“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.

'Grensgevallen' (Borderline cases) is a set of digital tools for use in secondary school groups. The set can be used by teachers to initiate discussions on the relation between the fundamental rights 'freedom of expression' and 'protection against discrimination'. The toolset provides a number of situations in which these two rights are colliding with each other and asks the students to take a stand.

[image:102,left,10,0]Nine(9) is a Mongrel-engineered non-commercial piece of software art, available on the internet. It is experimental and the product of people who like to make technologies for their own purposes and then share them. It is in constant development and refinement, and is offered with absolutely no warranty whatsoever.

RavalNet is a barrio organization in Barcelona which provides internet access and networking services for some of the more deprived population there.

In a small office in one of the famous courtyard houses of Berlin Kreuzberg one can find the Umbruch-Bildarchiv. This media initiative was established to struggle ”against the underexposure of the leftwing movement”. But the leftist movement is not the sole focus of their attention. Umbruch Bildarchiv runs a variety of projects with young people and school students' initiatives from Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with migrants and refugees, from web design to poster layout and video editing. Umbruch Bildarchiv amplifies the voices of those who try to speak out.

[image:112,left,10,10,0]Dyne.org is a network and free software atelier gathering young artisans of different kinds to produce free and open technologies, multimedia performances and workshops. Dyne researches the 'hybridisation' of various art practices within the digital domain.