On the nettime mailinglist Felix Stalder reported from the Transeuropean Picnic on April 30th and may 1st in Novi Sad.

Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) is a new attempt by Moscow fascists to set up a respectable facade behind which to spread hate. It has had some success in its organising efforts lately, and in three regions of Moscow they have militias which cooperate with police in "search of illegal immigrants".

For the incommunicado-project Soenke Zehle has made an up-to-date compilation of ressources currently discussing the issues of free and open source software for non-profit organizations.

Big fun emerges when history meets soccer and anti-racist football supporters play their own game

Six years ago a small but very unusual world cup was started by an ambitious initiative of four people from two organisations: The first antiracist soccer world cup took place in Montefiorino, a small city north of Bologna (Italy), where in 1944 the first freed partisan republic existed in the midst of an Italy that was occupied by nazi troups.

The roots of SPC.ORG, established in 1996 'to support independently organised spaces, open access to network media and creative experimentation with technology' are in BACKSPACE). This resource centre, activist meeting place, and general hang-out was a small but powerful seed of energy and focus in new media exploration, networking and open access within London.

Open Source ideas -- that has its origins in the scientific and computer programming communities, where research is shared within a network for the common advancement of the field -- will be used to set up the context for the RAM5 workshop in Riga.

On May 1, 2004 the European Union will expand beyond its current "core Europe" constellation to include, for the first time, nations of the former Eastern and Non-Aligned Blocks. For these ten nations the 'day of accession' is the opportunity to rejoin a European sphere which, for many, was felt to have been robbed through the militarily enforced alliances of the Cold War. By recalling the pan-European Picnic of 1989 along the Austrian-Hungarian border, which induced the events leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Trans-European Picnic will mark the resultant shift in Europe's geopolitical structure. For many however, the 'opening' brought about by the events of 1989 are now to be met by 'managed closure', restricted mobility, the revival of 'visa regimes' delineating new barriers and borders as well as the imposition of new top-down regulations, bureaucracies and standards.

Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants (activists from Hamburg, Munich, Bielefeld, Göttingen, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Jena, Gera and Bremen) and The Voice Refugee Forum (activists from Jena, Bremen, Göttingen and Berlin) organize an internetworkshop from march 26-28 in Bremen (DE). In cooperation with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Berlin), Rosa Luxemburg Initiative (Bremen), D-A-S-H.

During the last summer in a lot of places in Brandenburg people became angry because of the the bad image of Brandenburg discussions were focusing on: First of all, scientist warned, that parts of the county seems to be in a state of desolation and devastation of big parts of the land (because of the brain drain or the reduction of rain).

Kinetik - Do it yourself theatre and games is a d.i.y. project with rom and semi nomadic children living in urban environments. It is d.i.y because it is realised with recuperated materials on or close to site, and is based on the stories and interests of the children for play and to make short improvised performances. The first part is on site in three different locations, Dublin, Rome and Amsterdam; the second part is on the net.