mangoes & bullets is for anyone who wants to engage with racism and other relations of domination, seeking inspiration for resistance and alternatives. Here you will find, among other things, films, songs and poems, but also information about campaigns and political activism. These materials challenge injustice from different perspectives and in different ways.
This compilation gathers songs of Turkish and Turkish-German musicians. All the plays were created in Germany until the early 1990s and focus on the life and work of the first generation of immigrants.
Art Spiegelman tells the story of Auschwitz survivor Wladek in his graphic novel. The character is based on Spiegelmann’s father, and the narrative setting – the father telling his son about the Holocaust and his memories of it – also bears strong autobiographical traits.
The film by the London-based research agency “Forensic Architecture” examines the statements made by Andreas Temme, an employee of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the Halit Yozgat murder case. He was shot dead by members of the so-called “National Socialist Underground (NSU)” in his Internet café in Kassel on April 6, 2006.
The alliance consists of political activists, scientists and representatives of various civil society initiatives.
In this comic, Vina Yun addresses the story(s) of Korean migration to Vienna in the 1970s, using the example of her family. In different episodes, the lives and everyday experiences of two generations, mother and daughter, are told.
In his dissertation published in 2011, musician and music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt explores the extent to which popular music contains, transports, and negotiates (post-)colonial knowledge.
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) has posted on its website a guide for respectful and accurate designation of Native Americans in media coverage.
Author, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed resigned from her professorship at Goldsmiths College (University of London) in late 2016, in protest of the institution’s handling of sexual harassment. In her 2017 book, she explores questions of institutional power, personal agency, and feminist practice.
The US-American musician Saul Williams processes racist experiences from his childhood and youth in this track.
In this English-language video, central theories of the literary scholar Edward Said on colonial foreign representation of the so-called “Orient” by the “West” (“Orientalism”) are explained and compared with today’s forms of cultural representation and media reporting.
The network of activists, theater makers, musicians, filmmakers, and scientists was active nationwide for several years beginning in the late 1990s. With performances in public space, conferences, films, and publications, members opposed what one manifesto (1998) called “the question of passport and origin.
Between 2011 and 2015, the project of the international research network ejolt (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) documented ecological distribution conflicts worldwide and the social struggles for more environmental justice that emerged from them.