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ESC FACTOR stories of Europe: Fátima Hamed Hossain, the first Muslim woman in the Spanish parliament

Latest Intervista a Giosef Italy per Rai Parlamento ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Maria Gil, Donna, Cigana, Attivista. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Manolis Glezos, il primo partigiano europeo. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Fátima Hamed Hossain, la prima donna musulmana del parlamento spagnolo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: LAGARDE LIST ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: La Rivoluzione dei GAROFANI in Portogallo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Kōstas Geōrgakīs e la rivolta del Polytechnio Mafie & Social Media: intervista ad Anna Sergi con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Davide Bennato con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Enzo Ciconte con VIDEO ESC FACTOR stories of Europe: Fátima Hamed Hossain, the first Muslim woman in the Spanish parliament THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO US BY OUR ESC VOLUNTEER: MARIA TERESA, 22 YEARS OLD, FROM SPAIN. Born in Ceuta in 1978, Fátima Hamed Hossain is a practising lawyer, experienced in civil, mortgage and commercial mediation and with extensive training in human rights and equality. She is also a tutor at La UNED de Ceuta. In 2015, she joined the regional parliament of Ceuta as an MP, becoming the first Muslim woman to head a political group with representation. She is the fifth feminist speaker in Ceuta, as leader of the Movement for Dignity and Citizenship (MDyC) party. ‘The shootings, the prison and the marginality that surrounded us pushed me to study law. Always wanting to help others has marked my path. Currently, I try through politics, with its frustrations and emotional rewards.’ Fátima Hamed Hossain The daughter of Moroccan, Spanish parents, practising Muslims and wearing a visible headscarf, she has recently made herself known for her speeches in plenary sessions, openly accusing Vox, a party with which she has had several disagreements, to the point of becoming the opposition front for the extreme right in Ceuta. On Saturday 13 November 2021, Fátima Hamed Hossain participated in an event together with the second vice-president of the Spanish government and minister of labour and social economy, Yolanda Díaz; the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau; the first vice-president of the Comunidad Valenciana, Mònica Oltra; and the spokesperson of Más Madrid, Mónica García at the Teatro Olympia in Valencia. After Vox’s strong emergence in 2019, her status as a Spanish woman wearing a headscarf during plenary sessions made her the target of far-right hate rhetoric. Hamed talks about last March’s diplomatic and border crisis on the Moroccan border, the role of women in politics, and, above all, the xenophobic radicalisation of the political message in a city whose half of the population is Muslim. Nationality is one thing and creed you may or may not have is another. Our State is non-denominational. It is the most normal thing in the world for a Spaniard to believe what he wants. Sometimes we are asked if we are Spanish or Muslim, as if it were incompatible. We don’t understand how nationality can be confused with belief. Of Vox, we all know what they are, an extreme right-wing formation with an ideology based on hatred for those who think differently and those who are different. This way of selling their message has been very successful for them, insulting, provoking and waiting for the reaction of the person in front. “Algunos no están preparados para ver a una mujer musulmana con hiyab en un Parlamento español” Fátima Hamed Hossain ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe:The communication campaign ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe was born from the experience of a workshop on multi-channel communication that further enriched the personal background of the young volunteers of the ESC project, European Solidarity Corps who have been living for months at Il paguro Ostello, a small house for young Europeans, a property confiscated from the Casalesi family in which Giosef Italy has created a youth hostel, in Casapesenna.During the past few months, the young people involved have had the opportunity to learn about the history of Italy, through a series of meetings whose main theme was the history of the Antimafia. From the realisation that such an important and well-known history in our country is often ignored by other young Europeans, this project was born.We said to ourselves, what if we now tell our readers stories that changed the history of your home countries but are not known by the Italian public? Così è nata l’idea di THE ESC FACTOR, un progetto di condivisione di storie di movimenti e di persone che hanno in comune una sola cosa: il coraggio della libertà, la voglia di giustizia, la lotta per l’affermazione dei diritti civili, in ogni loro forma, al di là di ogni confine. Share Related articles All Posts News ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Maria Gil, Donna, Cigana, Attivista. Conosciuta anche come Maria da Fronteira, è un punto di riferimento nella promozione di “Mulheres Ciganas” in Portogallo. Read Articles ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Manolis Glezos, il primo partigiano europeo. 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ESC FACTOR stories of Europe: LAGARDE LIST

