On the 8th of April we celebrated an International Roma Day. Every year it is a great occasion to learn more about the Roma community by attending a concert or a conference. It is a one small step towards Roma inclusion, a step in the right direction, but certainly not enough. Roma communities live in…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Letter from young Green Delegates at COP 19 : How we walked out of the Polluters talks
You haven’t heard anything from us since some time. But we are back. For this one newsletter. Our absence on the sphere of the internet has various reasons. One is, that we all travelled home. We travelled home after two weeks of crying, shouting, holding banners, being angry, feeling together with the civil society groups,…
Logo competition: now the time of the online poll has come !
In the beginning of October, the ECOSPRINTER Editorial Board realized that the European young green’s e-magazine had still no distinctive logo. We have two nice proposals for the Logo but the decision of which to choose is not so easy as we couldn´t reach unanimity. But we are aware of importance of the Logo because…