May 1st: “Political (Holi)day” or “(political) Holiday”?

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français ja Italiano. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. OK, we were some four to six thousand and they were maybe a hundred, and our noisy and chants of disgust filled the streets much more than their heroic songs could ever do. But: They marched. The Nazi demonstration took place in a suburb of Berlin, protected by german police. The sad thing is that…

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Justice, beyond borders

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français ja Italiano. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Some thoughts on this years theme from a participant from 2012 After learning about this year’s “boundaries, borders and beyond” theme through the winter meeting minutes, I took some time to reflect on it and write down some thoughts and ideas that might further a discussion on how to fleshen out the theme and make…

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Borders Boundaries and Beyond!: Biketour 2013 get organised…

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français ja Italiano. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. The Ecotopia Biketour Collective united from all corners of Europe for the annual ‘Winter Meeting’ – aptly named due to the location this year in snowy Berlin! We set up camp for the weekend at the Kubiz social centre in true Biketour style, where 12 of us began planning and debating the practical and more theoretical elements…

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Melon melon! Sweet memories from the summer…

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français ja Italiano. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Here is the result of a few sessions joyfully reminiscing and picking my favourite few hundred photos (out of thousands) which were taken over our two and a half month journey. From my room here in Edinburgh the tales of adventure we had last summer seem a lot further away than I would like them to be,…

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