01/2017 THE SOCIAL RIGHTS ISSUE 3 A Message from the Editors 4 Europe's youth needs basic income 5 Why banning emotions is perpetuating oppression 6-9 Social rights? What's that. 10-11 Why copyright matters 12-13 What happens when you send fifty young Greens to a summer camp in Serbia? 14-17 Hiding behind the facade of urban development - gentrification around Europe 18-19 Housing struggles and activism: the Spanish Case 20-21 If only I had the shape of a pyramid 22 Meet the writers 23 The European Court of Human Rights CONTENTS 24 “Go Home, You’re Wrong!” Layout Pictures: Design & Typesetting: Dušan Gligorić, Cover: Serbian Green Youth Jan Schnorrenberg, Page 2: Ecosprinter Editorial Board Logo: Gio Megrelishvili Page 3: Pola Rapatt (CC BY-SA 2.0) Page 6: Tina Rataj-Berard (CC Zero) Page 8: Leroy Skalstad (CC Zero) Printing Page 9: Omar Alnahi (CC Zero) Page 10 & 11: Eli Francis (CC Zero) onlineprinters.be Page 12 & 13: Julian Hauser Printed edition of 500 Published by: Page 16 & 17: John Towner (CC Zero) Page 18: Tama66 (CC Zero) ECOSPRINTER Proportion of non-male authors: Page 19: KarinKarin (CC Zero) Federation of Young European Greens Page 20: Julischka Stengele 31 Rue Wiertz 50% Page 22: private (various) Brussels B-1050 Backcover: Julian Hauser Belgium Licence Disclaimer Editorial Board: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 The articles reflect opinions of their individual writers, not necessarily those Morgan Henley (Editor in Chief), Jakob International License. of the Ecosprinter or the Federation of Hundsbichler, Simo Raittila, Paula Keller Young European Greens. EUROPEAN YOUTH FOUNDATION SUPPORTED 2 Ecosprinter Editorial Editorial Board If you are reading this, it means we did it! After years of dreaming Morgan Henley left the swamp by many Young Greens and members of the Ecosprinter Editorial of her native Florida in 2010 to Board, we’ve finally produced the EcosPRINTED, a printed edition live in Prague, Czech Republic. of the Ecosprinter. This is the first time in perhaps a decade1 that There she became active with The Ecosprinter has been printed. At its onset, the Ecosprinter was the Czech Young Greens and FYEG, where she joined the primarily a printed publication but then went exclusively online Ecosprinter Editorial Board for years. The Ecosprinter.eu has been a great home of debate and in 2014, later FYEG's Climate storytelling for Young Greens from across Europe and beyond. And by Change Campaign and finally no means does this printed edition mean an end to that, far from it. But was elected as a member of FYEG's Executive Committee we want the voices of Young Greens to reach beyond web browsers in 2015. She currently works for and to be something you can look back to in the future, just as you can the European Green Party and look back at previous editions of the Ecosprinter today and see that lives in Brussels. Her family while the names of the by-lines may have changed, the ideas and the has long worked in newspapers and she is happy to carry on the spirit are much the same. tradition. The articles in this edition come from participants of FYEG’s first Jakob Hundsbichler likes trains. annual summer camp, ‘From Social Wrongs to Social Rights.’ We Although being an avowed atheist, he takes satisfaction in sincerely thank the many contributors, FYEG activists, staff and holding bible study sessions, supporters who made this happen. The Ecosprinter cannot exist especially late at night. He is without you and the time that have dedicated did not go unnoticed active with the Austrian Young and unappreciated. Further, we from the Ecosprinter are also grateful Greens and studies philosophy and political science in Vienna. to be a part of this project and we appreciate the mandate you have given us to do so! Paula Keller has been active with the Young Greens for We’d also love to hear your feedback. If you have something you’d roughly 4 years. Originally from Germany, she moved to like to see in the next printed edition, including your own writing, the UK for her studies and is send me an email, [email protected]. You are also always welcome now mostly active within the to submit ideas for articles to be published on the site, send those to Federation of Young European [email protected]. Greens, the Ecosprinter and Spunk, the publication of the German Grüne Jugend. So, read through this copy of the EcosPRINTED, enjoy, and share with Studying philosophy, she adores friends! late night pseudointellectual conversations, cats and black turtlenecks. Her article is Yours truly, written in that very same spirit. Morgan Aside from Green politics, Paula Ecosprinter Editor-in-Chief defines as an angry feminist, despairs capitalism but has a thing for fashion 1 All FYEG historians are welcome to contact us to let us know Simo Raittila recently left his job as the Editor-in-Chief of when actually was the last printed Ecosprinter the magazine (Rönsy) of the Finnish Green Youth (ViNO) to pursue a PhD in sociology at the University of Helsinki. Healso identifies as part of the digital precariat. Hehad less todo with this printed edition, buthasdone more on the online side of the Ecosprinter. 