On the 15th of April 2015 Polish Young Greens Ostra Zieleń organised an action in order to commemorate young people from LGBTQIA community who committed suicide because of hate and the lack of understanding coming from their environment. Read our interview with one of the activists from Poznan, Poland Patryk Sierpowski, who explains the situation…
Month: April 2015
Catalan Young Greens on Marijuana Legalization
As Young Greens, we often get the reputation of being a bunch of teenagers who like get high and talk politics. Despite that this is largely an incorrect stereotype for many Young Greens across the world, it does speak true about one point. It has long been Green parties and their youth counterparts that have…
Reaching out (to) Europe
During the CDNEE (Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe) seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia, which took place from 27th-30th of November 2014, many young people had a chance to say what Europe meant for them. Unlike in many such discussions, Europe was far more than just European Union. Photo: Aleksandra Kołeczek Most of the…
Responsibility to Protect: The problem with neglecting its political dimension
This post was originally published in April of 2013 Seeing children dying at the horn of Africa makes us feel guilty, seeing the piles of dead bodies in the streets of Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda as well makes us feel that we just bluntly have to do something against it. That we have…