Reclaim your Future - demonstrations
On the 10th Anniversary of the Bologna Declarations, 47 ministers of education met at the Hofburg in Vienna. The Bologna process is a political project aiming at creating a single European Higher Education Area by 2010 and putting the economic usability of degrees in the center of attention. Students from many countries formed a large demonstration, moving from the Western Train Station to the Hofburg, to make themselves heard - as students have hardly been involved in the Bologna process.
Production: Three of many
Date: 11.03.2010 Length: 4:41 min Size: 24 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Reclaim your Future Part II - demonstrations
At least 8,000 students from all over Europe were marching through Vienna in order to protest against negative effects of the Bologna process (see also: Reclaim your Future).
Production: Three of many
Date: 11.03.2010 Length: 6:15 min Size: 31 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
School Yard, not Underground Parking - demonstrations
In its quest to undermine Vienna with subterranean garages, the Viennese Social Democrat Party has had another glorious idea: a four-level underground garage underneath the school yard of the “GRG 17” High School in Vienna. The students as ‘temporary neighbours’ were not involved in the planning process - which provoked resistance and led to the establishment of a citizens’ initiative organising informative meetings and demonstrations. We have been to its last protest rally.
Production: United Aliens TV
Date: 03.03.2010 Length: 6:45 min Size: 53 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
After the Eviction - demonstrations
In the morning of December 21, 2009, Rector Winkler unexpectedly ordered the eviction of the Main Lecture Hall at the University of Vienna, which had been occupied by students for most of the semester. In the afternoon, students formed a spontaneous protest march. We have followed their march from the C1 lecture hall on the university campus (still occupied at that time) via Mariahilfer Straße (in full Christmas Fever) to the Gürtel.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 21.12.2009 Length: 6:15 min Size: 50 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Solidarity is a Weapon - demonstrations
On the occasion of the F13 action day, the Libertarian Initiative of Social Workers (LISA-FAS) and other groups called for a demonstration. Around 150 followed, protesting against cuts in the ongoing negotiations about the collective treaty for social workers.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 13.11.2009 Length: 4:40 min Size: 33 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Money for Education - demonstrations
The student protests continue with a country-wide action day comprising different activities and demonstrations all over Austria. We accompanied one of the two protest maches heading at Urban-Loritz-Platz in Vienna and spoke to some of the protesters about their demands.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 05.11.2009 Length: 5:40 min Size: 43 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Education, not Training - demonstrations
Student uprisings in Austria are expanding. It's not only universities in Vienna that have been occupied, resistance is also stirring in the provinces. Several non-students are expressing their solidarity with the protesters, as a a preliminary peak of the movement showed: Between 10.000 (according to the police) and 50.000 (according to the organisers) protesters were demonstrating in Vienna alone, demanding an immediate improvement of the Austrian education system.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 28.10.2009 Length: 7 min Size: 50 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Detention without Delict - demonstrations
The National Council is expected to adopt the bill on the amendment of the asylum and alien law drafted on behalf of the Austrian Minister of the Interior, Ms. Fekter, on November 21, 2009. Lightly recognizable, this leads to another tightening of the law. Detention pending deportation shall be extended and proceedings shall be shortened, thus leading to reduced possibilities for asylum seekers to file follow-up applications (when a first application for asylum has been rejected and circumstances have changed later on). "Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 20.10.2009 Length: 3:50 min Size: 27 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
28 March - We are not paying for your crisis - demonstrations
A broad and creative alliance of different groups and activists gathered at Westbahnhof to protest against rescuing the current economic system and for more humane alternatives. The United Aliens special unit KLAG 2009 (Crisis Resolution Consortium 2009) used this outstanding opportunity to ask the protesters for small,insignificant donations to strengthen out economy and collect funds for poverty stricken banks.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 28.03.2009 Length: 9:40 min Size: 93 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
We are not paying for your crisis - demonstrations
In the end of 2008, prices for electricity and cooking gas were strongly increased. Several action groups formed a platform to protest against the rising costs. The demonstrators did not march through the city centre but through the residential areas to reach people where they live. Following a first demo through the 16thurban district in January, the route led from Hannovermarkt in the 20th urban district to Gaussplatz.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 28.02.2009 Length: 2:30 min Size: 17 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Fair Game Animal Protection - demonstrations
