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Tuesday, December 08 @ 17:42:01 CET
Hungary’s Parliament votes to ban cyanide-based metal mining
 This afternoon Hungary’s parliament – the so-called National Assembly – voted for a ban on all cyanide-based mining technologies on Hungarian territory. The bill which was initiated by the ‘Cyanide-Free Hungary!’ coalition was adopted in plenary with 356 voted for and 1 against.
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Wednesday, September 16 @ 16:57:14 CEST
Alcaldes y otros funcionarios de Europa visitaron Sarayaku
Organización de la Alianza del Clima conformada por más de 1500 alcaldías europeas, trabaja en la defensa del medio ambiente, en esta perspectiva se realizó una visita histórica a Sarayaku ya que esta parroquia emblemática de Pastaza lleva adelante varios proyectos sostenibles, en el marco del plan del SUMAK KAUSAY (Plan de Vida). (...)
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Monday, July 13 @ 09:47:14 CEST
Hungary and the IMF: indebted future
In Hungary, the IMF seems to be modestly improving its flexibility and conditionality compared to its dreadful practices in previous decades. However, a still distinctively neoliberal vision of how economies work is in play attributable as much to the Hungarian government as to the IMF. The deficits of democracy and poor economic governance in Hungary make our indebted future increasingly bleak.
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Tuesday, June 02 @ 13:22:30 CEST
People & Planet - VIDEO
Hungarian activists (Védegylet) visit People and Planet, an NGO in Oxford.
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Monday, October 27 @ 13:04:49 CET
On food crisis and the need for change
An interview with Patrick Mulvany - At this time when the crises of food, agriculture, energy and climate change are at the top of national and international agendas, he will share his views on why the crises are happening, who are the winners and losers and what measures and collective actions are needed to resolve the underlying long-term problems and secure future food supplies, healthy people and a vital biosphere.
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Monday, August 18 @ 14:58:49 CEST
Solidarity with the squatters
7th October 2005 - In accordance with civil organizations and some well-known people, Protect the Future! support the Centrum Group, who have lately tried to form a socio-cultural centre in a squat. Two organizations, Man of the Street and Air Workgroup independently declared their support for the initiative, and so did Music Export Hungary, the organization coordinating PANKK (a governmental program supporting and developing Hungarian popular music), and the Budapestrockandroll music portal.
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Thursday, July 31 @ 21:55:21 CEST
The Sólyom For President campaign (SFP) - 2005
 Protect the Future held a press conference on February 23rd 2005, where they announced that on their initiative 110 public personalities are writing to MPs, asking that László Sólyom be elected as the next president of the Republic.
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Friday, July 25 @ 18:54:02 CEST
First-ever Ombudsman for the Future
Le Soir, 9 July 2008 -
In Budapest, in the spring of 2000, the NGO „Protect the Future” came up with the idea of an institution that could act as a spokesperson for those who are the “most excluded of the excluded” from democratic representation: that is, future generations. Future generations will, of course, be able to express themselves in the future, however by then it may be too late.
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Thursday, July 24 @ 19:49:55 CEST
Mount Zengő is saved
 12 October 2005 - As Védegylet already pointed out in its press release, the solidarity shown in the Zengő case, had been exemplary. The movement, Civilek a Zengőért (Civilians for Mount Zengő) was later joined by a number of distinguished civil organisations such as Védegylet, Greenpeace Hungary, etc.
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Wednesday, June 04 @ 14:56:02 CEST
Budapest trees bleeding to death?
6th May 2005 - Protect the Future! and four residents of Jókai street took legal action on Friday, 6, May in order to save the trees of the square. The same day the residents of the square, together with green activists, held an awareness-raising demonstration under the 80-year-old trees. The action may become a precedent in cases of other public parks also being in danger.
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Wednesday, June 04 @ 14:47:42 CEST
Russians living next to our nuclear waste have been well interrogated
28th April 2005 - Three Russians living in the vicinity of the Hungarian nuclear waste who came to Budapest with the aim to meet Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany have been detained and interrogated for hours. „We think that their acts` social hazard has not reached the level that would have justified the reaction of the police.”
Several human right defender, green and ecopolitical organisation have raised objections against the Police’s action.
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Friday, May 30 @ 17:37:04 CEST
To our health! Cheers!
Unprecedented in the history of democracy in Hungary is the success of today’s move for a national referendum, the first referendum to be successfully initiated by civil organisations and trade unio_ns in Hungary. The referendum will be on the question: “Do you agree that Hungary should not introduce a compulsory health care system based on multiple profit-oriented insurers?”
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Friday, February 01 @ 20:29:57 CET
The privatisation of water utilities is a very problematical step
 "Access to water is a basic human right (5), and the provision of basic human rights is the task of the state set out in the Constitution. (...) Besides this the IMF states (6), that often the state and self-governing bodies can access development funds easier and cheaper than private individuals, hence the often quoted opposite argument is not true."
/Letter to Gábor Fodor Minister of Environment./
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Saturday, January 26 @ 17:20:41 CET
For those who are fed up
This article is inspired by the story of a friend of mine who had been hitchhiking. She told me how happy she was that the cult musician who had given her a free ride “had also had enough”.
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Monday, December 17 @ 17:56:11 CET
10 point declaration of First Aid to Social Health Insurance
 Let us stay together! Let us save the social health insurance system! We want a new health care system, we want change, but not of this type!
10 points & our recommendations
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