Draghi is neither a Keynesian nor a saviour of the Fatherland

Pubblicato Marzo 1st, 2021 di Giorgio Michalopoulos & inserito in Articles, Opinion.

Technocrats in the room: Against Draghi’s government

“When the snow melts, the dung starts to show up.”

That’s an old classic proverb from Salento, Italy.

Though popular wisdom can be often questioned, in the case of Mario Draghi’s new government the proverb fits perfectly. Since its very beginning, the arrival of the former President of the ECB in the Italian political scene has been welcomed by mainstream media with a total consensus. In Italy we hear daily news about his educational background, and what newspapers he buys. Even his butcher has been interviewed.

Pieces have been written about Draghi being a disciple of Federico Caffè, an eminent Keynesian economist from University La Sapienza in Rome and supervisor of his degree thesis. High expectations have been raised about perspectives of expansive policies and international credibility in a process of historical denial: let’s not forget how Draghi blocked the Emergency liquidity assistance to Greek banks and, immediately after, commissioned the closure of all branches in 2015 (follow DIEM25’s campaign to Release #TheGreekFiles).

As for his international credibility, it is worth mentioning that for quite different reasons than those of Greece, Draghi is not really appreciated in Germany where he is considered “the gravedigger” of German savers because of his QE policy in the ECB.

Draghi is neither a Keynesian nor a saviour of the Fatherland. As the snow of his media success is melting, the dung is coming out embellished with terms such as “competence” and “seriousness”. It is the case of Francesco Giavazzi, economist from Bocconi University and theorist of expansive austerity: a demented argument about the economic success of austerity measures. Paul Krugman, Nobel economist in 2008, accused him and his fellow colleagues of having conducted the destruction of the European economy with their ideas. Giavazzi has been nominated by Draghi economic consultant of the PM. He is pretty serious about austerity, but does he represent the kind of competence we need in a period of potential economic stagnation?

At least he is a literate man. A previous response from DiEM25 Italy on the political crisis highlighted the need to focus on the education system in the country. The new secretary to the Education Ministry is Rossano Sasso (Lega party), a man that in 2018 during a flash mob on a beach, referred to a detained Moroccan as “irregular bastard”. Furthermore, Lucia Borgonzoni (Lega party) is undersecretary of Cultural Heritage and Activities. In 2018 during coalition government with the Lega party and Five Star Movement party, she declared that she had not read a book for years. Funny that she should say that, since the last book she read was “The Castle” by Franz Kafka, in which there is a very representative quote for the new Italian government:

“Deceptions are more frequent than changes”.

Draghi’s government is colloquially referred to as “the government of the ‘best’”. Let’s remember that the current majority in the parliament has the support of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and that on 22 January 2021 the so called “Escort-hearing” where Berlusconi is involved was suspended because of his medical conditions and few days after he met Draghi to give him his support. It is worth noting that Francesco Paolo Sisto, defending Berlusconi in the process, is now secretary to the Ministry of Justice. Rather than the government of the ‘best’, it looks like a privileged aristocracy that will most certainly not tackle the biggest issues of our society: an increasing inequality, access to education and employment.

Now the dung is visible. Let’s be ready to wipe it out.

The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect DiEM25’s official policies or positions.

Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons. 

Etichette: draghi

Is the EU Recovery Fund a step toward EU integration or disintegration?

Pubblicato Febbraio 26th, 2021 di DiEM25 Communications & inserito in Articles.

The London School of Economics and Political Science interviews Yanis Varoufakis

A discussion featuring Yanis Varoufakis, chaired by Kevin Featherstone, and organised by the German and Hellenic Society of the London School of Economics. It tackled the main question: is the Recovery Fun a step towards federations and fiscal / political unity, or is it another lost opportunity and step towards fragmentation?

Highlights

When you say that the Recovery Fund may be inadequate, are you implying a support for a much stronger fiscal union and a parallel political union, and what would this EU look like?

“The European Union needs to morph into a federal republic. Once you create a common currency; then you have to create a political union. Because a fiscal union without a federal democracy is dictatorship. (…) Either we move in the direction of a federation, or the whole thing is going to buckle. Europe is very rich and we have the capacity to keep wasting our economic energy while delaying the federation.”

“This Recovery Fund is not the right path towards federation. It is taking us further away from federation. My criticism is not that it is not taking us towards federation fast enough, but it is undermining — it is dynamite in the path of federation. I’m a federalist, I declare it, clearly.”

Why is it the wrong direction?

