"The house you are born in determines your destiny" says a proverb. Fate-determining factors are named identity, origin or religion. Often, people are not only discriminated against on the basis of a single characteristic because of their membership in different social groups, but face various forms of discrimination, such as ...

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With each passing year, the GDR becomes grayer, its end more inevitable and the events of 1989 more unambiguous. Candles - demos - fall of the wall and that was all? Or was there something else? The exhibition "The Short Autumn of Utopia," realized in 1999, takes precisely this question as its starting point when it focuses on ...

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Film by Matthias Aberle, based on a book by Bert Papenfuß. The author will be present at the screening and will be available for discussion afterwards. Freelance and in-bound - this already existed in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the 1970s. During this time, a number of artists from Dresden, Radebeul, Halle and Weimar ...

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Economic and ecological crises are increasingly devastatingly intertwined and fuel each other: an ecological-economic complex (or: vicious circle) that produces pandemics, extreme weather events, the slow violence of climate catastrophe, and outright wars. At Berliner Gazette’s “After Extractivism” conference three panels with ...

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From a civil society perspective, the exhibition "The Short Autumn of Utopia 89?" shows the turnaround time (Wendezeit) from the perspective of people and groups who actively participated in this autumn of utopia. Ten years after the utopian autumn, this exhibition was created in 1999 and has been shown at regular intervals since ...

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was called "Mahatma" because he was able to develop a new nonviolent concept of resistance through solidarity support in South Africa between 1906 and 1908, which he called "Satyagraha": "Firmness in Truth". This concept was a combination of nonviolent noncooperation, passive ...

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The house is on fire. The fire department is slow to arrive. Residents form a human chain with fire buckets. There are small gaps, because some can't help, some don't like to help. What is to be done? One always has responsibility, personal responsibility, for example. Responsibility starts in the head. Some only see well with the heart. ...

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Freedom, justice, equality, solidarity - all these concepts are values against injustice and for human dignity. The way of a free society to justice is through responsibility. Only the political system based on the legal principle of universal freedom, i.e. responsibility, is able to mobilize common efforts for justice. The freedom of ...

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For a few years now, there has been an increased thematization of the history of the GDR opposition and the Wende period in comics and graphic novels. After Gerhard Seyfried's comic "Flucht aus Berlin" ("Escape from Berlin") had long dominated the representation of the Wende in (political) comics, there have recently been ...

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Solidarität mit den Gefangenen für den Frieden! Zum 1. Dezember, dem Internationalen Tag der Gefangenen für den Frieden, bittet die War Resisters’ International (WRI London) um Solidarität mit Menschen, die weltweit wegen ihrer Kriegsdienstverweigerung oder ihres Engagements für Frieden inhaftiert sind. Welche ...

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The action team of Amnesty International Berlin-Brandenburg organizes on 08.12.22 at 19 o'clock a discussion meeting with reading to the topic: "GRENZENLOSE GEWALT - HAT DIE EU DEN FRIEDENSNOBELPREIS NOCH VERDIENT?". The event will take place in the Robert Havemann Hall of the House of Democracy and Human Rights in Greifswalder ...

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