Archives: août 2008

  • Une confiture d'abricot pour Obama

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    Publié vendredi 29 août 2008 à 10h46
    par Editeur (vu 1087 fois et 5 commentaires)

    Les militants du PSE de Hongrie ont trouvé une façon originale d'exprimer leur soutien à Barack Obama en préparant une confiture d'abricot pour le candidat démocrate à la présidence des Etats-Unis.

    De fait, le mot "barack" signifie littéralement "abricot" en hongrois. Ainsi, des militants du PSE hongrois réunis dans la ville de Tallya ont décidé de produire et de vendre cette confiture d'abricot sous l'étiquette "Barack for Obama" (de l'abricot pour Obama). Les fonds ainsi recolletés sont allés à des organisations locales de lutte contre la pauvreté infantile.

    Comme le dit Matyas Gati, l'un des organisateurs de la campagne, “C'est une façon amusante de faire passer un message sérieux. Barack Obama est très populaire en Hongrie parce qu'il est si charismatique et aussi parce qu'il représente une véritable alternative aux Républicains qui ont créé un tel gâchis aux Etats-Unis et ailleurs. Nous voulions aussi montrer que nous, les militants du PSE, partageons les mêmes valeurs... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: campagne, élections Etats-Unis


  • PES activists Denmark: We want you

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    Evaluation: 5/5 avec 4 votes

    Publié vendredi 29 août 2008 à 00h43
    par rikkeindenmark Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 719 fois et 2 commentaires)

    On the back cover of DSU'eren, the magazine of the Danish Social Democratic Youth (DSU), you can spot this recruitment poster for PES activists Denmark: 'We want you!" Do you recognize the person who has taken the place of Mr. Lincoln? Yes, you're right, it's Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the PES President.

    Thanks to DSU for their creativity and enthusiasm!

    If I caught the attention of any Danes with this post I'll take the opportunity and spread some other good news: PES activists Denmark will be present at the upcoming Congress of the Danish party. Meet Danish PES activists at the PES stand in Aalborg Congress Centre on the 6th and 7th of September 2008!

     

     

    Tags: campagne, militants


  • animo summer : female orgasm I care !

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    Evaluation: 5/5 avec 3 votes

    Publié jeudi 28 août 2008 à 19h21
    par kim Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 1619 fois et 3 commentaires)

    The 'Female orgasm...I care!' campaign is the latest campaign on youth and sexuality brought to you by animo, young Belgian socialists. They have a long tradition on campaigning on the theme of sexuality, from safe sex actions to 'cut VAT on condoms' revendications. With the 'Female orgasm...I care!' campaign they raise attention on sexual pleasure among young people and provokes a positive discussion on sex. This campaign focuses on the female sexuality and the female orgasm in particular. Because it's still very necessary today.

    Recent research shows that more than fifty percent of young women often fake orgasms. The media shows them how to be tempting and willing, not how to stand up for their own sexual pleasure. Furthermore the female orgasm is surrounded by harsh clichés and myths such as 'women perceive their pleasure as less important' or 'the female orgasm is so hard to achieve'. Complete nonsense says animo, these stereotypes need to be tackled. Women too often lower their expectations due to this stereotypical thinking on women's sexuality. And they absolutely shouldn't.

    With this campaign, animo seeks some debate among young people on sex and sexual pleasure of both men and women. The female orgasm is the teaser to do so. animo calls... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: summer campaign


  • Spice up your local party life with a twinning

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    Evaluation: 4,5/5 avec 4 votes

    Publié jeudi 28 août 2008 à 10h47
    par Editeur (vu 788 fois et 2 commentaires)

    Frédéric Engelmann (à gauche) avec le président du groupe parlementaire PSE Martin Schulz (à droite) au Congrès du PSE 2006
    Frédéric Engelmann (à droite) avec le président du groupe parlementaire PSE Martin Schulz (à gauche) au Congrès du PSE 2006

    Au Forum de Vienne, de nombreux militants du PSE nous ont fait part de leur intérêt pour les jumelages entre sections et entre fédérations. Nous avons donc interrogé Frédéric Engelmann, militant PSE à Paris, sur la manière dont s’est organisé le jumelage de la section du douzième arrondissement de Paris avec la section de Berlin-Mitte.

    Frédéric, comment est venue l’idée du jumelage, et comment l’aventure a-t-elle commencé?

