The Renegade Skeptics: The cost of silence

Do you want to be disgustingly educated?💫

The Renegade Skeptics could help with that!

Welcome you to our very first meetup, whose theme will be: The cost of silence*.*

We will explore various cultural texts — including books, poems, films, songs, and quotes — that portray, embody and examine political ideology, historical oppression, and resistance.
No prior knowledge? No problem. We’re here to learn together, not to impress.

Before our first meeting we will be 💭💭💭
📖Reading: The Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton’s analysis of fascism as a mass movement.
📽️Watching: Cabaret - 1972
📄Analyzing the quote: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
🎵Listening: Bella Ciao by Manu Pilas

This is an Italian, WWII song, from the perspective of a man who wakes up to find the enemy in his country and has to say goodbye to his loved one before going to war. He talks about his death casually, and asks that he is buried on a mountainside. It’s a famous song and anthem of resistance.

📜Reading the poem: First They Came by Martin Niemöller.

Written post-WWII, the poem highlights the dangers of apathy and silence.
❓Who was Martin Niemöller?
After opposing Nazi interference in church affairs, Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi theologian, was arrested in July 1937. He spent a total of 8 years in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps, and was liberated in 1945 by Allied troops. He wrote this poem the year after his release from the concentration camp (1946).

The lens: The complicity of those who did not speak out against the Nazi regime, and the incremental purging of targeted groups.

⚠️IMPORTANT NOTE: You can do *any* of the above. You don't have to do them all, you overachiever!

Join us in exploring historical resistance and political ideology, and engage in thought-provoking discussions that will expand your knowledge base!

🆓Free entry.
®️ Please RSVP; limited spots.
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❌If you need to cancel, please do so ASAP so someone from the waitlist can take your spot.

Hi everyone! LOCATION CHANGE!

I'm so happy to see so many of you showing interest in our event! Because of this, I've decided to make a reservation to Zogia instead of going to mikri frida (they do not allow for reservations and I don't want to risk not finding room for all of us), so please don't forget about this Saturdays meeting @ "Zogia - Βιβλίο Τσάι και Συμπάθεια" cafe// Alexandrou Svolou 54, Thessaloniki 546 21, Greece.

📍🕰️See you on Saturday, April 18 at 14:00 @ Zogia / Alexandrou Svolou 54, Thessaloniki 546 21, Greece.