The Climate March in London – part of a global effort to make politicians once more take climate change seriously – looked impressive. It also showed the scale of alliances that are being created over this issue. As always, I arrived late. If everything would go according to plans, I – along with my partner…
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Green Check-in: Norway
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! Eric Evans, Norwegian Green Party The long term issue is that we have a very strong successful welfare…
Will the Climate Summit be a Success?
This 23 September, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business, and civil society to a new Climate Summit, after the one in 2009 for Copenhagen, to “galvanize and catalyze climate action”. A few days before the Summit, what can we expect of it? By organizing this high-level event, M. Ban has…
Green Check-in: Spain
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! So in France they want to know what we think, but not in Spain. What problem does the media…
Green Check-in: Hungary
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! Makádi Balázs, Hungarian Greens “The Greens are chaining themselves to trees and want to save the whales and these…
The Green Case for Scottish Independence
For many outside of Scotland, including neighbouring countries such as Ireland, England and Norway, the motivations behind Scottish independence would seem to run counter to Green values. Green politics rejects nationalism outright and stresses cooperation between nations, but in the case of Britain, Greens argue that the nation is fundamentally broken and power too concentrated…
Green Check-in: Malta
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! Anna Azzopardi, Young Greens of Malta “We’re working with a migrant detention center with other NGOs to we create…
Green Check-in: Serbia
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! “I think the average person that knows about the Greens (because that’s a struggle also) they like us.” Žaklina…
The NATO protests show the need for an ‘Activist Plan B’
Protesters packed their bags last Friday in Wales. The NATO summit hadn’t ended yet, but the activists headed home nonetheless. There weren’t the numbers needed to sustain the camp. It seems odd – anti-NATO demonstrations at an ebb at a time when the West is rallying for war, whether launching a new offensive in Iraq…
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