On May 21, 2008, apartments and offices of animal rights activists all over Austria were searched through by the police, several items were seized and ten animal activists arrested. They are accused of forming a criminal association according to § 278 of the Criminal Code. The activists were put in pre-trial custody for threemonths although no real evidence was presented. Over 120 solidarity demos took place worldwide. Eventually, the activists were released on September 2. We have been to the solidarity demo in...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 06.09.2008 Length: 11:30 min Size: 95 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
euromayday 2008 - demonstrations
Unconditional basic income for everyone and the fight about precarious working conditions were the main concerns of the protesters on Euromayday 2008 in Vienna. Despite the serious claims, a wide range of different people joined for a wild demonstration. We have talked to activists of the cultural association KUKUMA as well as the followers of the Religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monsters. The protest march took a rather bad end at Pankahyttn. Although the police is certainly notdoing an easy job, the police...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 01.05.2008 Length: 8:10 min Size: 59 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
If you sleep during democracy... - demonstrations
The Austrian Freedom Party FPÖ has agreed to the ratification of the EU reform treaty when it was still a coalition partner – and has meanwhile forgot about it. Part of the parliamentarians has never read the text of the treaty, but nevertheless endorses it. This is how Austria is being ruled – it seems that not having known about anything is still part of the Austrian mentality...?
Do we need this treaty – or a new policy?The EU reform treaty comprises a duty to rearmament, participation in a European...
Production: Ursula, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 05.04.2008 Length: 7:10 min Size: 51 MB License: CCL BY-NC-ND 3.0 Language: german
Women's demonstration in Vienna... - demonstrations
The halfhearted political attempts to foster equal opportunities for women seem to have dwindled away years ago. In Austria, equal pay for equal work is still a utopia in 2008; women still earn 40 % less than men and migrant women gain even less. See our snapshots about the demonstration on International Women's Day, paying special attention to the anonymisation of the demonstrators.
Production: Ursula, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 08.03.2008 Length: 3:45 min Size: 26 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Equal rights for everyone - demonstrations
Just a few days before X-mas 2007, the minister for the interior decided that Arigona Zogaj (who's family had been deported to Kosovo), will have to leave Austria. The teenager who had publically announced that she would rather commit suicide than be subjected to deportation is just one individual case. However it's a good example for the consequences of the ailing, deficient Austrian asylum policy. It's temporary peak: the introduction of so-called 'asylum courts' by the ruling parties SPÖ (social democrats) and ÖVP...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 15.12.2007 Length: 4 min Size: 28 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Against racism - demonstrations
Once again, it was about time for another anti-racism demo. Austria has many reasons to offer for such a demonstration, but this time, two incidents were in the center of attention of the activists. Number one: The fate of the Zeqaj family (refugees from Kosovo), esp. of mother Safete who was in custody pending deportation at the time of the demo. And number two: The questionable activities of the action group "Dammstraße – Against the Construction of Mosques in Residential Areas" (related to the right-wing "Freedom Party"...
Production: Marius Gabriel, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 17.11.2007 Length: 8 min Size: 67 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Freedom will securely die - demonstrations
The Austrian Pirate Party has called for a demonstration against the repeated limitation of data protection on the day of the Feast of Corpus Christi. The reason: the parliament was planning to introduce new the regulations on Telecommunications data retention just before it's annual summer break. Protesters were marching from the main university building to the Ministry of Transport, who is responsible for the matter. Among the demonstrators, there were some representatives of Quintessenz, a group of privacy activists which...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 06.07.2007 Length: 4:30 min Size: 31 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Austrian Mayday 07 - demonstrations
This year, the Mayday Parade against gradual precarisation on the labor market departed at Victor Adler marked and cleaved it's way to Karlsplatz. As several video teams were accompagnying the parade, UATV decided to leave the usual coverage to them and to observe what else is going on around the demo. See an interview with the ativists of the initiative "Flakturm" and our attemps to get a statement from the authorities present.
