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.

On September 1st, the youth department of the European Comission hast started an online consultation among young people. The goal is to promote active citizenship and to implement the European Youth Pact: "We kindly ask you to participate in this open consultation and play an active part in the construction of the future European developments." The results of the consultation will be published on the European Youth Portal http://europa.eu.int/youth and will also be communicated to European and national authorities in December 2005. More information is available at:

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.

UN to adopt pathbreaking new global standard which demands return of confiscated refugee land and housing

Report, COHRE, 11 August 2005

[via electronic intifada]

GENEVA -- The United Nations is expected to adopt a sweeping series of principles today that urge governments everywhere to ensure all refugees and persons displaced due to conflict and natural disasters are entitled to return to, recover and reside in their original homes, lands and properties.

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

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.

Refugee Week Seminar Monday 20th June at Watermans Arts Centre, London
From Refuge to Freedom
Arts, Culture & Politics for Young Refugees

Chaired and co-developed by Kuljit 'Kooj' Chuhan from virtual migrants (digital and collaborative art group).
Confirmed Guest Speakers Include
Helen Johnson - Manager Children's Panel, Refugee Council

Close your eyes and imagine being a proud internet user with a DSL connection. Now imagine being a videomaker: you enjoy your handy consumer camera and edit short videos from your laptop. Now imagine being someone who cares about having interesting films and videos to watch: wouldn't it be nice to be part of a network that gives you the chance to upload your video productions, share your visions and download video and films that you can't see anywhere else?

Telestreet, the Italian network of the street televisions, and NGVision, an online video archive and distribuition project, won the prestigious "Prix Ars Electronica". The two networks from Italy, partners of the D-A-S-H workshop in Rome in 2003, achieved the Award of Distinction within the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2005 in Linz.

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.