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Wolt Protest

Wolt Owes us Money and Rights


14/06/2023

Dear Wolt, stop breaking the law and pay workers now!

The delivery riders at Wolt and Wolt fleet are outraged that for 6 months you have not paid any wages to more than 100 of us. Countless Wolt Fleet workers continue to receive hourly wages below the minimum wage of €12. Directly hired riders don’t receive enough hours according to the contract.

We demand that Wolt:

  • immediately pay back all the Wolt Fleet riders whose wages were stolen. In full and with interest.
  • provide at least the minimum contractual hours to directly  hired Wolt riders.

 

Dear Wolt workers

  • We will gather hundreds of signatures from Wolt riders
  • Your name will NEVER be revealed to Wolt, only your signature
  • The name and phone number is for us workers to keep in contact.

Why make a petition?

  • This is the only way to pressure Wolt into taking us seriously. They’re more scared of us acting collectively than they are of paying the workers their stolen wages. It’s cheaper for them than the media finding out!
  • On that note, the media will pay attention if they see that hundreds of workers have signed and stood next to a photo. This will raise public awareness.

Does it work?

  • Seeing examples helps you believe it! Hundreds of workers in similar photos have signed their petitions, showed them to management and the media, and were able to win their demands. This includes workers here in Berlin.

Next steps

  • We will invite you to take a photo next to the petition.
  • You can cover your face with a helmet to stay anonymous if you wish.
  • Bring your Wolt bag!

 

Dear Supporters – Join the Protest on Monday 19th June

Wolt workers are staging a protest on Monday 19th June at Kottbusser Tor. Over 100 workers are still without pay since six months! 🤬 This will be a standing protest will be at Kotti outside Rossmann. The purpose is to get media attention for workers’ rights. It will create pressure before Emre’s case hearing.

We want to  show Wolt that we are organising, not just mobilising, and to demand payment of stolen wages now.

Please wear a blue t-shirt (any shade of blue works!). Everyone who has a Wolt bike should bring it and park it by the protest.

If you don’t want to be photographed with your face, wear an FFP2 mask. Free masks (with slogans) will be available to anyone who needs them.

Food will be provided by Kotti and Ko at the Gecekonda at Kotbusser Tor. Theater X will have a performance at the end of the protest.

India Justice Project

Break the Silence. Defend Human Rights. Defend Democracy


07/06/2023

The India Justice Project was founded out of concern for the dismantling of democracy, persecution of activists and civil society actors as well as human rights violations in contemporary India and Kashmir since BJP, a  Hindu right wing political party came to power in 2014.

Communities such as Muslims, Dalits and Adivasi as well as voices of dissent and democracy that are resisting the current government’s majoritarian, regressive politics of right wing Hindu nationalism are more and more targeted and subjected to violence and arrests.

The governments of the western countries continue to appease the Modi government because of their geopolitical and economic interests while remaining silent over the degrading human rights violations. Germany, as one of the most influential members of the EU, is no exception.

Unfortunately, the situation in India is largely absent from the public and media discourse in Europe. To this end, we seek to raise awareness about the situation in India and question the behavior of the German government, German media and international community at large, towards the government of India.

For more information about the India Justice Project, visit our Website.

Book Presentation

On Friday 9th June, together with the Berlin LINKE Internationals and Hopscotch Reading Rooms, the India Justice Project ist organising a Book Presentation with Azad Essa, Senior Reporter at Middle East Eye. Azad will be introducing his new book Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel.

The Event will be taking place in the Hopscotch Reading Rooms building in Wedding – Gerichtstrasse 45. Everyone is invited to join the discussion.

Stop Deportation! Protest Camp

Join the Protest Camp against Deportations!


31/05/2023

At the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, the government plans to build a massive deportation prison. Already now, mass deportations via charter flights silently take place there every month. We want to break the silence and are organizing the “Stop Deportation! Protest Camp” in Schönefeld from June 1-6 2023.

Get your tents and sleeping bags ready! Only a few more days before the Stop Deportation! Protest Camp starts ✊✊

We expect around 500 people to sleep at the camp:
⛺️ 6 days full of workshops, trainings, panel discussions that focus on the daily realities of anti-deportation struggles
🎤 an evening schedule with live-concerts, films and theater
🍽️ 3 meals per day are taken care off
✨ there’s a kids programme, sports, library & exhibitions
🏕️ sleep in your tent next to the airport
📢 and at the end we will take to streets in protest against the planned deportation center at BER airport

The Camp will be a place for:

  • Workshops & Skillsharing
    So many people and groups are already doing great work to fight and resist deportations and structural racism. Let’s share our knowledge and learn from each other.
  • Raising Awareness
    The camp will show presence in the Schönefeld area and raise awareness about deportations, deportation detention and the perspectives of affected people.
  • Connecting Movements
    We believe it is necessary to build a broader movement against deportations and for the right to stay. At the camp we can get to know each other better and connect.

Join the Camp from June 1-6 2023! To make our planning easier, please sign up for the camp at signup-stopdeportation@riseup.net (not mandatory, it is also possible to join spontaneously). In the sign-up email, please let us know how many people you will be, if you are organized in a group, if you can help us with translation or need translation for our workshops, or if you need support with anything.

