Diemin tiedotus (Euroopanlaajuinen sähköpostilista)

Pystyn tulemaan kokoukseen n. 2130-2145 (2030-2045 Keski-Euroopan aikaa.)

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Dear all,

Did you all receive this morning's newsletter? (If not, double-check your spam folder and membership)

We are moving forward quickly! DiEM25's Progressive Agenda for Europe ( https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/ ) will make DiEM25 a force that nobody can ignore. Whenever there are elections, we plan to rub this agenda under politicians' noses and ask them if they support it, and if not, why not.

The policy papers guidelines (https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920DiEM25_PolicyPapers_protocol_EN.pdf) encourage DiEMers to get together and develop concrete proposals for our first three topics:

1. Transparency

2. Refugees & Migration

3. the European New Deal

Every proposal must come out of the collaboration of at least 5 people. These people can work together in any way they like (e. g. in a few weekly local meetings, a long workshop, online forum discussion, email exchanges, a series of Skype calls, tools like Liquid Feedback, carrier pigeon - whichever), as long as they all agree with the final document they submit as a group. We expect that a lot of people will prefer to collaborate in-person, so don't be surprised if there are newbies at your next DSC meeting (assuming you announce date & location publicly). Note that we do not expect the whole DSC to talk about one topic and come up with a common proposal for that topic. DSC members probably have different interests, so the DSC should just facilitate the discussion: creating subgroups of people who will work on a particular question or organising public events on the topic in order to bring in more people from your city. Read more about this in the Policy Papers Protocol ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920DiEM25_PolicyPapers_protocol_EN.pdf ).

The policy paper coordinators will make questions available in order to facilitate the process. For now, we only have the questions for the European New Deal, which you can find at https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_English_Final.pdf . Feel free to come up with a proposal for just one of the questions, you don't need to answer many or all (it will be a very long Whitepaper).

Lastly, let me clarify a misunderstanding regarding the Transparency and Refugees & Migration papers. We do not have a draft paper for these. In fact, we do not even have the questions yet - the chairs will release them shortly. We will start from step 1 here, too, we just skip the Assembly step because we already had assemblies on these topics. The discussion results from the assemblies will be integrated into the first draft of the whitepapers for these, along with all of your proposals.

Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith Meyer

Volunteer Coordinator

Italian DSC:t pyytävät DiEM25:ltä virallista tukea "EI"-kampanjalle Italian perustuslain muutosta vastaan. He katsovat Renzin ehdottaman perustuslain muutoksen olevan kokeilu demokratian alasajolle Euroopassa. DiEM25 kerää parhaillaan tietoa lakimuutoksesta ja sen vaikutuksista Italian parlamentaariseen demokratiaan. Myöhemmin aiheesta järjestetään jäsenäänestys, jossa kysytään pitäisikö DiEMin olla mukana tässä kampanjassa vai ei.

T: sähköpostivastaava-Tuulia

Dear Judith, dear all,

around all of Europe international finance has planned to empty democratic constitutions. For example very well known is the openly stated intent by JP. Morgan. Everywhere in Europe in every single member state, up to european parliament too, the toxic plan is to enforce "governabilty, governance" at the expense of a true, democratic, parliamentary debate and out of a real european citizens control.

Such a plan is now experiencing a crucial phase in Italy, where, in an authoritarian way, actual delegitimized government has imposed a fraudulent constitutional reform wich will be yet submitted to referendum next autumn (the exact date has not yet been set).

if citizens do not respond NO to the referendum, the government may decide on all the main bodies of the state and therefore will nominate Constitutional Court, Supreme Judicial Council, President of the Republic. Parliament too will be directly nominated (although passing through symbolic popular elections).

We Italian DiEM25 firmly believe that Italy is being used as an experiment: a bit as it happened with "Job Act" (experienced before successfully in Italy and now exported in France, see the Loi Travail) fraudulent constitutional reforms will be soon exported all over Europe, if they succeed in italy.

For this reason we ask again that CC want to officially support the campaign for a No to the Italian referendum on so called constitutional reform.

DiEM25 can't hope to democratise Europe while the democratic constitutions of its member states are emptied of meaning according to a general authoritarian drawing.

Dear Judith, please tell us if this is the right place to extend our renewed appeal or what else we have to do to forward it directly to CC.
The time is running out and the matter is ever more urgent.

Thank you very much!

Antonello Nebbia
heard DSC Rome1

Torstaina, 29.9. klo 20.00 CET transnationaali DSC-kokous, aiheena yleiset DiEM25:n liittyvät asiat. Kokous järjestetään internetissä kerran kuussa. Torstain aihe: läpinäkyvyys.

T: sähköpostivastaava-Tuulia

Dear Comrades and Colleagues,

Thanks to Wessel for the advance notice about our meeting. Unfortunately I was unaware that UberConference was already sending out notifications automatically as a follow up to our first meeting in Ireland over a month ago. I had not noticed that this was happening so I have now cancelled that notification. I shall be using Maestro Conference for our upcoming meeting because it gives us the option of a plenary session (with all participants) and the option of forming smaller break-out groups for discussions during the meeting. So, ignore any message that suggests we are using UberConference this time! It is one of the options we may consider for other meetings.

Because I was "flying blind" and did not know how many people might participate, I had set an arbitrary limit of 25 for this one. Nevertheless as soon as I see the numbers registering I have the option of increasing that limit to accommodate everyone who wishes to attend. The sooner you register the better, as that will give me advance notice of any changes that I need to make.

When you have registered, you will receive confirmation by e-mail. After that you will receive a reminder 24 hours before the meeting and again a "wake up" reminder a few hours before the meeting starts.

The aim of this meeting is to support the development of a united DiEM25 Movement across Europe by providing a platform for members attached to local DSCs as well as indivdual members who find it difficult to attend face-to-face meeting in their own country. The agenda/topics for discussion will be decided by the members of the group. Before each meeting attendees will be polled for their suggestions for the next meeting's agenda.

The Provisional agenda I suggest is:

1. Introduction and advice about using this conference system for those who have not used it before (5 minutes)

2. Short discussion to share ideas on how this monthly online DSC meeting might proceed (10 minutes)

3. Main topic: (50 minutes)

I am taking a recent email from Judith as a prompt. A copy of the "Building DiEM25’s Progressive Agenda for Europe" lists the first three policy areas. I attach a copy of that document. May I suggest that we focus on the first item - Transparency and see how much progress we can make on that.

Note also that there will be no minutes or summaries supplied after the meeting, but I shall record the proceedings (part of the MaestroConference facilities) which can then be shared afterwords with members of your home DSC in the form of an audio file. You will automatically receive a copy if you registered but were unable to attend.

There is one other topic I would like you to give me feedback and advice on. I first heard about plans for a new Europe back in the 1960s and was enthusiastic about the prospect. We spoke then about "Our Europe" as "Europe of the Peoples", and "Europe of the Cultures". I am always impressed by the multilingual ability of our European citizens, yet at the same time (perhaps it's because I am from an Irish and Central European ancestry) I am sensitive to the need for respecting other languages and providing space for them, and especially for Minority and Lesser-Spoken languages. At present, members are kind enough to use English as a common language, but for the benefit of our discussions I wonder would you like the small group break-out sessions to provide for language differences by organising (and depending upon the number of participants), say, sub groups for English, French, German, or any other language necessary, initially. We might make more progress if participants were speaking in their first or preferred languages. A rapporteur for each group could then report back to the plenary group in English. At some stage in the registration process you may be asked to nominate your preferred language. If you have views on this you can contact me at pangurglas@gmail.com Be sure to include "DiEM25" in the subject line.

Register: You may now click on this link to register: http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/RENZ39MQD5F9NONK If this link does not work for you, just cut and pasted the URL into your browser.

I am very excited and enthusiastic to be part of this development. I look forward to meeting you and any other members of DiEM25 that you encourage to attend. Let's make it a fruitful and interesting development.

Best wishes,

Tony Pratschke

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Dear Diem25 democrats!

Great that you would all like to join the first "Democracy in Diem25 DSC" or DiD meetup! Because we're already 17 strong, we'll need to use another conference platform, which will be the "Freeconference" platform.

The link you can use to join the meeting is the following: https://hello.freeconference.com/conf/call/6564356

We don't have a lot of experience yet with this platform, so it will be a bit of an experiment (don't get upset when the connection fails).

We have a collaborative agenda for the meeting, which can be found here: https://toolsfordemocracy.titanpad.com/2? Please add anything you like in case you think something's missing.

We're looking forward to talk to all of you on Wednesday (starting 7:45pm)!

Democratically yours,

​Manuel Rodriguez-Girones
Pedrojuan Girones
Wessel Reijers​

Dear all,

During our last DSC Lyon meeting, one of our mambers (a former green MEP) raised our awareness about a European Commission's public consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=699&consultId=22&visib=0&furtherConsult=yes) which deadline is at he end of December 2016. We think that DiEM25 should mobilise its members to contribute to this public consultation. Given the deadline, we shouldn't wait until the third pillar of our Program's green paper is issued. More generally, we think that DiEM25 should use these public consultations to position itself in the domains related to the movement's strategic objectives. Indeed, these consultations are already used by all sorts of lobbyists, and we think it would be desirable to use the power of the numerous DiEM25 groups and members to expose our vision and to promote our propositions.

What do you think?

Cheers,

Jacques

Dear Jacques,

I think this is a very good idea to position DiEM25 in this relevant consultation asap.

I will discuss it with Amsterdam DSC.

I believe we first should all align before submitting a response.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Virginia

Hi Judith & everybody,

is there a way for us to bring such matters directly to the CC? Seems like this would be exactly the kind of job that the CC has been designed for and going through this volunteer mailing list seems a bit convoluted - not to mention that it created extra work for you (Judith) and a great load of intransparency.

Alex

Dear all,

Several CC members are reading this list

I'm following this exchange and all other topics with interest.

Be sure that important topics and proposals are discussed at the CC teleconferences with the whole CC.

Best wishes,

Cristina

Dear all,

Right now we are preparing pages that will present the members of DiEM25's Coordinating Collective and Advisory Panel. At the same time, we would like to replace the current "Members" page ( https://diem25.org/members/ ) with one that gives EVERY member an equal chance of being presented. Every member that wishes to appear on such a page can be there (we are aware that not everyone wants to have their name and picture publicly associated with DiEM25). We will move away from a huge list of names and instead have an image slider showing random members' pictures with quotes about what brings them to DiEM25. An example: https://internal.diem25.org/en/member_presentations/full_preview/1 (the slider doesn't work on this one)

If you want to appear on this new page when it goes live, please fill out the form at https://internal.diem25.org/de/member_presentations/new . Also invite your DSC members to do so. The more people participate in this, the better it will represent the whole of DiEM25.

Thank you!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Dear
Antonello, dear Judith, dear all

DSC-Cagliari1 went through a large consultation (almost 20 people were questioned including other Sardinian members of DiEM25 not included in our DSC) during the last two weeks
with the aim of achieving a common position on the request of sponsoring the
“NO” campaign for the Italian Constitutional Referendum.

Notwithstanding
the "NO" position has a big support among our members, we came to the
conclusion that DiEM25 should not officially take side. DiEM25 is still unknown
to the large majority of Italians and European. Moreover, DiEM25 has just
defined its organizational structure and its democratic decision making
process. Taking side in national pure political debates, in this peculiar phase, can be counterproductive for our new born pan European movement.

There are
objective reasons for concern about the possible combined effects of reforms to
the constitution and the electoral law in Italy: a reduction of democratic
space is plausible and should be of interest to Europeans. However, the
debate, until now, has been managed in a pro-et-contra Renzi propaganda by
supporters and opponents. In our opinion, DiEM25 can not afford, at this
delicate stage, the risk of being associated to this Italian internal political
conflict, which could erode DiEM25 credibility even before being known and
appreciated.

We do also
believe that such a strategic decision should be democratically debated and voted by all DiEM25 members.

Best regards

Matteo Vespa and Alessio Satta

DSC Cagliari

I'll try to say samething without let me take by the dismay.I recived yesterday a message from Massa Critica, Naples, a Rebel City, inviting to colaborate, to partecipate every movement, every partry, every association, independing by the politc idea or other reasons but just trying to unify in 1 voice all the people against this next referendum and for this reason they propose a national and general strake of 24 hours for the next 21 octuber. In the will of this people I see, I understand a clear idea to use the strike as e message to say to the govern that italians can have still a voice, can be a nation, can be rise against the possible dictatorial derive of Italy. I was asking here around if it's possible to ask the implication of DiEM25 Italy in this strake, so as many others moviment I know and with whom I cooperate. Massa Critica, says that any movement can present to theirs contacts/associated as an their own idea, they don't want protagonism, they want change the situation. I don't know exactely which is your idea about DiEM25, but my idea is that is a great movement, good ideas, good Manifesto, but it's also a starting moviment, not still so structured and one by one, day after day we, all together, must work to do it better, doesn't exist perfection anywhere. You, Alessio, speaks about DiEM25 as a creature we have to protec, I think that the citizen must be protect, DiEM25 for me is an instrument not the end to rice the objective of a new Democratic and Solidary Europe. And the work we are beginning to do as members of DiEM25 or DSC is also to give a real, concrete and coherent mean to the world Democracy also inside the same movement.

More: what do you think about the new attitude of Renzi respect to Germany or the rising voice (euphemism) against the conditions that Europe keep about our economical situation? What's about the win of the SI and more uncontrastate power of Renzi....will be the ammount of this the result we want to achieve new democratic and solidary Europe or may open directly to an Italexit? Sure then we can go on, time and time, asking ourself : what went wrong? as we are still doing with the Brexit!

Of course we should have to vote democratically all the members of DiEM25, but I want remember thet referendum is fixed for the 4 of december 2016. Play your game!

The future will have depends from the present we build, this is the right time and the right place.

I go on with contacting all the people and movement I can to spread the general strake, also in the page and forum of DiEM Italy or FB. and i'll publish also this I'm writing here.

You used an argument to contrast the implication of DiEM25 international in this "italian Affair", the same argument I wrote in this forum, but exactely on the contrary: DiEM 25 is still unknown to the mayority of italians....what best occasion to approach italians and europeans to our movement?!?! Here around I ear different people that say we are an elitist movement! Is this DiEM25?

Thank you, sorry for my passionate and long letter but I'M sorry, I' m an euro-mediterranean man.

Dear all,

What is very clear here is that our Italian members, to a varying degree, feel that this is an urgency. Here are my thoughts, reformulating what I have said before. (I speak only for myself, not DSC Paris).

First of all, deciding what is "national" and what is "European" is not simple. Let's not forget that designating an issue as "national" is a way in which the powerful delegitimate the voice of others. This is as old as the nation-state itself.

Second, DiEM25 is based, in my view, on a deconstruction of that artificial border, building a transnational, democratic political movement for real progressive European politics.

Therefore, the strategic issue for me - and here I disagree with Alessio and Cagliari - is to take a stand on the Italian referendum. In my view, the constitutional changes proposed serves one purpose: being able to enact TINA-policies more effectively and with less resistance. This is what 'governability' means today in the EU, don't forget.

Let's remember that our objective is to start the process towards a democratic EU constitution. Before that can happen, and to be legitimate to do it, DiEM25 should take a stand when ever deliberative and substantive democracy, human rights and social conditions deteriorate anywhere in the EU, on any level. Is Polish abortion rights a DiEM issue? Of course it is! Politicians in power now will tell you that austerity measures are national. Using 'national' is a tool to delegitimate criticism. So let's think critically about what is national.

By the way, Yanis Varoufakis intervened in Irish tax policy today. Tax policy is "national" isn't it (I'm being ironic).

The EU can never be more democratic than its member states. So when national democratic governance deteriorates, the battle becomes longer. That is more important that protecting DiEM25. DiEM consists of grown-up, thinking and competent people. DiEM can take care of itself.

My vote will go to pan-European support for DiEM Italy to promote a 'No' in the referendum, with any other movement that they choose to work with.

I'm not Mediterranean, but you can get a lot of fire from me too !

Carpe DiEM

Ulf from Paris

Dear
Dome Nolo, dear Ulf, dear all

I would like to reply to your emails expressing my personal opinion (not the one of DSC Cagliari1). To better frame the actual Italian
debate on the referendum I will to introduce few elements concerning the history
Italian Left in the last decades. I hope this will contribute to stimulate the interest
of our Europeans comrades.

Since more
than 30 years, the “Left” militants in Italy feel deeply orphaned of a leader
and a project. We can date this starting from the death of Enrico Berlinguer
and certainly from the end of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Nevertheless the
Italian Left, after the earthquake of "Tangentopoli" in 1992, and the
end of the PCI, found a new reason to exist: the ''anti-Berlusconi” battle.
Berlusconi has taken a symbolic value, the emblem of the capitalist Evil with
all its worst defects. The Italian Left concentrating all its energies in this
war to the Evil incarnate person has completely lost sight, renouncing for over
20 years to build an alternative social and economical project in Italy.

After
Berlusconi's departure, in part facilitated by the intervention of the European
Commission (I still wonder why our comrades, never protested against the
interference of the EC and the “financial powers” at that time), and the
arrival of Monti, Letta, and Renzi what remained of the Italian Left shifted
its ideological battle from Berlusconi to Renzi. In Italy, the Left has passed from the fight
against the "berlusconismo" to the "renzismo", nouns have
changed but the result is the same: the Italian Left has given up on building a
political project choosing to exist just as the antithesis of something or
someone.

In this
deep rift between the Left and the Italian people, the 5-Stars movement has
taken root attracting broad masses of the proletariat (from left to right) and
especially young voters, deprived of their hopes. Although the 5-Stars
movement, as is well known to our Italian colleagues, have clearly shown that
their ideas and perspectives stand in the field of the Right.

The Italian
constitutional referendum falls squarely in this “anti-renzismo” dialectic. The
reasoning of the average Left militant (including dozens of my friends) can
thus be sintered: "Renzi proposed the referendum then I will vote NO and most
of all I will vote NO with the real goal to topple his government".

The thing I
find even more amazing is that the front of the NO was formed even before
knowing in detail the content of the questions contained in the same
referendum. This should not, however, distract us from the need to understand
the impacts of this potential reform and to inform as many people as possible
as suggested by many members of DiEM25 in this email exchange and in the last one by
Andrea.

I will not
bothering you trying to explain all the elements of this referendum because the level of technicalities of the reform requires a robust legal background. Nevertheless
I started building my own idea and I found several elements that do not
convince me of this reform, mainly built into the rooms of the governing
parties for a game of political power.

One of these is the risk of reducing the democratic participation by
eliminating the selection of senators by the citizens. These are in fact will
be appointed by the parties through the choice of mayors and councilors who
will go to the Senate being elected for other functions. In broadest outline
the reform provides for a bicameral system in which the Chamber of Deputies
will have the maximum of legislative powers and a reformed Senate, which will
have some legislative powers, will be possibly conflicting with those of the
House.

In addition
to reforming the Senate the referendum provides for the elimination of the
CNEL, the provinces, introducing a centralization of some powers from the
regions to the central state. We are facing a review of the constitution whose
long-term effects are difficult to predict even for the most constitutional
experts already deployed for the "NO".

My opinion
is that we can definitely talk about a “botched” reform, which rather than
simplify the operation of democracy in Italy will make it more confusing and
interpretable maybe paralyzing the legislative process. However, we are very
far from a "possible dictatorial tendencies of Italy" as stated by
Dome Nolo (Tommy) as well as far from a scenario that could " being able
to enact TINA-policies more effectively and with less resistance".

Unfortunately these options are not predictable at the present state of
knowledge.

Dear Ulf
agree with you when you say that it's time for our movement to start the
process towards a democratic EU constitution but we are sure that it is that of
the Italian constitutional referendum the good fight?

A large
part of Italians believe that this reform is wrong and it will not solve
Italy's problems as our prime minister tries to make us believe, but do not
forget that one of the strongest reasons to vote NO is to bring down the government
Renzi and his arrogance.

We found
our enemy and the battlefield became the constitutional referendum and to win
it we are willing to use rhetoric and emphasis.

Citing
Bersani (former secretary of the PD), who expressed is willingness to vote NO, this referendum is typically "Italo-Italiota"
expression that denotes its nature closely related to settling affairs of
Italian powers that have little to do with the great democratic principles
evoked by you.

DiEM25
should not take sides in this conflict not because we are small or because we’re
unknown in Italy, we must not take part in this controversy because it is
just a national issue and / or not enough European but simply because this is
not the “mother of all battles” to save 'Italy and Europe from dictatorship or to
protect our citizens (from Renzi?).

This battle is not decisive to save democracy
in Europe but it is crucial for maintaining the proper functioning of the
Italian institutions.

Let me askyou a question. The official commitment of DiEM25 in favor of NO Campaign who
would benefit? The movement itself? The NO Campaign actors? And most of all which is
the specific weight of our movement between the forces in the field? How many
members of DiEM25 we’ve in Italy right now? Hundreds? Which will be the message
of DiEM25 in adhering to the NO Campaign? “We want to save democracy in Italy”?

I would be
very careful in case DiEM25 decided to join the NO Campaign on how we intend to
communicate our support and above all on the basis of which objective criteria?

You’re perfectly
right when you write that I want to protect our movement and I want to protect
it from the quicksand of the Italian referendum!

The rush to get things done and to let us know, must not detract us from the need to consolidate our strategy to achieve full success in our actions.

The DiEM25 project
is the only breath of fresh air that you breathe in Europe in recent years and
we must all protect it to make it grow like a seed just planted until his
strong roots will enable us to shake up the European institutions and to raise
the consciences of all Europeans. Too much water in this phase might drown it
destroying one of the few avant-garde movements in defense of democracy and
human rights in Europe.

At the same
time, I believe that even at this stage DiEM25 should support the battle of
Polish women against the drafting of the “Stop Abortion” law as well as
the enslavement of non-EU workers in the tomato fields in southern Italy. These
are in my opinion the battles we have to fight against injustice and inequalities
with no geographical or linguistic boundaries for the civil rights of all
European citizens and emigrates.

Let me
conclude saying that is not a matter of who’s more “Mediterranean” even if in
this peculiar challenge being a Sardinian and working in Maghreb and Mashrek for
the last 15 years I think I could have my chances to win ;)

Ciao a
tutti!

Alessio

Dear Alessio, and dear all

I think you just articulated the issue in precisely the way we need to hear it. The main point of my previous comment was to say that we should not go into the debate with an ex ante filter saying : this is a national issue, this is a European issue, this is not for DiEM, this is for DiEM. What I wanted to point out is that, rational, critical voices have always been silenced that way. This is something that we must resist.

Thanks to you, we now have a formulation, a framing of the issue that abstains from the national/European dichotomy and that is a very important step forward.

Now, on the substance, the problem that you describe is not uniquely Italian. All over Europe, we have had the emptying out of the Left, gutting it of it’s substance. In my country of origin (Sweden) social democrats have been the best of neoliberal pupils. In my second country of residence, New Labour « progressives » were neoliberalism with a human face, giving new life to Thatcherism when it should have died in 1996. In my adopted country of citizenship, France, the Socialist Party should just be called the Party, because Socialist it is definitely not.

What is left of the radical Left has largely lost any sense of a project, as you describe. As the writer John Harris wrote recently, the Left is good at demanding change, but not very good at understanding change. The situation that you describe is not a dialectic, because the antithesis is empty! And and empty antithesis makes for bad dialectics. Neoliberalism relies on this emptiness on the Left in order to stay in power.

DiEM is in this sense an essential project. To me, it represents the last hope of a Left with substance, the Left that discovers and fights for the alternative. And the only way to reach this is for the cross-national conversation that has be initiated to be sustained. This is why circumscribing particular questions with the label ‘national’ is a strategic error. We are the European left grassroots movement.

So lets turn to the discussion of substance - what is really going on, and what are the substantive arguments around the reforms that are proposed? You have already given a number of elements, that are very useful. You say that the risk for DiEM is to reproduce the errors of the existing Italian left. I’m inclined to agree. But how do we get around this? Do we need to get around it? Is there a case for saying ‘No’ and, if so, how do we do it without falling into the trap you describe?

For your information, all the French parties on the right are now campaigning with the promise to rule by decree, to enact the legislation that they see necessary to « turn the country around » without consulting parliament. Especially in their sights: labour rights, social security and pensions. This is possible under the French constitution. One right winger even says that it is not normal that it takes two seconds to tweet but two years to make a law, as if these were comparable magnitudes. At some point in time, I’m sure that DiEM France will ask DiEM for support against such stupidities.

Let’s keep this discussion running, shall we ? It’s a beautiful night in Paris, I’m going to enjoy it with my kids.

With all my friendship

Ulf

[DSC-coordination] Involving members in DiEM25's policy-making

Hey,

I'd like to share an awesome message I saw from Virginia (Amsterdam DSC) - see below. She encourages the local members to contribute to the Progressive Agenda for Europe. Can you share something similar with your members?

Note that there are some translations of the Policy Papers Protocol document and the European New Deal Questionnaire, you can find them by going to https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/ and then using the language switcher at the top.

Best wishes,

Judith

Hi there,

Now is the time to build together DiEM25 Progressive Agenda for Europe!

Some DiEMers have announced the specific questions and policy sections they want to work on. Please check our Meetup Message Board and join them if you are interested or post other specific topic or policy question you want to work on.

http://www.meetup.com/Ams.../messages/boards/thread/50175508 ( http://www.meetup.com/Ams.../messages/boards/thread/50175508 )

The policy papers guidelines (https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920DiEM25_PolicyPapers_protocol_EN.pdf ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920DiEM25_PolicyPapers_protocol_EN.pdf )) encourage DiEMers to get together and develop concrete proposals for our first three topics:

1. Transparency

2. Refugees & Migration

3. the European New Deal

Every proposal must come out of the collaboration of at least 5 people. These people can work together in any way they like, as long as they all agree with the final document they submit as a group.

Policy proposals will also be discussed at the DiEM Citizen University (DCU) seminars in Amsterdam.

Note that we do not expect the whole Amsterdam DSC to talk about one topic and come up with a common proposal for that topic. Different DSCs members probably have different interests. Read more about this in the Policy Papers Protocol.

The policy paper coordinators will make questions available in order to facilitate the process. For now, we only have the questions for the European New Deal, which you can find at https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_English_Final.pdf ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_English_Final.pdf ) . Feel free to come up with a proposal for just one of the questions, you don't need to answer many or all (it will be a very long Whitepaper).

Carpe DiEM!

Virginia

[DSC-coordination] About an official sponsorship by DiEM25 of the campaign for NO to italian costitutional referendum

Guilherne Serodio wrote:

short P.S.

A quick and actionable idea to make DiEM a valuable support for transparency, to help people understand and express their concerns on the italian referendum:

• maybe we could organize something like this http://ballot.fyi/ ( http://ballot.fyi/ )or design something like a googlequestionnaire, where the referendum propositions are briefly and individual explained (I understand a lot of changes are suggested, but all goes under a yes-or-no question?)

We could ask one by one which are the proposed changes to the Constitution that concern people the most and why? This could give us valuable insights on how the population is perceiving the referendum, where we can focus information efforts, and how DiEM can better position to support transparency and democracy. It could also get us in the media, and assert DiEM as a supporter for transparency, engagement and participation...

I can help brainstorm something like that if you want

About an official sponsorship by DiEM25 of the campaign for NO to italian costitutional referendum

Dear Friends,

I agree with Roberta that a short “impartial” briefing on the constitutional referendum is virtually impossible. For this reason, we don’t think it’s of paramount importance that Diem25 take an official stance on it. However, this doesn’t mean that most of us are indifferent about the issue, far from it. Tomorrow we’ll hold a public meeting (see attachment – in Italian), in which we’ll try to link the issues of the constitutional referendum to the issues of present-day European governance and European democracy. In the meantime, I’m sending you a link to a recent article in the Financial Times, in which the columnist, in an unexpected U-turn from a previous stance, declares the new constitutional law to be quite useless in terms of “legislative process” and only in the interest of Renzi’s power: https://www.ft.com/content/5430f982-8a28-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 (unfortunately I don’t have access to it any longer, I wonder if anybody can copy and paste the article and share it with everybody?). Quite enlightening, however, is this brochure from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, intending to attract investors to the country: http://www.investinitaly.com/pdf/en/news/overview-business-environment.pdf . Look at the foreword (p. 3) It says: “Economy is recovering and political stability made it possible to adopt a radical plan of reforms aiming at simplifying our institutional mechanisms and making Italy a much better place to do business […] New legislation has been passed to streamline our labour market, to make our judiciary more efficient and simplify our tax system. Even our Constitution and our electoral system have been changed in order to insure stability and streamline our legislative process” . What for, you may ask? You’ll find the answer in the list of reforms passed by the government in education and labour market, the ultimate consequences of which are in the graph on p. 33 and are spelled out as follows: “Italy’s labour costs are well below other peer economies, like Germany and France. Furthermore, labour cost growth rates registered in Italy over the last three years (2012-2014) are lower than those recorded by Eurozone countries (+ 1.2% vs. 1.7%).” Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

I wish I were able to provide you with a short impartial briefing, but I’m afraid I can’t. I can only say “THEY will vote for the reform. Which side are you on?”.

All the best,

Francesca

About an official sponsorship by DiEM25 of the campaign for NO to italian costitutional referendum

Greetings to all the members,

thank
you for inviting us to the conversation. As Diem25 Napoli we think that
it's important that Diem25 sustains NO at the constitutional referendum
in Italy. Some of the most important constitutionalist professors have
demonstrated that the constitutional reform proposed by Italian
Government will not reach the proposed results, and that will create
lots of disfunctions in the system. It will reduce democracy in Italy,
and will remove some important power counterweights.

The
constitutional reform proposal by italian government represents
everything against which the Diem25 fight against. It introduces a
dangerous idea of governance, an idea that Barbara Spinelli says in some
of her speeches at the European Parliament means reduction of popular
sovereignty that allows the politicians to have freedom to actuate anti
welfare politics, laws that go against the public good, against the
interests of the populations, and that favor some sovranational and
economic powers that are destroying the European Union, those are the
powers under which the people who are governing Europe are submissive.

It
is also widely known that this constitutional reform proposed by the
italian government has been directly suggested by the bank JP Morgan.
Tony Blair, who actually works for that bank, has encountered italian
prime minister Renzi to suggest this reform.

The letter by JP
Morgan to Renzi asking for a less welfare centered and more governance
oriented constitutional reform, and the encounter by Tony Blair and
Renzi, have been widely documented on many important international
newspapers, and you can find more informations about it by searching "JP
Morgan Renzi" on google.

Tony Blair has suggested that Italy
will be the first country where this reform will be experimented, and if
it will succeed, it will be adapted by other european countries.

It's important that this reform fails in Italy also to stop this kind of "governance" to be spread around Europe.

[DSC-coordination] Re: About an official sponsorship by DiEM25 of the campaign for NO to italian costitutional referendum

Dear all,

Please find for your information link below with a comprehensive assessment of the proposed reforms:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/09/27/italys-constitutional-reform-is-ill-conceived/

Best regards,

Virginia

[DSC-coordination] Re: About an official sponsorship by DiEM25 of the campaign for NO to italian costitutional referendum

Dear all,

The vote has started! Tomorrow morning you will find a newsletter inviting all DiEMers to vote on which stance DiEM25 should take in the Italian referendum. The vote will last until midnight next Tuesday. Thank you all for your contributions!

If you can think of other national issues (with a European impact) on which DiEM25 should campaign, or other issues on which an all-member vote would be good, please let us know, either through this group or through volunteer@diem25.org .

Carpe DiEM25!

Judith

[DSC-coordination] Update on Progressive Agenda for Europe / Whitepapers

Dear all,

It is taking a bit longer than expected to get our expert committees set up for the Progressive Agenda for Europe. I will let you know as soon as I have definite lists of all who will participate. However, since the experts are supposed to create a solid and consistent whitepaper based on YOUR proposals, please don't hesitate to already send in your ideas. The deadline for submissions is November 30. After that, the expert committees have until December 31 in order to produce a first draft (greenpaper). Then there will be revisions - the full process is explained here ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920DiEM25_PolicyPapers_protocol_EN.pdf ).

In order to ensure that all proposals are seen by the right teams, we have set up dedicated email addresses for each topic and we have one volunteer for each topic ensuring that we keep an overview of proposals that have been made.

Transparency: send proposals to transparency@diem25.org . Dedicated volunteer: Dorian Davoli

Refugees and Migration: send proposals to refugees@diem25.org . Dedicated volunteer: Ezekiel Djeribi Stevens

European New Deal: send proposals to newdeal@diem25.org . Dedicated volunteer: Michiel van der Werff . Note that there are questions available for this very broad topic (which encompasses economic policy, financial policy and social policy). Thanks to our volunteer translators, you can currently read the questions in English ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_English_Final.pdf ), German ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_German_Final.pdf ), Greek ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160926_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_EL.pdf ), Italian ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionario_IT.pdf ) and Spanish ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_ES.pdf ). We will aim to provide questions for the other topics as well, but I think their scope is much smaller and it's more obvious what kind of policy proposals would fit the theme. If unsure, ask.

There has been a bit of confusion about the process regarding the Transparency and Refugees and Migration whitepapers. I want to affirm that we do NOT have any remotely resembling a paper for these yet, so we are starting from step 1 (collecting all kinds of proposals) for these as well.

It is important that as many people as possible participate in this process, so please try to also integrate people who are not in DSCs. Local events such as film evenings or public discussions can spark off teams that will collaborate on a proposal, especially if you play match-maker. (Do write volunteer@diem25.org about every event so that I can invite all inactive members who live in your city.) Also, if you see any DiEM25 members e. g. on your mailing lists or on social media who might interested in contributing a proposal but do not live near a DSC, please help them set up a virtual collaboration.

Let's develop a Progressive Agenda for Europe that reflects all of DiEM25!

Best wishes,

Judith Meyer

Volunteer Coordinator

[DSC-coordination] Re: Update on Progressive Agenda for Europe / Whitepapers

Hello, Judith, all

Below, I
share with you a few considerations from DSC Barcelona1 members regarding the PAE proposals process. This is just an informal collection of thoughts
from our members, not an official position of our DSC.

• It may be
  useful to know for sure if there are ultimately going to be questionnaires or
  not, given that we are almost in the middle of the proposal submit period. Our
  DSC had been working on those pillars, but stopped when we knew about the PAE protocol
  and the questionnaires, because we didn’t want to waste energies on dead-end
  issues or inadequately orientated proposals. For this reason, if not full questionnaires,
  general directions would be helpful.

• Given the
  circumstances, the deadline for transparency and refugee proposals could be extended,
  as Jacques already suggested.

• To trigger
  community participation, it could be a good idea to use the “Discuss Policy”
  forum to share the PAE questions. Each section of the questionnaires could be a
  subforum, and each question a thread. As well, this could be a good way to
  share some of the questions of the unfinished questionnaires before the whole
  documents are ready.

• Similarly to the previous point, the DiEM25 community could use the Forum to propose questions. It could be enough to have a "Propose questions" thread for each pillar of the PAE (though it may be a bit late, this idea could be useful for the second set of topics in mid 2017).

We hope these
ideas may be helpful.

Best regards,

Marc J.
Almagro

DSC Barcelona1
Coordinator

[DSC-coordination] Recognising DSCs :)

Dear coordinators,

Great news! DiEM25-Central has been working hard to catch up on all that we didn't manage to do in the first few months and now we're finally able to give you the logos and @diem25.org addresses that many requested.

Logos: You should have received (or will receive soon) a professionally-made logo for your DSC from Raphael. If you haven't received it or if there is something wrong with it, please let him know. His address is raphael.p@fr.diem25.org . Please be sure to add the new logo to your Twitter and Facebook accounts, so that people know you're posting in the name of an official local group of DiEM25.

Email addresses, websites: We are rolling this out bit by bit. In a first step, all DSCs will get an @diem25.org address where non-members, journalists etc. can reach them. This address will be listed in the DSC Directory and take the form of paris1dsc@fr.diem25.org or similar. Please write to me at volunteer@diem25.org indicating who of your DSC will regularly check and answer emails from non-members and whether you prefer a full inbox (need to log in separately in order to check mail) or a forwarding address (all emails behave as if they had been sent to diem25.paris1.dsc@gmail.com or similar). Also indicate if your DSC has and will maintain a website with information about the group. I know that some DSCs have websites but they appear to be inactive. It's not easy to have an active website when very few people are available to keep it updated. If you think you can do it, we will create a subdomain like paris1dsc.diem25.org for it. Later we can set up addresses and mailing lists for you, but it's a lot of work to do so for over a hundred groups, let's start with DSC contact addresses and subdomains, and please be patient as we roll this out.

