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Im Rahmen von der rechtsterroristische Anschlag in Halle am 13.10 fand eine Demo mit 8000 Teilnehmern statt. Wir hielten folgende Rede:
Wir trauern um die Opfer der rechtsextremistischen und antisemitischen Anschläge in Halle. Wir erklären uns solidarisch mit den Angehörigen und allen Betroffenen von Rassismus und Antisemitismus. Wir sind von der Gruppe Women in Exile, einer Selbstorganisierung von geflüchteten Frauen, die sich 2002 in Brandenburg gegründet hat.
Unser politisches Ziel ist die Utopie einer gerechten Gesellschaft ohne Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung. Wir kämpfen dafür, dass alle Menschen, egal woher sie kommen und wohin sie gehen, die gleichen Rechte haben.
On the 15.10 we will do the premier of our film “Testimonials from the uterus”, a video part of our health project “Health care for all without discrimination”.
In the film three refugee women give the testimonies regarding different experiences they have had around their health issues and how the health care system treats them as asylum seekers. Also proffesionals supporting refugees share the reflections of what is means to be a non-citizen when trying to access the German health care system.
After the screening of the film, there will be a panel discussion with Women in Exile, Medibüro, Komm Mit, and Fluchtlingsrat Brandenburg.
Film screening + panel discussion Date: 15.10.2019 Time: 19:00 Place:Aquarium Address: Skalitzer Str. 6 10999 Berlin
We would like to invite all activists and all those in solidarity and concerned with the problems faced by refugee to travel together with us in a big bus from: Oranienplatz at 10am to Herzberg Kreisverwaltung and Hohenleipisch Our rally on the 25.11.2019 the International day for “Elimination against violence against women”, we will travel together from Berlin Oranienplatz to Herzberg Elbe-Elster and remind the city authorities that the closure of the Hohenleipisch lager is long overdue. We will then travel to the Hohenleipisch lager to show solidarity with the refugee living in this isolated lager
The demand for justice for Rita continues. Join us on the 25.11.2019, the International day for „the Elimination of Violence against Women“, to protest on violence against refugee women* and demand the closure in particular of the Hohenleipisch Lager as a first step to abolish all camps. For many years we have been organising activities and raising public awareness on sexual violence and harassment of us refugee women* in the camps.
The trial starts on 23.09.2019 at 9:30 at the Kriminalgericht Moabit, Turmstraße 91, Room 1/537, 10559 Berlin
Dear press, we ask you to announce this trial date and to monitor the case and report on it!
On March 29, 2019 our friend Maria, her husband and her brother-in-law were travelling in a Berlin subway when they were attacked by a white German woman with a knife. All three were injured, some of them were in a life-threatening condition, and are still suffering from the physical and psychological consequences of the racist attack.
Feminist Futures Festival; the event was a highlight among the feminist movement in Germany. It was a huge feminists gathering since many years. More than 1000 women* from all over the world came to the Festival to share their knowledge, experiences, meet and have fun together.
Our workshop was attended by around 80 participants and we posed three questions for reflection:
How do you define feminism? What are the barriers that prevent people from equal participation? What would you change to have an inclusive feminism?
On 27.8. around 60 people attended the demo demanding
Justice for Rita in front of the Brandenbrug Ministry of Interior in Potsdam.
Once again was asked the closure of all lagers, as they are prisons of which refugees are being victims, and death is one of the results, as it has been in the case of Rita.
After one minute of silence in her memory, speeches of the
organization
supporting the demo were read, as is the case of
Fluchtslingsrat Brandenburg, ISD, Solidarity Cities, Respect, as well as the
open letter of the residents of the lager where Rita lived. Then the mic was
left open to share the experiences around the fights against racism,
discrimination and sexism.
We expect by the 25th November, that the lager of
Hohenleipich as a first step to close all lagers, if not we will go there to
demonstrate against violence against women.
Wir laden Sie herzlich zur Kundgebung “Gerechtigkeit für Rita!” am 27.08.2019 um 14:30 Uhr vor dem Brandenburgischen Innenministerium in Potsdam, Henning-von-Tresckow-Straße ein.
Die Kundgebung wird anlässlich des Mordes an Rita Awour Ojunge aus der Flüchtlingsunterkunft in Hohenleipisch von Women in Exile & Friends mit der Unterstützung vom Flüchtlingsrat Brandenburg, FIBB (Flüchtlingsinitiative Berlin/Brandenburg), ISD (Initiative Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland), Refugee Emancipation und Solidarity City Berlin organisiert.
Wir wollen gemeinsam Rita gedenken und fordern eine Aufklärung des Falles sowie die Schließung des Lagers in Hohenleipisch!
Rally in front of the Brandenburg Ministry of Interior in Potsdam- Henning-von-Tresckow-Str. (10 Min. walking from Potsdam Hauptbahnhof)
On 7th of April 019, our sister Rita Awour Ojunge, disappeard leaving behind two small kids. She was 32 years old, from Kenya and had been living in Germany for more than 7 years in the Lager of Hohenleipisch. It took the police 3 months to discover her remains in the forest near the Lager. Even to start looking for her despite the reports of many of her friends and neighbors, it took a call from Berlin police to make the Brandenburg police to even start looking for her seriously. Up to date no details surrounding the circumstances of her death were released officially.
On Friday 9th August, Women in Exile gave a workshop at the Climate Camp Leipzig which took part from 03.-.12.08 from a refugee’s women perspective. We shared how we see climate changes as one of the flight reasons leading to migration.
The reasons vary from land- & water grabbing, the destruction and change of eco-systems. Labour and resources exploitation are also factors contributing to climate changes and affecting people’s lives leading to migration and flight.
This was
followed up by discussions on concrete examples from cash crops e.g. the flower
industry in Kenya which supplies 80% of the European market, tropical
deforestation in African countries and the role of multinational companies.
On how to
connect our fights, work together and be part of an international movement
against climate injustice, we looked for answers to the question of what
practical steps the climate movements should take into consideration in
solidarity with the African countries.
Part of the call
on the Leipzig Climate camp was that; “the fight for climate justice cannot be
fought, without pushing back on racism and fascism. Therefore, the main focus
of this year’s climate camp will be anti-racism and anti-fascism”.
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