“Like many other humanitarian or social movements, the aid industry has failed anti-racist work, as part to include in their strategies. This is very problematic. On the one hand direct they focus on the inequality between North and South. They focus their work on the Injustice between those who have colonized and those who have been colonized. At the same time, their entire campaigns are based on promoting colonial strategies and therefore also on the perpetuation of racism. And that is absolutely incoherent. This is a Contradiction: addressing inequality but at the same time creating inequality through all the work…
Author: glokal e.V.
The Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD-Bund) e.V. deeply condemns the reaction of the taz editorial staff to the events that took place around the discussion panel “Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear N-Words and Inside” at taz.lab 2013. The event of Saturday, 20.04.13 ended in a scandal due to the disrespectful behavior of the moderator and taz journalist Deniz Yücel. However, this was only the beginning of a series of misdemeanors that the organizers of the taz.lab in 2013 and the taz’s editors-in-chief have committed since then. Not only were Yücel’s unprofessional outbursts downplayed in the online article published that same…
Open letter to the textbook publishers Westermann Schroedel Diesterweg Schöningh Winklers GmbH November 14, 2013 Image of Africa in textbooks (Diercke Geographie 8, Westermann; Seydlitz Geographie 8, Schroedel) Recently, we have been made aware several times by parents and students that stereotypical, sometimes racist images about people of African origin and the African continent prevail in textbooks on the subject of geography. Black people appear here mainly as helpless and passive, “speechless” victims or are part of ridiculous dehumanizing caricatures. In the textbook, they are exoticized, sexualized, and located as non-European, although they are just as much a part of…
In this open letter to the artistic director and managing director of Heimathafen Neukölln (Berlin), anti-Asian racism is scandalized: February 6, 2014 Dear Stefanie Aehnelt, Since you are the artistic director and managing director of Heimathafen Neukölln (Berlin), we are addressing you today with an open letter. We have learned to our dismay that until February 04, 2014, over a longer period of time, despite complaints received, the Heimathafen Neukölln has shown an undoubtedly hurtful image for Asian people as part of its exhibition “I love NK”. In this photo, a blonde white woman wearing a white hometown T-shirt with…
Siga Mbaraga and Jasmin Badiane wrote an open letter to the board of the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin e.V. regarding a planned field trip to Eisenhüttenstadt. Berlin, November 23, 2014 Dear Board of Directors of the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin e.V., Ladies and Gentlemen, We see potential for resistance in the establishment of Refugee Law Clinics (hereafter RLC) throughout Germany. It is preceded by the consideration and understanding of the problem, which has become historical worldwide, of individual mobility depending on the country of birth of a person. With an understanding of these structures that have become and their global…
Open letter to the President of the European Parliament and the leaders of the European political groups in the European Parliament: ENAR and other Black organizations from across Europe are very concerned about the use of the N-word by Polish MEP Janusz Korwin Mikke in the European Parliament. We demand a short, meaningful statement from the President of the European Parliament as well as from the leaderships of the political groups sanctioning the use of this racist and demeaning term. The growth of right-wing parties or parties that propagate racist content, ideas and practices jeopardizes the exercise of European principles…
Subject: Statement by Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld dated 22.01.2015 regarding Berliner M-Straße Dear Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld, when I read your statement regarding the announcement of M Street by Dieter Hallervorden in the “Tagesspiegel”, I first thought you had been misquoted. I then visited your website and read the original of your press release. First a small correction: Mr. Dieter Hallervorden was never made responsible for the name M Street by postcolonial activists and activists of the Black community, as you write. Mr. Hallervorden revived the racist practice of Black Facing two years ago in his play “I Am Not Rappaport.” For…
To the ZDF bets that…? Editing and host Markus Lanz Shocked at the show’s hall bet in Augsburg (14.12.2013) The search was on for 25 couples to come to “Wetten dass…?” dressed as Jim Knopf and Lukas the locomotive driver. In addition, the note that: “Jim should be made up naturally, shoe polish, charcoal, whatever”. In Luke’s case, the only reference was to the clothing. So it was less about recreating a black person than clearly marking them as non-white, no matter what they look like. The Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD) is shocked and condemns the public call…
The glossary of the New German Media Makers is written as an aid for the daily work of journalists. New German Media Makers 2015: New Terms for the Immigration Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P21AfG6SPE Die Videoproduktion „The Truth lies in Rostock” entstand 1993 unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung von Menschen, die sich zum Zeitpunkt der rassistischen Ausschreitungen im attackierten Wohnheim befanden. Deshalb zeichnet sich die Produktion nicht nur durch einen authentischen Charakter aus, sondern versteht sich auch Jahre danach als schonungslose Kritik an einer Grundstimmung in der bundesrepublikanischen Gesellschaft, die Pogrome gegen Migrant*innen überhaupt erst möglich macht. Die Wahrheit liegt/lügt in Rostock | Mark Saunders, S. Cleary | 1993 | 78 min.
The radio play Forgetting Rostock – The Sunflower House by Dan Thy Nguyen and Iraklis Panagiotopoulos (2015) is reported on in this radio broadcast by freie-radios.net. The detailed audio piece about the pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992 can be found here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3zHgktQGDE Zu diesem Lied von 1977 passt ein kurzes Interview mit Fela Kuti über die Kolonisierung von Wissen.