A round-up of the activities of the network. ACiDe Website: www.auditcitoyen.be Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EtSiOnArretaitDePayer Email: acide[at]auditcitoyen.be Local groups of ACiDe strengthen The problematic of public debt is actually not trendy in Belgium. The interest rates are really low (because of ECB policy) and a lot of “leftists” conclude that it’s not a major issue. CADTM wrote…
Municipal city council members and social movements across Spain call for the creation of a municipalist front against illegitimate debt and austerity • More than 100 people representing more than 30 municipalities and social movements met in Barcelona. • “The way to fulfil our obligations is to skip the spending rule battling until the last…
The Citizen Debt Audit Platform “PACD” (Plataforma Auditoría Ciudadana de la Deuda) Barcelona is organising the #AuditFest; a meeting taking place on October 14th and 15th focusing on the topics of auditing, debt management and other municipal public policies. The meeting is aimed at municipal technicians, council members, auditors and other political figures (in the…
After Plan B’s event in Madrid last March, many ICAN members decided to brief us with regular updates on what they are working on: ACiDe (Belguim): Plateforme d’audit citoyen de la dette publique en Belgique Website: http://www.auditcitoyen.be/lacide/ National Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EtSiOnArretaitDePayer/ As a collective (ACiDe), we take into account the fact that debt is not a…
The citizen working group on a healthcare debt audit “Audit Healthcare”, launched in April 2013 and based in Madrid, comprises of a group of citizens who hope to offer their fellow citizens and social movements a rigorous instrument to help estimate debt in public healthcare and identify what part is illegitimate in order to be…
APPEAL TO SUPPORT THE RESISTING GREEK PEOPLE and its TRUTH COMMISSION ON PUBLIC DEBT FOR THE PEOPLES’ RIGHT TO AUDIT PUBLIC DEBT Click here GreekDebtTruthCommission.org to sign this Appeal Indicative list of 800 personalities supporting Greece To the people of Europe and the whole world! To all the men and women who reject the…
What is exactly happening with Greece, what lies behind the negotiations and how important is debt and what are the consequences for the Greek people? Last month Greece began a Debt Audit process which aims to analyse its debt on the basis of it being illegal, illegitimate, odious or unsustainable, through the Greek Debt Truth…
Τhe #Festival4sce: A hub of networks towards the Alternative Route in Greece. By Insurgenta Iskra Crisis. Originally, the word derives from the ancient Greek verb “krinein”, meaning to judge in order to take a decision and its noun, “krisis”, meaning judgment, decision. According to Steven James Venette[1] “crisis is a process of transformation where the old…
Stop TTIP, CETA, TISA… FOR A SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL AND DEMOCRATIC EUROPE Against austerity at every level Everyone on the streets of Brussels during the European Council Summit, Friday 19 December 2014! Our national and European leaders continue to subject the people to the will of shareholders and multinationals while austerity becomes increasingly brutal. Most national austerity…
By Sergi Cutillas, ODG. Published by ODG & eldiario.es Debt has been a colonial mechanism in many parts of the world. As such, it is a problem that affects sovereignty and should be faced with courage. Any initiative that wants to deepen democracy should establish mechanisms of sovereignty non-negotiable with institutions that do not conform to…
Argentina has fallen prey to a bunch of hedge funds known as ‘vulture funds’. Taking advantage of the precarious financial situations of some States, these vulture funds buy debts at a discounted price on a secondary market and then sue the debtors for the initial amount to which they add interests, penalties, and legal expenses.…
A Different World Does Exist The Festival4sce takes place every October in Athens since 2012. This time round, we want to share it with Europe! Programme of the #Festival4sce As the foundations of the past collapse around us, we are watering the new seeds which grow today. In the Greece of social, economic and environmental crisis, where the…
Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee project has abolished almost $4 million in private student debt for a little over $100,000 These debts were held by students who attended Everest College, a predatory for-profit institution in the Corinthian Colleges network. You can read a sample letter received by debtors here. Details about the purchase are available here.…
