FREE DRC! FREE SUDAN! FREE HAITI! FREE PALESTINE!

Inputs – Food – Conversation

11th August 2024 – 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Register: connectedstruggles(at)riseup(dot)net

Struggles on the African continent, its islands or its diasporas And Armed violence/ genocides perpetrated against Black populations are too often made invisible and normalised. In this conversation, speakers will give inputs from their own contexts and the ways in which Black struggles need to be connected in political discourse and action. From Black internationalist perspectives, this exchange is about connections between struggles and genocides Like in Sudan, DRC, Haiti and Palestine, beyond slogans. The fight against globalised environmental injustice and racism affecting indigenous and Black populations alike.

This exchange is a participative conversation that includes input from speakers, but also dedicates time for a broader discussion with all participants. There will be food and snacks .

This a BIPoC only event organised by BLC & EYFA

We ask everyone to do a Covid test before the event.

The venue is accessible for people who are using wheelchairs.

For more details, please register by writing few words about your positionality & your connection to the topic to connectedstruggles(at)riseup(dot)net

We are very exited to share with you the open call for the Decolonial Climate Justice Gathering: Right to Come! Right to Stay! EYFA and Papaya Kuir (NL) are happy to invite you to our international gathering by and for BIPoC, migrants, refugees and activists. During 6 days we will have workshops on the topics of climate justice and forced migration, self-organisation, sustainable activism and empowerment.

When

From the 20th – 25th of August.

Where

Near Amsterdam, Netherlands.

About

This 6 day gathering is about BIPoC refugee solidarity and resistance with focus on climate justice and forced migration. The areas and people most affected by climate change are not the ones who are causing the most greenhouse gases. We call for climate justice and freedom of movement! The capitalist exploitation of ecosystems and black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPoC) is connected and so is the resistance! The workshops are for empowerment, networking and knowledge exchange. The idea if to create a zine as a tool for knowledge sharing. The workshops and organising team are majority queer BIPoCs. They are familiar to tools and strategies to combat challenges during the processes of arriving.

Costs and support

The entire event is free of change for all participants. Accommodation and meals are covered. Travel costs will be reimbursed, childcare if possible, translation available, please let us know in the registration.

Registration

To register follow this link If you have any questions you can write us an Email. We are looking forward to meeting you!

The Skillshare Portal is an easy-to-access portal to resource guides and workshop modules that are made by and for activist groups across Europe in topics like consensus and facilitation , strategy / anti-oppression and direct action. There is an amazing amount of knowledge and skills in activist networks around the world and this website hopes to make these as accessible as possible. There are resources and modules in various languages and from diverse contexts.

https://www.skillsharing.net

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”–Audre Lorde

Ignite is a collection of texts and workshops to be used in formal and non-formal anti-racist education.  The materials are being translated into 5 languages (English, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romani).  The toolkit is now online at the following link: https://antiracist-toolkit.net

A key principle in the creation and selection of materials for this toolkit is the use of an anti-oppression framework, based on a structural and historical approach.  In Europe, much of the education (both formal and non-formal) about differences amongst people, discrimination and prejudice focus on the individual. It looks at the behaviour and attitudes of individual people, with the purpose of helping us to understand our differences and learn more about each other’s experiences and cultures. However, it tends to ignore or undervalue systems of power and long-term historical perspectives.

In creating this Toolkit, we wanted to explore how the concepts and ideas relate to a central-east European context (Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania in particular) and adapt them where required. Roma people and communities continue to experience widespread persecution and stigmatisation, a phenomenon which has been ingrained in European cultures for hundreds of years. Building awareness of the situation is not enough. Tolerance within individuals is not enough. We want to promote social change towards ending racism and Romaphobia!