“A process that brings us together has to be automated. You cannot leave it up to the politicians. (…) When 2020 hit, some areas, some regions in the UK suffered more than others; unemployment rose faster in Yorkshire as compared to Sussex. And, usually — but not always — the greater need for fiscal transfers arises in the poorer regions. (…) The beauty of a fiscal union, a political union, is that the transfers are automated. That no one has to sit around the table and decide: I’m going to take so much money from Jill to give it to Jack. Imagine the disaster that it would have been for the UK if when the pandemic hit, the UK had to do what happens in Brussels with the European Union Council. That is, if a representative from the northeast of england, a representative of the southeast of england, a representative from north wales, south wales, scotland — they had to sit around the table and negotiate how to effect a iscal transfer. It would be poison. All sorts of moralising fingers would be pointed at people.”

“It is true that we are talking about a major shift — at least at the conceptual level, because this time, the money that the European Union is going to borrow to cover the Recovery Fund, is going to be borrowed by, effectively, Eurobonds. The EU commission bonds are Eurobonds because they are on behalf of everyone — they are homogeneous, they are not fragmented.”

“I know who is going to get the money. And I can tell you it’s not going to be small businesses. It is not going to be the start ups of the young people that we need to retain in Greece to stop the Brain Drain. It will be the same old oligarchs that caused the bankruptcy in the first place.”

Etichette: interview London School of Economics LSE Yanis Varoufakis

The G20 is gathering. Debt justice is our demand.

Pubblicato Febbraio 25th, 2021 di Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla & inserito in Articles.

Etichette: Austérité G20 Internacional Progresista

Ecuador’s democracy is under attack

Pubblicato Febbraio 25th, 2021 di Progressive International & inserito in Articles.

Ecuador’s democracy is under attack. We must fight to defend it.

The people of Ecuador are deciding their future. Reactionary forces — both inside Ecuador and across the region — are plotting against them. We call on the international community for vigilance, solidarity, and a defense of popular sovereignty.

This announcement was originally published on the Progressive International’s website. Find out more about the Progressive International and become a member! 

Photo Source: Pedro Szekely on Flickr. 

Etichette: Ecuador Internacional Progresista

Capitalism has become Technofeudalism

Pubblicato Febbraio 24th, 2021 di DiEM25 Communications & inserito in Articles.

Why are billionaires making trillions of dollars in a pandemic?

A recent Oxfam study found that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s richest 10 billionaires have seen a wealth increase of half a trillion dollars – enough to pay for every person on the planet to get a vaccine. In this UpFront special, Marc Lamont Hill discusses with Yanis Varoufakis what is driving the staggering wealth inequalities and how governments are offering socialism for the rich, and austerity for the rest.

Highlights

There seems to be a huge gap between what the markets are saying and what reality is saying — why? 

“Capitalism has morphed into what I call ‘Technofeudalism’ — you don’t have a competitive capitalist economy, with boisterous competition, you’ve got some very few, platform companies that effectively own the market. They don’t monopolise it, they just own it. Like Amazon for instance, once you are in Amazon or Facebook you’re not in capitalism, you’re in a kind of soviet regime owned by one man, really. The rest of market economy is shrinking, it’s in stagnation. Money is being pumped by central banks struggling to keep the whole show on the road. The money ends up with the large corporations that already have savings that they are not investing (…) so they go to the stock exchange and buy back their own shares.”

If technology companies are the ones with all the power, and they are not accountable to any electorate, what’s the solution? 

“We get organised. It’s the way we got out of authoritarian regimes in previous centuries. It’s the way that we imposed democracy on the ruling classes. Remember — the ruling classes never wanted democracy. Even the liberals of the 19th century. (…) We are condemned to fight the same struggle again and again for democracy.”

“The interesting aspect of the Gamestop episode is that indeed as you mentioned you has 4.4 million people getting together — to make money, right, it was not purely ideological of course — but a substantial proportion of these millions of people didn’t care so much about making money, they didn’t even mind losing the money they put in it, they wanted to sock it to the hedge funds. So there is an element of ideology there, there is an element of collective action.”

What would make [the Reddit action] a full fledged movement, and is it replicable? 

“Two things are missing. The first is a manifesto, a vision — what do we want to put in place of these financial systems that are broken; they are not working for humanity, they are working for the financiers. What would markets look like if you removed this virus of financialisation from it. The second thing that we need is an alliance between different kinds of people and different movements. It is when the Reddit crowd get together with trade unions, get together with climate change activists, in order to pursue a vision for the world — that is when we are going to have a revolution.”

