A bad week for the EU- a good week for Europe?

...excuse the crosspostings!!...


Dear friends!
Let me start by saying:=20
I've never read it- "our" new constitution.
Not EYFA's- but the one that was meant for the "new
EU". And it's probably real accessible in all EU
languages somewhere on the web.

Instead and meanwhile, I initiated a "hike'n bike"
tour from the geographic center of the formerly
socialist east Germany (which is 500m from our little
house in the woods) to the geographic center of this
new EU, according to a hungarian newspaper, 20 km from
our house, to highlight the connection and
(dis-)continuities of the european body, past and
(possible) futures. That was fun.

And now, many people in the NL and France (we weren't
even asked) said "NO!" to- well, what exactly? And
why?

Bruxelles bureaucrazy and Centralism? the end to
nationalism? Norming the length and curvature of
european pickles? Or did they not trust in a
connection between a possible yes-vote and their
dream, or not even have a dream for how the EU and
Europe in One World could look like, IF...

Where IS the grassroots and civil society vision for a
socially, politically and environMentally sustainable
Europa?=20

My simpleminded answer is that it's simply easier to
ATTAC! the institutions that be, and in a antagonistic
motion, throw out the european dream child with the
bureaucratic bath water.

So now that this time direct democracy turned out this
result, maybe it will make some people think, both "up
there", how to sell a merely supereconomic Europe (and
alternative to US hegemony), and grassroots thinkers,
diggers and dreamers, how to make our evolutionary
ideas come true, not "just globally and locally", but
also on the community level- the community of european
cultures.

And maybe, as we actually know each other face to
face, could develop our own visionary "sourdough", or
yeast to add to this process. If you've ever made your
own bread, you know all the things that can happen to
make a loaf go flat before it comes out the oven nice
and lofty. Here's Europe as a brick for you.

Let's see what else we can whip out with the same
ingredients, plus a little Ecotopia spice!

I want to invite you to have, possibly as part, and
exceeding our east-west theme for EYFA at Ecotopia
Moldova, a kind of performance-enquiry into who is
Europe in our generation, and how we'd ideally like to
see it when we'll be elders and grandparents. There's
many things that I won't suffer to see, yet also a
great many that I see know like little plants in
spring, that will grow up to something real cool.

Another World Exists.

Let's live it!

Ciao, thanks for reading THIS far :-) , yours,=20
Frodeau







Goethe about Seattle, 1999:

  And you who have been there will one day be able to say:
  From here and now, a new epoch of humanity has taken it's course...=20
           [to the revolutionaries against Napoleon, after the battle of =
 Valmy, France, 1792]


Frodo Tobias Kempf, Weitzgrund 8, 14806 Belzig, Germany, Gaia
           http://photos.yahoo.com/frodoaks

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