the underground crypts. Hundreds of tomatoes and eggs hit the new plastic signs or land next to them as a veritable reminder. The indignation is misunderstood by the executive as a “love of noise.” The messages on the...

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Translation of my article appearing in Die Bunte Zeitung, Vienna, October 2000

The Historical Truth Japanese immigrants remember the victims of the Hiroshima attack and point to the ongoing nuclear threat   In 1982 millions of people protested in Tokyo, New York, and major European cities; in Europe, Japan, and the US, concern over the danger of nuclear weapons was much more apparent than it is today. The very first Austrian NGOs for this issue formed around this time – among them the “Initiative Oesterreichischer Atomkraftgegner,” which fought against starting up the nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf [along the Danube in Lower Austria; the building...

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