From info@falkor.org Tue Dec 02 19:16:29 2003 Received: from smtpq3.home.nl ([213.51.128.198]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1ARF4X-0007KH-00 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:16:29 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=38795 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ARF4X-0005wL-Hl for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:16:29 +0100 Received: from cc330982-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.121.151.242]:4258 helo=CC330982-a) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ARF4W-0004hP-3a for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:16:28 +0100 To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:16:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3FCCE50B.21165.1843AF9@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Newsletter #5 Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Dear friends and colleagues, We are happy to present the fifth Falkor e-mail newsletter. You are receiv= ing it because you subscribed to our news list or because we suppose you are interested in Falkors' activities. Falkor ne= wsletters will be sent to you at a maximum of ten times a year, on irregular basis. (To remove yourself from the list, p= lease follow instructions below.) This newsletter contains: 1. Introduction 2. Get active! - EVS Falkor in Netherlands - EVS Falkor in Russia - EVS positions EYFA call out 3. 'Lift011' Georgia looking for partners in electronic music 4. Espaces youth center Yerevan offers their service to young travelers 5. EYFA network Winter Meeting in Croatia in February 6. IKV zoekt stagiaires voor de Kaukasus (IKV looking for Dutch trainees i= n Caucasus) 7. Share with the Falkor network -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction Falkor I.C.Y. (International Co-operation Youth) is an international netwo= rk of (young) people working on environment, independent media and human rights. We coordinate group exchange projects, international volunteer work and in= formation exchange between different countries in Europe/Caucasus. More info on www.falkor.org 2 Get active! - EVS Falkor in Netherlands If you would like to be a volunteer in a project in another country, get p= aid housing, food and a pocket money and you are 18-25 year old, you can go abroad with EVS. Falkor hopes to offer 2 EVS (European Voluntary Service) positions for 200= 4: -1 position at Falkor in Netherlands is open for a volunteer from Armenia,= starting in October 2004, until March 2005 (6 months). Partner organization: Ynternet.org Armenia. -1 position at Falkor in Netherlands is open for a volunteer from European= Union or accessing country, starting in October 2004, until March 2005 (6 months). please write to info@falkor.org if you would like to receive more informat= ion or if you would like to apply for the positions. - EVS Falkor in Russia 2 positions are open for Dutch volunteers as part of a group of European v= olunteers going to Russia, to be active in cultural organizations - for example music and film projects, theatres, cu= ltural centers, art galleries - throughout Russia (primarily in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other larger cities). This EVS wi= ll also be for a period of 6 months. Partner organization: German-Russian Exchange (DRA) in Berlin. The DRA has alread= y successfully coordinated 3 voluntary programs in Russia and Ukraine over the past few years. The participants c= ame from Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, England, Austria and Denmark and worked for 6 months in charity organizati= ons. To find out more about the work of the DRA and its voluntary programs consult their homepage at www.austausch= .org European Voluntary Service is a program offered under the EU Commission's = Youth Action. please write to info@falkor.org if you would like to receive more informat= ion or if you would like to apply for the positions. - EVS positions EYFA call out Are you looking for a project to work on as a volunteer? Get paid housing,= food and a pocket money for working on an interesting project in another country? Are you 18-25 year old? So maybe this is right for you: EYFA (European Youth for Action - www.eyfa.org) propose you several projec= ts in different countries in Europe, Russia and Belarus on environmental, cultural, independent media, car-free, green= -life, social justice, political art and propaganda and other issues. The EVS projects: Spain (Escanda- Pola de Lena), UK (Common Sense - Liverpool, Sumac Center = - Nottingham), the Netherlands (EYFA - Amsterdam, Green Pepper - Amsterdam, Noticias - Amsterdam, Falkor - Gron= ingen), Czech Republic (World Carfree Network - Prague), Germany (Autofrei leben! e.V. (carfree living! Club), s= ection Berlin), Slovenia (ART CENTRE, Institute for Culture, Art and Development - Sredisce), Belarus (Navinki i= ndependent media and cultural group) and Russia (SKIF - alternative festival - St.Petersburg, Indyvideo Network- Mo= scow) Read more on http://www.eyfa.org/volunteer.htm The EVS would start in May 2004 for normally 12 months. For more information ask please Natasha at evs@eyfa.org. 3. 'Lift011' Georgia looking for partners in electronic music A request for music exchange from Ruso Didebulidze in Georgia: 'Our firm "Art Studio Mix" was founded in 2000 to support the development = of the electronic (club) music in Georgia. At first we were finding partners who would be interested in support of club = culture, but unfortunately Georgian businessmen are only interested in making supermarkets, restaurants and pe= trol business. In 2003 of August we founded a private club "LIFT 011", where we gave opportunity to main and v= ery popular DJ's and VJ's to show their creativity. It must be noticed, that the LIFT club is the only club in Tbi= lisi (Capital of Georgia), which chooses the above music direction. We are functioning on the enthusiasm, one brings a turn-t= able, the second his personal computer, another brings a projector, compressor etc. One volunteer and member of ou= r club is now making the website of the club, where information and photos will be available. DJ's and VJ's are wo= rking without any salary; but still we require more support and help. We are eager to organize festivals, where Georgian = and invited DJ's could show their creativity to the people, we would like foreign DJs to arrive and play in our club, b= ut all these is connected to the expenses, which we couldn't allow. Also we'd like to promote discs of our DJ's and spread = them in Georgia and outside of the country. If you are interested in developing club culture in Georgia and if you are sa= tisfied with our initial information and point of view, please inform us. We are looking forward to your reply.' Sincerely yours, Ruso Didebulidze E-mail rusodidebulidze@hotmail.com 4. Espaces youth center Yerevan offers their service to young travelers The Espaces youth center in Yerevan offers their help to young travelers t= o have a pleasant and cheap stay in Armenia. They can provide you with housing in Bed & Breakfast (at Armenian families= ), guide visits to historic buildings, give information on cultural events in Yerevan and organize excursions together= with young people. Also they can assist with interpreters, guides, translations of documents, organization of deba= tes with French- and English speaking young people in Armenia, intensive courses in Armenian language and they have an= Internet Center. Contact: 29 Nalbandyan, Yerevan, Armenia Tel: +00374 (1) 541 844 E-mail: Espaces@coope= ration.net http://www.cooperation.net/espaces 5. EYFA network Winter Meeting in Croatia in February EYFA (European Youth For Action), and the Croatian organizations Zelena I= stra and Monteparadiso, want to invite you to the EYFA network Winter Meeting in Pula, Croatia on 23-29th of Febr= uary. The EYFA's international Winter Meeting is one of several annual meetings = for all the people who form part of, or are closely associated with, the EYFA network. The objectives of the Winter Me= eting are traditionally to refresh the functioning of the network, discuss how to improve and manage it, draw new= projects that link several groups, define the position of the office in the whole network, decentralize our activiti= es and plan common strategies for the rest of the year and beyond. Apart from those common objectives, every Winter Meeting = adopt a main topic that defines the line of the discussions and helps to concrete our goals according to our main c= oncerns every year. The Winter Meeting 2004 will be held in Pula (Croatia) with Monteparadiso = and Zelena Istra as host organizations. This time the guiding theme will be Direct Democracy and involvement of youth a= nd civil society in participatory decision- making all around Europe. If you WERE, HAVE BEEN, ARE, or WANT TO BE collaborating with the EYFA net= work, you are very welcome to participate in our Winter Meeting. You have to fill in the Application Form for participants that you will fi= nd in our web page: www.eyfa.org/WM2004 The deadline for sending applications is 10th January 2004! Find further information about the Winter Meeting in: http://www.eyfa.org/WM2004 contact us at: wintermeeting@eyfa.org To subscribe to the Winter Meeting participants e-list write to: wintermee= ting@eyfa.org 6. IKV zoekt stagiaires voor de Kaukasus (IKV looking for Dutch trainees i= n Caucasus) In verband met een uitwisselingsprogramma is het IKV per half februari op = zoek naar 3 stagiaires (M/V) (periode februari t/m juni 2004) Wat verwachten we van je? In het kader van het bewustwordingsproject 'Verhalen over Oorlog', start h= et Interkerkelijk Vredesberaad (IKV) begin volgend jaar een uitwisselingsprogramma tussen Nederland en de Kaukasus. W= e zijn op zoek naar jongeren (studenten of net- afgestudeerden) die gedurende 3 maanden gaan werken op = =E9=E9n van de Helsinki Citizens Assembly (hCa) kantoren in de Kaukasus. Direct aansluitend komen 3 jongeren uit de = Kaukasus voor een periode van 4 weken naar Nederland. De Nederlandse deelnemers begeleiden hen gedurende deze pe= riode. Gezamenlijk geven ze presentaties op scholen en universiteiten en organiseren ze een evenement = dat de Kaukasus onder de aandacht moet brengen. De uitwisseling wordt voorafgegaan door een training van =E9=E9n = week in Nederland. Wie zoeken we? Je hebt belangstelling voor en affiniteit met het vredeswerk. Je hebt een = goed gevoel voor sociale en politieke processen, hetgeen bijvoorbeeld uit je opleiding en (werk)ervaring blijkt.= Je bent ondernemend, sociaal en je communiceert makkelijk met andere mensen. Je bent flexibel, creatief en in= staat anderen te enthousiastmeren. Je hebt ervaring in het geven van presentaties en het schrijven van stukken. Wat bieden wij? Een stage van circa 4 maanden, waarvan 3 op =E9=E9n van de hCa-kantoren in= de Kaukasus. Een uitstekende mogelijkheid om werkervaring op te doen in een conflictgebied. Ticket, tra= ining en verblijf worden vergoed. Heb je belangstelling? Stuur een motivatiebrief inclusief c.v. v=F3=F3r 1 december naar: IKV, t.a= .v. Loes van Rosse, Postbus 85893. 2508 CN Den Haag; fax: 070-3542611; E-mail: lvanrosse@ikv.nl. Inlichtingen: 070-338490= 4. Voor meer informatie over het hCa-netwerk: www.ikv.nl 7. Share with the Falkor network The Falkor network is encouraging your NGOs to co-operate, support and inf= orm each other. When you are (or your organization is) looking for information, volunteers, participants...don't= hesitate to contact us. We offer our service to find contacts and resources all over Europe and Caucasus. Also we will be happy to put YOUR news, articles etc. on our website and i= n our newsletters. Please mail your contributions to: janita@falkor.org And if you would like to contribute to Falkor financially: Bank account 9222144 Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. Groningen -------------------------------------------- This message has been sent on the Falkor-newslist More info: www.falkor.org To unsubscribe: go to http://www.falkor.org/newslist.php The information published on the Falkor website and in the news-list does = not necessarily represent the opinion of Falkor I.C.Y. ------------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org From info@falkor.org Wed Dec 10 14:28:48 2003 Received: from smtpq3.home.nl ([213.51.128.198]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1AU4OV-0008Vx-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:28:47 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=50634 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AU4OQ-0002nX-Ol for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:28:42 +0100 Received: from cc330982-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.121.151.242]:63841 helo=CC330982-a) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AU4OP-0002Dt-SQ for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:28:41 +0100 To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:28:40 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3FD72D98.5173.FA5528@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Urge banks to NOT finance BTC Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello, We forward this mail asking you to send your protest e-mail before the 20t= h of december to various banks, urging them to NOT finance the BTC pipeline. For more information, check:http://www.falkor.org/news/btc%20developments.