Published Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 17:35
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Some of our
activists are already started spreading the voice about the
Vienna Forum! Here are some of their reactions:
- More than 10 posts have already been published by activists on YourSpace.
- Nils, from the PES secretariat, created a Facebook group.
- Aleksander, from Paris, posted photos on Flickr. And so did Francisco and the PES Secretariat
. You can also find photos on Emilio's Picasa web albums.
- Paula, from Brussels, posted photos on Facebook. And so did
read morePublished Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 14:41
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Video presented in Vienna during the first PES activists Forum. Read other posts on the Forum submited by participants here and leave us your contribution!
read morePublished Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 16:47
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The PES manifesto consultation has ended – after over 300,000 visits to Yourspace and more than 600 contributions posted! But our dialogue on ‘Yourspace’ goes on! We will continue to debate the hot issues that will shape the European elections – migration, climate change, rising food and energy prices, jobs, equality, the EU treaty – as well as getting ready for the elections: presenting PES candidates from different countries, discussing campaign activities, hearing about your events, exposing opposition parties and candidates, drawing the dividing lines between the PES and the other European parties, and keeping you informed about the preparation of the PES manifesto.
We will kick off the post-consultation dialogue with a debate on migration – kicked off by Portuguese socialist and former European Commissioner Antonio Vitorino – as well as reports from the PES activists forum in Vienna on July 4-5 (the final event of...
read morePublished Monday, July 7, 2008 at 11:28
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Saturday I joined the
workshop on “European dimension in European election” at the PES
Seminar in Vienna. Thanks to PES, ECOSY – Young European Socialists
and their member organisation, I also had the opportunity to
present recent (international) campaigns, as for example the Free
Burma Campaign (JS in de PVDA), Disarmament and Peace (JUSOS
Germany) or a Belgian campaign concerning censorship in Flanders
(Animo Belgium). In addition I had the chance to briefly speak
about the “Netzwerk gegen Rechts” (Network against right wing
extremism), which was set up by the Socialist Youth Austria (SJOE)
in 2004 and still is very successful.
So far, more than 3000 young people joined the Network and are active in the fight against right wing extremism.
We as SJOE offer several things: concerts (rock against racism), seminars, workshops, exhibitions, meetings with contemporary witnesses, excursions and many materials. We consider that it is absolutely necessary to share our experiences with other organizations as many countries face similar problems.
Through this exchange we can have a look at “best practices”, but also...
read morePublished Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 12:39
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300 PES activists
are in Vienna to discuss the proposal for the manifesto2009! PES
President, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Alfred Gusenbauer, Federal
Chancellor of Austria, Andreas Schieder, State Secretary within
the Austrian Federal Chancellery, and Ania Skrzypek, Secretary
General of ECOSY, welcomed the participants during the opening
ceremony.
Today four sessions took place on "Campaigning" and on the "Manifesto" issues. The participation was high with very positive outcome!
Drop by our Flickr channel and check some of the photos!
read morePublished Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 10:17
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Many participants to the online consultation noted the need to push forward the anti-discrimination directive to deal with the increasing intolerance, homophobia and discrimination in Europe. We also need to educate people and politicians, and change backward mentalities to ensure legislation is effectively implemented. The PES should therefore produce a clear statement on this directive.
Natalia highlighted the need to put emphasis on equality policies as a cornerstone of the PES political action: “in defining socialist policies, we have a moral obligation to work in favour of this profound social change through education, legislation and the questioning of those social models based on the so-called superiority of one sex over the other”. The case of the Spanish government, with 9 women and 8 men, and a Ministry of Equality, should be used as a best practice.
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Published Monday, May 26, 2008 at 11:00
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Thanks to Corinne
Bord for sharing her ideas on Yourspace!