Lastly, since one or two of you have been wondering where DiEM25 is going organization-wise, I want to stress that what may look slow to you actually feels very fast from here (Einstein could probably say something about that :D ). I've created a little

Timeline of inner-organisational work:

So far:

• Front page with news (June)

• Creation of translation teams (June)

• DSC Directory on diem25.org (June)

• Activation of members in France and Italy (July)

• Organising Principles (April-September)

• Voting system (August)

• Confirmation of current CC and AP (September)

• First massive DiEM25 event, Fête de l'Humanité (3 days, 150 volunteers) (September)

• Creation of Comms team (September)

• Applications for VC (September-October)

• Attempt to convince Another European Is Possible to merge into DiEM25 post-Brexit (September-October)

• Work on Progressive Agenda for Europe starts (October)

• CC puts meeting summaries online (from October)

• First member decision on DiEM25's political direction (Italian referendum) (October)

Next:

• Professionally-made logos for DSCs, @diem25.org email addresses and web addresses (now)

• Member decisions on all matters of political direction (always from now on)

• Activation of members in the Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic (next week)

• Live chat with a CC member (from next week)

• Drawing of first VC (beginning of November)

• Activation of members in more countries (ongoing)

• Deadline for first round of member proposals for the Progressive Agenda (end of November)

Thank you for your invaluable support and carpe DiEM25 !

Judith

DiEM25 in Finland

Hey Judith,

DiEM25 Finland has no coordinator at the moment. Katariina Pietiläinen used to be our coordinator but she is currently unavailable and we don't know how long it is going to be this way.

Tuulia Reponen works currently as our secretary, meaning she responds to transnational DiEM communication and if need be forwards emails to other Finnish DiEM-members.

DiEM25 Finland is planning to have a re-organization meeting in near future, where roles and responsibilities are readdressed and possibly redistributed.

DiEM25 Finland

Yhdessä demokraattisemman Euroopan puolesta.

Jäikin tuon viestin matkasta se originaali viesti, johon tuo oli vastaus. Judith Mayer siis kyseli, että kuka on Suomen DiEMin koordinaattori tai aktiivisin jäsen, jonka nimen hän voi ottaa ylös. Tähän henkilöön CC haluaisi olla yhteydessä DiEMin kampanjoihin liittyen ja voisi yhdistää toisiin DSC:hin. Vastasin, ettei meillä ole tällä hetkellä koordinaattoria ja, että uudelleenjärjestäytymiskokouksessa käymme roolituksen ja vastuut uudelleen läpi.

Update on Progressive Agenda for Europe / Whitepapers

Dear all,

Thank you for your suggestions. We have changed the deadline and re-arranged the Discuss Policy forums so that it is easier to match the forums / subforums and the part of the agenda they relate to. Here's an update:

There will definitely be questionnaires. I'm trying to have them for you by November 3rd. The deadline for submissions on Transparency and Refugees (NOT on the European New Deal, because it's more urgent and questions have been available for over a month) has been extended to December 15th.

Yanis asks all DSCs to organise discussion events centering on European New Deal topics (i.e. economic policy and social policy) in the next weeks in order to produce proposals on this topic before November 30th. All events on this topic that are open to the public will be posted on diem25.org and we'll make an extra effort to promote these, so please send a message to volunteer@diem25.org if you're organising such an event. If you are unsure how to have a successful discussion event with more than a dozen people, you may try the event styles "Knowledge Cafe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_caf%C3%A9 )", "Open Space Technology ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology )" or "Fishbowl ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation) )". (follow links)

We have received next to no proposals yet :( Keep in mind the following addresses:

Transparency: send your proposals to transparency@diem25.org, read all groups' proposals at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCEeonwcwgPsQ_x4-dkTk6A_W1Gcr-ZnY3loczFJROY/edit

Refugees and migration: send your proposals to refugees@diem25.org, read all groups' proposals at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R5YVsyIeWVtFn_rC_u95q2q0A972wi-IqyAludhu7nU/edit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R5YVsyIeWVtFn_rC_u95q2q0A972wi-IqyAludhu7nU/edit )

European New Deal: read questions at https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/160920_DiEM25_European_New_Deal_Questionnaire_English_Final.pdf (also available in other languages), send your proposals to newdeal@diem25.org, read all groups' proposals at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtyymOUd4853sDatXKcdv1Tnhzd9nPycf9dfXeiWhzM/edit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtyymOUd4853sDatXKcdv1Tnhzd9nPycf9dfXeiWhzM/edit )

In order to allow other DSCs to read your proposals, we recommend sending them in English. Each workgroup probably has at least one person who is able to translate the group's proposal. However, if it's not possible, send your proposal in any language.

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Tapahtumien järjestäminen

Hei!

Yritän valmistella julkista foorumia Euroopan talouspolitiikasta Helsinkiin tälle kuulle. Tapahtuma vaatisi kuitenkin tilat, joiden varaaminen maksaa muutaman satasen ja edellyttää taustayhteisön. Miten julkisia foorumeita (helmikuun infokokous, Joensuun foorumit yms.) on järjestetty? Ketkä ovat varanneet tilat, kuka on toiminut taustayhteisönä ja miten tilat on maksettu?

Terveisin,

Lauri

DiEM25's Post-Brexit position

Dear all,

With some delay, we are now ready to debate what position DiEM25 should advocate post-Brexit in light of the new British government's stance. If you would like to contribute to the discussion, please write in this forum thread by November 11th: http://diem25.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=12256 Afterwards we'll consolidate and have a membership-wide vote, as on the Italian referendum.

UK DSCs have already been involved and UK members will receive a personal invitation.

Don't forget to send in your proposals for the policy papers on Transparency, Refugees & Migration and European New Deal either! All relevant materials and addresses have been published on the "Progressive Agenda for Europe ( https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/ )" page. The questionnaires on transparency and refugees should reach me any day now...

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Kokouksen järjestely

Hei!

Kokoussuunnitelma alkaa hahmottua. Pidämme kokouksen joissain Helsingin keskustan kirjastoista kuun lopulla. Kokoukseen tulevat puhumaan Patomäki, Ahokas ja mahdollisesti joku kolmas esiintyjä. Tilat mitoitetaan 50-100 hengen osallistujajoukolle.

Tilaisuuden tiedotus pitäisi vielä järjestää. Haluaisin tietää, kellä DiEMiläisistä voisi olla yhteyksiä, joiden kautta tilaisuutta voisi mainoa. Mieleen tulee ainakin seuraavat yhteydet:

-Kata: HY:n vihreät

-Patomäki: Vasemmistoliitto, Attac, Pol. talouden tutkimuksen seura, Wallgren+SDP

-Ville: Attac

-Jaakko Korhonen: Kokoomuksen eurooppamielinen ja sosiaaliliberaali siipi

Tiedättekö vielä joitain muita yhteyksiä esim. DiEMin FB-ryhmästä? Miten tiedotus on järjestetty aikaisemmissa kokouksissa?

Terveisin,

Lauri

Asiantuntija eurokriisikeskusteluun

Hei!

Varasin tilaisuuteen Patomäen ja Ahokkaan. Kyselin myös Markku Kuismaa. Hän olisi ollut hutilyönti, kun hänellä ei olisi ollut esitystä ja hän kannattaa vanhaa etnonationalismia (poliittinen yhteisö edellyttää edeltävää etnistä samanlaisuutta), mikä kyseenalaistaisi koko Eurooppa-projektin mielekkyyden. Hänet olisi ehkä parempi ottaa keskusteluun Euroopan perustuslaista keväällä. Voisin ottaa Teivaisen varalle, jos esim. Ahokas ei pääse.

Minua ärsyttää, että rahankeräyslaki ei salli joukkoistaa kokouksen kuluja esim. DiEM-ryhmässä. Haluaisin kysyä Tuulialta, miten olette hoitaneet rahan keräämisen ja kulujen jaon Joukkovoimassa?

Joukkovoimallahan ei ole kiinteää järjestöorganisaatiota, joten se ei voi kerätä rahaa suoraan.

Terveisin,

Lauri

Update on Progressive Agenda for Europe / Whitepapers

Dear Judith,

thank you for making the process so clear to everyone! We do, however, have a few comments/mild reservations which, though I may or may not share them, I feel obliged to share below.

(1) We couldn't help noticing that questionnaires on the first two topics have still not been provided. We are developing our own but are hesitant to continue should the questionnaire, once provided, go in an entirely different direction. To echo what has already been suggested above, it would be cool, if possible, to have some idea as to the general character of the questions.

(2) We know that the New Deal questionnaire has been around for a while and that there has been enough time to familiarize oneself with the topic and work on proposals; nevertheless, it is not entirely clear why this particular proposal is more urgent than the one relating to the matter of refugees, and, if it were, how great a difference two weeks would make.

There is a general impression that the questions - especially in the first rubric - are a bit suggestive, that is to say the authors already have something very particular in mind and hope that the proposals will simply reproduce an opinion they have voiced elsewhere.

Even though completing the proposal is entirely feasible, it might be good, if possible, to have more time to assess the merit of these positions relative to other positions in a large, rather technical discourse.

We look to reading other proposals. Best of luck to everybody. :-)

Warmest Regards from Maastricht,

Dominik

Update on Progressive Agenda for Europe / Whitepapers

Dear Dominik,

Thanks for your message and sorry for replying a bit late due to the upset of the American elections, which caused a lot of work at DiEM25-Central.

I have given some example questions in a previous message to the group, but I can also say with relief that I've seen a draft of the transparency questions now and they should be released on our website as soon as the Comms team has gone over them.

You are right that any set of questions limits the thinking process and the END ones are no exception. Maybe these more than others, because there are not many courses of action when it comes to making the Euro sustainable. However, we are very curious to hear everyone's suggestions and it doesn't matter if these don't exactly respond to the questions. The questions are a guideline of what one might consider.

The END paper is more urgent than the others because the date for the assembly about the paper has already been set: 23-25 February in Paris. Due to the scarcity of venues, it is necessary to book these far in advance, so we can no longer move the date if the process gets delayed. For the other papers we're not having an assembly, so that gives us a bit more leeway, even though we still want to have some ready proposals in time to make demands on politicians running for the French and German elections.

Warm regards,

Judith

Tiedote kokouksesta + mielenosoitus 20.1.2017

Hei!

Laitan tässä tiedotteen kokouksesta tulemaan. Mitä mieltä olette tiedotteesta?

"Talous ja demokratia globalisoituneessa Euroopassa

Kokous Rikhardinkadun kirjastossa 28.11 klo 17-20

Britannian EU-ero ja Donald Trumpin vaalivoitto USA:ssa ovat
järkyttäneet maailmaa. Ne ovat seurausta vuoden 2008 talouslamaa seuranneesta
taloudellisesta epävarmuudesta, työttömyydestä ja tuloerojen kasvusta. Kansainvälinen
talous on kohonnut kansojen yläpuolelle, ja valta ja varallisuus keskittyvät.
Ihmisille sanotaan, että ”on tehtävä kipeitä päätöksiä” ja ”nykymenolle ei ole
vaihtoehtoa”. Pettyneet, voimattomat ja nykymenoon kyllästyneet ihmiset
reagoivat alistumalla äärioikeistolaisten kansankiihottajien valtaan. Elämme
postmodernia 30-lukua.

Euroopan demokratialiike DiEM25 tarjoaa vaihtoehdon tälle
kierteelle. DiEMin Helsingin 1. paikallisosasto (DSC Helsinki 1) järjestää
kokouksen aiheesta "Talous ja demokratia globalisoituneessa
Euroopassa" Rikhardinkadun kirjastossa 28.11 kello 17-20. Tilaisuudessa
etsitään keinoja saattaa kansainvälinen talousjärjestelmä demokraattiseen
hallintaan, palvelemaan ihmisten hyvinvointia ja näin palauttaa ihmisten
hallinta omaan elämäänsä.

Tilaisuuden alustavat Heikki Patomäki ja Jussi Ahokas. Alustusten
jälkeen pidämme vapaan keskustelun talouspolitiikan vaihtoehdoista ja esiin
nousevista ideoista. Ideoista kootaan kokonaisuus äänestämällä niistä parhaat.
DiEM ryhtyy sitten muovaamaan talouspolitiikkaansa ympäri Eurooppaa kerättyjen
ideoiden pohjalta. Tervetuloa luomaan vaihtoehtoa vaihtoehdottomuudelle, äärioikeistolaisuudelle
ja kehittämään talousjärjestelmää, jossa talous palvelee ihmisten hyvää elämää!"

Donald Trump nousee USA:n presidentiksi 20.1.2017. Maailmalla puuhataan jo nyt globaaleja suurmielenosoituksia tuolle päivälle https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/trump-stop-analysing-and-act-44f631fc40f2#.v5z6czlps

Kannattaisiko DiEMin ottaa asia keskusteluun Suomessa esim. Loomiossa? Kannattaisiko asiasta olla yhteydessä esim. Joukkovoimaan tai syyskuun antirasismidemon järjestäneeseen verkostoon? Teemaksi sopisi hyvin liberaalin demokratian puolustaminen autoritarismia vastaan, mikä kuuluu kyllä DiEMin aiheisiin.

Terveisin,

Lauri

The questionnaire on refugees & migration

Dear all,

Here finally is the questionnaire on refugees & migration: https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DiEM25_Migration-Questionnaire_English_final.pdf Sorry for the delay!

The transparency one should follow shortly; I've already seen a preview.

Best wishes,

Judith

Climate change appeal DiEM25?

Dear all,

I think DiEM25 should be behind a call on the scientific community to tell Trump, in the strongest terms possible, to stay in the Paris Agreement.

Both the cause and the visibility that it would bring, could be welcome

Ulf (DSC Paris)

Notes by Tuulia Reponen

IN SUPPORT:

Jacques Terrenoire (FR)

Emma Igual (ES)

Alessio Satta (IT)

AGAINST:

none at the moment

Climate change appeal DiEM25?

Hey,

I think it's a great idea, has anyone started to write anything? :)

Best wishes,

Judith

Climate change appeal DiEM25?

24.11.2016: [Not sure who saw my recent reply to Judith, so I'll post it again]

Dear Judith, dear all

Alessio and I have written something individually and are now sharing our results. Also, Ulf wanted to talk to somebody in the climate change community (Bill Kibben @350.org ( http://350.org/ )). I hope we'll manage to share some first ideas here by tomorrow evening and that everybody can then discuss and criticize before we draft something together.

Just to let you know about the structure we had in mind:

(i) Not longer than three or four paragraphs (i.e. roughly a page)

(1) An assortment of facts that outline, in simplest terms, the threat of climate change and the urgency of dealing adequately with it.

(2) The resulting objectives that the international community should act on.

(3) A call to the scientific community to be as vocal as possible in calling out the upcoming US administration ("him").

What is important, we feel, is to give it a spin, perhaps a nice phrase or quote, in order to frame it in a way that reflects what DiEM stands for, and for it to reflect succinctly the sentiment "Hey, let's really get our shit together, or else."

Here, I think, is a very good example. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cop22-un-climate-summit-donald-trump-president-save-us-fiji-a7425856.html ( http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cop22-un-climate-summit-donald-trump-president-save-us-fiji-a7425856.html )

Hope we can get this on the road by the end of the week : )

Best Wishes,

Dominik

Transparency questionnaire

Dear all,

We finally have a questionnaire for Transparency! It doesn't contain anything too surprising, but maybe it will still help a few groups who weren't sure where to start.

The questionnaire: https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DiEM25_Transparency_Questionnaire_English_final.pdf

Keep in mind that, as with the other questionnaires, you are not expected to answer all questions; you can answer just one or a few of them. Please send your contributions to transparency@diem25.org so that they can be added to the public database of proposals at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCEeonwcwgPsQ_x4-dkTk6A_W1Gcr-ZnY3loczFJROY/edit?usp=sharing . If you have submitted something and do not see it listed in the related database (all linked from https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/) within 24 hours, let us know, so that we can check what happened. The deadline for the initial round of proposals is December 15.

Please forward the questionnaire to all DiEM25 groups you're aware of.

Best wishes,

Judith

Pitäisikö diem25finland@protonmail.comin allekirjoitusta muuttaa? Nyt se on:

"DiEM25 Finland

Yhdessä demokraattisemman Euroopan puolesta."

Yhdessä sähköpostiviestittelyssä erään suomalaisen diemiläisen kanssa asia nousi esiin näin: "Hei DIEM25 Finland,
olet varmaan elävä yksilö..."

Pitäisikö allekirjoituksesta mielestänne käydä ilmi kulloisenkin sähköpostivastaavan henkilöllisyys? Jos, niin mitä muotoilua suosisitte? Laitoin tästä asiasta kysymyksen myös seinälle, koska en ole varma kuinka moni teistä seuraa tätä ketjua aktiivisesti.

Climate change appeal DiEM25?

Dear all,

largely due to my dithering and my preoccupation with more important things (more important even than DiEM, gasp) it has taken a while to start the appeal.

With Alessio's scientific expertise as input, I have drafted a short something, with some clumsy graphic art affixed. The first two pages contain the heading

and some preambulatory paragraphs, while the third page is more 'operative' so to say.

I apologize in advance for the makeshift quality of everything. Below is a dropbox link which will give you full access to the document. You will be able to reply to

my comments and amend the writing as you please. In doing so, I trust you will be ruthless and constructive. If you have already written an appeal of your

own, I'd be very pleased if you integrate it (or simply replace ours):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BJqJuIauzrFsF3kfG3QvoWANBDtYRSZ1y6hqvzXyY2s/edit?usp=sharing

Do let me know whether there are any problems with the URL.

Could you also comment on the cover page? Perhaps you can suggest something more catchy.

NOTA BENE: the graph was meant as a visual cue and attention grabber, but I just found out that it is completely inaccurate. If you like the idea of having

such cover, we would have to change the graph.

Looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Hope we can get this on the road by the end of THIS week.

Best Wishes,

Dominik

Policy proposals

Tästä voi tsekata menikö oma ehdotus perille ja kuinka paljon ja millaisia muita ehdotuksia on tullut. Helsinki1 DSC:n PP on rekisteröity järjestelmään.

T: Tuulia

Dear all,

After you've submitted your proposals, please check that they appear within 24 hours in our database, in order to be sure that we have received them okay.

Transparency:

Central database: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCEeonwcwgPsQ_x4-dkTk6A_W1Gcr-ZnY3loczFJROY/edit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCEeonwcwgPsQ_x4-dkTk6A_W1Gcr-ZnY3loczFJROY/edit )

Proposals arriving via transparency@diem25.org ( transparency@diem25.org )

Deadline is December 15

Refugees and Migration:

Central database: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R5YVsyIeWVtFn_rC_u95q2q0A972wi-IqyAludhu7nU/edit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R5YVsyIeWVtFn_rC_u95q2q0A972wi-IqyAludhu7nU/edit )

Proposals arriving via refugees@diem25.org ( refugees@diem25.org )

Deadline is December 15

European New Deal:

Central database: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtyymOUd4853sDatXKcdv1Tnhzd9nPycf9dfXeiWhzM/edit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtyymOUd4853sDatXKcdv1Tnhzd9nPycf9dfXeiWhzM/edit )

Proposals arriving via newdeal@diem25.org

(Deadline was November 30, so all proposals should now be there)

Thank you very much!

Best wishes,

Judith

P.S.: Have you had a chance to promote our refugee campaign? We will soon follow up with an Open Letter signed by famous DiEMers, but in the meantime it would be good if you made sure that all the simple people you know have signed and tweeted/shared the petition at https://www.change.org/p/european-union-save-shabbir-and-stopthedeal-between-the-eu-and-turkey .

Signatures for the #StoptheDeal Open Letter

Dear all,

As you've probably seen, DiEM25 has brought together many famous people (including Noam Chomsky, Vivienne Westwood, Brian Eno, Katja Kipping etc.) to sign an Open Letter against the EU-Turkey deal: https://diem25.org/diem25-launches-appeal-to-eu-institutions-to-stopthedeal/

Here's what you can do: write a letter to local, regional, national and European representatives and demand that they support our campaign to #StopTheDeal. You can use our Open Letter as a basis. Multilingual versions are available through the language switcher at the top of the page.

Of course we also still need help promoting this campaign online, so keep creating pictures, videos or simply posts explaining what this is about and asking people to sign the petition. Use the hashtag #StopTheDeal and reshare/retweet each other.

Together we can make this really big. Thank you!!!

Best wishes,

Judith

Urgent Petition

Hello,

I just signed the petition, “Finnish Immigration : Save Musa Mohammed

from a certain death!.” I think this is important. Will you sign it too?

Here’s the link:

http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=a03b11e34ee8952c54acd105aa033a50767a26744259c5ac17a23b4344dea43ea2eea923626fffb37d0d7a50bea580f7

Thanks,

Ezekiel

EU-Turkey deal

Hi Andrea and all

While I support the claim of stopping the expulsions from EU-territory I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to cancel the EU-Turkey-deal all together.

Reducing the number of deaths on sea was not a minor achievement of the deal. The problem with the deal for me is its incomplete implementation, i.e. essentially the direct admission of considerable numbers of syrian refugees from Turkey and the task to make Turkey a secure destination for refugees.

I cannot see that DiEM25 has developed or supports any alternative realistic plans.

Shouldn't we in this situation - while demanding to stop expulsions - plead for a comprehensive implementation?

Best regards

Hans, DSC-Vienna-1

DiEM ambassadors

Hi all,

This proposal
aims to help Diem volunteers living in areas without local DSC to create it.

My idea is that
each country have a list with each one interested in participating actively
and the area in which they live, and each time a member of DiEM is going to
travel to a zone without DSC and have time to meet, contact with the local
volunteers to organize a meeting between them and share experiences and advice.
In addition, this way permisse to the volunteers of the zone know each other.

What you think?

Democracy in Diem25 (sorry with attachment this time)

Dear Fellow Democrats,

I am attaching a text regarding the observations we have made in the

Democracy in DiEM25 group (DiD) about the state of internal democracy of

our movement.

Our findings are that transparency and grassroots participatory

democracy need to be strengthened in DiEM25. We illustrate our statement

through several case examples.

We will publish this statement in our blog

(https://democracyindiem25.wordpress.com) and we will share it with the

CC members aswell.

If any of you wish to address the statement or need further

clarification, you are most welcome to join any of our online meetings

on Mumble (get in touch for link, and advice how to log in). Our next

meeting will be on Tuesday 20th of December 19.00 CET.

Kindest Regards,

Ezekiel Djeribi Stevens

DSC Dublin 1

Democarcy in Diem Group

The attachement of the previous email

Democracy in Diem25

Dear Ezekiel,

just quickly, since I'm on vacation:

I'm not saying that the Italian referendum vote was the perfect example of how member-requested positioning votes should work. It was only the first one, so obviously we're still exploring, as a movement, the best way for such requests to be put to all members. However, your statement contains three major criticisms and two out of three are wrong:

"The CC decided that DiEM25 was going to take position on the issue without consulting with DiEM25 membership first."

Wrong. The referendum was extensively debated in DiEM25 Italy Facebook group and on the DiEM25 Forum before the request for a positioning was made by Italian DSCs via this DSC Coordination group. We then requested all Italian DSCs (and non-Italian ones who were interested) to debate the issue in their meetings and refer back. Even the thread in the DSC Coordination group itself received 35 answers, indicating a very high amount of interest among the DSCs in having a position. The vote was only opened 6 weeks after this request for positions.

"On the nature of the vote, the CC positioned itself in its public relations material on Twitter prior to the internal vote without asking first DiEM25 at large"

Wrong. The DiEM25 official Twitter accounts did not position themselves, they only requested people to vote.

Regarding the third major criticism, that the CC included a vote recommendation in the vote text, it is correct, but the phrase was "A vast majority of members and DSCs from Italy have recommended a ‘No’ vote, and our CC also believes the case for ‘No’ is stronger. However, in line with our movement’s ultimate goal to democratise decision-making in the EU, as well as DiEM25’s pan-European essence, we’re asking our members in every corner of the Union to vote on which side we should be on: ‘yes’ or ‘no’." - followed by a long list of member-provided reasons why one might vote NO or YES. Given that a lot of non-Italian members hadn't read much about the Italian referendum, we felt it would help everyone if they didn't have to research the opinions of Italian members themselves but were privy to the overview of opinions that we had collected. In the case of the Brexit vote, where opinions varied widely, we did not do that but instead linked to the thread where UK members had discussed the issue. We are open to hearing what the best way should be to give members the best possible information on which to base their vote, in the case of issues that may not have been sufficiently covered in national news.

Please correct the first two claims if you're going to post this statement in public where non-DiEMers are likely to see. We don't need to give the systemic media any ammunition.

Best wishes,

Judith

Democracy in Diem25

Dear Ezekiel, Judith and all,

I'm just writing a few lines to support Judith's point. I've just read the DiD declaration and, although I generally support the DiD agenda, I must reinforce that what it states is (fortunately) not precise at all.

What happened is that there was a general online vote on the issue, and before that there was a lengthy discussion through several channels among the members of DiEM25. To give additional background, for several months before this discussion started, Italian DSCs had already mobilised in order to be able to campaign for the NO as DiEM25. Fellow DiEMers contacted the CC in order to suggest that the whole of DiEM25 take a stand, but at that point the CC did not take a position autonomously. Therefore Italian DSCs started a European-wide discussion within DiEM25, highlighting the European dimension of the referendum. Many fellow DiEMers across the EU understood straight away that this was not a merely national issue, as nowadays constitutional democratic rights are everywhere under attack from strong economic powers. Many non-Italians asked for more information, and after many discussions we had a vote, which sanctioned (overwhelmingly) that DiEM25 should support the No side. We we organised events to inform the electorate and other European co-citizens about what was going on in Italy. Having been involved in this process in Germany I cannot but be immensely grateful to all the non-italian people who took an interest in the protection of constitutional rights in Italy and in Europe at large. The victory of NO is also their victory and an encouraging sign to all progressive and pro-demogracy people in Europe.

Once again, please let me highlight that this happened mainly through a grass-root mobilisation. Inside DiEM25, the final official position was negotiated through a lengthy discussion initiated at DSC level and through a DiEM25-wide vote. Outside DiEM25, the NO vote won agains the Italian and international establishment. In Italy, the mainstream media were overwhelmingly for the YES side, and much of the international press had seeded fear of financial disaster in case of a NO victory (which did not happen, eventually).

Things in Italy are far from going well, and while in the aftermath of the referendum Renzi had to step down, he was able to swiftly place one of his yes-man as prime minister. However, we should be happy about our own role. The DiEM25 support to the NO vote is as an example of how we can give a strong sign to constituencies all over Europe through concrete action that is rooted at local, national and European level.

Finally, let me stress once again that this is not to deny that we need more democracy within DiEM25. I am fully convinced that the DiD DSC is tackling a worthwhile issue. Our participation in the referendum campaign, however, does not indicate a lack of democratic debate. It indicates how we can implement democratically organised action starting from DSC level.

I hope this information is helpful. Warmest regards

Roberta

Democracy in Diem25

Hi everyone.

I also agree with much of with Judith says. The CC role during the entire italian referendum was very appropriate, especially given the young age of the movement as a whole and of the CC as an existing body. I was a critic of the approach (a reactive "Yes or No", instead of a constructive "what if", but that is only something I can suggest, not something the CC is mandated to do.)

this said, the DiD deals with a really important issue. It needs to think processes at the basis and towards the CC but also about the VC action and objectives, the "Advisory panel" (whatever that exists for), and other issues that will make this movement not only democratic at its core, but also perceived that way from the exterior.

I really look forward to the discussion today, and I hope we can ignite the conversation towards practical outcomes / recommendations.

see you all in a bit (except for Judith: enjoy your vacations, you REALLY deserve it!)

Guilherme

Guilherme Serodio

LinkedIn ( https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/1ee332335dc4b9e7474036d39d657d56647f9158?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbe.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fguilherme-serodio&signature=1f9c139f8e37adfd )

SkypeID - guilhermecbserodio

www.corenow.org ( https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/f4106475335688c96383e348358381c4a869ebab?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corenow.org&signature=fef71129ca80bb09 )

Tervetuloa TTIP-verkoston tiedotuslistalle!

TTIP-verkosto on kansalaistoimijoiden – yksittäisten aktiivien ja useiden eri

kansalaisjärjestöjen – verkosto. Pyrimme parhaamme mukaan nostamaan kriittistä

tietoa TTIP:sta ja muista vapaakauppasopimuksista julkiseen keskusteluun mm.

pitämällä yllä vapaakauppa.fi-infosivua, järjestämällä keskustelutilaisuuksia,

tempauksia ja mielenosoituksia sekä kirjoittamalla sopimuksista lehtiin ja

verkkoon. Verkosto kokoontuu kuukauden välein. Lisäksi toimintaa järjestävät

itsenäisesti koalitioon kuuluvat järjestöt ja verkoston sisällä muodostuneet

toimintaryhmät (ks. kuvaukset ja yhteyshenkilöt alla).

Mikäli haluat aktiivisemmin mukaan verkoston toimintaan, ota yhteyttä

sähköpostilistojemme ylläpitäjään Toni Ruuskaan (toni.ruuska@aalto.fi) ja

pyydä osoitteesi lisäämistä verkoston aktiivilistalle. Voit myös ottaa suoraan

yhteyttä itseäsi kiinnostavien toimintaryhmien yhteyshenkilöihin, jotka voivat

lisätä osoitteesi ryhmän omaan sähköpostirinkiin. Jos sinulla on mielessä

toimintaidea – tempaus, tilaisuus, mielipidekirjoitus tai mitä ikinä – etkä

löydä sille alla olevasta listasta toimintaryhmää, ehdota sitä ihmeessä

aktiivien yleisellä sähköpostilistalla tai verkoston kokouksessa.

Aurinkoisin terveisin,

Marissa / TTIP-verkosto

TTIP-verkoston toimintaryhmät

Verkoston sisälle muodostuneet työryhmät suunnittelevat toimintaa

mahdollisimman itsenäisesti, osallistujien mielenkiinnon mukaan. Ryhmiin saa

yhteyden lähettämällä ryhmän yhteyshenkilölle sähköpostia tai saapumalla

työryhmän tapaamisiin.

Vaali- ja lobbausryhmä: Ryhmän tarkoituksena on pyrkiä vaikuttamaan päättäjien

vapaakauppakantoihin ja nostamaan vapaakauppateemaa vaalikeskustelujen

aiheeksi. Ryhmä on toiminut muun muassa tarjoamalla kysymyksiä vaalikoneisiin

ja ottamalla yhteyttä poliitikkoihin. Ota yhteyttä: anki.sirola@gmail.com

Kansainvälisten asioiden ryhmä: Ryhmä pitää yhteyttä muiden maiden

toimijoihin, osallistuu kansalaisyhteiskunnan tapaamisiin ja koordinoi

yhteisiä projekteja. Ota yhteyttä: otto@shakta.fi

Tapahtumaryhmä: Ryhmä suunnittelee ja toteuttaa suurempia vapaakauppa-aiheisia

tapahtumia, mielenosoituksia ja toimintapäiviä. Ota yhteyttä:

tapahtumat.vapaakauppa@gmail.com

Tiedotusryhmä: Ryhmä tuottaa suomenkielistä tietoa vapaakauppasopimuksista

Vapaakauppa.fi -sivustolle, sosiaaliseen mediaan ja sanomalehtiin. Ryhmä myös

seuraa aktiivisesti kansainvälistä uutisvirtaa ja julkista keskustelua sekä

tiedottaa niistä suomeksi. Ota yhteyttä: tiedotus.vapaakauppa@gmail.com

STOP TTIP toiminta -ryhmä: Ruohonjuuritason toimintaan keskittyvän ryhmän

tarkoituksena on toimia enemmän ja kokoustaa vähemmän. Ota yhteyttä:

limperinanni@gmail.com. Ryhmä löytyy myös Facebookista:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/664699033658240/?fref=ts

Luovien toimintakeinojen ryhmät

Vapaakauppameemit: Työryhmä toimii Facebookissa ryhmänä "TTIP-meemit", jossa

ideoidaan ja jaetaan vapaakauppa-aiheisia internet-meemejä. Ryhmään voi

liittyä Facebookin kautta:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1427393550871413/?fref=ts

Heijastintyöryhmä: Verkosto on tilannut salaisten kauppaneuvottelujen

valaisemista symboloivia heijastimia, joita jaetaan verkoston tapahtumissa.

Heijastinryhmä on tehnyt heijastimista myös tekstiteoksen kankaalle ja käynyt

valaisemassa sopimuksia flashmobina. Yhteyshenkilö: amperla.maija@gmail.com

Tempausryhmä: Ryhmä suunnittelee ja toteuttaa flashmobeja ja muita

pienimuotoisempia tempauksia. Yhteyshenkilö: marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

Graafinen ryhmä: Ryhmä suunnittelee ja toteuttaa muun muassa sarjakuvia,

julisteita ja postereita. Yhteyshenkilö: joni.vuojarvi@gmail.com

Musiikki ja tanssi: Ryhmän tarkoituksena on vapaakauppakampanjointi musiikin

ja tanssin keinoin. Yhteyshenkilö:marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

Esittävän taiteen ryhmä: Ryhmä ideoi vaikuttamista videoiden ja teatterin

keinojen kautta. Verkosto on tähän mennessä tuottanut videoita

mielenosoitusten kutsuiksi. Yhteyshenkilö: marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

Kirjallinen ilmaisu Yhteyshenkilö: lauri.pasanen@gmail.com

Vapaakauppamyyjäiset: Ryhmän tarkoitus on järjestää vapaakauppateemaisia

kahviloita tai myyjäisiä sopivana ajankohtana, esimerkiksi ravintolapäivien

yhteydessä. Yhteyshenkilö: raoul.plommer@piraattipuolue.fi

Tervetuloa Greetings2Brussels -valokuvatempaukseen 21.1.2017!

[Viestiä saa levittää]

Tervetuloa Greetings2Brussels -valokuvatempaukseen 21.1.2017!

21.1.2017 vietetään kansainvälistä
toimintapäivää CETA-sopimusta vastaan. Toimintapäivänä tullaan
järjestämään tempauksia, mielenosoituksia ja muita tapahtumia eri
puolilla Eurooppaa. Helsingissä toimintapäivään osallistutaan
Greetings2Brussels – Terveiset Brysseliin -valokuvatempauksella.
Tempauksella kerätään valokuvaterveisiä lähetettäväksi
europarlamentaarikoille, jotka äänestävät CETA-sopimuksesta
14-15.2.2017.

Tapaamme lauantaina 21.1. klo 10.45-11.00 Uuden
ylioppilastalon B-rapun ovella (Mannerheimintie 5 B) ja jakaannumme
muutaman hengen ryhmissä eri puolille kaupunkia valokuvaterveisiä
taltioimaan.

Tempaukseen kannattaa varustautua säänmukaisella
vaatetuksella, kameralla (puhelimessa oleva kamera riittää
hyvin, kun kuvat otetaan päivänvalossa) sekä Greetings2Brussels – Stop
CETA -kyltillä. Kyltin voi joko tulostaa/askarrella itse etukäteen tai
saada tempauksen järjestäjiltä lauantaina ennen tempausta.

Valokuvaterveisten keräämisen jälkeen, klo 13.30 kokoonnumme vielä
yhteiskuvaan Eduskuntatalon puistoon (Huom! Ei Pikkuparlamentin puistoon
vaan Eduskuntatalon toisella puolella olevaan pieneen puistoon). Päivän
aikana otetut valokuvat pyydämme toimittamaan osoitteeseen tiedotus.vapaakauppa@gmail.com mieluiten sunnuntai-iltaan 22.1. mennessä.

HUOM! Jos et pääse osallistumaan tempaukseen Helsingissä, voit
osallistua tempaukseen etänä ja lähettää em. osoitteeseen kuvan
itsestäsi Greetings2Brussels-kyltin kanssa.

Lisätietoja: Marissa Varmavuori, 0505422067, marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com,

Vapaaehtoiset ilmoittautumiset: https://www.facebook.com/events/365757680446354/

Welcome to Greetings2Brussels Action 21.1.2017!

The European civil society organizations are calling for a
decentralised European day of action against the EU-Canada trade
agreement, CETA on January 21st. In Helsinki we will participate by
organizing an action called Greetings2Brussels – Stop CETA!

We
will meet in front of the New Student House (Mannerheimintie 5 B,
Helsinki) on Saturday 21st at 10:45-11:00 and form small groups. The
groups will take different spots and collect photo greetings to be sent
to members of the European Parliament, before the CETA vote on
14.-15.2.2017.

