SEE BELOW THE BACKGROUNG HISTORY: On the 7th of September, around 4 o’clock in the morning, in a Heim in Hennigsdorf, a refugee woman was again compelled out of her room, violently pushed in to a police car and taken to the airport in one more forced deportation attempt. They didn’t succeed because the…
deutsche Version weiter unten Last Thursday, the 30th of July, as I went to the Foreign Office/Ausländerbehörde to renew my Identity Card/Ausweis, they told me there was a bomb threat in the building and that they couldn’t work on my papers, that I should come back the next day, on Friday, at 8 o’clock in…
We only still need that 40 people donate 30 Euro and that is it! Bintou goes and represents all of us who want a world without FGM! 40 x 30,00 € – still needing: 598,00 € CLICK HERE TO DONATE Bintou wants to go to Senegal to participate in an International Conference against Female Genital…
Radio Broadcast: Reboot Fm – Interview on No Refugee is Criminal: Refugee Community, Women Space and Persecution of Dr. Maqsud.A in Apolda https://soundcloud.com/rebootfm/the-voices-31-no-refugee-is-criminal-kein-fluchtling-ist-kriminell Refugee Power Matters – For Self-determination and Freedom! http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4144 Self-organisation is the basic responsibility of the oppressed refugees to use our presence to reclaim our dignity any where we are: we are calling on…
International Women Space in Kanal making of our puppet “A Guerrilheira” for the demo of the Women’s day of Struggle 8.3.2016 and a workshop for the children where they learned how to make their own puppets. Kanal is a unique place in Berlin and we, the International Women Space, stand firmly in solidarity…
Update Program und Route für den Carnival Es gibt ein ein Update zu Program und Ablauf des Carnivals! Check it out here! als pdf zum ausdrucken. Ausdrucken, verlinken, verteilen, kommen! Yella! My Right is Your Right, Your Right is My Right! Route – Startpunkt ist Platz der Luftbrücke. Und hier das Programm:
“The activists from International Women Space (IWS) set themselves the task of documenting the lives and stories of refugee women in Germany. They approached the project in the Latin American tradition of testimonial literature – looking to amplify the voice of women who could have migrated, but wouldn’t have been given a visa.” On 12.03.2016…
WE TAKE THE POWER BACK! Pics Janis Garnet/Lica Stein
I arrived in Germany on the 2nd of December, 2015. When I arrived in Germany, I went to Lübeck. It is a city in Germany. It is a very nice city. I lived in Lübeck for five days in a Camp and after five days, when I went to the office manager to do…
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18:00 Uhr Lageso Turmstraße 21, 10559 Berlin –english below– Mit dem Asylpaket II will die Bundesregierung in den nächsten Tagen rassistische Gesetzesänderungen verabschieden, die sich aggressiv gegen Geflüchtete richten. Das Asylpaket II sieht vor: • Es werden “Spezielle Aufnahmezentren” eröffnet, in denen Menschen aus “sicheren” Herkunftsländern und Menschen, denen vorgeworfen wird ihre Papiere vernichtet zu haben,…
Syrian woman expelled from Berlin refugee camp for defending human rights – English Version Below Mujer siria expulsada de un campamento para refugiados en Berlín por exigir derechos – versión española abajo Pressemitteilung: Syrische Frau wurde aus Notunterkunft in Berlin hinausgeworfen, weil sie ihre Menschenrechte einforderte Viviana ist eine junge Frau aus Syrien. Sie ist vor dem…
IWS got to know Viviana when she was still living the emergency shelter at the Wiesenstraße, in Wedding, Berlin. On the 29th of January we went to the Notunterkunft to have a coffee with Viviana and see how she was. The moment we met, Viviana was already showing signs of stress. No wonder, she was…
The neighborhood initiative WEM GEHÖRT KREUZBERG invites you to a meeting of neighbors and refugees on February 4th at 6pm, starting 6.30pm at Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Kreuzberg. Long before people start fleeing from war, hunger and desolation looking for shelter, it was known that there is an enormous need of affordable housing in Berlin. In one…
“It is About Freedom of Movement” is one of the testimonials of refugee women in Germany published in our book IN OUR OWN WORDS / IN UNSEREN EIGENEN WORTEN. See the text below (in English or Deutsch) or listen to a reading by Devika Ranjan: I decided to leave my country because the time had come when…
This video of Sista Mimi was put together to be shown at the launch of IN OUR OWN WORDS / IN UNSEREN EIGENEN WORTEN, it shows Mimi during two of the most important moments of the refugee struggle in Berlin: the day of the eviction of Oranienplatz Camp and the resistance on the roof of the Ohlauer…
(English below) BUCHVERÖFFENTLICHUNG // PRESSEMITTEILUNG + EINLADUNG IN UNSEREN EIGENEN WORTEN Geflüchtete Frauen in Deutschland erzählen von ihren Erfahrungen WANN: 19 Uhr | 25. November 2015 WO: TheaterSpielRaum, Bethanien-Südflügel, Mariannenplatz 2B, 10997 Berlin Wir – die Aktivistinnen vom International Women Space (IWS) – hatten es uns 2013 als Aufgabe gesetzt, die Lebensgeschichten von geflüchteten Frauen…
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…
(English below) (Video by Muhammed Lamin Jadama) Wir haben ein Haus und wir haben die Möglichkeit, ein selbstorganisiertes Internationales Refugee Center zu errichten. Wir haben dieses Haus 2012 besetzt und von Anfang an haben wir alle Geflüchteten willkommen gehießen, die einen Platz zum Leben brauchten. Wir haben eine Frauenetage geschaffen wo geflüchtete Frauen zusammen leben…
Social Center 4all. This is a good name and a good project and we hope the eviction of the occupation at Englische Straße 20 today doesn’t discourage people to continue trying to find alternative spaces for the thousands of refugees arriving in Germany. It is not only a question of sleeping places, which are absolutely necessary.…
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