Latest Intervista a Giosef Italy per Rai Parlamento ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Maria Gil, Donna, Cigana, Attivista. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Manolis Glezos, il primo partigiano europeo. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Fátima Hamed Hossain, la prima donna musulmana del parlamento spagnolo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: LAGARDE LIST ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: La Rivoluzione dei GAROFANI in Portogallo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Kōstas Geōrgakīs e la rivolta del Polytechnio Mafie & Social Media: intervista ad Anna Sergi con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Davide Bennato con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Enzo Ciconte con VIDEO ESC FACTOR stories of Europe LAGARDE LIST, Europe’s most dangerous list of tax evaders THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO US BY OUR ESC VOLUNTEER: PANOS, 25 YEARS OLD, GREEK. The former Greek finance minister, Giorgos Papakonstantinou, has been accused of removing the names of three of his relatives from the so-called ‘Lagarde list’, a document containing the names of hundreds of possible Greek tax evaders with deposits in Switzerland. The Lagarde List is a spreadsheet containing some 2,000 potential tax evaders with undeclared accounts at the Geneva branch of the Swiss bank HSBC.It is named after former French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who passed it on to Greek officials in October 2010 to help them crack down on tax evasion. In 2006 and 2007, an IT technician, Hervé Falciani, allegedly stole the bank’s data, containing the names of clients from several EU countries, and tried to sell them to different governments. In January 2009, the police raided Falciani’s French home and found computer files on 130,000 potential tax evaders (24,000 from all over Europe) and started investigating them. The French government then passed the information to selected European governments such as the UK to help them crack down on tax evasion.le. Handing over to the Greek authorities: In early summer 2010, the French intelligence service DGSE informed the (then) head of the Greek National Intelligence Agency that many of those named in the Falciani dossier were Greeks and that the French authorities were ready to hand over a list containing the names of wealthy Greek depositors in Swiss banks to help the Greek government crack down on tax evaders.The Greek intelligence chief then informed the former finance minister of the George Papandreou government, Giorgos Papakonstantinou, who accepted this information in a meeting with the then French finance minister Christine Lagarde, on condition that it remained secret. In October 2010, Lagarde sent a list of 1,991 names to Papakonstantinou through diplomatic channels in the form of an unlabelled CD containing spreadsheets for the approximately 2,000 accounts now known in Greece as the ‘Lagarde list’. Papakonstantinou then stated during a parliamentary enquiry that he had ‘handed over all files to the new head of the tax police’ – the Economic and Financial Crimes Unit of Greece (SDOE) – ‘and asked him to proceed with a full investigation’. However, the tax authorities chose not to proceed and Papakonstantinou left office in mid-2011 and the CD disappeared. Papakonstantinou’s successor, Evangelos Venizelos, produced a copy on a memory stick and launched a limited investigation to check whether any of those listed had evaded taxes. The investigation concerned only a dozen or so politicians and no legal action was taken.It was only when the then new finance minister Yannis Stournaras asked Paris for another copy that Venizelos admitted that he had forgotten the memory stick in a private office and lost it. Kostas Vaxevanis publishes the list: On 28 October 2012, Greek journalist and editor Kostas Vaxevanis claimed to be in possession of the list and published 2,056 names on it in his magazine Hot Doc. The next day, he was arrested for violation of privacy laws, an offence with a possible sentence of up to two years in prison. Three days later, Vaxevanis was tried and found not guilty. Greek journalist and editor Kostas Vaxevanis The way the public services handle the list issue remains unclear, to this day.Many of the names on the list have been cleared of charges, to this day the Greek people still have no clear picture of the issue and a world-known scandal like this has been left in the labyrinth of the Greek bureaucracy. In January 2011, Italian newspapers began to publish the first rumours about the Italian part of the Lagarde list. According to some, the list would contain the names of around 7,000 Italians, including numerous celebrities. Almost two years after its receipt, however, the Falciani list has not produced any results.Various tax commissions and other courts have ruled that the list is unusable: the data was stolen and therefore cannot be used as evidence in court. ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe:The communication campaign ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe was born from the experience of a workshop on multi-channel communication that further enriched the personal background of the young volunteers of the ESC project, European Solidarity Corps who have been living for months at Il paguro Ostello, a small house for young Europeans, a property confiscated from the Casalesi family in which Giosef Italy has created a youth hostel, in Casapesenna.During the past few months, the young people involved have had the opportunity to learn about the history of Italy, through a series of meetings whose main theme was the history of the Antimafia. From the realisation that such an important and well-known history in our country is often ignored by other young Europeans, this project was born.We said to ourselves, what if we now tell our readers stories that changed the history of your home countries but are not known by the Italian public? Thus was born the idea of THE ESC FACTOR, a project to share stories of movements and people who have only one thing in common: the courage of freedom, the desire for justice, the fight for the affirmation of civil rights, in all their forms, beyond all borders. Share Related articles All Posts News ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Maria Gil, Donna, Cigana, Attivista.

ESC FACTOR Stories of Europe: The CARNATION Revolution in Portugal

Latest Intervista a Giosef Italy per Rai Parlamento ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Maria Gil, Donna, Cigana, Attivista. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Manolis Glezos, il primo partigiano europeo. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Fátima Hamed Hossain, la prima donna musulmana del parlamento spagnolo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: LAGARDE LIST ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: La Rivoluzione dei GAROFANI in Portogallo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Kōstas Geōrgakīs e la rivolta del Polytechnio Mafie & Social Media: intervista ad Anna Sergi con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Davide Bennato con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Enzo Ciconte con VIDEO ESC FACTOR stories of Europe: The CARNATION Revolution in Portugal THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO US BY OUR ESC VOLUNTEER: BRUNO, 21 YEARS OLD, PORTUGUESE. We are used to defining a coup d’état as a sudden change of government that is illegal and usually violent, we know many violent ones like those in Chile or Cuba. However, in this story we will see that it is possible to change a violent regime in a relatively peaceful way. Do you know why carnations are a symbol of freedom in Portugal? We are in Portugal on April 25, 1974.The story we are telling you about today has been nicknamed the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos in Portuguese), a surprising name for a coup that marked the end of a bloody repressive government. Estado Novo was the regime in power since 1933 in Portugal.It was first led by António de Oliveira Salazar until 1968, when his successor Marcello Caetano replaced him, as Salazar had to retire due to health problems.The “professor” implemented a series of legislative and social improvements that today are grouped under the name of Marcelo Spring (elimination of some trade union restrictions, opening to foreign investors, easing of censorship). Reforms that gave the people hope for a possible democratic turn, but did not produce real change. It was an authoritarian regime, characterized by censorship, repression, exiles and colonial wars. When music smells of freedom: The April coup began at 10:55 p.m. with the broadcast of the Portuguese song from the 1974 Eurovision contest, «Depois do Adeus» by Paulo de Carvalho, followed by «Grandola, Vila Morena», a song by José Afonso that was banned during the Regime. When music smells of freedom: The April coup began at 10:55 p.m. with the broadcast of the Portuguese song from the 1974 Eurovision contest, «Depois do Adeus» by Paulo de Carvalho, followed by «Grandola, Vila Morena», a song by José Afonso that was banned during the Regime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrW6zP161QI 1974 – Paulo