To attend this action you need warm clothes,
camera (the camera on your phone works fine on this purpose) and a
plaque saying Greetings2Brussels – Stop CETA. You can either bring your
own plaque or get it from the organizers in the morning.

After the photo collection, at 13:30 we will meet at the Parliament Park (between the Parliament House and the National Museum) and take one
photo together. We kindly ask you to send the collected photos to tiedotus.vapaakauppa@gmail.com ( http://ail.com ) by Sunday evening 22.1.

NB! If you can not attend the action in Helsinki, you can still
participate by sending us a photo of you with the Greetings2Brussels
-plaque.

More info: Marissa Varmavuori, 0505422067, marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

Signing up (voluntary): https://www.facebook.com/events/365757680446354/

Eurooppalainen toimintapäivä CETA:a vastaan

Me, kansalaisyhteiskunta, ruohonjuuritason toimijat, työntekijät ja
viljelijät eri puolilta Eurooppaa kutsumme koolle eurooppalaisen
toimintapäivän CETA-sopimusta vastaan 21.1.2017.

Olemme pitkän
neuvotteluprosessin kuluessa toistuvasti osoittaneet merkittäviä
ongelmia, joita CETA-sopimukseen liittyy. Olemme tarjonneet
konkreettisia aloitteita, joiden avulla voitaisiin siirtyä avoimempaan
ja demokraattisempaan kauppapolitiikkaan, jonka keskiössä olisi
ympäristön ja ihmisoikeuksien puolustaminen. Mutta huoliamme ei ole
huomioitu lokakuussa 2016 allekirjoitetussa CETA-sopimuksessa. Tästä
syystä vastustamme jyrkästi sopimuksen ratifiointia.

Kummallakin puolen Atlanttia viljelijät, ammattiliitot, terveys-,
kuluttaja-, ympäristö- ja digitaalisten oikeuksien ryhmät,
kansalaisjärjestöt, sekä myös pienet ja keskisuuret yritykset ovat
torjuneet sopimuksen.

Haluamme korostaa joitakin perustavanlaatuisia ongelmia CETA-sopimuksessa:

CETA antaisi tuhansille suuryrityksille mahdollisuuden haastaa
hallituksia oikeutetuista ja syrjimättömistä toimista ihmisten ja
planeetan suojelemiseksi. Mikään sopimuksessa tai sitä täydentävissä
julkilausumissa ei estä yhtiöitä käyttämästä CETA:n sijoittajansuojaa
päätöksentekijöiden painostamiseen, jotta nämä luopuisivat julkista etua
ajavasta sääntelystä esimerkiksi ilmastonmuutoksen torjumiseksi. CETA
avaisi mahdollisuuden hyvityksille jopa epärealistisista tulevaisuuden
voitoista, jos muutokset politiikassa vaikuttaisivat niiden
investointeihin. Sijoittaja-valtio -riidanratkaisujärjestelmän ”radikaalin” parantamisen sijaan CETA laajentaisi ja vakiinnuttaisi sen.

CETA:n investointituomioistuin (ICS) antaisi tiukasti valvottuja
oikeuksia sijoittajille – mutta ei vastaavia velvoitteita. Se ei
antaisi kansalaisille, yhteisöille tai ammattiliitoille mahdollisuutta
kanteen nostamiseen tilanteessa, jossa yritys loukkaa ympäristö-, työ-,
turvallisuus- tai muita sopimuksia. Se saattaisi olla myös EU-sopimusten
vastainen luodessaan rinnakkaisen oikeusjärjestelmän ja antaessaan
sijoittajille luvan kiertää olemassa olevat tuomioistuimet. ICS olisi
syrjivä, koska se antaisi ulkomaisille sijoittajille oikeuksia, jotka
eivät koskisi kansalaisia eivätkä kotimaisia sijoittajia.

Toisin kuin suuryhtiöiden oikeudet, CETA:n säännökset työntekijöiden
oikeuksista ja kestävästä kehityksestä eivät olisi tehokkaasti
valvottuja ja sanktioituja. Ne säilyisivät tyhjinä julkilausumina, ilman
mitään merkitystä suhteessa muihin sopimuksen osioihin, jotka
vaarantaisivat työntekijöiden oikeudet, ympäristönsuojelun ja
pyrkimykset ilmastomuutoksen torjuntaan.

CETA
rajoittaisi monella tavalla hallitusten mahdollisuuksia luoda, laajentaa
ja säännellä julkisia palveluja ja peruuttaa epäonnistuneita
yksityistämisiä. CETA on ensimmäinen EU-sopimus, joka tekisi palvelujen
liberalisoinnista säännön ja julkisen edun vuoksi tehtävästä sääntelystä
poikkeuksen. Tämä uhkaisi ihmisten pääsyä korkealaatuisiin palveluihin,
kuten vesi-, liikenne-, sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluihin, kuten myös
pyrkimykset tarjota julkisia palveluja linjassa yleisen edun
tavoitteiden kanssa.

Riippumaton tutkimus CETA:n
taloudellisista vaikutuksista ennustaa työpaikkojen menetyksiä sekä
Kanadassa että Euroopassa, hitaampaa talouskasvua sekä tulonlisäysten
päätymistä työntekijöiden sijaan omistajille. Näin ollen CETA:n voi
odottaa lisäävän eriarvoisuutta.

Vapauttaessaan
rahoitusmarkkinoita ja rajoittaessaan rahoitusmarkkinoiden vakauteen
sekä parempaan kuluttajien ja talouden suojeluun tähtääviä toimia eri
tavoin, CETA tekisi Kanadasta ja EU:sta alttiimpia uusille
finanssikriiseille.

CETA nostaisi Kanadan
lääkekustannuksia vuosittain vähintään 850 miljoonalla Kanadan
dollarilla (583 miljoonalla eurolla). Se vaikuttaisi negatiivisesti
perusoikeuksiin kuten yksityisyyden suojaan ja tietosuojaan sekä
rajoittaisi EU:n ja Kanadan kykyä torjua kohtuuttomia
immateriaalioikeuksia (IPR), jotka rajoittavat pääsyä tietoon ja
innovaatiohin. Jotkut CETA:n immateriaalioikeussäädökset muistuttavat ACTA-sopimusta, joka torjuttiin Euroopan parlamentissa vuonna 2012.

CETA:n sääntely-yhteistyön ja kotimaisen sääntelyn säännökset
asettaisivat lisäesteitä lainsäätäjille sekä vahvistaisivat
yrityslobbarien roolia päätöksentekoprosesseissa, mahdollisesti heikentäen yleistä etua ajavaa päätöksentekoa.

CETA asettaisi kummallakin puolen Atlanttia viljelijöille
kilpailulliset paineet, jotka heikentäisivät heidän toimeentuloaan
kuluttajien juurikaan tästä hyötymättä; kasvattaisi suuryhtiöiden
hallintaa siemenistä; estäisi paikallista ruokaa suosivaa politiikkaa
sekä uhkaisi korkeita ruuan tuotanto- ja jalostusstandardeja, heikentäen
pyrkimyksiä edistää kestävää ruoantuotantoa.

Varovaisuusperiaatteen noudattaminen kuluttajien, julkisen terveyden ja
ympäristön suojelemiseksi voitaisiin haastaa CETA:n myötä väittämällä,
että se olisi liiallisen raskasta, ”epätieteellistä” tai naamioitu
kaupaneste. Mikään CETA-tekstissä tai sitä täydentävissä julkilausumissa
ei tehokkaasti suojele varovaisuusperiaatteen roolia eurooppalaisessa
sääntelypolitiikassa, ja jotkin osiot sopimuksessa viittaavat jopa
vastakkaisiin periaatteisiin.

CETA on pitkälti salaisena
pidetyn, Kanadan edellisen hallituksen ja edellisen Euroopan komission
välisen neuvotteluprosessin lopputulos. Lopullinen CETA-teksti ja siihen
liitetyt julkilausumat jättävät huomiotta miltei kaikki
kansalaisyhteiskunnan tekemät kohtuulliset ja täsmälliset
muutosehdotukset sopimuksessa olevien puutteiden korjaamiseksi.

Nykyisellään CETA ei ole edistyksellinen kauppasopimus. Olisi virhe
hyväksyä se monine huolestuttavine säännöksineen malliksi tuleville
kauppasopimuksille. CETA on taaksepäin vievä ja hyvin läpitunkeva versio
vanhasta vapaakauppa-agendasta, jonka ovat suunnitelleet maailman
suurimmat monikansalliset yhtiöt. Tarvitaan paradigman muutos kohti
läpinäkyvää ja inklusiivista kauppapolitiikkaa, jonka perustana ovat
ihmisten ja ympäristön tarpeet. CETA:n ratifiointi veisi monta askelta
kauemmas tuosta kaivatusta muutoksesta.

Saadaksemme viestimme
kuuluviin ennen Euroopan parlamentin äänestystä, kutsumme ihmiset,
järjestöt ja verkostot eri puolilta Eurooppaa ottamaan osaa Stop CETA
-toimintapäivään 21.1.2017.

Eurooppalainen toimintapäivä CETA:a vastaan – 21.1.2017 #StopCETA ( https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/stopceta )

European Decentralised Day of Action against CETA

We, civil society, grassroots organizations, labour movements, farmer,
environmental and social groups from all across Europe, are calling for a
decentralised European day of action against the EU-Canada trade
agreement, CETA on January 21, and for further decentralised actions and
mobilisations until the European Parliament vote on February 2.

During the long process of the deal’s negotiations and legal check, we
repeatedly pointed out major problems with the CETA text. We provided
concrete inputs, which could have triggered a shift towards a more
transparent and democratic trade policy with the protection of the
environment and people’s fundamental rights at its core. But our
concerns have not been addressed in the CETA as signed in October 2016.
This is why we are stating our firm opposition to the ratification of
the agreement.

On both sides of the Atlantic, farmers, trade
unions, public health, consumer, environmental and digital rights
groups, other NGOs, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
have rejected the agreement.

We wish to highlight some of our fundamental concerns about the agreement as signed:

CETA would empower thousands of corporations to sue governments
over legitimate and non-discriminatory measures to protect people and
the planet. Nothing in the agreement or the accompanying declarations
would stop corporations from using CETA’s investor rights to bully
decision-makers away from public interest regulation, for example to
tackle climate change. CETA even leaves the door open to “compensating”
corporations for unrealised future profits when a change in policy
affects their investment. Far from “radically” reforming the
investor-state dispute settlement process, CETA expands and entrenches
it.

CETA’s Investment Court System (ICS) grants highly
enforceable rights to investors – but no corresponding obligations. It
does not enable citizens, communities or trade unions to bring a claim
when a company violates environmental, labour, health, safety, or other
rules. It risks being incompatible with EU law as it establishes a
parallel legal system, allowing investors to circumvent existing courts.
The ICS is discriminatory because it grants rights to foreign investors
that are neither available to citizens nor to domestic investors.

In stark contrast to the rights for corporations, CETA’s
provisions on labour rights and sustainable development cannot be
effectively enforced through sanctions. They remain empty statements
with no bearing on the dangers that other chapters in the agreement pose
to workers’ rights, environmental protection and measures to mitigate
climate change.

CETA severely limits governments’
ability to create, expand, and regulate public services and reverse
failed liberalisations and privatisations. CETA is the first EU
agreement which makes the liberalisation of services the rule and public
interest regulation the exception. This threatens people’s access to
high-quality services such as water, transport, social and health care,
as well as attempts to provide public services in line with public
interest goals.

An independent study of CETA’s economic
impacts predicts jobs would be lost in both Canada and Europe, economic
growth would be slower than without the deal, and the rather small
income gains would go overwhelmingly to capital owners – not workers. As
a result, inequality is expected to be higher under CETA than without
the agreement.

CETA makes Canada and the EU more
vulnerable to financial crises by further liberalising financial markets
and severely restricting reforms aimed at removing key causes of
financial instability and ensuring better protection of consumers and
the economy as a whole.

CETA would drive up Canadian
prescription drug costs by at least Can$850 million per year (€583
million). It would negatively impact fundamental rights, such as the
right to privacy and data protection and limit the EU’s and Canada’s
ability to roll back excessive intellectual property rights (IPR) that
limit access to knowledge and innovation. Some of CETA’s IPRs resemble
closely the text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA),
which was rejected by the European Parliament in 2012.

CETA’s rules on regulatory cooperation and domestic regulation will put
additional burdens on regulators and strengthen the role of corporate
lobbyists in the policy-making process, potentially undermining
much-needed public interest policy-making.

On both sides
of the Atlantic, CETA would expose farmers to competitive pressures
that undermine their livelihoods with little gain to consumers; increase
corporate control over seeds; obstruct buy-local food policies; and
threaten high food processing and production standards, undermining
efforts to boost sustainable agriculture.

Precautionary
measures to protect consumers, public health and the environment could
be challenged under CETA based on claims that they are overly
burdensome, not “science based” or are disguised trade barriers. Nothing
in the CETA text or accompanying declarations effectively protects the
role of the precautionary principle in European regulatory policy, while
some sections even refer to conflicting principles.

CETA is
the result of a largely secret negotiation process between the previous
Canadian government and the previous European Commission. The final CETA
text and accompanying declarations ignore almost all of the reasonable
and very specific amendments proposed by civil society to address the
flaws of the agreement.

As it stands, CETA is not a progressive
trade deal. It would be a mistake to adopt this treaty with its many
worrying provisions as a model for agreements to come. CETA is a
backward-looking and even more intrusive version of the old free trade
agenda designed by and for the world’s largest multinationals. We need a
paradigm shift toward a transparent and inclusive trade policy founded
on the needs of people and our planet. Ratifying CETA will take us many
steps further away from this much needed change.

To make this
message heard before European Parliament vote, we call on organisations,
individuals and alliances to participate by organising autonomous,
decentralised actions across Europe on January 21st. We welcome a
diversity of actions and solidarity from across the world that will help
inform, engage and mobilise people locally.

European Decentralised Day of Action against CETA – January 21, 2016. #StopCETA

January Update

Hey everyone,

I hope you had some rest and relaxation! For the CC it was a rather more tumultuous winter holiday than we wished for, since Cristina (CC member) and her husband Xavier (IT coordinator) resigned and we suddenly had to re-plan a lot of things, including postponing the Paris New Deal event - it is now expected to be in April but we'll have events in Amsterdam and Rome before then.

The workgroups preparing the policy paper drafts have been working at different speeds, also due to the different amount of material that they have to combine. Here's the current status of the policy papers:

Refugees & Migration:

The first draft of this is almost done; it should appear this week. For this reason, we recommend waiting for the draft to appear and then making your suggestions for additions/improvements.

European New Deal:

This one will be massive, probably 100+ pages, since it covers economic policy, social policy, currency policy, banking regulations and more. Due to the rescheduling of the Paris event, we are now aiming to make a summary of the first draft available in time for February 9th, DiEM25's 1-year anniversary. Yanis told me that given the state of work of this workgroup, it probably doesn't make sense to send them additional proposals until you have seen the first draft. The reason is that, once the draft is out, you will be able to make suggestions by simply writing e.g. "section 2.3.7 - this should be permanent, not limited to 5 years" - no need to write a full 3-page proposal unless your idea isn't included yet at all. He suggests that the DSCs' European New Deal workgroups could dissect various parties' programs (e.g. French candidate Macron's, or the Greens') from a DiEM25 perspective in the meantime, especially for countries that have elections this year, so that it will be easier to compare and contrast our policy proposals and theirs later.

Transparency:

This workgroup is the least advanced, so they are still able to easily integrate members' proposals if your groups thought of anything new. Send your proposals to transparency@diem25.org .

Work on the other pillars, i.e. Labour, Green Investment and A European Constitution, will probably not start until April, because we lack the capacity to juggle more than three at the same time.

If you're ever unsure if you missed an update, you can also check https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/ (click the + button for each policy) to read the current status and review all related public documents.

Expect a newsletter to come your way tonight or tomorrow morning, which will give DiEM25's timeline 2017 in terms of events. The very next one is the Guardian event ( https://diem25.org/event/brexit-an-unorthodox-view/?instance_id=73 ) in London on January 27, immediately followed by an assembly ( https://diem25.org/event/diem25-organisational-launch-in-the-uk/?instance_id=75 ) of UK-based DiEM25 members. Find all confirmed DiEM25 events in the online calendar ( https://diem25.org/calendar ) - this is also where we're happy to post your DSC's public events!

What are your plans? :)

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Vielä ehdit ilmoittautua vaikuttamistyöpajaan Ke 18.1. Helsingissä

Hei,

Vielä ehdit ilmoittautua mukaan keskiviikkona järjestettävään vaikuttamistyöpajaan, jonka vetää Lucile Falgueyrac Seattle 2 Brussels -verkostosta. http://www.vapaakauppa.fi/tapahtumat/tapahtuma/helsinki-koulutus-kuinka-vaikuttaa-tehokkasti-eu-paatoksentekoon/

Tervetuloa kuulemaan käytännön vinkkejä EU-tason lobbaukseen ja vaikuttamistyöhön. Esimerkkinä kansalaisjärjestöjen CETA- ja TTIP-vapaakauppasopimuksiin liittyvä vaikuttamistyö.

Koulutus englanninkielinen. Lisätietoja alla (also in English).

Terv. Elina

Koulutus: Kuinka vaikuttaa tehokkaasti EU-päätöksentekoon?
Eurooppalaisen CETA- ja TTIP-kampanjan lobbauskokemuksia ja -niksejä

Ke 18.1.2017 klo 16:30-18:30 Globaalikeskuksessa (Siltasaarenkatu 4, 7. kerros)

Tule hankkimaan käytännön vinkkejä EU-tason lobbaukseen ja vaikuttamistyöhön. Esimerkkinä kuulemme kansalaisjärjestöjen CETA- ja TTIP-vapaakauppasopimuksiin liittyvästä vaikuttamistyöstä. Koulutuksessa
perehdytään Euroopan parlamentin toimintaan ja päätöksentekoprosesseihin vaikuttamistyön näkökulmasta ja keskustellaan tehokkaista tavoista lähestyä europarlamentaarikkoja. Kuulemme mm. vaikuttamisviestien muotoilusta, viestin kannalta otollisten päättäjien
tunnistamisesta ja sosiaalisen median hyödyntämisestä lobbaus- ja vaikuttamistyössä.

Käytännön lobbausniksien ohella luvassa myös tietoa ajankohtaisesta EU:n ja Kanadan välisestä CETA-vapaakauppasopimuksesta ja EU:n laajuisesta kampanjasta sen pysäyttämiseksi.

Koulutus on englanninkielinen, maksuton ja sopii kaikille vaikuttamistyöstä kiinnostuneille.

Kouluttajana toimii Lucile Falqueyrac Seattle2Brussels-verkostosta (http://www.s2bnetwork.org/ ( http://www.s2bnetwork.org/ ))

Tilaisuuden järjestävät yhteistyössä Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen EU-yhdistys Kehys ry sekä Suomen TTIP-verkosto. Lisätiedot ja ilmoittautumiset: elina.mikola@kehys.fi ( elina.mikola@kehys.fi )

Training/Workshop: Efficient EU-level advocacy. Experiences
from the CETA and TTIP-campaign

Wed 18th 2017 16:30 -18:30 at Globaalikeskus Siltasaarenkatu 4, Helsinki. 7 th floor

The workshop introduces basics of the EU-level decision making processes and provides practical tips for lobbying and advocacy work. By using the political processes around the CETA/TTIP as concrete
case examples workshop will have a look on how the European parliament works and provide tips how to approach MEPs and get you message through efficiently. We will discuss e.g. about identifying the key (national) MEPs, formulating the appealing and convincing
policy messages and the efficient use of social media in EU-level advocacy work.

The workshop is open for everyone interested in EU level advocacy work and/or CETA, TTIP and other EU free trade agreements.

The workshop is in English and it is led by Lucile Falgueyrac form S2B-network (http://www.s2bnetwork.org/ ( http://www.s2bnetwork.org/ )).

We kindly ask you to sign up to elina.mikola@kehys.fi ( elina.mikola@kehys.fi )

Elina Mikola

Vaikuttamistyön koordinaattori / Advocacy Officer

Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen EU-yhdistys Kehys ry

The Finnish NGDO Platform to the EU Kehys

Siltasaarenkatu 4 (7th floor)

00530 Helsinki, FINLAND

tel: +358 046 851 5974

elina.mikola@kehys.fi

www.kehys.fi

Seuraa Twitterissa: https://twitter.com/Kehys_

Tykkää Facebookissa: http://www.facebook.com/Kehysry

HUOM! TÄNÄÄN! Kauppapoliittinen väentapaaminen Helsingissä 20.1.

Hei!

Muistattehan kauppapoliittisen väentapaamisen tämän viikon perjantaina Uudella ylioppilastalolla Helsingissä! (Lisätietoa alla)

Ruokailun järjestämme Helsingin seudulla asuvien aktiivien voimin nyyttäriperiaatteella. Nyyttärituomiset koordinoidaan Kirjoitusalustan avulla osoitteessa >> https://kirjoitusalusta.fi/ewaMeYhxDg . Käy siis merkitsemässä sinne, mitä voisit yhteiseen nyyttäripöytään tuoda. Osallistuminen ruokaostoksiin on totta kai vapaaehtoista.

Aurinkoisin terveisin,

Marissa

KAUPPAPOLIITTINEN VÄENTAPAAMINEN 20.1.2017

Aika: 20.1.2017 klo 18:00-22:00
Paikka: järjestötila Kupoli, Uusi ylioppilastalo (Mannerheimintie 5 B, Helsinki, paikka on valitettavasti viimeisen kerrosvälin osalta esteellinen)

Lämpimästi tervetuloa ensimmäiseen valtakunnalliseen kauppapoliittiseen väentapaamiseen! Väentapaamisen emännöi Helsingin yliopiston Attac ja se pidetään Helsingissä Uudella ylioppilastalolla.

Tilaisuuden aluksi kuulemme kampanjakuulumisia ulkomailta ja saamme vinkkejä siitä, mihin, miksi ja miten meidän Suomessa kannattaa kampanjointimme kohdistaa. Alustuksen pitää Lucile Falqueyrac Seattle2Brussels-verkostosta (http://www.s2bnetwork.org/ ( http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s2bnetwork.org%2F&h=vAQGdaf63&enc=AZMQJTk4lwYwBW9NjXs-fRWKKngorhhVu2UvvJ_K9YYJx3v3Odz9Nv65pAcpw9nWRzM&s=1 )). Alustuksen jälkeen ohjelmassa on syömistä, ideoiden vaihtoa, musiikkia sekä vapaamuotoista tutustumista.

Mikäli tulet muualta kuin Helsingistä ja tarvitset majoitusta 20.-21.1. väliseksi yöksi, ota sähköpostitse tai tekstiviestillä yhteyttä Maija Amperlaan (amperla.maija(at)gmail(piste)com, 0445522492). Maijaan voit olla yhteydessä myös siinä tapauksessa, jos asut Helsingissä (tai lähellä) ja olet halukas tarjoamaan muualta tuleville aktiiveille kotimajoituksen. Valitettavasti emme pysty avustamaan matkakuluissa. Ruokailun järjestämme paikallisten aktiivien voimin nyyttäriperiaatteella.

Lisätietoja ja ilmoittautumiset: https://www.facebook.com/events/1513832391979733/ ( https://www.facebook.com/events/1513832391979733/ )

A European view on Housing?

Dear coordinators,

currently there is a formation of a grassroot movement in Berlin. As Berlins government shows no will to change

neoliberal housing politics, in fact, acts offensively against attempts to install more social housing conditions, an

alliance of local initiatives, movements and organisations evolved to act together for "rebellious cities", for politics

from below.

As there was a huge public interest in Berlin in this topics, namely affordable housing, real estate management

and gentrification, a window of opportunity popped up which the movement tries to use. Further the movement

built a "Temporary Autonomous Zone" (TAZ) at the Sociology Department of Humboldt University.

In the next days the TAZ gonna be the base for further actions, coordinations and initiatives. DSC Berlin is

involved and supports the demands. Hopefully tomorrow there will be an official appeal we gonna spread via

social media and mail.

We count on your solidarity and hope that the DSCs in Europe, above all those who share the same housing

problems, are connecting with us.

Thank you and Carpe DiEM

Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2017 15:41:11 UTC+1 schrieb Judith (Volunteer Coordination):

Dear coordinators,

Members of Berlin DSC are currently participating in the occupation of Humboldt University's sociology department. The spark for this occupation was the issue of Andrej Holm, who was fired from Berlin government and from his university professorship officially because of having attended Stasi officer school in 1989 and lying about this. The issue that the protesters see is that he was the only professor in Germany specialising in gentrification, and also would have had strong opinions on that in the Berlin government as the responsible person for housing, so there are rumours that big real estate companies had him removed. This may start a city-wide discussion about housing problems.

We think that many major European cities likely have similar housing problems, so this could be a DiEM25 issue that is both local and European.

Are any of your DSCs involved in movements for affordable housing, against gentrification etc.? Do you have contacts to such movements? If so, please urgently write to sch...@posteo.de , who is coordinating this effort for Berlin DSC. We want to develop a European perspective on this topic, starting with a commentary for DiEM25's website and later define DiEM25's position (to be voted by all members).

Best wishes,

Judith

Putting a focus on Democracy and Transparency

Dear fellow DiEM25 members and DSCs,

Today we are emailing you to express a concern about the current path

DiEM25 has taken which has been raised and discussed in our DSC: the

increasing diffuseness of DiEM25’s core message and lack of focus on the

democratisation of Europe.

As we understood, the key objective of DiEM25 is to gather public

support for a more democratic and transparent institutional set-up and

political culture in Europe, as laid out in our manifesto. We argue that

all discussions, external communication and political actions should

serve, at least more or less directly, this key objective.

We agree that the challenges outlined for example in the Progressive

Agenda for Europe are very important issues that urgently need to be

dealt with and are worth fighting for. However, DiEM25’s angle should be

how a more democratic and transparent Europe can enable these policy

solutions.

Discussions about social housing, basic income, about putting migrants

at the "heart of political change in Europe” or about actions against

climate change are surely important and there is nothing wrong with

DiEM25 members being active in this fields. However, we fear that our

movement will lose its focus if it as a whole starts to deal with issues

not sufficiently linked to our key objective of democratisation and

transparency. We acknowledge that policy challenges like the examples

given above can best be solved in a more democratic Europe. Therefore,

our suggestion is to address these challenges not as separate issues but

from our core angle – democratisation and transparency. Detailed policy

discussions not directly linked to our core angle should better be made

under the roof of movements specialised in those areas.

Why is a clear thematic focus so important? Ultimately, we as members of

DiEM25 have to decide whether we want to form a political party. In that

case, proposing policy solutions to a broad number of topics would

indeed be necessary. In our opinion, DiEM25 is and should be a political

pressure group rather than a political party, at least for the time

being. Political pressure groups influence the political discourse by

making their voice heard very loudly. To do so, a clear key message and

objective is indispensable. Another characteristic of a political

pressure group is the cross-party alignment – a core principle laid out

in DiEM25’s manifesto.

To reach our goal it is important to gain the widest possible legitimacy

among Europe’s citizens.Democracy and Transparency are not only the main

objectives laid out in DiEM25’s manifesto, they are also the objectives

with the potential to find the largest support across the political

spectrum.

We ask each DSC to discuss this topic – Should DiEM25 focus more

strongly on its core principles democracy and transparency? We would

like DiEM25 as a whole to know what it wants to be and how to make the

best use of our resources.

Carpe DiEM

the DSC Nottingham

PS: Since discussions over email lists can be very annoying, please use

the arranged from threat for comment and discussions -

https://www.diem25.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=13061

DSC News

After Belgrade, Maastricht and Berlin, the latest article in the DSC News ( https://diem25.org/dsc-news/ ) features the work of Barcelona DSC: https://diem25.org/setting-the-tone-for-diem25s-grassroots-activism-in-barcelona/

As always, please contact Reto reto.thumiger@pressenza.com if you want to publish an article about your DSC's activities.

Putting a focus on Democracy and Transparency

Hey Judith,

I was unhappy to hear that there are only two people, you and Fotini, organising venues and speakers, designing leaflets, adding new articles to the website and so on.

I really thought there were more.

Here in Athens we count already many diem members and volunteers that would like to help but noone asks them to.

I imagine it is the same in others DSC, too.

So if you need more people do'n't hesitate to ask!

Carpe DIEM

Apostolos Gogakos

DSC Athens1 coordinator

Hi Wessel,

Please resend the letter, because I haven't seen it. I imagine it arrived after the last CC teleconference in December and then was forgotten by the time we reconvened in mid-January.

I agree that there should be direct communication between all. The reason that Fotini and I facilitate this at the moment is that our movement is way too big for the staffing it has. To compare: the German Green party (10% in elections) has 60,000 members,
i.e. twice as many as DiEM25. However, they have yearly budget of 40 million Euros, of which they spend 14 million on staff. Since DiEM25 has NOT EVEN ONE paid employee, the CC members simultaneously are the only full-time workers (or part-time, since they
also need to earn a living) that DiEM25 can rely on. So they do the work that would be done by staff in other organisations, like organising venues and speakers, designing leaflets, adding new articles to the website and so on. That leaves very little time
to personally answer the hundreds of daily emails from 30,000 members and the public!

We hope to get some funding soon and when that happens, you will see the situation improve drastically. In the meantime, please be patient and allow Fotini and me to answer the emails that do not require one of the CC members' specialised knowledge.

Best wishes,

Judith

Hi Judith,

Thanks for the response. Just a short reply, about something that has been bothering me for a while now: why is it so difficult for Diem25 members to get a reply from a member of the
CC?

I really appreciate that you take the time and effort to deal with our concerns. However, as an engaged and democratic movement we should have direct channels of communication between
the Diem25 members and the CC. At this point, it seems like the CC is invisible and that it just puts the responsibility of communication with the members in the hands of others.

Even in big political parties (I have experienced this in the Netherlands) it is possible to have direct communication between the party's management and its members. Why the hell - and
pardon my French - does Diem25 not offer this?

As an example of this problem, I would like to point you at a letter with some urgent matters concerning local organisation of an event in Dublin, sent by the Dublin-1 DSC to the CC halfway
December - on which we have up until now not received any reply from the CC.

This level of disengagement with Diem25 members is unacceptable for me.

Apologies for the directness of this message.

Best wishes,

Wessel

I am sorry, I do not see the "diffuseness" that you mention, Phil. As far as I am concerned, DiEM25 is progressing exactly according to the plan outlined in the manifesto:

Realism demands that we work toward reaching milestones within a realistic timeframe. This is why DiEM25 will aim for four breakthroughs at regular intervals in order to bring about a fully democratic, functional Europe by 2025.

Now, today, Europeans are feeling let down by EU institutions everywhere. From Helsinki to Lisbon, from Dublin to Crete, from Leipzig to Aberdeen. Europeans sense that a stark choice is approaching fast. The choice between authentic democracy and insidious
disintegration. We must resolve to unite to ensure that Europe makes the obvious choice: Authentic democracy!

When asked what we want, and when we want it, we reply:

IMMEDIATELY: Full transparency in decision-making.
* EU Council, Ecofin, FTT and Eurogroup Meetings to be live-streamed
* Minutes of European Central Bank governing council meetings to be published a few weeks after the meetings have taken place
* All documents pertinent to crucial negotiations (e.g. trade-TTIP, ‘bailout’ loans, Britain’s status) affecting every facet of European citizens’ future to be uploaded on the web
* A compulsory register for lobbyists that includes their clients’ names, their remuneration, and a record of meetings with officials (both elected and unelected)

WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS: Address the on-going economic crisis utilising existing institutions and within existing EU Treaties.
Europe’s immediate crisis is unfolding simultaneously in five realms:
* Public debt
* Banking
* Inadequate Investment, and
* Migration
* Rising Poverty

All five realms are currently left in the hands of national governments powerless to act upon them. DiEM25 will present detailed policy proposals to Europeanise all five while limiting Brussels’ discretionary powers and returning power to national Parliaments,
to regional councils, to city halls and to communities. The proposed policies will be aimed at re-deploying existing institutions (through a creative re-interpretation of existing treaties and charters) in order to stabilise the crises of public debt, banking,
inadequate investment, and rising poverty.

WITHIN TWO YEARS: Constitutional Assembly
The people of Europe have a right to consider the union’s future and a duty to transform Europe (by 2025) into a full-fledged democracy with a sovereign Parliament respecting national self-determination and sharing power with national Parliaments, regional
assemblies and municipal councils. To do this, an Assembly of their representatives must be convened. DiEM25 will promote a Constitutional Assembly consisting of representatives elected on trans-national tickets. Today, when universities apply to Brussels
for research funding, they must form alliances across nations. Similarly, election to the Constitutional Assembly should require tickets featuring candidates from a majority of European countries. The resulting Constitutional Assembly will be empowered to
decide on a future democratic constitution that will replace all existing European Treaties within a decade.

BY 2025: Enactment of the decisions of the Constitutional Assembly

Addressing the first step, we have an ongoing campaign ( https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/transparency ) since April to demand this kind of transparency from EU institutions. Sadly we did not have enough power at the time, but as DiEM25 grows and becomes more known, this campaign will also grow and become more known.

Now we are making good progress on the second step, drawing up plans to combat the immediate crisis in its 5 realms, starting with the first three pillars of the Progressive Agenda for Europe ( https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/ ). We are also running targeted campaigns in these areas, for example on refugees and migration ( http://diem25.org/stopthedeal ).

From April, we will work on the other three pillars of the Progressive Agenda for Europe, which includes work to imagine a European constitution and to prepare a constitutional assembly, as per the third step.

Of course DSCs can already prepare proposals for the 6th pillar, or propose DiEM25-wide referenda to have DiEM25 take a stance on hot topics (like UK DiEMers did for Brexit, and Italian DiEMers did for the Italian referendum).

However, I believe that it would be a mistake for DiEM25 as a whole to take the intellectual route of only discussing democracy, while people in Greece are starving, people in Italy may soon be asked to bail out the banks again, and issues of migration
have led to a rise of xenophobia across the continent. We need to talk about the topics that matter to people, as we promised to do from the beginning. If we don't convince people that Europe can solve their problems, then within a couple years they will vote
for Exit and there will be no EU left to democratise!

CC Minutes

Dear Judith,

I am obliged to share a serious concern of mine with the method in which

the CC post 'minutes'. I went on to

https://internal.diem25.org/en/meeting_summaries to view minutes for

recent teleconferences. Here are my major concerns.

i) These minutes are updated at least 1 month after the said meeting

which is unacceptable for the membership to only hear about major

decisions at such a delayed rate.

ii) These minutes are highly edited, they only contain points agreed by

all. They don't include proposals that were not agreed on what so ever.

Neither do they elaborate on the decision making methods only the final

agreed sentence.

iii) I don't know what platform is used for these teleconferences, but I

know that all major online discussion platform enable recording highly

easily. How can we expect for major EU bodies to 'live stream' meetings

when we have access only to highly brief summaries and they are 1 month

behind schedule. Also it would be acceptable in my opinion for these

meetings to be only available for for DiEM members to have access to

these recordings not the whole web.

Apologies for my direct arguments.

Kind Regards,

Ezekiel Djeribi Stevens

Just to quote our manifesto:

A Transparent Europe where all decision-making takes place under the

citizens’ scrutiny

CC Minutes

Dear Judith, dear all

I agree with Ezekiel.

I also believe that full "transparency" of the discussions and decisions taken by ourcoordination bodies should be our main strength. Ask for more transparency in the European institutions is one of our greatest battles. I understand that volunteers who coordinate these activities are not sufficient to manage all relationships with individual DSC but "transparency" of our decision making processes must be perfect and irreproachable. I also confirm the availability of the volunteers refering to DSCCagliari1 to give full availability to support you in your daily work

a warm greeting

Alessio

CC Minutes

Dear all,

The CC agrees that minute-taking has been suboptimal until now. That being said, it is NOT our policy to publish minutes at a long delay. The intention was always to publish minutes within a few days of the meeting, as we did in October, but this did not happen in November/December because of workflow issues. The next minutes will be up faster. Publishing them sooner after the meeting will also allow them to be more detailed, because memory will be fresh.

Regarding ii) and iii), I think you have a wrong idea of what the CC does or how it works. Unlike EU bodies, we do not make political decisions for DiEM25, we are only organizers. So there are typically no proposals (also no rejected ones) and no voting. Instead, it is a round of updates or conversations. For example, this is the way I recall the December 10th meeting (https://internal.diem25.org/en/meeting_summaries/8) in more detail:

• Luis reports that the StopTheDeal campaign (Shabbir) is not gaining as much traction as we had hoped. Everyone agrees to mention it more often in interviews and to ask our social media team to prepare more posts about it. [I don't recall anymore what was said about an addendum but it didn't happen.]

