Comms at @DiEM_25, podcast producer, video editor, occasional writer, guitarist, and filmmaker — @hopeless_eu. Portuguese-born, Brussels-based.
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Davide Castro retweeted
DiEM25 (@DiEM_25), a member of the @ProgIntl, has been debanked, cutting off the movement’s access to critical funds.
This is the latest systemic stifling of those who resist Europe’s authoritarian turn.
🔗 Support DiEM’s urgent appeal today via the link below.
🔴 URGENT: Our bank has cut us off from our own money.
Our bills haven’t stopped. Neither can our work. Help us build an emergency fund to keep DiEM25 going. Even €10 makes a difference.
Donate now: i.diem25.org/donations/to/de…
Davide Castro retweeted
An alliance of leftwing European political parties co-founded by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has lost access to its bank account.
The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) said on Tuesday that its account was “closed suddenly and without warning” on 8 October, and the group has lost access to tens of thousands of euros.
The organisation has not named the bank, citing legal reasons, but spokesperson Erik Edman said the account was held in Belgium.
“We asked the bank for an explanation and requested an extension,” he told Novara Media. “It declined to explain its decision and refused the extension.”
He said DiEM25 was unable to confirm “whether its decision was politically motivated”.
However, he added, “through conversations with other organisations in Belgium, we have heard accounts suggesting a worrying pattern in which progressive political organisations appear to have been disproportionately affected by debanking.”
The bank account was where DiEM25 supporters had been sending small monthly donations. Edman said it has two staff members and an office in Belgium and is at risk of being unable to pay salaries, social security contributions and rent there.
The group has started an emergency fundraiser to cover its immediate costs and says it is looking for a new bank in Belgium.
“Why did they do it?” Varoufakis, who is also DiEM25’s secretary general, said in a video statement. “You may say [it’s because] we are insufficiently supportive of the oligarchy, of genocide… but of course we couldn’t possibly comment.”
Varoufakis served as an MP for DiEM25’s Greek offshoot, Mera25, between 2019 and 2023. He founded DiEM25 with Croatian philosopher and political activist Srećko Horvat in 2016. The 192,000-member organisation also has parties in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
In February, Varoufakis was indicted in Greece after saying on a podcast that he had taken ecstasy over 36 years ago in Australia. Mera25 described the prosecution as politically motivated, saying Greece's judiciary was going after “whoever refuses to bend the knee”.
Davide Castro retweeted
🔴LIVE on Wednesday, Nov 4 at 19:15 CET
The US midterm elections are tomorrow. The day after we bring together @NaomiAKlein, @astradisastra & @yanisvaroufakis to discuss what the vote tells us about the far right’s grip on power, and how to break it.
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Davide Castro retweeted
🔴 URGENT: Our bank has cut us off from our own money.
Our bills haven’t stopped. Neither can our work. Help us build an emergency fund to keep DiEM25 going. Even €10 makes a difference.
Donate now: i.diem25.org/donations/to/de…
Davide Castro retweeted
0.1% of people on the planet emit more CO2 than the poorest 3.5 billion people combined.
One year’s worth of emissions from the top 1% will result in an estimated 1.3 million excess deaths from extreme heat.
Just a few stats from Oxfam's incredible new report.
Natural disasters aren’t natural. A storm doesn’t decide who has insurance, savings or somewhere safe to go. People built the systems that leave others exposed. People can change them.
Read #DisasterDivide:
oxfam.org/en/research/disast…
#ClimateJustice #MakeRichPollutersPay
Leaders of the Knesset are really called MKs. There's nothing mmmmkaay about the majority of them.
Free Palestine.
Davide Castro retweeted
"Europe’s teenagers have witnessed their governments justify tens of billions in weapons for “civilised” Ukraine and for Israel to wipe out the “uncivilised” in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.” Read more: diem25.org/even-casseurs-sou…
Davide Castro retweeted
Historic day in Serbia!
A huge congratulations to the student movement who made this happen after more than two years of resistance against authoritarianism and blatant repression.
Davide Castro retweeted
The UN has raised the alarm: Staying below 1.5°C is no longer possible. Climate disasters are already uprooting millions, yet Europe is mobilising €800bn MORE for rearmament. What kind of security are they preparing us for on an increasingly uninhabitable planet?
Davide Castro retweeted
What can Serbia’s student movement teach the world about organising from the ground up? More than a year ago, we spoke to student activist Nina Petrov about building a movement beyond Vučić- one that documents its organising methods so communities and workers can replicate them. Their vision? “Not just voting on election day, but being active citizens every day.” There's no better time to revisit this conversation. Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/ENPIkFRJ4Ss
Davide Castro retweeted
Congratulations to Serbia’s student list! But real change must go beyond Serbia’s borders. It’s time for the EU to fundamentally rethink its relationship with Serbia and the rest of Eastern Europe @IvanaNenadovic
Davide Castro retweeted
Die Linke Berlin is backstabbing its pro-Palestinian base to get into government. 3 years of violent police crackdowns, protesters beaten, demonstrations suppressed, activists criminalised. Now @dieLinke might officially make Berlin into a police state! Shame! 🧵
Davide Castro retweeted
"The system has become destructive for students, teachers and everyone working in schools, contributing to the worrying figure of almost 10% of young people having had suicidal thoughts in the previous year” Read full article below:
diem25.org/students-are-revo…
