Roel van Duijn

Roeland Gerrit Hugo ( Roel ) van Duijn ( born January 20, 1943 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician, political activist and now works as an author and therapist. He founded the Provo and the Kabouter Movement, he was also Deputy Mayor for the Politieke Partij radicals, a member of the council and Provinciale Staten De Groenen and city district deputy for the party Groen Links.

Life

Van Duijn was born in an anthroposophical family in The Hague. He went to a Montessori school and finished his schooling in 1963. Conference in The Hague, he was in the 1960s in the peace movement active where he organized sit-ins against the atomic bomb. At this time he worked as an editor at the anarchist magazine De Vrije Socialist. Together with Martin Ananar, Rob Stolk and Frank van Duijn Roel Nieuenhuizen founded in April 1965, the Provo movement in which he was active until 1967, he also was instrumental in the founding of Provo magazine.

After graduating, he moved to Amsterdam in 1963 and studied political science and history. In 1969 he founded the ecologically oriented Kabouterbewegung. On April 17, 1970, he was briefly kidnapped by the right-wing Joop Baank what he did not put the police authorities informed later.

For the Progressive Party Politieke Partij radicals ( PPR) he was a member since 1973 and since 1974 Assistant in the local council. He rejected the company car provided and could be set service bicycle. On February 15th In 1975, right-wing radicals, among them Baank, a bomb in the under construction metro station Vensterpolder. The authorities suspected squatters left the act and van Duijn was the only local councilor who refused to sign a bill of indictment against the demonstrators who protested actively against the construction of the subway station. His term of office as a councilor ended in January 1976. During the time in the local government, some initiatives by him went out, so renewable energy, local cable network and the local community television SALTO.

As an organic farmer, van Duijn founded a Käsehof in Veele, Circle Vlagtwedde, and had two sons, and later a daughter. In 1981 he went back to Amsterdam, his court in Veele he sold in 1983. A year later, he ran for the Groen Progressief Akkoord (GPA ), a combination list of PPR, communistic Partij van Nederland ( CPN) and pacifist Socialist Party ( PSP), for the European Parliament in 1984. he got no mandate, then, he was a policy adviser to a member of the parliamentary Group. Shortly thereafter, van Duijn fell out with the PPR, he left the party to get the De Groenen to join. In 1989 he candied at # 1 on the list in the national election without receiving a mandate. For De Groenen he came in 1996 for the second time in the council and in 1999 the Provincial Council of North Holland. In 2001, he joined the party Groen Links. In vain he had previously pleaded for a while for the merger of De Groenen and Groen Links. In 2006 he became a local councilor in Amsterdam Oud -Zuid.

Since 1962, van Duijn was, as it became known in July 2009, overshadowed by the Dutch secret service. R. van Duijn was a dossier with a circumference of 353 pages, see where he could see which information was gathered about him. The records date back to his 19th year, when he was involved in a demonstration against the atomic bomb.

Works

• The message of a wise Heinzelmännchens: The political concept of Kabouter. A reflection on the philosophical work of Peter Kropotkin in conjunction with today's choice between disaster and brownies city. Wuppertal: Youth Service -Verlag 1971 ISBN 3-7795-7112-9
• Introduction to the provocative thinking, among other things, Upper Tree Press, Berlin in 1966 and Libertad -Verlag, Berlin 1983
• Call to that international Provotariat. Upper Tree Press, Linkeck almanac.
• Liefdesverdriet, gevolgd door Hoe word ik een art in ldvd? , 2004. ISBN 90-290-7532-5