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Letzte Generation

Peaceful Civil Resistance


22/11/2023

Letzte Generation is a movement that uses peaceful civil resistance to fight for a short-term phase-out of fossil fuels until 2030. While the German government plans to continue using fossil fuels as long as 2045, Letzte Generation activists continue to point out that this is far too late. Together with other members of the A22 network such as Just Stop Oil in the UK, Letzte Generation has been raising public awareness of the need for immediate action to tackle climate catastrophe for the past two years.

On Saturday 28 October, Last Generation activists, joined by activists from many other groups such as Extinction Rebellion Netherlands and Christians for Future protested on the Straße des 17. Juni, a street between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column, with a mass blockade of more than 1400 protesters. This action was inspired by the success of Extinction Rebellion’s protests in the Netherlands, who have been blocking a highway every single day for more than a month with over 9000 arrests, leading to the Dutch parliament voting on a stop of fossil fuel subsidies.

The next mass occupation will take place this Saturday, 25 November, starting at 12 noon next to the Victory Column (Großer Stern). Again, climate justice groups such as Parents Against Fossil Fuels and Scientist Rebellion are calling for action. Join us!

Bloque Latinoamericano

Migrant self-organisation in solidarity with Latin America


15/11/2023

Bloque Latinoamericano is a five-year-old migrant grassroots organization based in Berlin. We understand that being a migrant inevitably implies having our hearts split in two, and therefore our work is currently focused on two pillars.

On the one hand, we make visible and support struggles in our territories, whether in the field of anti-extractivism or in the struggles against the advance of the right wing. On the other, we offer spaces for migrant workers to meet, reflect on our rights, and find common strategies to defend them and fight precarization, especially on the topics of labor and housing access.

These two branches of our work (solidarity with Latin America and migrant self-organization) would be incomplete without a transversal feminist and queer perspective, because the rights of women and sexual dissidences are intimately linked to all the other axes that we address.

We seek to bring our diverse Latin American organizing experiences to this territory because we feel it is important to be active political actors in this city and in this country, and because bringing the migrant agenda to the table is one more step (and a very necessary one at that) on the long road to transforming reality.

Rooted / Verwürzelt

Nurturing the Seeds of our Existence – Palestinian Embroidery Workshop


08/11/2023

Palestinian and Arab friends in Berlin:

Rasha Al-Jundi will be holding another Palestinian embroidery workshop on Sunday 12th November from 12:00-15:00.

This one is open to those of Palestinian or Arab roots in the city.

Please register via this Google Form. You will then be sent the location of the Event.

It is limited to 15 participants. Rasha will confirm the location later in the week.

A small fee of €5 will cover material costs. Any other donations will go 100% to Gaza.

Rasha hopes to nurture our roots and pass what she was taught through her family to you.

Open for all genders.

Palästina Kampagne (Palestine Campaign)

Campaign for the basic democratic rights of freedom of opinion and assembly. For Palestine Solidarity


01/11/2023

The Palästina Kampagne (PK) was first founded as Nakba75 in response to Berlin’s banning of Nakba Day commemorations in 2022, which led to a series of arrests. It has since reformed itself as a campaign to increase awareness about Palestine in Berlin, and push back against the growing state repression of Palestine-solidarity. It seeks to counteract the continued expulsion of perspectives for Palestinian liberation in Germany, both in the mainstream discourses and on the German Left.

PK has organised demonstrations, informational events, and soli events for people who have been arrested. This Saturday, it is organising the mass demonstration Free Palestine Will Not Be Cancelled.

PK is active on Instagram, Twitter, and linktree.

Women*, Life, Freedom Collective

Autonomous Feminist Grassroot Supporting Jina’s Revolution


25/10/2023

The transnational collective Women*, Life, Freedom is a group of feminists, independent citizens, artists, and activists from the diaspora with an intersectional vision. As a grassroots movement, we want to unmask racist, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender-specific oppression and class discrimination, and to curb them through educational work.

The collective tries to uncover and fight the crimes that have been sustained for decades and are still growing – the corruption, the cronyism and the destruction of the environment. These are crimes that the Iranian dictatorship has established with violence on the back of the life and suffering of the people who live in Iran. We see our mission as supporting and strengthening the resistance in Iran, establishing transnational unity and solidarity.

From 27-29 October, the Women*, Life, Freedom Collective is holding the conference How to Revolution: A Conference on Self Organising in Berlin.

One year has passed since the murder of Jina Amini and the uprising of the people in the name of Jin* Jiyan Azadî. Today we have reached a critical point where we need to reflect and ask ourselves: how do we want to organise ourselves further?

What have we achieved, what has worked and where should we change our strategy? What kind of protests have had an impact? How did we work together and how did we deal with conflicts and weaknesses? How can we strengthen transnational solidarity, fight across borders, mobilise people and achieve our goal – revolution?

Together with other grassroots, movements and collectives around the world, we’d like to invite you to come together to discuss and share our experiences: through participatory exchange we want to learn from each other, grow together and develop new strategies together.

Speakers and initiatives joining us:

  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore (prison abolitionist scholar and organiser)
  • Meysam Al-Mehdi (Labour Organiser)
  • Krankenhausbewegung
  • Interventionistische Linke
  • Kjaar
  • Afgactivist Collective
  • CENÎ – Kurdisches Frauenbüro für Frieden (Kurdish Women’s Office for Peace)
  • Staub zu Glitzer (Dust to Glitter)
  • Bewegungschule (Movement School)
  • European Alternative
  • Bloque Latinoamericano Berlin (Latin American Block Berlin)
  • Mothers of Khavaran
  • AbanFamilies
  • Je-Cocreation

and many other groups and collectives. The conference is independent and will be financed on a donation basis to cover its own costs.

The conference is free and open to everyone. To secure your place, please register at this address.

We are setting up a solidarity fund to assist with travel and accommodation expenses for our guests. If you require financial or personal support to attend the conference in Berlin, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!

The program will offer simultaneous translation in multiple languages. Please let us know which language(s) you require simultaneous translation for.