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There are no words that could possibly describe the sadness and anger we feel regarding the loss of our friend and *fC member Aref Torkaman. So instead we want to amplify the moving words of Sabotage Theater Collective کلکتیو تئاتر سابوتاژ

"Hate attacks are not always acute, they can be a systematic process".

Before you continue reading, please know that we are collecting donations for Aref's funeral and really every Euro counts, so please please support us and Aref's friends in this: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8t0UnKY4JQ

"At the beginning of last week we lost our friend and comrade Aref - Aref Torkaman.
He had fled Iran because he was openly agnostic and because of his political activities, and for this faced prison.
It took him years to finally arrive in Berlin. He was in prison in Greece, he suffered unbelievable and inhumane violence on his way, and in Germany, because of Dublin, they wanted to deport him back to Greece.
In Berlin, he did not find the life he had imagined. This place could not give him the belonging and the freedom he was striving for.
He fled Iran because he wanted to openly raise his voice, but in Germany, nobody heard his voice:
Living in a Lager with security guards at the entrance checking on when you enter and when you leave, where friends are not allowed to visit.
Facing the terrorizing bureaucracy that frames your everyday life.
Ausländerbehörde, Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten, Soziale Wohnhilfe, Jobcenter, Verwaltungsgericht… this has nothing to do with the imagined freedom.
Aref did not live as a person here, but as a refugee! Because the word refugee does not mean a person who is fleeing or who has fled. Here you simply distinguish between persons - human beings who naturally have a voice - and refugees - someone only close to a person without a voice with rights close to a human being’s right.
Aref had many plans, dreams and interests. He wanted to work as a film director, he played theater with us. He was the most sensitive and innocent person we have ever met.
And now, in the dullness and indifference of this country, of this fortress Europe, that rather lets people die in the desert, in the ocean, be kept in prison, be killed by suffering from humiliating practices, a fortress Europe that rather pays other countries to close and guard their borders, than being a place of free movement and life, a Europe that - if people make it to enter - treats them like 2nd class people and allows for N***s to hunt and kill them, allows for people to end up in desperation; in this dullness and indifference, after years of struggle and fighting and going on, Aref finally lost his hope and, in his room of the Lager, put a plastic bag over his head, to not breathe anymore.
Why do you want to breathe when your voice is silenced?
You might call this a su***de, but we say that he was killed by oppression, ignorance and indifference."

We mourn Aref and collect costs for his funeral We mourn Aref and collect costs for his funeral. Please only donate what you can. All the money that will be left over will be donated to initiatives with which Aref is closely connected. Thank you !

Today, 6 months ago, a racist killed 9 people in Hanau.

Today we'll commemorate the victims and insist once again that this was not a singular case committed by one confused individual.

See you at Hermannplatz at 6pm!

We will never forget you
Ferhat Ünvar
Gökhan Gültekin
Hamza Kurtović
Mercedes Kierpacz
Sedat Gürbüz
Kalojan Welkow
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Said Nessar El Hashemi
Vili Viorel Păun

The world's complex, our lives are complex and so are our friendships. They don't come naturally, they require work, care, reflection and understanding.
A wonderful text about friendship and privileges by the ever so smart Bahareh Sharifi 💜

Freundschaft und Privilegien In unseren vielfältigen Beziehungen, die wir mit Menschen haben, nehmen Freundschaften eine besondere Rolle ein. Im Gegensatz zur Herkunftsfamilie, ausbildungs- und beruflichen Umfeld, ist Freundschaft in der Regel ein selbstbestimmter sozialer Raum. Freundschaften sind quasi der gesellschaftliche ...

Supporting Resistance Is Supporting Education!

Educators, the University of Rojava is looking for educational inputs, teaching methods and strategies and exchange. Check it out and become involved!

Your Rojava | ROJAVAuni About the CampaignContribution AppealNewsSend a Video for RojavaLetters of solidarityPrivacy and PoliciesAbout the Campaign Call for involvement in support Campaign Supporting Resistance is supporting Education   The change could start from one person, your contribution matters. We aim to reach a h...

Life's unfortunately not a bitch, but the world is still a patriarchal dung heap! To some more than to others.
Surely many of us can spare a few Euros to support dear P**a to recover from a violent attack and to heal and keep on flourishing notwithstanding the racist and transphobic structures of German bureaucracy. 🌸

P**a's Recovery Fund Calling your support! for P**a Alatrash: a transfemme sexworker and performer who is now in a financially, mentally and physcially dangerous situation after a violent attack on the streets of Berlin.

Another year has passed...this weekend, weißensee academy of art berlin opens its virtual doors to the public streaming festival 'weißensee TV'. And guess who is o n b o a r d?!

Check out the screening of *foundationClass & Grundlagen!
S U N D A Y, July 19th, 11-12.00 here https://weissensee.tv/

*foundationClass members Osamah Abouzor, Fiona Rachel Waddell, Michaele Daoud, Mersede Jamzade, P**a Alatrash, Najwa Ahmed, Arref Ferreo, Ramz M Melhem, Ayham Allouch are showing the audio-visual installation "A Line of Tape in the Wind" developed during a workshop by Ali Kaaf with the support of Mohamad Halbouni!

The pandemic situation intensifies existing structures of intersectional discrimination, also and especially in the educational sphere. Questions like ‘who benefits from staying and studying at home, who can access digital teaching-learning settings and who cannot’ became highly relevant for *foundationClass by the time of the lockdown and still are today. But while the decision to continue *foundationClass in the digital space was and is connected to a huge risk of frustration, it also created a positive space of reflection where strategies of inclusive teaching and knowledge production gain new urgency. A spark of it resonates in *foundationClass’ audio-visual installation presented at the festival.

"On the anniversary of the nail bomb attack on June 9th 2004, we commemorate the victims of racist violence and the fight against racism together with victims from Keupstraße and Probsteigasse, where an NSU bomb also exploded in 2001, and with representatives of the Initiative 19. Februar from Hanau."

For Enver Şimşek, Abdurrahim Özüdoğru, Süleyman Taşköprü, Habil Kılıç, Mehmet Turgut, İsmail Yaşar, Theodoros Boulgarides, Mehmet Kubaşık, Halit Yozgat and Michèle Kiesewetter, who were killed by the NSU.
For Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Ünvar, Gökhan Gültekin, Hamza Kurtović, Kalojan Welkow, Mercedes Kierpacz, Said Nesar El Hashemi, Sedat Gürbüz, Vili Viorel Păun, who were shot dead in Hanau. For Jana L. and Kevin S., who were murdered Halle.
For Arkan Hussein Khalaf, who was stabbed to death in Celle, as well as for all other victims of racist violence.