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Pots and Pans Revolution - Before

Collected by: KRIA - The Icelandic Constitution Archives

Archived since: Nov, 2020

Description:

The Icelandic financial crisis protests, also referred to as the Kitchenware, Kitchen Implement, or Pots and Pans Revolution (Búsáhaldabyltingin), occurred in the wake of the Icelandic financial crisis. A new constitutional process began to develop due to a new government (formed after elections in late April 2009) and an opportunity for change within society. This collection contains documentaries, media coverage (domestic and international), blogs, artworks, national polls, protest coverage, interviews, parliamentary documents and announcements, books on the collapse, investigative reports, and presentations on the topic.

Subject:   Government Politics & Elections Society & Culture

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Title: what we can learn from Iceland

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=64eI831eKY8/

Description: This youtube video argues that US propaganda surrounding the government response to the financial crisis 2008 often uses Greece as a comparable example to suggest that the US's response to the financial crisis was the superior method of crisis mitigation. As a result, according to this video, US intentionally avoids talking of Iceland as an example, where Iceland help those accountable for the failures of the banking crisis by prosecuting them and ultimately forced the government to resign. Now, Iceland's economic growth is on the rise again.

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Title: "Iceland's Peaceful Revolution" Interview With Hordur Torfason

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DfgOHsxuIw/

Description: Journalist Mark Taylor-Canfield Interviews Icelandic Activist Hordur Torfason about the peaceful revolution in Iceland (2008 - 2012) which resulted in the resignation of the government, the prosecution and jailing of bankers, and a brand new constitution! Mark Taylor-Canfield interviews Hordur Torfason to talk about the peaceful protests amongst Icelandic citizens between 2008 and 2012, which ultimately led to the prosecution of bankers for their negligence in the failure of the Icelandic banking system, the resignation of the government, and the rewriting of a new Icelandic constitution

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Title: How to start a revolution: Learn from Iceland!

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8-SiYQ8s_6I/

Description: A youtube video challenging global news reporting on the relationship public opinion in Iceland regarding the repaying of debt back to the UK to repay the debts created by the collapse of Icesave. Reported as though it was the Icelandic people's decision to not pay back the UK. This video debunks such discursive myths, showing how the Icelandic people formed a revolution to take back ownership of their democracy. Sheds an important light on the relationship between active citizenry and democracy

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Title: Iceland Revolution Project - Interview with Ýmir Björgvin Arthúrsson

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EO9LKo0NPm4/

Description: An interview documenting a citizens experience of the global financial crisis, who talks of government inaction in helping Iceland's citizens, cultural responses to the crisis given changing socio-economic circumstances, his experience of participating in the 2011 referendum, and his disenfranchisement with current Icelandic government agenda/scare-mongering discourse tactics.

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Title: Revolution day 2 in Iceland

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GlQg9qf3VVw/

Description: Video showing protestors outside the Icelandic Parliament protesting about the government's handling of the 2008 economic collapse on January 21st 2009

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Title: how Iceland beat the banks

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KYpzHZh5byY/

Description: A youtube video giving a brief overview of the Icelandic government's response to the Global Financial Crisis. The Icelandic government let banks fail after Icelandic banks over-extended their loans to citizens (an inherent policy of neo-liberal economics). Instead, Iceland opted for debt forgiveness programmes to bail out its own citizens, as opposed to the austerity schemes that the EU opted for. Today, Iceland has a steady annual growth rate and low unemployment rate.

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Title: Iceland pots & pans revolution

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R0qI2RukYw0/

Description: A documentary collating interviews of Icelandic citizens and their experiences of the Pots and Pans Revolution, from those who had an instrumental role to those who had little part in the revolution. This documentary allows for a detailed insight into the public experience of the banking crisis, from those who went from feeling disenfranchised, to soon mobilising their democratic right to protest and cultivating political change.

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Title: Iceland Revolution Presentation in Auckland March 2013

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdrEyAhL-OM/

Description: Hodur Turfasin gives a presentation on how he contributed to generating the revolution in Iceland from 2008-2012, with a particular on the use of discourse by the Icelandic government before it was forced to resign.

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Title: Maybe I should have - Trailer - YouTube

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TwLLmMWFMnw/

Description: A trailer to a documentary about identifying where the money from the deposit accounts of Icelandic banks in the UK and Iceland went after the collapse of the Icelandic banking system. A documentary about corruption and cronyism.

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Title: Iceland revolution project- Interview with Gudmundur Halfdanarson

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2RZybVfQ0k/

Description: Interview with Gudmundur Halfdanarson - history professor at the University of Iceland - about the then lack of accountability by the government attributed to the bankers responsible for the failure of the three major banks in Iceland following the Global Financial Crisis 2008. Halfdanarson argues that there must be recognition of these faults for the sake of legitimacy of government rule.

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Title: Reykjavik Rising

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o1pVQdvFSOo/

Description: This documentary records the Pots and Pans Revolution, using this historic example to identify where sites of resistance can be located in the same sites of power. It draws on how civil resistance led to the 2011 referendum ruling on the Icelandic government's response to the global financial crisis and the collapse of the Icesave bank and how it's repercussions for local citizens.

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Title: 23 minutes with Russell Brand - REVOLUTION interview

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=u4Hz8DJWFEA/

Description: An interview by Absolute Radio with Russell Brand on how civic populations can generate political change through revolution from grassroots.

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Title: Revolution in Iceland

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uGH2xlfKx0I/

Description: Video displaying scenes from the Pots and Pans Revolution in Iceland

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Title: Iceland's saucepan revolution

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vYiTD-Ya4WI/

Description: An internet video displaying scenes during the Pots and Pans revolution in Iceland

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Title: Icelandic Revolution begun 20. 01 2009

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vlFMl8klD-Y/

Description: This youtube video provides recordings of protests outside Althing - the Icelandic Parliament - on 20th January 2009. It witnesses blazing fires, with hundreds of people shouting in protest of their governments lack of forethought for how the failure of the banking system has affected those at the individual level of the citizen.

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