• Yanis reports from his meetings with Irish / Northern Irish DSC members and stresses that they want to organise events. We did not have a proposal for concrete dates then.

• Srećko and Yanis report from their video conference with UK DSCs, who are busy re-imagining DiEM25 in a UK that has voted for Brexit and preparing the event on January 28th that will hopefully jump-start DiEM25 in the UK. Luis raises the issue of the 28th being a horizontal rather than top-down event and there's a discussion of how to make it so that the presence of famous DiEMers (Yanis, Srećko, Brian Eno), which is necessary in order to draw a crowd, does not discourage others from speaking and organising themselves.

• Lorenzo reports about the Italian political situation: everyone there is in disarray and in need of fresh ideas, so DiEM25 could probably grow quickly there in early 2017. Lorenzo proposes to organise a meeting for 300 Italian DiEM25 activists and DSC members in order to see if there is the energy to jump-start DiEM25 Italy. Yanis' calendar is quite full already, but on January 7th he can be in Rome, so the 7th is set as the date, Lorenzo's team will start to plan the rest and report back next time.

• Judith reports about the get-together for German DSCs on December 3, the different workgroups there were and some of the conclusions, promising a full write-up once the workgroups' summary cards have been scanned.

Most of the report contents are also the basis for our weekly newsletters. The things that are decided, like to spend more effort promoting StopTheDeal, or for Yanis to come to Rome on January 7th, are of an organizational nature. And because of the organizational nature of these meetings, there are regularly things that should not be on video, for example if Yanis says something unflattering about an Italian politician (would make headlines), if we discuss which musician to invite to play at a DiEM25 event (don't want someone to know they were only 2nd choice), or if a DSC has brought a concern about someone that should be investigated quietly (as even an untrue accusation can ruin reputations). Therefore, the CC will not record meetings on video. However, to ensure that decisions are understandable to those most concerned, the CC has made a habit of inviting DSC coordinators to join CC meetings at times when important discussions that directly concern these DSCs were on the agenda.

Best wishes,

Judith

CC Minutes && Internal Transparency

Dear Judith,

First, we are sorry to have to direct this message to you and not to the

CC directly. We appreciate the time and effort you put in communicating

with the Diem25 members and would like to emphasise that we do not

address my criticisms to you.

We are pleased to hear that the CC agrees that the minute taking is not

optimal too. However we have some new concerns that we have noticed in

your detailed answer.

Quote from the summaries: (October 15, 2016) "CC DELIBERATED on this

matter and DECIDED that AEIP’s current position would undermine

DiEM25’s view that our movement must lead by example in the sense of

preventing national borders from emerging within our organization. A

PROPOSAL was tabled, and PASSED." There are several examples of these

"decisions" and "proposals" in the early minutes before they got so

brief. As you rightly point out the CC is not meant to be making

political decisions. However, this quote along with numerous other

unquoted examples are undoubtedly political decisions. So according to

your analysis of what the CC responsibilities are it is clear that the

CC does not have the authority to make these decisions.

Quote: "Unlike EU bodies, we do not make political decisions for

DiEM25, we are only organizers. So there are typically no proposals

(also no rejected ones) and no voting." It pains us to say this, but it

seems that by taking this attitude the CC is hiding behind the

"a-political" cloak that it always blames the EU institutions for. Any

form of organisation "has" its politics. Even if the CC is "merely" the

executor of the manifesto, it engages in political decisions that

sometimes have to be "validated" by the VC. If so, the CC's position is

not that different from the EU institutions we refer to, and proper

minutes and recordings should consequently be made.

Quote: "Publishing them sooner after the meeting will also allow them

to be more detailed, because memory will be fresh". Minutes should not

depend on anyones memory, because proper minute taking happens during

the meeting and is not based on a recollection afterwards.

Your point regarding Yanis Varoufakis making an unflattering point

about a politician and the other two such points cannot be taken

seriously when you compare it with our demands on the EU. If a head of

state at an EU Council meeting made unflattering comment it would make

headlines too. But full transparency means full trust in decision

making or organising in the CC's case of course. Without transparency

members might wonder what else is being discussed at these meetings as

the minutes are so in-detailed but with an audio recording we might

realise that the CC is in fact only organising not making political

decisions. If some issues should be left out , some reason should be

provided for this and they can be consequently left out of any public

recordings. This means that if an unflattering statement is made then

it can be retracted.

If, as you claim, the CC's meetings are purely organisational, then

recording them would be entirely uncontroversial and very easy to do.

If the political power, as you claim, lies at the grassroots level of

Diem25 there should be a possibility for the members to enforce proper

minute taking and recording on the CC. Please let the members know how

they could achieve this (how we can initiate a voting procedure on this

issue; how we can communicate our concerns to all members).

It would be great if you, or preferably a member of the CC, would

respond to these concerns.

Best wishes,

Ezekiel Djeribi Stevens

Wessel Reijers

TTIP-verkoston helmikuun yleiskokous – vastaa dudleen!

Moikka!

Alla dudle-linkki TTIP-verkoston seuraavan
yleiskokouksen ajasta. Vastaattehan siihen maanantai-iltaan (30.1.) mennessä!

Pahoittelut
pikaisesta dudlausaikataulusta. CETA-äänestys on Euroopan parlamentissa näillä näkymin 15.2., ja jos aiomme reagoida siihen täältä Suomesta käsin jotenkin, siitä olisi hyvä ehtiä puhua verkoston yleiskokoksessa.

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Hey, let's dudle the time slot for our next general assembly! Please add your answers to
the poll before Monday evening (30.1.)!

Sorry for the short notice. The CETA vote at the European Parliament will be on February 15th, and we need to discuss about how to react on the result.

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Aurinkoisin terkuin,

Marissa

CC Minutes && Internal Transparency

Ezekiel,

Why do you insist on creating new threads when discussing the same topic??

Frankly I find your message offensive.

DiEM25 is NOT the EU institutions. For one thing, there are no parties inside DiEM25. All of DiEM25 works towards the same goals. Within the EU Parliament, people have a right to know how their parties represented them in the fight against other parties. Such fights do not take place within the CC, no CC member was elected to fight against the others. The closest equivalent in the realm of politics would be the cabinet - and there is no country where citizens are able to listen to what the minister of justice discusses with the minister of finance, etc. However, as you can see from the CC teleconference summaries, the discussions are not cabinet discussions, almost everything centers around the organization of events - and again I am not aware of any event where the discussions between the organizing team is made public. It cannot work that way. For example, if a venue likes DiEM25 and offers us to use the rooms very cheaply, their prices must not become publicly known, because their other clients would demand a much lower price as well. And speakers / musicians want to be asked in private if they want to come, not learn about the invitation from the news, which might put them or us in a tight spot.

You completely ignored my most poignant example though, which relates to another task of the CC according to the OP: that of being a first contact point when disciplinary action against members is necessary. If someone suspected you of embezzling funds, you would NOT want all of DiEM25 to learn about the accusation before it has been proven wrong.

Without transparency

members might wonder what else is being discussed at these meetings as

the minutes are so in-detailed but with an audio recording we might

realise that the CC is in fact only organising not making political

decisions.

It is just as easy to cut a discussion point from an audio recording as it is from a text. And a recording is much harder to study, for members who don't want to spend two hours each week to learn what the CC is working on. It seems that your issue is much more fundamental than wanting more detail on each of the boring organizational points that we work on: you don't trust that the CC teleconferences have the topics and conclusions that you see in the summaries, you think there are shady political dealings going on. Even though I had pointed out that at most of the recent CC teleconferences there were one or more DSC coordinators present (invited because we were discussing the UK Launch event, Amsterdam event or rebuilding of DiEM25-France), who would have noticed. There is truly nothing that we can do against this level of distrust, which puts into question the integrity of each CC member. Even if we were ready to make every teleconference and every email exchange public, you would have no guarantee that there aren't additional discussions that aren't made public. Maybe you should join an organisation whose coordinators' character you trust.

Best wishes,

Judith Meyer

CC Minutes && Internal Transparency

Dear Judith,

Thank you for your response. Let us react on some of the points you made:

• The new thread was created by accident (change in the title) and it was not our purpose to do so. We understand that this can be frustrating, so please accept our apologies for this.

• We have not intended to offend anyone and we still think we didn't offend anyone in our response. We did not criticise anybody in person and only gave our personal views on your earlier message. There may be a disagreement between us but there is no reason to interpret our response as offensive. We even specifically said that our criticism was not aimed at you personally in any way.

• What is slightly offensive though, is the way in which you personally respond to us. The last sentence is clearly addressed at us personally and can be interpreted as a suggestion to please leave Diem25 in case we stick to our opinions. This is not a very pleasant way of conversation and was quite harsh.

• We did not say that Diem25 is equal to an EU institution. What we did say, instead, is that not unlike EU institutions the CC makes political decisions in the way in which it organises things. For instance, it is a political decision to apply deadlines to the policy papers, or to install certain voting procedures (see also the example of the published summaries in our previous e-mail). We do not think there is anything wrong with this, but we do think it should be acknowledged. The CC simply happens to do more than it was intended to according to the OP, which is absolutely fine given that Diem25 is a young organisation and political decisions sometimes need to be taken ad-hoc. However, given that this is the case, proper levels of transparency and democratic control should be in place. That was simply our point.

• Accordingly, we do not want to concede that the CC is not to be trusted; to the contrary even. We think that the people in the CC are very trustworthy and competent. However, every form of organisation - as we also have tried to make clear in our previous communication - needs to safeguard itself against the violation of its own most precious values. This is why we suggest a more transparent approach.

• A simple way of already starting to improve things would be to take minutes on a collaborative document during the meeting, as we for example do in the DiD group. This is an easy and painless first step, and we don't see why the CC would object to this.

• In response to your examples where there are cases where there is a highly obvious argument for not disclosing full minutes/recording discussing (disciplinary action or discussing contracts): We have previously suggested cutting out the confidential topic, as long as omissions are justified.

We wish you a very nice time in London. Unfortunately, we can't be there in person but we're looking forward to meet up at another occasion.

Best wishes,

Ezekiel Djeribi Stevens

Wessel Reijers

CC Minutes && Internal Transparency

Dear Ezekiel, dear Wessel,

if you think, as said below, that the people in the CC are very
trustworthy and competent, it should not be necessary to start
discussions of this kind again and again.

You have made your point, you have the DiD blog, you write in the
forum, in the VC mailing list, and everyone concerned has the
possibility to read about your concerns and proposals and share and
discuss them on several platforms. Simply no need to make it the
focus of everything and everywhere.

Please be aware it might also be perceived as depreciation of all
other members and DSCs in the sense you do not think others to be
capable of criticism and scrutiny, too.

That you also do not trust other DiEM25 members, the whole
community.

"Without transparency members might wonder what else is being
discussed at these meetings..."

There is much more transparency here in DiEM25 than elsewhere,
especially in the European structures we want to improve, and 100%
transparency is not realistic - this would mean a 100% surveillance!
Why do you want to know every single word, if you trust them. By the
way, for doing something helpful for other DiEM members who do not
know English, you could organise translations into other languages
of the minutes of meeting, for example.

It needs a minimum of trusting each others for the movement to move!

Cheers

Andrea

Don't we e-vote?

Hey everyone,

As I was reading both arguments I felt that both were convincing bu there is no point in discussing if no decison is made. Someone will always disagree with one or two decisions. But Democracy has no dead ends.

Until now we have voted 5 times. Why don't we vote once more for this internal issue as we did for the manifesto and the organising principles?

There can be more than two choices as in the post-brexit vote.

The next best thing would be for the Validating Council to decide. Since its members were chosen, it has taken no decision and according to our organizing principles:

"Some decisions transcend
the CC’s coordination role. These are not decisions to be taken by the CC as they require broader consent and validation. "

In this way this dispute can tranform into something beautiful and honest.

Carpe Diem

Apostolos Gogakos

Athens1 DSC coordinator

TTIP-verkoston seuraava yleiskokous 9.2. klo 17 – Tervetuloa!

Hei,

Kiitos Dudleen vastanneille! Äänestyksen perusteella helmikuun yleiskokouksen ajaksi valikoitui torstai 9.2. klo 17. Nähdään siis silloin Kirjasto 10:n Ryhmätilassa (Elielinaukio 2 G, Helsinki - soita 0505422067, jos ei tahdo löytyä).

// Hi! Welcome to the next general assembly of TTIP Network! The meeting takes place on Thursday 9th of February at Library 10, Group work room (Elielinaukio 2 G) at 5pm. You can call 0505422067, if you have difficulties to find the place. See you there! :)

Marissa

1. tammikuuta 2017 klo 16.17 Marissa Varmavuori marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com kirjoitti:

Moikka!

Alla dudle-linkki TTIP-verkoston seuraavan
yleiskokouksen ajasta. Vastaattehan siihen maanantai-iltaan (30.1.) mennessä!

Pahoittelut
pikaisesta dudlausaikataulusta. CETA-äänestys on Euroopan parlamentissa näillä näkymin 15.2., ja jos aiomme reagoida siihen täältä Suomesta käsin jotenkin, siitä olisi hyvä ehtiä puhua verkoston yleiskokoksessa.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hf2v5w8d/ ( https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hf2v5w8d/ )

Hey, let's dudle the time slot for our next general assembly! Please add your answers to
the poll before Monday evening (30.1.)!

Sorry for the short notice. The CETA vote at the European Parliament will be on February 15th, and we need to discuss about how to react on the result.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hf2v5w8d/ ( https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hf2v5w8d/ )

Aurinkoisin terkuin,

Marissa

Putting a focus on Democracy and Transparency

dear wessels,

while i think it is important that diem itself looks after its internal

structure, its processes and its way of organizing we should not get stuck

there.

as a new organization diems structures are still to a large degree ad'hoc

and what gets done is a result of the hard work of volunteers like judith.

so for diem i think it is currently much more important to focus on the

outside: on the political situation and how to deal with it, how to

influence the public discourse etc. this is not a time for petty discussions

about our own internal structures.

we can assume that everyone who is active in diem stands on the ground of

the manifesto, and thus we can and should trust each other. this is a

completly different situation in the e.g. the EU institutions where there

are widely different opinions and interests at play.

so while for an organisation that has at its main goal to write a

consitution for the EU, our own internal principles are to some degree

imporant, given the above reasoning one should not fall into the trap to

assume the organization of diem itself would be a "small modell of the EU".

i also think that the DSCs should not fokus to much on organizational

detail but on political relevant discussion and action. but then this

is a matter of the tastes of the members of each DSC...

mond

Meeting with Srećko in Frankfurt 11.02.

Dear coordinators,

on 11th February the theatre in Frankfurt hosts a big event on the

future of Europe, where amongst others Srećko will speak.

https://www.schauspielfrankfurt.de/erfindung-europa

Some members of the DSC Heidelberg1 and DSC Nordbaden1 have decided to

go there together. And we got in contact with Srećko who will join with

us for a drink after his appearance on stage (discussion with Fabio De

Masi, Chantal Mouffe and Adrian Zandberg at 5 p.m. on Saturday).

It would be great to meet some other DiEMers there and to have the

conversation with Srećko together. Therefore, please spread the news in

your DSCs and join yourself if you like and have the chance to come to

Frankfurt.

We will meet inside the hall next to Srećko after the discussion and go

to a bar close by.

Also, do feel free to get in contact with Elisa (elisa_stowe@posteo.net)

who organises the meeting with Srećko or with me.

Best wishes and carpe diem

Christoph

DSC News

Two new DSC News articles:

A report from the DiEM25 UK organisational launch meeting in London: https://diem25.org/diem25-uk-organisational-launch-meeting-at-conway-hall-london/

A text on warmongering in the Balkans, jointly written by DSC Belgrade and DSC Zagreb: https://diem25.org/warmongering-in-the-balkans/

DSC Starter Kit

Good morning everybody,

my name is Hannes and I'm coordinator of DSC Berlin 1 and since a short

time member of this googlegroup.

In Berlin active people are growing and we are thinking of founding new

DSCs in different quarters to get smaller more active and dynamic

groups.

For that reason we need something like a starter kit to make founding

new DSCs more easy.

Does somebody have something like that already?

Would be nice not to start at 0.

Hope to hear from you!

Regards,

Hannes

www.diem25berlin.org

DSC News

DSC News from London: Varoufakis comes to King's College: https://diem25.org/yanis-varoufakis-comes-to-kings-college-london/

From Berlin: City from Below: https://diem25.org/change-from-below-city-for-everybody/

The latest CC teleconference summary: https://internal.diem25.org/en/meeting_summaries/10

February update

Dear all,

Here's a broad update.

Policy Papers:

1) Transparency: you can keep submitting proposals based on the questions document ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/DiEM25_Transparency_Questionnaire_English_final.pdf ) to transparency@diem25.org .

2) Refugees: the committee chair has repeatedly promised to have the first draft ready "next week", but it is not available yet. Keep discussing the topic but please wait until the draft before submitting more proposals.

3) European New Deal: Yanis released a summary of the first draft on occasion of DiEM25's anniversary. Find it here ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/170212_DiEM25_END_Summary_EN.pdf ). You are cordially invited to submit comments and suggestions by writing to ulfclerwall@gmail.com . Depending on which section you comment on and at what time, it may be possible to include this feedback in the first full draft even, otherwise in the second draft.

Some already commented that the European New Deal whitepaper is not very readable for people without a university education. Let me clarify that: it is not intended to be. It will be a 100+ page economic whitepaper intended for those who want to sink their teeth into DiEM25's proposals. I don't think that any laypeople will want to read such a long paper, not if they don't understand economics. So in addition to the whitepaper, there will be many articles, interviews, videos etc. explaining our proposals in simpler language. Yanis has already started to produce some, for example the recent 2-minute video for BBC ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O0OJ_VZJok ). DSCs are also invited to start thinking of ways to explain/promote the European New Deal ideas (though they're very raw still). But there will be people who see the articles/interviews/videos and doubt that DiEM25's proposals are well-thought-out and realistic, and these people will be able to refer to the whitepaper for details.

Funding & Transparency:

Finally, on a completely different matter: please go to https://internal.diem25.org/membership ( https://internal.diem25.org/membership ) and fill out the form regarding the voluntary membership fee and ask all members you know to do so too. Even if you cannot contribute anything at this time, it is important to indicate that there, so that the CC can make plans. Until December, DiEM25 could not receive or spend any funds because it lacked legal status (that's why it was urgent to have Organising Principles and elected legal representatives of DiEM25). It is only the coming month or two that will show what kind of budget DiEM25 will have and hence what kind of organisational backbone there will be, what kind of campaigns DiEM25 can do, how much DiEM25-Central can support the DSCs / local activists in their activities and so on. That is why it is crucial to know how many members are willing to support DiEM25 with a membership fee AND to know how many are unable/unwilling to do so. Rest assured that there will be full transparency. As a registered international non-profit, DiEM25 is required to regularly release financial reports indicating how much money has been raised from which sources and what it has been spent on.

Help for DSCs:

I recently integrated the WeMove.eu petition subscribers and Change.org petition subscribers into the DiEM25 newsletter database. This means that DiEM25 is now able to reach over 55,000 people, even if they aren't 'members' yet. Anyway, it's a great opportunity to attract more members to your groups. If you want to invite every registered DiEMer in your hometown to a meeting, just send me an invitation letter and I will forward it to all our members there. This also works if you're traveling to another city and want to help kickstart a DSC there by facilitating their first meeting.

Thank you all and carpe DiEM!

Judith

CETA-sopimus hyväksyttiin Euroopan parlamentissa – kansalaisyhteiskunta vetoaa nyt kansallisiin päättäjiin

Tiedote 15.2.2017

[Vapaa julkaistavaksi heti]

CETA-sopimus hyväksyttiin Euroopan parlamentissa – kansalaisyhteiskunta vetoaa nyt kansallisiin päättäjiin

EU:n ja Kanadan välinen laaja-alainen talous- ja kauppasopimus CETA
hyväksyttiin Euroopan parlamentin täysistunnossa Strasbourgissa tänään
15. helmikuuta 2017.

Äänestyksen tulos oli kuitenkin tiukempi kuin sen odotettiin olevan.
Tämä osoittaa, että CETA:a koskevat huolet jaetaan laajalla rintamalla [1 ( http://www.beuc.eu/publications/european-parliament-fails-give-consumers-legal-clarity-eu-canada-trade-agreement-ceta/html )],
ja sopimus saattaa hyvinkin kaatua ratifiontiprosessin seuraavassa
vaiheessa, kun se tulee 38 kansallisen ja alueellisen parlamentin
hyväksyttäväksi. Ympäristö-, kuluttaja- ja työntekijäjärjestöt [2]
Atlantin molemmin puolin vetoavat nyt kansallisiin parlamentteihin, että
nämä torjuisivat sopimuksen.

TTIP-verkoston Marissa Varmavuoren mukaan CETA-sopimus merkitsee
takapakkia suurten globaalien kysymysten ratkaisulle. Sen sijaan, että
sopimus puuttuisi kasvavaan taloudelliseen epätasa-arvoon,
ilmastonmuutokseen ja luonnonvarojen kestämättömään käyttöön, se
olennaisesti vaikeuttaa noihin ongelmiin puuttumista.

”Vaikka asiakirjaan on sisällytetty kestävän kehityksen lausekkeita,
ne eivät ole sanktioituja, toisin kuin investointien suojaan liittyvä
sopimusosio”, Varmavuori selventää.

CETA sallii ulkomaisille sijoittajille kauaskantoisia oikeuksia
investointisuojan avulla ja aiheuttaa vakavan uhkan demokratialle ja

yleiselle edulle. [3]

”On täysin tarpeetonta perustaa kansainvälinen tuomioistuin, johon
vain sijoittajilla on etuoikeutettu pääsy ja joka on potentiaalinen uhka
työntekijöille, kuluttajille [5 [1]] ja ympäristölle.[4] Kanadalla ja
EU:lla on hyvin kehittyneet ja tehokkaat lailliset järjestelmät, jotka
takaavat oikeudenmukaisen suojan ulkomaisille sijoittajille”,
TTIP-verkoston Johanna Kähäri huomauttaa.

”CETA-sopimuksella on yhteys myös Suomen SOTE-uudistukseen”, toteaa
Corporate Europe Observatoryn hallituksen jäsen, dosentti Thomas
Wallgren.

”SOTE-uudistukseen liittyy palvelujen yhtiöittämispakko. Jos CETA
astuu voimaan, SOTE-tuotannon palauttaminen veroparatiiseihin
rekisteröidyiltä konserneilta julkisen sektorin vastuulle muuttuisi
käytännössä mahdottomaksi korvausvaatimusten pelossa. Tästä syystä
Suomella on erityisen painava syy kieltäytyä CETA:n kansallisesta
ratifioinnista”, Wallgren sanoo.

Nationalististen, eristäytymään pyrkivien poliittisten liikkeiden
vahvistuminen ympäri maailmaa ilmentää tyytymättömyyttä nykyisestä
globaalisaation mallista. Euroopan unionin tulisi puolustaa avoimuutta,
kansainvälistä yhteistyötä ja pyrkimystä globalisaation ongelmakohtien
korjaamiseen. CETA:n kaltainen kauppasopimus ei palvele tätä
tarkoitusta.

Lisätietoa:

Marissa Varmavuori, +358 505422067, marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

Johanna Kähäri, +358 406819158, johanna.kahari@gmail.com

Thomas Wallgren, +358 504154808, thomas.wallgren@helsinki.fi

Viitteet:

[1 ( http://www.beuc.eu/publications/european-parliament-fails-give-consumers-legal-clarity-eu-canada-trade-agreement-ceta/html )] Euroopan parlamentin tiedote:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20170209IPR61728/ceta-meps-back-eu-canada-trade-agreement

[2] Joint briefing from the European Trade Union Federations, Helmikuu 2017:

http://www.epsu.org/article/ep-plenary- vote-15- february-ceta-joint-briefing- european-trade- union-federations

[3] Friends of the Earth Europe, CETA: Trading away democracy, Syyskuu 2016:

http://www.foeeurope.org/CETA-Trading-Away-Democracy

[4] PACE:http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=6375&lang=2&cat=133

[5] http://www.beuc.eu/publications/european-parliament-fails-give-consumers-legal-clarity-eu-canada-trade-agreement-ceta/html

Kirjoituspaja Cetaan liittyen 1.3. Rytmissä

Hei aktiivit!

Kuten olimme uumoilleet, Ceta-vastainen työ siirtyy nyt kansalliselle tasolle. Viime kokouksessa sovimme, että pidämme ensimmäisen kirjoituspajan aiheesta ke 1. maaliskuuta klo 17-19. Paikaksi on valikoitunut Ravintola Rytmi Kallion 2.Linjalla. Nähdään siellä!

As we had, unfortunately, anticipated the work against Ceta is moving now to the national level since the European Parliament voted a yes for it. Wed 1st March 5-7 pm we are gathering to have a writing session about Ceta. Place is Ravintola Rytmi 2. Linja at Kallio.

Tervetuloa rohkeasti uudetkin, all welcome!

Terveisin,

Johanna

Niin ja vielä tiedotteemme Euroopan parlamentin äänestystuloksen suhteen, jos se ei ole vielä osunut silmiin mitään muuta kautta:

http://www.vapaakauppa.fi/ceta-sopimus-hyvaksyttiin-euroopan-parlamentissa-kansalaisyhteiskunta-vetoaa-nyt-kansallisiin-paattajiin/

If we can shift the cultural context even a little, then there will be some breathing room for those sensible reformist policies that will at least get the atmospheric carbon numbers moving in the right direction. - Naomi Klein -

CETA:sta pari uudelleen ajankohtaista tekstiä

Heipä hei,

Kun CETA nyt läpäisi EU parlamentin, voisi olla aiheellista taas julkaista nää kaksi tekstiä CETA:sta. Ne on kirjoitettu jo vuonna 2013 mutta eivätkä ole tainneet vanhentua. Ne vois ehkä linkittää vapaakkauppasivulle ja ehkä attacin sivulle kanssa.

http://www.tiedonantaja.fi/artikkelit/vapaan-kaupan-viimeinen-taistelu

http://www.kansanuutiset.fi/artikkeli/3047130-kohti-amerikkalaista-sosiaalista-mallia

Yst. terv.

Marko Juutinen

Presenting our new campaign: #TheGreekFiles

Hi all –

As you may have seen, #TheGreekFiles campaign is now out!

What is this campaign? A targeted campaign on EU transparency, where we're trying to get the ECB to release a legal opinion it commissioned about its own role in killing the Athens Spring in 2015. It's basically us (with a broad political alliance) on one side, and Mario Draghi and his minions on the other. It's the first step of what will likely be a long campaign.

Here's Yanis explaining the campaign in three minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qttt9OHiGG8

And the other relevant links (Eng versions) with graphics and copy you can use: campaign page ( http://diem25.org/thegreekfiles ) | petition ( http://change.org/thegreekfiles ) | article ( https://diem25.org/mr-draghi-what-are-you-afraid-of-release-thegreekfiles/ ) | FB post ( https://www.facebook.com/diem25.official.page/videos/1787219928266318/ ) (with video) | tweet ( https://twitter.com/DiEM_25/status/833617385412247553 ).

This is our movement's first real confrontation with the Establishment since our #StopTheDeal campaign last December. So please share it with your DSCs, push it on social media and with any of your local media contacts.

And if you have ideas on how to push and adapt the campaign to your specific countries, please share!

cheers

Mehran

PS As ever, the 'war rooms' for this campaign are on our DiEM25 Slack at d25.slack.com ( http://d25.slack.com ): #comms-dscs for discussion between comms people from the DSCs, and #social-media-actions for the social media coordination. Message me or Luis or if you don't have an invite and want one.

Vastaus OM: TIEDUSTELU: Demokratiaviikoille ehdotettavan ohjelman kriteerit

Hei!

Kiitos tiedustelustasi. Lomakauden vuoksi en ole nyt aivan varma, onko viestiisi jo vastattu meiltä.

Julkaisemme demokratia.fi-sivuston tapahtumakalenterissa ilmoituksia tapahtumista, joihin liittyy yhteiskunnallisen osallistumisen ja vaikuttamisen mahdollisuus.
Tämän tarkempaa kriteeristöä emme ole asettaneet, vaan ilmoitusten julkaiseminen harkitaan aina tapauskohtaisesti. Pääsääntöisesti julkaistaan kaikki asialliset ilmoitukset tapahtumista, jotka ovat laillisia eivätkä loukkaa mitään ihmisryhmää jne. Kaupallisten
tapahtumien ilmoituksia ei julkaista.

Voit halutessasi täyttää tapahtuman tiedot sähköiseen lomakkeeseen: http://www.demokratia.fi/ota-yhteytta/ehdota-tapahtumaa/ Kohtaan Lisätiedot kannattaa kirjoittaa tapahtuman ”mainoskuvaus” ja mukaan kannattaa liittää www-/Facebook- tms. verkkosivuosoite,
josta saa lisätietoa tapahtumasta.

Ehdotuksille ei ole takarajaa, lisäämme tapahtumia kalenteriin sitä mukaa kun ehdotuksia tulee.

Rekvisiitta tarkoittaa oikeusministeriön demokratiapalveluihin liittyviä markkinointimateriaaleja (kyniä, kangaskasseja ja esitteitä), joita tapahtumajärjestäjät
voivat halutessaan tilata rajoitetun määrän jaettavaksi tilaisuuksissaan. Dataprojektoreita tms. tekniikkaa meillä ei valitettavasti ole annettavaksi käyttöön.

Ystävällisin terveisin,

Liisa Männistö

Starter Kit: information sheet for new DSCs

Dear all,

we -Dominik, Elisa, Jakob and Hannes from Germany wrote an information sheet for people who want to create a new DSC that we would like to share with you.

It is available in Englisch, German and Spanish. Please feel free to distribute it to people you know who want to create a DSC. Of course it would be great if anyone would like to translate it into more languages. This is only one version with some ideas how to "do it" and our ideas are naturally based on personal experiences in our DSCs.

We would be glad to hear your feedback.

Best wishes

Elisa

Your opinion? " March agains Monsanto"

Hi All!

Zagreb1 DSC / Croatia has the opportunity to participate in the organization of the local "March Against Monsanto", which is international event and is held every year on May 20th.

We (croatian members) need to know what is the relationship of the DiEM25 movement towards this ecological and corporative problem. Is it good for DiEM25 to be publicly presented as supporter or organisator of this event?

Thank You and

Carpe DiEM!

Stanka Brljević

Zagreb1 DSC / Coordinator

Starter Kit: information sheet for new DSCs

Hello Dominik, Elisa, Jakob and Hannes,

Thanks a lot for the fine work you have made. I found the starterkit very efficient. It will be translated and distributed to all members in Athens1DSC.

I would like your opinion, as well as the opinion of others coordinators on two things.

1) You state that

You can also collect contributions for your group, or ask universities, or foundations for financial support which can be used to buy materials.

In the organising principles state that

What can a DSC not do?

• Collect or spend money outside of DiEM25’s established system of collecting and spending donations

*

So, how is what you write possible?

2) You state that

• Cooperation: find out which initiatives exist in your area, and with whom you want to cooperate. Some initiatives may have an even broader network which you should join.

In the organising principles states that

What can a DSC not do?

Promise or show support to other political organisations and political candidates, except if the alliance has been approved by the CC.

So in your opinion if you received an invitation from another initiative, that exists in your area, to speak
about Diem25 in their meeting, should you vote on their invitation and just go and speak or should you ask first for approval by the CC because "show support" includes implied support by co-organising events with outside associations.

I am looking forward to your answers.

Apostolos Gogakos,

Athens1 DSC coordinator

Starter Kit: information sheet for new DSCs

Hey,

I just came back from an extended weekend in the Netherlands, where the local groups did a FANTASTIC job organising an event around the Dutch elections. You can re-watch it online soon if you didn't catch the livestream.

And what a pleasant surprise to find this DSC guide on my return. In my opinion, just one thing is missing: the chief place to find out about potential DSCs is www.diem25.org/local-groups-dscs/ ( http://www.diem25.org/local-groups-dscs/ ) - people should check this list before they check the forums. And mention that if they have trouble finding local members, for example if the local forum thread has gone inactive, then they can write to volunteer@diem25.org and I'll be glad to send out a meeting invitation to ALL our registered members in their city. Unfortunately the majority of members don't use the DiEM25 forum but communicate only on closed systems like Facebook, Slack or Telegram, so it looks like a lot of cities are inactive when they have simply moved to a different means of communication.

Regarding the particular questions that were raised:

1) Funding

Yes, the OpenCollective will be ready in a matter of days. Through OpenCollective, DSCs will be able to ask for financial contributions and also transparently use the raised money, all without needing to have a tax entity or an accountant. Asking for money from outsiders in other ways is not permitted, for two reasons. One is that it is likely to be illegal (you'd need to be registered with the tax office, file regular tax reports etc.). The other reason is that DiEM25 needs to communicate very clearly what the appropriate channels are for donating, otherwise there is the danger, as already happened, that someone will make a donation "to DiEM25" and DiEM25 will have no idea where that money went, because the person collecting the money was not affiliated with DiEM25. So outside of OpenCollective and any potential fundraising agreement with the CC, DSCs should not approach donors. I mean donors in the strict sense here - obviously it's okay to sell tickets to an event you're organising in order to cover the cost, or to receive a 'donation' of a venue, a buffet, whatever material people want to make available which will not need to appear as income on a tax statement.

Which DSCs want to be the first to test the OpenCollective system? They should have several planned expenses in March...

2) Co-organising with a single other organisation

The reason for this rule is public perception, so public perception is also the lens through which it needs to be evaluated. I mean: DiEM25 does not want newspaper headlines like "DiEM25 and AfD invite you to discuss migration", because the readers will only remember "DiEM25 and AfD" linked in one sentence, they will not know that at this event DiEM25 will harshly attack the AfD position. Even when it comes to organisations that are politically similar, there may be reasons that DiEM25 does not want to be linked to them at this time, for example because it would allow them to look good without adopting any of DiEM25's positions (some organisations have tried to get DSCs to express their support while Yanis was still trying to negotiate). Journalists usually don't understand the difference between one DSC and the whole of DiEM25, or the difference between DiEM25 and Yanis, so a single DSC event with PASOK might yield a headline "Varoufakis' movement approaches PASOK" :(((

What's clearly okay:

• Organising events with several partners representing a broad political spectrum (because it won't be interpreted as DiEM25 supporting party X), e.g. joining a broad pro-refugee demonstration or organising a panel discussion with politicians from several parties

• Organising events with partners that do not have a collective political opinion, such as schools, universities, theaters, cinemas, pubs, even the local association of cat lovers ;-)

• Informal exchanges with other political groups, as long as it's internal (= no chance of newspaper headlines) and you make it clear that you cannot openly express support of them until DiEM25 as a whole decides to express support.

Anything you want to organise that goes beyond the above is likely to be okay too, just please send me a quick email before you start, so that I can ask the rest of the CC if we have had bad experiences with a group, an ongoing standoff, or if there is any reason we don't currently want to be seen as linked to them.

Thank you!

Best wishes,

Judith

Gender Equality and new "New Deal workgroup"

Dear all,

March is the International Womens month with International Womens Day on the 8th.

Another historic event will of course also be when DiEM launches its white paper of the New Deal in Rome.

Here I would like to present an idea to you that some of us German members have been sharing for a while:

to build a pan-european workgroup on the issue of Gender.

We are currently working on an essay about Gender Equality and Gender Discoursivity in DiEM containing also some practical strategies. We will share with all of you as soon as it is finished.

Apart from that, the DSC in Berlin has formed a "Diversity group".

It would be great if we could bring the people in DiEM together, who are interested in Gender and Diversity issues, why not on a european level?

One point to start with could be to build a work group that takes a gender sensitive look at the New Deal.

I would be glad to hear from you.

Then we "only" need to find an effective way of communicating and jump right into it!

Best wishes

Elisa

IMPORTANT: Communication

Dear all,

One of the biggest problems in DiEM25 right now is the lack of communication between the various parts. Please read the below plan, because YOU can make a huge difference:

DSC-to-DSC and CC-to-DSC communication: that's what this group is for. If you are getting this message, this means that YOU are in charge of transmitting messages from this group to your fellow DSC members and vice versa. Nobody else can do it; only one or two people from each DSC are in this group. Please be sure to forward all announcements (like the February Update message requesting comments on the European New Deal draft) as soon as you get them, and also keep your group informed about the other interesting discussions going on here. For example, even if you aren't personally interested in joining the Gender Equality workgroup, maybe somebody else in your DSC is. Similarly, please post here about the interesting campaigns, materials, events being prepared by your DSC, if other DSCs might help you or might learn from your experience.

