The Other Voice aims to enhance the acceptance of migrants in the so called new states of Germany, in the eastern part of Germany. Their chosen method is radio. Through production of features and specials, that are available online, The Other Voice want to give insights to a different perspective of realities of live: the ones of refugees.

How one Englishman protested discrimination three hundred years ago.

In 1703, a writer and troublemaker named Daniel Defoe, seeking to show the absurdity of a bill forbidding non-Anglicans to hold public office, suggested in a widely-published pamphlet (The Shortest Way With Dissenters, 1703) that barring the scoundrels from office was a big waste of time, and that it would be much more efficient to simply execute them:

The following is a brief description of the inventive project görls cultures which was realized in 1999 and 2002 with a lot of energy by the members of the organisation WienXtra Medienzentrum.

The organisation WienXtra - Center for Media (WienXtra Medienzentrum) is located in Vienna and offers the possibility for young people to work with Media be it Video, Music, Radio or TV. It also offers special workshops like Hip Hop Workshops, Videoworkshops, Radioworkshops, Filmdocumentaryworkshops, Videoworkshops exclusively for girls or women etc. Some of the young people work in permanent projects like the TV group "Einblicke" and the Radio group "Funkschatten".

The visitors of the Intercultural Festival organised by the MIFOC are invited to experience an exhibition and to inform themselves about globalization- and migration-issues and the 'Borders'-project and its idea. The 'Borders'-van touring the city and its sorroundings intervenes in the daily life of the Mostar citizens. On the 14th of july 2002 'Borders' takes place at the staklena banka, the bomb-devasted main bank-building in the center of Mostar. Where only broken glass remains an interactive multimedia performance thematizises the construct of 'ethnicism' and poses questions on nationalism, police-repression, borders, deportations and exclusion.

The Platform For a World Without Racism was founded as a network of migrants, political activists with a mostly austrian background, artists and people with a lot of different approaches. From the beginning mediawork and the use of new communications was one of the most important issues. Mailinglists with around 5000 participants and a website with a lot of traffic was set up, to inform people about the political situation in austria around the killing of Marcus Omofuma. Three Years later we need to say, that the Platfrom is an example to come from a single campaign up to a sunstanable network.

“In 1998 we rioted. In fact, it didn’t take care of anything. It’s the cops who want riots; they are prepared for them. They know how to react. Our errors are also our gains.”

Bouge qui Bouge (Move who Moves) is an association created by a group of youth of Arab origin (children of immigrants) in the “cité” (housing projects) of Bas-Moulin in Dammarie-les-Lys in order to resist against police violence and to encourage autonomous organization and action among the residents.

“Quartiers Solidaires” or Neighborhoods United Together is an alternative press agency active in a number of « cités » (housing projects) in France. Their main purpose is to write their own stories in order to resist to the common image that the mainstream media gives of them and their residents.

Spring 2001, Toulouse (south-west France, Occitania region): A new local network of "active citizens", ranging from social workers, neighborhood and tenants’ grassroots associations, first and second generation immigrants, feminists, trade-unionists, Occitanians, antiracist and cultural activists, artists and other individuals, decides to run for local elections without the backing of institutional political parties, under the banner of “Motivé-e-s”, the Motivated.

A group made up of different organizations, associations and activists in different areas of France who represent and come from immigrant families and neighborhoods. The MIB gathers together these different groups who each have different forms of action, in order to make a unified, autonomous and self-organized movement of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants.

The MIB was founded by 2nd generation immigrant youth in the 1980s in Paris and Lyon. Their goal was to remind people and teach the history of their parents’ struggles in France in the 1960s and 1970s.

How to infiltrate political attitudes in the normally non-political party enviroment? How to reach a broad youth audience? Before the Austrian elections in November 2002, free parties throughout entire Vienna attempted to wake political interest, awareness and responsibility.