Category: News
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Let Fear Go Tour – press statement
Good morning, and thank you all for joining us.Over the past weeks, the Oplatz Refugees Movement travelled across Germany as part of the “Let Fear Go” Refugee Empowerment Bus Tour. We visited refugee accommodation centres and communities in several federal states, reaching as far as Darmstadt. This tour was not about speaking for refugees. It…
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Let Fear Go Tour 2026
Refugee Empowerment Bus Tour Across Germany 5 July – 24 July 2026 Background Across Germany, refugees are experiencing sustained pressure within the asylum system. Long waiting periods, legal uncertainty, isolation in accommodation centres, and structural restrictions are creating a significant emotional and social burden. At the same time, rising right-wing politics and anti-migrant narratives are…
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⭐ Street Festival ⭐NO GEAS, NO GAS, 23/5/2026 at O-Platz
—FR-AR-DE below— Join us on May 23 at 12h at Oranienplatz Berlin for a day of community, political education, and celebration. We want to create a space for solidarity and mutual aid against racist migration policies and especially the harsh new measures against asylum seekers through the new Common European Asylum System, “CEAS”. What you…
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Call for Shoes for Eisen Camp!
🥾Aufruf zum Schuhespenden 🥾 📣 Als Lager-Visit Gruppe bitten wir um eure Unterstützung. In unserem letzten Treffen in Eisenhüttenstadt erklärten uns die dort lebenden Lagerbewohner:innen ihren dringenden Bedarf an warmen Schuhen. Nach ihrer spezifischen Anfrage sammeln wir jetzt Winterschuhe, je wärmer, desto besser. Bitte schaut durch eure Garderobe und bringen bringt eure Ersatzschuhe an einen…
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Just out: Daily Resistance #12 !
The new issue of Daily Resistance is out – this time again in newspaper format (PDF below). It features texts in multiple languages about the upcoming Caravan from Thuringia to Berlin in September, the context of the war in Sudan, an Open Letter by people from Eisenhüttenstadt camp, a reflection about Oplatz Protest Camp in…
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Daily Resistance #11 is out!
Finally, a new issue of Refugee Activists’ Newspaper Daily Resistance has been released – this time as a wallpaper in 12 A3 sheets that can be glued and taped to the wall. As always, it comes in many languages (French, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, English, German, Russian). The issue features the new protest camp at O-Platz,…
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O-Platz lebt! Stand together – for refugee, migrant rights and climate justice
Protest camp 1st-31st of March 2025 We come together at O-Platz in March 2025 to fight for the rights of refugees, migrants and climate justice. We see this month as an opportunity to make our struggle visible by taking space in the middle of people’s daily life. We want to break the isolation and be…
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O-Platz Familien Festival, 27 July 2024
We are a free collective and are organizing a family festival on Oranienplatz on 27.07.2024 together with a number of supporters. With the O-Platz Family Festival, we want to build on the history of Oranienplatz and keep the anti-racist heritage of the O-Platz movement alive. In addition to music, workshops, various play and sports activities,…
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You can’t evict a movement…together against CEAS, camps, and deportations
Rally at O-Platz, 9 April, 18:00 Millions of people have taken to the streets in protest against the shift to the right in recent months – often with politicians from the supposed democratic centre in the front row. But despite their lip service to democracy and human rights, current politics in Germany is outdoing itself…
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Kundgebung am Weltgeflüchtetentag: “Wir sind O-Platz” ruft zur Solidarität auf
Pressemitteilung Berlin, 19. Juni 2023 – Der Oranienplatz, seit über 11 Jahren ein symbolischer Ort für die Geflüchteten- und Migrant:innenbewegung in Deutschland, wird erneut zum Schauplatz von Protesten. Am morgigen Weltgeflüchtetentag, dem 20. Juni, ruft die Bewegung “Wir sind O-Platz” zu einer Kundgebung um 18 Uhr auf dem Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg auf. Die Veranstaltung ist…