de Carvalho – “E Depois Do Adeus2 | RTP Despite the government’s repeated warnings to the population to stay in their homes, thousands of Portuguese took to the streets, mingling with the rebel military. No one really understood what was happening, chaos reigned. Everyone knew they were facing a historic moment, although very few could foresee that it would soon expand. And in the meantime, the streets of Lisbon were filled with tanks. A woman became the face of this revolt, a woman who walked the streets of Lisbon that same morning with red carnations in her hand.The shop where she worked was celebrating its first anniversary and the woman had bought those flowers to celebrate. But when the saleswoman, returning home, met a soldier and said to him: The soldier hadn’t smoked for several hours, so he asked me for a cigarette, I told him I didn’t have any, but he could go buy them at the tobacconist’s. The tobacconists were closed, so I humorously commented that if instead of a cigar he wanted a carnation, he could take it and put it on his gun. I continued walking to the Carmen barracks and there I handed out all the carnations I had left and I felt an enormous joy that I can’t explain right now. I went up and told my mother that those carnations that were in the guns and tanks were mine and I had given them to her. This coup was marked by the images of flowers in the weapons of the military. Those carnations were offered by civilians who joined the rebel soldiers in a peaceful civil resistance. Even the pistols of the officers were all filled with flowers. April 25th, from Italy to Portugal means liberation: The Revolution triumphed, but the days and months that followed were not easy, uncertainty reigned and struggles between the right and the left were the order of the day.There are several experts who believe that without the Carnation Revolution, the transition process that would take place after the death of Francisco Franco in Spain would not have been possible.On April 25, 1974, when people tired of poverty took to the streets to demand freedom, Portugal began its history. ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe:The communication campaign ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe was born from the experience of a workshop on multi-channel communication that further enriched the personal background of the young volunteers of the ESC project, European Solidarity Corps who have been living for months at Il paguro Ostello, a small house for young Europeans, a property confiscated from the Casalesi family in which Giosef Italy has created a youth hostel, in Casapesenna.During the past few months, the young people involved have had the opportunity to learn about the history of Italy, through a series of meetings whose main theme was the history of the Antimafia. From the realisation that such an important and well-known history in our country is often ignored by other young Europeans, this project was born.We said to ourselves, what if we now tell our readers stories that changed the history of your home countries but are not known by the Italian public? Così è nata l’idea di THE ESC FACTOR, un progetto di condivisione di storie di movimenti e di persone che hanno in comune una sola cosa: il coraggio della libertà, la voglia di giustizia, la lotta per l’affermazione dei diritti civili, in ogni loro forma,

ESC FACTOR stories of Europe: Kōstas Geōrgakīs and the Polytechnio uprising

Latest Intervista a Giosef Italy per Rai Parlamento ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Maria Gil, Donna, Cigana, Attivista. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Manolis Glezos, il primo partigiano europeo. ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Fátima Hamed Hossain, la prima donna musulmana del parlamento spagnolo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: LAGARDE LIST ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: La Rivoluzione dei GAROFANI in Portogallo ESC FACTOR storie d’Europa: Kōstas Geōrgakīs e la rivolta del Polytechnio Mafie & Social Media: intervista ad Anna Sergi con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Davide Bennato con VIDEO Mafie & Social Media: intervista a Enzo Ciconte con VIDEO ESC FACTOR stories of Europe Kōstas Geōrgakīs and the Polytechnio uprising THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO US BY OUR ESC VOLUNTEER: PANOS, 25 YEARS OLD, GREEK. Did you know that on the night of September 19, 1970, Kōstas Geōrgakīs, a Greek activist and geology student at the University of Genoa, killed himself by setting himself on fire in Piazza Matteotti while shouting: “Long live free Greece”? But why did Kostas come to commit this crazy act? On June 26, 1970, Georgakis gave an anonymous interview to a Genoese newspaper, in which he revealed that the Greek military junta had infiltrated the Greek student movement in Italy. In the interview, he stated that the Greek secret services had created