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"Another key network group is Eyfa (European Youth for Action), also based in the Netherlands. It deals with renewable energy and nuclear power as well, and holds an annual three-week Ecotopia camp."

"Car Busters, a 32-page magazine produced by European Youth for Action, an activist movement that fights car culture in Europe's cities, critiques and explores positive alternatives to society's car culture. Inspired by Adbusters, it is international in tone and scope, with summaries of articles provided ins everal languages. This is an energetic, information-packed publication with muvh of interest to the advocates of the autofree movement"

EYFA opposes the "car culture" and proposes alternatives to reliance on cars for transportation. It publishes "energetic, information-packed" publications about the car-free movement.

"The demonstrations organized by European Youth for Action (EYFA) in Lyon in October 1997 were a good example. The group organized several street actions that certainly did inconvenience some motorists. However, large numbers of passersby joined the organizers in dancing in the street, and almost nobody got angry. The media gave the conference a considerable amount of attention, and even the Paris newspaper Le Monde found this provincial conference worthy of coverage. People in many cities seem to be quite receptive to the notion of bringing car use under control."

The group organized anti-car demonstrations in Lyon, France in 1997, that involved protesters and passersby "dancing in the street" to demand that car use be brought under control.

"I work with the European Youth Forest Action (EYFA). EYFA is a loose network mainly of environmental youth action groups from all the countries in Eastern and Western Europe. EYFA evolved out of a European-wide action against the causes of forest die- back. The main purpose of EYFA is to give groups around Europe the chance to do environmental actions together. We provide help with contacts, organizing and fund-raising. We do not have a formal membership or membership fees, and only very basic nonbureaucratic structures, which allows young people to come up with crazy ideas and realize them. The activities are carried out by the groups themselves with

"European Youth Forest Action (EYFA) is a network of activists from across Europe "working to save the Earth's forests". . It was founded in 1985 and aims "to promote co-operation and co-ordination of youth environmentalists on an international level; to integrate issues of environment and development on a global level"

By 1994, the group had grown to over 400 affiliates across Europe.

"Environmentalists on training to block coal plant

Climate activists from Belgium and the Netherlands invest a training camp in early August near the Belgian-Dutch border. The program is under the organization of workshops, lectures and real training. During or after the camp is a campaign against the 'cause of the climate crisis. "

The camp is organized by English example, where according to the organizers each summer climate action camp is. Last summer in England stormed a power plant. It would be the first time that such a camp in the Netherlands is organized.

secret location The site remains under a spokesman for the protesters secret because otherwise possible "object of protest 'leaked. The spokesman could however say that this action is comparable to the storming of the British power plant.

The workshops run by the spokesman range from learning how to write an effective press release to methods to block one coal plant. Through the camp as a demonstration to indicate, according to the spokesperson does not permit to be requested and a sufficient Notify me of follow from the relevant municipality. He expects between two and five hundred people at the camp come.

Copenhagen Climate Conference The training takes place in light of the fifteenth UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in late November. This action will also be prepared. The organizers believe that the solutions it proposed to improve the environment 'illusions' are. Overproduction and overconsumption, in their eyes and called a halt to other forms of energy to replace fossil fuels.

The camp is organized by several Dutch and Belgian organiasaties as EarthFirst!, Youth League for Nature and Environment, Climate and Social Justice, Friends of the Earth and European Youth For Action. (AP / sps)"

In 2009, EYFA collaborated with Earth First! and Friends of the Earth to run a training camp near the Belgian-Dutceh border to teach organizers how to blockade coal-fired power plants, which the groups called the "cause of the climate crisis".

EYFA participated in peaceful anti-nuclear power demonstrations in Turkey in 2008, and 32 protesters from several different countries were arrested in the northern Turkish province of Sinpo.