Amaro Foro e.V. and the Rroma-Informations-Centrum have issued a joint press release in which they criticize the planned tightening of the law by the German government, which is to take action against the alleged social abuse by Romanian and Bulgarian citizens. The two organizations point out that this populist measure promotes racist prejudices and stirs up fears. Social abuse takes place first and foremost on the part of the German economy, which profits from the precarious situation of many immigrants. To the press release
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Criminalization of political antiracist work
Since yesterday noon, the freshly hung mural on the corner of Manteuffelstrasse and Oranienstrasse (Berlin-Kreuzberg) commemorating the NSU nail bomb attack in Cologne’s Keupstrasse has a hole and thus a gap in its content – the phrase “NSU: State and Nazis hand in hand” was torn out of the picture by the Berlin Fire Department on behalf of the Berlin police, without a court order. Allmende e.V. and the Alliance Against Racism have issued a press release on this scandalous criminalization of political anti-racist work.
Preventing the deportation of a refugee activist
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014, Abdoul Drammé Kaboré, one of the refugees protesting at Alex and Breitscheidtplatz, was to be deported from Berlin-Tegel to Spain. Thanks to the dedicated resistance of the activists of Asylum Rights Evolution as well as friends and supporters, this could be prevented for the time being. Now, however, the deportation is to take place next Tuesday, 3.06. (exact time not yet known), will take place. Continue reading
Practice Manual “Partnership and Dominance
Weltfriedensdienst ran an anti-racism project in the 1990s that we refer to in our work. Now the classic is available online here.
Press Release by Refugees on Hunger Strike at Oranienplatz
We started the hunger strike after our place of resistance was destroyed with colonial methods. Today is the 8th day of hunger strike and another refugee has joined us. Continue reading
Cloves for Napuli!
Joint appeal by AfricAvenir International, AFROTAK TV CyberNomads, Berlin Postkolonial, glokal, Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland, Tanzania-Network.de
Cloves for Napuli!
Almost without food, Refugee activist Napuli Langa sat on a plane tree at Berlin’s Oranienplatz for five days, refusing to leave the destroyed refugee camp. Before descending weakened but safe last night, she won a great victory for the refugees at Oranienplatz. In writing, the Senate has assured that the refugees’ info tent will be rebuilt. So it is clear: The protest continues – O-Platz is living!
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Reception of looted bones boycotted by Herero and Nama people
The international NGO alliance “Genocide has no statute of limitations!” reported last week:
“Scandal in Windhoek: Herero and Nama Boycott Reception of Bones from Berlin
Around 7 a.m. today, the bones of 35 African people – among them victims of the genocide against the Herero and Nama – who were taken to Germany for racist research during the colonial era, arrived in the Namibian capital Windhoek. At 10 a.m., government had invited the concerned ethnic groups and their traditional leaders to the Parliament Garden, where about 300 people gathered. Nevertheless, half of the chairs remained empty.
For Whites Only? Return of looted bones to Namibia behind closed doors
[Update to this blog post under Receipt of Bones Boycotted].
Joint Press Release of the International NGO Alliance “Genocide has no statute of limitations!” and the Central Council of the African Community in Germany
For Whites Only?
Germany excludes descendants of colonized people and critical public from return of further stolen bones to Namibia in Berlin Charité. 120 NGOs demand apology and reparations for colonial land theft and genocide in Namibia. Central Council of the African Community in Germany demands return of all bones and cultural treasures appropriated in Africa.
Renaming of M-Strasse: Berliner Kurier publishes false results
Last week several hundred people gathered in Berlin-Mitte for the “8. Commemorative march for the African victims of colonialism, slave trade and racist violence: Mandela- statt Mohrenstraße” gathered. A detailed report can be read here. Two days earlier, there was a digital poll on the Berliner Kurier site about renaming M-Strasse, but the results were extremely distorted, as the following press release scandalizes:
Press release
21.2.2014
The “Berliner Kurier” published in its print edition of yesterday, Thursday, 20.2.2014, the result of a survey on the renaming of Mohrenstraße in Mandelastraße. It is said that only 10% of the participants were in favor of the renaming. Until the evening before, the poll ran in the online edition of the article. Many people there participated in the survey. The moment a majority in favor of the renaming emerged (49% at about 22:00), the poll was shut down in a flash. A characteristic process like the BK with unpleasant opinion deals.
Open letter to Heimathafen Neukölln “We are not ‘gooks'”!
The association Korientation e.V., together with a large alliance of organizations and individuals, has written an open letter to the Heimathafen Neukölln, thus reigniting the public debate on anti-Asian racism:
“We have learned to our dismay that until February 04, 2014, over a longer period of time, despite complaints received, the Heimathafen Neukölln has shown in the context of its exhibition “I love NK” a picture that is undoubtedly hurtful to Asian people. In this photo, a blond white woman wearing a white Heimathafen T-shirt with the imprint “I love NK” can be seen in an East Asian-looking park. Her grinning face reproduces an old and very disparaging racist stereotype by pulling her eyes up into “slits” with her fingers. […]”