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The E-Manual on E-Activism by IYNF.Pdf Date of Publication :: Contacts to the organization :: ▲ Adress: International Young Nature Friends, Senovazne namesti 24, CZ- 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic ▲ Tel: +240 234 261 573, fax: +240 234 261 574 ▲ Website: http://www.iynf.org/ ▲ E-mail: [email protected] ▲ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IYNForg ▲ Twitter: https://twitter.com/IYNForg ▲ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/IYNForg Creators :: ▲ Editors and Coordinators: Henrique Gonçalves & Olga Karageorgiou ▲ Editor and Proofreading: Bradley Acum ▲ Editors: Marta Wawrzyniak, Sophie Shevchuk, Falko Blumenthal ▲ Graphic Designer: Marion Bonnouvrier ▲ In cooperation with: Olga Karageorgiou - Paria Bagheri Moghaddam - Zoltan Lehoczki - Valentina Várhelyi - Ana Teresa Santos - Tilo Podstatny-Scharf - Henrique Goncalves - Marion Bonnouvrier- Andrea Nicoletti - Sabrina Grape - Miriam Candelas Serra - Flavia Cultrera - Mariam Dzneladze - Mariia Tsyhankova - Roxana Nica - Jan Zombik - Andrew Alexseyenko - Damjan Kolevski - Anna Luize Berzina - Sophia Shevchuk - Liudmila Gasina - Bradley Acum - Kristine Kucerova - Gjorgji Stefanov - Mehdi Mammadli - Falko Blumenthal - Marta Wawrzyniak - Gabriel Cristian Vacaru - Sven Retore - Barbora Nechanicka *** This is a product of the International Young Naturefriends organization. Copyright: All the rights of this intellectual work are falling under the permission of IYNF. The content of this manual may be used and reproduced by individuals or organizations for the use of non- formal education issues or other educational and personal activities, provided acknowledgment of the resource and notification of such use to the IYNF Secretariat. 2016 - Year of E-participation for IYNF This manual was created under the support of the Erasmus+ program of the European Union and the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. THE CONTENTS WHAT IS IT ABOUT? 1/ Introduction :: ▲ Why have an e-manual? Why IYNF? ..................................................... 01 2/ What is e-activism? ▲ Definition ............................................................................................ 01 ▲ EA in context ....................................................................................... 08 ▲ History ................................................................................................ 14 3/ Practice :: ▲ Successful .......................................................................................... 17 ▲ Unsuccessful ...................................................................................... 23 ▲ Swot analysis of practice examples ..................................................... 29 4/ Implementation :: ▲ Project Management ........................................................................... 33 ▲ Competences ..................................................................................... 38 ▲ Tools .................................................................................................. 41 5/ Security & Privacy :: ▲ Online security and privacy ................................................................. 46 6/Extras :: ▲ Resources .......................................................................................... 60 ▲ Testimonials ....................................................................................... 62 WHY E-MANUAL? WHY IYNF? INTRODUCTION The “IYNF’s E-manual on E-activism” summarises the learning outcomes of the international training course “Act, React and E-act”, organized by IYNF on 1-7 August 2016 in Prague. The project is part of a series of activities organized by IYNF on E-participation, which was the main topic chosen to coordinate the work of the organisation in 2016. The training gathered 30 young activists to exchange perspectives, share stories and tools to help create a successful online campaign. This project was the second of a series of three projects dedicated to E-participation. In the previous project - a seminar on the same topic - we started to implement and gather knowledge on E-participation, and put it together in practice during the training course. Now we present the work of this within this e-manual. The idea for the e-manual was considered at the initial stage of the planning of the training course, which was designed to result in a large amount of resources that would be put together by experts and participants from the project, and disseminated, laying the foundations for a concrete follow-up afterward. The goal of this manual is to share the gathered knowledge from IYNF and everyone involved in this year’s activities.This e-manual is meant for youth workers and young activists but also for anyone else interested in the topic, individuals and organizations