The film “Wir sind Sintikinder und keine Zigeuner” by Katrin Seybold and Melanie Spitta shows the life of a Sinti family at the beginning of the 1980s in Germany. The family lives – according to officialese – on a “country rider’s place” on the outskirts of a small Bavarian town. The plot centers on the nine-year-old girl Brigitta and her perception of her surroundings. In the short film, the family’s living conditions, their past and present, are put into the context of ongoing discrimination against Sint_ezza and Rromn_ja and the importance of preserving their own cultural practices. Wir sind Sintikinder…
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Him Noir is a blog that functions as an open forum for dialogues on ‘race’, politics, and culture. The text posts are by the blog’s author, artist and writer Isaiah Lopaz, and have titles like “I’m black i can’t be homophobic,” “Are our bodies foreign countries that they can visit?” or “Do I look like I sell drugs?”
In the volume “Freedom is a Constant Struggle,” published in October 2016, noted activist and scholar Angela Davis explores the connections and commonalities of liberation struggles against oppression and exploitation worldwide. The Black Women’s Movement/Black Feminism, intersectional contexts of ‘race,’ class, and gender, capitalist individualism, the Prison Abolition Movement, and police violence play a particular role. “She writes against the world’s largest, record-profit ‘security’ corporation, G4S, as well as about cross-national and cross-border solidarity for the resistance struggles of our time. From the U.S. Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-apartheid movement: Davis reviews significant contemporary liberation movements, takes…
“JournAfrica!” is the first German-language news portal for journalism from Africa – freely accessible and free of charge. African journalists from over 50 countries will provide you with first-hand news and reading material,” the initiators write on the website of the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig. JournAfrica! counters the prevailing one-way reporting on Africa in Europe and Germany, which focuses almost exclusively on disasters and sensational news, with an alternative model. On the portal, African journalists from different countries report daily directly and in a variety of ways from places where the action is: Here you…
The article Support Indigenous Rights: Abolish Columbus Day published by Bill Bigelow on the Common Dreams platform on the occasion of “Columbus Day” as part of the Abolish Columbus Day campaign. He calls for the holiday to finally be abolished and for an “Indigenous Peoples Day” to be established instead. In the text, the author talks about the fatal (symbolic) effect of the holiday, about counter-movements, about current struggles of Nations – in particular the Standing Rock Sioux Nation against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) – and the narrative of the “discovery of America” by Christopher Columbus, which, like…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450 Fusion Comedy hat ein pointiertes und kluges Video veröffentlicht, in dem das Phänomen “Microagressions“ am Beispiel von Mückenstichen veranschaulicht wird. Der Clip kann hier angesehen und angehört werden.
In the Rethinking series, a second, expanded edition of Rethinking Columbus – The next 500 years by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson has been published by Rethinking Schools. The brochure, which was published as a first edition already in 1991, answers the question why the myth and the figure of Christopher Columbus should be put to the test: The myth of Christopher Columbus is a foundation for what children learn about society and its orders, he said. Columbus, he said, is often the first lesson children receive about cultural encounters. The legend of a brave adventurer transmits to young…
Rethinking Schools is a project as well as a publishing company that publishes educational materials focusing on urban schools and racism (in the Americas). The publishing house was born out of the vision of a group of Milwaukee-area teachers back in the 1980s: Not only was teaching to be improved in their own classrooms, but the entire system of public schools in the U.S. was to be successively reformed. The focus was on the content of teaching materials used, standardized testing procedures, and textbook-fixed curricula. The Rethinking Schools project, which now operates with enormous reach, continues to pursue the…
In the publication “Das Märchen von der Augenhöhe – Macht und Solidarität in Nord-Süd-Partnerschaften” (The Fairy Tale of Eye Level – Power and Solidarity in North-South Partnerships), glokal e.V. brought together ten activists, committed people and NGO workers from the global South and North to shed light on different aspects of NGO structures, school partnerships, voluntary services and solidarity work. A theoretical introduction makes the historical-political framework tangible, and a reflection and practice guide supports readers in analyzing and transforming their own engagement. Eye level and partnership are phrases that are often used in North-South, solidarity or ‘development cooperation’. They…
Still every year on October 12 in some states of the Americas is officially celebrated “Columbus Day”. This day marks the anniversary of the invasion by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the beginning of European colonization and tyranny. For years, various groups and individuals, most notably the American Indian Movement (AIM) and other Native American self-organizations, have protested the holiday and called for the establishment of an Indigenous Peoples Day instead. Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project have launched the Abolish Columbus Day campaign, which calls for the abolition of “Columbus Day” to stop celebrating Columbus’ crimes. Instead, they…
https://vimeo.com/132494644 Sakej Ward ist Mi’kmaw aus dem Bezirk Esgenoopetitj. Er ist Krieger, Aktivist und Pädagoge. Zu seinen Themen gehören indigene Souveränität, Befreiung vom Kolonialismus und Gerechtigkeit für Völkermord. Außerdem unterrichtet er Überlebensfähigkeiten, Selbstverteidigung (vor allem auch für Frauen) und Strategiekurse zur Landfrage. Ward ist klarer Anti-Kolonialist. Er glaubt, dass die Europäer*innen Verantwortung für ihre Verbrechen gegen indigene Völker übernehmen müssen und dass Versöhnung nur unter indigenen Bedingungen geschehen kann. Wichtig zu beachten: “Krieger” hat in Wards Sprache nicht die gleiche Bedeutung wie im Deutschen oder Englischen. Es bedeutet vielmehr: “Personen, die die Last des Friedens tragen”.Weitere Videos von Sakej Ward…
In the book, Bino Byansi Byakuleka describes his growing up in Uganda, the permanent surveillance in German residency camps and finally his departure into a protest that powerfully and tirelessly demands freedom and rights for refugees. Lydia Ziemke shows in the second text of the double essay, which is motivated by her artistic collaboration with refugees, that freedom and rights can only result from a comprehensive social and political rethinking. The volume is available in both English and German. It can also be downloaded in full as a pdf. Patras Bwansi, Lydia Ziemke 2015: My name is Bino Byansi Byakuleka.…