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Added December 9th

'Lifting spirits in elevators' photos of today!

The posters really made people smile and talk! Yay! Pictures at our web album.

Added December 9th

Taaitaai cookies action photos

Photos of baking taaitaai cookies last week!

Added December 4th

Buy Nothing Day photos

More photos of our Buy Nothing Day action last Saturday! 

Added December 3rd

Buy Nothing Day in newspaper 

 Hoog en Laag article (in dutch) and page 27 of this week's Resource! (both Dutch)

It was a successfull day, many people spent some time in our living room and had some free tea or soup and we/other people have had interesting conversations. It was very rainy, though!

Added November 29th

New blog

Sandra wrote another blog, this time about the past two weeks which were quite exciting for HJW. You can read it here.

Added November 23rd

Buy Nothing Day!!

Coming Saturday is International Buy Nothing Day. HappyJMA always celebrates this day in a very special way. We offer people positive alternatives to mindless consuming by building a living room at the market square in Wageningen and giving people free tea, free Food not Bombs soup, free company, free games, Free Hugs and the opportunity to exchange clothes and other things with each other. This will be a very nice day!! You are all invited to come to the market square on Saturday between 10:00 and 16:00 to have some fun together and to not-shop!!

Added November 20th

Peace Painting

Last Wednesday, we transformed a swastika (hakenkruis) near the train station in Ede into a beautiful climbing flower!!

More pictures and a small article in a local newspaper (in Dutch).

Added November 17th

New blog by Sandra

"Hello! Do you know those days, on which everything seems to go wrong? Well, the Food not Bombs we had in the beginning of November was such a day…" Click to read the full blog.

Added November 6th

Newsletter - Agenda, updates, external news and links

  We can use volunteers for all of these activities :-)

Added November 6th

New blog by Sandra

"Hello! It’s been a while since the latest blog, but things with HappyJMA are still busy! Yesterday, we had a meeting in a new style. Our latest meetings had become a bit..." Click to read more

Added November 4th

This weekend Food Not Bombs!

This weekend we will have a Food Not Bombs action again! We wil be on the market Saturday (the 7th of November) from 13:00 untill some time between 16:00 and 17:00. You are all welcome to eat some delicious food (for free :-))! You can of course also help us cook. We will cook at the Arion (Niemeijerstraat 6, see the website of WSO for a map) on Friday from 5 pm and on Saturday from 10 am. You can just walk in to help, or send us an email.

Added October 30th

Upcoming meeting

Next Tuesday, the 3th of November, we will have our next meeting. The coordinators have made an agenda with some extra documents about the topics we will discuss. We will also talk about the upcoming Buy Nothing Day (28 November)! We will have dinner before the meeting together as well. If you like to come, receive the documents and agenda and if you want to have dinner with us, send us an e-mail!

Added September 28th

New blog online

Sandra uploaded a new blog about the new people that came to our information evening and last weekends'  Food not Bombs, and about how welcome they are :-). You can read it here.

Added September 25th

Wake up, politicians!

Last Monday, eighty students and employees of the Wageningen University formed the words 'Wake up!', to ask politicians to give more attention to the changing climate. This action was organised by Avaaz (and three (Happy)JMA members joined it). Article in the Resource.

Added September 14th

Blog about Sustainability Day!

As you can read a bit below, we had a nice action for Sustainability Day! Sandra has written a new blog on this action as well. You can read it here! And all of you who are interested in joining HappyJMA, come to our information evening!

Added September 13th

Information evening coming up!

Do you like what you see on this website and want to learn more about HappyJMA? Then come to our information evening on Thursday 24th of September! We will give a Powerpoint presentation about our organisation and for the rest we can just chat with eachother. There will be tea and organic cookies :-) The presentation will start at 8 pm at the Arion, Niemeijerstraat 6 (see the WSO website  for a map of the location). Everyone is welcome to come! (free/gratis)

Added September 13th

9-9-9 Sustainable pavement chalking!

During the night before the Day of Sustainability, 9-9-'09, a few members of HappyJMA Wageningen wrote 9 tips to be more sustainable on the steps in front of the Forum building of the Wageningen University, using pavement chalk (stoepkrijt). Click here to see some photos! Unfortunately the cleaners already removed the tips the next morning... Maybe they reminded the university that they are not so sustainable themselves...?

