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Hi, people.<br><br>
Now since with dates and venue is more or less clear (?), its possible
start prepare call out and following programm proposal, which we can
discuss on preparatory meeting (we still wait for more feedback when and
with whom do it). Bthw its important to know now (please tell us who want
to come to Berlin for sure that we can look for accomodation).<br>
so back to call out. It could be helpful make some brainstorming
concerning what we (each of you) would like to discuss on the seminar
that based on it we can write a call-out and futher a programm. I started
it myself and send it to list as an exampe but not a final version. Many
things there are just an ideas, not well thought statements/questions but
the one which eating from inside.I am sure many have got such. Its
soemthing like flies whom you want to catch, no always succesfully, cause
they irritates with their sound once in a while.<br>
When some points get support and also togather with other one we
can developt something more interesting hopefully. From clear call out
also depends how many new interested peole we can get into our
spotykach-circle to share our concept.So I would give some attantion for
it now.<br><br>
regards, Olga<br><br>
<h1><b>Brainstorming</b></h1> <br>
Points/questions, on which an Eastern European conference would like to,
keep attention.<br>
<br>
I. Focus: East and West, Past and Present Reality:
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<li>East European soviet experience:
</ol>a) Soviet history as a ballast to be
angry of or a “treasure” <br>
to use for building an ideal society based on taken lessons?<br>
b) blaming a communism: resolution of Council of
Europe on blaming a communists crime during a soviet regime and its local
interpretations (Czech Republic, the Ukraine, Russia).<br>
c) freedom and unfreedom as a controversies
combination of the soviet time: avoid “one side” approach towards the
soviet society experience;<br>
d) Is it people of soviet time responsible for
their fortuner and if they need make a conscious
realizations/reconsideration of their identity?
<ol>
<li>German socialistic experience: during Berlins Wall and after. Is it
East Germany east or west?
<li>Western and Eastern notion of left, right and extremists political
engagement: to understand differences and find similarities to prevent a
misunderstanding according to an analogical recopying from West into
East.
<li>Retransformation of colonial approach of the West now towards the
Eastern European countries: how to resist?
<li>Are anti-capitalist and antiglobalization discourses actual for
Eastern Europe now or it need its time to swallow capitalism first to
come with natural need to resist? Is it make sense bring anticapitalist
revolution to the east now?
<li>USSR and EU: two monsters of the same root with different ideology or
EU the right option? Models of Soviets and European Union governing
institutions in frame of international community of states (republics):
similarities and differences? Will EU have the same end as USSR?
<li>Moral and system’s values of capitalistism and socialism: what
belongs to whom?
<li>Human factor in-between Eastern (new unclear-economy states) and
Western (well-developed industrial countries) propagandas. Where the
place of ordinary person?
<li>Is it political activists on a right way? What is the motivation for
political resistance in the East and in the West (past and current time)?
<li>Controvecial role of NGOs in solving social problems. Western and
Eastern models of NGOs: similarities and differences.
<li>Is Anarchism a sectism or solution for humanity? Fears from a
mainstream as a weak pint of radical activism.
<li>Labels: “ossi”, “wessi”, ex-soviets, “Russians“, barbarians,
easterners in mixture with clisches: vodka-drinkers, Kusturica-film-art
of acting, poor of all levels: what stays behind it?
<li>Label of “white-people”, westerner, EU citizen, Schangen member with
clichés: not-drinkers, rational, rich, good-looking, “civilized”,
sufficient, good auto owner, clean: what stays behind it?
<li>Role of different religious institutions and believes on developing a
different life style, patterns and approaches in he East and in the West.
If this is essential difference?
<li>Do I like my counter partner Easterner/Westerner or I find her/him
strange? If yes, why? What irritates me on them? What makes us feel close
and closed? Hhy need come together?
<li>Is is cultural differences important to look into for international
actions, projects and other activities. Or it is enough tolerate each
other as inhabitants from different planets.
<li>Is it gender problems the same on the east and west? Where they are
different and why?
</ol> <br>
II. Focus: collaborate and how?
<ol>
<li>preparation of anti-G8 summit 2006 in Sankt-Petersbug.
<li>…………..
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