Green youth - green alternative youth
| Green youth - green alternative youth | |
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| Federal spokeswoman | Naomi Sametinger Marlene Haider (resigned) |
| Federal Managing Director | Tobias Reder |
| founding | 2019 |
| Place of foundation | Vienna |
| Headquarters | Vienna |
| Website | www.gruene-jugend.at |
The Green Youth - Green Alternative Youth is the youth organization of the Austrian Die Grünen - The Green Alternative
history
Green alternative youth organizations have existed in Austria with a few short interruptions since the beginning of the 1990s. The first Green Alternative Youth (GAJ) was founded in Vienna in 1992, followed by the Green Alternative Youth Vorarlberg in 1993 and the Green Alternative Youth Upper Austria in 1994. In 1995 the first federal association was founded.
At the beginning, this had well-functioning nationwide structures, which were led by a federal coordination. After this was no longer occupied from 1997, this led to a largely autonomous development of the various state organizations and in 2001 to the dissolution of the first federal organization of the GAJ.
The second federal organization of Green Alternative Youth was founded in 2003 as a merger of regional groups in Vienna, Vorarlberg and Carinthia as the GAJ platform . The GAJ platform participated in various projects with different focuses. In addition, she organized a broad educational program that was also aimed at non-members. It was mostly oriented towards the autonomous left and less towards the Greens. In addition, in contrast to the first federal GAJ organization, the GAJ platform was organized in a highly autonomous manner. Their national organizations and district groups each acted independently of one another and were only loosely linked nationwide.
In 2003, the Green Youth Styria was reorganized and, like the other state organizations, was renamed Green Alternative Youth . In 2008, however , she left the platform and since then has acted as Junge Grüne Steiermark in order to set up a new federal organization.
After violent disputes between the Green Alternative Jugend Wien and the Junge Grünen Steiermark, the GAJ platform lost the recognition of the Federal Green Party as a youth organization in 2011 in favor of the new federal organization Junge Grünen (Austria) founded by the Junge Grünen Steiermark . In addition to the Young Greens Styria, this also included the Young Greens Lower Austria, the Young Greens Burgenland, the Young Greens Salzburg, the Young Greens Telfs and the Young Greens Vorarlberg. The GAJ Vienna was the youth organization recognized by the Green Vienna until 2014, before it merged with the Young Greens and was absorbed into them.
The Young Greens were the third youth organization of the Greens. They established a much stronger federal structure and were not oriented towards the autonomous left, but strongly towards the Greens. When the Young Greens pushed for the establishment of a new green student organization in Graz and Linz in October 2016, there was a violent conflict with the Greens and the GRAS (Greens and alternative students) student organization recognized by them . After the Greens separated from the Young Greens in spring 2017, there was no longer a nationwide youth organization. In June 2018, the Junge Grünen merged with the youth association Junge Linke , whose name was retained for the new organization.
In Vienna and other federal states, new regional organizations were founded in the summer of 2017, some of which arose from the spin-offs of the Young Greens and initially operated at state level. Only gradually did these groups develop nationwide activities again. In order to be able to develop sustainable structures and processes again, a new federal organization was founded in Vienna in February 2019. A board of directors and other bodies were also elected.
The organization currently has groups in all Austrian federal states.
organization
The youth organization is divided into federal organization, state organizations and district groups.
Principles
The GJ-GAJ describes itself as anti-fascist, anti-national, anti-discriminatory, grassroots democracy, egalitarian, feminist, non-violent, ecological, self-determined and solidary
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Junge Linke: We are taking new steps ( memento of the original from June 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved June 14, 2018
