There seems to be a lot of anti-establishment rhetoric going about. The UK may have an anti-EU referendum in 3 months. Yanis Varoufakis (controversial former Greek finance minister who rides motorbikes[1]) is now trying to create some movement of pro-EU democracy activists under the name DiEM25[2] with a launch in Berlin next week.
What is notably absent from debates on both the left and right of the spectrum is any talk about the role of proprietary technology, big data and the cloud. Many of the social problems created by big data are global. The DiEM25 people are talking about "bringing back" democracy, but I suspect that with their web site simply linking to Facebook and Twitter they are simply another well-intentioned group transferring a little more power into the hands of a few privileged people in Silicon Valley. Is anybody in FSFE reaching out to any of these groups - anywhere in the political spectrum - to see if there are areas for collaboration? Has there been any follow-up after the efforts around the last European elections? Is anybody potentially interested in the DiEM25 meeting next week, maybe even trying to get somebody with competence in big data and the cloud into their panel of speakers? Even if we don't agree with everything these people have to say politically, I feel these types of collaborations can lead to more public awareness and sometimes fund-raising opportunities for the things we do believe in. Regards, Daniel 1. https://www.google.ch/search?q=yanis+varoufakis+motorbike&&tbm=isch 2. http://diem25.org/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
