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colors and flavors of the greens
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Here in the Council of the European Green Party, one highlight is to appreciate the wide and broad political diversity of our sisters parties. It is a highlight also because it remains surprising, even when you expect it. Yesterday, in a session of t...
to reclaim the future
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So here we are, once again in a Council of the European Green Party. In times of euro-skepticism, how should we consider a group of several hundred persons coming from all corners of Europe to meet in Madrid and talk about the crisis? Disaster touris...
Pedro Navaja en Venezuela
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Pedro Navaja, una de las canciones de salsa mas conocidas, relata como un famoso ladrón apuñala a una prostituta para robarla, a la vez que ella le dispara y lo mata. Pasa un borracho, y llevándose "el revolver, el puñal y...
Pedro Navaja in Venezuela
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Pedro Navaja, one of the most known salsa songs around, describes how a street thug knifes a prostitute to rob her, at the same time that she shots him dead. A while later, a drunk walks by the two corpses, takes money, knife and gun, and walks away...
Free to work
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A trenched war and a chance for a truce, The public debate on migration policy reminds a trench war. Two armies are facing each other, dug in extensive fortifications. Each side is close to invincible, since fortifications have grown into a complicat...
Franciscus and Hugo
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Recent events in South America are, as a matter of fact, a hard blow for all of us atheists, humanists or even moderate agnostics. Current reality points to the existence of a superior being, definitively interested in south america. How else to expl...
only for male feminists, #15
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By first time in a decade and more, I have applied for a job. Since I moved to The Netherlands, or actually, since we have a kid, we decided that I'd be the one to stay at home. After a while we settled in an easy routine, satisfactory at the end. I'...
From Athens to Brussels
(last ISN meetings of 2012)
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There is no doubt that nowadays every other party is searching for forms of survival. Never before civil participation has so many options. If you want to change the world today... would you become member of a political party? Unlikely. One of the co...
From Athens to Brussels
(last ISN meetings of 2012)
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There is no doubt that nowadays every other party is searching for forms of survival. Never before civil participation has so many options. If you want to change the world today... would you become member of a political party? Unlikely. One of the co...
2012
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What is it that makes a tradition? How is it that it get fixed in own and others' rhythms? In these days of ours I tend to believe that it's not the tradition itself but luck, simple luck. An unforeseeable combination of peoples and places, of ideas...
2012
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¿Que es lo que hace una tradición? ¿Cómo es que se fija en ritmos propios y ajenos? En estos días nuestros tiendo a pensar que no es la tradición misma, sino la suerte, una combinación impredecible de gentes y lugares, de ideas y deseos. En es...
only for male feminists, #14
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So he stayed in the doorstep, waiting for a kiss. His son, unaware, greeted someone, started talking with somebody else, got lost in the group beginning yet another day of classes together. This dutch school, as any argentinian or venezuelan one, exe...
Striking Athens
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I arrived to Athens a few days before the start of the EGP’s council, intending to walk the streets and get some feeling of the people. Greece nowadays is one of the battle fronts of the european project. Much is a stake. The European Union has giv...
diving in vinkeveen
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Go down floating, as if you wouldn't be sinking. A controlled flight, a sliding away. Slowly. Deeper. No references to see, but the suit's pressure on your skin, but the bubbles of your breathing going away. A device at your wrist telling you that th...
only for male feminists, #13
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Now and then is funny to recall the whole mythology of running (probably as funny as the mythology of any other sport). In that narrative we runners are focused people, competing against ourselves and, as a matter of fact, against pretty much every o...
peeling the Venezuelan onion
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Once upon a time, around the time I started high school, to emigrate from Venezuela was plain stupidity. As a matter of fact, a great deal of people had arrived, or were still arriving to a country widely regarded as being in fully fledged developmen...
Groen en Links? nog niet...
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Before Jolande lost the trust of the party board, and before the party board lost the trust of the rest of the party, the partijraad of Groenlinks past Saturday was about analyzing our disastrous electoral performance. And in the corridors, that is w...
Al the (train)roads go to Athens
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The European Green Party has chosen Athens to host its second 2012 council. This meeting, which put together delegates from all european green parties, will happen between the 11 and the 13 of November. I am actually delighted with the choice of loca...
Al the (train)roads go to Athens
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The European Green Party has chosen Athens to host its second 2012 council. This meeting, which put together delegates from all european green parties, will happen between the 11 and the 13 of November. I am actually delighted with the choice of loca...
Mythology of a defeat, and an appeal to let it go
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The defeat of the dutch green party was predictable, but the measure of the fall wasn't. As usual, a commission to analyze our faults is being formed. After being allied to GroenLinks for several years, I choose here three dominant myths in the Groen...
