WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE THE NETHERLANDS - news journal Update - (en) Holland, Vrije Bond: Vrije Bond Congress 2025 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Vrije Bond Congress will take place from August 29-31, 2025, at
'kampeerterrein Tot Vrijheidsbezinning' in Appelscha. All members of the
Vrije Bond are invited. The congress is organized on a yearly basis so
we can come together and talk about the future of the Vrije Bond and the
wider anarchist movement. We want to mainly create space to discuss
plans for the (middle-to-) long term and ideological topics. This year
we will focus mainly on setting up a Vrije Bond action campaign. It is
also the perfect place to meet anarchists and Vrije Bond members from
your area or who are interested in the same theme's.

All members of the Vrije Bond are welcome from Friday August 29. This
Friday we will collectively set up everything for the congress. Friday
night there will also be an informal program chock-full of coziness. The
congress itself will start Saturday afternoon. We will end the formal
part on Sunday afternoon. We are doing this, so people can leave from
home on Saturday morning and be home on Sunday evening if they need to.
Specific times and the make up of the formal and informal program will
be sent later.

Do you want to come on Friday, to help out or just to meet people before
the congress starts? Please let us know!

New and improved congress!

This year the congress will look a bit different from previous years. We
will focus the discussions and meetings around 1 central theme: a Vrije
Bond action campaign. This action campaign will be based on a proposal
that has already been accepted in different forms at multiple
congresses: HOLO Huur Omlaag! Loon Omhoog (Rents Down! Wages Up). A
bread-and-butter campaign that focusses on class struggle and tries a
more populist tone to reach normal working-class folks. During the
congress we will talk about and plan different aspects of this campaign.

Food at the congress

During the upcoming congress of the Vrije Bond in Appelscha, the action
kitchen Le Sabot will once again be present to work together with the
participants of the congress to provide the meals. This means we hope
that several people will feel responsible for helping to prepare the
meals. The program has been arranged so that there is enough time for
those preparing lunch or dinner to not miss any of the substantive parts
of the program. We want the preparation of the food to be organized in
such a way that it becomes a serious part of the congress for which we
are all responsible.

Reader

The congress preparation group will make a reader. Here will be
published all the texts about the congress. For example, how the
decision-making process works to the congress and what the program looks
like. It will also contain all the concrete proposals and discussion
texts which have been submitted by members in the run up to the congress.

The Live Reader is online again for the next congress! Just like last
year we are using the Live Reader this year again to collect and discuss
all the ideas, visions and plans for the Vrije Bond
during the congress.Your input is super important to turn the congress
into a success so if
you have ideas, write them down and place them in the reader!

Texts that have been published, can be read immediately and be discussed
by placing comments underneath them.

ŽKampeerterrein Tot Vrijheidsbezinning' & practical things

The congress will take place at the 'kampeerterrein Tot
Vrijheidsbezinning'. This is an anarchist camping where no alcohol or
drugs are used in Appelscha, Friesland. We want to ask everybody who
comes to bring a tent and sleeping gear.

We want to make the congress as accessible as we can. This is why we ask
everybody to leave their dogs at home. Are you not able to sleep in a
tent? Let us know. We can arrange a sleeping place in the bungalow or
one of the caravans at the terrain.

Do you have specific needs that we have to take into account? Let us
know beforehand and want your needs are.

Do you have children you want to bring? Of course you can! We really
want to help out in the childcare during the congress. It will help us
enormously if we know how many kids and what age they are. We are also
still looking for people who want to help out with the children program
during the congress.

Do you have kids you want to bring? Let us know how many and what age
they are, so we can take this into account when making the children program.

https://www.vrijebond.org/vrije-bond-congress-2025/
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