ESESI (National League of Greek Students in Italy) to establish offices in Italy. During the third year of his studies and after successfully passing the second semester exams, Geōrgakīs found himself in the difficult position of having his military exemption revoked by the military junta as well as his monthly maintenance from his family. The junta did this in retaliation for his involvement in the anti-junta movement, as a member of the Italian branch of PAK, the Panhellenic Liberation Movement. He decided that he had to do something to raise awareness in the West about the political situation in Greece. Once he had made the decision to sacrifice his life, Kōstas Geōrgakīs filled a can with gasoline and wrote a letter to his father and his fiancée. At 1:00 a.m. on September 19, 1970, he drove his Fiat 500 to Piazza Matteotti. According to eyewitnesses, garbage collectors working around the Palazzo Ducale, there was a sudden flash of light in the area around 3:00 a.m. At first, they didn’t realize the flame was a burning man. Only when they understood did they approach the flaming Geōrgakīs, who, burning, was shouting, “Long live Greece,” “Down with the tyrants,” “Down with the fascist colonels,” and “I did it for my Greece.” Geōrgakīs is the only resistance hero against the Junta known for protesting by taking his own life, and he is considered a precursor to the subsequent student protests, such as the one at the Polytechnic. The Polytechnic Uprising: Since April 21, 1967, Greece had been under the dictatorial rule of the military. During those years, civil rights were abolished, and many politicians and citizens were tortured, imprisoned, or exiled for their political beliefs. The junta tried to intervene in universities with a law that sent students with differing political beliefs, who were against the regime, into military service. The first massive public action against the junta came from the students on February 21, 1973, when law students went on strike and barricaded themselves inside the buildings of the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens, demanding the repeal of the law that required enlistment in the military. The police were ordered to intervene, and it is reported that many students were subjected to brutality. The events at the Law School were the first real uprising and marked the beginning of the fall of the dictatorship. On November 14, 1973, students at the Athens Polytechnic (Polytechneion) went on strike and began protesting against the military. While the authorities were waiting, the students called themselves the “Free Besieged” (in Greek: Ελεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι, a reference to the poem by Greek poet Dionysios Solomos inspired by the Ottoman siege of Mesolonghi). Their main slogan at the time was: BREAD-EDUCATION-FREEDOM! The students even managed to set up their own free and independent radio, informing every Athenian citizen about what was happening at the university, gaining increasing support from the population. The students’ slogans and graffiti were anti-NATO and anti-American, and they compared the Greek junta to Nazi Germany. The night of November 17, 1973: In the early hours of November 17, 1973, the government sent a tank to break through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. The city’s lights had been turned off, and the area was illuminated only by the campus lights, powered by the university’s generators. An AMX 30 tank (still preserved in a small armored unit museum in a military camp in Avlonas, not open to the public) crashed into the railway gate of the Athens Polytechnic around 3:00 a.m. In a blurry video secretly filmed by a Dutch journalist, the tank is shown as it demolishes the steel gate of the campus, to which people were clinging. In the footage, a young voice can be heard desperately asking the soldiers (whom he calls “brothers-in-arms”), who are surrounding the building complex, to disobey military orders and not fight the “brothers protesting.” An official investigation launched after the fall of the junta stated that no student from the Athens Polytechnic was killed during the incident. The total registered casualties amounted to 24 civilians killed outside the Athens Polytechnic campus. These included 19-year-old Michael Mirogiannis, who, according to records, was killed by Officer Nikolaos Dertilis, high school students Diomedes Komnenos and Alexandros Spartidis from the Lycee Leonin, and a five-year-old child caught in the crossfire in the Zografou suburb. The records of the trials held after the collapse of the Junta document the circumstances of the deaths of many civilians during the uprising, and although the number of fatalities has not been contested by historical research, it remains a subject of political controversy. ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe:The communication campaign ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe was born