Last night the newsmedia was filled with stories of violent activity by Saving Iceland members at the Ministry of Industry. Most of the headlines revolved around police being attacked with pipes and a policeman being kicked in the head. Then this morning we get this video and a strong protest by Saving Iceland which states [...]

Amid the cesspool of Gunnar Birgisson’s scandals in Kopavogur, the IceSave debacle, the increasing squeeze on homeowners, this is my Sunday sermon for now. This ramble should be read out loud with a young, poor and angry voice. A long time ago I had a girlfriend who was born in Teheran but she moved to [...]

So the guy who destroyed his old house has been attracting some headlines in the last couple of days. His actions have been met with great sympathy from many directions, some calling him a hero for going through with some serious “up yours” to the system that has screwed its citizens royally over. Others have [...]

At this moment 19,101 Icelanders have signed up for the Facebook group “We refuse to pay debts that we are not responsible for” (IceSave). It has become the online forum for those who want to support the protests in front of Althingi this week. This would be similar to 19 million Americans, adjusted for population. [...]

The second phase of the protests seems to be upon us. Roughly 1,000 people protested the IceSave agreement outside Althingi yesterday. More are expected to come as the protest is supposed to take place at 3pm every day this week. The core of the protest does not revolve around Icelanders wanting to “do one over” [...]

Until this January when people flocked outside the Althingi building, truck-driver Sturla Jonsson was the best known protester in Iceland. He was instrumental in leading the protests of professional drivers against the high taxes and charges on gasoline that culminated in the infamous “gas gas” episode in April. A standoff between the drivers who had [...]