Posts Tagged: Grassroots

Yanis Varoufakis calls for the boycott of Amazon on Black Friday!

26.11.2020

Amazon's days of impunity are over. This Black Friday, we can make a difference with an act of solidarity to workers, communities, and the planet.

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Discrimination against LGBTQIA+ students in the Netherlands

24.11.2020

The Dutch Minister of Primary and Secondary Education's pronouncements aggravate the already difficult conditions for LGBTQIA+ youth.

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Legal but not accessible: abortion in Turkey from an ethical perspective

23.11.2020

DiEM25 members on the fight against patriarchy in Turkey, which has "de facto banned" abortion and limited access to contraception.

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Whistleblower Maria Efimova fears for her safety: “This is part of their vindictive strategy: to silence me”

21.11.2020

MeRA25 and DiEM25 to pressure the Greek Government to grant asylum to Maria Efimova, the whistleblower at the centre of a corruption scandal ...

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Protestors in Portugal: “The city is for those who live in it, not for profit”

18.11.2020

DiEM25 members participated in a protest in Lisbon in collaboration with Acção pela Habitação on the lack of access to decent housing.

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No place for xenophobia in housing action

26.10.2020

Xenophobia only serves to turn public attention away from the root cause of the housing shortage in the Netherlands.

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The DiEM25 Summer Festival 2020: Political organisation in Germany during the pandemic

22.10.2020

DiEMers met in Berlin for the DiEM25 Summer Festival 2020 -- the yearly German-speaking reunion of the movement.

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Lessons in grassroots democracy from an occupied school in Athens

14.10.2020

The Greek government's only measure to protect school children was to make masks mandatory - but their free masks were grossly oversized.

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Solidarity actions for Julian Assange in Belgium

12.10.2020

We must defend whistleblowers and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange because they reveal what governments are doing ‘in the public interest’.

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