Added September 10th

EKO countings

Once a year, our mother organisation Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) organises the EKO countings: volunteers throughout the country invade the local supermarkets and Count... Click to read more

Added September 8th

New blog

"Hello! Right now you know almost everything about my HappyJMA history so far (when you have read all the previous blogs :-)). Now I want to tell you about the things we were working in during the holidays, because it... Click to read the full blog

Added August 31th

New blog

"Hello! Now you know most of the actions we did last year, I want to tell you about why it is so much fun to join HappyJMA (at least, for me J). After I got in touch with HJW, I..." Click to read the full blog

Added August 27th

Saturday Climate March in Amsterdam!

This Saturday, four members of HappyJMA Wageningen will join the monthly climate march in Amsterdam! This march is organised by several environmental groups and also supported by our mother organisation Friends of the Earth. The aim of the marches is to draw attention to the climate problems and to make visible that many citizens are concerned about this. We will meet at the Museumplein in Amsterdam at 1 pm to make signs and we will start the march at 2 pm. We will of course give the march a Happy twist. ;-)

Added August 24th

New blog

"Hello! I already told about my first couple of experiences as a HJW-er. I will now write about the first action I took care for almost all by myself. This action was..." Click to read the full blog

Added August 24th

Wednesday AID-infomarkt

Coming Wednesday, the 26th of August, we will have a stand on the informarket of the AID. All of you who are interested (especially the new students that are having their AID at this moment), come by and see what we do and who we are!

Added August 17th

Lots of new green tips

New on our website! A lot of green tips, about how to live environmentally friendly! Click here to have a look!

Added August 16th

Another blog update!

"Hello! In the previous blog, I wrote about how I got involved with HJW. I will now tell about the things that happened in the first year I joined this nice group. The first things I did with HJW were a couple of meetings, which were..." Click to read the full blog

Added August 12th

Everything about waste separation in Wageningen

Together with the student union WSO, we made a really nice file with everything about waste separation in Wageningen. :-) Click here.

Added August 12th

Happy Letters

Click here for a picture impression of this action

Added August 11th

Tomorrow Happy Letters

Tomorrow, August 12th, we will have a new action! It's called "Happy Letters", and our intention is to ask people to write a letter to someone (a family member or an old friend, for example) they haven't seen and/or spoken since a long time. The starting time is 10 o'clock and we will be there until somewhat around 12 o'clock. We hope te restore some lost contacts and spread love and happiness. So, all who want to do this, come to market in Wageningen tomorrow!

Added August 11th

This weekend Food Not Bombs!

This weekend we will have a Food Not Bombs action again! We wil be on the market Saturday (the 15th of August) from 13:00 untill some time between 16:00 and 17:00. You are all welcome to eat some delicious food (for free :-))! You can of course also help us cook. We will cook at the Arion (Niemeijerstraat 6, see the WSO website for a map) on Friday from 5 pm and on Saturday from 10 am.

Added August 10th

New blog update!

Added June 17th

We had Food not Bombs this weekend and...

... our 'beet fantasy salad' was called 'restaurant quality' by someone! :-D ;-)

Added June 1st

Chemical Waste Tour 2009 will start this week!

For the schedule and information on what is chemical waste and what is not, click here!

Added May 19th

Presentation for Boerengroep discussion about action styles

On May 18th, the Boerengroep organised a movie and discussion evening about action styles. First they showed the really funny and cool movie "The Yes Men", about some men pretending to be from the WTO and telling the Truth about the WTO. Afterwards, two local action groups, we and the WEP, told something about our own action styles. Then there was a small discussion. People liked our presentation and our positive way of having actions :-) 

Added May 18th

Food not Bombs

Last Saturday we had a very nice Food not Bombs action again :-) Good food, a nicely looking carrier tricycle with our new selfmade promotional material, and a sunny market with nice people. One man was inspired to write something about us in his blog, check it out.

Added May 18th

Website updated a bit!

Latest newsletter added, calendar updated, working on action reports :-)

Added April 13th

'News' section added on homepage

As you can see ;-)

Added April 13th

Creative afternoon last week

Last week we had a very good and sunny creative afternoon for HappyJMA. With a few active members, we made a small banner and a big wooden sign with space for flyers and for a poster about an activity. :-) We can't wait to show our creative promotion material at the next action!

Added April 13th

Food not Bombs April 4th

We were not with many people, but it was nice :-) Nice food, nice weather, nice people, what more does a person want! Again we were amazed by all the positive reactions of the people on the market. We were also quite amazed that Everyone seemed to like our tempeh :-) More about Food not Bombs can be found here.

Added March 31st

Peace Painting on regional television!

Link