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Wijnand Duyvendak | |
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.jpg) Wijnand Duyvendak in 2009 | |
| Member of theHouse of Representatives | |
| In office 2002–2008 | |
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| Born | (1957-11-30)30 November 1957 (age 67) Markelo,Netherlands |
| Political party | GreenLeft |
| Spouse | Miriam de Rijk |
| Residence(s) | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Anton Johan Wijnand (Wijnand) Duijvendak (born 30 November 1957)[1] is aDutch politician. He is a former member of theHouse of Representatives forGreenLeft.
Duyvendak is the eldest son of aminister fromZeist. After his high school he studiedsociology at theUniversity of Amsterdam between 1976 and 1980. He did not finish his studies and instead became involved the leftwingAmsterdam action world: he became involved in thesquatting movement and the anti-militarist action groupOnkruit. In 1984 he was jailed for six weeks for having broken into theDubbeldam military complex together with other members of Onkruit.
Between 1984 and 1987 he wrote for the radical magazineBluf!. After that he became involved in theAnti-Apartheid Committee "Get Shell out of South Africa" and he was an editor at the publisherRavijn.De Telegraaf andHP/De Tijd-journalistPeter Siebelt have claimed that Duyvendak was involved with the violentRevolutionary Anti-Racist Action group. Duyvendak has always denied any involvement in violent action. In 1993 he began to work forMilieuDefensie and led their campaigns against the extension ofSchiphol Airport. In 1999 he became the director of MilieuDefensie's bureau, which he remained until 2002.
Duyvendak was elected in the2002 elections as a member of the GreenLeft list. In parliament he focused on environmental issues, spatial planning and transport. He was considered one of the most important 'green faces' of the GreenLeft. He has initiated some plans for governmental reform, including the temporary law on thereferendum, together withNiesco Dubbelboer of the social-democratPvdA, which was rejected in 2005. He supported a constitutional amendment providing for referendums together with Dubbelboer andBoris van der Ham of the social-liberalD66 party.He has researched the power of those committees, commissions and councils which were not, in his view, under sufficient parliamentary scrutiny. He chaired the GreenLeft's campaign committee.
In 2008, Duyvendak published his bookKlimaatactivist in de politiek (A climate activist in politics). In this book, he described his run-ins with the law, including his 1984 jailing. He also mentioned how, in 1985, he admitted having stolen documents on nuclear power plants during a burglary on the Dutch ministry of economic affairs. Previously, Duyvendak always denied such involvement. The fall-out was severe, prompting calls for his resignation, especially after media reported that the burglary had led to threats of violence against civil servants.[2][3]
On 13 August 2008 NRC Handelsblad published an open letter by George Verberg, previous director-general of the ministry of economic affairs and responsible for the area of nuclear power. He accused Duyvendak of inciting people to terrorize his family in the eighties and claimed to have received burning rags through the letterbox and threatening phone calls in the middle of the night. As editor ofBluf! Duyvendak had published home addresses and holiday information of six senior civil servants including Verberg.Bluf!, under the headingDIY burglary, called its readers to look up these "troublemakers". Duyvendak has always claimed no knowledge of attempted arson on Verbergs home and to strongly disapprove of it. After this publication, his position became untenable. Duyvendak subsequently announced his resignation from the House of Representatives on 14 August 2008. His resignation became effective on 2 September 2008. His seat was taken up by the next eligible GreenLeft candidate on the list of candidates,Jolande Sap.
As of 2024, he worked as a project director for MilieuDefensie. Another book by Duyvendak was released that same year calledRecept voor maatschappelijke verandering (Recipe for societal change) about how to achieve goals through activism.[4]
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