Dear all, After more than 65 years, the current Peace talks being held under the US supervision between Israel and the Palestinian Authority seem to be more than ever in an impasse. Old anti semitic obsession of the West ? Symbolic struggle against a new apartheid? Freedom, Terrorism, Security, media mass manipulation, refugees, religion, money…
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Young Greens begin week of action against university pay inequality
The Young Greens of England & Wales launched actions at campuses across the country starting from Monday as part of a national week of action against pay inequality at UK universities. Actions are being held at the University of East Anglia, Imperial College London and Leeds Met to draw attention to the huge rise in…
International thoughts on Gender
L’humanité exige les hommes et les femmes, et nous sommes tout aussi importants et nous avons besoin les uns les autres. S’entraider et se soutenir mutuellement avec l’égalité du/des sexes renforce le marché de l’emploi. Humanity requires both men and women, and we are equally important and need one another Helping each other and supporting…
What’s your Gender ? Terry !
Fuck gender – be yourself… was one of the major demands in the queer-feminist manifesto of Grüne Jugend. We claimed that we want to live in a society where gender does not matter anymore. Where “Is it a girl or a boy?” is not the first question when a child is born. Where we…
A Bosnian Spring?
A Bosnian Spring? Twenty years after the Dayton Agreement, there is something going wrong in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Despite the implementation of a remarkable reconstruction and development program after the war until today, corrupt and incompetent political elites rein the country. Unemployment rate is at minimum 40 per cent and young people and rural…
Life is peachy for white gays of San Francisco
I loved the first episode of Looking, the new HBO series on lives of gay men living in San Francisco. I mean what is not loveable about a 20 min show full of guys making very mean jokes. I am truly happy that now there is a show on gay men. Yeah we watched stories…
Tribune of “Les Antigones”, a French “feminine” movement
REMINDER : This tribune has raised controversy among readers of The Ecosprinter. The Ecosprinter is an independant participative online newspaper, powered by FYEG. The articles and their content do not reflect FYEG views and are only engaging their authors, in the aim of empowering freedom of speech and public debate within European youth on striking…
Left out in the cold: is boycotting an effective form of protest?
As the Sochi Winter Olympic games draws to a close, I am left wondering whether or not my protest was effective. I protested not only against Russia’s increasingly terrifying anti-LGBTQ legislation, but also against the decision to award a prominent international sporting event to a country that shows little or no respect for basic human…
The Swedish “Hen”-debate
During the past few years there has been an ongoing debate dividing Sweden into two camps. What was the source of discussion? The gender neutral pronoun “hen” is to be used as a third pronoun in addition to she or he, to be used when gender of a person is irrelevant or unpredictable. The so…
Sex education for all
Sex education is crucial for youth empowerment and gender equality and yet it is underdeveloped in many European countries. Those who are against it, claim that parents can provide enough knowledge about sex to their children, that they don’t want their children to be taught things condemned by their religious institutions. Advising abstinence is not…