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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Letter from a recovering Team Syntegrity 2017 participant
"In this exercise, we were forced to sit side by side and face to face and discuss diverse issues reasonably,...
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Published in: HomeTeam Syntegrity emergent
If creativity is born from bringing different perspectives together, the group’s diversity was a positive sign from...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From civil society to political society
“You can avoid paying attention to politics only until politics starts paying attention to you.” Thoughts gathered...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Team Syntegrity, a comprehensive method of hope
Collaborating, competing, contradicting, negotiating, accommodating and compromising, all took place to different...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What the hell is going on in Macedonia?
A maelstrom of scandals, drama, violence and anger has seen Macedonia sliding towards collapse in recent months,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCountering xenophobia through story-telling
Story-telling and communal art are powerful tools in the fight against xenophobia. In the age of the echo chamber we...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Glimpse into a key party debate: deciding the future of Podemos
Podemos is locked in passionate debate in the run-up to its second state-wide assembly, next weekend. It must build...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesLoomio and the problem of deliberation
One of the frustrations within the current political system is that most people are alienated from deliberation. The...
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Published in: Home‘The system is a reflection of who we are’: an interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir
“It's not only about us versus the system. The system is really us.” As Iceland’s radical Pirate party approaches...
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Published in: HomePortrait of the artist and The Confession, Part One
An interview with the director of The Confession, Moazzam Begg’s story commissioned by BBC Storyville and the BFI -...
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Published in: HomeThe Think Project, Brexit and the urgent need for better citizenship education
The Think Project in Wales, born from a project to combat home-grown Islamic extremism, demonstrates that open...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?An open letter to #NuitDebout from the Indignados’ districts of the internet
This open letter is against the manipulation of 'new ' parties. Let's be radical, demand what's possible. Español. Francais.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The capitalism tribunal
At the 'Capitalism Tribunal' in Vienna, citizens from across the world are invited to prosecute or defend...
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC is failing to ask the big questions about the EU referendum
Britain's public service broadcaster must do more to communicate this historic vote beyond the narrow agendas of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The ‘SYRIZA experience’: lessons and adaptations
SYRIZA did what the traditional way of doing politics dictates: supported social movements, built alliances, won a...
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Published in: HomeRenewing the Latin American connection
All the countries of those sitting around this table were born in genocide. In the case of Brazil, we were the world...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The decline and fall of the European Union: is it time to rip it up and start again?
There was no distinction in EU politics between friend and foe. Everything worked so nicely. But this was also the...
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Published in: HomeEmbracing the dissenting Jew (from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv)
Should Tel Aviv become the sister city of Amsterdam? And if Amsterdam says no, is the city giving in to anti-Semitic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populist snapshots: Front National (FN) in the European Parliament
This article looks at the basic framing devices of France's Front National rhetoric in the European parliament, and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saving Europe: reformulating the rules
A Europe of welfare states, relatively free and democratic, with social provisions that allow for more emancipation...