Stimulus spending in the US was actually much bigger than it was in Europe. Why is the EU spending much less by comparison? 

“I think the EU has always been more conservative when it comes to public spending in comparison to the US. Remember, the Americans have no deficit phobia.”

“Every time capitalism goes through a spasm, America always responds in a more Keynesian fashion if you will — even Ronald Reagan was a Keynesian president compared to anything that we’ve seen in France or Germany. The result is that every global crisis leaves Europe weaker and more injured and wounded compared to the US than the previous crisis.”

According to the UN, the pandemic will have a disproportionate impact on women. How would the solutions that you believe in remedy the various forms of gender inequality that we see globally?

“When you have a deep recession, the first people that are hit are women, ethnic minorities, generally the weakest; the young, under 20, the very old (…) Any delay in responding to a spasm of this financialised Technofeudalism that we have by Keynesian means exacerbates the pain that the victims of patriarchy have been suffering.”

Etichette: crise economie Keynesian technofeudalism US

Grassroots communities lead the way forward in times of political uncertainty

Pubblicato Febbraio 23rd, 2021 di Gender DSC 1 & inserito in Articles.

Social justice will bring us climate justice

The World Day of Social Justice recognises the need to elevate discussions and policies surrounding social justice in tackling issues such as poverty, sustainable development, inequality, and human rights. One of the most pressing issues that we face right now is climate change and this affects all aspects of humanity. Such crises push people, especially marginalized or oppressed groups, further away from a just and safe life. Indeed, “social development and social justice cannot be attained in the absence of peace and security, or in the absence of respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

This as an opportunity to implement a Green New Deal for Europe (GNDE), similar to the efforts undertaken by the socialist left in the US congress and the large network of grassroots movements that have sprung up all over the planet to deal with the destructive consequences of climate destruction created by capitalism and its extractive economic model.

Seeing the Green New Deal for Europe through a feminist intersectional lens could bring forth new possibilities and inspirations

DiEM25’s Green New Deal for Europe (GNDE) promotes a swift, just, and democratic transition to a sustainable Europe.– one that ensures intersectional and intergenerational justice.

The Task Force for Feminism, Diversity and Disability partnered up with Stefania Romano of the GNDE committee in DiEM25 to create a series of webinars to bring forth discussions with collectives and activists from around the world to talk about tackling social injustice and environmental breakdown, and the connections between the two.

The first webinar was held in collaboration with representatives of the Feminist Green New Deal, a US based alliance of grassroots and pressure groups that offer an intersectional and feminist perspective to the discussions around environmental and social justice policy discussions. They were represented by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Executive Director, and Akhila Kolisetty, Policy and Campaigns Manager for MADRE to lead the discussion.

What became clear was the direct link between climate justice and social justice. It is at the intersections that the climate crisis touches that we find the solutions already available to us: migrant justice, racial justice, economic justice, labor justice, reproductive justice, and gender justice represent the intersections where the climate solutions exist, making clear that without addressing all those injustices any climate solution will only amount to greenwashing and will instead perpetuate the same systems that created the planetary destructions we are living in today.

The focus of the webinars is the conviction that we need to elevate other voices to the decision table, to hear from those who are the most impacted by climate change and planetary destruction. These perspectives can bring effective and holistic solutions as opposed to the many false responses built through high tech and used to greenwash the existing policy directives. Capitalist expansion, settler colonialism, slave trade economies and globalisation have silenced and oppressed the voices of those most impacted by its extractive practices. In the process, we are losing the knowledge, wisdom, best practices and interests of the 99% that are effectively left out of economic developments.

Join us on 26 of February at 21:30 CET for our webinar on indigenous rights and leadership!

Indigenous peoples hold rights over and protect 25% of the earth’s land surface and 80% of remaining biodiversity. We need to talk about how indigenous people need to be in positions of decision making and leadership, and how we need explicit legislation for indigenous women and traditional ecological knowledge presented as viable options that should be supported.

Climate justice: indigenous perspectives from the forests to the deserts of the Americas

In this webinar, we are calling in indigenous voices to learn from their experiences and draw from their ancestral knowledge. Racism and violence perpetrated against indigenous peoples is not only a legacy of a colonial and violent past but it continues to be a plague and threat to conservation, climate, and environmental justice. Indigenous communities all across are still mostly displaced and marginalized according to the Western assumption that they have little or nothing to contribute to. On the contrary, indigenous people have critically important knowledge and practices. Invited speakers and organisations are: Atacama (Socaire,Chile), Aimema (Colombia) , Análisis Ambiental y Social (Colombia), Tere Castellanos FPDTA-MPT (Mexico).

