On Saturday (an probably Sunday) there will be workshops
here a first overview:
COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP
Why is it often difficult to develop a good communication within groups when doing progressive political work?
Why do projects often have a problem to develop a good interaction as a base of continuous communal work?
What are the experiences? Why is the work of our communication an important aspect of political work?
How do people communicate with each other? What are the methods to communicate together and in a productive way within the groups?
screenprinting at Vetomat
Vetomat is a new DIYSilkscreenprintingcollective with a cafe in Friedrichshain.In our workshop you can bring your own clothes, we explain the printing technique and then help you to print the clothes with a motive. If you want or can please bring a motive as you wish copied on transparency (a clear plastic sheet),if not possible no problem. Unfortunately there is a little fee for the colours.
Kraakers from Amsterdam
will report about their local situation. also there will be some films and a practical part...
Workshop about police stratgies in germoney
There will be information about taktics the pigs use against demonstrators. some proposals how you should act in certain situations and some films to visualize all this
Out of Action Emotional First Aid
Political activity often comes along with the experience of political violence which can lead to a mental trauma.
This is not an individual problem of the person but a method of state actvity which we want to oppose something.
In our workshop we are going to tell to tell how traumas can arise, how you can recognize a trauma and to show how to deal with that.
Workshop about FreeEconomy and solidary Comunities
A solidary Comunitiy is a network of people who share something, and offer or leave stuff to eachother. This might be people using the same house as well as your friends. The base is generally trust in each other.
The meeting should give introduction into free enconomy, freeshops and solidary comunities as well as motivate you to found new strucutres. Further basic questions can be discused...
Internet: www.solidarnetzwerk.de.vu und www.cosmopool.net
Unpacking the Biotech engines
(sorry nur englische Workshop Ankündigung...)
After a succesfull meeting gainst the biotechnology of domination past febuary at peoples global action (PGA) wintermeeting, we want to continue information and networking eco-struggles meetings in different areas in europe. the next station is at the rigaer strasse campain. We seperate the workshop in two parts - biotechnology lobies, new technologies (includes photos, videos) - international resistance and linking struggles against the eco-terrorism of domination-coordinators activists from pga info point in berlin with the support of the order81 collective (greece)
Peoples Global Action (PGA) infopoint in Berlin meeting
pga infopoint in berlin info meeting about the global resistance and perspectives. From indiato the indigenous autonomous spaces in Chiapas. From europe and the g8 protests to the international networking struggles. The mmeting includes three different parts: global resistance and the brief history of pga, hallmarks of pga, tools of the network (infopoints - conference - digital tools) more info http://pgaconference.org ; http://agp.org
contact berlin-info@lists.riseup.net
Sleeping place list
We've got a sleeping place list organised.
If you need somewhere to stay for the long weekend, write a mail to:
verschlafenInBerlin@yahoo.com
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If you need somewhere to stay for the long weekend, write a mail to:
verschlafenInBerlin@yahoo.com
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The Program
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FRIDAY:
Doubble Demonstration against Gentrification
Bike Demo from Kreuzberg: Meetingpoint 3:30 pm @ the ex-House project Yorck Straße 59
Demonstration from Friedrichshain: 4 pm Rigaer Str. corner Liebig Str.
The two Demonstrations will meet about 6:30 pm @ Stralauer Allee
8pm: Vokü (peoples Kitchen) @ XB (Liebig Str. 34) and Fischladen (Rigaer Str. 83)
about 8pm: Kicker (table football) competition @ Rigaer Str. 78
8:30pm: Info-meeting about the stituation of the projects in Rigaer Str. and Liebig Str. at Fischladen ( 83 Rigaer Straße)
From 10pm onwards Parties:
Karaoke @ Beamer (Rigaer Str. 84)
"Daddel-Disco" @ Kadterschmiede (Rigaer Str. 94)
"Queerparty" @ XB (Liebig Str. 34)
Party @ Fischladen (Rigaer Str. 83)
Punk Rock Bar @ KontrollPunkt (Rigaer Str. 84)
SATURDAY:
12am: Brunch @ Vetomat (Scharnweber Str. 35)
2pm: Workshops (see extra List)
4pm: Skating competition @ Vorki
8pm: Vokü (Cheap food) @ XB and Fischladen
10pm: Concert Illdåd (Sweden) and Guantanamo Bay (Sweden) + Special Guest
and later street Disco ...
SUNDAY:
1pm: Brunch and chillout @ XB-liebig
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FRIDAY:
Doubble Demonstration against Gentrification
Bike Demo from Kreuzberg: Meetingpoint 3:30 pm @ the ex-House project Yorck Straße 59
Demonstration from Friedrichshain: 4 pm Rigaer Str. corner Liebig Str.