= htm Best wishes, Falkor Dear supporter, At last some good news! Barclays Bank has refused to provide a loan for the BTC pipeline =96 the first major private bank to say no to the project. Campaigners had been targeting the bank over the last month urging it not to become involved in such a controversial project. While this is great news, we now urgently need your help to ensure other private banks follow suit. Although the IFC and EBRD have now approved loans to the pipeline, they are only providing a minority of the finance. The largest portion will come from private banks =96 ie high-street banks like HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland (which owns NatWest). These banks will make their decisions on whether to provide loans next week! Decision day is 20th December. They are considering providing loans to the pipeline despite the fact that it should be excluded by environmental rules they have signed up to, called the Equator Principles. Please email them urgently to tell them not to finance the pipeline. If you bank at any of these banks, then you could also phone your branch, and tell them about your concerns. A suggested email text is below =96 but feel free to write it in your own words; in fact, the more personal the letter, the better. Thanks once again for your support, To send to Royal Bank of Scotland, email: investor.relations@rbs.co.uk To send to HSBC, email: customer.relations@hsbc.com Dear Sir/Madam I am writing to you to express my concerns about the Baku-T'bilisi- Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which I understand that your bank is considering financing. I am deeply concerned about serious impacts the pipeline will have on the environment, on regional tensions, and on people living on the pipeline route. Your bank is a signatory to the Equator Principles, a voluntary set of guidelines designed to prevent project financing being given to the most environmentally and socially damaging projects. Research by NGOs has found that the BTC pipeline violates the Principles on numerous counts. I urge you to show that your commitment to the Equator Principles is genuine by not supporting projects such as BTC which violate them. Barclays has refused to provide a loan for the BTC project =96 we urge to follow suit. The BTC pipeline is a political project sponsored by the USA, designed to undermine Iran and Russia, while boosting the regimes of Azerbaijan and Georgia. The recent toppling of the Georgian regime shows the instability of the political approach. Azerbaijan=92s Presidential election this autumn is widely recognised to have been rigged, and was followed by a brutal clampdown against opposition parties. It is not an appropriate role for a bank such as yours to participate in such geopolitical interference. The region is highly unstable, and this project stands to exacerbate conflicts. For example, Azerbaijan=92s new President Ilham Aliyev hinted in his inauguration speech that he would use oil revenues to build up the army and restart the war with Armenia. The pipeline looks set to cause major human rights abuses. In Turkey, it will be guarded by the notorious state Gendarmerie, which has a record for some of the worst atrocities in the region. It seems BP, the lead company behind the pipeline, has not learned its lessons from the human rights problems with its operations in Colombia. Research by environment and human rights groups has shown that the pipeline will damage livelihoods of local people living on the route. Compensation for lost land has been inadequate, and many people stand to be forced into the city slums as their land becomes unusable. Meanwhile, massive corruption will prevent any of the revenues reaching those who need them. I assume that your bank has rigorously assessed the BTC pipeline=92s compliance with the Equator Principles. Please send me a copy of this analysis. Please reassure me that you will not provide a loan to the BTC project. Yours faithfully, ------------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org From info@falkor.org Wed Dec 17 12:50:47 2003 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1AWaCV-00086R-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:50:47 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=58701 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AWaCS-0001Gf-EA for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:50:44 +0100 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1687 helo=cc181612a) by smtp1.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AWaCQ-0005RZ-Mk for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:50:42 +0100 Message-ID: <00d801c3c494$e4c3ffc0$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:57:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Gold mining in Romania Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Dear subscriber, In this message: 1. A request from the Rosia Montana campaigners in Romania to register your NGO as interested party in the process to evaluate the Environmental Impact of RMGC's Rosia Montana project; 2. Example letter; 3. The article 'Gold mining in Rumania: Getting to the bottom of the story' by Justin Hyatt, taken from ROOTS (magazine from Aseed Europe) October/November 2003 Falkor I.C.Y. ------------------- 1. Join the Rosia Montana campaign in Romania (from www.rosiamontana.org:) Gold has been mined at Rosia Montana, in the Apuseni mountains of West-Central Romania, since pre-historic times. The area's riches attracted several foreign powers including the Romans. These powers carried off the precious metals to Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin but left behind what has become an historical and archaeological treasure of world class. The seams of precious metals have long been worked out but gold and silver are still dispersed in microscopic quantities throughout the geology of the area. The project proposal is that by blasting and pulverising the landscape, the invisible gold and silver could be exposed to hazardous cyanide compounds that would separate them from the rock.The scenery would be devastated, hills transformed into massive craters in a toxic, sterile desert. This is a populated area. The illegal process of forced resettlement has already begun. Will these unique historical and archaeological remains be obliterated and people forced to leave their homes? (the request letter:) Your help is needed! The consultation process for Rosia Montana has opened and we need many, many NGOs to register as interested parties. Under Romanian law each and every body has the right to be included as such party. We would there fore like to encourage you ALL to register - it doesn't cost you anything and is really important for the campaign. It will show the Romanian authorities as well how much the project is monitored more info at www.rosiamontana.org). All you need to do is to send an official fax, email or letter to: Dimitrie Clepan Sef Agentia de Protectie a Mediului Strada Lalelelor Nr.7B Alba Tel/Fax: +40-0258 813248/813290 E-mail apm_alba@hotmail.com Your letter should be an officially sounding and looking one and you just need to say that you herewith would like to register as an interested Party in the process to evaluate the Environmental Impact of RMGC's Rosia Montana project. That's all, no need to say why or what so ever. A sample letter you can see below, but it's better to write your own. Please also try to encourage as many NGOs or individuals who have an interest against dangerous mining project to register Many thanks The Rosia Montana campaigners 2. Example letter To: Dimitrie Clepan Sef Agentia de Protectie a Mediului Strada Lalelelor Nr.7B Alba Romania Phone: +40-258-813 248 Fax: +40-258-813290 E-mail: apm_alba@hotmail.com From: place, date Dear Dimitrie Clepan, Our NGO wishes to register as an official interested party in the process to evaluate the Environmental Impact of RMGC's Rosia Montana project. We would like to receive an overview of the material available and the timeline and process that will be followed. Could you be so kind to confirm receipt of our registration? We look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours, name ------------ 3. from ROOTS October/November 2003 : Gold mining in Rumania: Getting to the bottom of the story It all started out as a harmless exercise in investigative journalism. From our summer's gathering in Romania, where about 30 writers from around Eastern Europe met to produce our magazine, called Plotki, nine of us broke off to join the interest group of our preference. Our destination was Rosia Montana, potential site of Europe's largest open cast gold mine. We were pretty surethat we didn't like Montana Gold Corporation", the Canadian-backed company (Gabriel Resources) that has blue-prints to make four extremely large pits, in which they plan to dig for gold in the next ten to fifteen years, in a process which will knock the town of Rosia Montana off the map and turn the entire area into a replica of the moon's crater system in the process. The employees at the company's headquarters in Alba Iulia, were determined to sway our opinion on the matter. Touting their scientific expertise on the issue, they did their best to present their project as a resounding triumph for the Rumanian economy, which will dramatically boost local development and even clean up the area, which has already suffered environmental damage due to past mining and is just down the road from Zlatna, an extremely polluted industrial town. Already familiar with the gold mine tragedy of Baia Mare, we were concerned about the use of cyanide. If anything goes wrong here, the results could be far worse than in 2000, when cyanide polluted the Tisza/Tisa river and created trans-national havoc. A failure in the dam here, which would protect a tailing pond ten times the size of the one in Baia Mare, would not only entail Romania once more exporting pollution through its rivers, but it would wipe out the whole area, including the nearby city of Abrud. We were assured that the use of the latest technology available would render such a disaster scenario impossible, so we were told, that would be impossible. All of our other questions also had a handy solution, and by the time we staggered out of there, the thought "I've just been brainwashed" flooded through my mind. We next visited Rosia Montana itself, met the opposition to the project as well as the townsfolk. The village is already being hit hard by the corporation. They are actively buying up the houses and depopulating the village. Many services have already stopped, such as that of the dentist and the doctor. Although food can still be bought, funerals and the school will likely be the next things to stop working. One shop-keeper was too shy to share her opinions with us as just that moment another woman, who was known to be supportive of the project, was in the store. Thus we could sense that the town was quite divided on the issue. Of the people who had stayed, was it because they opposed the destruction of their community, tooth and nail, or because they were hoping to bargain for more cash from the Gold corporation? "About half and half" according to Eugen David, a Rosia Montana resident and president of Alburnus Maior, the organization that is fighting against the Gold corporation. The mayor and most of the town hall representatives have sided with the corporation, which is not hugely surprising, given the fact that they also have jobs linked with the corporation. It all bore the hint of a classic case of corruption and buying out the right people. The company, of course, is very careful not to allow for any direct links; there are no cases of homeowners being pressured into giving up their homes. A regional newspaper has become virtually a mouthpiece for the company's interests. For a while, they would issue a free supplement to the Rosia Montana community on Thursdays, highlighting all of the benefits of a Gold mine. At the end of our investigative days the analytical days began and we had a hard time knowing what to believe anymore. Most of us still clung to the notion that such a project could have damaging