Iceland’s Pots & Pans Revolution; Pragmatic, Everyday Revolutionaries part3

The Poor Prole’s Almanac · Jul 3, 2023 · 40m

The 2009–2011 Icelandic financial crisis protests, also referred to as the Kitchenware, Kitchen Implement or Pots and Pans Revolution, occurred in the wake of the Icelandic financial crisis. There had been regular and growing protests since October 2008 against the Icelandic government's handling of the financial crisis. The protests intensified on 20 January 2009 with thousands of people protesting at the parliament in Reykjavík. These were at the time the largest protests in Icelandic history.

Protesters were calling for the resignation of government officials and for new elections to be…