Participation in the camp is of course free of charge. We will ask for donations for the food at the camp. Having little economic resources should not stop you from attending the camp. If you can’t donate anything, that’s no problem!

If you need financial support for travel expenses to the camp, please contact finance-stopdeportation@riseup.net as soon as possible. You will need to bring your printed ticket/receipt to be reimbursed. In order to reduce costs, please purchase your tickets as early as possible and consider using the “Deutschland-Ticket.” If you have the possibility to financially support the camp, please consider donating via our crowdfunding–

WE ARE HERE, AND WE WILL FIGHT! FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IS EVERYBODY’S RIGHT!

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DEMO: ABOLISH DEPORTATION Monday, 5 June 13:30 | Rathaus Schönefeld

During the Stop Deportation! Protest Camp, we will march together upon the infrastructure of deportation that is spread around Berlin airport. Let us take this time to express our verbal rage against this racist system, against this whole architecture of deportation at the airport and let it inspire us to turn Schönefeld into a regular place of anti-deportation resistance! After days of camping together with workshops and networking on how we can resist the system of deportation, we will take to the streets and loudly demand: Stop All Deportations! Abolish the racist machinery of deportation!

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Marxismuss

Socialist Conference in Berlin


24/05/2023

On Whitsun week-end (26th – 29th May), hundreds of activists from throughout Germany and beyond will come together in Berlin to discuss and network.

The Marxismuss conference begins on Friday with seminar day. Here, we take a full day to introduce different aspects of Marxist theory. On the following days, the conference offers over 100 meetings – a diverse and exciting programme of presentations, debates and panel discussions.

The conference is organised by the marx21 network. We want to contribute to strengthening the Left and die LINKE, so as to build an alternative power to capitalism.

You can find the full programme here. Most meetings will be in German, but the following are in English, or with translation into English:

  • Friday 11am, Marxist Content in Social Media withTarek Shalaby

  • Saturday 12 noon, Sudan – Between Revolution and Counterrevolution with Sara Abbas

  • Saturday 12 noon, Economic Crisis & Inflation – Analysis of the Global Economy with Michael Roberts

  • Saturday 3pm, Kurdistan: How can the Struggle for Freedom be successful? with Burak Demir and Azad Hawrami

  • Saturday 3pm, Philosophy and Revolution: What is the Dialectic? with Richard Donnelly

  • Saturday 5pm, The Struggle for National Liberation – a Step on the Way to Socialism? with Alex Callinicos

  • Saturday 7.30pm 75 Years Nakba: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine with Ilan Pappe

  • Sunday 10am Israel‘s (Fascist) Government: What does it mean for Palestinians? with Hebh Jamaland Rob Ferguson

  • Sunday 10am The story of the occupation at GKN in Florence. On the status of the conversion project with Lukas Ferrari & Francesca Gabbriellini

  • Sunday 12 noon Between Catastrophe and Revolution – the Legacy of Mike Davis with Alex Callinicos

  • Sunday 12 noon Turkey after the Earthquake and the Elections with Burak Demir

  • Sunday 3pm Mass Strikes and Crisis in Britain and France – a Review with Ian Allinson & Joseph Choonara

The conference takes place in the Neues Deutschland building, Franz-Mehring Platz 1. You can register here. Tickets are also available on the door.

European Trade Union Network for Justice in Palestine

Trade Unions fighting for Palestine


17/05/2023

The European Trade Union Network for Justice in Palestine (ETUN) was established at the end of 2016 to bring together unions across Europe to campaign for an end to European and corporate complicity with the occupation of Palestine. It has grown to become a network of approximately 35 unions.

The network has campaigned for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, worked to highlight European corporate complicity, published important research on the impact of European complicity on decent work and run webinars and conferences including focusing on the situation from a workers’ rights perspective.

ETUN Palestine has also worked to strengthen the policy positions of the European trade union federations on Palestine and respond to the situation.  For this year the network is preparing a campaign highlighting the impact of Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian homes, schools and agricultural strictures on workers and their families in occupied Palestine.

MORE INFO ON our website, facebook and twitter: @EtunPalestine

ETUC Congress Fringe Meeting in Berlin

At the European TUC Congress Berlin, the European Trade Union Network for Justice in Palestine is organising a fringe Event: Building Solidarity with Palestinian Workers. The meeting will be on Wednesday, May 24th from 12.30pm until 13.50pm. It is in the Holiday Inn Meeting Rooms I+II, Wanda-Kallenbach-Straße 2. Lunch will be provided.

Representatives of various European trade unions and Palestinian speakers will present the current situation of Palestinian workers under occupation, their ongoing struggle and the role of European trade unions in building support for Palestinian freedom and rights.

We will discuss what trade unionists can do in solidarity with Palestinian workers and present ongoing and new campaigns.

Moderator: Patricia McKeown (Trade Union Friends of Palestine/Irish Congress of Trade Unions)

Speakers:

  • Samia Al Botmeh – Birzeit University (online)
  • Werner Van Heetvelde – president of La Centrale Générale-FGTB (Belgium)
  • Sharon Sukhram – Trade Unions Congress  (UK)
  • Liv Tørres – Director International Department LO Norway
  • Saif Abukeshek – European Trade Union Network for Justice in Palestine