Production: Pot, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 01.05.2007 Length: 9:30 min Size: 68 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Marriage without borders' first anniversary - demonstrations
Allthough conservative ministers keep on claiming that marriage is sacred, it's not equally accessible for everyone in Austria. Love ends at the state frontier – at least that's how the interior ministry sees things. "Marriage without borders", an initiative of married partners concerned by the strict regulations, has been protesting against the separation of families for one year, meeting every Wednesday in front of the ministry for the interior. See the initiative's special performance for it's first anniversary.
Production: Craz, Miss Mos (United Aliens TV)
Date: 18.04.2007 Length: 4:30 min Size: 32 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Stop & Go - demonstrations
Avid for power, the strongest Austrian party SPOe (Social Democratic Party) needs to undermine it's own objectives after the parliamentary elections in order to be able to form a coalition. The party drops it's main pre-election promisses, including the largest and most prominent one: the abolition of university fees (introduced by the previous government). The sellout: students who agree to do 60 hours of work in certain social services will be "dispensed" from the fees. This adds up to a generous wage of 6 Euros per hour....
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 17.01.2007 Length: 6:30 min Size: 46 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
The return of the swearing-in Ceremony - demonstrations
As the Social Democrats (SPÖ) were elected the strongest faction in parliament, it was not a big surprise that party leader Alfred Gusenbauer was mandated to form a government. Finally, his team agreed to enter into a coalition with the conservative People's party. Many voters of the Social Democrats cannot believe the outcome of the negotiations. Most election pledges were abandoned, while Gusenbauer realised his childhood dream to become chancellor. The ceremony where he and his ministers are sworn in reflects the mood of...
Production: United Aliens TV, kanalB Musik: Frostandwagner
Date: 11.01.2007 Length: 9:30 min Size: 67 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Transnational action day against migration control - demonstrations
The 3rd. transnational action day against migration control passed Austria widely unnoticed. Apart from some performances, about 350 people met for a demonstration at the deportation prison at Hernalser Gürtel in Vienna. In their demonstration, they demand the legalisation of migrants living in Europe and, more generally, a radical change of migration policies.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 09.10.2006 Length: 4:30 min Size: 31 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Bush come home - demonstrations
One single man is travelling to Austria, and everyday live comes to a rest. Many shops in the Viennese city center have to stay closed for a whole day and 4000 police are on duty, many of them 'imported' from other regions of Austria. But no, it is not the pope's visit! And still, police underestimated the dimensions of the euphoric parade in his honour. Vienna has not seen such masses of equally-minded people for a long time, and it's all due to HIM. Overwhelming enthousiasm and coloured flags show what this man has done to...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 21.06.2006 Length: 7:30 min Size: 71 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Thursday Demonstrations 2000-2006 - demonstrations
Once again, the time has come. About 450 people gather in remembrance of the formation of the FPOe-OeVP coalition government in 2000. The Thursday demonstrations had been going on for over two years, but when the government was cofirmed in office after the reelection (2002), most activists were disenchanted (see "..."). Since then, protest rallies take place on `jubilees´ only. As last year, we attended and asked for the meaning of yet another jubilee demonstration.
Production: UATV & kanalB
Date: 22.02.2006 Length: 6 min Size: 42 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Summary Proceedings - demonstrations
In 1958, Ulrichsberg mountain in Carinthia has become a yearly meeting point of veterans of the nazi wehrmacht and SS, their dependants and ideological descendants. Every autumn, they get together with VIPs from the political arena in a shoulder-to-shoulder stance at the so-called Europe Homecomer Memorial. Supported by the Austrian Federal Armed Forces, courted by (almost) all political parties in Carinthia and largely endorsed by the local population, delegations and veteran organizations arrive from all across Europe to...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 21.09.2005 Length: 3:30 min Size: 24 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Hiroshima, 60 years after - demonstrations
Early August, 1945: The allied forces have defeated nazi Germany, but Japan (a former ally of Germany and Italy), heavily tarnished, does not thing about capitulation. The US decide to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima and implement their decision on August 6 at 8.15 am local tim. The weapon had just been developed, involving 100 000 collaboratos, and been given the cynical by-name "Little Boy". The majority of the victims-their exact number is disputed - were civilians, many others were Koreans brought to Japanfor forced labor....
