[E-rundbrief] Info 1177 - European Days of Action in March 2013

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1177 - European Days of Action in March 2013 - For 
a European Spring - Our Democracy against their austerity! - a call 
for action against the EU Spring Summit

Bad Ischl, 1.2.2013

Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit

www.begegnungszentrum.at

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As an outcome of Firenze 10+10, dozens of organisations and movements 
have started organising European Days of Action in March - coinciding 
with the EU Spring Summit.

Please support the call below! (Organisations and individuals)

Sign-ons can be sent to this address: europeandayofaction at gmail.com


FOR A EUROPEAN SPRING

Our Democracy against their austerity! - a call for action against the 
EU Spring Summit

'For a European Spring' is a call for actions, strikes and 
demonstrations all over Europe on the 13th of March, and for a 
pan-European demonstration and creative actions in the city of 
Brussels on the 14th of March. It is targeted at the EU Spring Summit, 
where leaders from across the continent will assemble on the 14th and 
15 to strengthen the European Council's response to the crisis.

The response to date from economic and political elites in the 
European Union amounts to a massive attack on welfare, social rights 
and democracy.  This has been achieved by undermining democracy, 
reflected in EU policies including the imposition of austerity, 
demands for deep cuts in social spending, attempts to weaken labour 
laws and the roll back of hard earned labour rights.

This course of action is dangerous, profoundly unjust, and must be 
reversed. While these policies are designed to rescue big banks and 
big business, we, the vast majority, are made to pay for the excesses 
of the privileged.

All over Europe struggles and strikes are happening against these 
unjust policies. These struggles are our struggles, and we reject the 
violent attempts of European states to suppress them. Now is the time 
for solidarity across borders and sectors, to be the force to create 
real democracy and social justice. We are seeking to build a society 
where solutions, very different to those defended by the elites and 
imposed by the EU, can be proposed and discussed by everybody.

We call for actions, strikes and demonstrations on the 13th March 
across Europe as part of a week of European resistance, with a mass 
mobilisation on the 14th in Brussels targeting the EU Spring Summit. 
We will show those in power that our growing movement will, sooner or 
later, be strong enough to change the course of  Europe in the 
interest of us all.


     -    Abolish all EU-austerity treaties and legislation!

     -    For an ecological Transition!

     -    Disarm Financial Markets!

     -    Debt: Don’t owe, don’t pay!

     -    Fire the Troika, not the people!


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Matthias Reichl, Pressesprecher/ press speaker,
Begegnungszentrum fuer aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
Center for Encounter and active Non-Violence
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