Youth groups from Brandenburg have met to take stock of the current situation after ten years of racist violence and one year of "civil courage".

The fates of Amadeu Antonio, Noël Martin, and Omar Ben Noui have given a special ring to the names of towns such as Youth groups from Brandenburg have met to take stock of the current situation after ten years of racist violence and one year of "civil courage".

This is about an open-ended project of video documentation about the self organizedproccesses to fight for the rights of “sin papeles” migrants in Spain. When the new Law of Extranjería started working, 23th of January 2001, a group of people with and without papers initiated a Encierro in Vallekas, South of Madrid, with two objectives:

In the hang over of the racist attacks against the migrant "jornaleros" in El Ejido, so much information, images and documentation was available in the media, both mainstream and alternative, that you would hardly think the people directly affected, the migrants having been attacked would still be missing some kind of media coverage.

Most people have approached Mundos Soñados as a glossy tourist magazine to be found anywhere: airports, malls, social centres, to find after a little while that it's not a common magazine: those "guardia civil" shadows in the front page, the warship in the skyline, the "botijo" under the palm tree... The rest of the magazine goes along the same lines, flashy images of happiness and enjoyment. There's not a single image that does not come from tourist magazines, except for the "guardias civiles" of course.

Inforiot is a website that provides 'alternative dates and news from Brandenburg' that's what their slogan is promising. On december 3rd in 2001 this independent media project went online, not knowing how sucessfull their project will become. Being frustrated from constant neglection by the mainstream media, Inforiot started their own news.

[image:116,left,10,10,0]MIWO is the name of the little media resorts that four young activists have set up in Cottbus, a small city in Brandenburg. MIWO stands for Medialab and Information Center Wild East and means right now three different workstations with internet access and different workplaces for image and text editing all based on linux, ready to be used.

The virtual shelter is an ongoing project that was initiated during the Tactical Media Lab (TML) that took place in Amsterdam as a preparation event for the, Next5Minutes4 festival which will take place in Amsterdam in mid 2003. During this laboratory of tactical media practitioners in Amsterdam Southeast a group of refugees and tactical media makers meet on a daily basis to develop ideas for a virtual shelter for refugees.

Koerswijziging.nl is a web-based initative of a small group young persons of Moroccan origin in the Netherlands. This initiative was started in order to counter the increasingly negative image of Moroccan persons in the Dutch mainstream media and the current political discourse. In a climate where it has become routine to make the entire Moroccan community of a city responsible for the misbehavior of individuals with a Moroccan background and where representatives of the Dutch social democratic party (PvdA) can refer to Moroccans as 'kut Marokkanen' (shit-Moroccans) without any consequences and very little public reaction, the initiators of this website 'rely on the ability of the Moroccan community' in order to create a positive image of the third-largest immigrant community in the Netherlands.

Students have come together in Cottbus / Brandenburg to network against neofascist tendencies in their schools. Feeling left alone with their engagement, their frustration is big. But neverless their engagement is impressing – even though more and more engaged people are leaving the region. They have independently started the Antifascist Schoolnetwork Cottbus.

After several years of work in TeleK, one of the most veteran and interesting TV projects in Madrid, the video collective Deyavi came with an open propossal to think and make anew not just the contents of what a local tv could be, but fundamentally the ways through which such contents are decided, produced and distributed. The propossal was made incide the contexts of the Barrio Social Centre, a squat called El Laboratorio 3, where most of the antiglobalization, ecologist and neighbourhood movements coincide.