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…
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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…
Call for participants: “Speak up! Green voices in the media” seminar June 17-21
Are you a budding writer or editor? Do you blog or contribute to an online magazine or news portal with a Green focus, or are you thinking of doing so? Are you simply interested in the relation of Greens to the media and the transformations taking place with the rise of new, digital and alternative…
Young Greens of England & Wales 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 across the…
Austrian 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 across the…
Rethinking a Common Past: A Polish Perspective 70 Years After the Holocaust
By Aleksandra Kołeczek, Ostra Zieleń/Polish Young Greens There are hardly any Jews left in Poland nowadays, but the common past bounded us for good. The most painful and terrible event in that past – the Holocaust, dominates our relations. Around one hundred thousand Jews visit Poland every year to visit concentration camps and memorials commemorating…
The Holocaust In the Eyes of My Grandmother: An American hindsight 70 years later
By Guy Tabachnick (photo of Lucy and Friends in Rivoli, Italy in a Displaced Persons Camp, ca 1946-47. Taken from www.lucymandelstam.com) Last week, my mom sent me video of her mother’s testimony given in 1989 at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial. It’s on YouTube now, in three hour-long sections: my grandmother’s childhood in Vienna; the…
Porajmos, an excluded part of the Holocaust: A Czech hindsight 70 years later
By Josef Šmída, Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Young European Greens One of the biggest horrors in human history ever is the Holocaust. A genocide of human diversity widely known as a genocide of Jews in the name of Nazi ideology before and during the WWII. A nightmare which afterwards gave…
Never Again! Never Fascism: The European Hindsight 70 Years Later
By Michael Bloss, Co-Spokesperson for the Federation of Young European Greens The day of the liberation of Auschwitz was a cornerstone to the end of the worst time in European history. Its survivors, freed by the Soviet army, coined the famous slogan: „Never Again!“ – a parole that inspired generations of anti-fascist activists in the…
The Holocaust: A Greek hindsight 70 years later
By Dimitrios Moschos, member of the Coordination Committee of Neoi Prasinoi (photo of the Holocaust Memorial in Greece) The Nazi savagery took a heavy toll from Greece during WWII. An estimated 5-10% of the country’s population was killed during the war, while the country’s Jewry had 77% of its members murdered in German concentration camps….