Onassis Channel | What About Democracy?
How do we respond to the crisis of democracy? In the new live discussion of the “Society Uncensored” series entitled “What About Democracy?" people who have experienced targeting and violence and have demonstrated through their actions and attitude that fear can turn into power, speak openly about authoritarian and reactionary ideas, anti-democratic phenomena, the meaning of freedom today, as well as how democracy lies in crisis. The audience became an active part in the discussion, which was filmed and now presented on the Onassis YouTube Channel.
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The new discussion of the “Society Uncensored” series, with guest speakers from the fields of journalism, art, science, and academia, opens up a dialogue about the relationship between people and democracy, its evolution, and the crisis it goes through with time. People who do not remain passive observers and do not turn their gaze away, who have experienced a particular form of violence, discuss countering such phenomena. How do we say no to fascistization and the corrosion of democracy? Racism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, sexism, and toxic masculinity remain multiple facets of the very same phenomenon of intolerance. And intolerance can arm the hands of racist violence groups, mobilize self-proclaimed "vigilantes," and articulate itself as extreme hate rhetoric. Accordingly, it can morph into violent disability hate and xenophobia behaviors on the ramp of a ship or lead to the deaths of Roma teenagers under police gunfire.
Manolis Afolanio, Performer, Member of Anasa Cultural Center
Giorgos Avgeropoulos, Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist
Vangelis Kosmatos, Psychologist, Scientific Director of G-All (Gender Alliance Initiative)
Ilirida Musaraj, Coordinator of the Albanian Migration Archive (Contemporary Social History Archives – ASKI), PhD candidate
Lina Papadopoulou, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Anastasia Vaitsopoulou, Journalist
Moderator: Kostis Papaioannou, Ηistory Teacher, Director of "Signal" – Researching and Confronting the Far Right
Curated by Kostis Papaioannou, Vangelis Kosmatos, Ioanna Meitani, Giorgos Nikolaidis, Pasqua Vorgia, and Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Yiannis Boutaris, entrepreneur, former Mayor of Thessaloniki
Ody Icons, interdisciplinary artist
Eleni Kostopoulou, teacher, mother of Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh
Aspasia Likourgioti, theatrologist
Antonis Rellas, filmmaker, disabled activist
Dimitra Zorzou, chemical engineer, eyewitness to the murder of Pavlos Fyssas