consequences, to the local area possibly and to the town of Rosia Montana quite obviously. We could see for ourselves the problems mounting there. What struck us the most powerfully perhaps, was the sensation that what is taking place is both a very important issue but also very complicated - there are many different opinions and many different interests. We had difficulties to define our own standpoint very clearly. What if the corporation really does consist of a bunch of guys who just want to make an honest buck and in the meantime bring necessary development to the region and provide a host of jobs? Politically, environmentally, socially and emotionally, it is a very charged issue. Who can one believe? Who has the most accurate information? Hard enough dealing with these issues as a professed environmentalist, what about your average citizen? Just a matter of what newspaper first reaches his or her hands? There were many more unanswered questions, many things we still wanted to find out. Reflecting on the issues at a basic philosophical level, and consulting my own set of principles, for me the choice was clear. But getting there involved soul-searching and hard work. Rosia Montana Gold Corporation is running out of time. They still don't have the license to dig and their investors are getting impatient. They never realized that it would take as much propaganda and media work as it is taking. When Romania's prime minister, Adrian Nastase, made a casual comment indicating his nega- tive opinion towards the project, this hurt the company. They are now preparing a major media campaign. Meanwhile international organizations like Greenpeace, Bankwatch have joined the campaign against the pro- posed mine. For more information, look at Alburnus Maior's website: http://www.rosiamontana.org Justin Hyatt http://www.aseed.net/roots/rootsarchive.htm From info@falkor.org Mon Dec 22 11:40:43 2003 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1AYNUR-0002yS-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:40:43 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.133] (port=54832 helo=smtp2.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AYNUQ-000428-Um for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:40:42 +0100 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:2197 helo=cc181612a) by smtp2.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AYNUQ-0002ti-5i for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:40:42 +0100 Message-ID: <002801c2a8dd$b02579c0$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:41:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Contact Making Seminar Eastern Europe & Caucasus Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: SALTO-YOUTH stands for Support for Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities within the European YOUTH programme of the European Commission. They are organizing a contact making seminar to enhance cooperation with Eastern Europe and Caucasus. It will take place in March 2004 in Warsaw, Poland. They are inviting youth leaders from Programme (EU) countries and Eastern Europe and Caucasus to join. Deadline for application is December 31st, 2003. ----------------------- GO EAST! - Contact Making Seminar for organisations interested in development of co-operation with Eastern Europe & Caucasus The GO EAST! Contact Making Seminar will take place from 4-8 March 2004 in Warsaw, Poland. GO EAST! is a Contact Making Seminar for potential partners from YOUTH programme countries and Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries. The Contact Making Seminar aims to enhance the cooperation between organisations from these regions and wants to stimulate the creation of project ideas. Additional aim of the GO EAST! is to find potential YOUTH Programme multipliers, who are ready to promote and to inform about the YOUTH Programme in Eastern Europe and Caucasus as well as to co-operate on this issue with EECA Resource Centre. Last part of CMS, having training elements will be addressed especially to future multipliers from Eastern Europe. We encourage all actively acting on the field of non-formal education from Eastern European and Caucasian countries to make first step to become multiplier of the YOUTH Programme in the region! You are more then welcome! Objectives: -To bring together people working with young people in order to create new project ideas within the YOUTH Programme -To get to know organisations from different part of Europe -To build new partnerships between Programme countries and partners from Eastern Europe and Caucasus -To create atmosphere of common understanding between people representing different cultures, working styles, etc. -To provide knowledge about possibilities of co-operation with Eastern Europe within the YOUTH Programme -To present examples of efficient and successful co-operation with Eastern Europe and Caucasus -To promote Eastern Europe and Caucasus region among partners from Programme countries Contact Making Seminar brings together 40 youth leaders, youth workers, project coordinators. We have decided to select: -20 participants from Programme countries and -20 participants from Eastern Europe and Caucasus Only participants from these above mentioned countries are allowed to participate in CMS. Deadline for application is December 31st, 2003 See for details and application forms: http://www.salto-youth.net/index.php?page=%2FcmsEECA%2F From info@falkor.org Sun Feb 08 22:54:56 2004 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1ApwtE-0000HI-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:54:56 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=36649 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ApwtD-0006ug-IS for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:54:55 +0100 Received: from cc330982-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.121.151.242]:63849 helo=CC330982-a) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ApwtB-0004H2-HC for falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:54:53 +0100 To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:54:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4026BE41.21938.249A223@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Call Out for the International meeting 'MEDIA AGAINST RACISM, XENOPHOBIA Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello, We forward this call-out from eyfa: Best wishes, Falkor EYFA (European Youth for Action www.eyfa.org) and the Czech organisations = "Information and Publishing Centre- Alarm!!!" and CESTA are organising the International me= eting 'MEDIA AGAINST RACISM, XENOPHOBIA and RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN CEE/CIS COU= NTRIES' in Tabor, Czech Republic on 18th - 23rd May 2004. The problem of racial discrimination in the so-called =91transition countr= ies=92 of Europe (CEE/CIS countries) has taken extreme character during the past decade. Extreme nat= ionalism has grown and right-wing governments have occupied most of the power positions, while xe= nophobic and racist ideas are very much at the base of mainstream public opinion. On the other hand,= mainstream media consistently spread racist and xenophobic representations of =91migrant co= mmunities=92 and the considered =91ethnic=92 and =91national minorities=92. In CEE/CIS countries, anti-discrimination and human rights organisations h= ave a shorter history than in Western Europe and their work is sometimes impossible or limited b= y the states. Moreover, in some countries alternative media is non existent, is simply forbidden, it does not have a= ny financial support or has a very negative imaged created by the State propaganda. The purpose of this international meeting in Tabor is to find practical wa= ys of co-operation between people involved in alternative media and active in anti-racist and= anti-discrimination issues all around Europe. We want not only to exchange information about t= he situation in our regions, but to create a future network of media activists working on huma= n rights issues in Western, Central/Eastern Europe and ex-USSR countries. If you are involved in media and are interested to create an effective lin= k for mutual support, co- operation and exchange of ideas and resources to fight racism and xenophob= ia in Europe, fill in the application form that you will find at: http://www.eyfa.org/Tabor-May and send it to: The deadline for applications is 1st of April! Greetings, EYFA and Alarm!!!------------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org From ngoro@mercury.nocdirect.com Sun Feb 29 20:00:21 2004 Received: from mercury.nocdirect.com ([69.73.150.38]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1AxWAm-0008IJ-00; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:00:20 +0100 Received: from ngoro by mercury.nocdirect.com with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AxWAX-0003xK-Hk; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:00:05 -0600 To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net CC: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.26 X-IPAddress: 81.196.252.141 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:00:05 -0600 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - mercury.nocdirect.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.direkte-aktie.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32187 32187] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mercury.nocdirect.com From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] practical gardening workshop in Romania Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Please distribute this announcement: ------------------------------------------ WHO: Ecotopia Romania Association, an eco-village initiative in Western part of Romania with the kind support of Marcel Susko, permaculture gardener from Slovakia WHAT? A practical workshop on gardening WHEN? 22-27 of March WHERE? in Stanciova village, 36 km from Timisoara, West Romania LOGISTICS: 3 euros a day for food; accommodation and course fee are free. Participants are responsible for their travel and insurance costs. Max 10 international participants. For more information please contact Teodora Borghoff visator@home.ro AND teo@ngo.ro -- From info@falkor.org Mon Mar 08 12:37:29 2004 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1B0J4b-0001yo-00 for ; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:37:29 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=53562 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B0J4a-00044J-VY for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:37:28 +0100 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1159 helo=cc181612a) by smtp5.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B0J4Z-0005Dq-ET for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:37:27 +0100 Message-ID: <003d01c40501$a939f330$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:46:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00E7_01C40502.F30C7590" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] International meeting 'MEDIA and XENOPHOBIA' in Chech Republic Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00E7_01C40502.F30C7590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Below you can find an invitation from EYFA to the international meeting = 'MEDIA and XENOPHOBIA in Chech Republic. Deadline for applications is 1st of April. ------------ Welcome to the International meeting 'MEDIA and XENOPHOBIA' in Tabor, = Czech Republic on 18th - 23rd of May 2004. The purpose of this meeting in Tabor is to discuss the role of media in = ethnical issues in Europe and find practical ways of co-operation = between people involved in alternative media and active in anti-racist = and anti-discrimination issues all around Europe. We want not only to exchange information about the situation in our = regions, but to strength a network of media activists working on anti-discrimination issues in Western, Central/Eastern Europe and = ex-USSR countries. If you are involved in media and are interested to create an effective = link for mutual support, co-operation and exchange of ideas and resources to fight racism and xenophobia in Europe, you are welcome to = attend our meeting. More information is on http://www.eyfa.org/Tabor-May The organisers of the meeting- EYFA, Alarm, CESTA, Antyfasik. Fill in the application form that you will find at: = http://www.eyfa.org/Tabor-May and send it to: meetings@eyfa.org T he deadline for applications is 1st of April! Greetings, EYFA and Alarm!!! ------=_NextPart_000_00E7_01C40502.F30C7590 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Below you can find an invitation from = EYFA to the=20 international meeting 'MEDIA and = XENOPHOBIA in=20 Chech Republic.
Deadline for applications is 1st of=20 April.
 