    En fait nos fédérations du PS Paris et du SPD Berlin ont signé un accord similaire il y a 5-6 ans.... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: jumelage, militants


  • La loi Sarkozy: contre la culture, contre la mixité, contre la famille

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    Evaluation: 4/5 avec 3 votes

    Publié mercredi 27 août 2008 à 17h48
    par Ceciliag Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 669 fois et 0 commentaires)

    Le 7 juillet, à Cannes, Brice Hortefeux, ministre français « de l’immigration, de l’intégration, de l’identité nationale et du développement solidaire » (sic!) a officiellement proposé au Conseil européen des ministres des affaires intérieures et de la justice un projet de « Pacte européen sur l’immigration et l’asile». « Son objectif est clair : organiser l’immigration légale et désorganiser l’immigration illégale », nous dit son ministère.

    Loin de n’être qu’un objectif en soit du gouvernement français, le contrôle de l’immigration (passée, présente et future…) est en fait devenu un outil bien pratique pour s’attaquer à la culture, au mariage mixte, à la famille.

     

    Cet été, après le groupe de musique Konono n° 1, ce fut au tour du groupe Kasai All Stars d’annuler sa tournée en raison des difficultés d’octroi de visas. Alors... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: Droits de l'Homme, migration


  • Les participants au camp d'été d'ECOSY proposent de nouvelles idées pour les élections européennes!

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    Evaluation: 4,3/5 avec 4 votes

    Publié mercredi 27 août 2008 à 17h26
    par Editeur (vu 544 fois et 1 commentaires)


    The PES held a workshop at the ECOSY camp on “PES Manifesto 2009 and ECOSY Change for Europe” to discuss with young camp-goers what their ideas would be for how to win the next European elections. Participants split up into four groups and led a debate on their own recommendations:

    The first team analyzed how we could make the differences clearer between the Left and our opponents. They recommended that the PES use clear, popular messages to communicate the differences, focusing on the general theme of the Left believing in stepping in when the market fails and standing up for people. The following are five issues on which the Left could make these distinctions clear:


    1. Right defends economic interests of the elite, while the left defends the common interest
    2. The left defends human security and public services, good health care and education for all
    3. The Left defends minimum social standards, like the minimum wage
    4. The Left is in favour of diversity, as our support for an anti-discrimination directive shows, while the right neither is against immigration and gender equality
    5. The Left distinguishes itself from the Greens by being in favour of cheap and fast public... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: jeunesse


  • Is Transnistria the next follow up of Kosovo UDI?

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    Evaluation: 4/5 avec 6 votes

    Publié mardi 26 août 2008 à 14h53
    par arktika Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 630 fois et 2 commentaires)

    Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, is backing independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia - Georgia's two rebel provinces. The vote came after a brief war between Russia and Georgia following Georgia's assault on the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali Aug. 7. Both countries won de-facto independence in the 1990s after wars with the government in Tbilisi. The road which started from Kosovo UDI seems to continue long because it is estimated that there is about five thousend ethnic groups on globe.

    After Georgia's separatists my bet is that in Europe Transnistria could be the next breakaway province. Let's look this maybe next new state closer:

     

    Pridnestrovie - also known by the unofficial name, Transnistria - is a new and emerging country in South Eastern Europe, sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine. Although widely seen as part of Moldova, historically, Pridnestrovie and Moldova were always separate. Throughout 2500 years of history, the Dniester River forming the current border has been a traditional border between Slav lands (Scythia, 450 B.C.) to the East and Romanian lands (Dacia) to the West.

    The population is some 550.000. The inhabitants of Pridnestrovie are for the most part Slavic. This is in stark contrast to Moldova, on the other side of the Dniester River,... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: Balkans, Caucase, Géorgie, Kosovo


  • Some thoughts on internet strategy

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    Evaluation: 4,5/5 avec 4 votes

    Publié mardi 26 août 2008 à 14h40
    par carl0s Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 709 fois et 7 commentaires)

    Politicians are now expected to use the internet as a matter of course. This process has been led by the United States, where in most elections, there is usually a "President of the Internet Moment." This could refer to a politician who gains fleeting popularity from using the internet in a possibly innovative fashion, or enlisting a keen following of bloggers and posters to evangelise online.

    Professional usage of the internet and its capabilities does not guarantee political success. Arguably, the more slick and managed the presentation, the less impact is generated. The online world seems to be attuned to phenomena rather than propaganda. In Europe, internet traffic sits outside the world of mainstream political culture, it's hard to find examples where conventionally formulated political communication strategies have been successfully translated onto the web.

