From this beginning, it developed into a platform for grassroots, collectives, organizations, projects and individuals active on environmental and social justice issues all around Europe.
EYFA works to challenge the mainstream economic system and promotes what it sees as socially and environmentally sound ways of living.
[5] The group organized anti-car demonstrations in Lyon, France in 1997, that involved protesters and passersby "dancing in the street" to demand that car use be brought under control.
The group says that EcoRates are not based on simple currency exchange rates, but rather on a hypothetical basket of goods, designed to permit people from less affluent eastern European countries to participate at events in the west.
EYFA participated in peaceful anti-nuclear power demonstrations in Turkey in 2008, and 32 protesters from several different countries were arrested in the northern Turkish province of Sinop.
and Friends of the Earth to run a training camp near the Belgian-Dutch border to teach organizers how to blockade coal-fired power plants, which the groups called the "cause of the climate crisis".