This article was previously published on Bilton.org and LeftEast. “For fifteen years now my family and I have been investing in organic agriculture, working the land together with my children to build a better life for them in our homeland,” says Dimche Baleski, an organic producer from the municipality of Valandovo, during a public …
Hunger For Freedom: Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers
Katie Hodgetts and Kate Whitaker Today marks two weeks since women in Yarl’s Wood detention centre started a strike to protest the UK Home Office’s immoral practices, inhumane treatment of detainees and unfair detention system. Read a full list of their demands here. Yarl’s Wood is an ‘Immigration Removal Centre’ in Bedfordshire, England, for …
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Armenian mining project threatens local environment and communities
Mikayel Hovhannisyan, a member of YFoEE’s food and agriculture working group, warns of the huge dangers posed by the Amulsar gold mine in Armenia, which he is campaigning against. Local groups in Armenia, including the Armenian Environmental Front, have been organising against a large gold mine project on the Amulsar mountain, in the South-East of the …
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Environmental education and fighting Big Oil – a visit to FoE Nigeria
Elena, from Global 2000/Young Friends of the Earth Austria, reflects on her visit to Environmental Rights action (ERA)/Friends of the Earth Nigeria. This exchange was part of a Friends of the Earth International project working to strengthen solidarity and collaboration between youth in Europe and Africa. The 11 days I spent in Nigeria in the …
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YFoE Norway takes government to supreme court over arctic oil
Today, Nature and Youth/Young FoE Norway and Greenpeace Norway are filing an appeal against the Norwegian Government for Arctic oil drilling. The appeal challenges the Oslo District Court decision, which said that Norwegian government “can not be held accountable for global emissions from Norwegian produced oil and gas abroad.” Due to the urgent need to …
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Agri-Activism Opportunity
“Four weeks ago I left my ordinary Dutch life to give it a try: working on a remote organic farm in Wales and work on a sustainable food system. I knew I was going to learn a lot of new things but I didn’t know I was going to have so much FUN!!” – Tosca …
COP Simulation in Sofia!
Kristiyan Naidenov What does it mean to negotiate for the climate and to take decisions about the future of the planet? Leaving aside any government representatives, summits, media statements and reportages, a group of sixteen young people now can answer these questions! Because they participated in the first simulation of the United Nations Climate Change …
The High North Conference
Maria Novita Saragi from YFoE Russia “Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it.” Said George R.R. Martin, the American writer who wrote the phenomenal series Game of Thrones. The …
The People vs Arctic Oil: Historic climate trial ends
Today was the last day in court where three environmental organisations – including Natur og Ungdom/Young FoE Norway – have taken on the Norwegian government for opening up new areas in the Arctic to oil drilling. The plaintiffs have been arguing that drilling for new oil violates the Norwegian Constitution and contravenes the Paris Agreement. …
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Never trust a COP
Whilst political decision makers have been failing to respond to the urgency of the climate crisis during negotiations at COP 23, young people have challenged them from inside and outside the climate conference halls. COP 23, the UNFCCC international climate change negotiations, took place in Bonn, Germany in early November 2017. The talks were presided …