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Transeuropa Festival Reclaiming the Cloud(s)
Athens, 7-11 October
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European Alternatives works to promote democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation-state and imagine, demand and enact alternatives for a viable future.
Open Call for Facilitators – Citizens’ Assembly on AI and Border Control (Athens)
As part of the Democratic Digital Commons project, we are looking for facilitators for an in-person Citizens’ Assembly on AI and Border Control, taking place in Athens on 10 October 2026, within the Transeuropa Festival Reclaiming the Cloud(s). This assembly…
No Justice Without Accountability: Challenging Police Violence in Europe
Abderrahim Fakir died pleading for help from police. Italy is facing outrage after the death of Abderrahim Fakir, a 42 year old Moroccan-born man who had lived in Italy since he was five years old, who died while being restrained…
Resisting the far right: We say no to the normalization of the far right
On September 6, 2026, the AfD won Sachsen-Anhalt’s state election with 43.8% of the vote. This is the strongest result in any German state to date, putting a party built on ethnonationalism within reach of governing power in Germany for…
Rivers of Democracy
Rivers of Democracy is a transnational initiative that seeks to reimagine rivers not only as ecological systems but as subjects of rights, intertwined with human communities, democratic participation, and cultural expression. Flowing across borders, the project transforms Europe’s rivers into…
Strike for Gaza 🍉
Today in Italy, a nationwide strike for Palestine brought the country to a halt. Schools, offices, shops, everything stopped. The streets and squares filled with crowds carrying banners and flags, demanding justice and liberation for Palestine. The nationwide strike in…
MOOC Launch: Youth, Democracy & Technology
We’re launching a new online course: Youth, Democracy & Technology: Participatory Approaches for Critical Consciousness. The Critical Change Labs (CCLabs) project announces the launch of a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Youth, Democracy and Technology: Participatory Approaches for Critical…
Articles about Gaza
A curated collection of articles highlighting global solidarity with Palestine
Pride in LGBTQI+, Pride in Diversity, Pride in Democracy
STATEMENT The Hungarian government of Victor Orban has passed laws and constitutional amendments that attempt to ban public events by LGBTQI+ people, including Budapest Pride, scheduled for the 28th June this year. The constitutional amendment authorises the use of surveillance…
Democracy is a collective act of care
Together, we rise. Together, we fight. Together, we care. Event at Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30A, 1040 Wien, Austria – 23 May 2025 Registration form Overview ‘Democracy as a collective act of care’ is a complementary event to the Democratic Odyssey’s Vienna…
Movement Learning Catalyst: building a learning community across struggles and places.
The Movement Learning Catalyst has great news for you. We are about to share a new Learner’s Guide and launch a new action-learning platform that aims to nurture the interconnected movements, realities and responsive strategies needed to challenge systems of…
Journal
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
Gareth Watkins Tommy Robinson tweets an image of soldiers walking into the ocean on D-Day. Britain First’s co leader produces imagery of Muslim men laughing at sad white girls on public transport. An AI generated song combining kitsch schlager pop…
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Don’t Call Me Resilient: Migrant Academics, Precarity, and Epistemic Injustice in Europe
by Sara Badri & Valerii Saenko As migrant academics in Europe working on migration, we recognised the persistent need to talk about migrants’ lived experiences inside European universities. In response, we organised a seminar and a follow-up workshop as a…
Ceasefire Now! Open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip and Israel.
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Democratic Digital Commons
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EMMELO Project
European Men, Masculinity, and Extremist Leadership Online The first output of the EMMELO project is out. The EMMELO Project: European Men, Masculinity, and Extremist Leadership Online examines the role of masculinity in extremist movements online across Europe and the threats…
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Rivers of Democracy
Rivers of Democracy is a series of transnational residencies across Europe where rivers are treated as political living spaces, shaping how we think about participation and democracy. Flowing across borders, these journeys turn Europe’s waterways into sites of encounter where…
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DDC Assembly 3: Who Watches Us? A Citizens’ Assembly on the Limits of AI-Powered Surveillance
How far should public safety justify the use of facial recognition technology? 2nd September 9:00-18:00MagNet Közösségi Ház, Budapest, Andrássy út 98, 1062 REGISTER NOW In recent years, facial recognition, surveillance and analytical technologies have become part of our everyday lives,…
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From factories to squares: how protest is rewiring Europe’s radical politics, and what that means for transnational futures
Diego Castel Europe likes to speak the language of values: democracy, rights, peace, multilateralism. But values are never just slogans. They are practiced through institutions, and institutions only move when someone builds power that can endure. If Europe is serious…
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ONLINE ASSEMBLY 3: Rejecting discriminatory algorithms: Is Unbiased AI Possible?
Who gets to design the systems that increasingly govern us, and what would it mean to design them differently? AI is already making decisions about our lives: who gets an interview, who receives welfare, who is considered “high risk”, what…