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Links & Lesen im März

Auch in diesem Monat mal wieder ein wenig der Hinweis was man so lesen könnte:

JGR-Leitfaden „Jugendgemeinde-WAS?

Wer einen Jugendgemeinderat gründen will oder Anregungen für einen bestehenden Jugendgemeinderat sucht, findet hier Grundlageninformationen, Tipps und Erfahrungsberichte.

Von der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung und auch als download

Ein weiterer Angriff auf alles was gut is in unserem Land: jetzt soll der Gymnasiallehrer abgeschafft werden!

Jugendliche scheinen ein erstaunliche guten Durchblick über Politik zu haben und glauben die Politiker itneressieren sich nicht für sie!

In der Presse fordern sie einen die Begründung einer europäischen Republik! Die Leute haben recht!

And for our english readers

Freiburg  the secrect tipp and place to be even though its on the Torygraph.

When you live in Freiburg – tumbler hat nun auch auch Freiburg erreicht! Ganz unterhaltsam und auch nicht immer ernst gemein,

Links im Februar

Südwest: BZ-Interview: Experte: Komasaufen ist gerade bei Erwachsenen ein Problem – badische-zeitung.de. Endlich mal ein Hinweis das es nicht immer die blöden Jugendlichen sind

Stange Design Möbel aus Pappe: hat auch sehr billige Flipchart Wände und ähnliches.

Zwei gute Artikel aus der FAZ: Autofahrer verursachen mehr Kosten als sie zahlen etwa durch Steuern oder Abgaben. und Amerikanische Ökonomin erklärt in der FAZ warum der Kapitalismus versagt.

Englisch

The New York Times: The Media Equation „Debating Drones, in the Open“ Another article about my very loved toppic: drone wars.

The NYT (again) why Germanies current scandals even don’t live up to the mark: Germany’s Political Masochism

Links im Dezember

Facebook macht dick und arm, die NZZ berichtet über eine wichtige Studie

 

Skateborden in Freiburg oder die Ernsthaftigkeit des Seins, Interview im FryZine:
Du kannst als „ehemals Außenstehender“ die Freiburger Skateszene sicher am besten beschreiben -am liebsten natürlich in poetischer Reimform:
Poetische Reimform mein Arsch. Ich mag die Szene sehr gern, es ist nicht so anstrengend und zeitaufwendig wie in Göttingen zu versuchen etwas zu verhaften und man kann 3 mal die Woche Traumcurbs im hdj skaten. Und tittige Streetspots gibbet auch, insofern, find ich super! (mehr)

5 Ways Ereaders Are Still Better Than Tablets or why my Kindle is going to stay, from Gizmodo (mehr)

 

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OECD study on immigrants position in Germany:
„Germany is in 12th place in the OECD in terms of the share of immigrants in its population, with the foreign-born accounting for 13% of the total population. 10% of them arrived in the last 5 years compared with 22% on average across OECD countries. The foreign-born population is on average less educated than across OECD countries, with 19% of highly educated compared with 31% across OECD countries“
With lots of intresting statistics and information (more)

The Return of the Political (Radical Thinkers Radical Thinkers) von Chantal Mouffe

„An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world“ (to Amazon)
This book I gave my predecessor when she left the city council.

Links

Und hier mal wieder die aktuelle Link Sammlung:

Einer der interessantesten marxistischen Philosophen

Phil Snider, Missouri Pastor, Gives Anti-Gay Rights Speech With Surprise Twist Ending – LINK 

Why Obama is more than Bush with a human face | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free | The Guardian

Und hier die deutschen Links

Süddeutsceh Zeitung: Fragwürdige Liebe zum Land – Die Mär vom guten Patrioten: Mustergültige oder übertriebene Vaterlandsliebe? Patriot oder Nationalist – für Psychologen kein Unterschied, sie gehen Hand in Hand.

Kann es Ötti jetzt noch richten? Interview mit Sussane Eisenmann.

One week after Armenia – some thoughts

The airplane landed at 3 in the night at Yerevan airport’s surprisingly modern airport. Modern and well built, but a little faceless as all modern airport buildings are. Our first encounter with real Armenia did we have immediately when I discovered a hedgehog living in the trunk of my taxi. These taxis became a daily experience of our trip as we rode on the backseat of old Ladas, without seatbelts, hoping our trip would go well.

Yerevan downtown is a modern, almost west European city and you could mistakenly believe you are somewhere southern France, but when you come into the outskirts you notice this is a poor country and when you see the countryside you think even the Banlieu is rich. Whilst Yerevan is full of white and black SUV and large Mercedes limousines on the countryside you can see people residing in what are mere shacks. Houses that are little more then a tin roof and some bare walls.

One of the youth centers we visited was opposite from the state security service so we were not allowed to take any pictures, as not to endanger the security of the Republic of Armenia, but I guess they have little trouble with anti social behavior of youth around the place. „One week after Armenia – some thoughts“ weiterlesen

Day 3

This morning we had a very interesting talk and discussion about environmental campaigning and issues in Armenia by one of its foremost advocates. Later we went to KASA foundation again to get some more insights into their work and also visit a theatre group, who do a lot of forum theatre to rise awareness of social, political and gender issues.

It is late and I tomorrow we will go to see Armenias second city Gymri. However it was good to have some time off in the afternoon to get to see a little bit of the city as well.

 

im Prinzip ja, aber

On the photo you see Andreas Bender, chairman of the umbrella organisation presenting its work and structure.

The first two days of our study visit to Armenia are over, its long past midnight as a write these lines, but I promised to report. We had two very interesting meetings today, one with the Armenian Ministry on Youth and Sports the other one with representatives of the Youth NGO, both of them were on the topic of youth in Armenia.

The Ministry for Youth explains the youth report

Youth research and statistical data is not widely available in Armenia, as there have been only two reports on the situation of young people. Which are defined differently from how we do it here in western Europe, as people between the age of 18 – 30. And their views on issues like genderrelations, marriage, divorce, politics. For me striking was, that more then 11 % of all these people sampled were member of a political party. Which the experts explain that some people do not know that they are member of a party and others are only member because its good or expected for their career. When we asked on the views and situations of people below that age, the Ministry people could not give any answer, as apparently they have never done a survey on this. „im Prinzip ja, aber“ weiterlesen

On the Finnish Local elections

(Yerevan / Freiburg) As the first reports of the results of the Finnish Municipal elections have reached me, some of them by Facebook, some by sms others by phone, it has become clear. Some amitious youth councilors, who ran can now be called councilors. My heartfelt congratulations for Henri Haaksiala,  Ilkka Sasi, and Jerry Träskelin.  Just to name a few.

I’m very glad for them, being in the city council of your home town is a great experience, I have never learned so much and had the ability to work with so many dedicated people as when I was in the city council of the city of Freiburg.

Others were not so lucky, the voters have choose to give them back their freedom. It is difficult in this system of elections, that often disadvantages against people who have not yet a name or a fancy job title to get elected.They can now return back to a normal life. From my personal experience I know that you also make a lot of scarifies when you are in the city council and try to do go work.