Yup guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
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Did you read the short discription of the new European activists initiative?
It says that party members who are engaged in shaping the European agenda of their national parties, where they DO vote and GET elected, can now take advantage of the new European meta party structure in order to exchange ideas, gain insider knowledge about the workings of other parties, network, arrange joint working groups, kick start multilateral crossborder policy initiatives - all meant to be brought 'home' to their respective parties.
In short: Political activists on the grassroots (and higher) levels who are promoting the progressive European policy agenda are now able to create the instruments to interact within the framework of (what was it?) 33 socialist, socialdemocratic and labour parties.
We already do what Dr Dean still wants to accomplish and what Mr Kos collects money for. And we do it within a membership of several millions organized party members throughout the EU Member States and accession and candidate countries, as well as Israel, Iceland, Norway and yes...Ukraine and the Republic of San Marino, too. "The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
Why should I have to become a member of the PSOE of of the Labour party when what I want to get involved with is European politics?
Get back to me when the Party of the European Socialists accepts individual memberships. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
