Reykjavík Grapevine - 07.10.2011, Page 36

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“Beating on pots and pans can
be important, but only to a cer-
tain point. Eventually, you’ll have
to try and think of solutions and
how you would like things to be,
instead of just shouting that you
don’t like their current state.”
Björk speaks about a lot of things.
We listen, mostly. Fancy Airwaves
Special
“After the first days of the festival
saw movies starting with the
lights in the theatre still on, films
spliced together in the wrong
order and sound problems, my
patience wore thin, and then it
wore out.”
- RIFF has come and gone to great
acclaim, still the complaints are
keep pouring in, P. 24
“Despite a few arrests and some
disorder, the people of Iceland
held small protests with great
regularity until the entire gov-
ernment resigned. A core small
group of people can be the back-
bone of a bigger, longer move-
ment that will grow and grow
until it accomplishes its goals.”
-Our NYC correspondent Simon is
currently Occupying Wall Street,
P 14
“He then goes on to emphasise
that homosexual relationships
are wrong, claiming to speak
for the majority of the Christian
world. He concludes by pre-
senting himself as a victim of
suppression of opinion and that
he now is being discriminated
against.”
- The city is cracking down on hate
speech and claims of counter-dis-
crimination, P. 32
“The meeting in Reykjavík was
a long time coming. Nixon had
pursued a policy of détente,
avoiding direct conflict between
the powers. He took pride in
meeting with the Soviets, the
Chinese and even the French, sit-
ting down with French President
Georges Pompidou at a previous
Reykjavík summit in 1973.”
- A quarter century on, we revisit
the almost-fateful Reagan-Gor-
bachev meeting at Höfði, P. 18
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