France afraid. A break-based society. The non-realistic fight against the liberalism. France, defender of fundamental freedoms. What to believe? The world doesn’t understand the French rebellion. We the French people aren’t sure of what’s happening in our country. If there are between 1 and 3 millions persons in the streets, it is not only against…
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Young European Greens look forward to a “hot spring” for precarity
The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) is happy to see the youth of France stopping the unacceptable law, CPE, that would greatly reduce the job security of not only people under 26, but of the whole of French society. FYEG congratulates the protesters, secondary school and university students, inner city and suburban youth, workers…
A movement split, but understanding
A report about the demonstrations in Paris in March and April: Marcus Drake was one of the protesters and gives a personal view. It all was very predictable, from the start. It felt like I could foresee how things would unfold on the first big demonstration I went to in Paris, on Saturday the 18th…
The neurogreen manifesto
Catastrophist Intro -Neurogreen is born out of the conviction that destruction of the biosphere, devastating inequality and global civil war are the three dimensions of an epochal crisis in global society and in its institutions presiding over economic value, political sovereignty and democratic legitimacy. After 5 years of global movement, a new radical identity, both…
Concerts for intercultural dialogue
The concerts are conducted by the Maestro Eugenio Bennato (Italy) together with Fathy Salam, famous Egyptian musician and the gnawa singer and gumbri player from Algeria, Hasna El Becharia. The tour has already visited Otranto, Rome, Luxembourg and Rabat, and will continue in Naples in May, Marseille in July, Amman in September and will finish…
Millenium Development Goals poem
Creating new truths, sleeping with our eyes open Privileged people, thinking we are the chosen Buying feelings, consuming happiness Stuffing voids, thinking we can’t do with less Fearful eyes feeding terrorism Hollow phrases putting shades on socialism Criticising the system, the system that’s us With the power to elicit sandstorms, we produce dust Robbing our…
Millenium Development Goals
Disillusion and hope, the ingredients for this poem, were the result of a week long study session on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Strasbourg that I, an active member of the Moroccan network organisation Towards A New Start (TANS, the Netherlands), attended together with other European youth. The MDGs summarise the development goals agreed…
FYEG Migration Suitcase in the USA
The first contact one makes upon arriving in the United States of America is with the INS (Immigration and Naturalisation Service) These nice people wouldn’t let me in the country unless I gave them an address where I would stay. Since I didn’t have one, well that was a problem. Luckily I had some phonenumbers…
Jurisprudence, Morals, Laws and Obligations
‘It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.’ Per Lord Chief Justice Coleridge R v Instan [1893] 1 QB at 453. The first part of this statement seems relatively unproblematic; for example, many people may agree that they…
Book Review: 9-11
9-11 is a book published in the wake of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers of New York on the 11th of September 2001. It is a compilation of answers Noam Chomsky has given to the media and especially newspapers such as The New York Times, il manifesto, El País, Libération, etc., relating to…