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📺 DIRECTO | Borrell, sobre la UE: "Creo que está el viejo complejo del Holocausto. Solo hay que oír a la presidenta de la Comisión: 'por fin el pueblo judío pudo volver a Tierra Prometida'. ¿A estas alturas nos referimos a promesas bíblicas para tomar decisiones políticas? social.elpais.com/7flro

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

Al Jazeera: At least 104 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since Friday, the day Trump called on Israel to halt its bombing campaign.

Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25 - Comparative European Politics Social movement scholarship has emphasized that progressive ‘Europeanization from below’ may be a breeding ground for major EU reform and democratization. Empirically, however, activists have found it difficult to make gains when targeting the EU. To understand the challenges that activists face in the context of transnational EU mobilization, our article draws from agency-oriented approaches in social movement studies to propose an ‘EU mobilization package’, comprising three recurring strategic dilemmas that activists encounter: (a) the formulation of goals that both address the transnational level and appeal to national or local constituencies, (b) the building of a transnational political organization that is both inclusive and effective, and (c) whether and how to interact with EU institutions, particularly in the context of European Parliament elections. We apply this framework to the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), an organization founded by Yanis Varoufakis in 2016, which is a key example of social movement dissensus to EU politics. Methodologically, we rely on comprehensive interview data, the analysis of a large corpus of DiEM25 online and offline publications, and participant observation of three public events. A discussion of the group’s strategic challenges provides important general lessons for our understanding of social movement mobilization targeting EU politics as well as transnational activism.

Building transnational parties seems to be a key ingredient for democratising the EU,but efforts have not succeeded so far. Looking at @diem25.bsky.social, @manesweisskircher.bsky.social & I just published this piece on why social movements struggle to change the EU link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy
#palestine #theguardian

Memory is important, but it has to be as complete as possible.

Of course the 7 October attacks didn’t happen in a vacuum. Just in 2023 prior to 7 October, Israel had already killed hundreds of Palestinians, both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank,

The 7 October attacks by Hamas & IJ did happen, and took hundreds of civilian lives. The 🇮🇱 reaction, which included a still unknown figure of Israeli casualties, does not erase that fact.
But 🇮🇱 never opened a commission of inquiry & never cooperated with the UN inquiry. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Que es de las acomodadas sí lo reconoció. Lo de la gestación subrogada no lo mencionó, por cierto.

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Greta Thunberg releases a video describing the conditions faced by Palestinian adults and children in Israeli custody after her release.

Mood.

“Steal the rich”. Inspiring words by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, tonight at Bozar, Brussels.

🟠 NEW (via Ynet):

Israel has earmarked over half a billion shekels ($145 million) in its 2025 budget to weaponize social media and ChatGPT in its largest U.S. propaganda push since it began carrying out a genocide in Gaza, according to newly filed FARA documents...

Hopes rise for Kurdish politician Demirtaş’s release as Turkey faces ECtHR deadline - Turkish Minute Hopes are rising that jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş could be freed this week as Turkey approaches a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) deadline to challenge a ruling that his imprisonment...

Hopes rise for Kurdish politician Demirtaş’s release as Turkey faces ECtHR deadline www.turkishminute.com/2025/10/06/h...

Este fin de semana las calles hablaron.
Y el mensaje fue claro: no más pactos con genocidas.

Por exigencia popular, todos los pactos con Israel deben romperse de inmediato.
No seremos cómplices.

Madagascar anti-government protesters take to the streets for third week Demonstrators in Madagascar decry corruption, daily power cuts and water shortages as tensions with authorities rise.

Demonstrators in Madagascar decry corruption, daily power cuts and water shortages as tensions with authorities rise.

Hundreds of thousands marched through Amsterdam, Netherlands in solidarity with Gaza. Protesters called for an end to the genocide, accountability for Israeli leaders, and for the Dutch government to take a stronger stand against Israel’s actions.

Photos by Mohammed Zaanoun

🔶Greta Thunberg llega al aeropuerto de Atenas junto a otros activistas de la flotilla humanitaria hacia Gaza.

"Hay un genocidio ocurriendo ante nuestros ojos. Nadie en el futuro podrá decir 'no lo sabíamos'", ha dicho la activista al llegar al aeropuerto.
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Greta Thunberg in Greece:

I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.

Israel says it deported Greta Thunberg and 170 other Gaza flotilla activists Israel's Foreign Ministry told Agence France-Presse that 138 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla were still in Israeli custody.

Israel says it deported Greta Thunberg and 170 other Gaza flotilla activists

Four Belgians in Gaza flotilla have been freed by Israel Four Belgians in Gaza flotilla have been freed by Israel

Three of the detained Belgians had gone on hunger strike to protest their detention conditions in Israel.

La Vuelta señala el camino: Palestina y una nueva praxis internacionalista El salto cualitativo que ha representado la acción popular contra el equipo Israel-Premier Tech es la expresión incipiente de un proceso más general de reposicionamiento y redimensión del internaciona...

El masivo y radical ejercicio de boicot popular contra el equipo Israel-Premier Tech en La Vuelta nos deja una serie de aprendizajes que, como parte del auge movilizador pro-palestino de los últimos años, no podemos pasar por alto.

✍️ @gorkamartija.bsky.social en @elsaltodiario.com

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El Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2025 ha sido para Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell y Shimon Sakaguchi por sus descubrimientos revolucionarios sobre la tolerancia inmunitaria periférica, que evita que el sistema inmunitario dañe al organismo. @nobelprize.bsky.social

Cuatro primeros ministros desde el año pasado, "Francia abocada a la crisis política".

Todo porque respetar el resultado de las legislativas e integrar las demandas políticas del frente de izquierdas que ganó las elecciones sería "el caos".

Coup de théâtre, Lecornu a remis sa démission à Macron, qui l’a acceptée. L'ancien chef du gouvernement a tenu 27 jours et devient le premier ministre le plus éphémère de l’Histoire. Quelle humiliation pour Macron...

France: le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron qui l'a acceptée Le Premier ministre français Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission au président Emmanuel Macron qui l'a acceptée, ce lundi 6 octobre, après avoir formé un gouvernement qui a suscité de vives critiques.

🔴 URGENT - France: le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron qui l'a acceptée

“The first five immigrants deported to Eswatini [former Swatziland] this year were from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen”. Insane.