[Spotykach] translation needed please!

[aic at bork.hampshire.edu]

hi, 

i can help  with translating it to romanian. 

andreea

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Olga Samborska wrote:
> Hi, spotakachers,
> now we are in aprocess of spread out call out. We did it so far in 
> English. We defanately would need some translation of it.I will do it 
> into Russian/Ukrainian. If someone can help us with other languages it 
> could be very usefull. Please let us know.the text I attach to the 
> message and put in body of the message.please have a look if evryone if 
> fine with a text. we made it a bit shorter but full version we will keep 
> on-line. Now we also will work on creating a web-page particularly for 
> the spotykach topic and seminar. If anyone have a skill and a wish be 
> involved please let us also know about your creativity, you can share with.
> 
> regards, Olga
> 
> *Moja tvoja ne ponimaj/Mine don't understand yours:**
> *Eastern European Conference 7-11 June 2006 in Berlin.
> 
> /Mutual understanding expresses, and brings to our lives a special sense 
> of an interest in each other, and brings us  into the lives of others. 
> Respect and equality implies that we understand that political and 
> cultural ideas and practices are diverse because they have different 
> histories and that these histories are all equal. How can mutual 
> understanding and respect be brought together in examining different 
> constructions of values, beliefs, backgrounds, experiences and 
> ideological convictions without being racist, xenophobic or dominant?
> /
> It's almost a century now that Europe has dealt with two polar 
> constructions. The so-called West and East used to stand in direct 
> opposition to each other and, it was/is claimed, have two different 
> kinds of mentalities: the 'rational, individualistic and 
> profit-oriented' West and the 'irrational, communal, 
> full-of-Soviet-achievements' East. They both claimed a right to exist 
> without engaging in mutual exchange, yet, what should be done if
> 
> ?         one claims domination in order to suppress the other by 
> imposing (its) 'civilised' values
> 
> ?         another one constructs and blindly believes myths of Western 
> paradise and well-being
> 
> ?         the criteria for what is correct/desirable is only 
> profit-oriented, pushing human values down the list of priorities
> 
> This seminar is a meeting for politically active individuals and groups 
> who don't want to blindly accept, and who actively seek to change
> 
> ?         common prejudices, labels and false identities about East and West
> 
> ?         one-sided negative approaches towards Soviet history and 
> ex-Soviet peoples' values
> 
> ?         Western dominance and Eastern passivity towards a neo-colonial 
> approach to the East
> 
> ?         a repressive border/visa regime towards Eastern European citizens
> 
> ?         a mainstream discourse that depicts EU enlargement as 
> unavoidable and 'positive' and as an absolute and perceived desirable 
> 'Europeanisation'
> 
> ?         the current hegemony of neo-liberal ideology, with its 
> corresponding market ideology, the economisation of life, mass 
> consumption and mass entertainment, where human life and happiness are 
> valued only according to economic criteria.
> 
> 
> Are you interested in looking for alternatives and put the right accent 
> on East-West relationships, particularly with regard to political 
> activist's collaboration? Then come and join us for the seminar "Moja 
> tvoja ne ponimaj" (Mine don't understand yours) which is an landing of 
> virtual community of spotykach-mail list in Berlin 7-11 June 2006 get to 
> know each other in face, meet new people and develop a new level of 
> understanding.
> 
> With this seminar, we want to provide space for listening to personal 
> stories and opinions and sharing experiences of being 'foreign' in the 
> East/West. This includes discussions on cultural differences, language 
> barriers and differences in humour, commonly accepted social behaviours 
> in order develop a better solidarity between those who are not 
> indifferent to how our world is being constructed. The concept of this 
> conference is therefore to include workshops not only on political and 
> economic but also cultural and personal issues and create awareness of 
> differences in conceptions of gender, race, etc., so that we can create 
> common understandings.
> 
> Politically, we would like this seminar
> 
> ?         to identify what underlies conceptions of the "shiny" West and 
> "dirty" East
> 
> ?         to encourage actitivists to speak honestly about their own 
> experiences in frame of a former socialist and current capitalist state 
> systems of oppression
> 
> ?         to use our discoveries about each other to create practical 
> collaborations without stereotypes, clich?s and dominance as those 
> imposed by states propaganda as personal one
> 
> ?         discuss recent developments and experiences of past East-West 
> projects with all their positive and negative achievements
> 
> ?         to give more space to Eastern European initiatives, projects 
> and ideas to be presented and discussed with an intentional reduction of 
> those that have traditionally enjoyed more exposure, namely, 
> well-established western European initiatives
> 
> ?         to create a space within western activism to explore new modes 
> of organisation, strategies and interrelations, benefiting from the 
> knowledge of those successfully employed amongst eastern activists
> 
> ?         to allow western activists a self awareness that ensures 
> models of domination are truly called into question and not 
> unintentionally repeated and the possibility discover the East as a 
> valuable source of human experience
> 
> ?         combine our efforts to express our protests against 
> discriminative and humiliate economical as cultural models, imposed by 
> current propaganda as on the West as on the East
> 
> If you are interested in joining this seminar and become involved in the 
> discussions on the programme and the above issue as a whole, or just 
> join a discussion n the topic virtually, please send an e-mail and 
> introduce yourself to the spotykach-mailing list community 
> (spotykach at lists.nadir.org <mailto:spotykach at lists.nadir.org>)
> 
> *Application form* with information about you mainly for visa procedure 
> can be filled out on-line http://informal.benn.org/
> 
> Deadline: 15 April 2006 for those who need a visa to come to Germany and 
> 1 May - for others.
> 
> 
> 
> *Organisers*: spotykach-mailing list community 
> (https://lists.nadir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spotykach 
> <https://freemailng1507.web.de/jump.htm?goto=https://lists.nadir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spotykach> 
> together with volunteers from EYFA (European Youth for Action) network 
> (www.eyfa.org <http://www.eyfa.org/>)
> 
> 
> 
> *Contact persons*:
> 
> Olga Samborska: samborska at gmx.de <mailto:samborska at gmx.de>
> 
> 
> 
> _Location of the seminar: _
> 
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> Alte Feuerwache
> Axel-Springer-Stra?e 40/41
> 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg__
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> _http://www.alte-feuerwache.de/___
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> Mehringhof
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> Gneisenaustr. 2a       
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> 10961 Berlin
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> _http://www.mehringhof.de/_
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