“Refuge – migration in our history,” is the motto of this year’s special exhibition at the Tolerance Museum Fresach. It creates awareness of the needs of people on the run, but also allow a look into their own (Protestant) past which was marked by expulsion, flight and deportation also. Migration and refuge have accompanied and…
Video Message of EU President Martin Schulz. Dear participants of The European tolerance talks, we are experiencing turbulent times in Europe. The EU is almost unprecedented in the history of challenges. The refugee crisis, increasing nationalism, the still remaining unfinished economic and monetary union, the dramatically high youth unemployment, the threat of withdrawal of Britain…
As part of his multi-year project “flotsam” Carinthian artist Gerhard Leeb has drawn attention again on the European tolerance talks 2016. The result was a performance under the name “Domino 37 501” – a fictional story about human flotsam on the beach of Lesbos and the failure of the European policy on the refugee issue.…
Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Former Under Secretary General United Nations: This day I will keep surely long be remembered as a document that with the involvement of a few people great things can be put into operation. I cordially congratulate you that you had this great idea promoted so that therefore a sustainable institution has…
Climate Reality: An Open Speech to the World by Marc R. Pacheco (Senator of Massachusetts, Democrates) Fresach, 12th May 2016 First, I’d like to start out by thanking Denk.Raum.Fresach for inviting me to speak to you all today. DRF promotes cross-border dialogue on issues of social, political and cultural coexistence in Europe and beyond. Their…
At the conclusion of the European tolerance talks in 2016, the participants adopted a “Declaration on Climate Change 2016″ last weekend. Therein, Europe is called to take its responsibility. No community works without borders, but walls and fences do not solve problems. “Who wants to live in peace and prosperity, has to learn sharing,” reads…
Senator Marc R. Pacheco of Mass. Wednesday evening came to Carinthia in order to attend the opening of the European tolerance talks 2016. Pacheco on Thursday noon will deliver a keynote speech on the “Climate Reality Project” of forme US-Vice President Al Gore. Pacheco praised the iniative of tolerance talks at the opening in Villach.…
“The borders of Europe, human rights and the impact of climate change” are the focus of the European tolerance talks in 2016, which take place before Pentecost in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach. The opening ceremony will start on Wednesday evening (5/11) with Governor Peter Kaiser and Mayor Günther Albel in Villach. Nearly 50 top…
Free market capitalism is a core problem of the climate change, believes civil rights and community organizer Stephen Bradberry, Executive Director of the Alliance Institute http://theallianceinstitute.org in New Orleans. Capital-dictations exacerbate negative impacts of disasters or simple are the reason for it. Bradberry will illustrate his opinion in the context of “European tolerance talks 2016”…
He was not a parade Migrant, grown up in a modern school system and prepared mentally and emotionally to this new culture, the German-Turkish writer and translator Serafettin Yildiz explains in an interview. “After studying in Izmir I came to Austria – Vienna was first planned as a stopover, but it became a permanent place…