CATALUNYA | 18th – 25th September   DESCRIPTION This is a youth partnership project (ERASMUS+ Programme Key Action 1 TRAINING) aimed at developing the competences of youth workers and trainers working with youth. The main topics tackled by the project are intercultural dialogue, inclusion, and the use of creative tools and methods in youth work. Expected participants in the project will have the experience in working with young people and an active interest in using theatre. The methodological approach of the project will be focused on Non-formal educational, and the working methods will include theatre tools, team building, debates, working groups, workshops, evaluation sessions and follow-up activities. OBJECTIVES To promote cultural awareness in participants and their intercultural learning process; To offer to participants a clear methodological approach and new tools based on theatre and creativity; To share among participant’s creative working methods focused on promote social inclusion among young people […]

Training Course – Creativity as a tool for Youth Workers and Treiners (CATALUNYA)

Targoviste, Romania | 20th-29th August 2018 Between August 20 and 29, Citizenship Academy sent some Portuguese youngsters to the city of Targoviste, Romania, to be received by the association BeYou Romania, our partner organisation, in the project Ative Citizenship.  This project, tackled the theme of activism, by raising participants’ awareness for the importance of their active participation at local, national, European and global levels,  through non-formal  education methods. Since the involvement of young people in society is essential for the proper functioning and continuity of democracy, we are happy to have given Portuguese young people the opportunity to be empowered with this project. This Training Course was designed to develop the critical sense of its participants by showing them the various ways of being active in their societies. The various facets of political and social participation were presented and, thereby, the participants were able to acknowledge that to be a active […]

Training Course – Active Citizenship (ROMANIA)

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Discurso da Academia Cidadã na Marcha do Orgulho LGBTI+ de Lisboa 2018     Hoje fizemos soar o apito para mais um campeonato da luta pelos direitos LGBTI+. Porque, infelizmente, em muitos países do mundo ser quem somos ainda é punido com pena de morte. Por isso, sabemos que ainda há muitos golos por marcar! Enquanto na Rússia acontece o Campeonato do Mundo, pessoas LGBTI+ continuam a ser perseguidas e discriminadas. Postas fora de jogo da dignidade humana. E da Tchethénia não esquecemos as vítimas que morrem às mãos do Estado! Chega de hipocrisia! O mínimo que Portugal devia fazer era boicotar esta competição! Além disso, o Governo Português remata à trave, dentro da NATO, quando não […]

(Português) O nosso mundial é por um Portugal menos desigual (VÍDEO)

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. A Marcha do Orgulho LGBTI+ de Lisboa irá novamente colorir as ruas de Lisboa no dia 16 junho de 2018, a partir das 17h. Na sua 19ª edição, a MOL, abraça a inclusão e a representatividade das pessoas intersexo, pelo que o evento passa a chamar-se Marcha do Orgulho LGBTI+. Tal como nos anos anteriores, será organizada por um conjunto de associações, núcleos estudantis e coletivos informais, que convida Lisboa a marchar, do Príncipe Real à Ribeira das Naus. No ano de 2018, é seguro dizer que muitos foram os direitos conquistados pela comunidade. Porém, não devemos cair no erro de pensar que “todo o trabalho já está feito”. A MOL 2018 tem como objetivo principal relembrar […]

(Português) Nós vamos à Marcha do Orgulho LGBTI+ de Lisboa 2018!

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Sorteio terá lugar no dia 23 de abril de 2018, às 18:30Local: Ministério da Saúde (Avenida João Crisóstomo, Lisboa)   100: é o número de pessoas que terão acesso a PrEP – Profilaxia Pré-Exposição, conforme anunciado pelo Ministério da Saúde.1000+: é o número anual de novas infecções pelo VIH. A PrEP é uma estratégia complementar e eficaz de prevenção pela toma de um medicamento, mas está refém de lógicas de lucro e falta de vontade política. Um bom PrEPTexto para reclamar (entre outras emergências):– PrEP sem mais demoras, para quem a procure, para quem precisa.– que o governo assuma as responsabilidades face à epidemia;– planeamento estratégico e investimento no combate às IST’s e no SNS.– um verdadeiro […]

