Dear Friends, It’s been a while since our last message. As you probably know, Hich was released on bail on June 16 and has been spending the past few weeks recovering from his horrendous detention ordeal. His plight unfortunately is far from over and your help is CRUCIAL to ensure it ends swiftly and positively so please stay with us.
As I am away and too lazy to write, I thought I'd share this from Psycho Buildings, a great architectural exhibition and the Hayward gallery in London.
Nick Davies has wriiten a brilliant and shocking account of the torture of anti-G8 protestors at the Diaz pertini school in Genova in July 2001. Of course, I was reminded that all over the world, torture and killing is par for the course at demonstrations and that Europeans are shocked only when it happens on their own territory where, the story goes, democracy purportedly reigns and we are free to protest against the excesses of government.
Questioning the European 'Crisis of Multiculturalism' is an international project co-organised by Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley. A colloquium bringing together scholars from around Europe will take place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth on December 12-13, 2008. Confirmed participants include Les Back, Ellie Vasta, Arun Kundnani, Ronit Lentin, Enrique Santa Maria. For a description of the project click here.
Lauritzen Cool
«Born in Flensburg, Europe. Journeys with Peter Lauritzen» is a volume of essayistic contributions from colleagues, fellow travellers and friends treating some of Peter’s themes of professional and personal interest including non-formal and intercultural education, youth research and youth policy development as well as human rights and European co-operation. Order it here
“I've learned an enormous lot from Alana Lentin's book. I only regret that a guide like this was not in existence when sixty years ago I started to study that phenomenon, one of the most insidious and complex of our times.” Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds
Dear Friends, 
As I get ready to go to Italy this summer, I am led to think about the gross disparity between Italians and extracommunitari - immgrants 
