Ep 37: On the Berlin Housing Protests, and the Danish Left & Academic Freedom

On this three-part episode of SPS, Sophia and the Editor of the Platypus Review, Lou Sterrett, give a teaser of what’s inside the latest issue. In the second segment, our European Correspondent Andreas Wintersperger catches up with Ian Cassidy. Originally from Ireland, Cassidy is a Berlin-based activist, working for the campaign 'Deutsche Wohnen & co enteignen' which aims to pressure Berlin’s largest private housing companies to better serve their tenants. In the final segment, SPS co-host Pamela sits down with Victor and Sidsel, our members in Aarhus, to discuss the recent debates over academic freedom in Danish universities in response to the parliament in Denmark accusing researchers of “excessive activism”. LINKS: Platypus Review Issue 138, July 2021 https://platypus1917.org/platypus-review/ Platypus in Aarhus, Denmark https://www.facebook.com/groups/2026045940750202 Chris Cutrone, The end of the Gilded Age: Discontents of the Second Industrial Revolution today, December 2017, https://platypus1917.org/2017/12/02/end-gilded-age-discontents-second-industrial-revolution-today/ Chris Cutrone, On philosophy and Marxism: response to Suther and Velissaris, 2020, https://platypus1917.org/2020/11/01/on-philosophy-and-marxism-response-to-suther-and-velissaris/ Jensen Suther and Thodoris Velissaris, Response to Cutrone, November 2020, https://platypus1917.org/2020/11/01/response-to-cutrone/ Panel Discussion in German, “Die Wohnungsfrage und die Linke”, July 2021: https://tinyurl.com/6c48vje Deutsche Wohnen & co enteignen Campaign https://www.dwenteignen.de/ Petition In Solidarity with Danish Researches, June 2021, https://atgender.eu/academic-freedom-in-denmark-open-letter-2-june-2021/ Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen, The Academic Culture War Comes to Denmark, June 2021, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/denmark-parliament-motion-research-fields-academic-freedom-feminism-postcolonial-migration-race-studies