Category: News
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Afrique-Europe-Interact: Open letter concerning the African-European Summit
17.09.2015: Burkina Faso Le Balai Citoyen (der Bürgerbesen) Afrique-Europe-Interact: “African countries should reject the European claim, that the primary aim of the summit in Valletta is to diminish irregular migration, including the readiness to accept or sign comprehensive deportation treaties with the European Union. Accordingly any attempt to tie payments of development aid to the…
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Refugee’s investigation from the Camp Strike in Suhl – It is unacceptable to insult us and threaten our safety
Protest in Suhl: Refugee Rescued With His Cat Exposes “Dangerous And Unlivable” Conditions In German Camp http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4025 I fled from the Syria massacre to escape to Turkey. After I decided to move to Germany with my family. I do not have a large family, only my wife and my kitten. We got to take a…
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Brandenburg/Berlin – Refugees – And – Supporters – Meeting
Call for participation (german, french, arabic language below) Brandenburg/Berlin – Refugees – And – Supporters – Meeting | 21 November 2015 | freiLand Potsdam The border runs not between “German” and “Refugees”, but between top and bottom! The meeting should open spaces, to discuss the experiences of refugees’ fights and their supporters as well as…
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WOMEN, ETHNICITY AND EMPOWERMENT
Wann ist Empowerment emanzipatorisch? Vortrag und Diskussion (KüfA + Bar) Dienstag, 17.11.2015 – 20 Uhr JUP, Florastr.84, 13187 Berlin – Zugang übers Café Diesmal gibt es einen Einblick in die Untiefen des Begriffes „Empowerment“. Wir schauen dazu in eine kleine Schatztruhe, bzw. einen völlig unbekannten Text von Tom Inglis (nein, nicht der evangelikale Superspinner), sowie…
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Beyond #refugeeswelcome: The Spectre of Racist Violence and Lessons from Refugee Resistance in Germany
Blog by Joshua Kwesi Aikins and Daniel Bendix This essay traces the current debate about refugees in Germany by contrasting Germany’s recent history of racist violence and limitations of asylum laws with the resistance and agency of refugee movements across Germany. The essay ‘welcome culture’ towards refugees, increase in the arson attacks on Lager, and the…
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SCREAM FROM THE CAMP Film Screening, 11. November, 19 Uhr
Film Screening // Q&A // DJ // Büffet 11. November | 19 Uhr | Werkstatt der Kulturen (english / arabic below) Die Dokumentation beschäftigt sich mit den Protesten von Geflüchteten und dem Camp auf dem Weißekreuzplatz in Hannover. Dort protestieren Geflüchtete seit Mai 2014 für ein Bleiberecht und ein Ende der rassistischen Sondergesetze, die ihnen…
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CfP: States of Exceptions: The Politics of Sacrifice: Martyrs and Migrants
Workshop: The University of Manchester, December 10th–11th, 2015 The workshop will be held at the University of Manchester, December 10 and 11, 2015. The following topics will be covered The Mediterranean Migrants Crisis: Critical Analyses Political Theologies of Martyrdom Writing a Vacuum: Ethnographies of Migration Phenomenology of Martyrdom: Sacrifice, Suicide, Killing The World Seen from a Boat:…
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Locked Up & and Neglected After Fleeing Danger, Immigrant Women Detainees Launch Hunger Strike in Texas, NOVEMBER 06, 2015
Below is a link to the Democracy Now piece about the women’s hunger strike in USA refugee detention prisons. The link has the video and also the transcript of that portion of the show which aired on 6.11.2015 http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/6/locked_up_neglected_after_fleeing_danger Last week, 27 immigrant women detained at the for-profit T. Don Hutto facility in Austin began refusing…
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UNFRAMED FESTIVAL in Berlin: 14-15. November 2015
UNFRAMED FESTIVAL IN BERLIN-NEUKÖLLN 14-15th november 2015 FROM HUMANS TO HUMANITY / ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND THE DOORS ARE OPEN TO ALL Donations for the artists are welcome. من البشر إلى البشرية اجمع / الدعوة لكل الفعاليات مجانا والأبواب مفتوحة للجميع نرحب بالتبرعات للفنانين Full festival program now online! www.unframedfestival.de unframedproject@gmail.com Facbook-Event – newest…
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Art and Geopolitical Borders, Contested sovereignty and art practice Friday 20 November, 2015
Symposium in Manchester: Art and Geopolitical Borders, MMU, 20/11/2015 In recent years there has been a growth in interest in the ways that art practice can both acknowledge and articulate the issues around geopolitical borders. This has become significantly more pressing in the light of developments during the last few months, whereby borders, and the…