The two Demonstrations will meet about 6:30 pm @ Stralauer Allee
8pm: Vokü (peoples Kitchen) @ XB (Liebig Str. 34) and Fischladen (Rigaer Str. 83)
about 8pm: Kicker (table football) competition @ Rigaer Str. 78
8:30pm: Info-meeting about the stituation of the projects in Rigaer Str. and Liebig Str. at Fischladen ( 83 Rigaer Straße)
From 10pm onwards Parties:
Karaoke @ Beamer (Rigaer Str. 84)
"Daddel-Disco" @ Kadterschmiede (Rigaer Str. 94)
"Queerparty" @ XB (Liebig Str. 34)
Party @ Fischladen (Rigaer Str. 83)
Punk Rock Bar @ KontrollPunkt (Rigaer Str. 84)
SATURDAY:
12am: Brunch @ Vetomat (Scharnweber Str. 35)
2pm: Workshops (see extra List)
4pm: Skating competition @ Vorki
8pm: Vokü (Cheap food) @ XB and Fischladen
10pm: Concert Illdåd (Sweden) and Guantanamo Bay (Sweden) + Special Guest
and later street Disco ...
SUNDAY:
1pm: Brunch and chillout @ XB-liebig
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The Long Weekend of Rigaer Strasse
Never give up - Never Surrender!
Rigaerstraße Fight Back!
(Not only) Berlin 2007: People's everyday life is increasingly dominated by fear, stress, and sorrow. Workplaces and social structures are being reduced, the cost of living is growing, at the same time incomes decline and jobs become more insecure. Unemployed people are being demonised as "parasites" and rents are getting higher,
even though thousands of houses are empty and slowly rotting. To be concise: the situation is becoming more and more impossible, especially for those who do not accept this logic and competion.
The space for open projects, non-commercial social relations, alternative forms of living and the freedom from state control, from the
pressure to consume and discrimination is becoming less and less. Projects have existed for many years representing such freespaces are being bought, evicted, modernised and forgotten! Those who have survived this are facing constantly changing conditons that makes their existence unbearable.
Due to these reasons, different houses in Rigaer Straße have come together in order to fight against the loss of their freespaces which are not yet
(completely) under control, in which there is still a possibility of (relative) free movement, which offer people a place where they can realise their ideas,
different ways of life and dreams. A space where there is no place for fascists, racists, sexists and anti-semites! Our anti-fascist houses offer a secure place and support to people who are under threat or attacked from these arseholes.
We want to live through the concept of self-organisation and DIY rather than anonymously and as strangers. At the same time, since we are still
living within a capitalist society, we do carry all it's contradictions in ourselves, against which we have to fight against every day. It is exactly this everyday fight we want to bring forward here in Rigaer Straße. However, we also do want to make clear that the problem for us is not merely the one of keeping our freespaces, in order to live "confortably", but rather to have structures and offer them as space to other autonomous projects and groups.
However, what we are faced with now is the modern process of gentrification. Gentrification describes a process where an area is made posh - rent and the cost of living increases, local amenities close down and are replaced with shops selling useless luxury items, local pubs are replaced by souless yuppie bars, the area is cleaned and sterilised. The exisiting residents are forced out, and are replaced by a homogenous mass of white middle class consumers. Speculators invest and demand profit, resulting in the building of more luxury housing and further modernisation, which accelerates the process.
Living and social spaces for those who do not have much money are simply disappearing. Many house projects, traveller sites and autonomous structures are being confronted with this problem, and they are fighting for their survival. They are not the only ones who are facing this: it is about many more people, because gentrification means displacement and exclusion for the unemployed, low-waged, ethnic minorities, homeless as well as people like us.
Exactly because of this, it is important to work together now and make clear that there are many people who are unwilling to bow to this pressure, who are still going to be lindividuals and loud! How long would it take before this gentrification process would turn this town into a completely controlled and sterilised place? One of the best examples of this process is the "Media Spree Project": an aggressive development in Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain around the area of the Spree river, which has been transformed into a place for multi-national companies, penthouses and other kinds of expensive rubbish.
There is a question that surely remains: how much further this process can go ahead without resistance? There is indeed many groups and initiatives who are trying to fight against this by decided and radical (and militant) means. We think that direct action is always a good answer. We are determined that we will not give up our free-spaces, houses, infoshops and somethings more, without struggle and resistance. That is why we have got together and we decided to give life to a campaign which will allow us to keep these free-spaces in Rigaer Straße - as in Berlin and all around the world - and actually even creating more, since our spaces are always getting smaller and tighter...
A campaign to show the municipality, the city, and the investors how we will not tolerate their desire to make profits here, because there are still many people that want to fight for a society free from oppression. We have many ideas, and we need many more, on how to keep being "a spanner in the works" of the gentrification process. However, this struggle needs support from every side, in order to achieve our aim.
