European Alternatives is a citizen-powered transnational grassroots organization imagining, demanding, and enacting democracy, equality, and culture beyond the nation state. Operating from our local hubs in Berlin, Paris and Palermo, we are dedicated to the democratic and solidary transformation of our political institutions, our economic system, and our civil societies that many people in Europe and around the world are striving for. Otherwise, we will not be able to truly understand and address the most urgent political, cultural, and social issues that Europe is facing in our time: the pandemic and the climate crisis, human rights violations at the European borders, socio-economic inequalities, democratic deficits, new wars and global conflicts, as well as the emergence of right-wing forces leading to violence and a backlash on fundamental rights of all marginalized communities. European Alternatives was founded by young people from around the world in 2007 in London on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Since then, as a transnational team together with our progressive community of transnationalists from activism, academia, and the arts, we have acted in the belief that only when people have democratic control over their lives and futures do they feel safe and free to care for themselves and others as they would like to do. In 2021, EA links three hubs operating as independent legal entities in three different European cities: European Alternatives Berlin e.V., Alternatives Européennes Paris, and Studio Rizoma Palermo. We are a cross-border team working and traveling in changing constellations on different projects in many places around Europe with a variety of powerful partners and collaborators as well as a progressive community of transnational activists, artists, and academics. Are you a progressive activist, academic, or artist, part of a grassroots initiative, civil society organisation or social movement? Across borders, citizens in communities and cities build a new Europe of solidarity and justice.