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 06.08.2005 Length: 5 min Size: 35 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
workers' day of action' - demonstrations
workers" day of action" - this year"s motto of the traditional social democrat party"s labour day rally. what exactly made it a day of action was left to the phantasy of the curious onlookers. from our perspective, a promenade along Ring Street, supported by numerous marching bands, can hardly be qualified as a very militant action. due to sunny weather, not only social democrat adherants found their way to the event in the City Center...
Production: UATV, kanalB
Date: 01.05.2005 Length: 6:30 min Size: 45 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Closing Down - demonstrations
Free spaces and independent locations for progressive cultural and political initiatives and events have never been quite widespread in Vienna. Today, it's not just the 'one and only' (well, almost...) Viennese squat named EKH that is resisting it's close-down. Along with other endagered initiatives such as TÜWI (an autonomous students' club), Public Netbase (a new media initiative) and Women´s Cafe (womens' café), they got together to organize an action week and to raise public attention for their situation. The result:...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 23.03.2005 Length: 3:45 min Size: 26 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Iraq, two years after the invasion - demonstrations
Protests mark the second Iraq invasion anniversary, bringing together almost 2500 people against the war at a demonstration in Vienna. Other issues brought up by the protesters were cuts in education and in the social system. It was mostly left-wing groups that had called for the day of action that was taking place in a number of European countries. Among the demonstrators, there were also several Chechen refugees demanding the end to agression against their country.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 19.03.2005 Length: 4:30 min Size: 31 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
8th. International Day Against Police Violence - demonstrations
The International Day Against Police Violence was proclaimed by the Swiss group "The Black Flag" on March 15, 1997, after two girls aged 11 and 12 had been beaten up by the police in Switzerland. However, events on the 8th. Action Day were rare, or weren't they? Due to inadeaquate public information, our team has only found out about the little demonstration at the Marcus Omofuma Memorial (Marcus Omofuma was a young asylum who died from suffocation during his deportation to Nigeria, his mouth being closed with tape by the...
Production: Pot, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 15.03.2005 Length: 2:20 min Size: 16 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Int. Women's Day - demonstrations
The yearly demonstration on March 8th. Due to a lack of female reporters, two male team members dared to respectfully join the demonstration and collect video footage. Female protesters did not agree whether or not men may or shall joint the protest. However, clear statements were made on the issue of sex workers, the leading theme of the protest and always present in the area chosen for the rally.
Production: Lukas, Craz
Date: 08.03.2005 Length: 4:45 min Size: 33 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Five Years of Thursday Demonstrations - demonstrations
The government is celebrating the 5th. year of it's existance, and so is the 'resistance movement'. The times when there was a protest rally taking place every single Thrusday night are long gone. Two and a half years later, demonstration veterans and newbies make another effort to turn back time. Up to 500 protesters marched to the headquarters of the People's Party as well as the Freedom Party, represented in federal government since the year 2000.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 10.02.2005 Length: 3:30 min Size: 24 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Austria is still having the blues (2000-2005) - demonstrations
Believe it or not, five years have passed since federal chancellor Schüssel und his crowd were crowling through a hidden subterranean passage to the presidential office, where the ministers' inauguration took place. It was only a core group of citizens in resistance that came to claim their place on Ballhausplatz again. In a performance, activists paved the government's way with cuspidors and the results of their term of office.
Production: Flo, Craz
Date: 04.02.2005 Length: 4 min Size: 28 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Gone with the Wind - demonstrations
About 400 protestors gathered for a rally under the Motto "Gehrer, step back" to the ministry of education on Moniritenplatz in Vienna, demanding the minister of education Ms. Gehrer to step back from her office. It soon became clear what should be the next step after that. As shown without any doubt in the footage, the Police broke the ban on wearing of masks at demonstrations once more. Protesters were in good mode despite a snow storm and freezing cold air, however weather conditions caused troubles to the film team.
