<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Orsan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:15 PM<br>Subject: Solidarity networking with Greece, and for the commons<br><div dir="auto"><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.altersummit.eu/accueil/article/support-to-the-greek-people" target="_blank">http://www.altersummit.eu/accueil/article/support-to-the-greek-people</a></span></p><p style="text-align:start">Best</p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:medium">Support to the Greek people</span></p><div style="margin-bottom:2em"><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">All the versions of this article: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" style="font-weight:700">[English]</span> <span lang="fr" dir="ltr">[<a href="http://www.altersummit.eu/accueil/article/accueil/article/soutien-au-peuple-grec" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" title="Soutien au peuple grec" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">français</a>]</span></span></p></div><div><div><p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:700;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The Crisis, Resistance, and Alternatives</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Europe is in a profound slump. Despite reassuring voices already predicting an end to the crisis, living and working conditions continue to deteriorate. Poverty and precarity are dramatically increasing across the continent. A social Europe is not on political decision-makers’ agenda.</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">But social movements are not giving up. On the contrary, they are organising and getting bigger. Not enough to present a strong opposition to antisocial policies, but there are signs of encouragement on the horizon.</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Resistance is beginning to produce results, politically as well. New progressive forces have been born and are slowly occupying previously lost places. New proposals might bring about democratic change in Europe.</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The situation in Greece is particularly significant. Today, a party based on progressive ideas has hopes of leading the government in the coming months.</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In this context, <span style="font-weight:700">Alter Summit demands</span> :</span></p><ul><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">that the Greek people be able to sovereignly decide their destiny without the interference of European institutions and national and international major media, and unthreatened by politicians or financial markets ;</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">that an elected government be able to choose policies that best respond to the needs of their people, especially when promising democratic advances.</span></li></ul><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moreover, <span style="font-weight:700">Alter Summit will support any party or political movement in Greece or elsewhere</span> in Europe whose stated task is to respond to the following issues that we have defined in our June 2013 Manifesto:</span></p><ul><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">bringing an end to debt enslavement, meaning – among other things – the immediate cancellation of the memoranda imposed on over-indebted countries by the Troika and suspension of payment on the debt until these populations are protected from increasing poverty and unemployment;</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">ending austerity by refusing or annulling treaties and the settlements they impose and by assuring fiscal justice;</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">reversing the present tendency to eliminate rights, especially by restoring the freedom to negotiate and take collective action;</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">making banks and finance serve the well-being of the people.</span></li></ul><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Citizens must have the power to decide. Europe must change direction. The entrance of new actors in the European political arena could alter the balance of power in favour of progressive aspirations.</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">An international campaign in support of the Greek people is forming in Europe. Alter Summit will be involved and participate in its capacity. Alter Summit is coordinating labour organisations, NGO’s and social platforms from across Europe; the diversity of today’s social movements demands respect for the sovereign choices of the Greek people and supports them in their struggle for greater democracy.</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Through reflection, discussion and mobilisation, Alter Summit contributes to constructing a strong social movement in Europe to ensure political advances towards a Europe that is democratic, social, ecological and feminist! We want an end to austerity and we demand true democracy!</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Brussels, the 9th of January 2015"</span></p><p style="text-align:start"><br></p></div></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan" target="_blank">http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div>
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