Register here for the event!

The feminist intersectional lens looks to global justice as opposed to profits for the few and powerful

The feminist intersectional lens allows policy makers to focus on implementing real solutions based on lived experiences, real case scenarios, ancestral wisdom and new imaginings that look to Global Justice as opposed to profits for the few and powerful. Indeed, the UN Peace Corps states that: “Guaranteeing the rights of women and giving them opportunities to reach their full potential is critical not only for attaining gender equality, but also for meeting a wide range of international development goals.” This kind of Gender Justice has the potential to impact communities and families on the front-lines of ecological and economic exploitations.

In practice, this means creating alliances of frontline communities that can confront existing  institutionalised injustices offering real solutions now such as the one outlined in the Progressive International Blueprint (see Community Wealth Building).

By looking at the climate emergency at the local, tribal, regional and national levels, it’s possible to invert the tendency of technocratic policies. Instead a Just Transition based on a regenerative economy is possible if production and consumption cycles are approached holistically and growth at all costs is replaced with policies that move towards degrowth; an idea that “critiques the global capitalist system which pursues growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction.”

DiEM25s Blueprint for a Just Transition centres social justice in its policy working towards the goal that no “community gets left behind” and pushing for the European Union (EU) to take action to “redress extraction, exploitation, and inequality in Europe and around the world.” This means placing race, gender, abilities, and class at the centre of the solutions equation, breaking down the silos that have hampered cooperation and action and instead build bridges, across lines of systemic and historic patriarchal oppression, across movements and policy spaces thus creating new relationships of power.

By including intersectional feminist analysis to policy making to achieve climate justice and overcome planetary destruction, it is possible to offer an alternative future to the one prospected by the fossil fuel industries with their extractive and polluting practices.

Photo Source: Akil Mazumder from Pexels. 

Etichette: climate justice feminism GNDE Green New Deal for Europe indigenous indigenous communities Intersectionality social justice

Pablo Hasél: a thorn in the side of the Spanish state

Pubblicato Febbraio 23rd, 2021 di Morris Moorhouse & inserito in Articles, Opinion.

“Tomorrow it can be you”

Regardless of whether you like his music or not, the story of Pablo Hasél epitomises the current hot topic regarding freedom of expression in Western Europe and his story has attracted attention, not just throughout Europe, but throughout much of the Western World.

Daily protests have been occurring in various Spanish cities this past week including Madrid and Barcelona, where protesters and riot police have violently clashed causing injury to both sides with an unfortunate example of one female protester being blinded when police shot foam balls into crowds of protesters. However, despite these costly protests and swathes of public support coming from various Spanish politicians, director Pedro Almodóvar, actor Javier Bardem and Amnesty International – who called his arrest “an excessive and disproportionate restriction on his freedom of expression” – there has been no change to Pablo’s situation.

Over the past 10 years, Pablo Hasél has been actively anti-monarchy

Much to the detriment of his professional career and personal well-being, relentlessly critical of the Spanish state and police. Across most of Western Europe one might say we have a privilege, some may say a responsibility, to criticise those in positions of power when they step out of line or aren’t fulfilling their duties. But given Hasél’s success and public recognition and a draconian way of interpreting the criminal code in Spain, the Catalan rapper has consequently had several altercations with the Spanish police and judicial system since 2011, including arrests, fines and jail time.

The Criminal Code — in particular, Articles 490 and 491 — considers that both serious and minor “slander and libel against the person of the King, his direct relatives and even ancestors and descendants are punishable actions.” This archaic law is being wielded to silence criticisms and quell dissent in Spain. These laws emanate from the concept of the ‘inviolable’ status of the Spanish King, as written in the constitution.

As well as derogatory tweets towards the Spanish police, he’s also guilty of spraying washing-up liquid at a journalist, fighting with a witness in the October 2017 trial of a policeman accused (and later acquitted) of assaulting a minor, glorifying (anti-state) terrorism and insulting the Spanish king Juan Carlos I on twitter who abdicated in 2014 and fled to the United Arab Emirates after several investigations, some still ongoing, found that he was severely financially corrupt.

Here are some of the tweets Hasél was imprisoned for; 

“27.03.2014

La policía asesina a 15 inmigrantes y son santitos. El pueblo se defiende de su brutalidad y somos “violentos terroristas, chusma, etc”.

