FLORENCE 10+10

THE ASSEMBLY FOR EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY

PRACTICING DEMOCRACY: A NEW PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGY

We don't want to merely discuss European democracy, but practice it in the very methodology for the organisation of the assembly. We plan the assembly to be truly transnational and democratic in the drafting of the agenda and its conclusions. To this end the organisation of the assembly will be open to all, and will employ the latest participatory software to initiate from September a debate on the themes and specific proposals that should emerge from the asembly.

There are two ways to participate:

1) For networks, organisations, or individuals willing to devote substantial time to the organisation and diffusion of the assembly, you may write to florence @ euroalter.com with information on yourself, your interest in the assembly, and how you think you can contribute to the organisation

2) For individual or group interested  in participating in the conceptual development of the Assembly by taking part in the online drafting of the agenda and the main proposals to emerge in the Assembly (or simply to be kept updated on the assembly!) just fill out the form below to receive a notification when the participative process will begin!

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The agenda for the assembly will be built around concrete political proposals to take forwards a transnational struggle for democracy in Europe. These proposals will be defined through a participatory online mechanism starting September. To be updated and take part in the decision of the structure and thematic focus of the assembly, sign up using the form below! 

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Here you may find some texts and background material related to the Assembly

The first version of the call "A democratic rupture for Europe"

FIRENZE 10+10

Dieci anni fa Firenze ospitò il primo European Social Forum. L'appuntamento costituì un momento straordinario nella costruzione di un demos di ampiezza continentale, che presentò analisi, proposte e soluzioni che avrebbero evitato all’Europa lo scontro con la terribile crisi economica, sociale e democratica in cui è ora impantanata.

L’Europa è oggi pervasa dalla necessità di costruire, anche se in nuove forme, uno spazio pubblico europeo e di guardare ai prossimi dieci anni con obiettivi, agende e strategie comuni. La crisi e le politiche di austerità possono essere battute, ma siamo consapevoli che per raggiungere ciò dobbiamo rifuggire la frammentazione e la chiusura di ciascuno nelle propria ristretta dimensione nazionale.

Il forum europeo Firenze 10+10 riunirà per quattro giorni cittadini, movimenti sociali, sindacati, reti e forze sociali da tutta l’Europa che si riconosceranno nella richiesta di una radicale democrazia europea e nella necessità di ricostruire un fronte dei cittadini europei popolare e democratico.

L'ASSEMBLEA PER LA DEMOCRAZIA EUROPEA

Negli ultimi due anni la risposta delle élites europee alla crisi economica e finanziaria è stata segnata da un’aggressiva centralizzazione dei poteri decisionali, senza alcun tentativo di costruire uno spazio democratico transnazionale per legittimare questi nuovi processi europei. L’approvazione del Fiscal Compact è solo l’ultimo passo verso l’imposizione di una disciplina fiscale ancora più severa, che segue il Semestre Europeo, il Patto Europlus e il Six-Pack. L’attacco ai diritti del lavoro e allo stato sociale e la privatizzazione dei servizi fondamentali sembra richiedere in maniera crescente l’umiliazione della democrazia, persino nelle sue forme rappresentative. Lo stesso processo elettorale non avviene più in un clima normale, ma piuttosto sotto il ricatto permanente della crisi del debito sovrano e delle richieste dei mercati finanziari.

Noi lanciamo un appello per la costruzione di una vasta coalizione di movimenti sociali, associazioni, forze politiche e sindacali, ma anche e in special modo dei singoli cittadini che si riconoscono nella richiesta concreta di per una radicale democrazia europea.

PRATICARE LA DEMOCRAZIA: UNA NUOVA METODOLOGIA

Vogliamo progettare l’assemblea in modo che sia veramente transnazionale e democratica nella redazione dell’agenda e delle sue conclusioni, attirando una larga partecipazione europea e ricordando la centralità dello spazio del Centro e dell’Est Europa. Per questo fine, l’organizzazione dell’assemblea impiegherà i più recenti software partecipativi per cominciare da settembre un dibattito aperto su tutti i temi e le proposte che dovrebbero emergere dall’assemblea. Tutte le informazioni sono disponibili, cliccando nella sezione “Partecipa!” accessibile in cima a
questa pagina.

