With the brochure “We take racism personally” Amnesty International has published important and informative material on the topic of everyday racism in cooperation with self-organizations of people with experience of racism as well as experts on anti-discrimination.
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On behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Labor, Integration and Women, Halil Chan presents a detailed, well-founded and field-tested recommendation for action – the HAKRA Empowerment Concept – for the implementation of empowerment workshops against racism. (HAKRA is the self-designation of the project and a conceptual self-creation from the words “hak” and “ra”, which in different languages carry meanings such as right, justice, truth, God, way and cosmos). The expertise introduces the empowerment approach on several levels of meaning and on the basis of historical-geographical reference points. This is followed by an introduction to the HAKRA Empowerment Initiative and…
It is a stubborn and uncomfortable protagonist who leads the reader as a first-person narrator through NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel “We Need New Names” and thus through the postcolonial realities of the world at the beginning of the 21st century.
A new brochure from the Austrian Quix – Collective for Critical Educational Work is dedicated to the topics of “Gender, Sexuality and Desire” in educational work. The focus is on educational work in the context of development policy, especially international voluntary services.
Activists, academics and cultural workers of color as well as human rights organizations have joined forces to form the Alliance Against Racial Profiling. Together, they are fighting institutional racism in the Swiss police corps.
“The NSU murders were followed by a racist media controversy and one-sided, discriminatory investigative work. The play ‘Judgments’ by Christine Umpfenbach and Azar Mortazavi […] counters this racism with the perspective of those left behind.”
In her keynote address at the event “Szenenwechsel – Diversität in Kultur und Bildung” (“Change of Scene – Diversity in Culture and Education”) organized by the Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education, Maisha-Maureen Auma approaches the topic of diversity from a perspective critical of domination. Diversity forms an important basis for work critical of discrimination – not only in the field of cultural education.
The Photographers in Solidarity describe themselves as a group of committed photographers in the tradition of social and reportage photography.
RomaniPhen has published a criteria grid against gadjé racism on its website. The collection of critical questions under the title ” Well meant is not well done – criteria critical of racism for the creation of educational materials” serves to address racism directed against Sinte_zza and Rromn_nja in teaching contexts.
We are born free! – Empowerment Radio (We!R) is a radio program produced by Refugees & Friends in Berlin.
In the video “Not all white people where created equal” by the channel Fusion, it is explained concisely and vividly how whiteness has been constructed in North America in the course of economic processes.
In the third volume of the border regime series, the authors deal with ongoing migration to Europe as well as with policies of control and regulation in about 20 contributions. The focus is on the struggles of refugees and activists in the summer of 2015 in different places.