(Português) Lotaria de acesso à Pílula Mágica que previne o VIH

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Concentrações contra os Curdos de Afrin, Síria Quinta-feira, 15 de março de 2018 Lisboa (19:00) – Embaixada da Alemanha, Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, 38 Porto (18:00) – Avenida dos Aliados ERDOGAN PREPARA O GENOCÍDIO DE AFRIN Desde 18 de Janeiro de 2018, o cantão curdo de Afrin é bombardeado pelo Exército do Estado Turco de Erdogan. As ocupações de vilas e os ataques a alvos civis demonstram bem o seu interesse em aniquilar o povo curdo de Afrin. Sobre o pretexto de intervir para eliminar grupos terroristas, o Ditador Turco, apoiado pela extrema direita, tenta esmagar a autonomia que os Curdos conquistaram nas suas lutas contra o Estado Islâmico. Ironicamente, a Turquia tem como aliados os […]

(Português) Solidariedade com o Curdistão

But after all, how can we save Jamor? Better than anyone else to answer this question are Margarida and José from the Let’s Save the Jamor initiative.   “Let’s Save the Jamor emerged as a movement of citizens and residents, peaceful and non-partisan, having since acquired the status of Environmental Nongovernmental Organization. The movement aims to withdraw the Plano de Pormenor da Margem Direita da Foz do Rio Jamor (Detail Plan of the Right Bank of Rio Jamor’s mouth) and its replacement by alternative solutions that are environmentally adequate, socially and economically fair.” The explanation of its webpage, as well as the shares they are making in social networks, made us think of the obligation to contact this group of activists who, in recent years, have practically in an isolated form, fought against the Goliath which is the real estate market trying to dominate the Cruz Quebrada area. On a […]

Logbook I Day 12 I How to squat a river

An oasis within a cave. I think we have already said how paradisiacal the place where Mr. José Amaral has his garden is.   At first glance, nobody would notice it: in the suburb of Queluz de Baixo (suburb’s suburb, therefore), hidden behind cheap construction buildings of the 1990s, practically below the endemic IC19 road, lost in a deep valley and where the sun can only sneak in. To get there, you have to descend a slope that is practically steep, very carefully, in order to not slip on the black limestone stones, worn by use and time. The barking dogs in dogs cellars on the slopes that line the steep descent tell us that we are approaching another universe, a new reality: one in which the nasturtiums of the 90’s cease to be seen and the IC19 ceases to be heard; a new reality painted green, green, green, with […]

Logbook I Day 11 I How to squat a river

One of the main goals of How to squat a river is to give voice to civil society. As well as documenting their involvement in defending the rivers, in this case, the river Jamor.   But it is a fact that if people should benefit from the power to manage rivers, it is necessarily shared with local or national power. This was the reason why we contacted the counties’ autarchies that are bathed by Jamor, that is, those of Sintra and Oeiras. We wanted to know in what way and with what eyes those entities see the squatting that has been debated here, and which in many cases is carried out on public land. One of the most enthusiastic answers we received was that of the Union of Parishes of Massamá and Monte Abrãao (UPMMA), of the municipality of Sintra, headed by its president Pedro Brás. From the first moment […]

Logbook I Day 16 I How to squat a river

The project Rios Livres from GEOTA establishes a partnership with the project How to squat a river To the extent that it contributes with important scientific knowledge, as well as with a great experience, in the defence of our rivers.   It was during a short time found in a busy schedule that Ana and Pedro received us at the GEOTA’s headquarter. We thought about filming the interview on the street, but that December morning was too rainy for that. The interview began with a presentation of what Rios Livres is and its objectives: the project comes as a response and to question the Programa Nacional de Barragens (National Dams Program), onsidering it “one of the greatest threats to Portuguese rivers”. Thus, it is Rios Livres’ mission to halt the construction of the dams provided there, as well as to “prove that there are other less aggressive and cheaper ways […]

Logbook I Day 15 I How to squat a river