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Welcome to the International = meeting 'MEDIA and=20 XENOPHOBIA' in Tabor, Czech Republic on 18th - 23rd of May = 2004.
The purpose of this meeting in Tabor is to discuss the role of = media in=20 ethnical issues in Europe and find practical ways of co-operation = between people=20 involved in alternative media and active in anti-racist and = anti-discrimination=20 issues all around Europe.
We want not only to exchange information about the situation in our = regions, but to strength a network of media activists working=20 on
anti-discrimination issues in Western, Central/Eastern Europe and = ex-USSR=20 countries.

If you are involved in media and are interested to create an = effective=20 link for mutual support, co-operation and exchange of ideas = and
resources to=20 fight racism and xenophobia in Europe, you are welcome to attend our=20 meeting.
More information is on http://www.eyfa.org/Tabor-May<= /DIV>

The organisers of the meeting- EYFA, Alarm, CESTA, = Antyfasik.

Fill in the application form that you will find at:=20 http://www.eyfa.org/Tabor-May and send it = to:
meetings@eyfa.org
T
he deadline for applications is 1st of April!
Greetings,
EYFA and Alarm!!!
------=_NextPart_000_00E7_01C40502.F30C7590-- From info@falkor.org Wed Mar 10 23:49:25 2004 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1B1CVx-0006To-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:49:25 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.135] (port=45907 helo=smtp4.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B1CVw-0003vE-W6 for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:49:24 +0100 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1961 helo=cc181612a) by smtp4.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B1CW2-0002G5-F4 for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:49:30 +0100 Message-ID: <006901c406f1$de817e90$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:48:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] The World Bank:-Time to Retire Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Forwarded a call for organizing venues within the World Bank Boycott speaker's tour in Europe: ------------ Dear all, World Bank's 60h anniversary is coming closer and it is time to move the waters in Europe during the huge mobilization taking place in Washington in April. This is a call for organizing venues within the World Bank Boycott speaker's tour in Europe. If you would like to have us come and speak in your city, university or community, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can arrange our schedule. Apart from the Speaker's tour there would be plenty of opportunities for actions and events, which we can try organizing in a coordinated manner. A good focus would be the Extractive Industries Review's final report. As many of you are aware the World Bank's management refuted the final recommendations of the Extractive Industries Review, in the point for ban on financing for oil until 2008. The World Bank's board decision on the report will take place in April. See announcement below. Cheers, Filka The World Bank:-Time to Retire Two weeks before the Annual Spring Meeting and 60th Anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, the World Bank Disinvestment Campaign of A SEED Europe launch a Speakers Tour in Netherlands, Germany and France. The team of the World Bank Disinvestment campaign and colleagues from the Global South and Europe will speak on the World Bank's role in global politics and development, addressing the following issues: * Structure, mandate and global impact of the World Bank, * World Bank's conditioned lending policies and advocacy for one single and right gateway to development of the Third World Countries, * World Bank's financing for large-scale dams and fossil fuel industry clashing with the poverty reduction objective. The World Bank Disinvestment campaign of A SEED Europe is a global initiative calling the World Bank for: * debt cancellation, * end of conditionality policies of (structural adjustment), * a ban on financing for environmentally and socially destructive projects The campaign involves political and financial exposure of World Bank Bonds, through the selling of which the Bank gain up to 80% of its funding. By bringing forward that notion to public institutions and socially responsible investors who are potential funders of the World Bank and its policies, we call for ethical disinvestment from the bonds of the World Bank until the latter demonstrates substantial improvements in its human rights and environmental record and answers adequately the three demands set above. The uniting issue for global groups campaigning on the World Bank this year is the Bank's 60th anniversary and new presidential elections. Under the "Time to Retire" call global groups will expose and question the legitimacy and effectiveness of the World Bank's sixty years of "poverty alleviation". A SEED Europe will join the call, questioning the ethical grounds of investment in World Bank Bonds and providing a set of practical tools to address the issue from your own communities. For more information contact: A SEED Europe World Bank Disinvestment Campaign + 31 20 668 22 36 E-mail: johanna@aseed.antenna.nl, vincent@aseed.antenna.nl, filka@aseed.antenna.nl www.wbbeurope.org www.aseed.net ------------------------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org From info@falkor.org Mon Mar 15 18:03:42 2004 Received: from smtpq3.home.nl ([213.51.128.198]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1B2vV7-0004Lh-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:03:41 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=54006 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B2vV7-0004JI-GA for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:03:41 +0100 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:2133 helo=cc181612a) by smtp1.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1B2vV6-0002Lt-1O for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:03:40 +0100 Message-ID: <01ce01c40aaf$69002bf0$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:03:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01C9_01C40AB7.C7239F70" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] EVS-position Falkor in Netherlands Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01C9_01C40AB7.C7239F70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello,=20 We offer a EVS-volunteer position in Netherlands from 1 October 2004 for = six months!=20 You can read all details below. Deadline for application is 1 April. Greetings,=20 Falkor ------------- Sending organization: Ynternet.org, Armenia Hosting organization: Falkor I.C.Y., Netherlands Period: 1 October 2004 until 1 April 2005 Only open for Armenian applicants under 26 years old. The host organization: Falkor I.C.Y. is implementing a variety of activities aimed to foster = cooperation between (western-/eastern-) European and Caucasian youth in = the sphere of environment, civil society, independent media and youth = culture. Our office is based in Netherlands, in the city of Groningen. The vacancy: Falkor will host a volunteer for 6 months from Armenia to work together = with the Dutch volunteers and staff on the issues environment, civil = society, independent media and youth. The main activities will be in = media and presentations sphere: to produce and present = video-documentaries, newsletters and articles in Netherlands and = internationally. Besides these general tasks, the volunteer will have time to develop = his/her own personal project.=20 We will stimulate the volunteer to take an active role in the = decision-making process in all these tasks. The activities start on 1 October 2004, and last until 1 April 2005. The = volunteer will receive travel reimbursement, accommodation, food and a = monthly allowance, funded by the EVS Youth program of the European = Commission. Also to the volunteer will be offered opportunities to take language = courses and trainings. We are looking for a person who: * Is motivated to develop his/her knowledge and competence in civil = society and/or environmental issues and to share his/her experiences = with others * Takes initiatives * Has sufficient English language skills and basic computer skills * Is creative and enthusiastic in one or more of the following tasks: = writing/editing articles and newsletters, website development, = video-filming/editing, public presentations, organizing events and = discussions. * Is committed to attend for the full duration of the service If you are interested please send a letter to info@falkor.org = accompanied with your CV before 1 April 2004. For more information you can call with: Marij Kloosterhof (Falkor I.C.Y.), tel. 227809 in Yerevan Ryzanna Poghosyan (Ynternet.org), tel. 654829 in Yerevan Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 =20 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org ------=_NextPart_000_01C9_01C40AB7.C7239F70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,

We offer = a EVS-volunteer=20 position in Netherlands from 1 October 2004 for six months!
You = can=20 read all details below. Deadline for application is 1=20 April.

Greetings,
Falkor
 
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Sending organization: Ynternet.org,=20 Armenia
Hosting organization: Falkor I.C.Y., Netherlands
 
Period: 1 October 2004 until 1 April=20 2005
 
Only open for Armenian applicants under = 26 years=20 old.
 

The host organization:
 
Falkor I.C.Y. is implementing a variety = of=20 activities aimed to foster cooperation between (western-/eastern-) = European and=20 Caucasian youth in the sphere of environment, civil society, independent = media=20 and youth culture. Our office is based in Netherlands, in the city of=20 Groningen.
 

The vacancy:
 
Falkor will host a volunteer for 6 = months from=20 Armenia to work together with the Dutch volunteers and staff on the = issues=20 environment, civil society, independent media and youth. The main = activities=20 will be in media and presentations sphere: to produce and present=20 video-documentaries, newsletters and articles in Netherlands and=20 internationally.
 
Besides these general tasks, the = volunteer will=20 have time to develop his/her own personal project.
We will stimulate = the=20 volunteer to take an active role in the decision-making process in all = these=20 tasks.
 
The activities start on 1 October 2004, = and last=20 until 1 April 2005. The volunteer will receive travel reimbursement,=20 accommodation, food and a monthly allowance, funded by the EVS Youth = program of=20 the European Commission.
 
Also to the volunteer will be offered = opportunities=20 to take language courses and trainings.
 
We are looking for a person who:
* = Is motivated=20 to develop his/her knowledge and competence in civil society and/or=20 environmental issues and to share his/her experiences with others
* = Takes=20 initiatives
* Has sufficient English language skills and basic = computer=20 skills
* Is creative and enthusiastic in one or more of the following = tasks:=20 writing/editing articles and newsletters, website development,=20 video-filming/editing, public presentations, organizing events and=20 discussions.
* Is committed to attend for the full duration of the=20 service
 
If you are interested please send a = letter to info@falkor.org accompanied with = your CV=20 before 1 April 2004.
 