Production: United Aliens TV, kanalb
Date: 26.01.2005 Length: 5 min Size: 36 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
One human – one vote - demonstrations
In autumn 2004, the Austrian student council ÖH wittnessed a sudden reform on student representation. Direct elections on the federal level were abolished, funds and compentences were cut. This will weaken the groups currently dominating the federal student council (mostly affiliated with the social democrats and the greens) and strengthen conservative student groups (affiliated with the ruling ÖVP). About 1300 students joined the demonstration against the new legislation in Vienna. When the rally split in two, a...
Production: Iporante, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 09.12.2004 Length: 4 min Size: 28 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
EKH is here to stay! - demonstrations
Vienna's only remaining squat, the so-called EKH (named after Ernst Kirchweger, an antifascist killed by a right-wing protester in 1965), has become massively endangered. The owner of the house, the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ), has gone bankrupt and sold the venue, leaving the future the political initiatives and groups in the house unclear. Clandestinely, the EKH was sold to a buyer well-known for his right-wing affiliation...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 12.11.2004 Length: 3:30 min Size: 24 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Walking the Streets - demonstrations
Inhabitants are demonstrating against sex workers in front of their homes in Vienna's 15. district (adjacent to Westbahnhof). It soon turned out how sensitive and controversial the issue is. The participants of the counter demonstration, among them a green member of the district council, argued that displacing the sex workers won't solve the problem. Enraged neighbours however, complaining about massive noice at night and dirty streets, could not be convinced.
Production: Lukas, Craz
Date: 10.09.2004 Length: 5:30 min Size: 38 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Free Republic - demonstrations
The Free Republic's fourth edition - as usual, a wild party and a political demonstration at once. Not a parade any longer, the 2004 techno event takes place on the historical Karlsplatz (Charles' Square) in Vienna's city center. Some of the many messages the rally was attempting to get across: pro pluralistis and free media - no to dominant news corporations
pro abolition of deportation jails, social security, free access to education
pro free space for youth culture – no to criminalization of youth...
Production: John, Craz
Date: 07.08.2004 Length: 7 min Size: 50 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Education is not for sale - demonstrations
In April 2-3 2004, various Austrian initiatives joined the European action days for a more social Europe. At least 1700 high school and university students joined a protest rally against the policy of low spending for schools and universities.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 02.04.2004 Length: 2:30 min Size: 18 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Walk two by two - demonstrations
Prague, during the first „anniversary“ of the occupation of Iraq. A remarkably high number of US-American expats supported the Czeck demonstrators in their peace rally. See how disciplined the protesters make their way from St. Wenceslav square through crowds of astonished tourists in the city center to the US embassy at the Mala Strana
Production: Miss Mos, Sly, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 20.03.2004 Length: 5:30 min Size: 39 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: english
The University-Huggers - demonstrations
Students gathere around the University of Vienna to hug it and defend it from the hardliners in the presidency.
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 21.01.2004 Length: 1:25 min Size: 9 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
The Black-and-Blue government in Austria, season 2 - demonstrations
Austrian voters have made their choice and reelected the ruling conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) under Wolfgang Schüssel. Those who did not but have been hoping for a change were shocked. Remebering the mass demonstrations of 2000, a policy of misinformation was supposed to avoid spontaneous demonstrations during the chancellors' and the ministers' formal oaths. Despite it, hundreds gathered at the crowd barrier around the chancellery upon short notice. Especially featuring: about 50 members of the Concervative's...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 28.02.2003 Length: 3 min Size: 20 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
"Opera ball demonstration" 2002 - demonstrations
In 2002, the traditional demonstration against the Viennese opera ball- where the country's elite meets – took place parallel to the 'Thursday demonstration' against the right wing government in Austria at the time. Having experienced excessive acts of violence the year before, the 'Thursday protesters' decided not to cancel their demonstration, but to clearly distance themselves from violence by choosing an alternative route. See our video report and get an impression of the only demonstration in the world accompanied with...
Production: Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 07.02.2002 Length: 2:30 min Size: 18 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german
Thursday Protest no. 100 - demonstrations
The exuberant atmosphere at the 100. Thursday Protest against the black-blue government was contagious and caused the United Alien TV team to give up serious, informative journalism and join the party.
Production: Pot, Craz (United Aliens TV)
Date: 24.01.2002 Length: 2:30 min Size: 16 MB License: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0 Language: german