Don´t let the selling out of your city going further! It is about OUR life! About the right to self-determination and development for everybody! Don´t let yourself be kicked out and don´t allow others to be kicked out! Build networks, build groups! Spit in the fucking soup of the investors, yuppies and city planners!
Self-organisation means , and above all, working together in solidarity, so that in another 20 years there will still be DIY projects!
Therefore, pay attention to future announcements, be prepared, and let us show them that Copenhagen is not so faraway...
Freespaces will be fought for - not begged for!
Solidarity with all endangered projects!
You know where it still rocks - Rigaer Straße every night!
Rigaerstraße Fight Back!
(Not only) Berlin 2007: People's everyday life is increasingly dominated by fear, stress, and sorrow. Workplaces and social structures are being reduced, the cost of living is growing, at the same time incomes decline and jobs become more insecure. Unemployed people are being demonised as "parasites" and rents are getting higher,
even though thousands of houses are empty and slowly rotting. To be concise: the situation is becoming more and more impossible, especially for those who do not accept this logic and competion.
The space for open projects, non-commercial social relations, alternative forms of living and the freedom from state control, from the
pressure to consume and discrimination is becoming less and less. Projects have existed for many years representing such freespaces are being bought, evicted, modernised and forgotten! Those who have survived this are facing constantly changing conditons that makes their existence unbearable.
Due to these reasons, different houses in Rigaer Straße have come together in order to fight against the loss of their freespaces which are not yet
(completely) under control, in which there is still a possibility of (relative) free movement, which offer people a place where they can realise their ideas,
different ways of life and dreams. A space where there is no place for fascists, racists, sexists and anti-semites! Our anti-fascist houses offer a secure place and support to people who are under threat or attacked from these arseholes.
We want to live through the concept of self-organisation and DIY rather than anonymously and as strangers. At the same time, since we are still
living within a capitalist society, we do carry all it's contradictions in ourselves, against which we have to fight against every day. It is exactly this everyday fight we want to bring forward here in Rigaer Straße. However, we also do want to make clear that the problem for us is not merely the one of keeping our freespaces, in order to live "confortably", but rather to have structures and offer them as space to other autonomous projects and groups.
However, what we are faced with now is the modern process of gentrification. Gentrification describes a process where an area is made posh - rent and the cost of living increases, local amenities close down and are replaced with shops selling useless luxury items, local pubs are replaced by souless yuppie bars, the area is cleaned and sterilised. The exisiting residents are forced out, and are replaced by a homogenous mass of white middle class consumers. Speculators invest and demand profit, resulting in the building of more luxury housing and further modernisation, which accelerates the process.
Living and social spaces for those who do not have much money are simply disappearing. Many house projects, traveller sites and autonomous structures are being confronted with this problem, and they are fighting for their survival. They are not the only ones who are facing this: it is about many more people, because gentrification means displacement and exclusion for the unemployed, low-waged, ethnic minorities, homeless as well as people like us.
Exactly because of this, it is important to work together now and make clear that there are many people who are unwilling to bow to this pressure, who are still going to be lindividuals and loud! How long would it take before this gentrification process would turn this town into a completely controlled and sterilised place? One of the best examples of this process is the "Media Spree Project": an aggressive development in Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain around the area of the Spree river, which has been transformed into a place for multi-national companies, penthouses and other kinds of expensive rubbish.
There is a question that surely remains: how much further this process can go ahead without resistance? There is indeed many groups and initiatives who are trying to fight against this by decided and radical (and militant) means. We think that direct action is always a good answer. We are determined that we will not give up our free-spaces, houses, infoshops and somethings more, without struggle and resistance. That is why we have got together and we decided to give life to a campaign which will allow us to keep these free-spaces in Rigaer Straße - as in Berlin and all around the world - and actually even creating more, since our spaces are always getting smaller and tighter...
A campaign to show the municipality, the city, and the investors how we will not tolerate their desire to make profits here, because there are still many people that want to fight for a society free from oppression. We have many ideas, and we need many more, on how to keep being "a spanner in the works" of the gentrification process. However, this struggle needs support from every side, in order to achieve our aim.
Don´t let the selling out of your city going further! It is about OUR life! About the right to self-determination and development for everybody! Don´t let yourself be kicked out and don´t allow others to be kicked out! Build networks, build groups! Spit in the fucking soup of the investors, yuppies and city planners!
Self-organisation means , and above all, working together in solidarity, so that in another 20 years there will still be DIY projects!
Therefore, pay attention to future announcements, be prepared, and let us show them that Copenhagen is not so faraway...
Freespaces will be fought for - not begged for!
Solidarity with all endangered projects!
You know where it still rocks - Rigaer Straße every night!
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