    To read more, click here

     

    Tags: activists, blogging, campign, EU, European elections, internet, voting


  • Italy shows right is wrong on immigration

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    Evaluation: 4/5 avec 4 votes

    Publié lundi 25 août 2008 à 16h14
    par julian_schaerbeek Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 572 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Three cheers for Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Antonio Vitorino, for starting a debate on socialist migration policies. The right wing is losing the plot, and going too far. Take Italy. What is happening is embarassingly bad. In recent months: Berlusconi and his government have repeatedly linked alleged increases in crime to illegal immigrants and roma people (as if Italy did not have serious crime problems of its own);A law was passed by Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing Government enabling judges to give illegal immigrants convicted of crimes longer jail sentences than to Italians;The interior Minister proposed the fingerprinting of all members of the Roma community including children.

    Now Berlusconi’s coalition partners – the Lega Nord – has proposed a law requiring local referendums before planning permission for mosques can be given, and an outright ban on minarets!

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    Tags: migration


  • Power in service of ethics

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    Evaluation: 4,8/5 avec 5 votes

    Publié mercredi 20 août 2008 à 14h53
    par arktika Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 748 fois et 3 commentaires)

    During last twenty years war for humanitarian reasons has came quite popular in political vocabulary e.g. in Balkans and now with Georgia case. The ideal to use power in the service of ethics is good. The problem is the low level of ethics when US is using her power in world. I remember their actions in Chile to establish dictatorship, their support to killing squads in middle and south America. In 1983, U.S. troops invaded Grenada because it – a tiny island with 110,000 inhabitants - represented a military threat to the USA. In Balkans US made alliances first with Serb leaders (who later came ICTY wanteds) and after with KLA (which before was described as terror organization), al Quida (1st ally then one element in “axis of terror”) etc.

    US started to bomb Serbia – without UNSC approval and based purpose-oriented reports from field - supporting separatist movements. Later US repeated the same in Afghanistan and Iraq (again based false reports). Before 9-11, the US was supportive of the Chechen rebels, suddenly after 9-11 radical Islam, was the new enemy. This is regardless of whatever Chechen terrorists were doing to Russia on their own.

    In Europe the Kosovo question highlights the core... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: Balkans, Kosovo, politique étrangère, Serbie


  • There is no democracy when there is no dialoge!

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    Evaluation: 2,7/5 avec 3 votes

    Publié mercredi 20 août 2008 à 13h43
    par panayotis (vu 635 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Since 2004 that Mr. George Papandreou has been elected as the leader of the Greek Socialists Party he has been asking for participative democracy as the bottom line of any democracy! As a president of the International Socialists movement but also as the most proper prime minister according to public opinion in 2002 , we all hopped that the socialist party will win in the elections of 2007...Thu the biggest obstacle for such an evidence seems to come from inside !!!!!!! The party members , wealthy and well connected with those who take all the jobs from E.E financial support for economy development, not only they refuge to obey in their leader's politic but they keep people out of the party's forum because they are afraid to loose their posts!!!!!!!!!!!!Mr Papandreou, seems to be prisoner of it's own people in a well closed politic area that some, thing of their own despite the damage that they have already... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: Europe, Papandreou, pasok, politics, socialists


  • Pandora box opens

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    Evaluation: 4,8/5 avec 4 votes

    Publié mercredi 20 août 2008 à 12h19
    par arktika Devenir militant(e) du PSE (vu 640 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Georgia launched a major military offensive against South Ossetia on Friday in a bid to regain control of its breakaway province. The attack started few hours after declared ceasefire, just before opening Day of Olympics. The death toll can already be as high as 1400 including some Russian peacekeepers.Kosovo’s unilateral proclamation of independence from Serbia last February played a key role in these developments. There may be endless disputes over whether this has created a legal precedent or not, but realpolitik takes its course regardless. The claim of Great (western) Powers that Kosovo is an absolutely unique case showed be a joke almost immediately when UDI based to their orchestration opened the Pandora box.

    Moscow and quite a few other capitals considered the move a serious step toward the degradation of international law and the triumph of arbitrary approaches to the resolution of global problems. Nonetheless, Russia has chosen a course of compromise. Russia’s leaders could not ignore what happened in the Balkans, but they chose not respond by recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, even though they believe that after Kosovo was proclaimed independent they had every right to do so.

    Pandora box starts to open

    • Armenian political expert Stepan Grigoryan says that Yerevan should recognize... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: gestion de crise