Tramite un processo partecipativo online e attraverso incontri a Milano (12-14 settembre) e Bucarest (19 ottobre), vogliamo che l’assemblea raggiunga degli obiettivi concreti, in particolare:

1) Costruire il consenso su un insieme di richieste per la radicale democratizzazione dello spazio europeo. Queste richieste e proposte saranno il soggetto di uno strutturato dibattito online prima dell’Assemblea.
2) Contribuire all’innovazione delle pratiche politiche dei movimenti, partiti e sindacati in Europa, con la convinzione che la democrazia non dipende solo dalle istituzioni, ma anche dalla capacità della cittadinanza attiva di sviluppare nuove pratiche politiche transnazionali. Il processo partecipativo che vogliamo stabilire per la costruzione dell’assemblea mira anche a mostrare che un differente modello di pratiche democratiche transnazionali è concepibile e implementabile.

Non vogliamo semplicemente discutere della democrazia europea, ma praticarla nella metodologia per l’organizzazione dell’assemblea. Vogliamo progettare l’assemblea in modo che sia veramente transnazionale e democratica nella redazione dell’agenda e delle sue conclusioni. Per questo fine, l’organizzazione dell’assemblea sarà aperta e impiegherà i più recenti software partecipativi per cominciare da settembre un dibattito aperto su tutti i temi e le specifiche proposte che dovrebbero emergere dall’assemblea.

Ci sono due modi per partecipare:

1) Per le reti, le organizzazioni o gli individui che vogliono dedicare una considerevole quantità di tempo all’organizzazione e alla diffusione dell’assemblea, si può scrivere a info @ euroalter.com, inserendo delle informazioni su se stessi, il proprio interesse nei confronti dell’assemblea e come si pensa di contribuire alla sua organizzazione.

2) Per gli individui o i gruppi interessati ad aderire, a prendere parte allo sviluppo concettuale dell’assemblea tramite la partecipazione alla redazione online dell’agenda e delle proposte principali, o semplicemente per coloro che desiderano restare aggiornati, è sufficiente compilare il modulo più sotto per ricevere la notifica dell’inizio del processo partecipativo.

Resta informato/a e partecipa alla costruzione dell'Assemblea
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L’agenda dell’assemblea sarà costruita attorno a concrete proposte politiche per portare avanti una lotta transnazionale per la democrazia in Europa. Queste proposte saranno definite tramite un meccanismo partecipatorio online che comincerà a settembre. Per essere aggiornati e prendere parte alla decisione della struttura e del centro tematico dell’assemblea, iscriviti, utilizzando il formulario più sotto! 

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Qui trovate alcuni documenti utili per la preparazione dell'assemblea. 

La prima versione dell'appello "Una rottura democratica per l'Europa"

 

Ten years ago, Florence hosted the first ever European Social Forum. It constituted an extraordinary moment in the construction of a continent-wide demos, which presented analyses, proposals and solutions which would have avoided Europe crashing into the terrible economic, social and democratic crisis in which it is now mired.

 

Europe is today pervaded by a need to build, albeit in new forms, a European public space, and by the need to look to the next 10 years with common objectives, agendas and strategies. The crisis and the austerity policies can be beaten, but we are aware that to achieve this we have to get away from fragmentation and the closure of each in their own narrow national dimensions.

 

The European forum Florence 10+10 will bring  together over four days citizens, social movements, trade unions, network and social forces from throughout Europe recognising themselves in the demand for radical European democracy and the necessity of re-building a popular and democratic front of European citizens.

 

Over the last two years the response of European elites to the economic and financial crisis has been marked by an aggressive centralisation of decision-making powers, without any attempt at constructing a transnational democratic space to legitimise these new European processes. The approval of the Fiscal Compact is just the latest step towards the imposition of an ever stricter fiscal discipline, following the European Semester, the Europlus Pact, and the Six-Pack. The attack on the rights of labour and of the welfare state and the privatisation of fundamental services seem to increasingly require the humiliation of democracy, even in its representative forms. The electoral process itself no longer takes place in a normal climate, but rather under the permanent blackmail of the crisis of sovereign debts and the demands of financial markets.