Police murder 15 immigrants and they’re saints. People defend themselves from brutality and we’re called “violent terrorists, riffraff, etc.”

25.12.2015

El mafioso de mierda del rey dando lecciones desde un palacio, millonario a costa de la miseria ajena. Marca España.

The fucking mobster of a king giving lessons from his palace, a millionaire at the expenses of other people’s misery. Spain’s brand.

25.01.2016

Mientras llaman terrible tiranía a Cuba donde con menos recursos no se desahucia, ocultan los negocios mafiosos del Borbón con Arabia Saudí.

While they call Cuba a terrible tyranny, where there are less resources but no evictions, they hide the Bourbon [king’s] gangster-like businesses with Saudi Arabia

04.04.2014

​ ¿Matas a un policía? Te buscan hasta debajo de las piedras ¿Asesina la policía? Ni se investiga bien.

You kill a police officer? They’ll come for you no matter where you are. A police officer murders someone? They don’t investigate it properly”

Recently, Hasél’s story has reached new heights. Earlier this year, he was ordered to voluntarily enter prison for a minimum of nine months (with a sentence of two and a half years looming overhead) and after publicly refusing to do so and not attending his court hearing on 16 February, police began searching for him. The same day, Pablo Hasél entered a Lleida University building and with help from some fifty students, was able to barricade himself inside in an attempt to resist arrest. However, Hasél made little effort to conceal his location and police were able to break into the building and arrest him within hours of his public refusal to attend court.

For myself and I expect for all DiEM25 members, as well as being a nightmare, this as a watershed moment. In accordance with DiEM’s support for free, unabridged and authentic expression, the Spanish-Catalan police should release Hasél and the Spanish judiciary should follow suit with its counterparts in the rest of Western Europe and thereby allow for the critique of itself, the police and the Familia Real. The constitution should reflect the 21st century and the laws should be changed in order to allow for political discourse on important issues in Spain.

The fact that Pablo has lived with persecution and threats of imprisonment for most of his adult life is devastating and unfortunately his story is not unique. In his last Twitter message before he was incarcerated, he issued a warning:

“Tomorrow it can be you.”

The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect DiEM25’s official policies or positions.

Photo Source: Couteau Libellule on Twitter. 

Etichette: freedom of speech Pablo Hasél Spain

A vaccine apartheid is unfolding across the globe

Pubblicato Febbraio 22nd, 2021 di Jason Boyns & inserito in Articles, Opinion.

An unjust deployment of COVID-19 vaccines reveals a ‘vaccine apartheid’

The current pandemic illustrates the violation of human rights by the powerful few over the many. As the world finds itself in a state of ‘lockdown’ induced lethargy, this has become clear. The COVID-19 vaccine should be a public good — but instead, a global vaccine apartheid is currently unfolding.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to illustrate many injustices prevalent in our world despite efforts by our politicians to turn our attention to the silver linings at the onset of the virus. As the various vaccines roll out, one can’t help but notice a sense of preferential treatment being administered in a realm where impartiality should rule. Everyone should have the right to life-saving vaccines, but the current disparities in vaccine deployment showcase a shocking disregard for the populations in the Global South.

Your health and your life are no longer regulated by principles of morality and ethics but viewed from the scope of economics and your relevant value thereof. In fact one can disregard ethics entirely when in a global pandemic, vaccine manufacturers stand to make incredible profits of up to $10 billion (Moderna) and $19 billion (Pfizer). This despite companies like Moderna receiving $1 billion worth in taxpayer grants. One would think with so much public funding the public would be entitled to fair prices or even free access, unfortunately this will not be the case as the abovementioned Moderna intends charging the highest price of all. Dale T McKinley perhaps summarizes things best:

“Like the Wall Street hedge fund managers prior to the 2008 crash, the private and state vaccine pharmaceuticals (along with their political protectors/shareholders) are in the process of gorging themselves at the capitalists-only feast that has been prepared for them. As usual, the gorgers will never pay for the bill. Meanwhile, the vast majority of humanity will be left to scramble for whatever small crumbs remain.”

‘Vaccinationalism’

As mounting concerns over possible vaccines rise, so too do the concerns regarding the duplicitous nature of the powers at be. Through social distancing and self isolation — a COVID measure that denotes class privilege — the wealthy and those that can telework can stay at home, whilst essential workers are asked to be at the frontlines of the crisis. Workers of low economic status are forced by the very nature of their poverty to continue working in high risk environments despite ‘COVID measures’ at the workplace, placing themselves and their communities at risk of infection. Who benefits from their sacrifice ? The Governments members and Corporation owners who have if we are honest been self isolating for centuries.

