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’
Opinion24.03.2021
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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