Category: International Woman Space

Der Bundestag hat eine umfassende Reform des Aufenthaltsgesetzes verabschiedet. Viele unvermeidliche Begleiterscheinungen einer Flucht stellen künftig Haftgründe dar. Der Spiegel Verbessertes Bleiberecht für gut integrierte Ausländer, aber auch schärfere Regeln bei der Abschiebung: Der Bundestag hat eine umfassende Reform des Aufenthaltsgesetzes verabschiedet. Ausländer, die bislang nur geduldet sind, dürfen in Zukunft längerfristig in Deutschland bleiben, wenn…

Join in and support! Solidarity Brigades for the Reconstruction of Kobanê After 134 days of heroic struggle the Kurdish People’s Prtection Units (YPG) and the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) liberated the city of Kobanê in Rojava from the fascist terror gangs of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) late January 2015. That was a victory of…

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…

Wir laden euch herzlich zu einem Empowerment Workshop ein! Themen wie Rassismus, Flucht und Migration werden in Deutschland meist aus der Perspektive von weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft diskutiert, dargestellt und bestimmt – von Menschen also, die in einer rassistisch strukturierten Gesellschaft zu den Privilegierten gehören. Die Sicht der von Rassismus Betroffenen findet hier immer noch kaum Berücksichtigung.…

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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 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. by Jeanne Theoharisby Jeanne Theoharis (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…

A few weeks ago Angela Davis came to Berlin and on this occasion she told us that the refugee movement is the movement of the 21st century, that the refugee movement is the movement that is calling for the rights of every human being. And she is right and we all must awake for this…

Demonstration in Berlin – Ein anderes Europa Taz: Mehrere tausend Menschen demonstrieren für ein soziales Europa. Vor allem die Hilfe für Flüchtlinge ist ihnen ein wichtiges Anliegen. Below video from Democracy TV Berlin / Foto: Jörg Carstensen/dpa https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3h7-blaWh0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent from iwspace http://bit.ly/1GE3nBF