The distinction of us and them is elucidated clearly with the eagerly anticipated release of Vaccines this year. However that anticipation is dashed when one comes from a middle or low income country as it stands. On 4 of June 2020 UN Secretary General António Guterres stated that, “a COVID-19 vaccine must be seen as a global public good, a people’s vaccine”. However, vaccine manufacturers are opposing this statement through every rhetorical weapon in their arsenal.

It is all well and good proposing equitable access to the vaccine, when the reality is that wealthy countries have already preordered a surplus in vaccines leaving most notably the Global South in a vaccine deficit. Mariana Mazzucato, Henry Lishi and Els Torreele have also written that:

“wealthy countries have been buying up potential vaccine candidates through advanced purchase agreements through bilateral agreements with drug companies, Wealthy countries representing just 13% of the worlds population have bought at least half of the worlds potential vaccine supply, before the vaccine candidates have even been approved.”

High income countries have already acquired ‘close to 80% of the Pfizer/ BioNTech and Moderna vaccine doses that will be available in the first year’. To put it into perspective, this 13% have paid for 3.8 billion doses compared to the 3.2 billion doses paid for by the rest of the world combined. The concern over the vaccine runs deeper still when in October last year South Africa and India submitted a joint proposal of a waiver of certain provisions of the TRIPS agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights) for the prevention, containment and treatment of COVID-19 for the duration of the pandemic. Albeit with a list of support from other middle and low income countries, the proposal is being opposed by a few high income countries who have already paid for their doses.

In January 2021 the Director General of the World Health Organisation DR Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned of a “catastrophic moral failure” when he shared that by mid January only 25 vaccine doses had been administered in low income countries, as opposed to the 39 million doses administered so far in as little as 49 High and middle income countries. 25 as opposed to 39 million.

As it stands in the present? As Pawel Wargan from the Progressive International recently stated: “10 countries have administered 75% of all global vaccinations, while 130 countries have yet to receive a single dose.” Let that sink in. Below you will find a demographic on the vaccine distribution.

DiEM25’s response, and how to fund it!

When Jonas Salk developer of the polio vaccine was asked who owned the patent, he responded with “the people”.

DiEM25 has called for free vaccines for everyone and the property rights over patents to be socialised. The movement is emphasising global solidarity over vaccinationalism:

“The European Council should immediately order the European Central Bank to pay whatever sums are necessary to purchase all the doses of the vaccine Europeans need, plus another equal quantity to be sent, free of charge, to low income countries. In summary, using the considerable monetary power of the ECB, the cost of speeding up production and distribution of vaccines can be covered immediately and fairly.”

DiEM25 is calling out the medical-industrial complex which “represents a clear and present danger to European citizens” through their monopolisation of patents.

The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect DiEM25’s official policies or positions.

Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons. 

Etichette: apartheid covid COVID-19 health pandemic vaccinationalism vaccine

Raise your voice for Assange

Pubblicato Febbraio 18th, 2021 di Nadia Sales Grade & inserito in Articles.

We are calling on all artistic members to come join us and to help build the creative platform of DiEM25!

DiEM VOICE is the creative platform of DiEM25, existing as a vital mode of communication between the grassroots members, activists and artists alike. We believe that art has the power to act as a crucial driving force, in order to deliver and inform the movement’s policy and message and to intensify the fight to democratise Europe!

Open Call: Raise your voice for Assange. 

Submit your work here!

Your input will be imperative to see that art is extended to all corners of DiEM25 and as a first initiative we are launching an open call to all creatives. Participate, use your voice and join DiEM25’s fight to demand freedom of Julian Assange!

Find out more about the project and how you can submit your work here. Deadline is March 15 at 17:00 CET.

Learn more and get involved

• Watch the first DiEM Voice TV episode featuring Maja Pelević and Milan Marković Matthis, who talked about their project “They live” when they became members of seven leading political parties in Serbia, how that changed their perspective on parliamentary democracy and how they look at it almost ten years later.

• Visit our new webpage on the main DiEM25 site

• Join and start a discussion with other creative members in the DiEM Voice area of the Forum. Here you will also find announcements of our upcoming actions and coordination calls.

• Contact us directly at voice@diem25.org

Etichette: DiEM Voice julian assange

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