For more information you can call=20 with:
 
Marij Kloosterhof (Falkor I.C.Y.), tel. = 227809 in=20 Yerevan
Ryzanna Poghosyan (Ynternet.org), tel. 654829 in = Yerevan
 
 
Stichting Falkor I.C.Y.
P.O. Box = 1649 =20
9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands
www.falkor.org  -  e-mail: = info@falkor.org
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_01C9_01C40AB7.C7239F70-- From info@falkor.org Mon Mar 22 12:39:29 2004 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1B5NmD-0007ZB-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:39:29 +0100 Received: from [213.51.128.135] (port=50690 helo=smtp4.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5NmA-0000NZ-EZ for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:39:26 +0100 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1488 helo=cc181612a) by smtp4.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5NmG-0006ve-D8 for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:39:32 +0100 Message-ID: <00f701c41002$47b8d110$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:38:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C4100A.9A4F6B70" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] EVS-position in Moldova Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C4100A.9A4F6B70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Take your chance! AVI-Moldova/SCI have a vacancy for a EVS-volunteer = position in Moldova, starting from middle of April: --------------------------- Hi everyone! I would like to ask you all to spread around the information: = AVI-Moldova still looks for a long term volunteer a.s.a.p. This is a = project which is running together with SCI Germany. Bellow you'll find a = short description. Please don't hesitate to cantact us if any = questions. (and don't miss the opportunity to taste a great country like = Moldova :) All the best and enjoy this great spring time,=20 Alina Placement Officer in AVI-Modlova, Kishinau Project: AVI -Moldova is the partner organisation of SCI in Moldova and = organizes diferent volunteer events like workcamps, environmental = actions, etc.=20 Work: You will work in our team of about 12 motivated and interesting = people. The possible work for the volunteer will be: organizing = information seminars about voluntary work (for ex. "what is a workcamp", = possibilities to work as a volunteer), organising an exhibition with the = theme "The best volunteer" to be presented in a few schools and = universities before the start of the period for the workcamps, helping = with placing the volunteers to workcamps (providing infosheets and = travel information, etc); taking part in several voluntary events during = summer, like 3 workcamps, cleaning campaigns, planning and arranging = campaigns for informing people outside the capital about sustainable = communities and life-style. Period: 12 months, starting from middle of April Project and local language: English, Romanian=20 Skills: conversational English, willingness to learn Romanian on a basic = level, basic computer skills (MS-office, Internet), willingness to work = in a team and on own intiative. Accomodation: provided a guest family in Kishinau or a flat =20 Deadline: a.s.a.p. Others: This project is an EVS project, organised by SCI Germany in = bilateral cooperation with AVI-Moldova. SCI Germany has decided however = to open it to up to volunteers from other countries.=20 AVI-Moldova offers you a fulfilling job, pocket money, a place to live, = nice collegues, a lot of support in your job and the possibility to = taste Moldavian hospitality :) --------------------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 =20 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org ------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C4100A.9A4F6B70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Take your chance!  AVI-Moldova/SCI have a vacancy for a = EVS-volunteer=20 position in Moldova, starting from middle of April:

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Hi everyone!

I would like to ask you all to spread around the information: = AVI-Moldova=20 still looks for a long term volunteer a.s.a.p.  This is a=20 project which is running together with SCI Germany. Bellow = you'll find=20 a short description. Please don't hesitate to cantact us if  any = questions.=20 (and don't miss the opportunity to taste a great country like Moldova = :)

All the best and enjoy this great spring=20 time, 
         &nbs= p;            = ;            =             &= nbsp;  Alina

 

Placement Officer in AVI-Modlova, Kishinau

Project: AVI -Moldova is the partner organisation of SCI in Moldova = and=20 organizes diferent volunteer events like workcamps, environmental = actions, etc.=20

Work: You will work in our team of about 12 motivated=20 and interesting people. The possible work for the volunteer will = be:=20 organizing information seminars about voluntary work (for ex. "what is a = workcamp", possibilities to work as a volunteer), organising an = exhibition with=20 the theme "The best volunteer" to be presented in a few schools and = universities=20 before the start of the period for the workcamps, helping with = placing the=20 volunteers to workcamps (providing infosheets and travel information, = etc);=20 taking part in several voluntary events during summer, like 3 workcamps, = cleaning campaigns, planning and arranging campaigns for informing = people=20 outside the capital about sustainable communities and = life-style.

Period: 12 months, starting from middle of April

Project and local language: English,=20 Romanian 
Skills: conversational English, willingness to = learn=20 Romanian on a basic level, basic computer skills = (MS-office, Internet),=20 willingness to work in a team and on own intiative.

Accomodation: provided a guest family in Kishinau or a=20 flat       

Deadline: a.s.a.p.

Others: This project is an EVS project, organised by SCI Germany in = bilateral=20 cooperation with AVI-Moldova. SCI Germany has decided however to = open it to=20 up to volunteers from other countries.

AVI-Moldova offers you a fulfilling job, pocket money, a place = to live,=20 nice collegues, a lot of support in your job and the possibility to = taste=20 Moldavian hospitality :)

 

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Stichting Falkor I.C.Y.
P.O. Box = 1649 =20
9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands
www.falkor.org  -  e-mail: = info@falkor.org
------=_NextPart_000_00EE_01C4100A.9A4F6B70-- From info@falkor.org Thu Apr 08 17:05:18 2004 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1BBb5i-0007XW-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:05:18 +0200 Received: from [213.51.128.133] (port=55309 helo=smtp2.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBb5h-00037B-W5; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:05:17 +0200 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1295 helo=cc181612a) by smtp2.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBb5g-0003JA-Lg; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:05:16 +0200 Message-ID: <006001c41d83$06591840$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Cc: "Long Walk To Freedom" Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:03:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_005B_01C41D8B.6364DA30" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Stop violation of human rights by the Dutch refugeepolicy! Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01C41D8B.6364DA30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, The coalition 'A long walk to Freedom' started a email-action to present = a list of signatures to the Dutch government, to urge them to stop the = deportation of 26.000 refugees now living in Netherlands. You can sign = below with your name/and or organization, country, and forward the mail = to others, and/or send it to longwalk2freedom@hotmail.com. Some information about protest actions that have been done recently and = background information in English you can find on = http://www.indymedia.org/nl/2004/03/110649.shtml Falkor I.C.Y. www.falkor.org ------------------------------------ The e-mail action letter: The Dutch government threatens to expel 26000 refugees. Sign the = e-mailpetition to protest against this grove violation of the = human-rights=20 and please forward it to all your friends. Check our website for a full = explanation of the petition and the policy of the Dutch government.=20 Unfortunately only the section: email actie is in English.... We ask every 25th signer of the petition to send it also to = longwalk2freedom@hotmail.com, so we can make a complete list to present = to=20 the Dutch minister. = =20 www.longwalk2freedom.nl STATEMENT FOR HUMANITY: STOP THE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE DUTCH REFUGEE POLICY !! We, citizens of the world, ask the Dutch government to rethink their = policy=20 concerning the future of 26000 refugees. We state that these refugees = have=20 human rights just as well as all other human beings in this world, but = are=20 denied these rights by the Dutch government. The only just decision = would=20 be: to give all the refugees who entered the country in the old-asylum=20 procedure, a resident's permit to stay in the Netherlands. All other=20 policies might endanger people's lives, and are therefore violations of=20 universal human rights. We call upon the Dutch government to listen to international Human = Rights=20 organisations, refugee organisations, public protests and local = authorities=20 inside the country, and also to common sense and human values. By doing=20 this, the Dutch government should abandon the chosen path and give = freedom=20 and a future to these 26000 refugees, who have lived in inhumane = conditions=20 for so long: 1.Falkor I.C.Y., Netherlands 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01C41D8B.6364DA30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,
 
The coalition 'A long walk to Freedom' = started a=20 email-action to present a list of signatures to the Dutch government,=20 to urge them to stop the deportation of 26.000 refugees now living = in=20 Netherlands. You can sign below with your name/and or organization, = country, and=20 forward the mail to others, and/or send it to=20 longwalk2freedom@hotmail.com.

Some information about protest = actions that=20 have been done recently and background information in English you can = find on http://www.indy= media.org/nl/2004/03/110649.shtml
 
 
Falkor I.C.Y.
www.falkor.org
 
 

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The e-mail = action=20 letter:


The Dutch government threatens to expel 26000 = refugees.=20 Sign the e-mailpetition to protest against this grove violation of the=20 human-rights
and please forward it to all your friends. Check our = website=20 for a full explanation of the petition and the policy of the Dutch = government.=20
Unfortunately only the section: email actie is in = English....

We ask=20 every 25th signer of the petition to send it also to longwalk2freedom@hotmail.com= , so=20 we can make a complete list to present to
the Dutch=20 minister.
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STATEMENT=20 FOR HUMANITY:

STOP THE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE = DUTCH=20 REFUGEE POLICY !!

We, citizens of the world, ask the Dutch = government to=20 rethink their policy
concerning the future of 26000 refugees. We = state that=20 these refugees have
human rights just as well as all other human = beings in=20 this world, but are
denied these rights by the Dutch government. The = only=20 just decision would
be: to give all the refugees who entered the = country in=20 the old-asylum
procedure, a resident's permit to stay in the = Netherlands.=20 All other
policies might endanger people's lives, and are therefore=20 violations of
universal human rights.