This week PES activist José Reis Santos from Portugal will be blogging on Yourspace. José is 33 years old and lives in Lisbon where he works as history and political science researcher. José committed to PES activists at PES Congress in Porto in 2006. Currently he is coordinating the Portuguese contribution to the PES manifesto.
read morePublished Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 12:32
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Published Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 12:14
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Big news for socialists in Spain! PSOE, the Spanish socialist
party, has launched a new online meeting place for
Spanish-speaking activists: Europeo, Socialista y Orgullos de Serlo (European,
socialist and proud to be so!).
The new website is the place to be if you want to keep updated on
PES activists Spain and the Spanish debate on the PES manifesto
consultation!
Published Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 11:14
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A big thanks to
Åsa
Westlund for being last week's blogger!
This week Yourspace welcomes Corinne Bord from France. Corinne is 38 years old and became a member of the French Socialist Party after the Maastricht referendum campaign. She's a political activist, working to build a Social Europe. Corinne is Vice-President of the Léo Lagrange Federation, member of SOLIDAR and vice-president of the French platform CPCA, in charge of European affairs.
read morePublished Monday, May 5, 2008 at 11:35
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Thanks to Esteban Romero
and Spanish PES activists for blogging on Yourspace last
week!Published Monday, April 28, 2008 at 10:27
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Thanks a lot to
Isabella Frenning for being last week's
blogger!
This week Esteban Romero from Spain will be blogging on
Yourspace. Esteban is 29 years old and lives in Granada where
works as an assistant professor at the local university. He
committed to the PES manifesto campaign last year while he has
doing a traineeship in the European Commission. Currently he is
coordinating a Spanish-language blog about the PES
manifesto.
Next to Esteban a number of other PES activists from the 'Manifiesto
2009' blog team will be sharing their ideas on Yourspace. So
this week you get the chance to experience several voices from
Spain!
Published Monday, April 21, 2008 at 11:41
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Thanks to Brian
Booth for blogging on Yourspace last week!Published Monday, April 14, 2008 at 17:56
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Thanks to Martina Preuss for being last week's blogger on Yourspace!
For the coming days Brian
Booth, Belgium, will give his input for the PES manifesto.
Brian is 29 years old and holds a MA in Medieval History from the
Université Libre de Bruxelles. Living in Brussels, where he works
as a political advisor to the deputy mayor in charge for public
properties, Brian is a long time member of the Mouvement des Jeunes
Socialistes and is currently ECOSY Vice-President with a portfolio for
equality, justice and solidarity.
Welcome to Yourspace!
Published Monday, April 7, 2008 at 12:09
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Thanks to Ania
Skrzypek from ECOSY for being our blogger of
the week!
This week Yourspace welcomes Martina Preuss from Germany. She is
46 years old and has been a member of the SPD, the German Social
Democratic Party, for many years. Since the last elections for
the German Bundestag in 2005 she was blogging for and about the
SPD on her blog "Parteiblog". Martina is also moderating the forums
and blogs of the local Goettingen SPD in the recently launched an
SPD community.
Additionally, she is a member of the SPD internet administrator
team called "Websozis".
Martina Preuss lives in Goettingen in the South of Lower Saxony.
She works as an administrative officer in an engineering office
for wind tunnels and fluid mechanics. But there are even more
things that she does! Martina is also running an internet travel
agency together with a friend - and with two other collegues
she's just starting up an online social network community for
older employees and self-employed persons.
Now, Martina will also be 'blogger of the week' on...
Published Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:00
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Thanks a lot to our
last blogger of the week, Hanna
Isbom.
Ania Skrzypek is Secretary General of Young European Socialists – or ECOSY in short – and this week she’ll be blogging on Yourspace. ECOSY, which in November 2007 celebrated its 15th birthday, gathers Socialist and Social Democratic youth and students organizations from all over Europe who all together campaign since 2005 for “A Social Europe for Everyone” ECOSY is a member of European Youth Forum, one of the founding members of GPYF – Global Progressive Youth Forum and being an exciting space in which inspiring visions are constructed, politics happens and great friendships begin organizes debates, seminars, Winter Universities and Summer Camps (the upcoming one is taking place in France in July 2008 – don’t’ miss it).
