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.
Debate has intensified in recent weeks and months in Greece over the possibility of giving privately run colleges university status, which is currently prohibited by Article 16 of the Greek constitution, write Tino Bromme and Barnaby Britten for The PIE News. Discussions were ignited when opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis seized the occasion of a parliamentary debate on constitutional reform in October to demand the abolishment of the barrier to private universities. Higher education institutions have always been state-owned entities in Greece and their faculty members public servants. However, policy was created during the 1967-74 military junta to prevent communists creating private universities. This principle has since been enshrined in Article 16, adopted in the new constitution of 1974. Some argue that now its function has been inverted, with the left using the exclusion of private providers to defend public education.
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...
In spite of clear popular support, Iceland's new crowd-sourced constitution was recently killed by politicians. An ex-member of the constitutional council sheds some light on what happened - and why there might still be some hope for this unique experiment. (Thorvaldur Gylfason)
What the future holds in store and what will be the fate of the bill for a new constitution is hard to say at this point in time. But what is evident is that the battle of “who owns Iceland” is being fought and is at its high water mark. There is much at stake. (Thorhildur Thorleifsdottir)
This Saturday, a year after a Constitutional Council has written a draft constitution with the help of citizens, voters agreed this draft should be the basis for a new constitution. This writing experiment stands out for its surprisingly democratic process, but a closer look reveals some of its limitations. (Giulia Dessi)
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