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Project "Nation as Problem or Solution – Historical Revisionism in Serbia" was started with purpose to find answers on questions about role of national problems and nationalism in contemporary Europe, their manifestations in post-Yugoslav area, role and influence of revisionist tendencies in contemporary Serbian society. What is the perspective of young generations, which was raised in environment marked by domination of prejudices, national exclusivity and intolerance?

Hey dear fellows
it s Michele writing, I was one of the students enrolled in the Kragujevac summer school in 2007.

Neweurasia is an interesting blogging project from central asia: "neweurasia is a network of weblogs coordinated and written by bright young individuals from Central Asia and the Caucasus together with their peers around the globe. neweurasia has many faces, but one uniting aim: bringing together young, committed people from around the world in the hope of offering these young thinkers space to publish their ideas on Central Asia and the Caucasus.

“We recognize people as those who are equal in their existence.”

BASIC IDEA:

Discrimination, whether resulting from nationalism, sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, or other, results with oppression and negating human freedom world wide; thus we need a global network to rise against the issue.

PLAN:
I. Building Process:

• Making a research and gathering information on existing organized groups/projects dealing with the issue
• Starting a process of organizing with these groups
• Organizing a communication structure

I want to give you a short report about an experimental attempt we made from 12th to 20th of august. "We" that is a part of a network of groups and people from Brandenburg and Berlin counting ourselves to the "Democratic Youth Forum Brandenburg", which is just the officially name for this network. Our agenda in it is the reinforcement and empowerment of emancipative youthgroups in Brandenburg, the fortification of the single projects in our network, such as housing projects, and intervention into the public and political processes.

The Journal of Community Informatics has published a special issue on "Learning Communities/Community Learning". Below you find the table of contents with links to each article in fulltext as well as the editorial entitled "Enabling the Local as a Fundamental Development Strategy" by Michael B. Gurstein, Center for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training.

We are constantly developing the youth organizing website. It will be under permanent construction, sort of. If you have any wishes, proposals or ideas how to develop this website further on, please do not hesitate to post them as a reply to this call for proposals.

Association Apsolutno has finally published their book 'the absolute report'.
The late 1990s were a time of intense activity, networking and East-West collaboration in contemporary arts in the former Eastern Europe. Discovery of new fields of art practice, redefinition of one's position as an artist in a climate of changing social, political and cultural contexts, the establishment of new systems of communication and collaboration, and the emergence of new technologies in art practices all marked that period. Association APSOLUTNO was part of that wider scene, which was in stark contrast to the claustrophobic context of Serbia within which the members of APSOLUTNO lived and within which the production of the association was created.

The great social movements of the past centuries from labour to environment seem to be exhausted. Simple recipes have lost all credibility, of course. The way back to familiar models is obstructed, and the complex cohesion of an ever more closely networking global economy and of ever more differentiated living conditions seem to be immune against any form of criticism.