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Survivors vs. the Far Right
Survivors vs. the Far Right

Read the open letter:

Dear European leaders,

Europe, and Europeans, need answers - not scapegoats.

But far-right parties do not have these answers; all they offer is misery for millions. You must not gamble with our lives by cutting dirty deals with these people.

You must know what life is really like under the policies of these parties.

It means women dying because of draconian restrictions on abortion. It means families ripped apart because of attacks on LGBTQ rights. It means brutal, conspiratorial attacks on the free press, without which no democracy can thrive. It means migrants drowning in our seas and dying at our borders.

They want millions of us to become second-class citizens.

A deal with the far right offers no solutions to the problems we have. Not on climate change; not on wars; not on housing and not on decent work.

We need leaders who stand up for all Europeans and for all of our rights. We can't go backwards. 

Yours,

Survivors of the Far-Right

Add your name to stand with those who suffered under the rule of the far right:
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Read the open letter:
"Dear European leaders,

Europe, and Europeans, need answers - not scapegoats.

But far-right parties do not have these answers; all they offer is misery for millions. You must not gamble with our lives by cutting dirty deals with these people.

You must know what life is really like under the policies of these parties.

It means women dying because of draconian restrictions on abortion. It means families ripped apart because of attacks on LGBTQ rights. It means brutal, conspiratorial attacks on the free press, without which no democracy can thrive. It means migrants drowning in our seas and dying at our borders.

They want millions of us to become second-class citizens.

A deal with the far right offers no solutions to the problems we have. Not on climate change; not on wars; not on housing and not on decent work.

We need leaders who stand up for all Europeans and for all of our rights. We can't go backwards. 

Yours,

Survivors of the Far-Right
"
Initial signatories:
  • Laura Magnarin and Vanessa Santamaria (Italy) - two of the Italian lesbian mothers who had the birth certificate of their child contested (so that Vanessa, as the non-birthing parent would have her name removed and lose her parental rights), following an order by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government that city councils stop registering same-sex parents' children.
  • Barbara Skrobal (Poland) - the sister-in-law of Izabela Sajbor, believed to be the first known victim of the de-facto abortion ban in Poland, brought in under the far-right Law and Justice (PiS) government;
  • Bart Staszewski (Poland) - a leading Polish LGBT activist and filmmaker, who faced targeted hate attacks from politicians, media, and the courts in Poland, under Law and Justice.
  • Boldizsár Nagy (Hungary) - an editor whose book was torn apart by the far-right and labelled “homosexual propaganda” by Prime Minister Orbán’s government, sparking an international debate on the crackdown of freedom of expression in Hungary;
  • Mónika Magasházi (Hungary) - a trans woman who has not been able to change her gender identity as a result of Hungary's far-right government introducing a new law that ends the legal recognition of trans people.
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