2. THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY...AND NATIONALLY...AND INTERNATIONALLY...

Some Concrete Ideas:

• ECCO, the European Council of Conscripts Organisations, calls for the banning of racism in all armed forces in their "European Social Charter for Conscripts".

• The European Playworkers Association organised a week of Intercultural Community Action in the Karolinenviertel of Hamburg. International volunteers helped to organise a festival, childrens' activities, roundtables between local people and visiting Roma gypsies.

• Member organisations of the ÖBJR (Austrian Youth Council) were prominent in the launch of an umbrella body (SOS Mitmensch) to promote tolerance. SOS Mitmensch held the largest demonstration - Lichtermeer - for over 50 years in Vienna, January 1993.

• BIT, the Progressive Youth Organisation, works with the Martin Luther King Egyseült in Budapest to collate and publish a diary of racist attacks on foreign students.

• The youth section of the European Trade Union Confederation organised runners to carry the "Torch of Tolerance" from different starting points in Europe. They started at the ETUC Youth General Assembly in Rome, March 1993 and met at Maastricht in April.

• Young socialists from Italy (Sinistra Giovanile nel PDS) and Germany (Jusos in der SPD) combined to produce bi-lingual anti-racist material, 1992.

• UNITED for Intercultural Action, a network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees, published the first edition of the "Calendar of Internationalism", February 1993. The Calendar is published regularly and sent to over 1400 relevant organisations. Eleven years later, at the time of preparing this internet version of ALIEN 93, the 68th edition of the Calendar of Internationalism was sent out! And, of course, nowadays its possible to obtain the information through their website: www.unitedagainstracism.org

• A local youth association in El Entegro, Spain (Associación Cultural Linares) has is making a patchwork of decorated cloth squares from youth organisations in Spain and the rest of Europe. The theme of the patchwork is "La juventud contra el racismo en Europa"; tr: youth against racism in Europe.

There are further examples of activities that young people have taken in Compass. For example, you will find how young people in Copenhagen developed a derelict, inner-city site into a community garden in "Garden in a night". A second example is the activity, "Beware we are watching", which describes the Eastern European Clean Clothes Campaign.

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