‘Solidarity is so important’ Saffiyah Khan meets woman she defended A few days ago a photograph showing a young woman smiling bemusedly at an incensed English Defence League protester has been widely shared as a symbol of Birmingham’s defiance in the face of the far right. Contine reading…
english unten Wie alle Gruppen, die in Brandenburg mit Geflüchteten arbeiten, freuen wir uns über den neuen Erlass des Landes Brandenburg zu Personen, die Opfer von rassistische motivierten Gewalttaten wurden und abschiebebedroht sind.¹ Es ist ein erster Schritt, denen ein Bleiberecht zu geben, die von Nazis attackiert wurden und dies beweisen können; die schwer verletzt…
Sahar Speaks: The Afghan woman’s story is being told by Afghan men, foreign men and foreign women. As the situation for women in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, the urgency of realising Sahar Speaks is greater than ever. It takes effort to recruit, train and encourage Afghan female journalists. It requires intentional investment. That is where Sahar Speaks steps…
DEMO in Berlin, Montag, 9. 1. 2017, 16h U-Bhf Kleistpark Am 9. Januar 2013 ermordete der türkische Geheimdienst (MIT) drei kurdische Aktivistinnen in ihrem Pariser Büro – unter den Augen europäischer Geheimdienste. Sakine Cansız – Fidan Doğan – Leyla Şaylemez arbeiteten für den Friedensprozess im Mittleren Osten und kämpften GEGEN den Faschismus FÜR die Frauenbefreiung.…
”JINHA, the first women news agency in the world, began to the world of press on 8 March 2012 with the words from Virginia Woolf that ‘We are writing without considering what the men thinks’ and it has been broadcasting in Kurdish, Turkish and English via internet. Since then it has been attacked in different…
Organizers: Frauen * von Ezidischer FrauenRat Berlin, Frauenrat Dest Dan, International Women Space, Interkulturelle Frauenzentrum S.U.S.I, Frauen aus Rojhilat, Sozialistischer Frauenbund Berlin-SKB, Women in Exile & Friends, JXK – Studierende Frauen aus Kurdistan, FrauenRat der PYD Berlin (Rojava Frauen), Frauenrat der HDK Berlin, Lara e.V „From feminicide to selfdefence” along the motto of the current…
Click on the link to watch Chris Hedges interviewing Alice Lee from the Asian Women’s Coalition Ending Prostitution and Lee Lakeman of Rape Relief and Women’s shelter on Telesur: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/section/programs/programs.html?prog=days-of-revolt
Berlin, den 11.11.2015 Entsetzt über den Umgang mit einer Schwarzen Trans* Person im Stadtbad Neukölln am 03.11.2015 Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2015 besuchte eine Schwarze Trans* Person um 11 Uhr in Begleitung einer Person das Stadtbad Neukölln. Beide Personen entschieden sich entsprechend ihrer Positionierung, aber auch, weil keine anderen Möglichkeiten vorhanden sind, den Frauenbereich der Umkleidekabinen…
Saturday, 7. November 2015 9:30 – 18:30 Uhr – all infos here… Place: Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Greifswalderstr. 4, Berlin With Mariam Rawi, RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) Weeda Ahmad, Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers „ … we fight our struggles ourselves!“ Workshop 1: Feminist women’s organizing Women’s organizing in the…
AL: If we can put people on the moon and we can blow this whole planet up, if we can consider digging 18 inches of radioactive dirt off of the Bikini atolls and somehow finding something to do with it – if we can do that, we as Black cultural workers can somehow begin to…
When did you begin to put the pieces together? Perhaps when you put the pieces back together you are putting yourself back together. We assemble something. Feminism is DIY: a form of self-assembly. No wonder feminist work is often about timing: sometimes we are too fragile to do this work; we cannot risk being shattered…
Despite repeated commitments by governments around the world to ensure women’s equality by repealing discriminatory laws, sex discrimination persists, including in citizenship and nationality1 laws. This is damaging to the lives of women and their families. Although there has been some progress, with a number of countries recently amending their laws on citizenship in order…
By Soraya L. Chemaly No one wants to go to war. Before we commit soldiers and societies to inevitable sacrifice and atrocities, we try to balance the inevitable harm against the potential good. We seek to make the wars we undertake “just” by applying defined criteria to a scale of moral weights and principled measures. Men…
Democracy Now!: Longtime anti-eviction activist Ada Colau recently became the first female mayor of Barcelona, Spain. She has vowed to fine banks, stop evictions, expand public housing, improve wages, force utility companies to lower their prices and slash the mayoral salary. She has called bankers “criminals” and garnered support from the leftist Podemos party, which…
Writer, activist and educator has been working for social justice for more than 30 years. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and, as the daughter of Mexican American teachers, was exposed at an early age to issues of cultural identity. Martínez’s experiences during the Civil Rights Movement as a full-time staff member of the Student…
A Brief Definition for Activists by Elizabeth Martinez and Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights “Neo-liberalism” is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the…
A documentary on the Kurdish female and male fighters of PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). As of 2014, they have become the only force capable of fighting the ISIS (Islamic State) on the borders of Kurdistan, especially in Kobane in the West Kurdistan (Rojava), its branch, People’s Defense Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) are…
The philosopher-activist and professor was hunted down by the FBI for a crime she didn’t commit, jailed in 1970, and freed in 1972. While serving her sentence in a California jail, she gave a thoughtful interview (later included inThe Black Power Mixtape) about the state of the Black Panthers at that time, and why violence is part…
// Spanish below // Deutsch untenstehend // “Can someone explain to me why can’t I go inside the school?” asked Angela Davis on the 14th of May, during her meeting with activists in the Werkstatt der Kulturen, in Berlin. “Is it a school or a prison?” To which people from the audience replied: “Yes”. Angela Davis and Gina…
