Text Series, Conference, and More The BG Conference "Allied Grounds" provides a space to explore and build connections between environmental and labor struggles. Workshops on October 5, 6, and 7 will bring together researchers, activists, and cultural workers from more than 25 countries and new ways to spend time together. ...

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The moral force of the environmental movements in the Global North seems undeniable: they are right about the destruction of the planet and its disastrous consequences for the majority of the world’s population. But are these movements actually capable of becoming agents of fundamental change, namely the transition from capitalism to ...

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Green jobs’ are a project of the ruling classes to create new opportunities for excessive profiteering. Challenging this means, not least, taking a look at workers’ organizations as different as mainstream unions and the offspring of anarcho-syndicalism: Are they succumbing to the promises of green capital, or are they fighting for ...

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Workers of all kinds are taking over their workplaces and organizing them according to horizontal, sustainable principles: without bosses, without the compulsion to make a profit, without the separation between production and reproduction. At the same time, capital’s value chains are changing and expanding in ways that make it more ...

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Der ab Herbst 1989 erfolgte Bruch mit der Stagnation und der zentralistischen Bevormundung in der DDR, der mit einer zeitweiligen Implosion und Infragestellung der staatlichen Apparate einherging, ermöglichten auch im Rundfunk bisher Ungewohntes. In Ost-Berlin, Erfurt, Chemnitz, Dresden und Weimar entdeckten ab Mai 1990 Initiativen aus ...

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The "GULAG XR" project is dedicated to the intersection of memory culture, digital technology and pedagogical innovation, and the possibilities of augmented reality (XR) as an educational tool, thus redefining access to complex historical events. Culture of remembering not only contributes to the preservation of historical ...

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Gespräch mit zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteur:Innen zur aktuellen Mieten-Not Podiumsdiskussion mit: Florian Rödl, Teil der Expertenkommission zum Volksentscheid "Vergesellschaftung großer Wohnungsunternehmen" des Berliner Senats Philipp Vergin, Mitglieder der Bizim Kiez Initiative aus Kreuzberg* Matthias Coers, Filmemacher, ...

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Wie zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement die Vergangenheit und Gegenwart prägt Vergessen, Erinnern und Prägen machen das Fundament von Erinnerungskulturen einer Gesellschaft aus. Ein aktiv erlebter und gelebter Umgang mit Unrecht, Leid, Widerstand und Errungenschaften der eigenen Geschichte ist Teil von Aufarbeitung- und ...

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Der Publizist Kurt Hiller, 1885 in Berlin geboren, war Organisator des Literarischen Expressionismus und Aktivismus um 1910 herum. In den 20ern führendes Mitglied der Deutschen Friedensbewegung, war Hiller ab 1924 neben Kurt Tucholsky und Carl von Ossietzky einer der Hauptautoren der Zeitschrift „Die Weltbühne“. Besonders ...

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The distorted image of the anarchist, or the various clichés about anarchism, have always been reflected in mainstream comics. For example, reporter Tintin struggles with accusations of being an anarchist in King Ottokar's Scepter, Batman has to deal with a violent opponent named Mr. Anarchy, and secret agents Clever and Smart ...

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