[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.

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.