DSC-to-CC communication: we would like to offer you the chance to reach all CC members directly, but unfortunately several of them already receive several thousand emails every day (not just DiEM25-related), so they do not usually read emails from people whose names they don't recognise. In order to ensure that your comments are actually read by all CC members and discussed, please send them to volunteer@diem25.org (me) and info@diem25.org (Fotini) - we'll forward all messages, remind certain people by instant message, and add the topic to the agenda of the next CC teleconference if need be. If you want to propose someone for the Advisory Panel (and you have a personal connection to that person or are quite certain that he/she would accept), please also write to these addresses - we will initiate a VC vote as soon as we've made sure that we're not creating PR problems for that person by doing so. If you would like DiEM25 to have an internal vote on a particular political position, post about it either in the DiEM25 forum or in this group in order to gather support. Once the CC sees that there is some initial support, we will ask more people to weigh in and arrange for a vote.

DSC-to-workgroup communication: if your group is making a contribution to the policy papers, please check the Progressive Agenda for Europe page (https://diem25.org/progressive-agenda-for-europe/) for up-to-date information on the status of each policy paper and the preferred way to submit proposals. Keep in mind that for pillars 4-6 we have not started work at DiEM25-Central yet, because we cannot channel the work of 40,000 members on more than 3 policy papers at the same time, but of course you can already work on them locally.

Member-to-member communication: our core tool for member-to-member communication is still the DiEM25 forum. Please ask DSC members to register there (it requires a separate registration and different password than the DiEM25 Member Area) and to contribute to the discussions. Also, be sure to go into the regional forums ("Meet Local Members" > your country > your region) and regularly post about your DSC activity, because a lot of first-time DiEMers go to the forum to find information about local events. You can also reach a lot of members through the inofficial DiEM25 Facebook groups.

Member-to-DSC communication: apart from the regional forums, new members chiefly go to https://diem25.org/local-groups-dscs/ to find information about nearby DSCs. Please double-check that your DSC's information there is correct and that you show up in the map. If the list does not yet include an email address for your DSC, please write me in order to add one ASAP - people who don't have Facebook accounts have written me to complain that a lot of DSCs can only be reached by Facebook message. You do not have to reveal your personal email address; I'm happy to create an official DSC email address ...@diem25.org for your group.

DSC-to-member communication: DiEM25-Central's newsletter system can reach every member in every city and of course we want to share this ability with all DSCs! If you have an event that would be interesting to newbies, or if you can make time at your next DSC meeting to answer newbie questions, or if you want to send a City Newsletter summarising everything you've worked on, we will gladly use the newsletter system to send this email to every member in your city. Just send the finished text to volunteer@diem25.org . In the text, be sure to tell people how they can get in direct contact with your DSC.

Thank you all for the work you're doing. DiEM25 is lucky to have you. Have a nice Sunday!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith Meyer

Volunteer Coordinator

Presenting our new campaign: #TheGreekFiles

Update: if you want to join the press conference at the European Parliament where Yanis will give hell to the establishment, here are the details:

10:00-10:30 CET on Wednesday

Anna Politkovskaya Room, PHS 0A50 - European Parliament (Brussels)

If you will participate locally, please announce yourself to: karim.khattab@europarl.europa.eu

If you will participate online, the livestream is at https://goo.gl/pyXkc8

We'll simultaneously try to raise the hashtag #TheGreekFiles in the social media. The 'war room' for this campaign is on d25.slack.com, as Mehran wrote below. If you want to join this and other campaign communications, message Mehran or Luis to invite you to that Slack.

There will be a much bigger event in several weeks (date not set yet but you will all be invited), to hand over the collected signatures to the ECB. You can help collect signatures at www.change.org/thegreekfiles . If you collect paper signature lists, please send them to Brussels DSC.

Roma

Dear all,

the forthcoming unveiling of our New Deal for Europe in Rome on March is a pivotal moment for DiEM and indeed for Europe; beyond that, it is great opportunity for members from across the continent to meet each other and to brush up on their contacts within DiEM. I for one am looking forward to finally meeting some of you in person.

For the non-Romans amongst us (presumably the majority) who would like to skimp on accommodation costs, does anybody want to share an Airbnb or something? Hotels are pricey, especially on weekends.

I'll ask this question in one of the public DiEM forums as well.

Best Wishes,

Dominik

Gender Equality and new "New Deal workgroup"

I know it's short notice, but does your group want to prepare an article that DiEM25 could publish on the occasion of Women's Day or the International Women's Strike on May 8?

A few days ago, a Polish member of the European Parliament said ( https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/912906582184183/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED ) "women are smaller, less intelligent, that's why they should earn less". Between people like him and Trump, I think we're really moving backwards...

• Volunteer Coordination

Gender Equality and new "New Deal workgroup"

That is a good idea! Cant promise we can build up broad Communication till then, but we will try to finish the DiEM Gender Paper till then, that could be a statement and a sign?

Thanks for the motivation of all of you who responded to this post.

One way we could start communication could be a european slack. I will soon make an email list of all of you who expressed their interest and then we could also have a first virtual conference and start by sharing ideas and then distribute tasks?

What do you think?

Cheerio,

E

Roomassa 25.3. julkaistava European New Deal EI ole lopullinen versio

Dear all,

please forward the below letter from Yanis Varoufakis to all members of your DSCs, and everyone else who is working on the policy papers.

Best wishes,

Judith

LETTER TO DSCs ON THE PROCESS OF COMPILING DiEM25 POLICY PAPERS – Beginning with the European New Deal

It is now several months since DiEM25’s CC asked members and DSCs to ‘crowd-source’ ideas and proposals to be utilised in the process of compiling our first, and perhaps most important, Policy Paper – the European New Deal (END). As we had expected, we learned a great deal for this process, which is on going, and from which we are still learning. Today I am writing to you, on behalf of the CC, and in my capacity as END coordinator, to share some thoughts with you about this process.

Let me remind you that the END Committee has received a great deal of input from DSCs, from members and, indeed, from experts. Thousands of pages have been collected. Clearly, the END Committee could not incorporate all of it into a coherent END draft paper. Moreover, our job was not to summarise or collate but, instead, to come up with an overarching policy umbrella that identifies the key forces at work (which are disintegrating Europe and jeopardising Europeans) and targets specific policies against them. Additionally, it is important that the draft’s language and policy mix can appeal to progressives across Europe.

Our concern, as CC, is that, by its very nature, the writing of the first draft excludes many of the opinions and proposals that were submitted. The question is: How can we proceed after the first draft in a participatory manner? How can we manage well a process of amending the first draft consistent with the internal democracy that DiEM25 believes in and strives for?

We know that our existing Forum is a poor tool for this. There are, however, much better platforms, tools and apps to enable a properly democratic emendation process. We would be grateful to DSCs and members if they did some research to propose to the CC the best amongst these so that we can adopt it. Rest assured that the END draft policy paper that will be launched in Rome will not be the final, official DiEM25 END White Paper. Think of it as a Green (or discussion) Paper. Its transformation from Green to… White will require a full and proper process of emendation, to be facilitated by a new open democracy and dialogue platform that you will help us choose. Only after our DSCs and members get a chance to participate fully in the emendation process will the END paper be put to an internal vote. And only after it has been voted on will it become DiEM25’s END White Paper.

As I said, we are learning by doing. We are open to your suggestions. Gradually, as we complete the END White Paper, we will have established the procedure by which our next Policy Papers will be compiled, amended and endorsed.

Lastly, allow me to say that the Rome Event on March 25 ( https://diem25.org/event/the-time-of-courage/?instance_id=93 ), where the END paper will be launched (though not finalised), promises to be a historic moment in DiEM25’s short but promising history.

Carpe DiEM25!

YANIS VAROUFAKIS

DiEM25 co-founder, Professor of Economics – University of Athens | Honorary Professor of Political Economy – University of Sydney | Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance – University of Torino | Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Economy, Kings College, University of London

DSC collaborative Comms campaign for Julian Assange

Hello DSC folk!

Barcelona
1 calling. Our Transparency working group has teamed up with our
Comms group for a Twitter-based campaign around Julian Assange’s
situation & Wikileaks. At our meeting yesterday we thought it
would be a great idea to invite other DSCs to join in and be a part
of it!

On 2nd April, there will be a run-off vote in Ecuador to determine who will
become the country’s next President. If Guillermo Lasso wins he’s
said he’d evict Julian Assange from the embassy in London.

Wikileaks’ work
during their 10-year history, as well as Assange’s unwavering
commitment to transparency and to providing insight into the inner
workings of The Powers That Be, must needs our support and applause.

As you know of
course, Julian is one of us, and is part of our Advisory Panel. He
has been held without charge for almost 7 years; the United Nations
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found he is being
arbitrarily detained, and should be released immediately and
compensated. If he is extradited to USA he faces life in prison, or
even the death penalty. During all this time, he has not stopped
publishing invaluable documents: the Afghan and Iraq War Logs,
Guantanamo Files, TTiP and TiSA Chapters, Collateral Murder gunship
video, Podesta & DNC emails, Kissinger Cables… the list goes
on. Also, Wikileaks was instrumental in getting Edward Snowden to
safety.

So…

Our idea is to pool
our creativity together: A Europe-wide DS-Collective effort!

How? Well, our Comms
team uses an EtherPad. In this case we would be using a Pad on the
Riseup platform, open to anyone who wants to join in. Once there, all
of you will be free to contribute by writing copies, adding and
reusing artwork (our DSCers will contribute drawings, online
banners). After that your DSC can export any tweet /material to their
own workspace and tweak it, translate and spin it, swap out hashtags,
and finally tweet it from their local DSC accounts!

To
give you an idea of the shape of the campaign here at DSC Barcelona
1:

• 1 Tweet/day from
  our account: @DiEM25_BCN

• Tweeted same time
  every day (19:06h, in reference to the day he entered the embassy -
  we use Tweetdeck)

• Starting Monday
  13th ‘til the week after the elections (2nd week of April / c. 25 Tweets)

• Ideas for Tweets
  are based around:

• Julian’s
  timeline since his detention, and myth-busting FACTS (see www.justice4assange.com ( http://www.justice4assange.com/ ); https://justice4assange.com/Assange-Case-Fact-Checker.html)

• Acknowledging
  the importance of Wikileaks revelations: by including links to their
  leak-campaigns (e.g. https://wikileaks.org/bnd-inquiry/)

• Ecuador’s
  elections: include articles and @ mentions to embassy/consulate-
  accounts in your hometown (Be constructive!)

• EU-related
  leaks (search for leaks on https://wikileaks.org/ - just enter your search term and presto! Inlclude that link in your
  tweet)

Our Pad:

• Important: do
  not attempt to paste image / sound files directly onto the pad.
  Upload images to our image repository on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/request/mbDHu4yBUPOSUQk6i82L

• We’re
  pooling interesting hashtags and accounts. You can find these at the
  bottom of the pad.

I know we’re
already very busy with #StoptheDeal and #TheGreekFiles. But for those
of you who can, if you can find some time to write just one tweet, or
create one image for this DSC-networked drive, we’d have a kick-ass
campaign! We’re going ahead with it and it would love if you were
all a part of it.

Carpe diem peeps!

Adrian Devant

Petition for transparent science - Please sign: Abolition of anonymity in peer review on Change.org

Dear All,

I have prepared a petition on Change.org aimed at the abolition of anonymous peer review in science. Signing this petition will help to get rid of the pressure on independent scientists who are willing to advance science honestly. Many free and honest papers are constantly rejected by anonymous peer reviewers who respond to or are even corrupted by the multinationals through funding of their compliant studies.

Many papers are blocked by anonymous peer reviewers because a scientific advancement may prove wrong many members of the establishment.

This dishonest practice cannot be tolerated anymore!

Please sign the petition.

You can find the link here:

https://www.change.org/p/abolition-of-anonymous-peer-review-in-science ( https://www.change.org/p/abolition-of-anonymous-peer-review-in-science )

Help free and honest science by signing this petition, honest authors can know in advance who are their peer reviewers and check whether they are hostile or not to their research. In this way, hostile reviewers can be recused by the authors.

Thanks for your support, Giovanni

Roma

Great, so send me a private message in order not to bother others with the planning and I am coming back to you with more details next week :-)

One place is still available in our apartment in Rome, so whoever is interested, drop me a message :-)

Marie

DSC Brussels

DSC collaborative Comms campaign for Julian Assange [linkit työkaluihin]

Hi again! Just
sending those links again. These are the right ones.

The Pad:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/72BKCOZ7rPYh

The Image sharing folder
on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nyz6b6oc9xy2zhr/AABwrELZARTRamJRRTyArmuxa?dl=0

Sorry ‘bout the mix up!

El jueves, 9 de marzo de 2017, 15:11:20 (UTC+1), diem25barcelona escribió:

Hello DSC folk!

Barcelona
1 calling. Our Transparency working group has teamed up with our
Comms group for a Twitter-based campaign around Julian Assange’s
situation & Wikileaks. At our meeting yesterday we thought it
would be a great idea to invite other DSCs to join in and be a part
of it!

On 2nd April, there will be a run-off vote in Ecuador to determine who will
become the country’s next President. If Guillermo Lasso wins he’s
said he’d evict Julian Assange from the embassy in London.

Wikileaks’ work
during their 10-year history, as well as Assange’s unwavering
commitment to transparency and to providing insight into the inner
workings of The Powers That Be, must needs our support and applause.

As you know of
course, Julian is one of us, and is part of our Advisory Panel. He
has been held without charge for almost 7 years; the United Nations
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found he is being
arbitrarily detained, and should be released immediately and
compensated. If he is extradited to USA he faces life in prison, or
even the death penalty. During all this time, he has not stopped
publishing invaluable documents: the Afghan and Iraq War Logs,
Guantanamo Files, TTiP and TiSA Chapters, Collateral Murder gunship
video, Podesta & DNC emails, Kissinger Cables… the list goes
on. Also, Wikileaks was instrumental in getting Edward Snowden to
safety.

So…

Our idea is to pool
our creativity together: A Europe-wide DS-Collective effort!

How? Well, our Comms
team uses an EtherPad. In this case we would be using a Pad on the
Riseup platform, open to anyone who wants to join in. Once there, all
of you will be free to contribute by writing copies, adding and
reusing artwork (our DSCers will contribute drawings, online
banners). After that your DSC can export any tweet /material to their
own workspace and tweak it, translate and spin it, swap out hashtags,
and finally tweet it from their local DSC accounts!

To
give you an idea of the shape of the campaign here at DSC Barcelona
1:

• 1 Tweet/day from
  our account: @DiEM25_BCN

• Tweeted same time
  every day (19:06h, in reference to the day he entered the embassy -
  we use Tweetdeck)

• Starting Monday
  13th ‘til the week after the elections (2nd week of April / c. 25 Tweets)

• Ideas for Tweets
  are based around:

• Julian’s
  timeline since his detention, and myth-busting FACTS (see www.justice4assange.com ( http://www.justice4assange.com/ ); https://justice4assange.com/Assange-Case-Fact-Checker.html ( https://justice4assange.com/Assange-Case-Fact-Checker.html ))

• Acknowledging
  the importance of Wikileaks revelations: by including links to their
  leak-campaigns (e.g. https://wikileaks.org/bnd-inquiry/ ( https://wikileaks.org/bnd-inquiry/ ))

• Ecuador’s
  elections: include articles and @ mentions to embassy/consulate-
  accounts in your hometown (Be constructive!)

• EU-related
  leaks (search for leaks on https://wikileaks.org/ - just enter your search term and presto! Inlclude that link in your
  tweet)

Our Pad:

• Important: do
  not attempt to paste image / sound files directly onto the pad.
  Upload images to our image repository on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/request/mbDHu4yBUPOSUQk6i82L ( https://www.dropbox.com/request/mbDHu4yBUPOSUQk6i82L )

• We’re
  pooling interesting hashtags and accounts. You can find these at the
  bottom of the pad.

I know we’re
already very busy with #StoptheDeal and #TheGreekFiles. But for those
of you who can, if you can find some time to write just one tweet, or
create one image for this DSC-networked drive, we’d have a kick-ass
campaign! We’re going ahead with it and it would love if you were
all a part of it.

Carpe diem peeps!

Adrian Devant

Meet up in Rome the 25th of March

Good morning to all,

as many of you know on March 25th in Rome the EU leaders will meet in Rome
to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaties which initiated the process
of European integration. We will be in Rome too, to save Europe and its
common heritage from disintegration, authoritarian regression, walls and barbed
wire, reactionary nationalisms and racism, social and environmental disaster.

To save Europe we have
to change it, we need an innovative and courageous plan for European unity,
based on democracy and freedom, rights and equality, a willingness to embrace
gender issues, social and climate justice, dignity for people and the work they
do, solidarity and openness, peace and environmental sustainability.

With a coalition of many
associations, social movements, trade unions, social actors, DiEM25 is committed
to build together a large popular mobilization in Rome on March 25. The parade
will start at 11.00 from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele.

As a person entrusted by the Coordinating am working
to facilitate the meeting of all DiEM25 members. To this end I propose to meet
at 11.00 at Bar Kristal in Piazza Vittorio. Enclosed you will find an image of
Google Maps for more information. For specific requests these are my contacts

email: satta.alessio@gmail.com

mob. +39.3428772838

CARPE DIEM!

Alessio

A narrative of empowerment and participation!

Hi everyone,

After meeting with Yanis in Brussels, we had a discussion about the need to add our narrative of a new kind of participated democracy to the policy papers we present.

We have wrote a short text in this spirit, to add to the intro of the European New Deal document ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNJ7855Kny-15ztWLWsjTBpVj1gOfRarRe6exgZtj2A/edit ), that can engage people not only through the content of the doc, but through the participatory and collective effort behind it.

It is meant to be short, empowering and an invitation to join us and build together, now and in the future.

Can you please review it, add some suggestions if you have any, by the end of the week, so we can suggest it to the CC and add it to the doc asap (maybe even before Rome?)

thanks a lot!

Guilherme Serodio

LinkedIn ( https://be.linkedin.com/in/guilherme-serodio )

SkypeID - guilhermecbserodio

www.corenow.org ( http://www.corenow.org )

Allekirjoita järjestösi puolesta Jefta (EU-Japani) -julkilausuma 20.3. mennessä

Moi,

TTIP-verkosto on juuri allekirjoittanut julkilausuman EU-Japani -kauppasopimuksen (Jefta) läpinäkyvyyden parantamiseksi. Jefta on yksi Ceta- ja TTIP -kaavaa noudatteleva vapaakauppasopimus, jonka neuvotteluja on käyty suljettujen ovien takana ja joka sisältäisi sijoitttajasuoja ISDS:n - joten se on yksi näistä erittäin problemaattisista sopimuksista. Jos joukossamme on sellaisten järjestöjen edustajia, jotka haluavat myös allekirjoittaa julkilausuman on se tehtävä 20.3. mennessä ja onnistuu tästä linkistä:

http://www.s2bnetwork.org/statement-eu-japan/

Terv. Johanna Kähäri

TTIP-verkosto

johanna.kahari@gmail.com

p. +358(0)40 6819158

If we can shift the cultural context even a little, then there will be some breathing room for those sensible reformist policies that will at least get the atmospheric carbon numbers moving in the right direction. - Naomi Klein -

Recent VC Votes on Memberships and National Committees

Dear all,

Just a heads-up before the official announcements: the VC has recently approved two proposals, one regarding opt-out voluntary membership fees and one regarding national committees.

1) Opt-out voluntary membership fees

For a while now, DiEM25 has used the term "voluntary membership fee" instead of "donation" in order to communicate that we want to be member-funded, not accepting contributions from Big Business or shady figures like Soros. However, at this point less than 3% of members have made a contribution and DiEM25 needs a lot more in order to sustain our work. So the CC proposed to the VC that from now on, membership fees should be considered "opt-out". It's a psychological difference more than an actual one: instead of clicking a checkbox "yes I want to pay a membership fee" (opt-in), new members would now have to click a checkbox "no I can't or don't want to pay a membership fee" (opt-out). Membership fees remain voluntary, nobody is forced to pay if they can't afford it or don't want to, and non-paying members have the exact same rights as paying ones, including the right to contribute to DiEM25's policies, to vote, or to be elected to the VC and CC. However, if people want a non-paying membership, they have to indicate that now, rather than it being pre-selected for them. We hope that this way, people will make their choice more consciously, knowing that DiEM25 would cease to exist if everyone chose a non-paying membership.

The VC accepted this proposal with 39 Agree to 38 Disagree votes. Since the greatest concern among Disagree voters was budget transparency, DiEM25 is now preparing a preliminary budget page within the Members Area. The actual budget will of course depend on DiEM25's income, which is not at all predictable yet.

2) National Committees

DiEM25 is not about to lose its transnational nature, don't worry. All decisions of political direction will continue to be made by all members and not confined to the national level. However, as foreshadowed in the Organising Principles, we do want DSCs and unaffiliated members of a certain region or country to come together in order to work on things that transcend a single city, chiefly:

• organising large-scale events

• organising national actions, campaigns that confront the establishment or position DiEM25 as an effective alternative

• coordinating work on DiEM25's policies, such as national adaptation of the PAE as well as preparing topics specific to that country

• writing press releases and editorials on from a DiEM25 perspective for national consumption (either for the national press or diem25.org)

• maintaining relationships with both establishment and independent media

• defining PR goals and plans

• developing content to sharpen PR activities, like style guides, talking points

• arming supporters with arguments to spread the word (social media graphics, data)

• gathering country-specific intelligence, e.g. on the political situation

• speaking about DiEM25 at conferences

• exploring opportunities to cooperate with social movements etc. in their country

• ensuring that DiEM25 is active on national social media

• maintaining contact to all DSCs in their country / helping start new ones

• maintaining contact to members / answering public inquiries

For this reason, there will be several pilot countries where the DSCs send some of their most active people to provisional national committees that are tasked with this kind of work. Later, as the DiEMers in each country get to know each other better through assemblies and common actions, the provisional national committees will be replaced by actual national committees by means of free elections.

The pilot countries are: Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Germany, Greece - and possibly the Netherlands (pending a VC vote). The national committees and national association documents will also have to be approved by the VC.

These are exciting times for DiEM25!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Recent VC Votes on Memberships and National Committees

Sorry, the UK is also a pilot country according to the original VC vote. Somehow my list cut off.

• JM

European DSCs informal meeting in Rome at Teatro Italia (March 25th at 4.30pm)

Dear all,

taking the opportunity to have many of you in Rome on March 25th on the occasion of the DiEM25 event, we decided to organize an informal meeting dedicated to European DSC represented in Rome.

We propose to meet at 04.30pm at Teatro Italia, the same venue of the "Il Tempo del Coraggio" event that will be held starting from 8pm (http://www.iltempodelcoraggio.it/en/).

For any further information or to confirm your participation you can write to my email (satta.alessio@gmail.com) or call me to my mobile (+39.342.8772838).

Carpe DiEM!

Alessio

Alessio Satta

DSC Cagliari

News from the CC - please forward to all DSC members

Dear all,

please inform your DSC members of the following two important changes, which had been widely requested:

1. We have solved the problem of CC members not seeing members' emails due to unfamiliar addresses. If you use the new form at https://internal.diem25.org/pages/contact_cc , you can write a message that will get delivered to all CC members. Please use this only for questions that concern the CC directly, not general requests for information which could be answered by secretaries.

2. There is now a preliminary DiEM25 budget at https://internal.diem25.org/pages/budget . It gives a rough idea of the costs that we cannot avoid each month. Of course this was written without having any assurance of funding, as DiEM25's income has been sporadic and varying wildly. As soon as the income is more predictable, we will present a more reliable monthly budget and then a financial statement showing how actual expenses compared to the budgeted ones. This page will develop into a full-fledged transparency platform.

Thank you all and have a nice day!

Judith

ks. TTIP-verkoston edellisen kokouksen muistio tulevista tapahtumista

Moikka!

Tässä dudle-linkki TTIP-verkoston maaliskuun
yleiskokouksen ajasta: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_maaliskuun_yleiskokous/ Vastaattehan siihen perjantai-iltaan (17.3.) mennessä. Alla muistiot verkoston viime kokouksesta ja 1.3. pidetystä CETA-suunnittelukokouksesta.

Hey, here's dudle for the time slot of our next general assembly: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_maaliskuun_yleiskokous/ Please add your answers to
the poll before Friday evening (17.3.).

Aurinkoisin terkuin,

Marissa

TTIP-verkoston yleiskokous

9.2.2016 klo 17

Kirjasto 10:n ryhmätyötila

Läsnä: Marissa Varmavuori, Johanna Kähäri, Annaleena Tuovinen, Kerstin Söderholm, Maria Brommels

1. Käytiin lyhyt nimikierros, esiteltiin itsemme.

2. Käytiin läpi sopimusten tilanne

• CETA:sta äänestetään Euroopan parlamentissa 15.2. Strasbourgissa. Ihmisiä on mobilisoitu paikalle eri Euroopan maista. Jos CETA hyväksytään Europarlamentissa, se siirtyy seuraavaksi ratifioitavaksi jäsenmaiden kansallisiin ja alueellisiin parlamentteihin.

• TiSA:sta on tullut uusi tietovuoto. TiSA-neuvottelut ovat ongelmissa, mutta sopimusta ei ole haudattu.

• TTIP on toistaiseksi jäissä mutta ei haudattu.

1. Käytiin strategiakatsaus

Sovittiin, että valmistaudutaan Euroopan parlamentin CETA-päätökseen kahdella tiedotepohjalla ja laitetaan ulos se, joka tilanteeseen sopii.

• Tiedotteen luonnostelevat Marissa, Johanna ja Annaleena

Sovittiin, että kansallista CETA-kampanjanjointia suunnitellaan keskiviikkona 1.3. klo 17 alkaen. Johanna varaa paikan ja laittaa kutsun listoille.

1. Tulevat tapahtumat:

4.1 Veroseminaari Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4.

• Johanna on seminaarista yhteydessä Matti Ylöseen, Lyydia Kilpeen ja Thomas Wallgreniin.

• Mahdollisia yhteistyöjärjestöjä Kepa, Attac ja Eetti

4.2 TiSA-tilaisuus Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4.

• Marissa ollut yhteydessä CRASH:iin ja Christer Lindholmiin. Christer pääsee tilaisuuteen puhumaan, Meri Koivusalo on kiinnostunut mutta ei luultavasti pääse. Yritetään saada mukaan myös muita järjestäjiä, esim. Lääkärin sosiaalinen vastuu LSV.

4.3 Kriittisen ay-väen suunnalta tullut yhteydenotto yhteistilaisuudesta SSF:iin

• Sovittiin, että Anna, Heikki ja Marissa ovat TTIP-verkoston puolesta mukana tilaisuutta järjestämässä

1. Vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio

• Johanna ja Marissa ovat työstäneet Kehyksen Elinan kanssa vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio -paperia. Paperi on vielä luonnosvaiheessa, mutta kun se valmistuu, sen taakse pyritään saamaan laajapohjaisesti järjestöjä ja verkostoja Suomesta.

1. Muut esille tulevat asiat

• CETA Check ja muu Euroopan parlamenttiin suuntautunut lobbaus päättyy 15.2. CETA-äänestykseen, joten viimeiset CETA Check -flaikut on jaettava mahdollisimman pian.

• Maria ja Kerstin ovat kirjoittaneet HBL:iin mielipidekirjoituksia, jotka julkaistu.

• Protektionismi-pointtia, pk-yrityksiä ja työllisyyysvaikutuksia on syytä nostaa, jos on yhteydessä meppeihin tai kirjoittaa yleisönosastokirjoituksia.

CETA-kampanjan suunnittelukokous 1.3.2017

Läsnä: Kerstin, Annaleena, Johanna, Mirja, Marissa

1) Kansallisen kampanjoinnin yleiset linjat

• Selvitetään, miten CETA:n ratifionti Suomessa etenee; Marko Ulvila jo selvittelemässä asiaa

• Pyritään saamaan mahdollisimman laajapohjaisesti järjestöjä (ks. kohta 3) kamppailuun mukaan

• Pyritään pikaisesti synnyttämään julkista, kriittistä keskustelua CETA:sta (ks. kohta 4)

2) Keskeiset teemat suomalaisesta näkökulmasta:

• Työoikeudet

• Kaivokset ja luonnonvarat

• Sosiaali- ja terveyspalvelut, ”CETA-sote-kytky”

3) Listasimme tahot, jotka tulisi saada mukaan kamppailuun

• Ay-järjestöt (Suomen sosiaalifoorumiin tulossa tilaisuus, jossa CETA-kamppailua

• Kaivostoimijat (toimijoiden kanssa järjestettiin tapaaminen tammikuussa; pyritään pitämään yhteydet auki kaivostoimijoiden suuntaan)

• Kepa (mukana SSF:n verotilaisuudessa, hienoa!)

• Verkoston yhteistyöjärjestöt (ml. Parecon Finland, Animalia, Maan ystävät, Luonto-Liitto); sovittiin, että Marissa kutsuu järjestöt konsultointitapaamiseen. Tarjoamme järjestöille taustatietoa materiaalipankin ja koulutusten muodossa.

4) Sovittiin, että perustetaan mediavaikuttamisryhmä

• Ryhmässä Mirja, Annaleena, Kerstin, Johanna ja Marissa

• ryhmä seuraa mediaa, kirjoittaa vastineita ja oma-aloitteisia keskustelunavauksia

• Mirja voi tehdä uutisseurantaa ja välittää niitä mediaseurantaryhmälle

• Ryhmä käyttää työskentelyyn jaettua kirjoitusalustaa

• Oma-aloitteisia keskustelunavauksia lähetetään mahdollisimman laajalle (mielipidesivut, internet-seinät, ammattilehdet, paikallislehdet, tekstiviestipalstat.. Hesari ei juuri julkaise kriittisiä juttuja, joten syytä keskittyä pienempiin lehtiin.)

5) Sovittiin, että perustetaan materiaalipankki, jota voidaan käyttää sekä mediavaikuttamisryhmän toimintaan että yhteistyöjärjestöjen käyttöön

• Temaattisia argumentteja löytyy esimerkiksi Making sense on CETA -raportista

• Aloitetaan Kirjoitusalustalla, siirrytään paremmalle alustalle heti kun keksitään minne

6) Pyritään kohdentamaan viestimme kuulijakunnan mukaan ja käyttämään kieltä, jota ihmiset ymmärtävät

Anonyymeille keskustelupalstoille, kuten Jodel, mahdollisimman kansantajuisia mutta faktapohjaisia tekstejä. Voi käyttää myös värikkäämpää kieltä kuin verkoston virallisessa viestinnässä, esim:

• ”Sote-CETA-soppa”

• Yhtiöittämispakko + yrityksille tarjottava investointisuoja = kusessa ollaan

• Esko Seppänen: ”CETA – uusiliberalistien toivelaulukirja”

A narrative of empowerment and participation!

Hi Judith, and everyone else

As discussed with Yanis in Brussels, I have started a thread in Brussels and with the DSC coordination members to put together a short text introducing our policy papers (in attachment below)

It introduces the need for them but ALSO the process behind and the revolutionary and participative nature of our movement, offering a new narrative to what democracy in Europe can and should be, and inviting people to participate in it.

We believe it would be good to add it to the document to be presented in Rome already, and would like to have the CC behind us on this.

Let us know what you think, thanks and keep up the good work everyone!

Guilherme Serodio

LinkedIn ( https://be.linkedin.com/in/guilherme-serodio )

SkypeID - guilhermecbserodio

www.corenow.org ( http://www.corenow.org/ )

Important issue for the future of DiEM25

Dear Alessio, Dear All,

sorry for the repetition but repetita iuvant.

Given that not all the DiEM25 people read the forum, I seize the opportunity of this mailing list to raise a fundamental issue that I already raised in the forum and in the validating council mailing list: de-labeling DiEM25.

I would be grateful if you could avoid terms like "comrades" in our messages and in official or public discussions. Although I do not like capitalism and I embrace many social values, I'm not a comrade. Although I do not like plutocracy (as Mussolini said but not did) and this wild (uncontrolled) immigration, I'm not a fascist. These are labels that I do NOT want and many other people within DiEM25 share my views.

I prefer to discuss on how to solve the problems of the European unemployed and the extra-European economic immigrants. This is going to become a war between poor people, we don't want this! The matter of the refugees is another story.

DiEM25 is a democratic movement that MUST include everyone, our Manifesto promotes universal values that can and should be accepted by everyone. Left, centre, right belong to the past and we must look forward to the future.

We must talk to all the people, particularly to those who vote for Salvini, Wilders, Le Pen and so on...explain to them why our policies address their concerns (unemployment, immigration, security). I warn you all: if we fail in doing this, or we simply don't do this, we are just wasting our time.

Thanks a lot for your attention.

Giovanni

Veroparatiisit ja vapaakauppasopimukset Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. klo 13-14.45

Kepa
ry, TTIP-verkosto, Suomen Attac ry ja Reilu vero ry järjestävät Suomen
Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4.2017 klo 13-14.45 paneelikeskustelun aiheesta Veroparatiisit
ja vapaakauppasopimukset.

Tilaisuus järjestetään Rakennusliiton tiloissa Hakaniemessä osoitteessa Siltasaarenkatu 4, 00530 Helsinki

Tervetuloa! Welcome!

http://www.vapaakauppa.fi/veroparatiisit-ja-vapaakauppasopimukset-suomen-sosiaalifoorumissa/
https://www.facebook.com/events/280003919101773/

Reipasta ja verovälttelyvapaata viikonloppua toivottaen,

Johanna Kähäri

TTIP-verkosto

johanna.kahari@gmail.com /ttipinfo@riseup.net

p. +358(0)40 6819158 ( tel:+358%2040%206819158 )

If we can shift the cultural context even a little, then there will be some breathing room for those sensible reformist policies that will at least get the atmospheric carbon numbers moving in the right direction. - Naomi Klein -

DSC flags for the "March for Europe" ?

Hi comrades,

I am contacting you regarding the participation of DiEM25 to the "March for Europe" in Rome.

In an attempt to show our diversity and at the same our unity we'are thinking to print a flag for each DSC.

Depending on the total number of confirmed participants we could select a number of cities in an equal manner to represent all different countries.

The design of the flag will be very simple. Just the DiEM25 logo and the name of the city. You can find two examples enclosed to this email. Just think the name of your DSC at the place of "Cagliari".

We would really appreciate your comments and your views on our proposal.

I am contacting you also to define the total approximate number of people coming to Rome for the March. Could you confirm the number of people from your DSC willing to participate ?

Thank you very much in advance!

Ciao and Carpe DiEM!

Alessio

Preparing explanations, stories and social media materials for the END

Dear Alessio and everyone else who wants to contribute,

regarding the creation of END materials, please tell your members to write to Luis luismartin@luismartin.press - he is the coordinator for this and will add them to the Slack where these stories, pictures etc. are being created.

Best wishes,

Judith

Social Media during END Weekend

Dear all,

the big weekend is coming closer :)

Members from all over Europe will be there (march, theatre, art event).

I am writing to you concerning DiEMs social media strategies and appearance on the weekend.

We (Luis and I) created a Telegram chat for the Rome weekend. In the chat will be members who are physically present, who will share pics, clips from the march and the other events in the chat with the members who will be virtually present during the END weekend.

Who of you has time and would like to help making DiEM as visible as possible, posting, tweeting the pics?

The Slack Luis created was already mentioned here.

There is a channel for social media. During the next week it would be great if a bunch of you, who have experience with social media or any creative ideas how we can make DiEM rain in the World Wide Web on these days?

We will then put up a "basic strategy" (hashtags, captions...) for the virtually present members in the Telegram chat + Slack!!

Happy to hear from you!

Best

Elisa

Tervetuloa TTIP-verkoston yleiskokouksen 23.3. klo 19!

Hei,

Dudlen perusteella TTIP-verkoston seuraava yleiskokous pidetään torstaina 23.3. klo 19 alkaen. Koska Kirjasto10:n tilat näkyvät olevan varattuja, nähdään jälleen Musiikkitalon kahvilassa (Mannerheimintie 13A).

//Hi! It seems we'll have the next general assembly on Thursday 23rd of March at 7 pm. Let's have the meeting at the cafeteria of Musiikkitalo (Mannerheimintie 13A).

