This anthology, edited by Maren Ziese and Caroline Gritschke, presents formats and concepts for a new field of practice in cultural education. The authors of the individual contributions place the following questions at the center of their discussions: How can people who arrive in Germany fleeing war, persecution, hunger and economic hardship exercise their rights to education and participation in society? What are suitable formats of cultural education to draw attention to the reality of refugees and to establish networking and solidarity? Contributions come from Maria do Mar Castro Varela and Alisha Heinemann, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Bahareh Sharifi, Leila…
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Bino Byansi Byakuleka, activist for the rights of refugees and LGBTQI, founder of the African Refugees Union (ARU) and the campaign “We are born free!” has written a manifesto under the eponymous title against the dehumanization of minorities and for the freedom of all people. Under the two points 1st: “Fundamental ideological change of individuals, groups and societies with regard to: Political, economical, social and cultural aspects today”. 2nd: “Fundamental practical strategies he explains which processes and which concrete steps are necessary to fight for a state of freedom for all people as human beings in capitalist conditions and…
In September 2016, the cultural radio station RBB broadcast an extensive report on Germany’s colonial past, which reaches far into the present, and on initiatives that demand reappraisal, offer resistance, and have established empowering projects on the ground. Speakers include Israel Kaunatjike from the alliance “Völkermord verjährt nicht!”, Philipp Khabo Koepsell from Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V., Dörte Lerp from the project “Kolonialismus im Kasten?” and Christian Kopp from “Berlin Postkolonial”. The program Scarred Areas by Tina Heidborn can be listened to here. “From 1904 to 1908, the German Empire waged a devastating war in what was then called…
My Right Is Your Right! was launched in November 2014 and emerged from the desire of various actors to intervene more strongly in the prevailing “refugee policy”. The alliance, which began as a campaign at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin, includes activists, cultural workers, lawyers, refugees, church representatives, trade unionists, neighborhood initiatives, individuals and others. The goal of the initiative, whose commitment is motivated by the protests and organizing of the refugees from the Gerhart Hauptmann School and Oranienplatz in Berlin, is to initiate political change together. A new broad network and (online) platform for the exchange of projects and…
Who was Carl Peters? Why do ten streets in Berlin still pay tribute to German colonialism? With what intention was the “African Quarter” in Berlin Wedding created? These questions are addressed in the dossier “Re-reading the City – Colonial and Racist Street Names in Berlin”, which was published in 2016 by the Berlin Development Policy Council (BER) and the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD). “Berlin was a German colonial metropolis: it was here that the Africa Conference was held in 1884/85 and the Colonial Exhibition with its “Völkerschau” in Treptower Park in 1896. It was from here that the…
The website Hoyerswerda-1991 was published on the 25th anniversary of the racist pogrom of Hoyerswerda by “Out of Focus Film” and the Initiative Pogrom 91 in September 2016. In reunified Germany, the extent of racist and right-wing violence reached a new dimension at the beginning of the 1990s: Every day, people attacked a hostel for contract workers, mainly from Mozambique and Vietnam, as well as a shelter for refugees. Numerous people were injured. Up to 500 people took part in the attacks, which were not stopped by the police. The Hoyerswerda pogrom marked the beginning of a series of racist…
This working tool from an unknown source maps overtly and covertly effective forms of “White Supremacy” in all spheres of social influence. The image in pyramid form distinguishes between “Overt White Supremacy” and “Covert White Supremacy”: “Overt White Supremacy”, which in the sense of the image includes neo-Nazis, lynchings or the use of the N-word, which are generally recognized as racist representations, form only the top of the pyramid. At the same time, everyday racist actions and gestures of white supremacy represent the broad base of the pyramid in the diagram: Paternalism, racist jokes or police violence consequently remain hidden…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSe7rkK76x4 Im Oktober 2016 erscheint And Still I Rise, die erste Dokumentation über das Leben, das dichterische Werk und das politische Wirken der Schwarzen Bürgerrechtlerin, Professorin, Schriftstellerin und Künstlerin Maya Angelou. Im Film wird nachgezeichnet, wie historische Ereignisse und künstlerisches Schaffen das Leben Maya Angelous beeinflussten und wie gleichzeitig ihre Literatur und ihr politischer Aktivismus für Schwarze Bürgerrechte in den USA seine durchschlagende und nachhaltige Wirkung auf Generationen entfaltete. Seltene historische Dokumente wie Fotografien und Videosequenzen, die bedeutsame Begegnungen auf ihrem Lebensweg illustrieren, werden im Film mit wegweisenden Impulsen Angelous verwoben. Von ihrem Aufwachsen in den Jahren der großen Wirtschaftskrise…
Golden Zephyr is the website of a Slovak-born Rromni who lives in the USA. She regularly blogs from her specific perspective about politics in general and Rromani-Struggles in particular. The blog contains many valuable links and publications by Rromani authors, which are otherwise rather difficult to find. The website can be accessed in English and Rromanes.
ADEFRA e.V. – Black Women in Germany is an active cultural-political forum by and for Black women. The association was founded in the mid-1980s, initially as “Afro German Women” and later as “Black Women in Germany,” as one of the first associations of Black Germans in the postwar period and formed in parallel with the “Initiative Black People in Germany” (ISD). A group of Black activists were brought together at that time by the work and residencies of the Caribbean-American feminist theorist, poet and activist Audre Lorde in Berlin and inspired to found ADEFRA. Cf. the description of ADEFRA…
Around 150 people of different ages and origins tell their story: How and why did they come to Germany? What paths have they taken? How were they received and how did they find their way around? All contributions that can be listened to on migration-audio-archiv in the tradition of “oral history” are personal stories. At the same time, the reports always shed light on Germany’s social, migration and cultural history. In addition to the audio files, the website provides teaching material on the topics of migration, flight and asylum. Lesson listings can be accessed by lesson module, grade level,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-QNir1BXvk Das Video-Blog Moni Tano hat ein ausführlichen und aufschlussreiches Interview mit Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo über Prozesse von Dekolonialisierung rassifizierter Körper und von Ressourcen geführt. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo ist Autor des Werkes “Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature“. Wie schon sein Buch befasst sich auch das Interview schwerpunktmäßig mit der Rolle von Sprache als Mittel des Widerstands gegen Imperialismus sowie ihrer Funktion als Herrschaftsinstrument. Das Gespräch wird auf Englisch geführt und ist mit französichen Untertiteln versehen.