I want to empower people by information and use the capabilities of YouTube to bring people together.

I feel very strongly that lobbying, especially on the EU level, dominates politics and therefore almost every aspect of socio-economic life today. Moreover, I find it increasingly curious how many people (some intellectuals, people from NGOs, etc.) simply seem to ask for direct access themselves instead of asking how to improve this anti-democratic situation with all its consequences for society and planet.

In my professional life, I work as a video producer within a middle sized, international company. My political background is all in my unpaid free time. For some five years, I have been active within Attac, an altermondalist movement. During 2007 and 2008, my focus was on working against the Lisbon Treaty, first in my own country, Austria, where I wrote and spoke about it, and debated it with promoters of the treaty, including Austrian members of parliament. In 2008, I went to Ireland for two weeks to support the NO Campaign of the Campaign Against the EU Constitution (which is a coalition of individuals and groups against the treaty). Besides the treaty and it's numerous aspects, I was also active on other subjects, such as tax avoidance (I was invited to debate the subject after the Zumwinkel whistleblower scandal in Germany with Sahra Wagenknecht of DIE LINKE and Wolf Klinz of the FDP in a small TV studio in the European Parliament), financial markets (I written about and discussed the financial crisis on a couple of occasions this year), migration, or public services.