Michael H. Goldhaber on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:30:38 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> England leaves Europe


But what about the fact that those under 50 voted to stay by sizable margins?

Best,

Michael via iPhone, so please ecuse misteaks.

> On Jun 24, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/23/2016 11:42 PM, Alex Foti wrote:
>>
>>  Either We Do Europe Now or We're Dead - meaning the chauvinists
>> and the xenophobes will bring us back to the European nation-state
>> that defends itself against migrants and any threat to its supposed
>> cultural identity, unless we fight for a European Republic, by
>> coagulating a transnational party for equality, ecology, gender,
>> cyber, labor rights built on citizen participation and debate, that
>> builds on the successes of Podemos and En Comù in Spain and
>> Catalunya, and other instances of radical democracy across Europe, to
>> dislodge the financial oligarchy and the European Commission which
>> have brought us to disaster.
>
> Yesterday's vote is a stunning development and it foreshadows the
> possible end of an era shaped, in many positive respects, by 1968 and
> the immense and diverse forces of liberation that flowered in its
> wake. As we contempolate what losing all that would look like, it is
> a sad moment. All that I am, the heart and soul of my political and
> cultural generation, was formed in the era of open borders.
 <...>

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