Earliest political memory of the day #143
Me and my cousins crammed at the open cargo area of my uncle’s pickup truck, driving to the village where the grown-ups were going to vote. We were having a […]
Me and my cousins crammed at the open cargo area of my uncle’s pickup truck, driving to the village where the grown-ups were going to vote. We were having a […]
I was 4 years old, it was my birthday. October 1962. All my uncles and my parents were listening to the radio. It was the Bay of Pigs Crisis. Would […]
I was 5 years old on Sep. 11, 2001. I remember the teacher crying, and being dismissed early from class. Once I got home, I remember watching the news with […]
I’m not fond of the elections, because one time I voted and I didn’t get any position! I’d like to have been elected President. Δε μου αρέσουν οι εκλογές γιατί […]
I was 3,5 years old in my mom’s arms, among a lot of people. We were looking at students who were on a hunger strike (Athens, 1964, Law 114). 3,5 […]
It was the 1979 UK election. I was 8, and my class had a discussion about the election with the teacher. I cant remember it. Inf act, I only know […]
My father going to the European Social Forum in Genoa in 2001, where Carlos Juliani was shot dead by the carabinieris. I think I about 8 years old.
I recall Alf Garnett in a TV show Till Death Do Us Part (circa 1966) saying in a dismissive tone : “Harold Bloody Wilson” and thinking I wonder who that […]
Ήμουν 9 χρονών όταν το πρωί στην αυλή, υπήρξε μια αναστάτωση. Οι νοικοκυρές είχαν πλησιάσει τις χαμηλές μάντρες που χώριζαν τις ιδιοκτησίες τους και με συνωμοτικό ύφος συζητούσαν ταραγμένες. Προσπαθούσα […]
Placing “Vote No” leaflets under doors at the time of Australian referendum to make Australian Communist Party illegal 1951. I was 9 years old.