A video edit from the 1st Session of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) launch in Berlin, kick starting the conversation that DiEM25 is facilitating to put the demos back into Europe’s democracy. ( 27 mins.)
A video edit from the 1st Session of DiEM25's launch in Berlin to kick start the conversation on putting the demos back into Europe’s democracy, how to address the various crises currently tearing Europe apart, and how to organise our political interventions in our localities, regions, countries and, of course, at the European level.
Session / OUR FRAGMENTING EUROPE & DiEM’s RESPONSE Re-conceptualising the centrifugal forces and multiplying divisions tearing the EU apart: refugees, borders & fences (Schengen), Fortress Europe (Frontex), inequality-poverty, chauvinism, nationalism, insecurity.
Introduction & Moderation: Srećko Horvat (DiEM, Croatia) 1. Baier, Walter (Transform! Network – Austria) 2. Buden, Boris (public intellectual / activist, Germany/Croatia) 3. Büllesbach, Daphne (European Alternatives / Germany) 4. Demh, Dieter (MP, Germany) 5. Fassin, Eric (Academic, France) 6. Guerot, Ulrike (European Democracy Lab, Germany) 7. Krempaska, Alena (Human Rights Institute, Slovakia) 8. Martin, Luis (Journalist, Spain) 9. Meddeb, Hind (Filmmaker/Journalist, France) 10.Morel Darleux, Corrine (Activist, Deputy for Rhône-Alpes, France) 11.Mezzadra, Sandro (Public Intellectual-Activist, Italy) 12.Negri, Toni (Public Intellectual-Activist, Italy) 13.Papastergiadis, Nikos (Academic, Australia-Greece) 14.Pisarello, Gerardo (First Deputy Mayor, City of Barcelona, Cataluña) 15.Richter, Angela (Theatre Director, Germany) 16.Sierakowski, Slavek (Krytyka Polityczna, Poland) 17.Tsomou, Margarita (Author-Journalist, Germany/Greece) and Jacob Appelbaum, independent journalist, computer
security researcher and core member of the Tor project. (Video: Hind Meddeb)
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill creates new stop-and-search powers, allows the police to put more conditions on protests, and threatens Gypsy and Traveller rights to roam.
It's been met with mass protests from Bristol to Belfast. Is this bill a threat to our human rights – and is there any stopping it now?
Join us for this free live discussion at 5pm UK time, Thursday 15 April
Hear from:
Gracie Bradley Director of Liberty Moya Lothian-Mclean Politics editor at gal-dem Luke Smith Founder of GRT [Gypsy, Roma and Traveller] Socialists Zarah Sultana Labour MP Chair: Nandini Archer Global commissioning editor, openDemocracy
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