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Ship to Gaza – The world is never black and white

Invited Contributor — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:51:47 +0000

The world talks about the Ship To Gaza issues and all media report on how the peaceful convoy [...] Related posts:

Google displays all requests from governments for shutdown

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:43 +0000

Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations.

We know these numbers are imperfect and may not provide a complete picture of these government requests. For example, a single request may ask for the removal of more than one URL or for the disclosure of information for multiple users. See the FAQ for more information.

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

Just received a photo from Palestine

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:30:29 +0000

On both sides of that wall, regular people like me and you are stuck.

I am so proud to tell you about this photo that I received from Palestine. This is what you can see there right now.

No one is alone in this world, not anymore. This project shows how a simple idea can move the world and hopefully bring everyone closer and open the eyes.

Please support our friends at www.sendamessage.nl

Can you feel the winds of change?

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:41:37 +0000

I´m not talking about Obama, nor Google leaving China, nor Iran, Thailand or other. I´m talking about We The People.

I´m talking about the new times where more and more people migrate from Facebook, couchsurfing, aimless consumption of media and become involved. They begin to share, to spread, to interact. Never before has the opinions and the knowledge of the grassrots been more effective, saught for or relevant. We are used to listen. We are used to look upwards to leaders for guidance bur now projects like ours builds forces on connecting the dots. On harvesting the wast ammount of knowledge that you and your friends might have.

Please share your cognitive surplus and do some good.

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http://laughingsquid.com/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus/

http://www.shirky.com/

Today marks an important day in history

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:14:35 +0000

As you might all know, building a better world starts with our children. How we raise them, how we teach them, what we show them. Even though it´s 2010 alot of parents don´t have the right, the opportunity or the concept to stay at home with the child when the child is young.

Of all the parents that stay at home, is the numbers of men very low. Men usually get confined in roles expected and built since centuries.

Today starts a campaing (only in swedish at this point) by Carlos Rojas for the purpose to inform, educate and inspire men to stay at home longer with their children.

http://klartjagskavarahemma.se/

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:27:39 +0000

Just happened to stumble upon this blog. A guy in the swedish metro stands up for our rights. He was photographing some undercover swedsih policemen who use threat to make him erase footage on his phone.

This kind of actions are what we all need to do.

Stand up for your rights. Or as the Manic Street Preachers sing “If you tolerate this, then your children will be next!”

http://tuggarna.posterous.com/polisen-som-mitt-i-tunnelbanan-star

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“HOPE – the Obama Musical Story” World Premiere

HOPE-Musical — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:43:27 +0000

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“HOPE - the Obama musical story” celebrates its world premiere on 17 January 2010!The venue Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt will experience a sound it has never heard before: formed to a huge percussion ensemble, the audience accompanies US president Barack Obama on his successful way into the White House. The event organizer MOVE GmbH promises a double world premiere: at the premiere of “HOPE – the Obama Musical Story” on Sunday, 17 January at 8:00 pm, the audience will rhythmically participate on specially developed percussion chairs – for the first time ever worldwide. “Hope is the first interactive musical of a new generation”, says musical producer Roberto Emmanuele, CEO and creative director of Move GmbH based in Bad Soden. “This is an enormous sound and a great musical experience for the audience.”

The musical stages two moving and exciting stories in parallel plots. The audience looks behind the scenes of the presidential election in 2008 and follows the career of the present US president Barack Obama. The main character is presented less on a political level, but rather as an emotional person who fights for a new, more forgiving and peaceful world and a better future. At the same time, the viewer experiences the societal events from the point of view of a multi-cultural apartment-sharing community in Chicago. Caused by the prevailing tight political and economic situation, societal and social frictions and emotions arise. The people are given new hope by the new spirit of the age.

Author and composer Randall Hutchins works with the best Afro-American singers and actors of the German musical scene. He produces inter alia for “The very Best of Black Gospel”, “Musical the Gift” and he participated in “Starlight Express” as a musician. In “HOPE”, he combines an affectionately arranged mix regarding taste and aesthetics of different music styles in the field of Pop, Soul, Gospel, HipHop and Rock. The diversified mixture of catchy melodies electrifies the audience right from the beginning. Undoubtedly, the songs have what it takes to become hits.

For “HOPE”, 30 world-class artists, singers, dancers and actors perform on stage. They participate in the production with great enthusiasm and dedication. “The spirit of the show is carried by the spirit of the entire team”, praises the producer Roberto Emmanuele. Della Miles and Jimmie Wilson, known as the dream duo of the Michael Jackson musical “Sisterella”, as well as Dynelle Rhodes, the original lead singer of the Weather Girls, join the cast as soloists. They are supported by well-known performers who are leads in “Cats”, “The Lion King” and “We will rock you”. The rehearsals took place inter alia at mediaArt FORUM in Bad Soden.

