An alleged corruption scandal at the Bremen BAMF becomes the legitimizing basis for tens of thousands of reviews of positive asylum decisions and a means of harassing those entitled to protection. Continue reading
Author Archives: glokal
Qualification series for (up to) 10 people with refugee experience
Do you want to be a trainer for political education?
With us you can do an advanced training on this, still apply until April 24, 2018! Continue reading
Vote for the glokal project until March 31!
Dear all, we would like to create a new publication and we don’t have the money for it! At the end of 2018, we would like to print an exhibition reader on “Historical Postcolonial Stories of Resistance.” That’s why we’re participating in a competition where people can vote on different projects. Please support us by voting for the glokal project here! Continue reading
Trivialization of the Shoah at Deutsche Bahn
As early as last October, Deutsche Bahn announced that it would name one of its new ICE 4 high-speed trains after Anne Frank. This decision has been widely discussed and has provoked different reactions, but has mostly been heavily criticized. The name suggestions had been collected in an open tender. The final decision was made by a jury of six PR and marketing experts, chaired by senior Group historian Susanne Kill. Continue reading
Conservative Didactics of History and the Shift to the Right in Germany
In an open letter, historian and teacher Regina Richter explains why she is leaving the Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik – Verband der Geschichtsdidaktikerinnen und Geschichtsdidaktiker Deutschlands e.V.. She is not alone in her criticism and protest. Several stakeholders left the conference.
Documentation of the conference “Self-determined and in solidarity!”
In the meantime, we have managed to complete the video documentation of the Conference “Self-determined and in solidarity! Conference on Migration, Development and Ecological Crisis”. to be completed in the form of some video recordings. You can find all the panels here. Photos can be found here and here. As an introduction, we especially recommend this short conference video with many impressions of the conference.
A video report about the racially motivated police violence against two speakers and participants of the conference can be found here. In response to our press release and that of the Initiativkreis: Menschen.Würdig there were numerous press reports. You can find a selection here.
You can also find a lot of information about the conference in the new taz supplement of Afrique-Europe-Interact.
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Afrique-Europe-Interact Newsletter
Newsletter of glokal e.V.
Degrowth-Newsletter or Newsletter from Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
Return of cultural objects and human bones to Africa
In an open letter initiated by Berlin Postkolonal (also in English and French on the same page), many organizations, initiatives and individuals call on the German government to advocate for the restitution of ritual objects and human remains from colonial contexts of injustice. The letter can be signed by organizations until January 7, 2018. Please send a mail to buero(at)berlin-postkolonial.de. Please forward to appropriate organizations at home and abroad!
“Development is a mirage”
In an interview, economist and activist Alberto Acosta calls for talking about causes of flight from an emancipatory perspective. It was created in the wake of the event Self-determined and in solidarity! Conference on migration, development and ecological crisis.
Conference on migration / overshadowed by racism by police
In Leipzig on Sunday the conference “Self-determined and in solidarity! Conference on Migration, Development and Ecological Crisis” ended in Leipzig on Sunday.
For three days, more than 700 participants from various social movements discussed in Leipzig’s “Westbad” the ways in which flight and migration are linked to the manifold ecological crises of our time and the prevailing ideas of social development. Participants included initiatives working on flight and migration, freedom of movement, climate, capitalism, agriculture and degrowth – many refugees and migrants were also involved. Continue reading
Self-determined and in solidarity! Decolonial perspectives on migration, development and ecological crisis.
Tomorrow, the activist conference Selbstbestimmt und solidarisch! organized by Afrique-Europe-Interact, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie and glokal, among others, will begin in Leipzig. Even though there are unfortunately no more free places now, it might be worth taking a look at the program. And we’ll try to document as much as possible and make it available online.