A selection of articles, talks, statements, interviews and points of view from around the world on activism, feminism, women’s rights and more.
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…
VIDEO: As the Syrian war enters its fifth year, the pressured on displaced families have caused a dramatic rise in violence against women. But domestic abuse is a taboo subject in Syrian society, and , the true scale of the problem is unknown. Filmmaker Sharron Ward visited Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan to hear…
Jungle World Nr. 43, 22. Oktober 2015 Das Internationale Frauencafé in Nürnberg hat im Sommer mit einem offenen Brief zur prekären Situation und den spezifischen Bedrohungslagen und strukturellen Gewalterfahrungen von Frauen in den Flüchtlingsunterkünften Alarm geschlagen. Die Jungle World sprach mit Elif Şahin-Kubista über strukturelle Gewalt in den Unterkünften. INTERVIEW: MELANIE GÖTZ Sie kamen vor vielen…
INTERVENTIONEN // more here… Napuli Langa About the refugee movement in Kreuzberg/Berlin Nadiye Ünsal Challenging ‘Refugees’ and ‘Supporters’ Intersectional Power Structures in the Refugee Movement in Berlin Ibrahim Kanalan Jugendliche ohne Grenzen Zehn Jahre Proteste und Kämpfe von geflüchteten Jugendlichen — Creating Utopia? Carla Küffner “Whether we will have a better world or not depends…
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…
We demand for all people, regardless of which passport they possess: Freedom of movement and the right to stay! Humane lodging! Free access to education, medical care and employment! Let’s go on the streets – together, loud and angry! Against racist violence, against the government’s plan for the restriction of the right of asylum and…
International Women Space: english version below/Interview was made originally in German. Am 7. August führten wir ein Interview mit Monika Herrmann, der Bürgermeisterin von Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Wir wollten von ihr wissen was zu dem politischen Umschwung im Umgang mit der Refugee-Bewegung beigetragen hatte. 2012 wurde es der Bewegung gestattet ein Protestcamp auf dem Oranienplatz aufzubauen. Ein…
In 1989 I travelled from Calais to Dover. Whilst on the ferry, I requested a visa. The officer didn’t trust me and as we approached the UK, I was sent to a room, where a dog and a few officers sniffed around me and my luggage. For hours, maybe five, I answered all their racist…
By ANDRE VLTCHEK: I don’t really know, I don’t understand how it feels: to live in a rich European country, which is rich mainly because it has been directly plundering many poor nations around the world. Or it has been plundering by association, through its membership in some extremist organization like NATO. To live there, refusing…
Women and children are turning up in large numbers at migrant camps in Calais for the first time and authorities are not doing enough to shelter and protect them, a senior aid worker has warned. “Since last summer we started to have an increase in woman and children and families. It was not like that before,”…
ALICIA GARZA: “… Black Lives Matter was born out of the incredible pain and rage that each of us feels and that black people across the world feel when any of our lives are taken unnecessarily, particularly in relationship to state-sanctioned violence. The phrase was coined on Facebook, and it was really a response to…
by FRANK JACOBS What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then theReconquista never happens. Spain and Portugal don’t kickstart Europe’s colonization of other continents. And this is what Africa might have looked like. The map – upside down, to skew our traditional eurocentric point of view – shows an Africa dominated…
Democracy Now! The Dominican Republic is set to begin what some are calling “ethnic purging,” placing the fate of hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent into limbo. Half a million legally stateless people could be sent to Haiti this week, including those who have never stepped foot in Haiti and don’t speak the language.…
As the Black Lives Matter movement grows across the country and the the nation mourns the death of the nine worshipers killed at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church, we look back at the life of one of the most important voices of the civil rights movement: the singer Nina Simone, known as the High Priestess of…
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013. Pp. 295. Illustrations.) by Nancy Kerstetter When Rosa Parks remained in her seat on that Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955, she had no inkling of the stir it would cause or the effects that would ripple to become a civil rights movement. Neither…
“Girls are the devil’s dinner and the dog’s meat,” says the Albanian vernacular. It is thanks to my relatives – all of them are Kosovars – that I know this sentence. These misogynistic words voice a sad reality: there is no justice between men and women in Kosovar society. The Albanian wife is too often…
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