Aurinkoisin terveisin,

Marissa

+358 505422067

radio request from Germany

Hi everybody,

we got a request of a german radio reporter. She is searching for people

all over Europe, who are committed to the European idea to give an

interview. Maybe somebody is interested:)

Here is the request:

"Dear Citizens For Europe,I hope English is okay for you – I work as a

freelance reporter for the German radio station 1LIVE in Cologne and we

are planning on doing a weekly series on the radio concerning Europe/the

EU. I am looking for 5 motivated young people from all over Europe who

are working in projects favoring the EU or the idea of Europe as a

whole. The idea behind the series is that even though Brexit is upon us,

there are actually young people who believe in the European idea and

want to do something in order to strengthen it.

Maybe you could help me find a young person from any European country

who would be willing to do a radio interview in German or English with

me via Skype or phone. Ideally, this person would have to be between 20

and 35 years of age and is committed to the European idea and is working

for or with some kind of project supporting the EU or Europe. The idea

of the series is that young Europeans are doing something in their own

country of heritage. This can be in form of a journalistic project, a

protest march, a blog, collecting signatures for EU-causes...really

anything promoting the European idea

Do you think you could help me find someone as soon as possible?

Unfortunately, the series is supposed to start next week already

(Monday-Friday).

Thanks so much and best wishes from Germany,

Annika

Annika Witzel

Reporterin

1LIVE-Haus

Mörsergasse

50667 Köln

Telefon +49 (0)221 220 2025

annika.witzel@fm.wdr.dewww.einslive.de

https://www.facebook.com/1LIVE

https://twitter.com/1live"

All the best from Berlin,

Carpe DiEM,

Johannes

Why age limit?

INFORMAL ASSEMBLY OF DSCs in ROME_25/03/17 from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm

Dear all,

as agreed
with Lorenzo Marsili below the agenda of the informal meeting of the DSCs that
will be held at the Teatro Italia starting from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

The debate
will be facilitated by Giuseppina Tucci of European Alternatives.

Introduction, Lorenzo Marsili (10 minutes)

The
question of national organizations and the ideas behind the text that was
approved by the Validating Committee. Shall we think to an electoral calendar
at the national/european level ?

Debate, all

• QUESTION
  1 (30 minutes): How to work to set up a process between March 25 and May 25 to
  engage everyone in defining the national structure for DiEM25?

• Everybody
  will be asked to chip in with their ideas on how a discussion process can be
  taken forwards.

• QUESTION
  2 (30 minutes): DiEM25 New Deal policy paper: what’s next? how to improve it?
  which follow up at the national level?

• QUESTION
  3 (30 minutes): How to enhance trans-european communication among DSCs? How to
  go beyond the “forum” ? Working through thematic transversal groups?

Wrap up and Conclusions, Giuseppina Tucci (20 minutes)

See you soon in Rome and Carpe Diem!

DiEM25's European New Deal - and how to move forward

Dear all,

I hope you all got the newsletter today with the subject line "Can you help DiEM25 this weekend?". (If not, please add info@diem25.org to your whitelist.) This newsletter asks people to follow this weekend's events on our social media, to invite friends to follow DiEM25, to share their hopes for a different Europe using our #END_TINA hashtag and so on.

Here's a reminder of what you as DSCs can do, which they can't do:

• Prepare materials that we can share through the official DiEM25 social media accounts. If you're in Rome, take photos and write down memorable quotes or slogans. If you're at home, prepare pics and all kinds of viral materials, explainers and thoughtful articles about the European New Deal. Share these in the Comms Slack, the END Telegram group, or, if you missed the invitations for both, send them to reto.thumiger@pressenza.com and volunteer@diem25.org . Also post them on your DSC's social media channels with the hashtag #END_TINA of course.

• If your DSC is meeting in order to watch the livestream of the Rome event together, or if you're out on the streets protesting for a different Europe, take photos and post them with the hashtag #END_TINA

• If you have access to a foreign-language DiEM25 site or social media account, ensure that there is news about the European New Deal in that language. At DiEM25-Central we're overworked just managing the event and uploading English-language info in the meantime... You can link to the summary at https://diem25.org/diem25-unveils-its-european-new-deal-an-economic-agenda-for-european-recovery/ for details. Starting tomorrow evening, when the draft of the European New Deal will be officially unveiled, you can share https://diem25.org/end, which will then be a beautiful explainer page. If you're preparing social media graphics, already put https://diem25.org/end as a link on these.

Also note a remarkable press statement ( https://diem25.org/diem25s-european-new-deal-demands-electoral-expression-yanis-varoufakis-tells-journalists/ ) from Yanis this afternoon. Essentially, DiEM25 started last year by answering WHY is DiEM25 needed, and now we've started to answer WHAT is needed (the European New Deal, but also better policies on transparency, refugees, democracy and so on). The next step will be to answer HOW these policies can become reality, how do we encourage governments to implement our policies, what do we do if parties or groups of members want to represent our policies at elections, and so on. For this purpose we will start a series of member consultations via the forum as soon as everyone is back from Rome. :)

These are exciting times! Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Better tool for discussing/amending the European New Deal

Dear all,

in line with Yanis' letter ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diem25-dsc-coordination/E4rSFAlrWnw ) to you on March 9th, I want to ask if you have found any tool DiEM25 could use to discuss and amend the European New Deal, something better than the DiEM25 forum. Time is running out, because the big European New Deal discussion should start in five days, immediately after the presentation of the draft in Rome. The new tool should allow discussion and proposals for amendment (but not direct edits) to be tabled on a chapter-by-chapter basis and it should easily support hundreds of people voicing their opinion. Also, the tool needs to have an intuitive interface, since the majority of DiEM25 members are not computer-savvy, and the interface should ideally be available in several languages. If you know of any suitable software, please write to me!

Best wishes,

Judith

Better tool for discussing/amending the European New Deal

Hi Judith,

The Democracy in DiEM25 (DiD) and our "tooltesters" working group have considered a number of options (looking at functionality, familiarity, ease-of-use, fit with the DiEM25 ideals) and came to the following proposal with a short-term and a longer-term vision. We will also post this proposal in the forum, so all members will be able to discuss it:

PROPOSAL: TESTING COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT TOOL

Challenge: we are looking for a document collaboration tool that will allow commenting whilst at the same time not allow editing. And that will do this for a large number of DiEM’s members.

The only tool we have found that will do this now immediately for a large number of reviewers simultaneously (as Judith requested) is Google Docs.

We realise this is not a preferred option for a lot of DiEM’ers. So we only suggest we use this perhaps only now for this END improvement exercise, because we simply need something now. So this is super-short term.

For the medium to long term we need to find something that satisfies the other DiEM25 criteria as well, like: improved security, future-proof, green, etc.

So we could collect comments together here on the END document directly in the G-Drive document collaboration tool. We would need to hold discussions on parts of the document in for instance Loomio.

For the next step, we are looking at including our own MyPads-style solution from the base Etherpad framework. So far this seems a good possibility. That would in the end mean having our own Document Collaboration tool free of charge on the DiEM25.org site. This should in one hit satisfy many of the existing concerns and requirements.

So the proposal would be:

NOW

• Docs: For now directly we can all use Google Drive for responding directly to parts of the END green paper.

• Discussions: We can now immediately use Loomio for the discussions.

SOON

• Docs: On DiEM25.org we could have our own Etherpad, names for instance DiEMPad.

• Discussions: For discussions, if DiEM25.org is not happy with the Forum there, we need to first investigate why, get clearer requirements and change or replace the Forum with something that suits the new requirements.

Democratically yours,

DiD and the tooltesters working group

Better tool for discussing/amending the European New Deal

HI Wessell, Hi all DiEMeers,

it seems that sandstorm is a great platform to build upon.

I'm no more focussed on ICT project management but i remember I used and met some guys that made a good job.

This guyse made a collaboration platform to write the Teatro Valle Foundation Charter http://emend.wf210.memefarmers.net/convenzione-per-la-gestione-del-teatro-valle-di-roma-bozza-di-lavoro-dell8-gennaio-2015/ ( http://emend.wf210.memefarmers.net/convenzione-per-la-gestione-del-teatro-valle-di-roma-bozza-di-lavoro-dell8-gennaio-2015/ )

These guys http://www.openpolis.it/chi-siamo/ are doing a good job in developing particapatory tools and are based near my office

http://www.depp.it/open_parlamento ( http://www.depp.it/open_parlamento )

they work for the Government http://parlamento17.openpolis.it/community ( http://parlamento17.openpolis.it/community )

it seems the released all the software on github https://github.com/openpolis/openparlamento ( https://github.com/openpolis/openparlamento )

here some informations in english

http://www.openpolis.it/eng/

Thanks and Carpe Diem! bye

Better tool for discussing/amending the European New Deal

Hi Everyone,

Penflip might also be an option.

https://www.penflip.com

It's a tool designed like GitHub (which is amazing for software developers but not very public friendly due to jargon etc.) but for people writing documents.

A narrative of empowerment and participation!

Thank you all for your contribution! This article has now passed our editing process and has been posted in the DSC News section:

European New Deal: a summary: https://diem25.org/european-new-deal-a-summary/

Also, there are more CC teleconference summaries since the last update:

https://internal.diem25.org/meeting_summaries/11

https://internal.diem25.org/meeting_summaries/12

https://internal.diem25.org/meeting_summaries/14

(Still waiting for the notes from our Amsterdam meeting, which were hand-written and haven't yet been digitized)

And a personal request: over of 90% members still haven't filled out the membership form at https://internal.diem25.org/membership . Please remind all your DSC members to do so, at least to click "non-paying" there if they don't intend to pay a membership fee, so that we can prepare and publish the definite budget ( https://internal.diem25.org/pages/budget ) for the next months.

Thank you all - hope you have a great time in Rome ( https://diem25.org/diem25-launches-european-new-deal-in-rome-2/ )!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Forum debates on DiEM25 and the French elections

Dear friends,

Two DiEM25 Forum threads have been created about what should be DiEM25's position about the French presidenteial and parliamentary elections. One is in French: https://www.diem25.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=175&t=13895

Another is in English: https://www.diem25.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=175&t=13894

Please, visit these fora and share with us your analysis and position.

Cheers,

Jacques

Improving the European New Deal together - forward to DSC members please

Dear all,

Were you as inspired as I was by the Rome event? The echo has been great - it's clear that Europe has been waiting for its European New Deal (END). Already a bunch of politicians, movements, civil society organisations want to help us put pressure on Europe's governments to make this European New Deal a reality. However, it is not quite ready yet. This is our trajectory:

September 20th: calls for European New Deal proposals from members, DSCs and experts

January 16th: closed for proposals, END committee starts to prepare first draft

February 9th: summary of first draft ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/170212_DiEM25_END_Summary_EN.pdf ) is published, first round of comments begins

--> March 25th: full first draft ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vzpzyjUEGPTyzT0D1s06lN-5zV_VrlkqLC-3QVMvsxI/edit?usp=sharing ) is published, second round of comments begins <-- we are here

May 3rd: second round of comments ends

ca. May 10th: END committee presents second draft, voting starts

ca. May 20th: our first policy paper is born?

(This will be the baseline; further improvements and additions are expected and some DSCs have already started to work on proposals for a supplement on economic policy for their country)

In order to improve this draft together, the DiD group and several others have suggested Loomio ( https://www.loomio.org/invitations/4a4dc7755991e2e1d90d ). We're ready to give it a try, to see if we should use this for the next policy papers as well. At the same time, we will continue to permit discussion via the forum, for those members who already have an account there and prefer a familiar interface. The document itself is available here ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vzpzyjUEGPTyzT0D1s06lN-5zV_VrlkqLC-3QVMvsxI/edit?usp=sharing ) in Google Docs. In order to suggest an addition or a change (significant changes only, no spelling corrections!), please go into the Google Doc ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vzpzyjUEGPTyzT0D1s06lN-5zV_VrlkqLC-3QVMvsxI/edit?usp=sharing ), scroll to the right section and use the Comment feature in the most appropriate place. Then, don't write a full comment but simply leave a link to your proposal. Write your actual proposal in the DiEM25 forum ( http://diem25.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=177 ) (we created subforums for this here ( http://diem25.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=177 )), on Loomio ( https://www.loomio.org/invitations/4a4dc7755991e2e1d90d ), or even in your own Google Doc if you want to suggest an addition that is several pages long. Other members will follow the link in the comment and they can discuss your suggestion in the same place.

If you already made a proposal in the first round, thank you! If you don't see your proposal included and it did arrive in time for the first draft, you can probably find an answer by the END committee in Appendix 8. Also going forward, the END committee does not promise to include every proposal - that would make for bad or inconsistent economic policy - but will consider all proposals and will explain their reasons for including / not including them.

Finally, let me say that preparing a set of good economic and social policies for Europe is a giant task, but popularizing them is an even bigger task. How can we explain all these very technical proposals to our families, friends and neighbours? Dutch DiEMers have made a great start: they created this gorgeous infographic ( https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/END-infographic.gif ) (also used on our webpage ( https://diem25.org/end/ )), which we showed to everyone watching the Rome event. Wikileaks even tweeted it to 4.5 million people! Other DSCs have started to write stories or prepare quick, one-issue pictures for social media. Some CC and AP members are producing articles, editorials and videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O0OJ_VZJok ) for the media. We need all hands on deck for this! If your DSC can contribute, don't hesitate. And if you alone cannot create something, but you have graphics or video skills that you could lend to another group, contact Luis luismartin@luismartin.press, who will add you to the Comms talent pool.

Let's rock this!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

P.S.: This message was sent only to the DSC Coordination group, so the other members in your DSC did not get it. Please forward it to everyone!

TTIP-verkoston maaliskuun kokouksen muistio ja dudle seuraavasta kokouksesta

Hei,

Alla on muistio 23.3. pidetystä yleiskokouksesta. Kiitokset kaikille osallistuneille! Puhuimme kokouksessa, että yrittäisimme sopia huhtikuun yleiskokouksesta hyvissä ajoin, jotta saisimme varattua sille ryhmätilan Kirjasto 10:stä. Ryhmätila näyttää kuitenkin olevan todella varattu; löysin sovitulta ajanjaksolta vain yhden järkevän ajan, sunnuntaina 23.4. klo 16-18.

Tällä kerralla dudlaamme kokousajankohdasta siis tavallisuudesta poikkeavalla tavalla. Merkitse Dudleen perjantaihin 31.3. mennessä PUNAISELLA, jos haluaisit osallistua mutta ET PÄÄSE kokoustamaan 23.4. klo 16-18. Mikäli Dudleen ilmaantuu runsaasti ilmoituksia, koitamme löytää kokoukselle toisen ajan ja paikan!

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_huhtikuun_yleiskokous/

//Hi! Let's dudle the time slot for our next general assembly different way this time! Please fill the following poll IN RED if you'd like to attend but CAN'T MAKE IT on Sunday 23rd of April at 16:00-18:00. I will check the poll on Friday 31.3. and if it's full of red, we will find some other time and place for the meeting.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_huhtikuun_yleiskokous/

Best,

Marissa

TTIP-verkoston yleiskokous

23.3.2016 klo 19

Musiikkitalon kahvila

Läsnä: Marissa Varmavuori, Kerstin Söderholm, Maria Brommels, Hilja Kurkinen, Anna Pulkka, Maija Amperla

1. Käytiin läpi sopimusten tilanne

CETA

• CETA siirtynyt Euroopan parlamentin hyväksynnän jälkeen ratifioitavaksi jäsenmaiden kansallisiin ja alueellisiin parlamentteihin. Suomessa hallituksen esitys CETA:n kansallisesta toimeenpanosta on jo valmisteilla ja tarkoitus saada valmiiksi kesään mennessä.

Ympäristö- ja työelämäkysymyksissä komissiolla on vielä hienosäätöä Kanadan kanssa. Kanada on ilmeisesti ratifioimassa ILO:n järjestäytymisoikeutta koskevan periaatteen.

TiSA

• Uusi TiSA Uncovered -sivu on avautunut. Sivulla tarjolla muun muassa perustietoa sopimuksesta, raportteja ja linkkejä TiSA:n parissa kampanjoiviin toimijoihin.

TTIP

• TTIP on toistaiseksi jäissä mutta ei haudattu.

JEFTA (EU-Japani, syytä nostaa myös TTIP-verkoston agendalle)

• EU:n ja Japanin välisiä kauppasopimusneuvotteluja on käyty vuodesta 2013 yhteensä 18 neuvottelukierrosta. Euroopan komissio ei ole julkaissut edes neuvottelumandaattia.

• Japani on kuulemma ilmoittanut, ettei ole halukas lähtemään MIC-järjestelmään mukaan.

16.5.2017 tulee Euroopan unionin tuomioistuimelta päätös EU:n kompetenssista kauppasopimusten ratifioinnin suhteen. Joulukuussa tuli jo ennakkolausunto, jonka perusteella on odotettavissa, että päätöksen mukaan ratifioimassa on oltava EU-elinten lisäksi kansalliset ja alueelliset parlamentit.

Komission julkinen konsultaatio MIC:istä (Multilateral Investment Court) on sulkeutunut 15.3.2017. MIC:iä vastaan on olemassa ainakin kaksi nettivetoomusta: Campact ja WeMove.eu.

1. Käytiin strategiakatsaus

Kansallista CETA-kampanjointia on suunniteltu tapaamisessa maaliskuun alussa (Marissa laittanut muistion TTIP-verkoston sähköpostilistoille).

Todettiin jälleen, että ay-lobbaus olisi Suomen osalta tärkeä kampanjakeino. Puhuttiin erilaisista keinoista vaikuttaa ay-liikkeeseen CETA-asiassa:

• Kirjoituksia ay-lehtiin

• Työpaja tm. ay-paikallisosastojen aktiivien kanssa

• EPSU:n kriittisen kannan esiin nostaminen suomalaisia ay-toimijoita lähestyttäessä. Sovittiin, että pyritään saamaan ay-toimijoita osallistumaan EPSU:n koolle kutsumaan tempauspäivään. Kerstin etsii tapahtuman linkin. [Huomautus kokouksen jälkeen: Tempauspäivä onkin ehtinyt jo mennä.]

Sovittiin, että pyritään aktivoimaan myös TiSA-toimintaryhmää.

1. Tulevat tapahtumat:

3.1 Veroseminaari Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. klo 13.00-14.45 Rakennusliitolla

• Yhteistyöjärjestöinä Kepa, Attac ja Reilu vero ry.

• Tilaisuus haluttaisiin streamata, jos se on mahdollista tehdä ilman kuluja. Jos jollakulla on intoa ja laitteet asian hoitamiseen, yhteys Johanna Kähäriin.

3.2 TiSA-tilaisuus

• Christer Lindholm joutui perumaan osallistumisensa 1.4, joten tilaisuus järjestetään Sosiaalifoorumista irrallisena tapahtumana. Korvaava ajankohta ei ole vielä selvillä.

3.3 Kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin -työpaja Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. klo 15.00-16.45

• Anna, Heikki ja Marissa ovat valmistelleet työpajaa, mutta sen sisältö on mennyt isolta osin uusiksi, koska ay-toimijoiden on kerrottu kokoustavan toisaalla juuri Sosiaalifoorumi-päivänä. Ay-liikkeeseen keskittyvä tilaisuus järjestetään siis Sosiaalifoorumista irrallisena tapahtumana, ja SSF-työpaja toteutuu hieman suunnitellusta poikkeavassa muodossa.

3.4 AY ja CETA -tilaisuus (sosiaalifoorumista erillinen)

• Ajankohta tai tarkempi ohjelma eivät ole vielä selvillä.

3.5 Seminaari yhteistyössä eduskunnan Attacin kanssa

• Marissa on ollut yhteydessä eduskunnan Attaciin yhteistyöseminaarista. Seminaari järjestetään luultavasti 27.4. Marissa laittaa asiasta tietoa listoille, kun tiedot ajasta ja puhujista varmistuvat.

1. Vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio

• Johanna ja Marissa ovat työstäneet Kehyksen Elinan kanssa vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio -paperia. Paperi on vielä luonnosvaiheessa, mutta kun se valmistuu, sen taakse pyritään saamaan laajapohjaisesti järjestöjä ja verkostoja Suomesta. Kehys on saanut rahoitusta visiopaperin painamiseen ja visioseminaarin järjestämiseen.

1. Muut esille tulevat asiat

• 1.3. pidetyssä toiminnansuunnittelukokouksessa perustettiin uusi mediaseurantaryhmä, jossa Kerstin, Maria, Johanna, Mirja, Annaleena ja Marissa. Anna liittyi mukaan ryhmään.

Kauppapoliittiset tilaisuudet Suomen sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4.2017

Hei,

Tiedoksenne oheiset kauppapoliittiset tilaisuudet Suomen sosiaalifoorumissa tulevana lauantaina:

Veroparatiisit ja vapaakauppasopimukset ( https://www.facebook.com/events/280003919101773/ )
Aika: Lauantai 1.4.2017 klo 13-14.45
Paikka: Rakennusliitto (Siltasaarenkatu 4, Helsinki)

Työpaja: Kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin ( https://www.facebook.com/events/1477940685612068/ )
Aika: Lauantai 1.4.2017 klo 15-16:45
Paikka: Rakennusliitto (Siltasaarenkatu 4, Helsinki)

Lisätietoa tilaisuuksista ja sosiaalifoorumista alla.

Aurinkoisin terveisin,

Marissa

Veroparatiisit ja vapaakauppasopimukset

la 1.4.2017 klo 13-14.45
Rakennusliiton tilat, Hakaniemi, Siltasaarenkatu 4, 00530 Helsinki

(in English below)

Monikansalliset yritykset voivat käyttää kauppasopimuksia hyväksi
estääkseen veronkierron torjumisen, vaikka konsensus siitä lisääntyy,
että veroparatiiseihin liittyvät käytännöt ovat haitallisia. Mihin
veronvälttelyn mekanismeihin tulisi puuttua, jotta globaalin
kaupankäynnin ympäristöstä saataisiin terveempää? Mitä sudenkuoppia nyt
ratifioitaviin sopimuksiin kuten Ceta on sisällytetty? Mitä on mahdollista verovastuun ja vero-oikeudenmukaisuuden nimissä vaatia?

Onko veroparatiiseista tullut yimby (yes in my backyard) -ilmiöitä?
Caymen-saarten veroparatiisit täyttävät tänä vuonna 50 vuotta, eikä
toiminnalle näy loppua. Samaan aikaan veronkiertoa harjoitetaan yhä
useammin, yhä lähempänä ja yhä kotoisempien toimijoiden avulla. Miten
kauppasopimuksilla olisi mahdollista ei vain pahentaa ongelmaa, vaan
myös puuttua siihen?

Pääesiintyjät YTM Matti Ylönen, VTM Lyydia Kilpi, FT Thomas Wallgren,
MEP Heidi Hautalan erityisavustaja VTM Pauliina Saares
Tilaisuuden juontaa TTIP-verkoston FM Johanna Kähäri

Järjestäjinä Kepa ry, Attac ry, Reilu vero ry ja TTIP-verkosto

Tilaisuuden kulku:

Hanna Arvelan ja Veera Luhtalan animaatio Ihanuuksien ihmemaa
Lyhyet alustavat puheenvuorot:

YTM Matti Ylönen Verovälttelystä kaivosteollisuuden tapaustutkimuksen valossa
VTM Lyydia Kilpi Kepa ry Vero-oikeudenmukaisuus kehittyvien maiden näkökulmasta
FT Thomas Wallgren Reilu vero ry Miten estämme sote-uudistuksen Ceta -katastrofin?
VTM Pauliina Saares, MEP Heidi Hautalan eritysavustaja
PANA-tutkintavaliokunnan raportti ja Euroopan parlamentin toimet
verovälttelyn kitkemiseksi

Paneelikeskustelu
Yleisökysymyksiä

Tilaisuus on suomenkielinen
Seminar will be held in Finnish
Rakennusliitossa (Siltasaarenkatu 4) on ulko-ovella yksi pieni rappu.
Sen jälkeen sisätilat ovat täysin esteettömät. Tiloissa on myös
erillinen WC, jossa on pyörätuolin kuva.

In English:

Tax evasion and Free Trade Agreements
Sat 1st April 2017 at 1 pm
Rakennusliitto, Hakaniemi, Siltasaarenkatu 4, 00530 Helsinki

Multinational companies can benefit the trade agreements in order to
use them to prevent the fight against tax evasion, although the
consensus is increasing that tax havens practices are harmful. How
should we tackle tax evasion mechanisms in order to achieve a global
trading environment healthier? What are the pitfalls in agreements such
as Ceta? What are the possibilities of the fiscal responsibility and tax
justice? What can be required of trade aggreements in this sense?

Työpaja: Kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin

Aika: Lauantai 1.4. klo 15-16:45
Paikka: Rakennusliitto (Siltasaarenkatu 4)

(In English below)

EU:n ja Kanadan välinen talous- ja kauppasopimus CETA hyväksyttiin
helmikuussa 2017 Euroopan parlamentissa, ja se siirtyi siten
hyväksymisprosessinsa viimeiseen vaiheeseen, äänestettäväksi EU:n
jäsenmaissa. Työntekijäjärjestöt ja kansalaisyhteiskunnan toimijat
Atlantin molemmin puolin ovat äänekkäästi kritisoineet CETA-sopimusta.
Myös Euroopan parlamentin työllisyyden ja sosiaalialojen valiokunta on
suosittanut CETA:n hylkäämistä, sillä sen on arvioitu kadottavan
EU-alueelta satoja tuhansia työpaikkoja, lisäävän tuleroja sekä suosivan suuria monikansallisia yrityksiä pienten ja keskisuurten yritysten kustannuksella.

TTIP-verkoston, HY:n Attacin ja Ammattiosastojen yhteistyöverkoston
järjestämässä työpajassa keskustellaan CETA:n vaikutuksista, mietitään
keinoja lyödä kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin ja ryhdytään tuumasta toimeen!

After the vote at the European Parliament the next step of the
ratification of CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) will
be national and regional parliaments in the EU member states. The
agreement has been criticised widely by e.g. the trade unions, civil
society and the EP Committee of the Employment and Social Affairs
(EMPL).

In this workshop we will discuss about the impacts of CETA and think over some ways to object it.

Organisers: TTIP Network Finland, Helsinki University Attac, Ammattiosastojen yhteistyöverkosto

Mikä Suomen sosiaalifoorumi?

Sosiaalifoorumi kokoaa yhteen erilaiset yhteiskunnalliset liikkeet ja
verkostot ja herättää keskustelua ajankohtaisista globaaleista sekä
paikallisista yhteiskunnallisista aiheista. Sosiaalifoorumi on osa
maailmanlaajuista sosiaalifoorumi -liikettä ja noudattaa Maailman
sosiaalifoorumin periaatteita. Vuoden 2017 sosiaalifoorumi järjestetään
yksipäiväsenä pop up -tapahtumana pääasiassa Kallion seudulla.
Tapahtumat koostuvat seminaareista, työpajoista ja elokuvista. Aiheet
vaihtelevat laajasti ja tapahtumassa puhuttavat muun muassa demokratia
sote-uudistuksessa, ilmastokriisi, Lähi-itä, lähimetsät sekä
veroparatiisit ja vapaakauppasopimukset. Kaikkiin tilaisuuksiin on vapaa
pääsy.

Lisätietoja Suomen sosiaalifoorumista:

www.sosiaalifoorumi.fi ( http://www.sosiaalifoorumi.fi/ )
www.facebook.com/sosiaalifoorumi ( http://www.facebook.com/sosiaalifoorumi )
Twitter: @Sosiaalifoorum1

#suomensosiaalifoorumi ( https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/suomensosiaalifoorumi ) #rohkeitaratkaisuja ( https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rohkeitaratkaisuja )

Something magic happened in Rome

Dear
friends,

I want to
share with all of you, also those who could not attend the Rome’s event, the magic moments we experienced the 25th
of March.

First of
all let me say thank you once again to all DiEMers who decided to join us from
every corner of Europe! Guys you have been the best thing that happened in Rome
on this day in which our New Deal was presented!

For the
first time in the young history of our movement we marched together. We marched
in an inspiring and impressive display, I was so excited to see new faces and also
people who have never participated in a march before. We were all very excited
not only for this first march, but to be part of the same radical movement!

We were not just a
man or a woman, Italian or Serbian, young or old, we were all Europeans united for a common cause!

We marched
together because with the same aim of being on the right side of history and to
send a message about democracy on a broader scale.

Also the informal
assembly we had in the afternoon was absolutely amazing. The whole discussion
was participated and very interesting. Several useful experiences and many
innovative proposals emerged with the aim to strengthen the capacities and the
effectiveness of our movement in achieving its objectives.

The exchange was
rich and passionate and allowed all of us to understand the massive work that every
single DSC is doing at the local, national and international level.

Adrian took
notes of the meeting and soon we will draft a brief summary with the emerging points
that we be circulated to all DSCs.

Everyday we
do our job of activites using all the tools made available by digital
technology: email, forums, social networks and mobile. But nothing can replace
the energy of meeting in real and march together and the warmth of a handshake or a hug.

This experience filled me with a lot of energy and much hope for our Europe and the
certainty that we can change it together!

CARPE DiEM!

Alessio

Improving the European New Deal together - forward to DSC members please

Hi Judith,

Thank you for this great initiative. I know this is quite an experiment, and will be difficult to coordinate with so many people working on a single document. In order to streamline the discussion in Loomio, I created a proposal that spells out the way in which we could organise the Loomio discussion (closes in 3 day):

https://www.loomio.org/d/AXYJ4q2c/proposal/7pxNHEMr

I would propose that people can raise amendments to this proposal in the discussion thread, which can accordingly be incorporated within the proposal. I think it is necessary to have some agreement on the way in which we will have the discussion before starting to actually discuss the details of the END. Everyone participating in the Loomio group can vote on this proposal for streamlining the discussion, or propose an alternative one as well.

Looking forward to discuss with many of you in the Loomio group!

Best wishes,

Wessel

Tarkennusta END-paperin kommentointiohjeisiin: keskity sisältöön, älä muotoon

Dear all,

I noticed that several people forwarded my message as plain-text, so that DSC members could not see the Loomio invitation link or the Google Doc. Therefore, I have created a PDF that has all the links intact. Please spread this one.

Wessel, thanks for your initiative. I think we need to experiment to see which is the most effective way to draft amendment proposals together, that's also why we still have the forum as an option. We won't force everyone into Loomio until we're sure that Loomio is better and easier to understand even for the older generation.

One note on editing the text: it came straight from the economists; our Comms team has not yet edited it. This means that there are probably a lot of typos, but also places where more appropriate words or easier language could be used. It is not necessary for you to propose to change these because we will have proofreading before the final version. Only point out systematic issues like language that could be more inclusive. Generally focus on the content rather than the form. :)

Best wishes,

Judith

Next European Assembly (May, Berlin)

Dear friends,

in case you haven´t heard about it yet and in order to prevent miscommunication, here some infos about the next European DiEM assembly.

Following up the event in Rome in March, DiEM is coming to Berlin in May. There will be an official event on the 25th.

Some members, who have attended the events in Rome and some other active members have gathered on Zoom recently. We exchanged thoughts about Rome (especially the assembly for DiEM members) and started a conversation about how to organize the next DiEM assembly on the European level in Berlin.

It will probably take place on Saturday, 27th.

If you are interested in joining this collective planning process, please write to Luis (luismartin@luismartin.press) or Mehran (mkhalili@gmail.com) and ask them to invite you to Slack.

In this Slack we will have a channel in which we will share information and coordinate tasks. There will also be a follow up Zoom conference soon. The date will also be decided on in Slack.

I have attached the minutes of our last conference.

In case of questions, please feel free to ask me (elisa.stowe@googlemail.com).

Hope to see you soon.

Best,

Elisa

Next European Assembly (May, Berlin)

Dear all,

this assembly was planned without CC involvement, so unfortunately we have already booked our flights out of Berlin before the 27th. However, we arranged a room with a capacity of ca. 100 people for use by DSCs for 6 hours before the Berlin event on the 25th, and are planning to attend that gathering part of the time. Meanwhile, Dublin DSC is going to invite you to an assembly on democracy and the European constitution on the 27th (Ryanair?), as part of the launch of DiEM25 in Ireland.

Here is a full list of DSC meetup opportunities as far as I am aware:

May 6/7, Cologne: German DSCs meetup - general discussion & German provisional national committee - Judith and Srećko participating on behalf of the CC. Contact person is Elisa Stowe elisa.stowe@googlemail.com, acting as a facilitator for German DSCs.

May 25, Berlin: European DSCs are invited to gather between noon and 6pm in the red salon at Volksbühne (some CC participation). The next large DiEM25 evening event will start at 8pm at the same venue. Contact person is Susan Curvers slcurvers@gmail.com, acting as event coordinator for the CC.

May 27/28, Dublin: 'World Café' style discussions on democracy and a European constitution, followed by an evening event launching DiEM25 in Ireland, and a discussion of democracy in DiEM25 in the morning of the next day. Contact person is Wessel Reijers diem25ireland@gmail.com of Dublin1DSC.

July 7th, Hamburg: (unconfirmed) DiEM25 will probably have a venue for international DSCs to meet up during the G20 protests. Contact person is Sören Altstädt soeren.altstaedt@gmail.com of Hamburg1DSC.

September 9th, Brussels: (unconfirmed) large DiEM25 event in Brussels, including program for DSCs before. Contact person to be announced.

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Next European Assembly (May, Berlin)

Dear all,

Yesterday the DSC Berlin decided that it want to use this

huge event at the 25th at Volksbühne Berlin where Yanis, etc. are

taking part, to strengthen the European-DSC-network.

First, as Judith mentioned, there will be a room at the Volksbühne

provided, the Green Saloon.

So, fortunately, the DSCs could use this room almost the whole day on

25th.

Second, before the information spreaded that there is an extra room

provided, the DSC Berlin thought its a good idea to connect this event

to an extra DSC-assembly anyways. Therefore there is the possibility

to get a second room for the 26th or 27th. This planning is completely

independent from the Volksbühne-event, nevertheless, for sure linked :).

So far, as the DSC Berlin provides this second room and also take care

for organisation and format, it is very likely that friday, the 26th it

will be.

Third, the 27th as a date came up because it was thought that a weekend

DSC-assembly is better as more people can attend a saturday or even a

sunday. Turns out, it doesn't make much sense to overleap a day. In the

end the DSC Berlin probably will do most of organisation so its up to

them

at which date there will be an additional DSC-meeting, which will be

announced

soon.

Carpe DiEM,

Dominik

25M - SERATA TEATRO

Dear friends, comrades, brothers, diemeers and so on,

Here my two cents on Rome 25M event. I follow DiEM25 since its beginning and volunteered since the first event in Rome. The movement is growing really fast and also programs, papers and ideas.

It's a very complex and transnational gathering of different people around few but crucial ideas and it's not easy to make a synthesis of all needs and aspirations. But what I saw in Rome was a stage with a growing bunch of progressive and leftist leaders sharing a program from france, italy, spain, uk, poland, croatia and so on. This is something new and very very important. It can be considered an historic matter and with a long term view we have to judge it.

We hopefully will share a long long path to make an European Dream become true and I think that events such the Rome 25M are very important to share ideas and make a sort of team building but cannot be the place for political elaboration. There is no time nor enough space. We can share idea and proposal in DSC and on line and try to strengthen the link between DSCs and CC and among European DSCs.

Personally I really appreciate the way in DiEM25 we debate and make meeting work with Giuseppina Moderation that's great. We all need to learn to be more effective in public speaking to make our ideas worth and sharable among different people, from different countries and languages. It's a great effort but I'm learning many important things from this experience. The Study and the elaboration of thoughts I made about politics are quite time consuming and not easy to share but making and effort to made all that easy to understand in english and with few bullet points it is really improving the thoughts themselves. Everything become more clear to myself too! and left time to go further deep!

The European New Deal is the core of DiEM25 strategy. I think we all have to make an effort to improve it and spread all across Europe. It's crucial to ask CC to make the discussion possible in one virtual place to contribute. We have to stay focussed in spreading the movement proposals and make it grow on European political scenario. We really have a post ideological economic programme that cannot be ignored. We can catalyze all the people who is looking for an hope for Europe and save it from growing fascism or neoliberism.

The success of DiEM25 does not rely on Fabio Masetti, Lorenzo Marsili, Alessio Satta or Yanis Varoufakis role in DiEM25 but on Ideas and solutions we will be able to transform in political actions. So I think we have to stay focussed on actions nor on persons or countries. We have to stay focussed on themes without enlarge too much the area of interventions which is already quite large and complex.

