{"id":9460,"date":"2015-12-11T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:59:19","slug":"stateofsolidarity-call-activists-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/stateofsolidarity-call-activists-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"#StateofSolidarity: the call of activists around Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all Have a Choice: Let’s Declare a State of Solidarity and Oppose a Culture of Fear<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Almost 30 activists from Greece, the Western Balkans and the rest of Europe are calling on\u00a0groups and individuals to mobilise on\u00a0December 18<\/b>\u00a0to support the millions of people who are suffering the simultaneous European crisis. The objective is to call for people to take action on the Global Day of Migrants, a week before Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Demonstrations are far from being the only option. Discussion rounds, especially involving refugees themselves, and\/or to develop new strategies and broader networks, could be a perfect first step […] In response to the\u00a0shock strategy<\/a>\u00a0and the abuses of a \u2018state of emergency\u2019, some of us produced a longer argumentation on the European political climate and\u00a0a call for a #stateofsolidarity<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

European politicians are using the discourse of the “refugee crisis”\u00a0as a political tool to hide the actual crisis. A crisis that comes from decades of a failed European project where the demolition of the social welfare and the precarisation of the citizens have become the norm.<\/p>\n

Now, at the doors of 2016, after a year that finishes with attacks in Paris,\u00a0Beirut, Bamako, Tunis and on a Russian civil aircraft over Sinai; the closing of borders in the Balkans to most nationalities, and the rise of the extreme right among the European countries, there is a call for action on December 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Defend your Rights on December 18<\/b>
\nVisibility of all these actions is vital. Therefore, along\u00a0with #stateofsolidarity<\/a>, we invite you to start using, for December 18<\/strong>, a common platform that advertises your events and movements as part of a transnational and broad coalition: this can be done through\u00a0the form on this page.<\/a>\u00a0The text is available in French, English and Greek and is open to signatures of individuals and organisations.<\/p>\n

Where does #stateofsolidarity come from?<\/p>\n

In November 2015, a meeting hosted in Thessaloniki<\/a> (Greece) gathered over 60 people representing grassroots groups from the Balkans to Calais and Melilla via Italy and Brussels. There, after discussion rounds,\u00a0especially involving refugees themselves,\u00a0we reached\u00a0the conclusion that it is\u00a0more important than ever to collaborate and unite our networks, grassroots organisations, activists and NGOs to achieve our objectives of fighting against the discourse of fear.<\/p>\n

The call from Thessaloniki was sent by:<\/div>\n