From November 6th to 9th 2005 for the second time a youth conference for young people from all over Europe took place, where issues of discrimination, and exlusion are being discussed. As its predecessor in 2001, also this conference took place in Berlin and resulted in a declaration and an action plan, created by the conference participants.

Since the weekend May 14th/15th, many internet users had to notice their inboxes were flooded with some rather unusual spam, carrying neofascist propaganda. Most of these spam mails are containing one or several links to web sites of the NPD, Germany's major radical right wing party, even though some mails also link to articles by the mainstream press, such as Der Spiegel, FAZ or Heise Online. The headers of the spam mails are forged, so one should not assume the sender of the spam mail to be related to the email adresses that appears - bounces show that also D-A-S-H addresses have been forged in order to send out neonazi spam.

The small, fashionable and powerful iPod seems to have made a breakthrough on its way into university classrooms, as the Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper, reported yesterday. In the article When iPod goes collegiate Elisabeth Moore explores the chances and perspectives of the use of iPods in universities, such as Duke, Georgia College or Drexel University.

In June 2005 "Transacciones/Fadaiat" will take place for the second time in Tarifa / Tanger. As D-A-S-H is this time a cooperation partner on the event, we want to give you a short impression with this review of "Fadaiat 2004".

The monstrous Sacred Heart of Jesus statue has turned its back to the european continent, as if it wants to pay all attention to the sea. A fresh breeze is coming up, as every evening in Tarifa. A glaring red towboat of the coastguards, flanked by a speedboat of the Guardia Civil, is slowly appearing behind the holy statue, that is enthroning above the water on the very end of the breakwater wall in its sulcated robe. On the tow line of the two boats is a dinghy, that has obviously rousen the border guards. On board are about 50 passengers, whose trip has come to an end for now.

This twenty minutes talk is focusing on the question of free cooperation in the framework of educational settings. The talk took place as a discussion via webcam, with Trebor Scholz and Tony Conrad from and at the Media Department of the State University of New York (Buffalo) and Christoph Spehr, at the Bildungsoffensive office in Berlin. The Video is from the Berlin office, showing Christoph during this talk, whereas Tony and Trebor can only be heard from Buffalo. This talk is the first one in a series of such webcamtalks that deal with the question of new media and education.

- How D-A-S-H europe is strengthening the networking of young people against right winged extremism and xenophobia -

The small room with all the computer is more then overcrowded. Over 50 young people are swarming on metal chairs, crouching on the floor or following the workshop from the neighboring directing room.

After D-A-S-H has already installed and configured many wikis for different groups, we now come up with a D-A-S-H wiki that every registered user is free to use. Go to wiki.d-a-s-h.org and feel free to create your own space.

The workshop "Mapping Rightwinged Extremism" took place successfully in Novi Sad, in the firt week of August 2004 and was the start-up for a continuous cooperation of young people from Brandenburg and Novi Sad, to struggle against new and old tendencies of Rightwinged Extremism in their regions.

In order to watch any video promoted on this side, you need three things: the codec and/or a player that supports this codec and the correct p2p-software. This may sound a bit complicated, but after investing some minutes, you'll see that it is worth it: there is no better way to encode, distribute and decode digital video material across platforms. Even though the current state of the development may still appear a little unstable and not as comfortable as you might be used to, this is the only option so that all people can watch and produce videofiles - no matter on which platform they work on and without them having to pay insane fees for software (or having to fear to pay for the software later).

Brandenburg, Germany - Vojvodina, Serbia

In Serbia in the last six months was recorded more racist and nationalist assaults than in the last five years. In the first six months of 2004 official records count 44 assaults on ethnic basis, 13 fights and 17 assaults on Roma people. In all these events one national- chauvinist discipline was more prominent than the others: there were 32 cases of grave desecration.