We call upon the Dutch=20 government to listen to international Human Rights
organisations, = refugee=20 organisations, public protests and local authorities
inside the = country, and=20 also to common sense and human values. By doing
this, the Dutch = government=20 should abandon the chosen path and give freedom
and a future to = these 26000=20 refugees, who have lived in inhumane conditions
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 ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01C41D8B.6364DA30-- From info@falkor.org Fri Apr 09 17:18:27 2004 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1BBxlz-0002Qb-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:18:27 +0200 Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=57608 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBxly-0008Iq-2M for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:18:26 +0200 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1581 helo=cc181612a) by smtp5.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBxlw-0001oZ-OI for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:18:24 +0200 Message-ID: <009801c41e4e$06dee5d0$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:16:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_008E_01C41E56.60C88030" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] German Internships for Young Practicing Journalists from NIS Region Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008E_01C41E56.60C88030 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Below you can find information concerning internships offered in Germany = for journalists from former Soviet countries and for German journalists = in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia or Russia. The project starts in = september. Deadline for applications is 15 April 2004=20 --------------------------- Internationale Journalisten Programme (IJP), Germany TITLE: German Internships for Young Practicing Journalists from NIS = Region DESCRIPTION: Eight journalists from former Soviet countries will be = awarded two-month internships at German media=20 organizations under a program sponsored by the Internationale = Journalisten Programme (IJP).=20 Also eight German journalists will have the opportunity to have = simultaneous internships, probably in Armenia, Azerbaijan,=20 Georgia, or Russia.=20 Interns will work in the role of foreign correspondents at a media = organization. A special committee of IJP will choose the media=20 organization, based on the wishes of the applicants. The committee can = also help applicants find accommodations.=20 Sponsored by Zeit-Stiftung, the internships carry a scholarship award of = EUR 3,350 (about US $4,230). The program is=20 scheduled to begin on September 9.=20 Applicants must be reporters or editors, 25 to 35-years-old, working for = any media organization in their country. Fluency in=20 German is required.=20 Applications should include a statement of purpose; a resume in German = with a photo; three published materials or transcripts of=20 programs; recommendation from a direct supervisor; permission for a = leave of absence of two months; a document confirming=20 knowledge of German; and a suggested media organization for assignment.=20 IJP aims to further the understanding of promising journalists for = political, cultural and economical developments far beyond the=20 boundaries of their home countries. Every year IJP awards about 100 = bursaries to German journalists and their foreign=20 counterparts. During their working visit of at least six weeks, the = participants work for the host organization of their choice and=20 act as correspondents for their home newsroom.=20 APPLICATION PROCEDURES: =20 Applications should be sent to Grafin-Donhoff-Programm, c/o IJP, Miodrag = Soric (Koordinator), Von-Halbergstrasse 28, 53125 Bonn, Deutschland. = More information is available at=20 http://www.ijp.org/english/fellowships/navig/ost_russ_frame.html. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 April 2004 =20 -------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 =20 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org ------=_NextPart_000_008E_01C41E56.60C88030 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Below you can find information = concerning=20 internships offered in Germany for journalists from former Soviet countries and for German journalists in = Armenia,=20 Azerbaijan, Georgia or Russia. The project starts in september. Deadline = for=20 applications is 15 April 2004
 
 
 
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Internationale Journalisten Programme = (IJP),=20 Germany

TITLE:   German Internships for Young = Practicing=20 Journalists from NIS Region

DESCRIPTION:   Eight = journalists=20 from former Soviet countries will be awarded two-month internships at = German=20 media
organizations under a program sponsored by the Internationale=20 Journalisten Programme (IJP).

Also eight German journalists will = have=20 the opportunity to have simultaneous internships, probably in Armenia,=20 Azerbaijan,
Georgia, or Russia.

Interns will work in the = role of=20 foreign correspondents at a media organization. A special committee of = IJP will=20 choose the media
organization, based on the wishes of the = applicants. The=20 committee can also help applicants find accommodations. =

Sponsored by=20 Zeit-Stiftung, the internships carry a scholarship award of EUR 3,350 = (about US=20 $4,230). The program is
scheduled to begin on September 9.=20

Applicants must be reporters or editors, 25 to 35-years-old, = working for=20 any media organization in their country. Fluency in
German is = required.=20

Applications should include a statement of purpose; a resume in = German=20 with a photo; three published materials or transcripts of
programs;=20 recommendation from a direct supervisor; permission for a leave of = absence of=20 two months; a document confirming
knowledge of German; and a = suggested media=20 organization for assignment.

IJP aims to further the = understanding of=20 promising journalists for political, cultural and economical = developments far=20 beyond the
boundaries of their home countries. Every year IJP awards = about=20 100 bursaries to German journalists and their foreign
counterparts. = During=20 their working visit of at least six weeks, the participants work for the = host=20 organization of their choice and
act as correspondents for their = home=20 newsroom.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:  
Applications should be sent to=20 Grafin-Donhoff-Programm, c/o IJP, Miodrag Soric (Koordinator),=20 Von-Halbergstrasse 28, 53125 Bonn, Deutschland. More information is = available at=20
http://www.ijp.org/english/fellowships/navig/ost_russ_frame.html= .
 
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 April = 2004

 
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Stichting Falkor I.C.Y.
P.O. Box = 1649 =20
9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands
www.falkor.org  = -  e-mail:=20 info@falkor.org
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_008E_01C41E56.60C88030-- From info@falkor.org Wed Apr 21 13:09:42 2004 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1BGFbp-0005MT-00 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:09:41 +0200 Received: from [213.51.128.134] (port=50649 helo=smtp3.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGFbm-0006Jg-F2 for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:09:38 +0200 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1351 helo=cc181612a) by smtp3.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGFbk-0007Vy-FZ for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:09:36 +0200 Message-ID: <00d201c42799$47a1c480$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:07:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00CB_01C427A1.A2B22BA0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] No culture without subculture festival Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00CB_01C427A1.A2B22BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, EYFA is organizing an international festival of independent culture in = Belarus in November 2004. Groups and individuals from whole Europe and = Caucasus are invited to join the event. Greetings, Falkor ------------------ 15-21 November 2004 - Minsk, Belarus NO CULTURE WITHOUT SUBCULTURE festival In November 15-21 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, an international = festival of independent culture will take place. Call-out: We would like to invite the collectives, groups and = individulas busy in independent art and culture in all parts of Europe = to come to Belarus and share their experience and ideas with people from = former Soviet Union countries like Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and = Caucasian Republics in the forms of discussions, exhibitions, talks, = debates, videoshows, concerts and fun.=20 Everybody who is interested can participate. If you would like to come = and represent your collective and find partners for your cultural = projects you are welcome. We are also loking for the artists and musicians who can come and = perform at the festival in Minsk. We would like to give the possibility to meet each other for people from = the Western and Central/Eastern Europe and people from Belarus, Russia, = Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Georgia; - to make the contacts and exchange the information; - to discuss the problems which the independent cultural groups can meet = in different countries for their activities; - to promote the independence, creative attitude and non-profit approach = in cultural activities;=20 - to initiate cultural projects between mentioned CIS countries and = European cultural organisations. Background information:=20 In the CIS countries the independent cultural activities are not so = developed as in the Western or even Central European countries. The = traditions of citizen activities are fragile. Belarus is good example of = the situation. The current dictatorship government tries to control and = oppress all independent NGOs as political sectors. In Belarus the = situation with the independent culture is almost the same as it was in = the Soviet Union times. There are the same state controlled apparatuses, = such as radio, film, television and the press, which offer as in the = past the "party line" to the citizens. On another level there are = underground independent media, radical art, the covert joke, samizdat = publications, which express popular resistance to the non-democratic = state.=20 In general, I see artists as playing a positive role and a very special = role because art has the capacity of taking ideas which otherwise would = be kind of dry and unappealing and infusing ideas with a kind of passion = that music, that poetry, that fiction, that the theatre, that painting, = that kind of passon that all of these arts can convey. Art therefore, = because it has that power, the special power of enhancing the strength = of an idea with emotion. Art therefore is an attempt to equalize a = situation in which most of the material power, the military power, the = economic power rests in the hand of establishment and therefore the = people without power, the people on the outside, the people without the = money, the people without the guns, the people who are trying to form a = social movement, they have a great need of art to mobilize people, to = inspire people and to do what mere words on paper, mere pamphlets and = books cannot by themselves do. - Howard Zinn, Gray Matters interview www.zmag.org/grayzinn.htm The organisations involved:=20 EYFA- Amsterdam the Netherlands; Navinki, Tretya Zmena, New Faces - = Minsk Belarus, political-cultural center ACU - Utrecht the Netherlands, = Metelkova - Ljubljana Slovenia, MORE ZVUKOV cultural network - Rotterdam = the Netherlands, SKIF - St.Petersburg Russia. The hosting organisations of the meeting are: "Navinki" and "New Faces". "Navinki" activities are concentrated on cultural projects (independent = music recording, newspaper "Navinki" publishing, filmmaking, theater, = discussion club, political cabaret etc); it's also a major source of = information on relevant issues (big DIY library, mailing lists etc). = Besides of cultural activities "Navinki" are also involved in democratic = mass media issues, human rights, media campaigns against racism and = xenophobia, environmental campaigns.=20 The "New Faces" is a youth union which is based on the principles of = tolerance, openness, equality. Using alternative methods it is helping = to Belarusssian youth to form the active civil position and giving the = possibilities for its development and realisation. ACU political-cultural center in Utrecht. The ACU operates independently = of (municipal) authorities, is non-profit and is run by volunteers. The = venue has validated its existence in Utrecht's political and cultural = life for more than two decades. Currently, the ACU hosts a wide range of = activities including: a bar, food, concerts, dance nights, political = info nights, poetry events, squatters' advice bureau, a food coop, info = shop Schism, kurf [a local antifascist organisation], benefits, parties, = a venue for meetings and much much more.......=20 Programme: The programme will be done by YOU! Make your proposals if you want to participate. For: - info-workshops about cultural projects you are doing;=20 - discussions on the ideological questions connected with cultural = issues; - exhibition of cultural organisations (attending the meeting) in Minsk; - pictures, paintings, collages, etc; - films and videoart; - tactical media and counter information; - video about cultural events in different countries;=20 - concert (bands, DJs, VJs). Venue: The meeting will take place is the hosting complex "Stayki" near = to Minsk (20 km).=20 Application form Please fill the application form and return before the 15th of October = on natasha@eyfa.org Contact: If you are interested to take part please write us on = natasha@eyfa.org ------------------------------------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 =20 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org If you want to unsubscribe from this list, send an email to = info@falkor.org ------=_NextPart_000_00CB_01C427A1.A2B22BA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,

EYFA is organizing an international festival of independent = culture in=20 Belarus in November 2004. Groups and individuals from whole Europe and = Caucasus=20 are invited to join the event.
 
