Diemin tiedotus (Euroopanlaajuinen sähköpostilista)

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

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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

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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

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"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

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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