Grønn Ungdom, the Norwegian Green Youth, has launched a campaign for fair trade cities and municipalities. During the campaign, all 431 Norwegian municipalities will receive a letter from us, encouraging them to declare themselves as fair trade city or municipalitiy. Miljøpartiet De Grønne, the Green Party, support our campaign, and where represented in local councils,…
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Meeting of the Young Italian Greens
Politics for young people and students The end of the world is not an event. It’s a process. Currently unfolding. The Italian group Giovani Verdi left the FYEG last year, but there are interesting initiatives going on. We publish both an English translation of a green youth meeting in Naples, as well as a manifesto…
Grüne Jugend update
We at Grüne Jugend are currently working on the topic “right-wing extremism”, at the moment we mainly want to inform and elucidate about this problem. But we are also planning activities and information material. We are also having a discussion about the structure of our organisation at the moment. We already took some time to…
DWARS update
Hi everybody, I am the new representative for European affairs of Dwars, the Dutch young greens. In this article I will describe what is happening in Dwars. First I will shortly explain how Dwars works, for those who have not heard of Dwars. Dwars has a national division and regional divisions. On local level people…
How to get rich quick!
Brightening Green election hopes… Tony Blair is playing games. He is thought to be intending to set the date for a general election on 5 May – that is 05/05/05. What a date! I guess this would mean that none could possibly get confused with which day to vote! The UK desperately needs Greening and…
A Swedish perspective on the European Constitution
The FYEG is facing many important issues to discuss at the upcoming General Assemby, but there is one that lingers on our mind especially. The GA will decide whether or not to pursue a common campaign for the new “Treaty for a European Constitution”. Campaigning is one of FYEG’s most important tasks and we do…
The Netherlands as viewed by an outsider on the inside
“A Dutchman is a lusty, fat, two-legged cheeseworm”. Not my words but those of a 17th Century English leafl et published about the Dutch. There must have been much talk about and writing about the Dutch given the relatively large amount of phrases in the English language that incorporate the word “Dutch”: Dutch gold, fake…
Let’s work together
Catalan and German young greens meet in Barcelona If the Greens were united… could be the motto of FYEG although I still would be optimistic enough to put it into conditional. For all English learners: If the Greens are united they will never be defeated! But it does not only need FYEG to make this…
Campus Clubs
In 2004 the Green Party Youth went Canada-wide with groups in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Victoria, British Columbia and places in between. In British Columbia, Orion Carrier regenerated the University of Victoria Greens. This group was active in club member Ariel Lade’s Victoria election campaign. A highlight of their activities is a voter registration campaign that…
Chiche! Eco-alternative youth keeps going!
2003-2004 was maybe an election year in France with regional elections in March and European Union elections in June, but Chiche! stayed, as usual, far away from this party game. For us the year was marked by three ways of grassroots action that we had the pleasure to experience. First the Antipub, anti-advertising movement we…