The new EYFA newsletter is out. With big anti- NATO protests coming up and the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war, and with tension rising between the EU and Russia, we thought it was time for a newsletter on 'Militarization'.

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Thursday 21st - Sunday 24th August 2008, near Vienna, Austria

It's now 10 years since the Animal Rights Gatherings went international. Come and celebrate the first decade of international get-togethers at a beautiful spot to the South of Vienna, Eastern Austria, at the foot of the massive Schneeberg mountain.

See: www.ar2008.info/

Art2stay is a digital platform for 'illegal' artists, a place where they can share their artworks and their stories with each other and a larger audience. A website that is both a gallery and a statement that shines a different light on illegality.

Check out art2stay

Another nature park has to make way for another ski-resort. The Serbian Government is breaking her own laws and decrees with the implementation of her 'mountain tourism development program' in the area of Stara Planina Mountain. Local groups need all the support they can get to stop these draconian plans.

See Save Stara Planina

The December release of EYFA's thematic newletters is now available on our website. This month focuses on over-consumerism at Christmas, and during the rest of the year.
.on Over-Consumerism looks at causes and effects of environmental problems, and the impact of initiatives such as Buy Nothing Day on the public understanding of these issues.

Towards peoples alternatives in Africa and Europe

We, civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples’ movements and organisations in Africa and Europe met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express our opposition and resistance to the neoliberal free trade and investment policies that European and African governments are implementing in our countries, and which they propose as a framework for the “Africa- EU Strategic Partnership”. While the leaders of two continents gathered in Lisbon to decide the future of Africa, we came together to further the social and political dialogue among our peoples because we defend our right to resist concretely and to propose alternatives, and we are confident of our capacity to put them into practice.

The members of Cosantoiri Siochana call on all groups and individuals, and on any who feel the need to join our vigil, to join us once again at the camp outside the War Port [Also known as Shannon Airport] on the 6th to the 7th of January 2008.

NGOs, Unions outraged at attempt to imprison human rights defenders.

Amsterdam, December 3 2007 - An Indian magistrate Court ruled on Saturday that international warrants will be issued for the arrest of Dutch human rights activists, report the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the India Committee of the Netherlands, two of the organizations whose staff are being charged in connection with their efforts to raise awareness of rights violations at an Indian factory supplying Dutch jeans company G-Star. On the 4th of December, the court will send the case to the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, asking it to execute the arrest warrants and request extradition of the 8 Dutch nationals.

Buy Nothing Day encourages us to take time out, find a new activity, rediscover old hobbies, get involved in BND demonstrations, learn more about the multitude of effects that our society has on other parts of the world, consider transport miles and the consequent emissions, understand how much waste can be produced from the unnecessary packaging and excessiveness of what we buy, and realize how we depend on shopping, so easily falling into it as a spare time activity.

Buy Nothing Day 2007 website

EYFA's November newsletter is out and has been distributed over it's network list. You can from now on also find the thematic newsletters back on our website. See newsletter

This latest newsletter is .on Borders and is looking back at the NoBorder Camps in Ukraine and the UK, is looking ahead to upcoming events related to borders and has some interesting links as well. Read .on Borders