Cav's Place

On the evening of October 30, a tragic accident, which was covered in detail by international media, took place inside Colectiv club, some fireworks used during Goodbye to Gravity’s release concert for their second album, Mantras of War, reaching a pillar placed a few meters in front of the stage and igniting the foam used […]

Yesterday, at the invitation of a Romanian member of the European Parliament, Sorin Moisa, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom attended a conference meant to support and praise TTIP. Other notable attendees were the EU’s Chief Negotiator for TTIP Ignacio Garcia Bercero and US Ambassador to the EU Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, and the conference was […]

A few other small related protests took place, both before and after last week’s march, but I’m not actually getting back to writing full “protest reports” and in fact I didn’t even search for that much additional information, so I’ll simply skip those. I won’t however, skip two particular events that took place this week […]

After losing about a year to internal conflicts, splits, egos, stubbornness, indecisiveness, poor planning and unwise choices, the United We Save movement seems to have finally managed to become relevant once again, thanks to yesterday’s protest against deforestation, triggered by the recent developments regarding the Forest Code and the actions of certain companies and the […]

The week began with three anti-fracking activists finally being granted, on May 19, the audience requested on January 21 and meeting a team of four representatives of the Romanian branch of the European Commission. The independent reporters who meant to join them were not allowed inside and the activists themselves were asked not to reveal […]