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YOUNGFriends ofthe EarthEurop e News Bulletin April 2009

Welcome to the April Young FoEE News Bulletin! Keep reading to find out what Young FoEE groups have been up to

recently and what they have planned for the coming months. Don't miss your chance to get active with the ACT

NOW! climate project and join Young FoEE to fight for climate justice.

Young FoEE AGMFrom 16-19th March, 15 of us from 12 countries met inBrussels, Belgium for our second Annual General Meeting.

Together we did lots of planning for 2009 and 2010, includingour climate change work in the lead up to Copenhagen (read

the ACT NOW on page 3), from how we as European youth canhave the most impact in the lead up to and during the

negotiations, to how we can converge on Copenhagen

overland from all corners of Europe.

There was also time spent planning for the Summer Camp in

Croatia from 15-22nd August, and what actions that we canrun together, as follow on from Wrap Up Climate Changethroughout this year. The Steering Group will be leading the

development of these things, but if you want to get more

involved, contact: sophie.manson@foeeurope.org

Finally, we have elected a new steering group of 8 people.

They are Erik Lensell from Sweden, Ronny Hentschel from

Germany, Anna Yeliseyeva from Ukraine, Job Van Den Assem

from the Netherlands, Luka Tomac from Croatia, Christian

Debono from Malta, Malin Jacob from Norway, and JeroenRobbe from Belgium.

YFoE Norway

Action against oil drilling in Norway

For this year and next year Nature and Youth's (YFoE

Norway) priority campaign is against oil drilling outside the

beautiful Lofoten Islands, where the worlds largest stock of

cod lives, and where you will find the worlds largest cold

water coral reef.

Over the past months they have started several local groupsin a network called ‹o`olkaction against oil drilling outside

the Lofoten Islands», and took a group of representatives

from political youth parties out to the Lofoten Islands for

one week to highlight the other possibilities in Northern

Norway, besides drilling for oil.

Green answers to the financial crisis

The financial crisis also got a lot of attention in Norway. In

January, the Norwegian government came with a crisis

package, pledging 20 billion Norwegian crowns, which is

supposed to stop further unemployment and make newjobs. Nature and Youth believes that this crisis package

should focus on green jobs, such as railway or windpower.,

and so organised an action where they delivered the prime

minister, finance minister and transport minister small

green packages. The oil and energy minister was handed ahuge green crisis package.

Nature and Youth in Norway handing over GreenPackages to their ministers

mailto:sophie.manson@foeeurope.org

Global 2000's Youth Group march through the streetsof Vienna

AustriaThe youth group of Global 2000 (Fa Austria) organised a

march of the homeless penguins through the streets of

Vienna.

UkraineOver past years Zelenyi Svit (Friends of the Earth Ukraine)has been runing a wide and successful national campaign

directed towards securing only verified safe

biotechnologies and strict control of food and agricultural

products derived on such technology basis since 1998.

As part of FoE Ukraine, a student youth group have been

doing several awareness raising activities on the issue of

GMOs, including running a lecture series in schools and

universities, spreading the leaflets and stickers.

Upcoming Network Activities

J MA (Young FoE Netherlands)J MA has been very busy running the Vote Smart, Vote Climate

project, in the lead up to the European Parliament Elections on

the 4th of June. The aim is to raise the consciousness of young

people in The Netherlands about the climate-programme of

the Dutch Euro-parliament candidates and parties, so that theywill take into account 'the climate' when voting. The project is

made up of three main parts:

1.Developing a green 'Vote -Match"This is a voting tool available on our website which will guide

visitors to the party they should vote for, based on their, and

the political party's, green ideals. We are doing this in

co-operation with a big NGO who has the knowledge and

money to conduct proper research for the content.

2.Organising a debate tourIn co-operation with the study-unions of different universities

all around the country we are organising debates about the EU(elections) and climate issues. Depending on the the specialty

of the study-union, we are developing statements and

inviting speakers (politicians, public figures, young

people,..). At the same time we will be getting people to

do the 'vote-match" on lap-tops.

3. Training Youth AmbassadorsTen young people have been selected to become Youth

Ambassadors for this project, and have been trained in

how to interview EP-candidates and film these

interviews. They will be the face of the campaign and

will be approaching local and other media. The films

they make will be linked to our website and go on

YouTube, and will also be shown during the breaks at

the debates.

All is developing very fast and so we ore busy busy busywith it. We hope our project might inspire you to dosomething in your country too on the EP elections!!!

At\YFoE NorwayThis summer Nature and Youth will be organsing a summer

camp on one of the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway.

There will be a lot of different activities such as boat trips,

concerts, a football cup, debates and workshops on oil,

cli mate change and COP15. We hope that people from all

over Europe would like to come. The Environmental Minister,

Erik Solheim, is coming. Are you?

Contact: malinj@nu.no for more information

mailto:malinj@nu.no

Applications are OPEN for our climate project 2009!

Young FoEE and BUNDjugend have now launched

ACT NOW! THE YOUNG FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CLIMATE PROJECT

iWe are looking for 30 young Europeans who will take part

in training to become a part of the YoungFoEE Climate

Team, and will organise actions and events for other young

people on climate change throughout 2009.

2009 is THE pivotal year for climate change. In December,

governments from around the world will meet in

Copenhagen to negotiate and agree measures to stop

cli mate change. Before then we need to be loud and clear

that this is our future and our planet that they are

negotiating, and that we as young people demand justice

for the people and the planet. For this reason Young FoEE

and BUNDjugend have launched the ACT NOW project.

As part of the Young FoEE Climate Team you will take part

in a training event in Bonn, Germany from 2-7th June, and

in December come to Copenhagen as part of the

International Youth Delegation. Between June and

December you will go back to your own country and

community and organise activities and events for other

young people on climate change and the fight for climate

justice.

To find out more and apply, go to

www.bundjugend.dejactnow.

Applications are open until April 26th and we encourage all

of you to apply and to forward it onto your friends!

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Diary Dates

April 26th - Deadline for applications for ACT NOW project.

See www.bundjugend.de/actnow

2 -7th June - Part 1 ACT NOW- Training seminar, Bonn

Germany

1 - 12th June - Intersessional negotiations meeting of the

UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany. Government representativesfrom all over the world will be there, and there will be a

camp alongside it for youth and other activists (also where

the ACT NOW training will take place).

3- 10th August — YFoE Norway Summer Camp, Lofoten

Islands AND a Climate Camp in Belgium, co-organised by

JNM

15 -22nd August — YFoEE Summer Camp, Solta Island,

Croatia. More information coming soon!

Young Friends of the Earth EuropeRue Blanche 151050 BrusselsBelgium

Phone: +32 2 401 4800

E-mail: youngfoe@foeeurope.org

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