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Analysis and Strategies against Antisemitism

fls — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:47:49 +0000

"Analysis and Strategies against Antisemitism" is an international conference in Madrid. it is organized by International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (Germany), and Movement against Intolerance (Spain).

Spanish antifascist killed by neonazi

fls — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:18:52 +0000

A 16-year old youngster has been stabbed to death by a neo-nazi in Madrid. On their way to a protest against a rally held by the racist party "Democracia Nacional", a small group of antifascists encountered some of the neo-nazis in or near a train station. A fight broke out, and Carlos Javier Palomino, a 16 year old antifascist, died from stab injuries to the heart. Another four were hospitalized — one in serious condition.

Media Literacy Conference in Berlin

fls — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:38:59 +0000

An increasing number of media initiatives across Europe show a wide range of different content, contexts, audience groups and local media output. The Media Literacy Conference on Novermber 11 and 12, 2005, in Berlin, invites people from these initiatives to develop a better expertise in the approach and results of their media work and to deepen democratic and direct media impetus in Europe. The topic of “Media and Social Intervention” focuses on methods and examples which helped people to develop their own critical voice through the use of independent media.

Open Congress: Creativity and the public domain

fls — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:56:20 +0000

Tate Britain is hosting a conference on "Creativity and the public domain" on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th October 2005, 11am - 5pm. Inspired by Free Software, which challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution, this innovative congress explores the implications of those developments for art, visual culture and cultural production in general. Taking place across two days, the Congress will be structured through three themes of Governance, Creativity and Knowledge; and an array of international and UK participants - artists, theorists, academics and activists - will shape Open Congress through presentations, discussion, workshops and events.

Heterotopias: Other spaces are possible

fls — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:36:24 +0000

Glocal heterotopias is an initiative raising from the Callús area, a catalan digital town close to Barcelona, Spain. The goal of the project is to promote and disseminate around the world projects that make us realise that other spaces or other world are possible. Projects that tell us about the heterotopic space as a tangent exit to the system. Projects that use the network for coordination purposes and such that this results in an actual answer in the physical world. Here there is space for any initiative involving digital towns, e-democracy, hacktivism, free software, tactical media, artivism, P2P, ... To include a project you just need to be accepted by one of the participants called "connectors". It is also possible for you to become a connector of other projects, so that the project network can be extended.

From Amsterdam to the Black Sea

fls — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:19:34 +0000

Network activists and friends of the medien.KUNSTLABOR http://www.kunstlabor.at/
want to travel by boat from Amsterdam to the Black Sea. Final destination of the journey is the island St.Anastasia, formerly known as Bolshevik (1945 - 1990) http://ostrov.mur.at/ . The boat is named after Franz Feigl, an Austrian artist and network activist who lived in Amsterdam and died in 2001 at a young age.

Call for Projects - P.E.A.C.E. tour 2006

fls — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:30:22 +0000

P.E.A.C.E. is preparing an international tour for contemporary artists due to happen in the fall of 2006. Invited are all kinds of performing arts including theatre, dance, performance art, live media act, concerts and related art forms. The call for entries is open to already existing projects or the projects, which will be made by the end of 2005 and can be well documented by the submission deadline (we accept rehearsal photos and clips…). More information on tour itself and on tour application including application forms find on http://www.p-e-a-c-e.com/prijava.htm

Re:Activism

fls — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:49:28 +0000

The emergence of the internet and other information technologies gave birth to new social and communicative activities. Cheap, decentralized and horizontal communication channels have been exploited by a wide spectrum of actors from antiglobalization activists and users of file-sharing networks to creative commons licensees and locative guerilla artists. As new media technologies have triggered various forms of activities, the New Left hopes about emancipatory social agency have also been resuscitated. In spite of the undeniable democratic potential inscribed in new information and communication technologies, there seems to be little agreement as to what consequences new media bring on existing structures of cultural, economic and political power.

International Forum On Turkey-Europe Cultural Relations

fls — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:11:43 +0000

Avrupa Kültür Derneg (European Cultural Association) is organising the "International Forum on Turkey-Europe Cultural Relations" in collaboration with and with in-kind contributions of the History Foundation of Turkey, Austrian Cultural Forum, British Council, French Cultural Institute, Goethe Institute, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, Delegation of the European Commission to Turkey, French Embassy, René Seydoux Foundation, YATF (Young Arab Theatre Fund), CCP Germany, Relais Culture Europe, CSG The Event Company, Chameleon Events & PR, Gelis¸im Creative and many artists and cultural operators. The Forum will take place between 6th and 8th May 2005, in the historical Imperial Mint complex (History Foundation of Turkey) within Topkapž Palace. http://www.europist.net/forum_en

Media Action Center

fls — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:53:50 +0000

MediaActionCenter.org is a community website for activists, researchers, educators, organizers, funders, independent producers, public interest groups and other advocates for media policies and systems that serve social justice and human rights.

It presents tools, share information, and network with others working for media reform, media justice, the public interest and communications rights.