Dear all, Saint Valentine’s is here, love is all aroud, the sky is blue and the birds singing ! Well… not exactly. While abortion rights are being re-discussed in Western Europe, LGBTQ+ activists and gay people are being prosecuted far more in the East. Israeli army still raids in the West Bank, threatening and killing…
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GREEN TO YOU
“To be green means to think about today and tomorrow. As a gardener, I learnt that you fail if you focus only on this year’s harvest: you might have nothing the next year. Already in my years in the anti-nuclear movement, I understood that only with solidarity, passion, and patience you could win on…
Global liberal economic order
Some time ago, I read an article online that was introducing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It was written in an optimistic and serene style, describing all the advantages, like job creation, increase in trade and deeper interconnection between two most important economies, abolition of many quotas and duties, etc. However, despite the enthusiastic…
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GREEN TO YOU
The New Year is here and we would like to take a thought about the green family, the green ideas, the green policy and economy, the green life. What does it mean to be Green? All over the world, there are many young and adult people inclined to green ideology. The word Green has been…
5 Campaigns that influence the world in absolute terms
It is thanks to the efforts of campaigning organizations around the globe which have impulse the socio-economic cause into a new dimension of public interest. By bypassing the traditional media approach and taking the advantage from Face book or Twitter, the societal glitches have really flooded out and kick specific solutions. After the Twin Tower…
Video statement: A radical change for EU migration policies
Ska Keller, FYEG candidate for the Green Primary, outlines an ambitious vision for migratory reforms in Europe. The issue of Europe’s borders is disheartening and needs urgent reform. We don’t want borders, we want people crossing the Mediterranean to be saved and treated humanely. We don’t want detention camps in Europe or in surrounding states,…
Portraits of Migrants : Hanny, a car addict from Persia
Hanny is 28, from Tehran, in Persia/Iran. For a couple of months now, we are in the same class of our Integrationkurs, both struggling with German language. In Germany for just a year, she manages her way around pretty well in this tricky language. All which follows was expressed in German (aouch!). Hanny loves cars….
From singing in Mexico to organic farming in Germany, the three lives of Jose
Jose, 57. Professional singer in his twenties, architect for 25 years, Jose is starting with his German wife a new life as an organic farmer. From economic crisis to drug war, his life seems to be a negative of Mexico’s recent history. Jose is a hardworking and focused student. Always very calm, one can still…
Organised resistance in Germany’s capital
A look back on more than one year of refugee-strike in Berlin by Grüne Jugend In the beginning of October a protestmarch of refugees, who started in Würzburg (Souther Germany), reached Berlin. Already at the city boundaries, the activists were loudly welcomed by other refugees and supporters. The German capital was the goal of the…
Spring Hunting in Malta and the Greens’ Call to Arms
Situated right in the middle of the Mediterranean, the island-state of Malta stands directly in the path of birds migrating between Europe and Africa. Though the EU Bird’s Directive forbids bird hunting in Spring, Malta has refused to comply ever since EU accession under the Christian Democrat government. In 2009, the European Court of Justice…