A national coordination of different and small DSC is important. I think that we have to build a national platform, National DSC newspaper with a sort of newsroom organization with members from every national DSC that contribute with updates from different DSC that can produce contents around DiEM25 political Pillars.

I liked the proposal from Bologna DSC to use short videos to update about DSC activities.

Thank you all and keep get going!

Fabio

Bringing DiEM25's Progressive Agenda to elections near you

Dear all,

DiEM25 always said that our first priority would be to develop a set of concrete, rational policies. Then, if these policies were very good, they would naturally find a way of electoral expression. In Rome, we released the draft European New Deal ( https://diem25.org/end/ ) (contribute to its finalisation here ( https://www.diem25.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=177 )) and launched an open call ( https://diem25.org/diem25s-european-new-deal-demands-electoral-expression-yanis-varoufakis-tells-journalists/ ) for parties/municipalities/trades unions/social movements/civil society organisations and citizens to join us in creating a pan-European electoral expression of the European New Deal. Existing groups may wish to adopt DiEM25's program, or there may be groups of members who want to form a new party for their municipal or provincial elections.

How should we deal with this? Seeing the European New Deal and the entire Progressive Agenda implemented would of course be amazing - much better than it sitting on a shelf in a library ;-) - but we need to have an open discussion about this before we go any further.

We have prepared a special section in the forum and some initial questions to structure the discussion: http://diem25.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=176

Please go there and tell us your opinion!

We have tentatively allocated two months to this discussion. By the time we meet again in Berlin on the 25th of May, we should be able to tell the waiting journalists how we plan to make our ideas a reality, at least in general terms, and then work out concrete matters by autumn. All subject to internal votes of course, but before we vote we should discuss. Please contribute, and carpe DiEM!

Judith

Provisional National Committees

Dear all,

in March I communicated the VC's general approval of the Provisional National Committees (PNC) program for a limited number of pilot countries. Reminder: PNCs are the national coordinators and workbees of DiEM25, who ensure the smooth everyday operation of DiEM25 in their countries. They will not take major decisions regarding the political direction of DiEM25 – these will continue to require transnational all-member votes. They will also not be able to place orders on DSCs. With those fears out of the way ;-) the CC has brainstormed and written up the process by which we hope to encourage the creation of PNCs in all pilot countries over the next few months, to be replaced by elected National Committees before the end of 2017. Please find all details at https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Provisional_National_Committees.pdf . This will also be announced in our next newsletter.

We consider PNCs to be a major step in the internal development of DiEM25, as they mean that there will suddenly be a lot more people working on the day-to-day operations and the communications between different parts of DiEM25, hopefully ensuring a much better experience for everyone. Also, this is the first time we're encouraging our most active volunteers to self-organise beyond the DSC level. If you live in a pilot country, CC members should have either contacted your DSC already or will do so shortly, in order to help with the next steps.

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Tervetuloa verkoston yleiskokoukseen 23.4. ja tapahtumasuunnittelukokoukseen 11.4.!

Hei,

Käänteisdudlemme näyttää siltä, että voimme lyödä huhtikuun yleiskokouksen ajan ja paikan lukkoon. Tapaamme siis sunnuntaina 23.4. klo 16-18 Kirjasto 10:n ryhmätilassa (Elielinaukio 2 G, Helsinki). Kokoukseen ovat lämpimästi tervetulleita kaikki kauppapoliittisesta kampanjoinnista kiinnostuneet!

Erityisesti tapahtumanjärjestämisestä kiinnostuneiden kannattaa merkitä kalenteriin myös tapahtuma-toimintaryhmän kokous tiistaina 11.4. klo 17 Gaudeamus Kirja&Kahvissa (Vuorikatu 7, Helsinki). Kokouksessa suunnitellaan syksyllä järjestettävää mielenosoitusta CETA:a vastaan,

//Hey! The next general assembly of TTIP Network takes place at Library 10 (Elielinaukio 2 G) on Sunday 23rd of April at 16:00-18:00.

On Tuesday 11th of April at 5 pm we'll also have meeting for planning demonstation against CETA. The meeting takes place at Gaudeamus Kirja&Kahvi (Vuorikatu 7, Helsinki).

Best,

Marissa

marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

+358 505422067

1. maaliskuuta 2017 klo 0.44 Marissa Varmavuori marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com kirjoitti:

Hei,

Alla on muistio 23.3. pidetystä yleiskokouksesta. Kiitokset kaikille osallistuneille! Puhuimme kokouksessa, että yrittäisimme sopia huhtikuun yleiskokouksesta hyvissä ajoin, jotta saisimme varattua sille ryhmätilan Kirjasto 10:stä. Ryhmätila näyttää kuitenkin olevan todella varattu; löysin sovitulta ajanjaksolta vain yhden järkevän ajan, sunnuntaina 23.4. klo 16-18.

Tällä kerralla dudlaamme kokousajankohdasta siis tavallisuudesta poikkeavalla tavalla. Merkitse Dudleen perjantaihin 31.3. mennessä PUNAISELLA, jos haluaisit osallistua mutta ET PÄÄSE kokoustamaan 23.4. klo 16-18. Mikäli Dudleen ilmaantuu runsaasti ilmoituksia, koitamme löytää kokoukselle toisen ajan ja paikan!

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_huhtikuun_yleiskokous/ ( https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_huhtikuun_yleiskokous/ )

//Hi! Let's dudle the time slot for our next general assembly different way this time! Please fill the following poll IN RED if you'd like to attend but CAN'T MAKE IT on Sunday 23rd of April at 16:00-18:00. I will check the poll on Friday 31.3. and if it's full of red, we will find some other time and place for the meeting.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_huhtikuun_yleiskokous/ ( https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_huhtikuun_yleiskokous/ )

Best,

Marissa

TTIP-verkoston yleiskokous

23.3.2016 klo 19

Musiikkitalon kahvila

Läsnä: Marissa Varmavuori, Kerstin Söderholm, Maria Brommels, Hilja Kurkinen, Anna Pulkka, Maija Amperla

1. Käytiin läpi sopimusten tilanne

CETA

• CETA siirtynyt Euroopan parlamentin hyväksynnän jälkeen ratifioitavaksi jäsenmaiden kansallisiin ja alueellisiin parlamentteihin. Suomessa hallituksen esitys CETA:n kansallisesta toimeenpanosta on jo valmisteilla ja tarkoitus saada valmiiksi kesään mennessä.

Ympäristö- ja työelämäkysymyksissä komissiolla on vielä hienosäätöä Kanadan kanssa. Kanada on ilmeisesti ratifioimassa ILO:n järjestäytymisoikeutta koskevan periaatteen.

TiSA

• Uusi TiSA Uncovered -sivu on avautunut. Sivulla tarjolla muun muassa perustietoa sopimuksesta, raportteja ja linkkejä TiSA:n parissa kampanjoiviin toimijoihin.

TTIP

• TTIP on toistaiseksi jäissä mutta ei haudattu.

JEFTA (EU-Japani, syytä nostaa myös TTIP-verkoston agendalle)

• EU:n ja Japanin välisiä kauppasopimusneuvotteluja on käyty vuodesta 2013 yhteensä 18 neuvottelukierrosta. Euroopan komissio ei ole julkaissut edes neuvottelumandaattia.

• Japani on kuulemma ilmoittanut, ettei ole halukas lähtemään MIC-järjestelmään mukaan.

16.5.2017 tulee Euroopan unionin tuomioistuimelta päätös EU:n kompetenssista kauppasopimusten ratifioinnin suhteen. Joulukuussa tuli jo ennakkolausunto, jonka perusteella on odotettavissa, että päätöksen mukaan ratifioimassa on oltava EU-elinten lisäksi kansalliset ja alueelliset parlamentit.

Komission julkinen konsultaatio MIC:istä (Multilateral Investment Court) on sulkeutunut 15.3.2017. MIC:iä vastaan on olemassa ainakin kaksi nettivetoomusta: Campact ja WeMove.eu.

1. Käytiin strategiakatsaus

Kansallista CETA-kampanjointia on suunniteltu tapaamisessa maaliskuun alussa (Marissa laittanut muistion TTIP-verkoston sähköpostilistoille).

Todettiin jälleen, että ay-lobbaus olisi Suomen osalta tärkeä kampanjakeino. Puhuttiin erilaisista keinoista vaikuttaa ay-liikkeeseen CETA-asiassa:

• Kirjoituksia ay-lehtiin

• Työpaja tm. ay-paikallisosastojen aktiivien kanssa

• EPSU:n kriittisen kannan esiin nostaminen suomalaisia ay-toimijoita lähestyttäessä. Sovittiin, että pyritään saamaan ay-toimijoita osallistumaan EPSU:n koolle kutsumaan tempauspäivään. Kerstin etsii tapahtuman linkin. [Huomautus kokouksen jälkeen: Tempauspäivä onkin ehtinyt jo mennä.]

Sovittiin, että pyritään aktivoimaan myös TiSA-toimintaryhmää.

1. Tulevat tapahtumat:

3.1 Veroseminaari Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. klo 13.00-14.45 Rakennusliitolla

• Yhteistyöjärjestöinä Kepa, Attac ja Reilu vero ry.

• Tilaisuus haluttaisiin streamata, jos se on mahdollista tehdä ilman kuluja. Jos jollakulla on intoa ja laitteet asian hoitamiseen, yhteys Johanna Kähäriin.

3.2 TiSA-tilaisuus

• Christer Lindholm joutui perumaan osallistumisensa 1.4, joten tilaisuus järjestetään Sosiaalifoorumista irrallisena tapahtumana. Korvaava ajankohta ei ole vielä selvillä.

3.3 Kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin -työpaja Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. klo 15.00-16.45

• Anna, Heikki ja Marissa ovat valmistelleet työpajaa, mutta sen sisältö on mennyt isolta osin uusiksi, koska ay-toimijoiden on kerrottu kokoustavan toisaalla juuri Sosiaalifoorumi-päivänä. Ay-liikkeeseen keskittyvä tilaisuus järjestetään siis Sosiaalifoorumista irrallisena tapahtumana, ja SSF-työpaja toteutuu hieman suunnitellusta poikkeavassa muodossa.

3.4 AY ja CETA -tilaisuus (sosiaalifoorumista erillinen)

• Ajankohta tai tarkempi ohjelma eivät ole vielä selvillä.

3.5 Seminaari yhteistyössä eduskunnan Attacin kanssa

• Marissa on ollut yhteydessä eduskunnan Attaciin yhteistyöseminaarista. Seminaari järjestetään luultavasti 27.4. Marissa laittaa asiasta tietoa listoille, kun tiedot ajasta ja puhujista varmistuvat.

1. Vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio

• Johanna ja Marissa ovat työstäneet Kehyksen Elinan kanssa vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio -paperia. Paperi on vielä luonnosvaiheessa, mutta kun se valmistuu, sen taakse pyritään saamaan laajapohjaisesti järjestöjä ja verkostoja Suomesta. Kehys on saanut rahoitusta visiopaperin painamiseen ja visioseminaarin järjestämiseen.

1. Muut esille tulevat asiat

• 1.3. pidetyssä toiminnansuunnittelukokouksessa perustettiin uusi mediaseurantaryhmä, jossa Kerstin, Maria, Johanna, Mirja, Annaleena ja Marissa. Anna liittyi mukaan ryhmään.

First and Foremost Children ... the first law in Europe in favour of migrant children !

Here alleged a note made by national working group for migrant children and Italian association of pediatrics on the new law made by parliament in favor of minor unaccompanied migrant children. An issue on wich many operators and volunteers have engaged a three years struggle and a constant advocacy.

Alessandro Capuzzo, DiEM25 DSC Trieste1

Minutes of the DSC informal Assembly in Rome_25M17

Dear all,

please find in the enclosed file the minutes of the DSC
informal assembly held in Rome on the 25th of March.

Please
share the minutes with your DSC and other DiEM25 members and especially to
those who participated to the assembly. Please encourage them to express their
comments and to share it with us.

I will
collect all the comments from here to the end of April and then prepare a
consolidated version.

I wish once
more to thank Giuseppina and Adrian for the great job they did in Rome and for
drafting the minutes.

Best

Alessio

Call for contribution

Dear all,

We are organising a DiEM event in Brussels on September 9th.

The title of the event will be "the real state of the union" according to the annual state of the union of Juncker.

The detailed program remains to be decided, but we would like to let ordinary Europeans express their state of the union - what are their everyday-problems and sorrows, what do they wish for the future and what do they think is important for the future of Europe?

This is why me make a call today to all of you to help us collect as much voices as possible from all around Europe!

We would like to collect short video statements from your countries, regions and cities! You as a DSC can record a short statement or you go out on the street and ask people about their views and personal situation and send these statements to us!

If you have any questions and / or would like to contribute, please send us your thoughts and statements to official@diem25.be !

Thanks a lot and a good Easter break to all of you!

Carpe DiEM!

Marie

DSC Brussels

First and Foremost Children ... the first law in Europe in favour of migrant children !

• Ohessa liite (1.)

Minutes of the DSC informal Assembly in Rome_25M17

• Ohessa liite (2.)

European DSC Assembly Berlin 25/26th | Call to Proposals

Dear Coordination Group,

Attached is the invitation for our European DSC Assembly in Berlin 25/26th of May. We are looking forward to host this event and wanted to kindly ask for your participation and contribution. Let's shape this Assembly together!

See you!

Greetings,

Dominik (DSC Berlin)

(for some funny reason, the links might not work in gmail.. -> you can simply open them via >open in new tab)

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Call for contribution (Belgium)

Call for contribution (Portugal)

Hello fellow DiEMers,

We read about your event on September 9th and would like to let you know that we, in Porto, have also scheduled an event for that same day with a similar theme. So, how about making the most out of this? Here's what we have in mind. We can make some videos that you asked for, and we could also exchange opinions and ideas about what to do. Our event is scheduled for 4 o'clock and it'd be great if the time of both events coincided. One of our members even suggested that if more countries/ cities got on board and decided to also host an event we could call it the 3D Day: DiEM25 Democracy Debates.

Do let us know what you think. Looking forward to working together!

DiEM25 Porto

Portugal

CC video discussions

Dear all,

Do you have questions that you wish to hear the CC debate? In the next few weeks, some CC members will aim to record several 15-minute videos (via teleconference) discussing 5 questions each. These questions should come from DSC members, so start thinking and post your questions in this thread!

Note this does not replace the "Contact the CC" function in the Members Area - but by using that function, one CC member will answer you by email, whereas if you submit a question here, and the CC considers it worthwhile, we will record a video discussion.

I'm looking forward to what this will yield!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

P.S.: It's spring and many groups are waking up again. If you would like to rejuvenate and grow your DSC, send me an email that I can pass on to all DiEM25 members in your city. Also, if you find yourself traveling to a city of >100,000 people, even for just one day, there's a good chance that you could help local DiEMers there - email me! volunteer@diem25.org

CC video discussions

To be clear: this is for internal videos, i.e. answers that you think are important for DSCs and members to know. The quality of the recording won't be good enough to promote these videos on social media or to a wider audience.

• JM

[ttipinfo] [Kutsu] CETA ja SOTE – Miten käy valinnanvapauden? Seminaari eduskunnan Kansalaisinfossa 27.4.

[Kutsua saa levittää]

Seminaari: CETA ja SOTE – Miten käy valinnanvapauden?

Aika: Torstai 27.4.2017 klo 10:00-11:30
Paikka: Eduskunnan Kansalaisinfo, Arkadiankatu 3, Helsinki

Järjestäjät: Eduskunnan Attac ja Suomen TTIP-verkosto

EU:n
ja Kanadan välinen talous- ja kauppasopimus CETA hyväksyttiin
helmikuussa 2017 Euroopan parlamentissa, ja se siirtyi siten
hyväksymisprosessinsa viimeiseen vaiheeseen, äänestettäväksi EU:n
jäsenmaissa. Suomessa hallituksen esitys sopimuksen kansallisesta
toimeenpanosta on valmisteilla, ja se pyritään ulkoasiainministeriön
mukaan saamaan valmiiksi kesään mennessä. Millaisia seikkoja hallituksen
esitystä valmistellessa olisi hyvä ottaa huomioon? Miten sopimukseen
sisältyvä investointisuoja vaikuttaa kansallisen sääntelyn
mahdollisuuksiin? Ja millä tolalla on CETA:n voimaan astumisen jälkeen
poliittinen valinnanvapaus?

Aiheesta ovat keskustelemassa lääketieteen tohtori ja kansainvälisen terveyspolitiikan tutkija Meri Koivusalo, STTK:n sosiaali- ja terveyspoliittinen asiantuntija Riitta Työläjärvi ja JHL:n erityisasiantuntija Merja Launis-Ahtiainen. Seminaarin avaa eduskunnan Attacin puheenjohtaja Erkki Tuomioja.

Tilaisuus on avoin, maksuton ja esteetön. Keskustelu käydään suomeksi. Tervetuloa!

Tapahtuma Facebookissa ( https://www.facebook.com/events/1862831773956332/ )

Lisätiedot: marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com

How abou more internal Democracy?

Hello to all,

As a coordinator I have already passed this oppurtunity [to ask CC questions, addition: Tuulia] to Athens members. As a member I have some questions mostly for the intenal proceedings that I would like to be discussed by CC members.

1) Untill one month ago I could forward an email to Judith and she could forward it to the Athens members. Why did this stop and was implemented a limit "one email per month"? How are we going to grow locally if we cannot communicate often with local members,
how are we going to inform them about next meetings, activities etc? I note that we keep a mailing list of the people who have come to our meetings which is much smaller that Judith's. Lastly, how are supposed to idetify members of Diem25 in our meeting if
we cannot have access to the email lists?

2) Why do we vote only for great occasions and not about internal matters (minutes of CC, budget, PNCs, survey of DiD, mailing list etc) and how can a vote procedure start from below? Can this happen in a single country, if the matter is national? (example
PNCs)

3) Why were the DSCs created, if not to produce volunteers for DIEM25? Why are people out of DSCs selected and not even voted to perform crucial work in DIEM25 Greece like comunication coordination. (email, social media, site etc)

I am addressing all these questions in a good manner, because I believe DIEM25 is the only hope we have in Europe and I want DIEM25 to be improved both democratically and transparently and not to disintigrate. In the last internal elections very few
members voted. Maybe we should change a little and vote also for internal procedures that matter and are closer to us.

Carpe Diem,

Apostolos Gogakos,

Athens1 DSC Coordinator

Save the dates! DiEM25 Ireland Launch on May 27 & 28 2017: Towards a Democratic, European Constitution

DiEM25 Ireland Launch

"Towards a Democratic, European Constitution"

May 27 & 28, 2017, Dublin

Dear Democrats, dear Friends,

We are excited to let you know that DiEM25 will be launching in Ireland ( http://www.diem25dublin.eu/ ) during the weekend of the 27th and the 28th of May, 2017. Save the dates. The main event will happen on the evening of the 27th of May with confirmed speakers so far: Yanis Varoufakis and Nessa Childers, MEP. After the great event planned in Berlin on the 25th and 26th of May, we hope to continue the conversation on how to achieve DiEM25's goals in Dublin.

We believe that the European Union is disintegrating and Europeans are losing their faith in the possibility of European solutions to European problems. That is why we invite you to join us at our launch to come together despite our diverse political backgrounds - Greens, radical left, liberal etc. - in order to begin discussions on how we can repair Europe, to make Europe a realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity for all.

The launch of DiEM25 Ireland will be people centred. What we, the people of Europe, desire to achieve and how we want to achieve it, will be the subject of our main “World Cafe”. Your contribution, your opinion and your work are necessary. Europe is not the European Union or the European institutions as we know them today. Europe is the peoples of Europe, and it is our time to speak up.

We will be holding workshops in the participatory format of a World Cafe ( http://www.theworldcafe.com/ ) during the 27th of May, which will be followed by an evening gathering with international speakers and the results of the day’s work. The World Cafe discussions will center around a plan for a future Democratic European Constitution. On Sunday the 28th, discussions will center around the movement building of DiEM25 itself: how to improve our own organisation, empower the members and improve our own transparency and democracy.

Programme:

May 26, evening: Informal gathering with DiEM25 members coming from across Europe

May 27, morning & afternoon @ The Complex ( http://thecomplex.ie/ ): Participatory World Cafe - small scale discussions around the topic of a Democratic, European Constitution

May 27, evening @ Tivoli Theatre ( http://www.tivoli.ie/ ): Main DiEM25 Launch Event with members of the CC and the Advisory Panel. Confirmed Speakers: Yanis Varoufakis & Nessa Childers (MEP)

May 28, morning & afternoon: Workshop sessions, focusing on movement building in DiEM25 (how to shape our democracy, transparency, and member's engagement)

Important note: Tickets are available for the separate parts of the programme. If you would like to attend all parts or a combination of parts, please reserve all tickets accordingly.

What sort of Europe do we want? How do we want Europe to function to protect the most vulnerable in society and to ensure fairness and democracy for all? DiEM25 Dublin invites you to take part in this conversation. It does not matter where you come from, which political party or social movement you follow, whether you represent yourself or others. If you believe that Europe should become a place of uncontested democracy and solidarity and if you want to take a part in the shaping of our common future, please join us.

For further information see our Dublin website ( http://www.diem25dublin.eu/ ) where you can book your tickets for Saturday night (€ 8,-), register for the World Cafe, and find a full programme for the weekend. You can register for the separate parts of the event here ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diem25-ireland-launch-towards-a-democratic-european-constitution-tickets-33736771592 ).

We hope to welcome many of you in Dublin at the end of May!

[If you have any queries or wish to offer to speak on the day please feel free to contact us!]

Democratically yours,

DiEM25 Dublin-1 DSC

contact: diem25ireland@gmail.com

G20 in Hamburg, July 7 & 8

Dear all,

as our next international assembly in Berlin is approaching fast, I'd like to take our projection a little further already.

The next G20 summit will happen in Hamburg Germany on July 7th & 8th.

There will be a DiEM-Event on the eve of July 7th with Elif Shafak, Srecko Horvat, Saskia Sassen, Lorenzo Marsili and Thomas Seibert. Please inform your fellow DiEMers and join the event in Hamburg! Currently we're checking out places to sleep, as hotels are already booked out. I'm sure many local DiEMers will provide places and also there will be to camps for G20 guests. We will arrange a "DiEM25-Barrio" in at least one camp. Also there will be a huge Demo on July 8th (more than 150.000 ppl expected so far). DiEM25 should and will also have a trail!

Apart from that there will be an alternative Media Centre in the city centre for Journalists who are not part of main stream media. It will last from July 4th to July 9th, there will be 500 work places (free Wi-Fi and opportunities to cut video and audio material), daily press conferences, etc. It will be good to get as much DiEM related Journalists in there as possible! ;) so please give interested DiEM Journos my contact and I will hook them up with the alt media centre!

I'd also like to invite to the Alternative Summit which DiEM and 65 other international organisations realised. It will be on July 5th & 6th (https://www.facebook.com/events/432699343743538/?notif_t=plan_user_joined&notif_id=1493152243392293). Apart from Salih Muslim, Angela Davis, Ann Wright, Jayati Gosh and many more also DiEM will be present on some podiums. Srecko will join the last Podium on the eve of July 6th.

Let's turn G20 in Hamburg into a historic event for global solidarity and let's put DiEM25 at the very core of it!

Best regards and carpe DiEM!

Soren

Coordination DiEM25 Hamburg

Social Media @ Volksbühne Berlin

This one goes out to all graphic designers, social media poets, posters, tweeters, sharers,

our next big event is coming up!

On May 25th/26th DiEM will be @Volksbühne Berlin.

It is time for us now to form a Social Media group, for Berlin and maybe even for beyond?! Why not think big?

Who is in?

What we need and how we are going to do it:

• Find responsible members from every major DiEM social media account (DiEM Italy, Greece..)

• prepare "eye candy"; graphics, info explaining END, timetables about weekend, whatever crosses our minds

• share material in a dropbox

• share pics/ clips/ documentation in a telegram group

• 1 main responsible person who is IN BERLIN for social media during weekend, for questions

How:

All discussions and planning will take place on Slack. (Hashtags, content we will focus on, language we want to use)

Therefore, please write to Luis (luismartin@luismartin.press) or Mehran (mkhalili@gmail.com) and ask them to invite you to Slack.

There will be a doc on Slack where we will list the responsible members.

There will also be a link for dropbox, where we will collect all the materials.

Then we will create this Telegram group and share pics/ clips on ground and create a huge DiEM cloud on the weekend.

Btw: any IT people here?

Please share the info with your DSCs and let´s make it happen together.

Warmly,

Elisa

Muistio TTIP-verkoston huhtikuun yleiskokouksesta ja dudle seuraavasta

Moikka!

Alla muistio sunnuntaina pidetystä yleiskokouksesta. Kiitos kaikille kokoustajille! Kirjasto 10:n Ryhmätila näkyy toukokuullekin olevan hurjan varattu. Maailma kylässä -viikonloppua ja 30.5. tiistaita lukuun ottamatta ei näkynyt olevan ainoatakaan yli tunnin vapaaslottia, joten tein meille alustavan varauksen tiistaille 30.5. klo 17-19.

Teemme siis viime kerran tavoin "käänteisdudlen". Merkitse Dudleen perjantaihin 5.5. mennessä
PUNAISELLA, jos haluaisit osallistua mutta ET PÄÄSE kokoustamaan 30.5.
klo 17-19. Mikäli Dudleen ilmaantuu runsaasti ilmoituksia, koitamme
löytää kokoukselle toisen ajan ja paikan!

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_toukokuun_yleiskokous/

// Hi! Thanks for the general assembly last Sunday! (Minutes of the meeting below, only in Finnish, unfortunately!) The meeting room at Library 10 is very booked on May, too. I booked the only suitable time slot, let's see if it's ok for you! Please fill the following poll
IN RED if you'd like to attend but CAN'T MAKE IT on Tuesday 30th of May at 17:00-19:00. I will check the poll on Friday 5.5. and if it's
full of red, we will find some other time and place for the meeting.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_toukokuun_yleiskokous/

Best wishes,

Marissa

TTIP-verkoston yleiskokous

23.4.2016 klo 16

Kirjasto 10, Ryhmätila

Läsnä: Annaleena Tuovinen, Ernst Mecke, Marissa Varmavuori, Kertsin Söderholm, Maija Amperla, Petra Auramo, Maria Brommels, Heikki Ketoharju, Johanna Kähäri

1. Käytiin lyhyt nimikierros

2. Käytiin läpi sopimusten tilanne

CETA

• Suomessa hallituksen esitys CETA:n kansallisesta toimeenpanosta on jo valmisteilla ja tarkoitus saada valmiiksi kesään mennessä. Vielä ei ole tiedossa, kuinka laaja (tai suppea) lausuntokierros on tiedossa.

TTIP

• Neuvottelut ovat Yhdysvaltojen hallinnonvaihdoksen vuoksi jäissä, mutta jos se on EU:n tahtotilasta kiinni, ei kauan. Merkel ja Trump puhuneet neuvottelujen uudelleen avaamisesta.

TiSA:sta tai JEFTA:sta ei kokouksessa olleilla uutta tietoa.

1. Käytiin strategiakatsaus

Todettiin, että ministeriöihin tulee nyt välittää viestiä, että CETA-prosessia seurataan tiiviisti. Sovittiin, että lähetetään kaikille ministereille syksyllä julkaistu kv-vetoomus.

Todettiin, että eri valiokunnissa istuviin kansanedustajiin olisi myös hyvä olla yhteydessä, että he vaatisivat valiokuntansa kuulemista CETA:sta.

• Sovittiin että materiaalipankin yhteyteen tehdään viestipohjia kansanedustajien lähestymiseen. Maija ja Marissa muotoilevat lobbausviestipohjan tai -pohjia.

Syksyllä 2016 perustuslakivaliokunta lausui, ettei se kykene olemassa olevilla tiedoilla arvioimaan CETA-sopimuksen perustuslaillisia vaikutuksia. Tähän on syytä tarttua. Ehdotetaan Ville-Veikko Hirvelälle, Marko Ekille ja Antti Sorsalle, että he seuraisivat tilannetta ja olisivat yhteydessä perustuslakivaliokuntaan ja/tai sen jäseniin.

• Mikäli perustuslaillisuuden arviossa puutteita, oikeuskanslerille olisi syytä huomauttaa asiasta.

• Johanna laittaa aktiivilistalle raportin, johon on koottu miten sopimukset ratifioidaan eri maissa, ml. Suomessa.

Todettiin, että Multilateral Investment Courtia (MIC) olisi hyvä alkaa seurata myös Suomessa. MIC:iä vastaan on olemassa ainakin kaksi nettivetoomusta: Campact ja WeMove.eu.

• Pyritään kääntämään MIC:sta tietoa suomeksi vapaakauppa-sivulle.

• Heikki, Kerstin ja Marissa alkavat seurata MIC-prosessia ja tehdä siitä lyhyitä juttuja ja käännöksiä.

Päätettiin, että aloitettua ay-lobbausta jatketaan edelleen:

• Tehdään kirjoituksia ay-lehtiin (materiaalipankkia hyödyntäen). Anna on tehnyt googlesheetin, jolla mediavaikutusryhmä voi koordinoida toimintaansa.

• Kokous ay-paikallisosastojen aktiivien kanssa 3.5.

• EPSU:n ja ETUC:in kriittisen kannan esiin nostaminen suomalaisia ay-toimijoita lähestyttäessä.

• CETA ja SOTE -seminaariin kutsuttu edustajat STTK:sta ja JHL:sta.

Suomen Attac on päättänyt hakea syksyksi hankerahoitusta CETA-aiheiseen projektiin, joka voidaan tehdä yhteistyössä TTIP-verkoston kanssa. Ehdotettu, että rahoitushakemukseen voisi budjetoida CETA-aiheisen tilaisuuden ja Gus Van Hartenin matkakulut, mikäli hän pääsisi osallistumaan tilaisuuteen.

1. Menneet tapahtumat:

4.1 Veroseminaari Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4.

• Seminaari onnistui hienosti, teknisistä ongelmista ja ajan loppumisesta huolimatta.

4.2 Kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin -työpaja Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. Työpajassa

• tehtiin ruokaomavaraisuus-banderolleja

• suunniteltiin CETA & TTIP vapaa alue -kampanjaa

• jaettiin tietoa CETA:sta ja mietittiin tulevan toiminnan strategioita

• suunniteltiin CETA-mielenosoitusta elokuun lopulle. Suunnittelua on jatkettu tapahtumaryhmän kokouksessa 11.4.

1. Tulevaa toimintaa

5.1 Perustettiin CETA & TTIP vapaa alue -ryhmä SSF-työpajassa aloitettuja suunnitelmia jatkamaan.

• Ryhmässä Annaleena, Petra, Ernst, Heikki

5.2 CETA-mielenosoitus

• Sosiaalifoorumin työpajassa aloitettuja mielenosoitusvalmisteluja jatketaan.

• Sovittiin, että mielenosoitus on alkusyksystä, mahdollisesti 19.8 tai 26.8. Tapahtuman suunnitteluryhmä lyö päivämäärän lukkoon mahdollisimman pian.

• Tapahtumaryhmässä ovat SSF-työpajassa suunnittelun aloittaneet sekä Petra, Annaleena ja Maija. Tapahtumaryhmään ovat tervetulleita myös kaikki muut halukkaat.

5.3 Tapaaminen ay-aktiivien kanssa 3.5. klo 13

• Rakennusliiton Nina Kreuzman on kutsunut tapaamisen koolle. Marissa on menossa kokoukseen pitämään CETA-tilannekatsauksen ja vastaamaan osallistujien kysymyksiin.

5.4 CETA ja SOTE – Miten käy valinnanvapaudelle -seminaari 27.4. klo 10.00-11.30

• Seminaari järjestetään Kansalaisinfossa, yhteistyössä eduskunnan Attacin kanssa

5.5 TiSA-tilaisuus

• TiSA-tilaisuuden uudesta ajankohdasta ei ole vielä tietoa. Näyttää siltä, että tilaisuus siirtyy syksylle.

1. Vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio

• Kehyksen koordinoiman kauppapolitiikan visio -paperin ensimmäinen versio on pian valmistumassa.

• Ehdotettiin, että kun se saadaan järjestöihin kommenteille, pidämme verkoston kesken erillisen tapaamisen, jossa paperia käsittelemme.

Collective Intelligence for citizens activation

Hey Everyone, good morning!

I just wanted to share with you a short Toolkit we put together to help anyone organize collective intelligence activation sessions and engage citizens in policy.

We came up with this after organizing a Citizen's cabinet in Brussels - and thought it could be very helpful to put something together to help others do the same in their cities, communities and even projects.

The doc is 6 pages long + annexes to help you replicate it.

Let me know what you think, if there is information missing, and - if you are doing something of the kind (or know who is), let us know and maybe we can lend a hand!

Enjoy! ;)

Carpe DiEM everyone, welcome to the changing world ;)

Guilherme Serodio

LinkedIn ( https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/07d027bc340e6ec0088db70e0653a7f94d4d4e6d?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbe.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fguilherme-serodio&userId=528699&signature=692822e3f9dd219e )

SkypeID - guilhermecbserodio

Collective Intelligence for citizens activation -toolkit can be found here: Järjestäytymiskokouksen valmistelua

Berlin, May 25 (please forward to DSC members)_

Dear all,

as you may have noticed, the Volksbühne is now officially sold out. HOWEVER, if you or one of your DSC members wants to come and does not yet have a ticket, we have reserved some tickets especially for DiEM25 activists and those who will participate in the DSC-organized workshops & discussions in the afternoon. Please forward this to DSC members but do not post this publicly!

To buy one of these reserved tickets and also to indicate your participation in the DSC workshops, please fill out the form at https://goo.gl/forms/qH3ET4xV5jFrHGba2 by May 6th. If there are too many reservations, it will be "first come first serve". We will confirm your reservation within a few days and also tell you how to pay (you cannot pay until the reservation is confirmed). As payment is only possible via Visa or Mastercard, please ask if any DSC members do not have such a card and arrange group purchases if necessary.

Schedule:

May 25

10-12: DiEM25 Press Conference

12-18: DSC-organized workshops and discussions at Volksbühne

12-15 (simultaneously to the workshops): Panels on G20 Summit and on tech sovereignty

20-22:30: Main event

May 26

12-18: More DSC-organized workshops and discussions (at Technical University)

The CC members and I are really looking forward to meeting all of you!!

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

P.S.: The event is in three weeks and DiEM25 has only collected 1400 EUR of the 8500 EUR we need to organize this (with the generous support of Volksbühne). If you can make a donation towards the cost, please do so at https://internal.diem25.org/donations/to/berlin . Donations by Paypal or bank transfer are also possible. Also, we will probably organize some drinks before the event for fundraising purposes. If you know an affluent person who is favourable to DiEM25 and who'd like to have drinks with Yanis and Srećko in order to discuss contributing to the movement, please let me know.

Berlin, May 25 (please forward to DSC members)

Since people asked:

• Sign-up for the German Assembly in Cologne this weekend is free (recommended donation of 10 EUR to cover costs) and all you have to do is email anmeldung@de.diem25.org

• The event in Athens on May 17 will have no ticket sales, everyone is welcome to show up on the night itself. Note however that the event will be 100% in Greek without interpretation.

• Tickets for the DiEM25 Launch in Ireland & discussion of European Constitution on the weekend immediately following Berlin (May 26/27) can be bought at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diem25-ireland-launch-towards-a-democratic-european-constitution-tickets-33736771592

Looking forward to seeing you!

Judith

New VC Member Lottery

Dear DiEMers,

On May 22 there will be a draw to replace 50 Validating Council (VC) members. The VC is called upon to authorise the appointment of new Coordinating Collective and Advisory Panel members, and take swift decisions when time does not allow for consulting the entire DiEM25 membership.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the VC, please fill-in the form in the Members-Area of the website (https://internal.diem25.org/en/vc/apply).

Carpe DiEM!

Erik Edman

Deputy Volunteer Coordinator

Tervetuloa TTIP-verkoston yleiskokoukseen 30.5. ja työryhmäkokouksiin viikoilla 19 ja 20!

Hei,

Näyttää siltä, että toukokuun yleiskokouksemme pidetään tiistaina 30.5. klo 17-19 Kirjasto 10:n Ryhmätilassa. Nähdään siis silloin!

// Hi! It seems we are going to have the next general assembly on Tuesday 30th of May at 5pm at Library 10 ('Ryhmätila'). See you there! Please note also the following meetings of the subgroups.

