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This episode of Citizen Lobbyist investigates racism in Europe.

After the assassination of George Floyd, we have seen a new wave of protests and indignation not only in the US, but also in Europe. While systemic racism may be harder to spot in Europe than in the United States, the roots of racism are the same on both continents. Systemic discrimination is not only present but also perpetrated by the same institutions that should fight to prevent it.

Together with the Open Society European Policy Institute - OSEPI - we gathered four amazing female activists from different backgrounds:

Layla @Azzuzi - Collective Against Islamophobia in Belgium
Dijana Pavlovic - European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
Violeta Naydenova - Senior Policy Analyst on Roma and Anti-discrimination at Osepi
Wetsi Mpoma - Bamko-Cran: Centre for Reflection and Action on Racism

Hey, it’s me Fiorella! :
I would love to have a 60 min discussion of the topics we discussed on Clubhouse.
If you like the idea, just send me a message and we will make it happen.


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For too long we have been regulating lobbying to prevent corruption. Yet, as lobbying is a legitimate democratic activity, the aim should instead be to open it up to everyone. In this new episode of Citizen Lobbyist, we discuss lobbying reform across the world, by taking the EU as a case in point. Professor Alemanno’s ideas for power-shifting reforms aimed at levelling the playing field will be presented.

To learn more on Regulatory Governance, don't miss this Open Government Partnership Report
https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/regulatory-governance-in-the-open-government-partnership/

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Civil society has played a small role, but a role nonetheless, in the management of the biggest crisis of the century. How civil society might regain a voice in shaping the post-COVID world?

In this episode, Professor Alberto Alemanno and Fiorella Lavorgna discuss with Julie Brome from ARIADNE and NGO representatives from BirdLife and ILGA how NGOs and philanthropies reacted to the pandemic and how they can work together in the reconstruction phase.

Brexit, fake news, political polarization and now Covid19 are pushing an unprecedented number of academics into the public arena. They reframe the public debate, by making it more informed, and oftentimes taking sides. Yet, academics are not trained for this, and this is not even what their Universities expect them to do. Why then more academics engage with society and some embrace activism? Fiorella Lavorgna discussed the role of academics can and should place in civil society with Professors Alberto Alemanno, legal scholar and political activist, and Jenny Pickerill, a human geographer and engaged academic from the University of Sheffield.

In this episode, we talk about what pro bono is about and why it matters with two top international pro bono experts: Jacquelyn MacLennan from White&Case and Lamin Khadar from Dentons.

After the interview, Professor Alberto Alemanno tells us about the philosophical and business rationales behind corporate pro bono practices – how they are in line profit interests, and how they fit with the incipient theory of re-inventing capitalism.

Is digital activism REAL activism? Can your signature on a petition trigger change? How is online campaigning changing at the time of Covid19? In a new episode of Citizen Lobbyist, Fiorella Lavorgna and Alberto Alemanno met Luis Morago, chief campaigner at Avaaz - the largest citizen platform in the world - and Laura Sullivan, Executive Director at WeMove, the leading pan-EU campaigning organisation.