Tag: Anticolonial movements

October 31, 2022

Angela Davis speaks at Oranienplatz 06.10.2022 “O-Platz wird 10 – Baustelle Migration” 

International Women* Space is pleased to share with you Angela Davis’ speech at Oranienplatz during the arts and culture festival “O-Platz wird 10 – Baustelle Migration” commemorating 10 years of refugee and migrant occupations of O-Platz and the Gerhart-Hauptmann Schule in Berlin Kreuzberg.

Angela Davis at Oranienplatz, Berlin

Angela Davis is a political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, author and above all a revolutionary! When we thought about how we would like to mark the 10 years anniversary of the occupation of O-Platz and the start of our movement, we had the courage to dream of having Angela speak to us, many of us at O-Platz. And because dreaming is free, we went ahead and asked her, and, to our joy, she accepted our invitation.

The speech documented in this video is a lesson on the vestiges of colonialism and enslavement, and a reminder of women*’s power and leadership in struggles around the world. It is a speech about hope and our role as activists in transmitting hope, and it is also a speech about about freedom.

As Angela Davis says, remembering the song “Freedom is a constant struggle”, which is a freedom song that was repeatedly sung in the southern United States during the twentieth century freedom movement.

Directed / Subtitles: Denise Garcia Bergt
Produced: Lica Stein
Cameras: Thomas Macholz / Hoda Taheri
Drone: Marco Heinig
Audio: Tsvetelina Valkova
Edit / Post production: Johnny Welch
Music: Carmel Zoum

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October 3, 2021

Zapatistas am O-Platz! Rise up – let‘s fight together in the struggle for life!

Kundgebung am 6.10. um 16 Uhr auf dem Oranienplatz, Berlin-Kreuzberg


Am Mittwoch, den 6. Oktober, ab 16:00 Uhr laden wir die zapatistischen Genoss*innen und alle Interessierten zu einem Treffen auf dem Oranienplatz ein.

Warum auf dem Oranienplatz?

Dieser Platz in Berlin-Kreuzberg ist zu einem Symbol der antirassistischen Kämpfe geworden, vor allem aber ist er ein Symbol für den Kampf der Flüchtlingskameraden. Im Jahr 1998 kam eine Karawane der Flüchtlinge und Migrant*innen auf diesem Platz in Berlin an. Diese Karawane fand im Rahmen der Bundestagswahl und unter den Slogans „Wir haben kein Wahlrecht, aber wir haben eine Stimme“ und „Wir sind hier, weil ihr unsere Länder zerstört“ statt und zog durch mehr als 40 Städte und Gemeinden in Deutschland, um die Ausgrenzung und den Rassismus des Lebens in den Flüchtlingslagern anzuprangern.

Zwischen Oktober 2012 und April 2014 war dieser Platz erneut das Zentrum des Widerstands der Flüchtlinge, die nach dem Selbstmord von Mohamad Rahsepar, einem Asylbewerber aus dem Iran, der die Unmenschlichkeit des Lebens von Asylbewerbern aufzeigte, zu einem Marsch von Würzburg in Bayern nach Berlin kamen. Die Forderungen waren das Recht auf Asyl, die Abschaffung der Flüchtlingslager, Bewegungsfreiheit und gegen Rassismus.

Seitdem ist es zu einem Ort geworden, an dem Märsche beginnen und enden, ein Ort der Begegnung, des Austauschs, der Vereinigung und des gemeinsamen Kampfes.

Seit September 2020 haben mehrere Initiativen eine Gedenkstätte eingerichtet, um an alle Opfer von Polizeigewalt und Rassismus zu erinnern. Aufgrund dieser Geschichte und dieser Kämpfe laden wir euch an diesen Ort ein, um unsere Kämpfe mit unseren zapatistischen GenossInnen zu teilen.

September 4, 2021

Freedom to move, freedom to stay! Rally in front of BAMF, 6 September, 13h

The asylum-seeking population is mostly affected by the lack of opportunities, by the limitations of the state and its structures.
Their integrity, their identity, their lives are in mortal danger where they come from and when they arrive here they are met with indifferent and inhumane treatment by the BAMF and the Ausländerbehörde.

These institutions are not really interested in providing a dignified life for migrants, but in their public strategies and image to feed their white supremacist ego. In this way they evade and make invisible their political and economic responsibility, as one of the world’s largest arms exporting powers to the global south, as well as their responsibility as one of the territories with the most access to resource extraction in the world.

For this reason we call this protest in support of the migrant history and resistance in Germany and the refugee movement, which Napuli is currently leading at Oranienplatz, as well as the Colombian asylum seeker in Osnabrück who will chain himself to a court next week, trying to appeal his stay in Germany before the judge.

We will raise our voices together for the entire migrant population in Germany who suffer daily from colonial structures and global inequalities. We demand reparations and political and economic accountability, now!

(Flyer: Camila Lozano @marica.mila666)

August 20, 2016

Filmabend: Concerning Violence 26.08.2016 (Fr) -20 Uhr

Concerning Violence documentary filmAfrican liberation movements against colonialisation

 26.08.2016 (Fr) – 20 Uhr – Stadtteilladen Zielona Góra, Grünberger Str. 73, Berlin-F’Hain

 

Film: Concerning Violence, 2014, English, 89min

The documentary-film combines original film-material from the african liberation movements from the 60s and 70s with extracts from Frantz Fanons “The Wretched of the Earth” (spoken by the rap-musician Lauryn Hill) in a collage of political violence. Directed by Göran Olsson (Sweden), who also was the director of “The Black Power Mixtape”. The black french philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon wrote his book in 1961 as a radical manifest against colonialisation and for liberation from the rassist colonial context.

 

Concerning Violence – Official Trailer

January 1, 2016

The Struggles Continue: New Year’s Compliments in honour of Fela Kuti / Kalakuta Republic (MOP – Movement of the people)

Credit: The Voice Refugee Forum in Germany

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Greetings from Kalakuta Republic / The Unspoken Cultural Revolution from  Africa against the Military Brutality in 70s and 80s in Nigeria.

Feel free to listen and spread this call in honour of our historical struggles from Nigeria and Africa!