Today, Saturday, the 13th of December, at 14h we are holding a march for our beloved Sista Mimi who passed away on Wednesday 10th December, 2014. We will start at Oranienplatz and walk to the Info Point of the school, where we will have a press conference. Sista Mimi died last wednesday afternoon peacefully at…
Sara Schurmann schreib: Mimi, das Gesicht der Flüchtlingsproteste in Berlin. Immer in der ersten Reihe. – Mimi, eine der zentralen Figuren der Flüchtlingsproteste in Berlin, ist gestorben. Am Donnerstag gedachten ihrer Unterstützer, Freunde und Anwohner vor der besetzten Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule in Kreuzberg. Mimis Enttäuschung konnte man sehen, hören, fühlen. Die Parole des Flüchtlingsprotests „Say it loud, say it…
On the 24th of June, 2014 the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg made an operation called “voluntary moving”. The idea was to empty the former Gerhart-Hauptmann school, occupied by refugees since December 2012. The procedure involved over 1000 police officers and blocked the complete neighbourhood. From the 300 of the school’s inhabitants, around 40 people didn’t accept…
One day when we still had the space in Ohlaher Straße we gathered a number of us together and wrote down little snippets of our experience here in Germany as refugee and migrant women. Here is an example what we women of iwspace had to say: I want to know what the government is: is it…
BAMAKO, Mali — In the primarily Francophone and Anglophone region of West Africa, Mali is said to have one of the highest rates of female genital mutilation, with about 91 percent of girls and women having undergone the circumcision — a rate that has not only stayed stubbornly high but may also be inching upward.…
Auf der “No border lasts forever” Konferenz sprach Radio Dreyeckland mit den Frauenaktivistinnen des womenspace der besetzten Schule in Kreuzberg. Auf der Konferenz gaben sie einen workshop mit dem Titel “Fight racism,fight sexism : towards women emanzipation”. Im ersten Teil des Interviews beschreiben die Frauen vom internationalen Women Space ihre alltägliche Arbeit , in der…
Sista Mimi/ DAS HAUS DER 28 TÜREN
Topics for this week’s radio programme YOU CANNOT EVICT A MOVEMENT: We will be talking to refugee activist about their experiences in the occupied old school building at Ohlauerstr., Berlin. The case of OURY JALLOH and announcement The VOICE 20th Anniversary The War in Palestine Themen der dieswöchigen Sendung sind: Eine Bewegung lässt sich nicht…
All we hear now is that the Senate of Berlin appears to be apathetic towards the state of the people living at the school. We ask you Frau Kolat, Herr Wowereit, Herr Henkel: Are you planning to throw women and children on the streets?
Here’s two excerpts from our interview with Florence Sissako: “I lived here for 5 or 6 years. On this corridor I think I was the only woman here. Everywhere here to the door I have only boys, single boys, from Africa. They were like my brothers. What I used to do is, once in a while,…
Good Morning ladies and gentleman. We would like to thank all of you for coming to our press conference. As you all know, we are a refugee movement and because refugees are not welcomed in Germany we have been under constant pressure for as long as we have occupied Oranienplatz and the school in order…
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