Resources and Links

occasionally some references will be posted here, linking to sites, documents … . of special interest.

  • December 9th, 2021: Human Rights – it is also about democracy. Interview of Peter Herrmann by the Global Times; a longer audio version, on which the written interview is based, can be found here.
  • November 13th, 2021: too often overloocked that it is still going on: slavery:
  • October 6th, 2021: on the housing question, for limited time only: Push – a documentary on the problems of shortage, speculation and other questions . in German and French, but with enough English language parts left
  • September 2021: In Berlin, Federal Republic or Germany, there is a debate – and referendum – on expropriation of large housing estate owners, targeting owners of 3000 and more units. These are for instance DEGEWO and VONOVA. The Blog on Matters Constitutional is running a podcast.series (in German language), that will surely be of interest also after September 26th, 2021, the date of the referendum. The – also interesting – introduction is available in English language.
  • September 2021: Presentation by Peter Herrmann, proposing to approach the question of the tension between universalism and particularism not from the side of rights, but from a socio-economic understanding of human beings/human existence.