Yearly Archives: 2021

Faces of DiEM: Saving nature from private interests

26.03.2021

DiEM25 member Jonathan Silva is fighting to prevent the cliffs of the Algarve region in Portugal from being privatised!

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Democratic decay and uncertainty in Turkey

25.03.2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated political and economic unrest in Turkey. The latest 'ban on HDP' signals continued systematic oppression of Kurds.

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Women and girls are ignored in the pact on migration and asylum of the EU

25.03.2021

The EU should reassess women and girls’ migration policies because their vulnerabilities are neither accounted for nor are they addressed.

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Draghi’s hiring of McKinsey is ‘an affront to the Italian people’

Opinion

24.03.2021

The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance hired a McKinsey to ‘organise’ Italy’s distribution of the Recovery Fund monies.

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Kill the Bill: A democracy in decline

24.03.2021

Kill the Bill protests are a necessary response to the Conservative government’s new Police and Crime Bill which threatens democracy.

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Democracy and HDP are victims of Erdoğan with the EU as witness

23.03.2021

In his latest attempts to ban the HDP party, Erdoğan has stripped HDP member of parliament Kocaeli Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu of his status as deputy.

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Sexual and gender based violence: Lessons from Chiapas, Mexico

23.03.2021

The Gender 1 DSC highlights the Zapatista's use of self-organisation, mediation and restorative justice to address sexual and gender-based violence.

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Private interests may destroy part of Portugal’s natural beauty – let’s stop them

22.03.2021

The cliffs of Ponta da Piedade in the Algarve are fenced off by private interests, who are seeking to develop it despite encroaching on public land.

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Green New Deal for Europe (tweet)storms the European Parliament TODAY!

19.03.2021

To mark the Global Climate Strike today, we’ve turned our GNDE goals into tweet-sized demands and will direct a tweetstorm at the European Parliament!

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