After a month and a half of my internship at CANVAS, the city of Belgrade seems more like home than just a vantage point to study and hone my skills in the areas of human rights and activism. July is the month of tourists, and this has provided a much-needed jolt to the dragging economy. My internship, too, has benefited from this simmering surge of projects, people and cultures.
Apropos of our work, we have dealt with a variety of issues, including: strategic advising for organizers of the MarchOn campaign to fulfill their objective of getting people ‘to vote’ in the 2018 midterm elections in the United States and working with activists on the growing trends of illiberalism in the countries of Hungary, Poland and Slovenia on the “Danube Project”, as well as a mix of other country analyses to help prepare for a conference in Washington, D.C. in August.