Merkitkää kalentereihinne myös seuraavat työryhmänkokoukset:

Mediavaikuttamisryhmä // Media group 9.5. klo 16 Gaudeamus Kirja&kahvi

• kootaan tietoa investointiriitatapauksista, joista voisi olla Suomen kampanjan kannalta hyötyä (näitä kannattaa etsiskellä jo etukäteen, ennen tapaamista)

Materiaalipankki-tapaaminen // Information gathering 16.5. klo 16-17.30 Gaudeamus Kirja&kahvi

• luonnostellaan viestipohjia eri valiokuntien edustajille lähetettäväksi

• kerätään ja käännetään hyviä lähteitä ja argumentteja CETA-tekstejä (mielipidekirjoitukset, artikkelit, twiitit) varten

Tapahtumaryhmä // Action group 16.5. klo 17.30 Gaudeamus Kirja&kahvi

• suunnitellaan CETA-mielenosoitusta syksylle 2017

Aurinkoisin terveisin,

Marissa

1. huhtikuuta 2017 Marissa Varmavuori marissa.varmavuori@gmail.com kirjoitti:

Moikka!

Alla muistio sunnuntaina pidetystä yleiskokouksesta. Kiitos kaikille kokoustajille! Kirjasto 10:n Ryhmätila näkyy toukokuullekin olevan hurjan varattu. Maailma kylässä -viikonloppua ja 30.5. tiistaita lukuun ottamatta ei näkynyt olevan ainoatakaan yli tunnin vapaaslottia, joten tein meille alustavan varauksen tiistaille 30.5. klo 17-19.

Teemme siis viime kerran tavoin "käänteisdudlen". Merkitse Dudleen perjantaihin 5.5. mennessä
PUNAISELLA, jos haluaisit osallistua mutta ET PÄÄSE kokoustamaan 30.5.
klo 17-19. Mikäli Dudleen ilmaantuu runsaasti ilmoituksia, koitamme
löytää kokoukselle toisen ajan ja paikan!

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_toukokuun_yleiskokous/ ( https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_toukokuun_yleiskokous/ )

// Hi! Thanks for the general assembly last Sunday! (Minutes of the meeting below, only in Finnish, unfortunately!) The meeting room at Library 10 is very booked on May, too. I booked the only suitable time slot, let's see if it's ok for you! Please fill the following poll
IN RED if you'd like to attend but CAN'T MAKE IT on Tuesday 30th of May at 17:00-19:00. I will check the poll on Friday 5.5. and if it's
full of red, we will find some other time and place for the meeting.

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_toukokuun_yleiskokous/ ( https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TTIP-verkoston_toukokuun_yleiskokous/ )

Best wishes,

Marissa

TTIP-verkoston yleiskokous

23.4.2016 klo 16

Kirjasto 10, Ryhmätila

Läsnä: Annaleena Tuovinen, Ernst Mecke, Marissa Varmavuori, Kertsin Söderholm, Maija Amperla, Petra Auramo, Maria Brommels, Heikki Ketoharju, Johanna Kähäri

1. Käytiin lyhyt nimikierros

2. Käytiin läpi sopimusten tilanne

CETA

• Suomessa hallituksen esitys CETA:n kansallisesta toimeenpanosta on jo valmisteilla ja tarkoitus saada valmiiksi kesään mennessä. Vielä ei ole tiedossa, kuinka laaja (tai suppea) lausuntokierros on tiedossa.

TTIP

• Neuvottelut ovat Yhdysvaltojen hallinnonvaihdoksen vuoksi jäissä, mutta jos se on EU:n tahtotilasta kiinni, ei kauan. Merkel ja Trump puhuneet neuvottelujen uudelleen avaamisesta.

TiSA:sta tai JEFTA:sta ei kokouksessa olleilla uutta tietoa.

1. Käytiin strategiakatsaus

Todettiin, että ministeriöihin tulee nyt välittää viestiä, että CETA-prosessia seurataan tiiviisti. Sovittiin, että lähetetään kaikille ministereille syksyllä julkaistu kv-vetoomus.

Todettiin, että eri valiokunnissa istuviin kansanedustajiin olisi myös hyvä olla yhteydessä, että he vaatisivat valiokuntansa kuulemista CETA:sta.

• Sovittiin että materiaalipankin yhteyteen tehdään viestipohjia kansanedustajien lähestymiseen. Maija ja Marissa muotoilevat lobbausviestipohjan tai -pohjia.

Syksyllä 2016 perustuslakivaliokunta lausui, ettei se kykene olemassa olevilla tiedoilla arvioimaan CETA-sopimuksen perustuslaillisia vaikutuksia. Tähän on syytä tarttua. Ehdotetaan Ville-Veikko Hirvelälle, Marko Ekille ja Antti Sorsalle, että he seuraisivat tilannetta ja olisivat yhteydessä perustuslakivaliokuntaan ja/tai sen jäseniin.

• Mikäli perustuslaillisuuden arviossa puutteita, oikeuskanslerille olisi syytä huomauttaa asiasta.

• Johanna laittaa aktiivilistalle raportin, johon on koottu miten sopimukset ratifioidaan eri maissa, ml. Suomessa.

Todettiin, että Multilateral Investment Courtia (MIC) olisi hyvä alkaa seurata myös Suomessa. MIC:iä vastaan on olemassa ainakin kaksi nettivetoomusta: Campact ja WeMove.eu.

• Pyritään kääntämään MIC:sta tietoa suomeksi vapaakauppa-sivulle.

• Heikki, Kerstin ja Marissa alkavat seurata MIC-prosessia ja tehdä siitä lyhyitä juttuja ja käännöksiä.

Päätettiin, että aloitettua ay-lobbausta jatketaan edelleen:

• Tehdään kirjoituksia ay-lehtiin (materiaalipankkia hyödyntäen). Anna on tehnyt googlesheetin, jolla mediavaikutusryhmä voi koordinoida toimintaansa.

• Kokous ay-paikallisosastojen aktiivien kanssa 3.5.

• EPSU:n ja ETUC:in kriittisen kannan esiin nostaminen suomalaisia ay-toimijoita lähestyttäessä.

• CETA ja SOTE -seminaariin kutsuttu edustajat STTK:sta ja JHL:sta.

Suomen Attac on päättänyt hakea syksyksi hankerahoitusta CETA-aiheiseen projektiin, joka voidaan tehdä yhteistyössä TTIP-verkoston kanssa. Ehdotettu, että rahoitushakemukseen voisi budjetoida CETA-aiheisen tilaisuuden ja Gus Van Hartenin matkakulut, mikäli hän pääsisi osallistumaan tilaisuuteen.

1. Menneet tapahtumat:

4.1 Veroseminaari Suomen Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4.

• Seminaari onnistui hienosti, teknisistä ongelmista ja ajan loppumisesta huolimatta.

4.2 Kapuloita CETA:n rattaisiin -työpaja Sosiaalifoorumissa 1.4. Työpajassa

• tehtiin ruokaomavaraisuus-banderolleja

• suunniteltiin CETA & TTIP vapaa alue -kampanjaa

• jaettiin tietoa CETA:sta ja mietittiin tulevan toiminnan strategioita

• suunniteltiin CETA-mielenosoitusta elokuun lopulle. Suunnittelua on jatkettu tapahtumaryhmän kokouksessa 11.4.

1. Tulevaa toimintaa

5.1 Perustettiin CETA & TTIP vapaa alue -ryhmä SSF-työpajassa aloitettuja suunnitelmia jatkamaan.

• Ryhmässä Annaleena, Petra, Ernst, Heikki

5.2 CETA-mielenosoitus

• Sosiaalifoorumin työpajassa aloitettuja mielenosoitusvalmisteluja jatketaan.

• Sovittiin, että mielenosoitus on alkusyksystä, mahdollisesti 19.8 tai 26.8. Tapahtuman suunnitteluryhmä lyö päivämäärän lukkoon mahdollisimman pian.

• Tapahtumaryhmässä ovat SSF-työpajassa suunnittelun aloittaneet sekä Petra, Annaleena ja Maija. Tapahtumaryhmään ovat tervetulleita myös kaikki muut halukkaat.

5.3 Tapaaminen ay-aktiivien kanssa 3.5. klo 13

• Rakennusliiton Nina Kreuzman on kutsunut tapaamisen koolle. Marissa on menossa kokoukseen pitämään CETA-tilannekatsauksen ja vastaamaan osallistujien kysymyksiin.

5.4 CETA ja SOTE – Miten käy valinnanvapaudelle -seminaari 27.4. klo 10.00-11.30

• Seminaari järjestetään Kansalaisinfossa, yhteistyössä eduskunnan Attacin kanssa

5.5 TiSA-tilaisuus

• TiSA-tilaisuuden uudesta ajankohdasta ei ole vielä tietoa. Näyttää siltä, että tilaisuus siirtyy syksylle.

1. Vaihtoehtoisen kauppapolitiikan visio

• Kehyksen koordinoiman kauppapolitiikan visio -paperin ensimmäinen versio on pian valmistumassa.

• Ehdotettiin, että kun se saadaan järjestöihin kommenteille, pidämme verkoston kesken erillisen tapaamisen, jossa paperia käsittelemme.

4th European Social Solidarity Congress in Athens

Dear all,

the 4th European Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) Congress will take place in Agricultural University of Athens ( map ) on the 9/10/11th of June. Cooperatives, grassroot initiatives, SSE organizations, groups and people that work to promote and advance SSE from all over Europe will meet for the event. During the 3day Congress, we are going to have the opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas, experiences, expertise and common strategies around SSE. We consider SSE to be a dynamic space that spreads all over Europe, in which people organize their social and economic activity in many different ways. This event is a great opportunity to build strong connections amongst people, groups and coops on a European level.

Call for ideas

"While the organization team works for the success of this congress, we are looking forward to receive your ideas regarding the following themes that we prioritize to discuss during the 3day Congress. The procedure will be the following:

Every group, network or individual that is interested in participating on the process of formulating the program, could send ideas according to the following axes, until 05/03/2017 27/03/2017 through our email: call@universse2017.org

Concepts, forms and fields of social solidarity economy and cooperativism: Responsible consumption, production and climate change. Practices of SSE on social integration with a special focus on refugees issues, Social innovation: Research, technology, education and tools for SSE, Commons: Approaches and practices on digital, natural, urban, cultural commons, Public policies (on local, national, European level) promoting SSE : From whom, for who, what for.

• Open space / Free zone

We invite ideas indicating the thematic area you refer to and the format of the meeting you propose (workshop, panel discussion, etc.). After the deadline (05/03/2017, 27/03/2017), the organizational team will assess all proposals and arrange them in clusters. Within these clusters we will make an effort to include as many ideas sent as possible.

The main intention is to organize the Congress along with the main axes (plus the free zone area) in order to enable a common vision while allowing for the exchange of different perspectives and experiences.

More info: https://universse2017.org/ (also in german, greek, italian, espagnol, french)

ECJ tuomitsi toimen, jolla EU-komissio epäsi kansalaisaloitteesta TTIP:tä ja CETA:a vastaan

Euroopan korkein oikeus ECJ, European Court of Justice of the European
Union, on tänään 10.toukokuuta 2017 tuominnut laittomaksi EU-komission toimen, jolla se
epäsi kansalaisaloitteen TTIP:tä ja CETA:a vastaan.

Nimiä kansalaisaloitteeseen kerättiin kuitenkin itseorganisoidusti ja niitä
kertyi yli 3,2 miljoonaa. Moni eurooppalainen allekirjoitti vetoomuksen
määräajassa ja sen jälkeenkin jatketulla ajalla, sillä se tehtiin mahdolliseksi
- kyseessähän oli epävirallinen, itseorganisoitu aloite. Ilman sitä,
ilman jokaista allekirjoitusta oikeutta ei olisi haettu, saati saatu.
Suurkiitos siis jokaiselle teistä!

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2017-05/cp170049en.pdf

https://twitter.com/UpliftIRL/status/862322839579447300

https://twitter.com/ttipinfo/status/862329396509765632

Juhlaterveisin TTIP-verkostolaisten puolesta,

Johanna Kähäri

EVALUATION

Dear all,

Berlin is coming up soon.

We are planning a workshop on the issue of "Gender in DiEM". Therefore we kindly ask for your help.

Can you please:

1. count the number of men/women in your DSC?

2. white/people of colour

3. age (more young/old people?)

4. academics/ non-academics.

It would be amazing if you could give us the numbers according to this list.

Thanks a lot.

We r really looking farward to meeting you all!

Best

Elisa, Roberta, Krisztina

Collective Intelligence for citizens activation

Hi Guilherme,

Thank you for sharing this, it's very helpful to have these kind of resources available for DiEM25 events. As our 2-cents (DiEM25 Dublin), I'd like to share the "World Cafe Walkthrough" that we'll use during the DiEM25 Ireland Launch event. We will have a world cafe with about a 100 participants during the morning and afternoon of the 27th of May.

I'm not sure what would be a good repository for these types of documents? Perhaps we should work on a shared Google Drive for DiEM25 or a Dropbox folder (similar to the one for promotion materials)?

Best wishes,

Wessel

Wesselin lähettämä World Cafe -metodin visualisointi liitteessä 1, Guilhermen SWOT 2 liitteessä 2, saksalaisten koordinoijien listalla jakama DiEM25 flaikku saksaksi liitteessä 3.

Kaksikielinen infoflaikku (enkku/saksa).

Keskustelu jatkuu likkeen puolueeksi jakautumisesta:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1519712824997611?view=permalink&id=1731009497201275

Loomiossa Wesselin laatiman vastaehdotuksen puintia ja äänestys DID DSC:n jäsenille!

Collective Intelligence for citizens activation

Very good as well Wessel, thanks! (I'm stealing it myself!)

Also, I am sharing another kind of meeting structuring, for less people (6-10max), in attachment.

(we call it a Brainstorm SWOT 2.0 - because it sounds so cool!) :p

I agree +++++++ with a shared depository on how to structure a meeting for sure!

We could also add a file with names of people that are willing to help/support other DSCs with brainstorming/polishing/adapting the design.

Where could we put that? In the DiEM25.org website?

Guilherme Serodio

LinkedIn ( https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/b072c2896ff7e5570e3111298eb5aa1dbda91c82?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbe.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fguilherme-serodio&userId=528699&signature=91d1a96aa9963e0e )

SkypeID - guilhermecbserodio

www.corenow.org ( https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/4387bf9635749ce56be43f6393464931b35870c8?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corenow.org&userId=528699&signature=588283013f73263d )

DiEM25 in Berlin: Next Stop 2019?

Dear DiEMistas,

you may have noticed that currently a lot is brewing within DiEM25. We hope there is still some space in your mailbox and interest in what we are writing now.
So, this is Berlin calling. We are really excited about next week’s event at Volksbühne and Technical University and love to give you some updates on that.

We wanted to keep you much more in the loop but organizing the European DSC workshops has been a lot of work. However, attached you'll find our final programme. Also there are some further informations below:

• - On our homepage ( https://diem25.org/berlin-may-25/ ) we will be uploading workshop briefings as well as providing all necessary informations about the event.
  

• • Further we are still in need of volunteers. Feel free to fill in the formular ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ1N70AuVhw749h0YnTmSzUUdo7UkXLlXkLbwfYNBhR1usqQ/viewform?c=0&w=1 ) in case you can help out organizing. Note that the 26th will be way more relaxed so in case, please volunteer on the 25th.
• • Still in need of a ticket? Oh you’re slow J But just fill out this form ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI6FS2ArHD3wBpunZDi8sFLronCCncZ91FSf2azdXOU8xZiw/viewform?c=0&w=1&edit2=2_ABaOnuf2e643VTLD6yQKMN1dJ7P_Hd5yLeByGm93lNZFrCb_ObXXK2pmyQ ) until Monday.
• • Coming to Berlin but no place to sleep? Please send a mail with your contact details and nights you are looking for a roof to berlin1dsc@de.diem25.org

W We are looking forward to meet you next week and wish you all the best, DSC Berlin.

Carpe DiEM!

To all: EVALUATION, call for submission

Dear Elisa,

Thank you so much for your email and please excuse the delay in getting

back to you.

We have been hesitant about responding to this survey.

We don't take an issue with the binary approach but rather with the

(undisclosed) premises of doing this exercise altogether.

I hope you read this understanding that we mean the best intentions, but

we are not quite sure of the end goal of this exercise, as it hasn't

been disclosed any further than the fact that the data will be used in a

workshop on gender.

Besides the general discomfort in profiling our group in a mass email,

we are rather afraid that the information would be used for an approach

to equality that we do not share.

From our experience, such organizational consultancy exercises on

diversity stem from an egalitarian school of thought centered around

"equality of outcomes" instead of focusing on "equal opportunities" and

diversified outreach.

I think we would have been more inclined to share how and to what extent

we tried to reach out, or we have been approached by, different genders,

ethnicities, education and income levels. At the moment we are being

asked to respond to current group skin color, gender and academic position.

I hope you understand our concerns. Perhaps you could take this

opportunity to tell us more about your premises, what you would like to

accomplish with this workshop and how?

Kind regards,

Franco

To all: EVALUATION, call for submission

Dear Franco,

Thank you so much for your response.

I can only repeat what Roberta has just said and stress that this is exactly the debate we would like to have. Great!

This approach is by no means meant to reproduce the dominant mode of talking about Gender in political and public discourse as merely an issue of Equality, that can be quantified.

Unfortunately DiEMs structure reflects patriarchal society in terms of representation and participation. This effects our movement and is a challenge.

In our workshop we would like to discuss DiEMs organizing principles in terms of Gender "equality" and their limits.

Do you have any strategies?

Ideas?

Thanks again and really looking forward to meeting you!

Warmly

Elisa

DiEM25 Berlin event: couch surfing

Hi everyone,

We have some couch surfing places in Berlin for distribution. Not that much as expected but I hope enough for those who really need it.

If you have people in your DSC who need a free accommodation please send me:

Name, email, phone/WhatsApp, how many nights

C u soon

Reto

Message from CC regarding pan-European Party

Dear DSCs, (please forward this to all members)

We are writing to you following the successful meetings in Berlin to communicate to you our thoughts and concerns regarding DiEM25's latest deliberations and plans.

Ever since the event in Rome two months ago, we DiEMers have been discussing how we should give the European New Deal an electoral expression. The dedicated forum for this topic (https://diem25.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=176 ( https://diem25.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=176 ), must be logged in to access) has been visited by over 2000 members now. However, on the stage of the Volksbühne, a statement was made which referred to the process for moving towards an announcement on 9th September that DiEM25 would become a transnational pan-European party. As the CC we regret that, caught up in the enthusiasm of the moment, the phrasing was less careful than it ought to have been, leaving out and not emphasizing enough internal democratic processes that will lead to any such announcement or indeed decision. Rest assured that, as is our basic organising principle, all members and DSCs will be given an active and equal role in reaching any such decision.

The CC's view on the matter is that, in countries where political parties exist who are willing to adopt our basic values and the European New Deal, DiEM25 should support them wholeheartedly, just as we supported Zagreb is OURS. And in countries lacking such political forces, DiEM25 should consider running independently. The European party would thus not be monolithic but an alliance of forces who agree on basic values and the European New Deal.

We are asking DSCs to discuss the issue of a transnational pan-European party. The forum can serve for horizontal discussion between individual members and DSCs in various countries. Additionally, please survey DSC members and summarise your views to the CC before the end of July. Then we will start an all-member vote in order to come to a collective decision well ahead of the Brussels event.

Carpe DiEM!

Judith Meyer, Srećko Horvat and Yanis Varoufakis

on behalf of the CC

Live Streaming DiEM25 Ireland Launch Event

Dear all,

Yesterday, the DiEM25 Ireland Launch Event took place. We had a great and inspiring evening with Yanis Varoufakis, Nessa Childers, Aidan Regan, Alice-Mary Higgins and Vincent Browne.

Unfortunately, a new link for our live streaming was created just before the start of the event - which was different from the one we distributed. If you'd like to re-watch the live streaming, you can do so by going to the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtrn6UbVmGQ&t=5884s

We will also be creating an after-movie which will be ready soon!

Best wishes,

Wessel

Dublin DSC

DiEM 25 UK candidate vote: concerns

Hi,

I wanted to circulate my concerns about the vote that has recently been called on DiEM25 UK’s proposal to support 15 specific candidates in the UK general election on 6th June. I have made my concerns known to DiEM25 UK via Slack, and judging by the responses there, there are others who share these concerns.

My concerns are:

• The idea of ‘principled voting’ seems something of a distraction at the moment, IMHO, given the UK electoral system and the fact that we are days away from a general election. After the election, there will either be a Conservative government or a Labour government (no third option is at all likely). As with the French elections and Macron vs Le Pen, people in the UK need to cast their vote for the party most likely to beat the Conservatives in their area. Voting for any other party is, given the first-past-the-post electoral system in force, to waste one’s vote. A web site exists, tactical2017.com, which for every constituency in the UK will advise you on which way to vote to beat the Conservatives. I understand DiEM25 UK was aware of this site but chose not to recommend DiEM members use it, but rather to propose this list of candidates instead. Given that there are 650 MPs in the UK parliament I can’t help but think that recommending this web site would have been much more effective than recommending a list of 15 candidates. I also understand from DiEM25 UK that this list is part of a longer-term plan to make contact with particular MPs who share our progressive values. This does of course seem valuable, but I feel is something that should be happening in the background for now.

• The inclusion of Nick Clegg in the list of MPs DiEMers are recommended to vote for. As it happens, in his constituency of Sheffield Hallam, it seems he is the one most likely to win and keep the Conservatives out, but in general, as Deputy Prime Minister in coalition with the Conservatives, I’m not aware of any progressive policy he succeeded in getting implemented. The only thing he did succeed in doing was a) breaking a cast-iron promise to abolish student tuition fees and b) supporting the Health and Social Care Act, which included moves towards creeping privatisation of the UK National Health Service. Hence while he may espouse progressive policies I’m sceptical he can really be trusted to implement them in practice.

More generally, I discussed this type of vote, which concerns a local issue but on which all DiEMers are invited to vote, with other members at the Berlin event. Many of us, while we understand the laudable principle that all issues are treated as European and therefore everyone gets to vote, are concerned that in practice, depending on the peculiarities of each vote, it can be extremely hard to understand local issues in sufficient depth to be able to make an informed decision. As regards Nick Clegg, for instance, on the basis of the very limited information provided one might consider him to be an appropriate candidate to recommend, but when one is made aware of his record one might view things differently.

Thanks and Carpe DiEM,

Adam Newby

DiEM25 Andalucía

DiEM 25 UK candidate vote: concerns

Dear Adam,

You are doing very well expressing your concerns. Since here in Greece many members do not have a clue about british politics I will forward you opinion to them.

I also asked from Anghela Ghadery who is a member of Athens DSC and also a member of UK PNC to express her view. It may be useful.

Apostolos has asked me to write about this to give some guidance for Athens DSC members to decide how they vote.

So Theresa May called a General Election very unexpectedly, having said categorically that she would not, and with very little time for campaigning, clearly in the belief that she would win with a large majority and
little opposition while she negotiates Brexit. However, it now looks as if she has underestimated Jeremy Corbyn.

DiEM U.K. had to decide how they should respond to the election campaign and create a strategy.

Firstly we created a Provisional National Committee (PNC) (by self nomination temporarily due to the urgency of the situation). It was agreed on Yianis’s suggestion at a meeting of the committee in London on 6th May
that we should make a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) who we judged to fit with exactly or to some degree, with DiEM’s principles.

Committee members have decided on criteria and also made a table showing the best fit of each of the UK’s main parties with DiEM principles before nominating Possible MPs for our list. The list is now complete with
a short commentary on each MP to explain why he or she has been chosen.

We now want DiEM to vote to approve our list before we email each MP to tell them that we have chosen them as a member of our ‘dream team’. We will also of course go to the mainstream media with our list.

What is our purpose?

1) to lobby MPs from across several parties

2) to take the opportunity publicise DIEM25 and what it represents

We have to remember two issues particular to the U.K. I think:

1) The difficulty of deciding on DiEM’s role when the UK is planning to leave the EU

2) To most DiEM U.K. members, (it seems to me), the idea of DiEM25 becoming a party is not at all welcome. Most U.K. members are supportive of DiEM because it is not a party!

My opinion?

1) As we find ourselves in this position less than two weeks away from the election, I think this list is a very good way of making DiEM25 known more widely, and makes a helpful move towards MPs seeing cross party common
progressive views and thus going some way towards eroding the old party entrenched positions.

2) Had there been much more time, I would have liked to see DiEM25 taking the opportunity to go to the ballot box in the U.K. because

a. Brexit hasn’t actually happened yet and there are still some who believe it never will

b. I believe that DiEM could fill that gap between neoliberalism and nationalism more than anywhere in the U.K. as I see people clinging to one of these camps now but with uncertainty because they haven’t heard of any
other way. I believe Brexit could be a golden opportunity for DiEM to lead U.K. Citizens back to where a majority want to remain and get to work on restructuring the EU.

3) Any hope of 2) above would be contingent on making a pan-European narrative strong enough to appeal to the very insular British but this could be the time when our 'special relationship’ with the US is regarded less
highly thanks to Trump.

4) Any hope of 2) or 3) above would be contingent on DiEM25 U.K. members approving the movement’s progression to a party!

For now, I would recommend Athens DSC to vote for this strategy and so help DiEM’s profile in the U.K. Once the election is over, we will return to working on our U.K.New Deal and our position and strategy for Brexit
negotiations.

Thank you!

Regards,

Apostolos Gogakos

AthensDSC Coordinator

layout and design collaboration

Hi,

it would be very useful to have some cooperation with DSC's "propaganda"-material, i.e. logos, graphics, icons, design, layout, ... even bi-, multilingual texts.

Is there anybody interested in this? How do you produce your webdesign, leaflets, ... ?

I just started with Adobe InDesing and Illustrator.

Here are my first artworks (see the jpg's attached)

Best

Hans
Vienna1DSC

DiEM25 action to support the "European Citizens' Initiative: Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides"

Dear
friends,

I think
time has come for DiEM25 to take serious action to support the European Citizens' Initiative: Ban
glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides!

This is exactly
what DiEM25 should promote at the European level with the support of all the
DSCs!

Here you can find the link to the ECI:

https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/ice-glyphosate-fr

https://stopglyphosate.org/fr/

DiEM25
could play a major role in this Initiative calling on the European Commission
to propose to member states a ban on glyphosate, to reform the pesticide
approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for
pesticide use.

This
crucial campaign should be our first “environmental” pan European campaign!

The members
of our DSC in Cagliari are ready to fight!

I look
forward to hearing from you soon

Best

Alessio

DiEM25 and the nuclear ban at th United Nations

G7 meeting in Taormina at the end of may has fostered the mainstream vision of a global "growth" system, made possible thru war as economic media of social control. Sicily is part of this system, with Sigonella Augusta Birgi bases and Niscemi's electronic warfare MUOS, all essential parts of US and NATO military interventions in north Africa and Middle East.

Nonviolent struggles of great figures like Danilo Dolci and Pio La Torre, compassion for thousands of migrants drowned in the sea south of Sicily, and the won battle against Comiso' euromissiles in the '80s, can give us a cultural background for a real alternative to be.

Many events took place in the Island, before and during G7. After it, the most significant will be the 1st of July, a manifestation that will confirm popular opposition to Mobile User Objective System, an electromagnetically polluting apparatus, wich serves as driving media for bombing by drones, the world around. We will bike ride from Comiso' civil airport to the illegal MUOS warfare in Niscemi, to build a symbolic link between the victorious struggle for peace of European people in the 80s - against cruise and pershing nuclear missiles - and an advocated victory on the illegally built Mobile User Objective System today.

The european DiEM25 DSCs can maybe mobilize themselves, together with Comiso-Niscemi protesters ? Every town and country has his own warfare to carry about. A collective nonviolent activity spread in Europe, can prevent tragedies and strenghten will for peace ?

After G7, G20 meeting in Hamburg will take place, the same days of the UN Assembly where a new Treaty, to definitely ban the nuclear bombs from the World, will be signed.

Can we as DiEMers start a global initiative of peace during G20 Alternative Summit, counteracting State chiefs behavior versus Syria, Libya, Yemen and whatelse, and strongly ask for a real, effective ban Treaty, to save humanity from a nuclear war ?

Alessandro Capuzzo, DiEM25 Trieste1, Italy

Discussing the party issue & more

Dear all,

As part of a broader effort to extend the functions of the Members Area, we have just added two new things:

• A log of past and current Validating Council votes, which you can access at https://internal.diem25.org/vc/vote_log

• A video filmed at the last CC teleconference where we discuss the Berlin aftermath / party issue at length - find it at https://internal.diem25.org/meeting_summaries . We decided to make this the first "CC answering questions" video because so many people in DiEM25 are presently discussing the topic. As this first discussion got much longer than intended, we have not yet been able to film discussions of the other questions that some of you sent in, but do keep sending us topics that you feel would interest a lot of people. We are also still looking for a user-friendly platform to have regular chats with CC members, as you recall the first platform was quite a disaster, so if you have other recommendations, please let us know.

The next step in the 'party' discussion will probably be a vote between the four different models of involvement in the European elections which have been suggested. I'll summarize them by the kind of voting recommendation that might emerge:

1) "Vote party X - they come close to our ideas for Europe" (like the all-member votes on Zagreb or France)
2) "If you're in Poland, vote party X. If you're in Spain, vote party Y - they will form a DiEM25-friendly subgroup in the European parliament"
3) "If you're in France, there are 5 candidates running on a 'Party X - DiEM25' list, 10 candidates running for Party X who are unaffiliated with DiEM25, and 2 candidates running on a 'Party Y - DiEM25 list."

4) "If you're in Greece, vote DiEM25 The Party"

(Countries chosen at random ;-) )

For as long as DiEM25 remains a movement focusing foremost on realising its policies in whichever way possible, these models don't exclude each other, it is imaginable to do 1+2+3+4 at the same time, or just 1+2+3 (never run as a party, only have a group of DiEM25-friendly MEPs from other parties), or 2+4 (no recommendations, no common lists), or only type 1 (only make recommendations) as before, none, or any combination. This will be subject to a vote. Afterwards there will be votes on organizational questions (how to make it happen, relationship of DiEM25 to the new entities, if any) and on which model we should apply where. As per the CC letter after Berlin, please have a discussion in your DSC about this issue and send a summary of the DSC members' opinions to the CC by the end of July at the latest, but the earlier the better, since we may have to schedule the first vote earlier than expected.

Please forward this email to all DSC members. Do not post content from the Members Area (especially information about ongoing VC votes, CC meeting summaries or this particular video), in public places like Facebook, just tell people that they can go to the https://internal.diem25.org to see these.

Thank you and Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Elections for the Coordinating Collective

Dear all,

Just a quick heads-up: the CC has just decided that the first-ever internal elections (contesting 6 of the 12 Coordinating Collective seats) shall take place at the end of August, even though the Organising Principles would allow delaying them until September. The reason is that a lot of political events happen in September, including DiEM25's "Real State of the Union" event in Brussels, so it would be difficult to replace half the team in the middle of this. August tends to be very quiet, so it is perfect for the transition.

As per our Organising Principles, any member will be able to declare himself/herself a candidate, without needing endorsements. In the election, members will freely select 6 people from a long list of candidates, who will present themselves by text and video. The only voting constraint will be for gender balance.

We expect to publish a call for candidates by the end of this month, outlining what is expected of CC members. Please do NOT declare your candidacy before knowing the requirements of the job ;-) After a period of collecting candidacies, members will have several weeks to review the candidates on our website and to form an opinion.

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Discussing the party issue & more

Dear all,

Since people asked: we have a lot of time still till 2019, and some of the options we may want to cooperate with may not even exist yet (e.g. that broad progressive German alliance Thomas talked about in the video), so we will take baby steps on this one and we will have plenty of discussions and votes beyond August... and even beyond December ;-) It's important to get this right. The CC does not expect to receive a huge paper from your discussions, only

1) a first glimpse of how DSC members feel about the various models of political involvement

2) whether they believe that there currently are local/national/European forces DiEM25 might support

You could do this in the form of a statistic:

10 like model 1, 0 are against.

7 like model 2, 3 are against. They see the advantages as ... and disadvantages as ...

5 like model 3, 4 are against, 1 undecided. Many are worried that... . There should be a condition that ...

For the local elections on November 10th, 3 members believe DiEM25 might support party X, while 2 believe DiEM25 should support party Y and 5 believe none of the existing parties/coalitions are close to DiEM25's ideas. For the national elections, ...

A request: please make sure that only DiEM25 members are privy to these discussions, and to any discussions about the contents of the Member Area or DSC Coordination Group. There is a reason we put these texts behind a login screen. As you know, only DiEM25 members can be DSC members. While many DSC meetings and DSC online discussion groups are open to people who are "just looking", please ensure that this kind of discussion only happens in closed meetings / closed groups - we would not want political party representatives to influence the discussions or journalists to write about them before we have found a common position.

Carpe DiEM!

Judith

Discussing the party issue & more

Dear Judith dear all,

In Athens1 DSC we discussed on the 12th of June 2017 in the diem25 offices (15 members);

0 members like model 1 "Vote party X"

0 members like model 2 "If you're in Poland, vote party X. If you're in Spain, vote party Y etc"

0 members like model 3 "If you're in France, there are 5 candidates running on a 'Party X etc"

9
members (majoriy) voted "If you're in Greece, vote DiEM25 The Party" but the reasoning behind them differs.

-Some
said because they think there is a huge political gap in the parliament right now that DIEM25 can fill.

-Others
said that they agree only if DIEM25 becomes a paneuropean party and not just national.

-Others
said that they agree only if the party is real democratic with revocable represantatives "liguid democracy", a collective one not around a leader, from base to top, spontaneous and self-organised, with synthesis on policy papers, (we stil do not have answers on why some proposals
we made are not concluded in the European New Deal), transparency, internal voting, (we have a non elected, non transparent PNC and communication coordinator right now), drawings and voting amongst members of the same country or community for
national or local internal elections, because it is not possible for example for an Irish to know about German PNC members, so as to decide his vote.

-And
others said they agree only if the party is based on some principles and defends the worker's and farmer's interests and also has concrete proposals not only for the rest pillars (trasparency, green policy, immigration, workers and european constitution) but
also for the healthcare and the education.

-Others
said that in order to become a party we have to expand first, make new dsc's, support other green and left movements so as to have a strong base because it is possible that we become a party and fail in the elections.

-Lastly,
referring to the alliances after we become a party some said that we do not need to ally with any other party, but some others said that we need to ally with other democratic parties or democratic parties that are against the memorandum of the troika and
more specifically "ANTARSYA" and "Plefsi Eleutherias" were two names which were heard.

5
members abstained/ did not know what to vote and

1
member voted against every option because he said that diem25 is and must stay a movement and not a political party or take part in the elections, and said that now is far away from its start, last year and that diem25 proposals for Greece are economy-technical
and have nothing to do with democracy.

I
hope I gave you an insight in Athens DSC. We are also preparing a common statement in Greek, I will send this also next week. Is there a different CC email that I should send it?

Carpe
diem,

Apostolos
Gogakos

Athens1
DSC Coordinator

Discussing the party issue - DSC-vienna2

the party issue: how we discussed it in the DSC-Vienna2 group:

we where 3 people on that evening and we all agreed that DiEM becomming the

first truly european party is a good idea. and we support the idea.

as for the question if DiEM should participate in elections, we are also for

it. (if we DiEM meets the criteria in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_party

DiEM would also get funded by the EU)..

in austria we had a few attempts for a left wing group for the EU:

2004 LINKE 0.8%

2009 KPÖ (austrian communists) 0.7% of votes

2014 Europa Anders 2.14% of votes

as we only have 18 seats in austria each seat would need about 5.5%. as the

previous attempts for a left wing candidacy where not that successfull i

would expect that most activists from the "europa anders" (communists,

pirates, independent, ..) would be happy to fight for the DiEM lable. (i

already talked to a few activists about this and they seem to like the

idea).

the only other party that, in its political direction somewhat compatible

with DiEM views are the austrian greens. (they had 3 mandates 14.5%)

while a DiEM candidacy would be seen as a competition, i would expect that

DiEM would attract different voters as well and thus, in the end strengthen

the left).

in larger countries e.g. germany with 99 seats an additional candidacy of

DiEM would (even against "Die Linke") only strengthen the left by catering

to slightly different voter preferences..

mond.

Tärkeitä äänestyksiä tulossa liikkeen järjestävistä periaatteista (OP) ja puolue(i)ksi organisoitumisesta:

http://mailchi.mp/diem25/vote-now-for-thematic-groups-and-elected-national-collectives?e=9f8255621b