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Podemos’ Pablo Iglesias likes ‘The Wire’

Posted on 2015/02/19 - 2015/02/23 by jd

AMY GOODMAN: And do you have any words of advice for President Obama, now in his second term? He can’t run again. Whether he will be a lame-duck president or a legacy president remains to be seen.

PABLO IGLESIAS: I don’t know. I don’t know what could I say to President Obama. There is something that I like. We both love The Wire, the HBO series. And I like Omar, too. And I read that Obama like this character, this character Omar. And I don’t know.

AMY GOODMAN: Why do you like The Wire?

PABLO IGLESIAS: I think it’s probably the best TV series in order to explain how the power works, how the power works in politics, in media, in the organization of the work. I think it’s a masterpiece. I used to teach political geography in my faculty, and all the time I was saying to my students, “You have to see this TV series, because it’s great in order to understand how the power works.”

AMY GOODMAN: Do you have anything like that in Spain?

PABLO IGLESIAS: Not in that level. I think that The Wire is the best series.

via The Next Syriza? As Greece Rejects Austerity, Meet the Activist Who Could Become Spain’s New PM | Democracy Now!.

Posted in news dumpTagged EU Austerity, sociology 101

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