Per la presidente di Emergency il 7 ottobre è l'occasione per riaffermare e difendere i valori e i principi della Costituzione
Articolo 11: "L'Italia ripudia la guerra come strumento di offesa alla libertà degli altri popoli e come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali".
Emergency aderisce alla manifestazione del 7 ottobre perché il nostro vocabolario identitario continua a includere parole di guerra, che continua a essere l’approccio, il messaggio, la soluzione a cui pensiamo come Paese omettendo volutamente alternative di dialogo e diplomazia.
Nous perdons du terrain depuis des décennies et je crains qu'on n'arrive plus à éviter un affrontement direct entre extrême droite raciste classique (...)
Quel État voulons-nous pour quelle société ? L'islam politique n'a pas renoncé à son projet d'islamisation de l'Etat et de la société. Il a simplement (...)
Ett nytt franskt utkast till europeisk konfederation i gen. de Gaulles anda, uppenbarligen tillkommet efter brexit; ordf för gruppen : Jean-Pierre Chevènement
1ère Vice-présidente : Marie-Françoise Bechtel, députée de l’Aisne
Vice-présidents : Christian Hutin, député du Nord, Christine Meyer, conseillère régionale des Pays de Loire, Jean-Yves Autexier, ancien parlementaire
Secrétaire générale : Estelle Folest, cadre supérieure
Secrétaire général adjoint : Claude Nicolet, conseiller régional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Trésorier : Gérard Pierre, universitaire
Trésorier adjoint : Marie-Pierre Logelin, professeur
One week after Congress held the first hearing in 41 years on the president’s authority to order the use of nuclear weapons, two of Columbia Law School’s leading scholars of war powers and the Constitution discussed what’s at stake before a large audience at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan. During the Nov. 21 event, Philip Bobbitt, the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, and Matthew Waxman, the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law, discussed war powers and the presidency, including a proposal by Waxman that would constrain the president’s authority to order a nuclear first strike. The proposal, which Waxman has been developing with Richard Betts, a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, aims to reform nuclear launch procedures. Under the proposal, the secretary of defense would need to affirm that a nuclear first-strike order is valid and the attorney general would need to certify that it is legal.
Speaker(s): Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Mary Kaldor, Dr Javier Solana Chair: Professor Toby Dodge Recorded on 21 June 2017 at Old Theatre, Old Bui...
Watch Out: Populists in the Piazza. A referendum unleashes forces that could change Europe. Again. By John Follain, Chiara Vasarri and Alessia Pierdomenico
October 24, 2016; "She doesn’t yet know how she will vote. “What I will say is that we haven’t allowed people to vote freely with comments like Renzi saying he would quit if the referendum goes badly,” Pampalone says. “When you go and vote on a constitution, you should leave everything else behind at home.” "
The Guardian 6 Aug: In a few months, probably in November, Italians will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on a constitutional reform that Renzi says will make it easier to pass legislation by dramatically restricting the powers of the senate, a major source of political gridlock [...] Much like Brexit in the UK, the referendum is increasingly being seen as a way for Italians to air their general discontent with the establishment, in large part because Renzi swore that he would leave politics if the referendum did not go his way. If he loses his gamble, the results of the referendum could have vast consequences for Italy and the whole of Europe.
Of course, a republic can’t run without authorities who follow the rule of law. Civil disobedience by citizens can be an important challenge to corrupt or immoral politicians, but when corporate leaders themselves start breaking the law in their own narrow interests, societal order breaks down. Polishing their left-libertarian veneer, the on-demand economy firms now flouting basic employment and anti-discrimination laws would like us to believe that they follow in the footsteps of Gandhi’s passive resistance, rather than segregationists’ massive resistance. But their wealthy, powerful, nearly-all-white-and-male cast of chief executives come far closer to embodying, rather than fighting, “the man”.