The production is realized in German and English, so that the story line can be followed by everyone.

On percussion: the audience sitting on specially developed musical chairsIn the course of the musical, the audience develops to co-musicians. For they sit on a musical instrument with an astoundingly high sound quality. Approximately 1200 of the 2000 available seats in the domed hall of the venue Jahrhunderthalle will be equipped with design chairs which house the smallest set of drums worldwide. The special construction of this musical furniture allows for a distinctive bass and snare sound. The people play while sitting, drumming with their hands on the percussion surface. Inspired by this characteristic sound, Roberto Emmanuele and his partner Patrick Strese call the innovation “BAFF musical furniture”. The other musical spectators do not sit quietly on their chairs either. They are handed out rattles, so that the sound of “HOPE” will fill the entire hall. The producers want all people to have access to music as a strong medium.

As early as in September, the musical company enthused about 45,000 viewers with a first musical foretaste during a successful performance at Commerzbank Arena next to stars like Bob Geldorf and Samy Deluxe. After only a short period of time, the entire stadium swung and clapped along to songs never heard before like “Rock the Vote”. Experts of the German music scene praised the high level of the American Pop music and certified the sound to have “Earth Wind and Fire quality”. The most important concert organizer worldwide, Fritz Rau, says: “Respect and two thumbs up for this musical”. According to the slogan “Yes we can”, the musical is to tour in Germany after having premiered in Frankfurt.

Tickets for the premiere can be purchased via the ticket seller EVENTIM within the price scope of 40 to 149 Euros in several seat categories. Following the premiere, a VIP premiere party will take place, at which special culinary refreshments will be served to the guests and the musical performers can be experienced up close in an “unplugged performance”. The VIP tickets can be bought for 99 Euros directly from the HOPE production.

Important note from the HOPE production team:
The “HOPE musical production” does not pursue any political interests with their production. Being artists, we merely stage a piece of attitude to life of the “historic year 2008″ with topics still prevailing today as well as good entertainment and music!

Today marks an important day

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:27:29 +0000

20 years to the day, we left Romania for freedom. The mythical, western freedom.

At that point the world was, if not opening it’s arms, at least allowing us to come and stay. Today 20 years later, after so much time, with a new generation in charge we look back to a bigger Europe, to an utopia we couldn’t even dream of. As a kid I watched how people stood up and fought for their rights. I saw the start of the first riots, with people that later were punished, abducted or killed. As a kid we spoke in codes, as a kid I found microphones hidden in our apartment and as a kid I dreamt of freedom. A strange thing to dream about, but it was still there. Reachable. Because I knew that someday things would change. And they did. In a big way. But how do you change the mentality of people that are born and raised without daring to dream?

Later on, as an adult, while walking around in a successful suit and enjoying my free life, I froze and saw other Romanians that left after us, after the collapse of the wall, struggle as second and third class citizens. I saw Africans hunted and taunted by police and I saw that the fact that we left just in time gave me other possibilities then others ever had. I realized that luck is sometimes the only real factor. And do you think freedom tastes as good when others don’t have the same right? I can tell you it doesn’t.

Today, on this very same day, this day of reflection for me, I read the papers and they write about a Europe that more and more is closing up. That Africans rather seek refuge in South America and I see that we still have a long way to go.

And I can’t stand by and watch this happen. Not again. Please do whatever you can, whatever you want but please react and let us build something better then this.

/Daniel Daboczy

daniel@ideasforchange.tv

Nine Uighur executed in China

Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:27:17 +0000

Nine people have been executed for participating in violent ethnic riots in China’s mainly Muslim north west that left nearly 200 people dead.

Dilxat Raxit, speaker for the exile movement Uighur minority condemned that USA and Europe didn’t react in a harder way.

If we don’t put pressure on China in this issues we most likely will see more executions of Uighur.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6909773.ece

The real facts of life behind the wall of communism

zsolt.daboczy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:13:05 +0000

One of my good friends received his logn awaited travlers permit to go abroad. the one year long wait was over. This was only as a tourist.

On his last nite before the trip at he had a party with some close few friends. They drank and cheered and he said kidddning” Let´s drink up, we never know when we meet again”

At 4 am he heard a knock on the door and Securitate (the Romanian Stassi) cuffed him and charged him för atempt to leave the country in unlawfull ways and treason.