[Actiwisdom] Fwd: Re: First details about the exchange

[barbara at derknut.org]

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Betreff: Re: First details about the exchange
Datum: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:32:04 +0300
Von: Zack <kinzak.kinuthia at gmail.com>
An: barbara at derknut.org

Greetings Sara Hanna Johanna Kathy Jannik and Sara,i have read
the details n here are the reactions:
>what exactly do u expect wen u say workshops n presentations from the Kenyan activists?
>We would also like to get some exposure about Germans' social,religious and cultural orientations.
>About sharing one room,relax we are comfortable.
>Wil we meet the low cost of food or is it on u?
>Dont trouble yourselves on pocket money,we wil be fine because we want to to learn more instead.
>Who wil meet the cost of flight?
>We would also like to share the political system n the growth of democracy in Kenya as well as the religious,cultural and social background in Kenya.
   I hope i have communicated as required n that u wil get more than u
need from this e mail.Cheers Sara and team
Sent from my LG Mobile

barbara at derknut.org wrote:

>Dear Kinuthia,
>
>was great to finally get in touch with you. Here is the promised Mail.
>First we'd like to present you the content of the project and then we
>wish to discuss our divergent expectations towards the organisational frame
>
>content:
>objective: exchange of activists from kenya and germany.
>
>-introduction to the political situation and institutions in germany,
>parlamentary and civil society
>
>-meeting with diverse forms of political activism, e.g.
>indepent media
>student movement
>violence and judical repression against activsts and resistance to that
>anti-nuclear-energy movement
>protest against coal mining
>
>-workshops on different forms of skills for political actions, e.g.
>communication and consenus
>various forms of demonstrations
>blockades (sitting blockades, material blockades...)
>affinity groups
>basic first aid for demonstrations
>
>-workshops and presentations from the kenyan activists
>
>Do you have any questions on that? Is there any more content you are
>interested in or any more workshops that you would like to attend?
>
>
>organisational frame:
>we've been meeting some difficulties in getting the funds that are
>sufficiant for such a project. But never the less we are very motivated
>and we think it is very important to have such an exchange so we came up
>with the idea to lower our expectians and have a low budget plan. In
>detail this means the following things: the team will sleep in one room,
>but with space enough for everyone. We will try to keep the costs for
>food as low as possible and our main base will be Berlin with vistit in
>one or two other places, so there will be no tour. Probably we won't be
>able to provide you with pocket money. Might there be any problems
>occuring from this situation?
>
>
>Please write a few lines on you're general expectations towards the
>project. In addition to that we would like to know roughly what kind of
>topics you coul give presentations or what kind of experiences from
>Kenya would you like to share with us.
>
>By the way, it will be an interesting time for you to come, because in
>September there is the general election in germany.
>
>Cheers,
>Barbara, Hanna, Johanna, Kathy, Jannik and Sara