3 EUROPE'S YOUTH NEEDS BASIC INCOME Teo Comet - Spokesperson of FYEG aime Rosales' movie Hermosa conditions that were guaranteed “for the next generation juventud (Beautiful Youth, by society are commercialised and this might just be how J2014) tells Natalia's story. people in different parts of Europe Natalia lives in Spain and is one are forced to make dreadful choices things are” of Europe's many NEETs (not in between elementary necessities. employment, education or training). Precarious labour markets and Basic income experiments are Her life lacks meaning and regulation reforms that facilitate gaining traction. Finland will direction. A glimpse of light is her the accumulation of wealth conduct a rather limited experiment boyfriend Carlos, with whom she dramatically deprive employees of in 2017 and 2018. It will not give dreams about being rich and having bargaining power. But one can't live us answers to all our questions a house on the beach. Carlos takes on 10 euros per day in Spain. regarding how basic income works care of his sick mother and works – in practice, but it is a step in the undeclared – on a construction site Europe's youth needs a basic income. right direction. Hopefully it tickles for 10 euros per day. It should be universal, meaning it the imagination of many others. should be paid to everyone, and It is a movie about a generation. Our unconditional, meaning it should Our generation is said to be the first generation. And our generation's not be conditioned by, for example, one that faces grimmer perspectives relation to those who came before employment status. A basic income than the previous one. There is an us. They had different dreams, would bring material security. alarming risk that this is normalised opportunities and experiences than It would allow young people to – for the next generation this might young people have today. demand decent working conditions. just be how things are. The stories And it would simplify complicated that are being told about the life “But one can’t live on 10 and often humiliating bureaucratic experiences of our generation euros per day in Spain” jungles of social benefits. can be very desperate and it is our responsibility not to perpetuate the Things change fast. A student who Moreover, having an increasing precarity we are experiencing for entered a European educational proportion of work carried out by those who come after us. Material institution, say, five years ago, machines can be a threat to the security for everyone is not a far- has in most cases experienced wellbeing of many in case it is not fetched dream. Basic income is our drastical changes in the educational dealt with on policy level. Basic way out. system. Funding is cut, educators income is such a policy. It is possible are overwhelmed, education is to work less, to have our basic needs increasingly a priviledge for those met, and to live a happier life. If there with the means. Basic living is political will, that is. 4 The power of discourse: Why banning emotions is perpetuating oppression f there is one thing amongst I have never heard two white men But damn it, there has the many things that people in a, let's get it right, discussion Icontinuously tell me when about taxation telling each other been a shitload of people engaging in a discussion with me ''Dude, stop emotionalising the that thanked me later for on how to debate productively it's discourse.'' (Even though people not staying calm. ''Stop emotionalising the discourse'' tend to get pretty emotional about and ''Emotions won't get us any budgetary control.) But the minute Now, I am not saying that political further'' or ''We need to talk about they talk to a certain group of discussions without proper this like grown-ups''. Here are two people (namely those suffering conclusion can't be frustrating main reasons why I think this from systemic oppression) about - I most certainly know what concept is oppressive: certain subjects (namely systemic frustration feels like and have had a oppression), everything is suddenly couple of unpleasant conversations Your ''emotionless'' debate too emotional - the people on topics from institutional racism is a myth to silence us. confronting them with unpleasant to fiscal policy, and especially when topics and naturally the topics noticing that the person opposite themselves.