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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · 28d

If you're in or near Sarajevo be sure to stop by tonight for this show- great new talent---

ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social @ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social · 28d

See you tonight (Saturday, September 13th) for the promotion of BEZ's debut single "Ljetno Popodne" followed by a full concert of this up-and-coming band from Sarajevo!

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Sep 10

So what happens to these newly employed (mostly) men enjoying well paying jobs if & when the country decides that it does not want a huge federal domestic paramilitary force? Will they be disposed of as easily as lab researchers & educators? www.nytimes.com2025/09/08/us/pol...

Meet the New ICE Recruits

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Even more importantly, there needs to be a policy on taxing robots / AI labor.... then if they decide to unionize, well, great...

www.wired.com/story/model-...

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just saying that this explains my tendency to support the underdog: www.buffalobills.com/video/bills-...

Bills vs. Ravens | INSANE COMEBACK By Buffalo | Full Game Highlights Week 1

The Buffalo Bills comeback from down 40-25 with 5 minutes remaining to stun the Baltimore Ravens 41-40 on a Matt Prater walk-off field goal.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Sep 3

..and on YouTube at www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...

Why is democracy backsliding around the world?

In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on September 3, 2025, Valery Perry, Ph.D., senior associate for the Democratization Policy Council, joins us.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great chat with Evan Dawson today…. on how independent institutions & civil service are key to good governance, threats posed by the shadow docket & Trump's selective retribution, & future repairs to the US after this hacking of checks, balances & guardrails podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Why is democracy backsliding around the world?

Podcast Episode · Connections Podcast · 09/03/2025 · 51m

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Opinion | Disney Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 28

"For most of the park’s history, Disney was priced to welcome people across the income spectrum, embracing the motto “Everyone is a V.I.P.” In doing so, it created a shared American culture by providing the same experience to every guest."

Well those days are over, Mickey.......

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 18

Imagine the reaction by POTUS if USAID got it….

Bill Sowder @bluetcnj.bsky.social · Aug 17

Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 15

As we wait to see what will unfold in Alaska today, beware of Sharpie geopolitics in a world that requires complexity… I explore this idea more in the latest DPC blog:

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“Sharpie Geopolitics” in a Time of Complexity – Democratization Policy Council

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 12

Very glad to see that Peter Lippman's work is getting attention among Italian audiences too - read a recent interview here: www.balcanicaucaso.org/bhs/zone/Bos...

Građanski aktivizam Petera Lippmana: udruživanje i otpor

Američki novinar i aktivist Peter Lipmann ima duboko znanje o Bosni i Hercegovini. Godinama prati političku i poslijeratnu situaciju u ovoj zemlji. U posljednje vrijeme posebno ga zanimaju ekološki po...

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excellent live music?At the Ex-Yu Rock Centar tonight! Including some EKV:

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 11

What better way to start the week than with some live music!

ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social @ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social · Aug 11

Live Music at the Ex-Yu Rock Centar!
URAGAN & EHOTON
TONIGHT!!! ---- Monday, 11 August
Doors: 8pm
Music starts at 9pm
Entrance: KM 5

Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 8

from the mouths of babes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDm...

Kids Pitch: "Bulbo and the Strange Villain" - Part 1

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Aug 5

Another reason to check out the EYRC when in Sarajevo - an amazing collection of original artifacts---

ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social @ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social · Aug 5

Here's a new addition at the EYRC thanks to a recent donation from Boro Kontić -- a key radio, television and cultural figure in Sarajevo.

The item includes the phone numbers for many of the biggest names from the Yugoslav rock scene at the time. The item is from the early 1980s.

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ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social @ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social · Jul 26

Here's an original concert poster and ticket from Dino Dvornik's concert at Dom mladih in Sarajevo on 13 March 1991. The concert was part of the 1990-1991 tour promoting the album "Kreativni Nered" which was released in 1990 on Jugoton.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 26

I picked up this flyer at the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade in May. "The struggle for the University autonomy is becoming increasingly fierce." From a speech by Veljko Vlahovic, 1936. Important thinking at a time when unis are under increasing pressure, everywhere.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 24

A reminder of this informative film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmH...

Blue Heart Full Film | The Fight for Europe’s Last Wild Rivers | Patagonia

YouTube video by Patagonia

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 24

The final part of Peter Lippman's six part series on environmental threats and civic activism in Bosnia & Herzegovina is up… It explores the issue through a number of rivers that are being destroyed, a huge loss in a country that has some of Europe's last wild rivers: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part VI: Two, Three, Many Rivers: The Open Veins of Central Bosnia - Lefteast

Editors’ note: This article is the last of a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. It seems that at every place in Bosnia-Herzegovina where ...

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 23

Pressman suggests Americans learn from the young people who took to the streets in Budapest; they should also learn from the students in Serbia who have been at it since November: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 23

Come on Wirecutter, expand your horizons.... the best ice cream sandwich is definitely from Plazma....worth every calorie www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 22

Part 5 of Peter Lippman's extensive field research on extraction & the environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is now published..... he explores the negative impact of the coal economy in terms of ecological threats, but also stoking corrupt practice: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part V: Coal Poisons the Environment and Fuels a Criminal Economy - Lefteast

Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 6. On my way to Majevica, I stopped for the night in Ugljev...

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 9

A must visit cultural space whether it's your first visit to Sarajevo or your 10th!

ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social @ex-yurockcentar.bsky.social · Jul 9

A look back on opening night from November 2022 & the launch of our first exhibition "Šokiraš me, majke mi"! It's only gotten better since then.....The EYRC is located on the Skenderija plateau (south wing of Dom mladih) and is open Wednesdays to Sundays, 11:00-16:00. See you there!

Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 9

Strong overview, insight and guidance - hope people read and reflect

Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social · Jul 8

By me and @tobyvogel.bsky.social. Will the EU stick with Vucic - thereby licensing his continued violent crackdown against the student-initiated civic movement in Serbia, or will it finally take the opportunity to change its long-failing policy, w/ the chance for real progress?

Democratization Policy Council @dpcglobal.bsky.social · Jul 8

"Vučić’s increasingly brutal repression of peaceful protests has put the EU’s policy at an inflection point..." Latest by @tobyvogel.bsky.social and @kurtbassuener.bsky.social for @euobserver.com
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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 3

good point Kurt.... another example of the power of repeated narratives and language, and what happens when that goes unchecked

Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social · Jul 3

WTF, Oslobodjenje? The "RS and BiH" frame is Dodik's. It seems it's caught on with people who ought to know better. Grrr.

Subhed on article on Sky cryptographic messaging app reads "Natasa Miljanovic Zubac has written for years on relations between mafia figures and the poltical commanding heights in Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina."

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