Greetings,
Falkor
 
 
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15-21 November 2004 - Minsk, Belarus

NO CULTURE WITHOUT = SUBCULTURE=20 festival

In November 15-21 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, an=20 international festival of independent culture will take = place.

Call-out:=20 We would like to invite the collectives, groups and individulas busy in=20 independent art and culture in all parts of Europe to come to Belarus = and share=20 their experience and ideas with people from former Soviet Union = countries like=20 Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Caucasian Republics in the forms = of=20 discussions, exhibitions, talks, debates, videoshows, concerts and fun.=20
Everybody who is interested can participate. If you would like to = come and=20 represent your collective and find partners for your cultural projects = you are=20 welcome.
We are also loking for the artists and musicians who can = come and=20 perform at the festival in Minsk.

We would like to give the = possibility=20 to meet each other for people from the Western and Central/Eastern = Europe and=20 people from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and=20 Georgia;

- to make the contacts and exchange the = information;
- to=20 discuss the problems which the independent cultural groups can meet in = different=20 countries for their activities;
- to promote the independence, = creative=20 attitude and non-profit approach in cultural activities;
- to = initiate=20 cultural projects between mentioned CIS countries and European cultural=20 organisations.

Background information:

In the CIS = countries the=20 independent cultural activities are not so developed as in the Western = or even=20 Central European countries. The traditions of citizen activities are = fragile.=20 Belarus is good example of the situation. The current dictatorship = government=20 tries to control and oppress all independent NGOs as political sectors. = In=20 Belarus the situation with the independent culture is almost the same as = it was=20 in the Soviet Union times. There are the same state controlled = apparatuses, such=20 as radio, film, television and the press, which offer as in the past the = "party=20 line" to the citizens. On another level there are underground = independent media,=20 radical art, the covert joke, samizdat publications, which express = popular=20 resistance to the non-democratic state.

In general, I see = artists as=20 playing a positive role and a very special role because art has the = capacity of=20 taking ideas which otherwise would be kind of dry and unappealing and = infusing=20 ideas with a kind of passion that music, that poetry, that fiction, that = the=20 theatre, that painting, that kind of passon that all of these arts can = convey.=20 Art therefore, because it has that power, the special power of enhancing = the=20 strength of an idea with emotion. Art therefore is an attempt to = equalize a=20 situation in which most of the material power, the military power, the = economic=20 power rests in the hand of establishment and therefore the people = without power,=20 the people on the outside, the people without the money, the people = without the=20 guns, the people who are trying to form a social movement, they have a = great=20 need of art to mobilize people, to inspire people and to do what mere = words on=20 paper, mere pamphlets and books cannot by themselves do.
- Howard = Zinn, Gray=20 Matters interview www.zmag.org/grayzinn.htm

The organisations = involved:=20

EYFA- Amsterdam the Netherlands; Navinki, Tretya Zmena, New = Faces -=20 Minsk Belarus, political-cultural center ACU - Utrecht the Netherlands,=20 Metelkova - Ljubljana Slovenia, MORE ZVUKOV cultural network - Rotterdam = the=20 Netherlands, SKIF - St.Petersburg Russia.
The hosting organisations = of the=20 meeting are: "Navinki" and "New Faces".

"Navinki" activities are=20 concentrated on cultural projects (independent music recording, = newspaper=20 "Navinki" publishing, filmmaking, theater, discussion club, political = cabaret=20 etc); it's also a major source of information on relevant issues (big = DIY=20 library, mailing lists etc). Besides of cultural activities "Navinki" = are also=20 involved in democratic mass media issues, human rights, media campaigns = against=20 racism and xenophobia, environmental campaigns.

The "New Faces" = is a=20 youth union which is based on the principles of tolerance, openness, = equality.=20 Using alternative methods it is helping to Belarusssian youth to form = the active=20 civil position and giving the possibilities for its development and=20 realisation.

ACU political-cultural center in Utrecht. The ACU = operates=20 independently of (municipal) authorities, is non-profit and is run by=20 volunteers. The venue has validated its existence in Utrecht's political = and=20 cultural life for more than two decades. Currently, the ACU hosts a wide = range=20 of activities including: a bar, food, concerts, dance nights, political = info=20 nights, poetry events, squatters' advice bureau, a food coop, info shop = Schism,=20 kurf [a local antifascist organisation], benefits, parties, a venue for = meetings=20 and much much more.......

Programme:

The programme will = be done=20 by YOU!

Make your proposals if you want to participate. For:
- = info-workshops about cultural projects you are doing;
- discussions = on the=20 ideological questions connected with cultural issues;
- exhibition of = cultural organisations (attending the meeting) in Minsk;
- pictures,=20 paintings, collages, etc;
- films and videoart;
- tactical media = and=20 counter information;
- video about cultural events in different = countries;=20
- concert (bands, DJs, VJs).

Venue: The meeting will take = place is=20 the hosting complex "Stayki" near to Minsk (20 km).
Application=20 form
Please fill the application form and return before the 15th of = October=20 on natasha@eyfa.org
Contact: If you are interested to take part = please write=20 us on natasha@eyfa.org
 
 

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P.O. Box 1649 
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------=_NextPart_000_00CB_01C427A1.A2B22BA0-- From info@falkor.org Tue Apr 27 11:33:06 2004 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1BIOxe-00029R-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:33:06 +0200 Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=54157 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIOxc-0007hB-Vh for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:33:04 +0200 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1208 helo=cc181612a) by smtp1.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIOxb-0003ku-R5 for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:33:03 +0200 Message-ID: <006a01c42c42$cc476070$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:31:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0067_01C42C4B.25D6A5D0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] Anti-WEF in Poland needs support Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0067_01C42C4B.25D6A5D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A call-out from the EYFA-network: Dear all, The Anti-World Economic Forum in Poland is being targetted by the police and faces increasing pressures as Warsaw is being turned into a no-go area before the WEF begins tomorrow. Please circulate information to your networks and monitor the situation via the indymedia Poland site and take action when they need support in case anything bad starts to happen. Here are some details of what has happened so far: Police repression against groups involved in the preparation of the Alternative Economic Forum in Warsaw is escalating. People considered by the police to be activists have been summonsed to police stations or visited at home. Many of these people are outsiders, whose names only were written down during a Critical mass and have nothing in common with the upcoming events in Warsaw.=20 Owners of places having some sort of link to anti-Summit activities have also been frightened. In Warsaw, after a standard police check in the Praha Cinema (in which some of the Alternative Conferences were to be held), the management withdrew from its offer to the Coalition of Freedom Groups (Anarchist Federation and anti-authoritarian groups). In Wroc=B3aw, because of the threats from the police, an information meeting about the Anti-Summit planned at the Centre of Cultural Reanimation was cancelled. In another incident, plainclothes police stated to activists looking after this place, that they could not host any guests planning to come from or go to Warsaw. Similar situations have occurred in other cities (Warsaw, Pozna=F1, Rzesz=F3w, Suwa=B3ki, Toru=F1).=20 Police turn up everywhere where the Anti-Summit logo can be found. In Warsaw they prevented a concert, which was intended to support the alterglobalists' alternative forum, from being held. People who stick up posters relating to the Alternative Forum risk higher penalties than usual. At least one person was stopped by police for carrying a poster advertising the PoProstu and Indymedia internet sites, which also had an Anti-Summit logo.=20 There is concern that border authorities will block the entry to Poland of foreign activists. With the help of Europol and the Schengen Information System, a "black list" [pl] of people [en] who are refused access to our country until 30 April has been established. Someone from Germany, who last year was arrested during an anarchist conference in Warsaw, had problems at the Polish-Ukrainian border. In Gda=F1sk, an activist from the Anarchist Federation in Bia=B3ystok was arrested.=20 http://poland.indymedia.org/pl/index.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. Box 1649 =20 9701 BP Groningen, Netherlands www.falkor.org - e-mail: info@falkor.org ------=_NextPart_000_0067_01C42C4B.25D6A5D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
A call-out from the = EYFA-network:


Dear=20 all,

The Anti-World Economic Forum in Poland is = being
targetted by the=20 police and faces increasing pressures
as Warsaw is being turned into = a no-go=20 area before the
WEF begins tomorrow. Please circulate information = to
your=20 networks and monitor the situation via the
indymedia Poland site and = take=20 action when they need
support in case anything bad starts to=20 happen.

Here are some details of what has happened so = far:

Police=20 repression against groups involved in the
preparation of the = Alternative=20 Economic Forum in
Warsaw is escalating. People considered by the = police
to=20 be activists have been summonsed to police stations
or visited at = home. Many=20 of these people are
outsiders, whose names only were written down = during=20 a
Critical mass and have nothing in common with the
upcoming = events in=20 Warsaw.

Owners of places having some sort of link = to
anti-Summit=20 activities have also been frightened. In
Warsaw, after a standard = police=20 check in the Praha
Cinema (in which some of the Alternative=20 Conferences
were to be held), the management withdrew from = its
offer to=20 the Coalition of Freedom Groups (Anarchist
Federation and = anti-authoritarian=20 groups). In Wroc=B3aw,
because of the threats from the police, an=20 information
meeting about the Anti-Summit planned at the Centre=20 of
Cultural Reanimation was cancelled. In another
incident, = plainclothes=20 police stated to activists
looking after this place, that they could = not host=20 any
guests planning to come from or go to Warsaw. = Similar
situations have=20 occurred in other cities (Warsaw,
Pozna=F1, Rzesz=F3w, Suwa=B3ki, = Toru=F1).=20

Police turn up everywhere where the Anti-Summit logo
can be = found. In=20 Warsaw they prevented a concert,
which was intended to support the=20 alterglobalists'
alternative forum, from being held. People who = stick
up=20 posters relating to the Alternative Forum risk
higher penalties than = usual.=20 At least one person was
stopped by police for carrying a poster=20 advertising
the PoProstu and Indymedia internet sites, which = also
had an=20 Anti-Summit logo.

