Der Kongress “Green thinking, global linking” fand von 28. bis 30. August 1987 in Stockholm statt. Die 118-seitige Broschüre befindet sich im Grünen Archiv.
“Green is the societal answer to the dangers of existential destruction and to the new miseries of our time” (Freda Meissner-Blau). Die schwedischen Grünen, die miljöpartiet de gröna, organisierten im August 1987 “Green thinking for global linking”, einen internationalen grünen Kongress in Stockholm, an dem über dreihundert Personen aus drei Kontinenten teilnahmen: “It showed the world that we are many, we are serious, we belong to a global movement and our issues are being responded to in one country after another”, lautete das Resümee in der Broschüre zur Tagung. Aus Österreich nahmen Andrea Binder, Christian Burtscher, Doris Eisenriegler, Helga Erlinger, Ali Gronner, Gerhard Jordan, Freda Meissner-Blau, Werner Moidl und Christian Wabl teil.
Freda Meissner-Blau nahm an einem Panel zur Frage “Does a green ideology exist?” teil. Ihre Wortmeldung ist in der Broschüre abgedruckt und mit einigen handschriftlichen Anmerkungen oder Korrekturen versehen – wir können aber nicht mehr rekonstruieren, ob das stilistische Anregungen zur gehaltenen Rede oder Korrekturen des abgedruckten Texts sein sollen 😉
//zitat// Dear European green friends! I am looking forward to the day we can address a conference like this one with “Dear INTERNATIONAL GREENS!” Oecause we need to extend internationally. As the environmental destruction, catastrophies, their causes and their repercussions increasingly become global, our resistance and our alternative projects to the crisis have to become world-wide. Instead of a nuclear chain reaction we have to build up a chain of opposition to their irrationality.
Before we enter the discussion about ideology permit me a personal remark: Austria, my country, has lately attracted attention due to 2 facts: Firstly, we paid ourselves the dubious luxury of having a President, who is a big embarrassment. We, the Greens, managed to prevent his being elected at the first election round, but could not prevent him alltogether – a fact a considerable number of Austrians seem to regret today.
Austria: safest nuclear reactor in the world
The other fact is a more encouraging one: as like to express it – and as you might know – Austria is the country with the safest nuclear reactor, with the only truly safe nuclear reactor in the world. Safe, because it never started up, because the Austrian people said No thanks to nuclear energy at a referendum in 1978 . Nuclear energy is banned ever since for the production of energy in our country. Why do I mention this? Because the man who spoke to us at noon, Hannes Alfvén, helped us, the anti-nuclear movement of Austria, to get the message across to the people that atomic weapons and nuclear energy are siamese twins. Time and again he came to our country to explain, to warn, to lecture. So you see, Sweden has played an up till now unknown part in the fact that Austria is a nuclear-free country. This is a beautiful example of the kind of green internationalism I claimed at the beginning… Weiterlesen
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