In the fascinating PES Manifesto Consultations, ECOSY has been actively involved since June 2007, submitting already three contributions for the PES manifesto consultation and one more...
read morePublished Monday, March 10, 2008 at 09:57
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Thanks to Yohann
Abiven for blogging on Yourspace last week!
This week Yourspace proudly presents blogger Hanna
Isbom from Helsinki, Finland. Hanna is 27 years old, holds a
master's degree in political science and works in the Finnish
Parliament as an assistant. She has been active in the Social
Democratic Party of Finland for several years, is a member of
the Party Council and coordinator of the PES activists city group in Helsinki.
Welcome, Hanna!
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Published Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 15:34
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Good news from
Hungary! MSZP,
the Hungarian Socialist Party, has launched their own consultation website
and invite their members to discuss the PES manifesto in Hungarian.
The site looks great and there's already debates going on. If
you're a Hungarian speaker don't hesitate to visit the new website!
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Published Monday, February 25, 2008 at 11:04
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Thanks to Jon Worth for
blogging on Yourspace last week!
This week Yourspace welcomes Victor Negrescu, national
coordinator of PES
activists Romania and a figure in the Romanian left-wing NGO
sector. On his blog (written in Romanian) Victor already adresses
the PES manifesto and other European debates which concern
Romania. Victor can be reached via mail at victor.negrescu
(at) pes dot ro.
Published Monday, February 18, 2008 at 14:24
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Thanks a lot to
Eric Sundström for being our first blogger of
the week! There's still time to read and comment on his posts
- find them all here.
This week Yourspace welcomes another blogger: Jon Worth from the
UK. Jon is a PES activist and social democrat blogger. He is a
member of the Labour Party in the UK and he works in both London
and Brussels as a website designer and online communications
strategist.
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Published Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 16:38
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A new website for Romanian PES activists has just had its premiere! A part of the website is a blog where Romanian speakers are invited to debate the PES manifesto. Welcome to Yourspace, PES activists Romania!
Published Monday, February 11, 2008 at 10:05
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This week Yourspace welcomes its first
'blogger of the week': Eric Sundström from Stockholm, Sweden. Eric
is chief editor of the social democratic newspaper 'Aktuellt i
Politiken', but also a PES activist and blogger. For the next days Eric will be blogging on
Yourspace and sharing his thoughts on the PES manifesto and how
Europe's socialists and social democrats can campaign together in
the next European elections.
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Published Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 16:28
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Published Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 14:25
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A number of UK blogs have picked up the Yourspace vibe: Compass Youth, Dirty
Leftie and Peter Kenyon. Thanks for mentioning the manifesto2009 consultation!
Published Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 17:47
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Portuguese bloggers are active writing and informing their readers about the PES consultation process. These are good news for portuguese speaking-readers, as they will now be able to read in Camões' language what is going on!
Some suggestions: visit Luís Novaes Tito's blog, have a look at Carlos Manuel Castro's space, don't miss Celso Guedes' articles and read about the manifesto echos in loja de ideias.
Obrigada pela colaboração :)
read morePublished Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 13:19
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Now one of Sweden's most read social democratic bloggers, Jonas Morian, writes about the PES manifesto2009 consultation. He highlights Yourspace as a welcome initiative to increase the significance of the European parties. Thumbs up!
read morePublished Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 12:40
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Journal
d'un Chou from France has found Yourspace and sends PES and
the manifesto2009 consultation some good vibrations:
"...est à marquer absolument d'une pierre blanche car une véritable révolution démocratique est en train de s'opérer. Une nouvelle façon de parler de politique au niveau européen est en train d'apparaître et c'est le PSE, c'est-à-dire tous les socialistes européens qui en sont le moteur."
We salute you!
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