There is concern that border authorities will=20 block
the entry to Poland of foreign activists. With the
help of = Europol=20 and the Schengen Information System, a
"black list" [pl] of people = [en] who=20 are refused
access to our country until 30 April has = been
established.=20 Someone from Germany, who last year was
arrested during an anarchist=20 conference in Warsaw, had
problems at the Polish-Ukrainian border. In = Gda=F1sk,=20 an
activist from the Anarchist Federation in Bia=B3ystok
was = arrested.=20
http://poland.indymed= ia.org/pl/index.shtml
 
 
 

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Stichting=20 Falkor I.C.Y.
P.O. Box 1649 
9701 BP Groningen, = Netherlands
www.falkor.org  -  e-mail: = info@falkor.org
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_0067_01C42C4B.25D6A5D0-- From info@falkor.org Sat May 08 11:35:36 2004 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]) by buddha.all2all.org with esmtp (ALL2ALL.ORG The Independent Network) id 1BMOF6-0001mf-00 for ; Sat, 08 May 2004 11:35:36 +0200 Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=41378 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BMOF5-0001w1-T8 for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Sat, 08 May 2004 11:35:35 +0200 Received: from cc181612-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([217.122.223.168]:1135 helo=cc181612a) by smtp5.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BMOF4-00040o-PH for Falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net; Sat, 08 May 2004 11:35:34 +0200 Message-ID: <004401c434e7$ff43f530$99aafea9@cc181612a> To: Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 11:34:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean From: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Subject: [Falkor-info] summer art workshop Hungary/ youth exchange Germany Sender: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net Errors-To: falkor-info-admin@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-BeenThere: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info@falkor.org X-Reply-To: falkor-info@lists.direkte-aktie.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: hello, find below two invitations for youth exchange projects this summer: 1) youth exchange on renewable energy and energy efficiency in Germany 2) summer art workshop for young people on the basis of green values in Hungary Falkor ------------------------------ 1) Hello dear friends, From the 10 until the 30th of July 2004 JUP in Bad Oldesloe, Germany is organizing a youth exchange on topics concerning renewable energy and energy efficiency. The exchange is intended for young people between 18 and 25 that are active in this field but also for young environmentalists who would like to learn more on this issue. The program and the application are attached. If you are interested in participating fill out the application and end it back to metodi@inihaus.de until the 15th of May. regards Metodi Panev Jugend Umwelt Projektwerkstatt 23843 Bad Oldesloe Germany tel: +49 4531 4512 fax: +49 4531 7116 e-mail: metodi@inihaus.de ----------------------------- 2) We invite you to... KUKURIKU 2004 - Environmental Consciousness as an Attitude towards Life, taking place between 11-21 July 2004 in Hungary!!! ZOFI, the Hungarian Young Greens are preparing a summer ART WORKSHOP for young people on the basis of GREEN VALUES. We are inviting participants between the age of 18-25 from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Malta, and Romania! Our project is supported by the Youth 2000-2006 program. Please submit your applications to kukuriku 2004@freemail.hu! The details and application form below: Call for applicants Kukuriku 2004 Environmental Consciousness as an Attitude towards Life 11-21 July 2004, Hungary ZOFI, the Hungarian Young Greens are preparing a summer art workshop for young people on the basis of green values. Our organisation promotes a new alternative vision, which focuses on creativity, openness, and diversity. We believe in a more harmonious relationship between society and the environment. In order to achieve these goals, we organize campaigns and direct actions on various issues; we run an activist club in Budapest; and we are involved in environmental education as well. We believe that a certain artistic approach is part of the responsible ecological way of thinking and behaviour. We think that art has a key role in understanding our environment. The aim of the summer art workshop is neither to be just "artistic" nor to be just "green". We would like to present life as a whole, and spend ten very active days together, working to express this. We would like to observe nature as an abstract piece of art. During the camp, we will remain continuously aware of our natural surroundings. This involves not only the workshops, but the practical aspects of the camp as well. We have chosen the most sustainable solutions in creating the camp facilities. We are inviting participants between the age of 18-25. Having experience in art is not a requirement, if you are interested in it, it is enough. We encourage people who have experience in artwork to give their input to the event by sharing their skills and ideas. The camp is international - 30 people from six countries will get to know each other and work creatively together. Communication and workshops are conducted in English, therefore participants should have a good working knowledge of this language. In order to ensure the quality of the workshops participants have to choose one from the four workshops offered to go deeper in that particular field of art during the ten days of the camp. Because of operational reasons we will ask you not to change workshops, so please consider your choices thoroughly. Beside the workshops, there will be other activities, such as discussions, lectures on various green topics, presentations of participating countries, activist and art movies, excursions, swimming in the nearby lake etc. The summer camp is situated in Kesztolc, which is a little village 40 kilometres North of Budapest (1 hour by train). From the location of the camp one can easily get to the main square of the village with a short walk, as well as to the forests of the beautiful Pilis Mountains. We offer the following workshops: l) Improvisational Dance and Puppet Play /led by Edit Jagodics, dancer and Julcsi puppet theatre artist/ The dance workshop covers various fields of improvisational dance. We move outward in concentric circles. We start off with the self, experimenting with senses and motions. Then we move to contact improvisation, playing with our weights in dialogues with each other. Finally we focus on the group, observing it functioning as a system. The puppet play part of this workshop will include the construction of one big puppet and animation of this gigantic creation. 2) Constructing and Playing Musical Instruments /led by Gergely Barna, musical instrument maker/ This workshop mainly aims to get deeper into human and other natural proportions, since the world of music and the different systems of music always have a hidden inner geometry. We will observe this abstract space in both exact and subjective ways and build instruments in a fitting style. We will build the instruments out of our own personalities, and improvise with them. We will also make excursions to the forest and to the village to collect materials and impressions. 3) Gerilla Propaganda Workshop /led by Tamas Kaszas, artist and Balazs Horvath, social activist/ The aim of the workshop is to find creative ways to express social messages. We will use various reproducable graphical techniques, such as linoleum cuts, wood carving, stencil, rubber stamps, stickers, cardboard, adhesive stickers, collage. We will employ the following methodology: first we talk about the issues that are of concern to the participants, we try to formulate these into clear messages, then we search for some suitable ways of expressing them and finally we get down to work and begin to create. 4) Land Art & Waste Art /led by Nico and Caroline from Switzerland, artists/ How can we shape the space that surrounds us? What is the impact of the environment to our selves? The workshop focuses on these questions. The concrete activity will be making some sculptures or installations in harmony with the natural environment. The workshop will also experiment with possible creative ways of using the waste produced by civilization. There is going to be a documentary film made about the whole Kukuriku event. The filmmakers will be Balazs Horvath and Sasha, and there is a possibility for you to join this little workshop, and participate in the shooting of the film. Towards the end of the camp all workshops will present to each other what they did and bring things together in a final integrated ensemble. Our project is supported by the Youth 2000-2006 program. Upon arrival, 70% of your travelling costs can be reimbursed. In addition to this, we charge you a relatively small registration fee of 90 ECOs. (We take into account economical inequalities between countries; therefore we use the Ecorates System, a fair exchange rate elaborated by EYFA (www.eyfa.org)). Participants are expected to make a similar economic effort to be able to pay for the camp according to the average purchasing power in his/her country. The registration fee is 90 ECOs, in EUROs that is Bulgaria-11 France-45 Germany-46 Hungary-15 Malta-37 Romania-10. We provide vegetarian bio-food. Accommodation is in tents or tipi. Be prepared for eco-showers, eco-toilets. What to bring? - sleeping-bag, mat - plate, mug, spoon, fork, knife etc. - musical instruments - suitable things for the workshops (for dancing comfortable clothing which allows you to move freely, for creating waste art some interesting waste pieces, for shooting films camera if you possess one, etc.) If you are interested, and ready to spend ten great days with us, please complete the following registration form, and return it to kukuriku2004@freemail.hu or ZOFI, Budapest, 1137 Kresz Géza u. 24. fszt 2., Hungary until the 20th of May. Because of the limited number of participants we ask you to submit your application forms as early as possible. Application form Kukuriku 2004 Environmental Consciousness as an Attitude towards Life,11-21 July 2004, Hungary First Name: Last Name: Nationality: Address: Email: Mobile phone: Your organization/group: Date of Birth: Sex: What do you do in your life? Which workshop would you like to attend? (please mention a first and second option as well) Please write a few words about why you would like to come, and what you'd like to achieve? Topics of special interests: If you are accepted, are you able to attend all the 10 days of the camp? Way of transport, estimated costs (please get information, you should choose the cheapest and most environment-friendly way of transportation): Special requests, notices (eg. do you have any allergies, etc?): There is a possibility to go to a cultural festival together after the camp, which begins on 23. July and lasts till 1. August. We are planning to present there some of the fruits of our creations to the crowd. Unfortunately this is not financed by the EU. Please let us know if you are interested in coming with us. Deadline of Submission: 20. May 2004 Please send it to: kukuriku2004@freemail.hu or ZOFI Budapest, 1137 Kresz Geza utca 24, fszt.2. Hungary We hope to see you in July: organizers Barna Gergely, Fazekas Anna, Horvath Balazs, Jagodics Edit --------------------------- Stichting Falkor I.C.Y. P.O. 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