Roel van Duijn
| Roel van Duijn | |
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| municipal councillor in Amsterdam | |
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In office 1969–1974 |
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| Alderman in Amsterdam | |
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In office 1973–1974 |
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| municipal councillor in Amsterdam | |
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In office 1986–1998 |
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| provincial councillor in North Holland | |
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In office 1999–2003 |
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| Ward councillor in Amsterdam | |
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In office 2006–2009 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 January 1943 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Political party | Kabouters, PPR, The Greens, GreenLeft |
| Residence | Amsterdam |
| Website | www.roelvanduijn.nl |
Roeland Hugo Gerrit (Roel) van Duijn (born 20 January 1943) is a Dutch politician, political activist and writer. He was a founder of Provo and the Kabouterbeweging. He was alderman for the Political Party of Radicals and later wardcouncillor for the GreenLeft.
Van Duijn was born into an theosophical family in the Hague. He attended a Montessori Grammar School and, subsequently, the Montessori Lyceum, where he attended the Gymnasium He specialised in letters and graduated in 1963. In the Hague he had been active in the peace movement, organizing sit-down demonstrations against the nuclear bomb. He had also been editor for De Vrije Socialist, an anarchist magazine.
After graduation he moved to Amsterdam to study political science and history, later turning to law. In 1965 he was one of the founders of the anarchist counter-culture Provo movement. In 1969 he was elected into the Amsterdam municipal council for the movement. In 1969 he founded the Green counter-culture Kaboutermovement and was involved in the Oranjevrijstaat. On April 17, 1970 he was briefly abducted by right-wing radical Joop Baank. Although Van Duijn informed the police authorities afterwards and pressed charges against Baank the latter was not prosecuted.
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