 

We launch an appeal for the constitution of a vast coailition of social movements, associations, political and trade union forces, but also and especially individual citizens, recognising themselves in the concrete demand for radical European democracy. We propose for such coalition to meet in an Assembly to be held in the context of the Florence 10+10 mobilisations in November 2012.

 

We plan the assembly to be truly transnational and democratic in the drafting of the agenda and its conclusions, drawing a large European participation and remembering the centrality of the Central and Eastern European space. To this end the organisation of the assembly will be participatory and will employ the latest participatory software to initiate from September a debate open to all on the themes and proposals that should emerge from the assembly. All information is available by clicking in the "Participate!" tab accessible at the top of this page.

Through an online participatory process and meetings in Milan (12-14 September) and Bucharest (19 October), we want the assembly to reach concrete objetives, and in particular:
1) Building a consensus on a set of demands for the radical democratisation of the European space. These demands and proposals will be the subject of a structured online debate prior to the Assembly. 
2) Contributing to the innovation of the political practices of movements, parties, and trade unions in Europe, with the conviction that democracy does not depend only on institutions, but also on the capacity of active citizenship to develop new transnational political practices. The participatory process we want to establish for the construction of the assembly also aims to show that a different model of transnational democratic practices is conceivable and implementable. 

 

 

Ten years ago, Florence hosted the first ever European Social Forum. It constituted an extraordinary moment in the construction of a continent-wide demos, which presented analyses, proposals and solutions which would have avoided Europe crashing into the terrible economic, social and democratic crisis in which it is now mired.

 

Europe is today pervaded by a need to build, albeit in new forms, a European public space, and by the need to look to the next 10 years with common objectives, agendas and strategies. The crisis and the austerity policies can be beaten, but we are aware that to achieve this we have to get away from fragmentation and the closure of each in their own narrow national dimensions.

 

The European forum Florence 10+10 will bring  together over four days citizens, social movements, trade unions, network and social forces from throughout Europe recognising themselves in the demand for radical European democracy and the necessity of re-building a popular and democratic front of European citizens.

 

Over the last two years the response of European elites to the economic and financial crisis has been marked by an aggressive centralisation of decision-making powers, without any attempt at constructing a transnational democratic space to legitimise these new European processes. The approval of the Fiscal Compact is just the latest step towards the imposition of an ever stricter fiscal discipline, following the European Semester, the Europlus Pact, and the Six-Pack. The attack on the rights of labour and of the welfare state and the privatisation of fundamental services seem to increasingly require the humiliation of democracy, even in its representative forms. The electoral process itself no longer takes place in a normal climate, but rather under the permanent blackmail of the crisis of sovereign debts and the demands of financial markets.

 

We launch an appeal for the constitution of a vast coailition of social movements, associations, political and trade union forces, but also and especially individual citizens, recognising themselves in the concrete demand for radical European democracy. We propose for such coalition to meet in an Assembly to be held in the context of the Florence 10+10 mobilisations in November 2012.

 

We plan the assembly to be truly transnational and democratic in the drafting of the agenda and its conclusions, drawing a large European participation and remembering the centrality of the Central and Eastern European space. To this end the organisation of the assembly will be participatory and will employ the latest participatory software to initiate from September a debate open to all on the themes and proposals that should emerge from the assembly. All information is available by clicking in the "Participate!" tab accessible at the top of this page.

Through an online participatory process and meetings in Milan (12-14 September) and Bucharest (19 October), we want the assembly to reach concrete objetives, and in particular:
1) Building a consensus on a set of demands for the radical democratisation of the European space. These demands and proposals will be the subject of a structured online debate prior to the Assembly. 
2) Contributing to the innovation of the political practices of movements, parties, and trade unions in Europe, with the conviction that democracy does not depend only on institutions, but also on the capacity of active citizenship to develop new transnational political practices. The participatory process we want to establish for the construction of the assembly also aims to show that a different model of transnational democratic practices is conceivable and implementable.