{"id":5603,"date":"2019-07-27T00:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2019-07-27T00:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T22:41:12","slug":"eroeffnungsrede-building-bridges-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/allgemein\/eroeffnungsrede-building-bridges-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Speech \u2013 Building Bridges Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nWe,\nWomen in Exile & Friends from Berlin\/Brandenburg welcome all of\nyou to our \u201cBuilding Bridges\u201d festival. We welcome you together\nwith sisters from Stimme der Frauen from Magdeburg, FLIT Solidarity\nAfrica from Munich, Frauen in Aktion from G\u00f6ttingen , NINA from\nHamburg, Activists from Halle, N\u00fcrnberg, Kiel, Mecklenburg\nVorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt and refugee women* from all over Germany.\nWelcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThis\nfestival will take place for the next three days here in \nOranienplatz, a square which is of historic significance for the\nself-organized refugee movement in Germany. As\nsome might know in 2012, seven\nyears ago, refugees marched by foot from Bavaria to Berlin. Right\nhere, they set up a protest camp to protest against the oppression of\nrefugees in Germany. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\nWe,\nWomen in Exile & friends and other self organised groups in\nBrandenburg organised a big demo in Potsdam to welcome the march and\nwalked together with them to Berlin and we were part of the\ndemonstrations, meetings and workshops in this place.\nTherefore Oranienplatz is a symbol of resistance against laws that\nviolate basic human rights, such as the freedom of movement, proper\naccommodation, right to education and work and we are proud to be\npart of it. Then,\nthe feminist perspective was not very present but now we are coming\nback to make visible the situation of refugee women* and their\nfights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWe\ndecided to organize a festival on the theme of \u201cBuilding Bridges\u201d\nbecause we believe in equal rights for everybody. Most of us\nidentifying as \u201crefugee women*\u201d, we don\u2019t feel part of \u201cthe\nfeminism movement\u201d. May it be because we don\u2019t know about it or\nmay it be\nbecause\nwhen \u201cism\u201d-words are used, we are left wondering how this western\n\u201cisms\u201d-culture is connected to our daily struggles. If we build\nfeminism together, it has to be a feminism\nwhich is inclusive and inter-sectional, a feminism that gives voice\nto all women* and puts an end to racist, sexist and discriminatory\nstructures. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCalling\nour festival \u201cBuilding Bridges\u201d was intentional because we are\naware of the existing gaps between illegalized people, refugees,\nmigrants and German citizens; gaps within the society which ends up\nweakening our movements like the refugee, anti-racist, or the\nfeminist movement. But in our festival we will be able to see how our\nfights are connected and find out ways on how we can join and fight\nracism and sexism together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nTo\nquote one activist: \u201cThe story of women\u2019s struggle for equality\nbelongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but to the\ncollective efforts of all who care about human rights.\u201d This is\nwhy at this point, we would like to thank all refugee women*,\nfriends, supporters, groups and or individuals working with refugee\nwomen* who have participated and supported the national wide actions\nwe have continually been organizing since the year 2014. Same, same\nbut different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nOur\nthanks also go to\nall the supporters who have put a lot of time and work into the\npreparation of this festival, those who will be translating, cooking,\ntaking care of children, taking care of techniques, drivers, the\nneighbouring community who will have to bear with us in the next days\nand of course the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWe\ncall upon all of us to participate in this festival with an open\nmind, reflecting on our own prejudices and privileges as we enjoy\ndifferent festivities which you can find in the program. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nWelcome,\nenjoy and take care of each other !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wir, Women in Exile & Friends aus Berlin-Brandenburg, hei\u00dfen euch alle herzlich willkommen Zu unserem \u201cBr\u00fccken Bauen\u201d Festival. Wir begr\u00fc\u00dfen euch gemeinsam mit unseren Schwestern von \u201cStimme der Frauen\u201d aus Magdeburg, FLIT Solidarity Africa aus M\u00fcnchen, \u201cFrauen in Aktion\u201d aus G\u00f6ttingen , NINA aus Hamburg, Aktivistinnen aus Halle, N\u00fcrnberg, Kiel, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt und weiteren […]<\/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-5603","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:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}