June 2016: there will be elections in nine months. DWARS’s freshly formed campaign team holds their first meeting. What are we going to do during the next three-quarter year and how? Before we started this, I had promised to bring a pie. ‘But,’ I said, ‘not without a reason. We need to have achieved something.’…
Tag: Netherlands
A Day in the Life of a Dutch Green Campaign Manager
Today Marije Ploeg has the floor. She is campaign manager at the GroenLinks (GreenLeft) department in The Hague. Before, she was the campaign manager in Arnhem, and she has been in the United States for a while and joined the BKB-academy to follow intensive courses about campaigning. She will tell us what she has learned…
Campaigning in Eindhoven
While some of the active GroenLinks members gathered together in Amsterdam to celebrate the end of the EP election campaign, a small group of enthusiastic Greens were still campaigning in Eindhoven. Fortunately, the Sun seemed to be in a very positive mood too, which was good for the atmosphere. With three boxes filled with campaign…
FYEG campaign 2003-2004: migration
Take a look in our political platform by the subject migration. Our first point: “free movement of persons is a human right”. What does this sentence mean for FYEG. What does this mean for refugees in Europe? And what is our opinion about Visa etc.? This year and the next till the European elections (2004),…