Eduardo Galeano, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Ranciere, Antonio Negri, Naomi Klein, Owen Jones, Mike Davis ... in support of PODEMOS: In the wake of the European elections, we want to celebrate the emergence of PODEMOS as a political alternative in Spain. ... While the politics of austerity are turning Southern Europe into a desolate landscape, it is encouraging that more and more people are willing to rise up and fight for democracy, their social rights, and popular sovereignty. Even more so, it is deeply inspiring that they are willing to contest the mandates of the financial and political elites through new, radically democratic means. ... breaking with the neoliberal logic of austerity and the dictatorship of debt; demanding a fair distribution of wealth and labor among all; the radical democratization of all instances of public life; the defense of public services and social rights; and the end of the impunity and corruption that have turned the European dream of liberty, equality and fraternity into the nightmare of an unjust, cynical and oligarchic society.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:35:07 +0000
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