Alliance for Political and Freedom of Expression
| Alliance for Political and Freedom of Expression (bpm) | |
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| purpose | The advocacy of the student body's right to freedom of expression and the social responsibility of science |
| Managing directors | Johanna Völker |
| Members | Currently 73 organizations |
| Board of Directors | Jana Küchler (1st board member), Nina Knöchelmann (2nd board member), Christopher Johne (cashier) |
| Association headquarters | to water |
| founding | 2000 |
| Website | www.pm-buendnis.de |
The Alliance for Political Freedom and Freedom of Expression ( bpm or PM alliance for short ) is a political alliance of over thirty student bodies and over twenty other organizations that was founded in early 2000 . It advocates constituted student bodies , a society free of repression , data protection and the democratization of all areas of life. The alliance is legally supported by a registered association called “Alliance for Politics and Freedom of Opinion e. V. (PM) ".
History and structure
The alliance (and, at the same time, that of the association) was founded in 2000 as the successor organization to the federal coordination for the political mandate; it was reactivated in January 2006 by updating the objectives and work priorities in the Leipzig appeal . As before, the alliance at the federal level is the only alliance that deals critically with disciplinary and criminalizing conditions in universities and society. For the disputes resulting from the objectives and work priorities (in particular the general political mandate ), the alliance offers a nationwide unique platform, especially for school and student bodies.
Members of the alliance and signatories of the Leipzig appeal are primarily regional and supraregional organizations such as party groups, associations, political groups as well as constituted and non-constituted student bodies, in which well over a million people are organized. At the same time, the open working and organizational structure of the alliance (based on the structure of the alliance against tuition fees (ABS)) with management , the monthly coordinating body (KO) and the semi-annual general assembly (VV) of all alliance partners forms the basis for the grassroots democracy Organization of alliance work .
The alliance supports both local initiatives for alternative free space in many cities and nationwide initiatives and campaigns such as the “ Freedom Instead of Fear ” large-scale demonstrations in Berlin or the nationwide education strike through information , press and anti-repression work.
The alliance for political and freedom of expression has a transitional office at the AStA at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main.
Objective and focus of work
In the Leipzig appeal , the alliance formulated new work priorities, which are named more specifically in the respective current work program, subdivided into the four areas of campaigns, anti-repression work and data protection, alliance work, and press and public relations work .
The Alliance for Political and Freedom of Speech was most recently known nationwide in 2007 with the distribution of the “ Stasi 2.0 ” sticker in cooperation with the fzs in the context of the initiatives against data retention and online searches , so that since then it has repeatedly been used for nationwide demonstrations and workshops for local events is requested. Further successes were the surveillance camera competition and the brochures to safeguard the student bodies in the university framework law and the “right to protest”.
Since 2007, the alliance has also been calling for a large-scale “ freedom instead of fear ” demonstration in Berlin.
As part of the nationwide education strike in 2009 , the bpm carried out active advisory work on the right of assembly , forms of protest and anti-repression .
criticism
Especially from the conservative student side , but not only from political youth organizations themselves, the general political mandate of the student body and thus the alliance that is decisively committed to it is often the target of criticism. However, this usually moves on the legal and rarely on the political level, the problem is the tension between compulsory membership and the general political mandate of the student body.
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Protection against dismissal: It remains calm at German universities . In: FAZ , March 29, 2006
- Civil rights activist: NATO massively restricts basic rights In: Linkszeitung , April 2, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ members of the Alliance: pm-buendnis.de
- ↑ pm-buendnis.de
- ↑ pm-buendnis.de
- ↑ vorratsdatenspeicherung.de
- ↑ Article. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ Work program: pm-buendnis.de
- ↑ Photo of the "Stasi 2.0" sticker: flickr.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ v4.uebergebuehr.de
- ↑ Photo of the sticker for the competition: wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de
- ↑ Article on excess charge: v4.uebergebuehr.de
- ↑ pm-buendnis.de
- ↑ Accountability report of the Humanist Union : humanistische-union.de
- ↑ Working group on anti-repression of the nationwide educational strike 2009 ( memento of the original from October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ rcds-nrw.de
- ↑ giessener-anzeiger.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ jugendserver.spinnenwerk.de ( Memento of the original from June 9th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