Magna Carta is only one of the two Great Charters of English Liberty, writes Peter Linebaugh – and we should reclaim them both from the conservatives and neoliberals
"IMIR är ett privat miljörättsligt institut. Formellt är det en bifirma till Åmyra förlag AB. Inom ramen för IMIR utförs forskning och utbildning och vissa slags miljöjuridiska uppdrag, företrädesvis för myndigheters, organisationers och vissa internation
Nicklas Lundblads översikt (29.10.2009) av David G Posts "In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace" (OUP) och Manuel Castells senaste bok, Communication Power OUP). "Vi måste våga tänka tanken att nätet är en ny sorts älg". Skrib
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) was founded in 1986 as the Basic Income European Network. It expanded its scope from European to the Earth in 2004. BIEN organizes Congresses every two years, and publishes a free email NewsFlash every two months and
January 2, 2001 MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS from Project for the New American Century On the last day of 2000, President Clinton signed the International Criminal Court convention...The president did so, he said, in order to put the U.S. in a position
If they do decide to bring a case, US prosecutors today would likely charge Assange or WikiLeaks with violations of the Espionage Act, a broad 1917 law. The language of this statute is sweeping. On its face it prohibits any person from communicating to a
EFF "Importantly, the government itself can't take official action to silence WikiLeaks' ongoing publications - that would be an unconstitutional prior restraint, or censorship of speech before it can be communicated to the public. No government actor can
ANIEL ELLSBERG: In my case—I’m sure, by the way, that if I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me at this time, the same material, same instigations. I would be called not only a traitor, which I w
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Cl
* The Lokpal Bill, 2011, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 4, 2011Justice. ... The report of the Committee is expected within three months. * The Bill provides for establishment of the Lokpal for inquiring into complaints of corruption agains
”Det paaligger Statens Myndigheder at lægge Forholdene til Rette for en aaben og oplyst offentlig Samtale" vurderingene som Regjeringen Bondevik presenterte i mars 2004 gjennom Stortingsmelding nr. 26(2003-2004) Om endring av Grunnlovens §100. I kapittel 7 ”Infrastrukturkravet” kom argumentasjonen for grunnlovsfestingen av et krav til infrastruktur. Robert Vaagan
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Andreas Whittam Smith 16.12.10: comparison of of al-qaida and anonymous "it is global, it is networked and it is decentralised", but: "Anonymous seems to lack a command structure (al-Qa'ida "central", as it is known, undoubtedly does have one)" "Mr Bobbitt didn't feel the need to explain "informational", but the WikiLeaks publications of US State Department cables and the subsequent so-called cyber war show what he had in mind. Who controls information is now a central issue... Mr Bobbitt's larger point is that the terrorism of the age always closely reflects the existing constitutional arrangements."
Cam McGrath/IPS. CAIRO, Jan 9 2014 (IPS) - A draft constitution set to go before a public referendum next week gives the military more privileges, enshrining its place as Egypt’s most powerful institution and placing it above the state. The new text, set to replace the constitution drawn up in 2012 under Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, has stoked fears that Egypt’s military leadership is pushing to consolidate its power and protect its political and economic interests. “The powers conferred to the army (in the draft constitution) lay the foundation for a military dictatorship,” warns Tharwat Badawi, professor of constitutional law at Cairo University. “The powers conferred to the army lay the foundation for a military dictatorship." The new charter was drawn up by a 50-member committee appointed by the military-installed government that has ruled since the army ousted Morsi in July 2013.
A Republican (?) video just before the recall elections i Wisconsin 2012. Blurb: "The Reclaim Wisconsin rally was filled with everything you need to know about the "Democracy" movement in Wisconsin. Here it is EXPOSED as a vulgar, childish, bullying mob!! Share the truth about Democracy in Wisconsin with friends - especially those in Wisconsin! Stand with Scott Walker on June 5th to prevent this mob rule from overcoming the rule of law in our beautiful Republic! God Bless the USA!!"
You Can't Opt Out 10 NSA Myths Debunked 1) NSA surveillance is legal. 2) If I’ve done nothing wrong, I have nothing to hide. So why should I care about any of this? 3) But the media says the NSA only collects my "phone metadata," so I'm safe. 5) But I trust Obama (Bush, the next president) on this. 6) But don't private companies like Facebook already have access to and share a lot of my personal data? So what's wrong with the government having it, too? 7) All this surveillance is distasteful and maybe even illegal, but isn’t it necessary to keep us safe? Isn’t it for our own good? Haven’t times changed and shouldn’t we acknowledge that? 8) Terrorists are everywhere and dangerous. 9) We've stayed safe. Doesn't that just prove all the government efforts have worked? 10) But doesn’t protecting America come first -- before anything?
In a secular society, our virtues are slowly transforming, away from Christian cardinal virtues towards a sort of ecologically correct, self-empowerment value system. The Risk-Monger has already made his critique on the limits of the virtue of sustainability. Transparency is another contemporary social value that is highly deficient, albeit masked with much celebration. But is transparency even a virtue? Transparency is a tool, we are told, that is essential for trust-building. Well, actually, no! Transparency is a tool used when we don’t trust someone or some organisation. If my wife asks me where I have been all night and I don’t answer her, there will be trust issues. But if my wife trusts me, she would have little reason to ask me where I have been.
Jeremy Brecher , Dec 2013 "Based on the Justinian Code’s protection of res communes, governments around the world have long served as trustees for rights held in common by the people...
"One is tempted to say of Gaddafi, ‘L’état, c’était lui.’ But it was the more and more mystical idea of the Revolution, not heredity and divine right, that legitimated his power. And the intangible content of this Revolution, what Ruth First called its elusiveness, was closely connected to the fact that the Revolution was never over."