alike. It contains tools to help achieve a successful online campaign and to genuinely mobilise citizens, educate, make positive changes and build a stronger community with help of Internet. It was designed by young people with experience in non-formal education, activism, and youth work, bringing in the most of their knowledge and practices in social media, online privacy and security, online communication, political sciences and even digital media. It intends to stimulate a reflection on what’s necessary to achieve desired online goals and why many times, goals are not achieved and activism fails to change the status quo. Finally, while being aware of security implications of our online activity, as the use of technology grows, regardless of our interests in activism, we need to be aware and sure that our rights and freedoms are protected. This booklet can therefore serve as a beginner’s guide to this wide topic. 1 European Youth Event - European Parliament Strasbourg - France, May 2016 2 MEETING THE INTERNATIONAL YOUNG NATUREFRIENDS The Origins of the Naturefriends Movement 1895-1933 Activism is an indissociable facet of bourgeois majority of mountaineers the Naturefriends movement. Founded was replaced by the revolutionary ‘Berg in Vienna in 1895 by a group of activists, Frei’ (‘Mountain Free’), expressing the merging environmental and social demand for free access to natural policy, the work of Naturefriends sites, which was rare back in those originated in the aim to get workers days because most trails were located out of the dark factories and small on privately owned land and access apartments, and into nature. was strictly limited. Naturefriends hikes (social hiking) into these areas The central political commitments turned into demonstrations for free of the organisation were striving for wayleave, possibly constituting the peace, justice, and democracy, fighting first acts of Naturefriendly activism. against militarism and fascism, Social hiking was incorporated into the and improving living conditions of Naturefriends’ recreational activities those members of society worse off. as a tool to see and understand people, This included demands for lowering their work, their sorrows and distress, working hours, as well as the struggle and their struggle for a better life. With for free access to natural areas. In this time, many other kinds of outdoor understanding the common greeting activities like climbing and canoeing ‘Berg Heil’ (‘Mountain Whole’, loosely would be incorporated. translated to ‘Good Climb’) used by the 3 Partial to critique of the Establishment and its patriarchal approach to education, the Naturefriends have always favored a non- traditionalist and experimental approach to education. For instance, the first program for child- and youth-work introduced in The 2000’s 1908 was revolutionary by that time. The expansion of the Naturefriends *** movement to other countries, especially significant after the WWII, would make the It mark the consolidation of Naturefriends’ organization, grow stronger thanks to the youth work and non-formal educational ability to integrate themes as diverse as methods, as well as the incorporation of politics, democracy, education, outdoor the outdoor traditions into experiential sports, tourism and environmentalism, and learning and arts-based education. embrace universal causes like peace, social justice, equality and human rights. In the past years, activism became again prominent in the Naturefriends movement After the foundation of IYNF in 1975, with a strong focus on environmental establishing contacts and creating links sustainability and ecology. IYNF’s work in between youth from both sides of the promoting climate justice became widely Iron Curtain, became the organization’s known across the European youth work main priorities. At t he end of the Cold sector, while Naturefriends International is War, IYNF made huge efforts to blur active in the Green10 - a platform formed the dichotomy of East/West caused by by the 10 biggest environmental networks decades of segregation, and organized in Europe. multiple workcamps and seminars about peace, internationalism and intercultural understanding. On the left: Picture of Naturefriends house Brombacher Hütte built near Frankfurt 100 years ago. On the right: A group of 25 international volunteers renovated the hut in 2014 4 And today? We are in a similar context as the founders of the Naturefriends movement found themselves 120 years ago. We face another huge wave of uncertainties and threats, together with new challenges. For example, an unprecedented environmental and refugee crises, extreme inequality, the rise of a surveillance state, and ideologies that threaten world peace. “ 120 years after the irst spark, it’s still crucial now more than ever to keep the ire
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