<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 class="title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer">Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Renata Ávila: Communism or Barbarism, it's that simple | DiEM25 TV</h1><h1 class="title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer"><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXC1n8OexRU" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXC1n8OexRU</a></span></h1><div class="">--</div><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">We are currently living through one of the biggest historical challenges of our lifetimes.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">As the EU and the US have sealed off their borders and decided to turn inwards, we must — even if it is only online for now — turn our attention to building the <strong class="">World After Coronavirus.</strong></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">It is important, as <a href="https://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592&id=39c5b9f5a5&e=96e1d57a1e" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592%26id%3D39c5b9f5a5%26e%3D96e1d57a1e&source=gmail&ust=1585053058174000&usg=AFQjCNEcAGHubJYvh6L_iwN8I1hKClkTow" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">DiEM25 has done from the start,</a> to insist on public and universal health care, mutual aid and global solidarity. We must all do our best to take care of the most vulnerable members of our societies, even if it means self-isolation for the weeks to come.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">However, ‘social distancing’ doesn’t, and shouldn’t, mean the end of <strong class="">social cooperation.</strong> On the contrary, if coronavirus has shown anything it is the <strong class="">necessity of both micro-local and unprecedented trans-national cooperation.</strong></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">This is why we are starting a special<strong class=""> DiEM25 COVID-19 Online Series</strong> that will consist of online lectures, public discussions and various other formats where we will invite our members, Coordinating Collective and Advisory Panel members, but also other experts, scientists and activists to share their thoughts on the current global crisis, and possible ways out of it.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">Register for our upcoming events:</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Monday, 30 March, 19:00 CET</strong><br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/564" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592%26id%3D841f6cb003%26e%3D96e1d57a1e&source=gmail&ust=1585053058175000&usg=AFQjCNHSmlV9KO2cTzgMju9tHc86-IQmeg" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class="">Stefania Maurizi: </strong>Why we must save Julian Assange?</a><br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/564?register=yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592%26id%3Dc5e0a0ef40%26e%3D96e1d57a1e&source=gmail&ust=1585053058175000&usg=AFQjCNG-wCsHbzjhKuzpksNwOhGoi2uhnw" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Tuesday, March 31, 20:00 CET</strong><br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/568" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class="">Slavoj Žižek</strong> in conversation with Renata Ávila: Communism or Barbarism, it’s that simple!</a><br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/568?register=yes" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Wednesday, April 1, 20:00 CET<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/569" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0);" class="">Renata Ávila</a></strong> in conversation with Saša Savanović: Digital Colonialism Now<br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/569?register=yes" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Thursday, April 2, 20:00 CET<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/570" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0);" class="">Richard Sennett</a></strong> in conversation with Srećko Horvat: The Fall of Public Man 2020<br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/570?register=yes" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Friday, April 3, 20:00 CET<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/571" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0);" class="">Brian Eno</a></strong> in conversation with Yanis Varoufakis: Brian Eno Reflecting on our Post-Virus World<br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/571?register=yes" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Saturday, April 4, 19:00 CET<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/573" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0);" class="">Jeremy Scahill</a></strong> in conversation with Srećko Horvat: Capitalist Vampires, Coronavirus and the US Election<br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/573?register=yes" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Saturday, April 4, 20:00 CET</strong><br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/572" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class="">Astra Taylor</strong> in conversation with David Adler: Internationalism in a Global Pandemic</a><br class="">15 min introduction + 45 min Q&A<br class=""><a href="https://internal.diem25.org/en/events/572?register=yes" style="color: rgb(237, 47, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">[Register]</a></p><div style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">As millions of Europeans are confined to quarantine, living under a ‘state of exception’, with restricted mobility and even curfews, we must focus on the broader picture. Aside from offering unprecedented short-term measures and courageous policy proposals, we must also look into the long term effects of COVID-19 on our economies, politics, psychology, and forms of social resistance — as well as on the future of democracy.</div><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">Join us next week, and in the weeks to come, online at <strong class="">DiEM25 TV</strong>: a radically hopeful and constructive Television programme which will be shaped by its members, journalists and the general audience<strong class="">.</strong></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class="">Don’t wait for someone to ask you what you have been doing in 2020, join us by seizing this historic moment!</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>