{"id":1877,"date":"2016-04-02T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2016-04-02T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T17:44:13","slug":"refugees-community-and-grassroot-solidarity-initiatives-are-multiplying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/refugees-community-and-grassroot-solidarity-initiatives-are-multiplying\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees: community and grassroot solidarity initiatives are multiplying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the European &#8220;refugee crisis&#8221; is getting worse every day and governments react with emergency and short term strategies, mainly to contain the number of people entering the EU or keeping them in specific areas (with agreements that ignore human rights, such as the one between the EU and Turkey), more and more people are organising and welcoming those\u00a0fleeing from war zones such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq. \u00a0Some cities as well have started to mobilise, such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ajuntament.barcelona.cat\/ciutatrefugi\/es\/actualidad\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a><\/strong>, which has created a system to inform, assist and involve refugees in a more open and democratic way.\u00a0In Germany and Italy, many communities are moving and involving social solidarity economy initiatives to help refugees out of the emergency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Greece<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarity4all.gr\" target=\"_blank\">Solidarity for all<\/a><\/strong> is working with many solidarity initiatives that are now concentrated on the issue. \u00a0There is also a Refugees&#8217; Fund crowdfunding campaign, promoted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.coop\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Coop<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>This fund will focus on helping autonomous and self-managed projects\u00a0<\/strong>involving refugees and solving their need to retain full control over the decisions made in their lives.<br \/>\nFor example new settlements, and the creation of productive and holistic initiatives with which they can fulfill their material and immaterial needs on a daily basis, while offering something useful to the society in which they find themselves.<br \/>\n<strong>For contributions and more info click on this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fair.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b5fa0bffd7d731e1bb8fef511&amp;id=f8852dcbfb&amp;e=a57567b451\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/coopfunding.net\/en\/<wbr \/>campaigns\/refugees-fund-<wbr \/>faircoop\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the European &#8220;refugee crisis&#8221; is getting worse every day and governments react with emergency and short term strategies, mainly to contain the number of people entering the EU or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,4],"tags":[30,581],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaign","category-news","tag-greece","tag-refugees","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}