#Vooruit

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

23 november 1991. kurt, courtney & dave backstage in belgium.

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[c08n]

Lolina performs 'Unrecognisable: Chapter 2', Vooruit (Ghent), 23.10.2021

[gentlemanpixelator]

Gent. Vooruit. 24.07.02014

[donnasbitch]

Miles kane is just alex turners bitch

[mijnniemandsland]

Dilemma 7.

In de diepe, donkere stilte net na middernacht, waar de tijd lijkt te vertragen en elke seconde zwaarder weegt, werd ik geconfronteerd met een keuze zo onverwacht als die diepgaand is, een dilemma dat het weefsel van het alledaagse leven doordringt met de scherpte van een plotseling inzicht: aan de ene kant, de stille, onbeweeglijke aanwezigheid van een dode goudvis, zijn eens levendige kleuren…

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Rousseau krijgt gelijk van rechtbank over publicatieverbod voor VTM Nieuws en HLN, DPG Media gaat in beroep

De rechtbank heeft het verzet van DPG Media tegen het publicatieverbod dat Vooruit-voorzitter Conner Rousseau oplegde, afgewezen. Rousseau verkreeg het verbod omdat publicatie zijn verdedigingsrechten en het geheim van het onderzoek zou schenden. De rechter achtte dit gerechtvaardigd, tegen de verwachting van mediarechtexperts in. DPG Media gaat in beroep omdat het principieel belang ziet in het beschermen van de rechten van verdediging van Rousseau. De rechtbank interpreteert Europese regelgeving anders en stelt dat een publicatieverbod legitiem kan zijn als het een democratisch doel dient en nodig is. Koen Lemmens, een grondwettelijk recht professor, en DPG Media zijn het er niet mee eens en willen in beroep gaan.

Bron: DPG Media Privacy Gate. (z.d.). https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/rousseau-krijgt-gelijk-van-rechtbank-over-publicatieverbod-voor-vtm-nieuws-en-hln-dpg-media-gaat-in-beroep~b979ebde/

[anothersmalllife]

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Vooruit met Koekelberg en het hele Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

‘Vooruit’ avec Koekelberg et toute la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale Ans Persoons, Els Rochette,  Hannelore Goeman, Fouad Ahidar, Pascal Smet en Bert Anciaux zetten hun beste beentje voor in hun assemblées om de Brusselaars Vooruit te doen gaan. Ans Persoons, Els Rochette, Hannelore Goeman, Fouad Ahidar, Pascal Smet et Bert Anciaux mettent les bouchées doubles dans leurs assemblées pour faire…

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#vooruit (à Gent-Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf8-aPwtNVXNOuy-J0cSXO3Rp6_JRAXnZqjWwM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[talaricula]

Hi, I saw you post about the PvdA and I really appreciate how in depth you go, many of the issues you've brought up are things I agree with and are reasons why I don't want to vote for the PvdA, but I still haven't decided who to vote for, could I ask why not vooruit? I am aware of the more obvious reasons (basically everything that Conner Rousseau is the face of to simplify it, one of the reasons I don't want to vote for the party), but are there other reasons? And why you specifically are going to vote for groen? I have some more ecological oriented friends who I fully expected to be voting for groen and they don't really want to vote for groen, so I'm curious what convinced you to vote for them? Asking here more for the regional and federal elections.

I am basically just jumping between groen, vooruit and PvdA (definitely never saw PvdA as a possibility on the European level) atm, I think if Conner Rousseau hasn't become the head of the party, I probably would have voted for vooruit, but from the beginning he became the head of the party, I just felt less and less like voting for them and then the thing™ happened with him.

Sorry for the later answer, I wanted to take my time with this a bit!

Why not Vooruit: because they have, in the words of the standaard, rebranded as "vooruit en rechtsaf". Their communication and an essential part of their program seems to me to court Vlaams Belang and NVA voters and smacks a bit of "eigen volk eerst" socialism. There's Conner's catastrophically racist rant of course, which the whole party is a bit quick to forgive after an apology, as if the fact that the party head clearly holds such views does not mean smth for the party line. More importantly imo, there's the concrete racism in the party program : one of Vooruit's main points of action in their program is to make immigration harder. Now, again, I'm a human rights lawyer, I've seen my fair share of migration and asylum cases in Belgium, and Belgium already does everything it can to avoid respecting international refugee law. Presenting things as if Belgium takes in too many refugees, as if refugees have it too easy to get here, as if they have it too easy accessing benefits here, is simply factually false and clearly meant to recruit voters who are, at worst, openly racist, and at best, subconsciously only believe in socialism, state support, equality and welfare for westerners (aka white people). Family reunification is already super hard, does not need to be harder. Making benefits dependent on an inburgeringstraject is counterproductive - how do you want to integrate if you're obnibulated by the poverty line. Encouraging asylum in neighbouring third world countries is ignoring Belgium's colonial history and responsibility in the socio-economic fragility of those regions. Basically, Vooruit's entire migration policy is, imo, built on false narratives about migration, at best casually racist, and courting VB voters. By contrast, Groen's position on immigration is orders of magnitude more inclusive, they want to make it easier in general, and their proposals about it correspond much better to what I've seen in my line of work. That's the main reason why I am not voting Vooruit and am voting Groen.

