DiEM25 Organisational Launch in the UK
1st January 1970 · 12:00am - 12:00am
In person | Virtual event
Today, with 2017 upon us, members of DiEM25 in the UK are convinced that Theresa May’s government is pushing Britain toward the rocks while progressive political forces are too introverted to make a difference.
For this reason, DiEM25 UK is gearing up to establish itself as a movement in every British city and town with a view to harnessing the discontent that surfaced during 2016 in order to make 2017 the year when progressive politics returns to Britain.
10-10.45 WHY DOES BRITAIN NEED DiEM25?
- Welcoming speeches by members of DiEM25’s Coordinating Collective
- Purpose of the event: How to make DiEM25 operational throughout the UK
10.50-11.50 BUILDING ALLIANCES IN UK & OUR BREXIT POLICY
Keynotes followed by moderated open dialogue
12.00-13:00 ORGANISING ACROSS THE UK: ‘THE DAY AFTER’
- Short interventions by DiEM25 UK members who helped organise the event
- Amending the organisation’s name
- Commencing work on a Manifesto for a Democratic UK
- Commencing work on extending DiEM25’s economic and social agenda (the European Green New Deal) to the UK
- Building up DiEM25 UK across the UK
DiEM25 is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats.
We believe that the European Union is disintegrating. Europeans are losing their faith in the possibility of European solutions to European problems. At the same time as faith in the EU is waning, we see a rise of misanthropy, xenophobia and toxic nationalism.
If this development is not stopped, we fear a return to the 1930s. That is why we have come together despite our diverse political traditions – Green, radical left, liberal – in order to repair the EU. The EU needs to become a realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity for all Europeans. We must act quickly, before the EU disintegrates.