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# stand up
Logo of #aufstehn
purpose advancement
  • of the democratic state
  • political participation and codetermination
  • of popular education
  • of civic engagement for charitable purposes
Chair: Carl Pick
Manager: Maria Mayrhofer
Establishment date: 2015
Number of members: 8
supporters: 230,000 (January 2020)
Seat : Vienna
Website: www.aufstehn.at

#aufstehn is a non - profit, non - governmental organization founded in 2015 and based in Vienna . It was founded on the model of participatory, civil society online platforms such as Campact , 38 Degrees or MoveOn and offers an internet-based participation forum with which people can come together online based on their concerns. Protest e-mails or calls cannot be sent to political decision-makers individually, but bundled in the form of online petitions . According to their own information, there are currently more than 195,000 people registered with #aufstehn who regularly take part in the campaigns.

structure

The association "Aufstehn.at - Association for the Promotion of Civil Society Participation " has a manager and six full-time or part-time employees. You organize the more than 195,000 supporters and lead the # stand up campaigns. In addition, the #aufstehn team takes care of the petition platform mein #aufstehn , which offers those involved the opportunity to start their own petitions and campaigns.

The association is headed by a six-person board team. #aufstehn is part of the OPEN network ("Online Progressive Engagement Network"), which u. a. progressive campaign organizations from the USA (MoveOn.org), Germany ( Campact ), Great Britain (38 degrees), France , Poland , Romania , Ireland , South Africa , India and Australia .

financing

The association is non-profit and is largely financed by donations and grants.

aims

# stand up campaign against the smashing of AUVA 2018

#aufstandn organizes campaigns on a wide range of political issues. One of the goals of the organization is to mobilize topics and bring them into public discourse .

The most successful campaigns in recent years include #solidaritystorm, the # aufstehn campaign against hatred and sexual violence online. Manager Maria Mayrhofer was awarded the Vienna Women's Prize in 2016 for the initiative against hate online .

Via my #aufstehn , the platform collected almost 200,000 signatures against the breaking up of the general accident insurance institution (AUVA) , an institution of the Austrian social insurance .

After the Austrian Federal Government from the migration pact the United Nations resigned, offered #aufstehn the opportunity to sign as an individual symbolic pact, which nachkamen over 180,000 people.

In an alliance with Greenpeace , Volkshilfe Österreich , the Frauen * Volksbegehren and other organizations, #aufstehn called for a Europe-wide day of action ahead of the 2019 European elections to motivate as many people as possible to vote. The demonstration under the motto "One Europe for All!" followed by concerts on Heldenplatz in Vienna one week before the election, according to the organizers, 8,000 people attended.

Differentiation from "getting up"

#aufstehn distances itself from the established 2018 Rally standing up and asked to change the German initiative name, hashtag, font and color, a likelihood of confusion, #aufstehn in content clearly different and you can not "get into the waters of a political party aligned movement" would . For this was getting unwilling to have been able to agree on only that the German project in the future to the hashtag waived in the logo, in order to reduce the risk of confusion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ #solidaritystorm. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Winners of the Vienna Women's Prize. In: Website of the City of Vienna . Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ "Stand up": 200,000 signatures against AUVA breaking up. In: The press . May 16, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Migration Pact: Government is stonewalling, online initiative mobilizes. In: Small newspaper . November 6, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ EU election: Civil society alliance wants to mobilize people to vote. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Demo "One Europe for All": "Believe the election will interest many". Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Christian Teevs: Austrians feel copied from Wagenknecht. In: Spiegel Online . August 27, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ What has #aufstehn got to do with “getting up”? - Nothing! Retrieved March 5, 2019 .