Dear UNITED Friends,
November is another of our campaigning months, traditionally devoted to our campaign for the 9th of November, International Day Against Fascism and Anti-semitism, the commemoration of the Kristallnacht - the “Night of Broken Glass”, which happened 85th years ago and that was a major turning point in the history of the Holocaust.
When commemorating this day though, even in its 85th anniversary, we must remember and we must be able to see that it was the culmination of a long-term process, which constantly fueled and normalised hate through propaganda and manipulation. It didn’t happen in a void.
This is also one of the reasons this campaign is universal and we celebrate it every year: the root causes and fueling factors behind fascism and hate are in fact very much present to this day and they become even worse and more excruciating in times of war and anguish, like those we are experiencing right now.
In such conditions the responsibilities of those actors who benefit from the spread of hate and propaganda is even greater and this urged use to conduct this year's campaign under the motto QUESTION PROPAGANDA, CHALLENGE HATE, which we started by announcing our departure from X, formerly known as Twitter. You can read our full statement here
The newest leaflet dedicated to the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
On the occasion of this year's campaign we also took the chance to announce the production of a new leaflet dedicated to summarise our mission and vision surrounding the commemoration of 9th of November: Standing Strong Against the Shadows of the Past, with the hope that this flyer will be part of many events, campaigns and initiatives, inspiring people to take action, to step out from the shadows of indifference, to #stayunited and say no to all forms of fascism.
You can download it here and feel free to get in touch with us to get inspiration for your future action.
#ResistRadicalTogether! UNITED in Budapest
This year's November though, is marked also by the return of our beloved UNITED conference, finally back in person! This is going to be not only the first one after the COVID19 pandemic, but also the first one accessible to people of every age and every country!
We hope to be able to see many of you in Budapest or online. To know more about it and to register to join online you can check all the relevant info here.
III Meeting of UNITED Experts & Delegates Team
As we announced in the last Newsletter, we held online our III Meeting of the Experts & Delegates team and we want to take the chance to share this news not only to acknowledge the happiness of being able to meet, talk and discuss together the future of UNITED #advocacy work, but most and foremost to stress the importance of such efforts in times of despair, like those we are living today. We would like to remind that it’s always possible to become part of this team through this link or get in touch with our Experts & Delegates Team by dropping an email at our lovely Eunice [email protected].
We really believe that in this way it's possible to feel the power and the resilience of a network made by hundreds of organisations, which you could represent in important and different fora. We need as many voices as possible. We cannot allow the horrific sounds of bombs and violence to overcome the voices of the people and their #rights and for this we need to be and #stayunited.
“Safety Awareness in Digital Era – SADE” Project Meeting in Latvia.
On 3rd and 4th of November we attended the transnational meeting for “
Safety Awareness in Digital Era – SADE“, hosted by
Radi Vidi Patsin the city of Liepaja (Latvia) and with partners from Italy, Poland and Spain. The project is dedicated to the creation of escape games dedicated to #safety and #security in the digital world and you can read more about meeting
here.
“Youth work in Europe – Mission (im)possible?” Conference in Dortmund
On the 13th of November part of UNITED team attended the Dortmund conference“Youth work in Europe – Mission (im)possible?”. It was an inspiring and intense event which saw the participation of young people fromnine European countriesand eleven German municipalities ,as well as stakeholders and experts from Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain and that involved also a Ukrainian youth group, currently active in Munich from exile.
The symposium was organised by the International Association for Education and Exchange (IBB e.V.) in the framework of the European youth network “Generation Europe – The Academy”. The conference will produce documents and commitments that we’re looking forward to access and to share, so we advise to check the full account of the eventhereand get in touch with us to know more.
You can still contribute to our REFUGIN Questionnaire!
For people who are working with refugees, it's still possible to contribute to the questionnaire of the amazing REFUGIN project, which we have talked about many times and that aims at strengthening the role of key civil society professionals on the medium-to-long-term integration of young refugees. You can find the link to the questionnaire here and get in touch with us to know more about the project.
We are approaching the end of another Activist year
2023 has been a very complex and intense year, for activism and humanity in general. We as a Network are now committed to our periodic time of reflection and analysis that will lead to our annual report, through which we are going to share with you what happened in this UNITED year, to inspire us for the next challenges to come.
This means that it's also coming the time of the year in which we are calling our contributors and supporters to renew their pledge to support all our work, so please check your inboxes looking for our email and remember that every small contributions is part of a bigger activist mission.
For the same reason please remember that you can also invite other people to subscribe to our newsletter by sharing this link or invite them to become UNITED volunteers, to be part of change
So speak to you soon and #stayunited!
