Zevenheuvelenloop 15km 2022!

I am fundraising for TNI because it is a unique organisation conducting excellent research while spotlighting the manifold struggles of social movements. TNI puts forward bold ideas for a better future for the people and the planet. There are still so many topics and struggles that deserve TNI’s attention and that is why I am fundraising for TNI!

FietsClassic 60km 2022!

I’m fundraising for TNI because their decades of groundbreaking work on drug policies have helped to advance policies and practices that protect human rights at every level. They have helped to strengthen the voices of small-scale farmers, fight for evidence-based policies, and push back against the toxic and violent rhetoric of the ‘war on drugs’.

FietsClassic 60km 2022!

” I’m fundraising for TNI because I am so proud to work in an organisation to put super radical and well researched work into the world and makes it accessible to as many people, movements and friends out there. It is almost 50 years the Transnational Institute have been around now and I am proud to do my little bit. Who doesn’t love a bit of cycling for a good cause <3 “

8km Dam tot Dam – Night Run 2022!

“I’m running to raise money in support of TNI’s work to advance food sovereignty – the right of people to define their own culturally appropriate and healthy food systems. Millions of people around the globe are hungry, food insecure, or malnourished. Many of them are farmers themselves. TNI works to support real solutions, such as agroecology, to transform the food system and advance the cause of agrarian, environmental and social justice.”

8km Dam to Dam – Night run 2022!

“”I commit to TNI because is a very special space, where global challenges that seem unsolvable are analyzed, break up into pieces and presented in a way that allows everyone to take action. I will run the 5 miles (8km) at night for TNI because as the Zapatistas said “The darkest moment of the night is right before dawn”. We can do this together, today we ask for a bit of your money so we can channel it to those transforming the world for the better.””

We must run! Climate change is the greatest challenge that humanity faces. Unless we ensure a fast restructuring of the global energy system based on public and social ownership,the transition the world urgently needs will not take place.

I am fundraising for TNI because I find TNI’s work on trade and investment important, compelling and illuminating (OR: revealing). TNI shows time and again how the current trade and investment regime strengthens corporate power while obstructing social and environmental justice. TNI-ers provide the world with both critical analyses and considered alternatives rooted in local and grassroots demands. Worth not one but two runs if you ask me!

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

I am cycling 150 kms to support TNI’s Border Wars work. I protest the cruel reality whereby — in the name of “security” — refugees are criminalised, de-humanised, and locked up in camps, if not just pushed back into the sea. I support TNI’s work because our current border regimes in Europe de-humanise not only the refugees, but also us in whose name they are erected. I want no part in such criminal acts.

Abolish Frontex now!

I’m running for TNI because I want basic human rights like local access to food and clean water to be available to all and owned / run by local communities, and because I want to help TNI to pressure wealthy governments into more quickly vaccinating the whole world’s most vulnerable against Covid-19, not just the wealthy, and to improve international health policy to ensure fair access for all people.

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

I’m running to raise money in support of TNI’s work to advance food sovereignty – the right of people to define their own culturally appropriate and healthy food systems. Millions of people around the globe are hungry, food insecure, or malnourished. Many of them are farmers themselves. TNI works to support real solutions, such as agroecology, to transform the food system and advance the cause of agrarian, environmental and social justice.

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

I am fundraising for TNI because the Transnational Institute is doing great work in fighting corporations avoiding law and taxes and the power these corporations hold on over us. Because I support this struggle against corporations wielding power over people, I will do both a Dam to Dam bike-ride and walk in one weekend.

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

I’m fundraising for TNI because its Border Wars work is essential in uncovering the world’s deadly border regimes. From exposing the crimes committed by Frontex in Europe to revealing the lobbying efforts by private companies for an ever-increasing US border militarisation, TNI has done groundbreaking research in this field. And it doesn’t stop there: TNI’s reports propose alternatives for a world in which human safety and not national security take the centre stage.

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

I’m fundraising for TNI because their decades of groundbreaking work on drug policies have helped to advance policies and practices that protect human rights at every level. They have helped to strengthen the voices of small-scale farmers, fight for evidence-based policies, and push back against the toxic and violent rhetoric of the ‘war on drugs’.

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

I am doing a big bike ride on my Oma Fiets and raising money for TNI. I am loving the work of the Public alternatives programme. Working to reverse privatisation and to help construct democratic, accountable and effective public services. It is great for workers and everyday people to take back control of our economic and political institutions.

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

“We are cycling along because we are concerned bout the power that Big Techs have. Over our private domain but also over the influence they have in both democratic states and authoritarian regimes. Information and communication channels are monopolised by them. This has to stop. We go for open source”

Due to restrictions in Amsterdam-Postponed till 2022

One of their programmes: “Agrarian and environmental Justice” focuses on the fair distribution of natural resources for basic human needs. I believe that every person on this planet should have unhindered access to their own local sources of food and water, without interference of (foreign) governments or companies.