Vooruit is also less pro-Belgium, while Groen wants to federalise some competences and wants a federale kieskring. Vooruit is more circumspect on queer rights, while Groen is going to bat for some of the most concrete and controversial among them (surrogacy, trans rights, and education in schools). There's other things I agree more about with Groen but I'm not gonna go super into detail on every element - in general, their stances on education, welfare, pensions, care for sick, disabled and elderly people, ethical questions of bodily autonomy (abortion and euthanasia) are bolder and lean closer to mine, while Vooruit keeps wanting to put asterisks next to many of them which reads as paternalistic to me and imo undermines their efficacy.

(Worth noting that on the questions of Belgium, queer rights and other "ethical issues", OpenVLD is actually much much more progressive than the Vooruit. Not gonna vote for them bc their economic policies are fundamentally antisocial and I don't believe in "fiscally conservative socially progressive" bc economic equality is essential to social equality but, yknow, worth noting when comparing parties.)

I don't love everything Groen stands for - I know their hardline stance against nuclear energy is v controversial, for example, and I strongly dislike their history of making ritual animal sacrifice a hot button issue that contributed to islamophobia and antisemitism (it smacked of "I can excuse racism but draw the line at animal cruelty"), but it is still by far the party I agree with the most about the most things, which is how you pick a party to vote for, I think.

I assume you've done the stemtest, but if you don't feel up to reading the complete programs of the parties you're considering, I'd recommend checking out De Tijd's kieswijzer too. You can compare some hot button issues without registering, and if you make a free account for a month (no automatic payment after) you can compare more issues in detail. It's been v helpful to me.

TL;DR again : not voting Vooruit for (program content wise) their asylum and immigration policy and (communication wise) the racism, which I am very actively opposed to, voting Groen for their positive stance on migration and asylum, Belgium, queer rights, abortion and euthanasia, social welfare, education, and ecology.

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[fictionalred]

you do not have to answer if you don't want to, but.do you have any idea which party you're going to vote for during the federal elections in belgium, because i'm.honestly at a loss atm

Yeah, I understand. The choice is def not easy.

First of all, the won't vote for parties:

Those that want to split Belgium in any way. Racists. Vlaams Belang being the most extreme obv. The Federal states ~solution~ Bart De Wever is bringing is bull and will only make the discrepancy bigger. Working together and sharing the wealth and workforce is the way to go here.

Never been a big CD&V fan. They haven't been doing the best of jobs historically. Also I am generally against the Catholic notion :) Hilde Crevits is the only one there I think is doing a fine job (on the top of my head). The CD&V are however a good possible partner for a lefty oriented government. Ze draaien zoals de tjeeven ze zijn.

VLD is doing a lot of shooting themselves in the feet lately it's becoming a sitcom (dramatic). It's a party that has always stood for the wealthier part of the population (including the ones that just think they are / want to be). So nope for me. (though maybe they did make the right decision appointing Paul Van Tigchelt, he seems competent at least)(so far)

So Groen, PVDA and Vooruit remain.

Why I personally don't want to vote Groen (federally) is because of their insistence on closing down the nuclear power stations. We should invest in them, not close down!.. Love for Petra De Sutter though, her cleaning out BPost is a good thing!

I'm not sure what to think of PVDA tbh. Them never having been in a government in Belgium before makes it hard. Buuut, they might have a chance soon. PTB (the Walloon version) is going pretty hard in the polls, so voting for the Flemish one might not be a waste in a Federal election!

Well, I think we all know the current Vooruit problem. Conner Rousseau's reputation sure is shit atm. He's a populist. I still think it's the party doing the ~most~ good both planning and historically wise. They also have the most chance of being in a future coalition. That coalition being another Vivaldi type. Lots of other parties, like CD&V and NVA will turn down PVDA/PTB, and very much favour a coalition with Vooruit.

I know Vivaldi got some shit reputation, but imo they did an "okay" job considering corona and the war in Ukraine. (them mostly supporting Israel publicly is gross though, but in line with what Belgium always does (following Germany and the US and other big countries))

So conclusion and prediction

We either have an extreme right wing government with NVA and/or Vlaams Belang with the help from a payed Walloon party (De Wever is hoping the PS will agree here for millions of €€€€ because they need that money)

We have a central Vivaldi 2.0 thing with possibly MR/VLD, NVA, CD&V, Groen and Vooruit/PS (Bartje hates MR so they might get left out though)

Or we go leftie-liberal with PTB/PVDA, Vooruit/PS, Groen, VLD/MR and CD&V

Imo, the odds of the middle one are the highest and I will probs vote Vooruit because of that. But yakno. I'm not entirely sure either :))

[gentlemanpixelator]

Gent. Vooruit. 23.07.2014

[nedermemes]

stuur dit ook door naar je vrienden om geHALLOWEENd te worden!! 🎃👻🕷🕸🐺🧙‍♀️🧛‍♀️

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Delen

https://feminer.nl/magazine/de-diepte-in/waarom-feminisme-ook-mannen-vooruit-helpt/