[Individual-members-EL] WG: EL Newsletter 01/09

[Dr. Peter Troxler]

May I suggest 2 radical changes to the newsletter:

(1) reduce the stuff that YOU are proud of and which is of little  
relevance to us to a headline and a link to the website
(2) expand announcements so
(2.a) they don't cover the next few weeks only (but the next 9  
months), and
(2.b) you make it totally obvious in what way you wish that the  
members base would get involved
(2.c) if not you don't really need to publish the events, since it  
doesn't mean a thing

so if the newsletter is only about polishing YOUR image I don't really  
need it, nor will it be beneficial to anybody and (most probably) any  
cause

best / Peter

On 6 feb 2009, at 16:51, European Left wrote:

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> Together for Change in Europe - 21st Century Europe needs Peace,  
> Democracy, Social Justice and Solidarity
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> Common Electoral Platform of the European Left
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> At the Electoral Conference in Berlin on 29 November 2008, the  
> European Left adopted a common electoral platform and common  
> positions on the financial crisis and a feminist Europe for the 2009  
> elections to the European Parliament.
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> The elections to the European Parliament in June 2009 will be an  
> opportunity to change the foundations of the European Union, and to  
> open a new perspective for Europe. We are facing financial, economic  
> and social crises, a crisis of the whole system, which continues to  
> propagate day by day. This crisis only further amplifies the  
> problems the world community is experiencing in reference to the  
> food, energy and ecological issues. It deepens the gender gap. In  
> fact, this crisis affects the lives of all people in Europe and in  
> the world. READ MORE
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> World Social Forum 2009
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> On January 27th the streets of Belem (Brasil) were filled with more  
> than 100.000 people marching, singing and dancing during the  
> colourful opening March of the WSF 2009 in the Amazon region. The  
> first thematic day of the Forum focussed on the Pan Amazon region.  
> Main issues dealt with the defence of the rights of indigenous  
> communities, environment, the preservation of the Amazon rainforest  
> and fighting climate change. READ MORE
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> To the Youth of Greece, to the Youth of Europe
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> Declaration of the European Left Council of Chairpersons and  
> Executive Board at the extraordinary meeting in Athens on 17 January  
> 2009
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> The European Left Party is gathered today in Athens not only to  
> express its complete solidarity with the uprising of the Greek  
> youth, with the brother party Synaspismos, with SYRIZA and with all  
> the left and democratic forces, but because the fight of the youth,  
> the educational community and workers in Greece touched the hearts  
> of the people and the youth in every corner of Europe. READ MORE
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> Women as Workers for Peace, Menders of Peace, and Preservers of Peace
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> EL fem Peace Seminar in Leipzig
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> >From 17 to 18 January 2009 the EL fem network, in cooperation with  
> the feminist network LISA of Die Linke, organised a seminar in  
> Leipzig, where 90 women from 13 countries participated with ideas  
> and proposals for peace initiatives.
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> Three working groups dealing with the role of women in the Middle  
> East peace process, with the opposition to US military bases and the  
> 60th anniversary of NATO, and with the concept of culture of peace,  
> were the main platform of discussion and elaboration of future  
> projects. READ MORE
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> Ceasefire now! Stop the war! EL mobilize for peace
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> Resolution of the European Left adopted at the Executive Board  
> meeting in Berlin on 10 January 2009
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> The Executive Board meeting of the Party of the European Left is  
> taking place 14 days after the start of the aggression of the  
> Israeli army against the Palestinian people in Gaza. In these  
> dramatic days, it is necessary for the largest mobilization of the  
> peace movement to support the demand of the end of the war. The  
> European Left appeals to its member parties to mobilize in the next  
> days in this sense.
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> The European Left strongly condemns the Israeli invasion of Gaza,  
> which provokes a heavy loss of lives, most of them civilians,  
> including many children. There is no justification whatsoever for  
> the collective punishment of the people living in this densely  
> populated strip, who were already facing the tragic consequences of  
> a long blockade. READ MORE
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> Another Middle East is possible
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> EL Middle East Conference in Istanbul on 19-20 December 2008
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> The conference was held at a historic moment when those who are  
> victims of globalisation at large, the unemployed, workers, farmers  
> and agricultural producers, pensioners, women and young people, and  
> all those struggling for democracy, peace, ecology and freedoms are  
> encountering the same problems and expressing the same demands. This  
> is why this conference is of great importance in furthering the  
> solidarity and developing the common struggle between the forces of  
> democracy and labour in the region and within the European Left.  
> READ MORE
> Upcoming Events
>
> 6 February EL Conference "New Crisis of an Old System: Left  
> Proposals for Europe" in Lisbon
> 8 March International Women's Day
> 20-22 March EL fem Seminar "How Feminist is the Left - How Left is  
> Feminism" in Vienna
> 20-22 March Alternative Water Forum in Istanbul
> 4 April Demonstrations against the 60th anniversary of NATO in  
> Strasbourg
> More Information
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