The main places i want to go are
france
italy
Northern I
i can not speak french or spanish:(, so i have been looking for someone who wants to go to europe, this way i have a touring buddy and a translator.
My mates are all single language souls, so i thought i would ask on here.
Would prefer a beautifull smart funny woman, but i dont hold out much hope.
Monday October 26, 2009 - The success of the free shuttle bus in Wollongong has stirred the Socialist Alliance to renew calls for public transport to be made free across the state of NSW.
Illawarra Socialist Alliance convener, Chris Williams, said: ‘Wollongong’s free shuttle bus has been used over 1 million times now - an amazing uptake. It proves that when public transport is …
There was spontaneous resistance to the militia and after a 23 hour battle they were decisively routed. The police then stepped in and arrested key AbM leaders while, under police protection, the militia systematically destroyed the homes of more than 30 Abahlali leaders. Local ANC leaders from outside of the settlement then took control of it with full backing of the police and senior politicians.
Attacks, death threats and have now spread to nearby settlements and it is crystal clear that there is a major state backed attack on the largest poor people’s movement in Africa.
Attacks and threats have
Contemporary anarchists’ practical attitudes toward technology seem highly ambivalent, even contradictory. Our proverbial antiauthoritarian could pull up genetically modified crops before dawn, report on the action through e-mail lists and websites in the morning, fix her or his community’s wind-powered generator in the afternoon, and work part-time as a programmer after supper. Thus, on the one hand, we find anarchists involved in numerous campaigns and direct actions where the introduction of new technologies is explicitly resisted, from bio- and nanotechnology to technologies of surveillance and warfare. On the other hand, anarchists have been actively using and developing information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as engaging in practical sustainability initiatives that involve their own forms of technological innovation.
To briefly survey the field: resistance to new technologies was prominent on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1970s on, in the activities of the antinuclear and radical environmental movements—both important progenitors of contemporary anarchist networks (Epstein 1993; Wall 1999; Seel, Patterson, and Doherty 2000; Gordon 2007). Experimental growing of genetically modified crops was also met with widespread resistance, primarily in Western Europe, with anarchist groups often taking the lead (SchNEWS 2004; Thomas 2001). More recently, there has been active anarchist involvement in campaigning against the introduction of biometric identification cards in the UK (Anarchist Federation 2008a), against bogus “techno-fixes” to climate change such as geo-engineering and carbon capture and sequestration (Fauset 2008), and against the emergent industrial strategy of technological convergence on the nano scale (ETC Group 2003; Plows and Reinsborough 2008). Anarchist action repertoires can thus safely be said to contain a strong antitechnological element. 
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The subtext here is for folks in the U.S. to step it up. The last great depression in the U.S. was met by organized looting on a mass scale as well as violent as fuck labor disputes. This time around we expect a revitalized squatters movement and confrontations with fascists to be a part of the mix. 
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Despite our willingness to work with the owners, they violate our agreement and our autonomy. They modify the agreement at their discretion, informally. We entered into a relationship with the owners with the understanding that we had similar goals, as we and the owners shared time at Project 1877, our old Garfield-based social center that closed in 2003. They use their class power against us by reminding us constantly that they are able to evict us at any time, sell the building to make money, make use of the privileges of mobility, and that they know what’s best for Garfield. The present paternalistic situation is much more restrictive than a typical landlord-tenant relationship in that they will not sign a lease with us and are willing to take steps to ensure that we are out of the building even after they sell it. They are property owners who choose to use their access to developers, lawyers, and police. Their power over us has been evident in their connections, attitudes, and selfish value system. They communicate with us at times that are convenient for them, sometimes confrontationally, cornering individuals with no advanced notice, rather than initiating communication with the entire group as requested. This is contrary to the way our non-hierarchical group process works. 
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However, the research looked at only a narrow topic range and involved just college students, so more study would be needed to reveal whether the findings apply broadly to other age groups and beliefs.
Still, the findings are intriguing.
The upshot of the research: Students who held extreme views on the use of alcohol on campus were more likely than others to voice their views. The key to their bold approach, scientists found, was that they tended to believe their views actually represented a majority, when that was not in fact the case.
That situation can set up a self-feeding cycle that promotes the voicing of extreme views on one side of an issue and causes moderate and even extremists on the other side to stay relatively quiet.
"When people with extreme views have this false sense that they are in the majority, they are more willing to express themselves," said Kimberly Rios Morrison, co-author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University. Those who take the extreme version of their group’s viewpoint may believe that they actually represent the true views of their group, Morrison figures.
The studies
In a series of studies, Morrison and her co-author, Dale Miller of Stanford University, found that college students who were extremely pro-alcohol were more likely to express their opinions than others, even though most students surveyed were moderate in their views about alcohol use.
"Students who were stridently pro-alcohol tended to think that their opinion was much more popular than it actually was," she said. "They seemed to buy into the stereotype that college students are very comfortable with alcohol use."
The results were detailed recently in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
The studies were done at Stanford, where alcohol use is prohibited in common areas of all freshman dorms. In the first study, 37 students were asked to rate their own views about this policy on a scale from 1 (very strongly opposed) to 9 (very strongly in favor).
The average students’ own views were near the mid-point of the scale, but most rated the typical Stanford student as more pro-alcohol than themselves.
"There’s this stereotype that college students are very pro-alcohol, and even most college students believe it," Morrison said. "Most students think of themselves as less pro-alcohol than average."
In the next two studies, students again rated themselves on similar scales that revealed how pro-alcohol they were. They were then asked how willing they would be to discuss their views on alcohol use with other Stanford students.
In general, students who were the most pro-alcohol were the most likely to say they wanted to express their views, compared to those with moderate or anti-alcohol views.
A telling twist
Then researchers added a twist, giving participants fake data that indicated that other Stanford students held relatively conservative, anti-alcohol views. When extremely pro-alcohol students viewed this data, they were less likely to say they were willing to discuss alcohol usage with their fellow students.
"It is only when they have this sense that they are in the majority that extremely pro-alcohol students are more willing to express their views on the issue," Morrison said.
Interestingly, however, students who had more extreme anti-alcohol views still did not desire to express them, even after seeing the data that suggested a majority of their fellow students agreed with them.
"Their views that they are in the minority may be so deeply entrenched that it is difficult to change just based on our one experiment," Morrison said. "In addition, they don’t have the experience expressing their opinions on the subject like the pro-alcohol extremists do, so they may not feel as comfortable."
The findings suggest possible parallels in politics, Morison figures.
She cites a hypothetical community that tends to be moderate politically, but leans slightly liberal. People with more extreme liberal views in the community may be more likely than others to attend publicly visible protests and display bumper stickers espousing their liberal views, because they think the community supports them.
A self-feeding cycle might ensue.
"Everyone else sees these extreme opinions being expressed on a regular basis and they may eventually come to believe their community is more liberal than it actually is," Morrison said. "The same process could occur in moderately conservative communities.