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Conference "Global gas lock-in: linking North-South resistance" - Video and picture galleryLocal activists and NGOs who are fighting against gas projects all around the world came together at a large international conference in Brussels which took place from 21 to 23 September 2017. Under the headline "Global gas lock-in: linking North-South resistance", participants took part in different activities aiming at building and strengthening a global network to fight against extraction, pipelines, LNG Terminals and to phase out all fossil fuels.
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Progressive social and political forces discussed the issues of a new industrial strategy for EuropeThis conference, a joint initiative of transform! europe, the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels office, brought trade unionists, researchers, politicians and representatives of NGOs together in Brussels (19 and 20 June 2017) to tackle the issues of a new industrial strategy for Europe could help us find a new path for Europe. This strategy should be based on the following principles: a truly progressive ...
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Conference organised by the Delegation DIE LINKE. in the European Parliament and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels, in cooperation with Transform!A socially just energy transition can only be achieved together. To form this common ground, to exchange different experiences and to hold strategic discussions, it was for these reasons that representatives of European trade union federations, NGOs, think tanks, the climate movement, the scientific sector, and politicians of different levels met at the invitation of the GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament, the Rosa Luxembourg ...
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7 April health day for public and free health careHealth, as one of our most precious possessions, has an estimable value in our society. With long struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and globally the people achieved to impose health care as their fundamental right and as a collective public value to be preserved and taken care of.
In the last 30 years these achievements became more and more endangered. The ruling classes repeatedly tried to bend the health care to their interests on a global scale. Commercialization and privatization of health care ...
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Videos and pictures | International conference, 28 Sept - 1 Oct 2016 | Berlin and BrusselsSince the implementation of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 the destruction of local economies and livelihoods drove many Mexicans into migration, to look for jobs and get money to send back home to their impoverished families.Around the world, the forced implementation of trade liberalisation, privatisation, and deregulation increased injustice and drove millions of peoples into poverty since the beginning of the neoliberal era. Today, the ...
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Why the world needs to go renewable and how this can workThe impact of methane on the climate, possible consequences of fracking on Aquifer systems and strong civil society movements who are resisting the extraction of fossil fuels.
Here is why the world needs to go renewable immediately and how this can work.
We have interviewed the following speakers for this video:
Robert HowarthCornell University, New York, Board of Directors for Food & Water WatchLorena RiffoTierra para Vivir, Universidad National de Comahue, ArgentinaHamza ...
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The European Commission (EC) is currently working on the implementation of its Better Regulation Package and praises this initiative for its supposed potential to relief the burdens within the regulatory framework and the resulting economic growth including the promise of more jobs in Europe. After close examination, however, it becomes clear that the Better Regulation Package serves the interest of business first, disregarding social standards, environmental laws and democratic processes.
Sounds a lot like TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment ...
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TTIP is threatening our democratic rights, food sovereignty, jobs and the environment. From 10 to 17 October many movements are sending out a loud and clear signal against TTIP and similar agreements. Join them! Information about activities near you: www.trade4people.org.
With climate change looming, we are facing an energy emergency. How can unions fight for change? This video from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, New York City Office, and Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) gives an answer.
The video is also available in the following languages:
Arabic
French
German
Spanish
The message to Europe regarding its migration and refugee policy is clear: we need to assure that routes for refugees are safe, that people can move freely in Europe and that migrants are properly accommodated, instead of closing borders and shutting people out. #RefugeesWelcome
We collected these statement during the Fiesta del PCE in Madrid, September 2015.