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THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES - NETWORK

 
Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city, suffers form the growth of "segregation" , a problem common to many large cities. Authorities are trying to solve this social and political problems, and different solutions by different political parties are currently being proposed to integrate Swedish society.

In Gothenburg, the Folkpartiet, in co-operator with the network, plans to support comprehensive ecological activities concerning international party members. These plans are based on monthly cultural meetings arranged by different nationalities. Culture has different interpretations and varied interests in each community. Nowadays, the concentration of citizen from different parts of the world together in communities makes the difference of such interpretations even more evident. For some groups, culture means visiting art exhibitions, to others cultural anthropology. Some groups are convinced that culture is the maintenance of heritage and old traditions, while young ones find it in music, folklore dancing, etc.

In each advanced society there are many such activities organized by citizens in community-based organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and other culturally active groups. A large part of these activities are financed (or partly financed) by municipality. In Sweden, politic parties often have parallel cultural activities, as well.

There are many multicultural-friendly political party organizations in Sweden, which try to integrate different social groups through organized cultural activities. These activities are mainly based on the presentation of different nations to each other via traditions, music, food, art, folklore ceremonies, etc.

In Gothenburg, the Folkpartiet (through the proposed network) is planning to hold regular monthly meeting for interested citizens arranged by the party's international members. These meetings will similarly be based on the cultural presentation of different ethic groups to each other, but the main theme of such meetings is ecology. As a monthly exhibition of global experiences collected by the party's international members.

The monthly meetings will introduce the usual cultural identities and ceremonies of each country through their art, customs, etc. and then move onto the more global issue of each country's ecological situation with exhibitions, slides, video films, etc.

These proposed local activities with global visions are based on ecological material collected by Gothenburg University from 155 countries at two main conferences held in November, 1995 in Dubai and in June, 1996 in Istanbul. The collected material mainly concerns sustainable societies in sustainable cities and gives a realistic, visual, and comprehensive vision of these countries.

Once these meetings begin locally in Gothenburg, the next step will be to extend such activities throughout Sweden. Hopefully, the simultaneous development of parallel activities in other Nordic Countries as a Nordic Eco-Network. Once a Nordic Eco-Network is established extending such activities in other countries around the world will result in a real Global Eco-Network.
 

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