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No European Youth Left Behind, Bratislava2007
April 20th Active CitizenshipMichal Feik .
Young Social Democrats
www.mladi.sk
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• Mladí sociálni demokrati - Young Social
  DemocratsAbout us
• political organization, but not organization of
  any political party
• promoting ideas of solidarity, human rights,
  equality of chances and liberty
• created in 1990-1991 (Socialdemocratic Youth and
  Young Democratic Left), merged into Young Social
  Democrats (2003)

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• Mladí sociálni demokrati - Young Social
  DemocratsMain activities
• Free education campaign
• Proffesional army
• Equality. Gender equality
• Demonstrations against war in Iraq
• Campaign for registered partnership of same-sex
  couples
• Soft drug decriminalization

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Active citizen Influence.Do not drift away with
the crowd.
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• Why is important to be active
• democracy is not only about elections every
• 4th year
• respecting of human and civil rights
• better living conditions
• healthy nature
• freedom of choice
• right for opinion
• better education
• equal chances for all

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• Why is important to be active
• It there were no active citizens
• there will be no democracy
• no free education
• no professional army
• no equal chances
• no respect of human rights

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• How can I become active citizen?
• interest
• information
• participation
• opinion
• action

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• How to influence things around me?
• On the street, in the town
• At school
• In family, among friends
• On national level

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• How to influence things around me?
• 1. On the street, in the town
• living conditions
• ecology
• infrastructure
• environment

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• How to influence things around me?
• 2. At school
• influence the quality of education
• representative democracy
• justice in education process

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• How to influence things around me?
• 3. In family, among friends
• home violence
• criminality
• drugs
• smoking
• alcoholism
• psychical problems

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• How to influence things around me?
• 4. On national level
• legislation change
• elections
• referendum
• demonstrations
• petitions

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• How to influence things around me?
• Tools
• petition
• demonstration
• campaigns
• media, internet
• publishing of posters and booklets
• civil movements and initiatives
• strike
• discussion forums, blogs

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Human rights security rights (prohibition of
crimes such as murder, massacre, torture and
rape) liberty rights (freedom of belief and
religion, association, assembling and
movement) political rights (the liberty to
participate in politics by expressing themselves,
protesting, participating in a democracy) due
process rights that protect against abuses of the
legal system such as imprisonment without trial,
secret trials and excessive punishments
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Human rights equality rights that guarantee
equal citizenship, equality before the law and
non-discrimination welfare rights (also known as
economic rights) that require the provision of
education and protections against severe poverty
and starvation group rights that provide
protection for groups against ethnic genocide and
for the ownership by countries of their national
territories and resources
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• Future problems
• poverty, equality of chances
• devasted nature and global warming
• violence, war and terrorism
• fundamentalism and nationalism
• unrespected basic human rights
• drugs, criminality, HIV/AIDS
• trafficking, illegal prostitution

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• How to influence issues around me?
• Campaign
• What I want to change?
• What kind of process should be applied (change of
  legislation, decision of government/parliament,
  decision of local authority, etc.)
• Arguments (central message, slogans, etc.)
• Type of campaign
• Personal and material resources
• Time management

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• How to influence issues around me?
• Tasks
• higher social scholarship for university
  students
• children playground instead of shopping centre
• recall of unqualified teacher
• violence against women (cruelty to women)
• campaign against drug addiction

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