Category Archives: EN

Protest MMA#1

Posted on December 21, 2012 by ellenpolus

PROTEST demonstration at the beginning of the General Assembly of the MMA organised by Free Artists (Documentation – director’s cut with Hungarian, English and German subtitles) Press information: We demand the repeal of public body status of the Hungarian Academy … Continue reading →

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Protest MMA #1 (press release)

Posted on December 21, 2012 by ellenpolus

We demand the abolition of the Hungarian Academy of Art’s public body status! With effect from 2 April 2011 the Hungarian Academy of Arts was specified in the Fundamental Law of Hungary. “Hungary shall defend the scientific and artistic freedom … Continue reading →

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Power of Hungary’s conservative art Academy grows

Posted on December 21, 2012 by ellenpolus

Opponents disrupt meeting of influential right-wing group Around a dozen protesters managed to crash the general assembly meeting of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) on 15 December. The Academy is an ultra conservative artists’ association funded by the Hungarian … Continue reading →

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Hungarian Students Protest Education Reforms

Posted on December 19, 2012 by ellenpolus

PABLO GORONDI BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian high school and university students went ahead Wednesday with protests against changes in the education system despite the government’s acceptance of some of their demands. In Budapest, the capital, several thousand students gathered outside … Continue reading →

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Artists flee from György Fekete’s academy

Posted on December 19, 2012 by ellenpolus

György Cserhalmi, a well-known Hungarian actor announced he was going to quit the Hungarian Art Academy (MMA). (Hungarian Art Academy used to be a politically right orientated art association, which became a public body. Hungarian Art Academy’s director, György Fekete, … Continue reading →

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Hungarian students protest education reforms

Posted on December 19, 2012 by ellenpolus

By PABLO GORONDI Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian high school and university students went ahead Wednesday with protests against changes in the education system despite the government’s acceptance of some of their demands. The Miami Herald

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In Hungary, the Upstream battle against Fascism Continues

Posted on December 17, 2012 by ellenpolus

Andrew Casey A woman in her early 70’s, a survivor of the Holocaust, has mysteriously disappeared from a small Hungarian town, close to the Romanian border. Mrs Margit Abonyi Papp has lived in Bekes for most of her life. She … Continue reading →

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