{"id":5126,"date":"2019-04-02T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:02:21","slug":"building-bridges-festival-26-29-07-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/allgemein\/building-bridges-festival-26-29-07-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Bridges Festival 26.-28.07. 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Translation: AR<\/a> | FR <\/a>| FA<\/a> |<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women in Exile & Friends are planning a three day open air summer action camp in Berlin. The protest camp is for refugee women* (individuals and refugee women groups) and women* working with and for refugee women* issues. This protest camp will enable all of us to exchange on our experiences as refugee women* living in isolation, facing racism and sexism. It will also give us the opportunity to explore on borders hindering our participation and to women in solidarity to reflect on their roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our aim is to bring\ntogether refugee women* who have participated on national wide\nactions we have been organising since the year 2014. The refugee\nwomen* from Berlin\/Brandenburg, Stimme der Frauen (Magdeburg), FLIT\nSolidarity Africa (Munich), Fl\u00fcchtlingsfrauengruppe (G\u00f6ttingen),\nNINA (Hamburg), Activists from N\u00fcrnberg, Kiel, Mecklenburg\nVorpommern and possibly all the refugee women* we have come into\ncontact with over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In workshops and\ndiscussions, we will deepen some of the topics from our 2017\n\u201cBreaking Borders Conference\u201d such as: new asylum laws,\nsolidarity feminism, self-organisation and health ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feminist\nsolidarity: How open are my political structures to refugee women*?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Is it possible\nto learn from past experience for current feminist fights?” This\nquestion keeps on recurring in solidarity feminist debates. For\ncenturies and decades, Women* have been organising themselves to\nfight against racism and sexism. Today we are organising ourselves\nfor the same causes. These fights come from different groups which\nare discriminated and marginalised in the society, each group\nfighting for the issues which affect them. So there is a need to\nnetwork and make \u201cyour fight, my fight\u201d. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refugee laws<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The refugee laws are\nchanging daily from bad to worse \u2013 from the backlash of the\nResidenzpflicht, racial profiling, vouchers etc. to new mass\naccommodations in the ANKER centers, proposals of new police laws and\nanother Seehofer draft called “Geordnete-R\u00fcckkehr-Gesetz”\non quick deportations and criminalisation of supporters and a\ncritical civil society. What are our roles in changing this game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health and the\nHealth Tribunal in 2020<\/strong> \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us refugee\nwomen and others we know are suffering traumas, depression and\nunexplained maladies connected to asylum seeking issues. We only have\naccess to \u201cthird class\u201d medical insurance and the\n\u201eAsylbewerberleistungsgesetz\u201c which was passed in 1993 to\ndiscourage asylum seekers from coming to or staying in Germany is\nracist and discriminating!! How can we as refugee women* be part of\nthe health tribunal taking place beginning of the year 2020 to\ndenounce this status quo. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tribunal will be\norganized in the tradition of the PPT (Permanent Peoples Tribunal)\nwhich is a platform to give recognition, visibility and a voice to\nthe peoples suffering violations of their fundamental rights, in this\ncase health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Activism\nand spontaneous Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children who are\npart of our movement and as the following generation of the future\nfighters will have the opportunity to enjoying their holidays by\ncoming out of the isolated spaces of the lagers and play together in\nthe open, draw and having a loving full childcare surrounding, which\nwill serve as a foundation of building future racist and sexist free\nsociety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be space\nfor creative and spontaneous actions such as a Flo\u00df- or street\ndemonstration, live concerts, films, performances or any other\naction. For this we will provide an open stage to speak out against\ndiscrimination and violence, using our different (artistic \/ cultural\n\/ creative) expressions, we will be bridging our political ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We see all this\nforms of expressions as a tool for self- and collective healing and\nvisibility in public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Vision?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is time to build\na feminism which is inclusive and intersectional, a feminism that\nlistens to all women* and ends racist, sexist and discriminatory\nstructures. Through our experience, we are aware that fighting\nbattles with women* is difficult because the society and the women*\nthemselves think that women* are or should be happy with the little\nthey have. For this reason, we expect from non-refugee women* an open\nminded solidarity participation in denouncing discrimination, racism,\nsexism and violence. It is time to look at our fights as same, same\nbut different. We, refugee women*, are willing to join the civil\nsociety and be part of the fight to change the course of history. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ask the non-refugee women* to reflect on \u201chow your political structures are open to refugee women*\u201d and how you could support or join the protest camp Building Bridges Festival. To quote one activist: \u201cThe story of women\u2019s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation, but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are women* living\nin this society and are part of the fight for a fair, inclusive\nsociety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot succeed if\npart of us are held back as refugee women* and we will continue\ndenouncing racist\u2019s laws, the existence of lagers and deportation\npolicies. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will continue\nbreaking borders by bringing awareness about colonialism, capitalism\nand other flight reasons. These issues cannot be ignored. We have the\nright to peace, social inclusion and shared prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the protest camp we’ll connect with other groups at the 5-days-meeting*Summer Feminist Connect* (30.7.-3.8.) in Meuchefitz (Wendland), which is collectively organized by NINA Hamburg, FLIT Solidarity Africa and Women in Exile & Friends. If you are interested to get more information and to join, let us know or mail to feminist_connect[at]riseup.net!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00dcbersetzung: AR | FR | FA | Women in Exile & Friends plant ein dreit\u00e4giges Sommeraktionscamp in Berlin. Das Protest Camp ist f\u00fcr gefl\u00fcchtete Frauen* (sowohl Einzelpersonen als auch Fl\u00fcchtlingsfrauen*gruppen) und Frauen*, die mit Fl\u00fcchtlingsfrauen* oder zu ihren Anliegen arbeiten. Das Protest Camp soll einen Austausch \u00fcber unsere Erfahrungen als Fl\u00fcchtlingsfrauen* erm\u00f6glichen, die wir in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-building_bridges_festival"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}