Political activity in workshops for people with disabilities
The project aims at empowerment, self-activation and knowledge of the potential for political activism of people with a disability. We want to collectively explore the motivations and areas of political activism of people with a disability.
We start from the approaches of the political training of proximity and we will place the project in the workshops for people with disabilities. The target group of the project are the members of the workshop councils, people with a disability who have been elected as representatives by their own colleagues. In Germany, more than 320,000 people with a disability work in around 700 workshops with more than 2,500 centers. Our project will collaborate with some of the members of the nearly 9,000 workers in the 17 workshops in Berlin.
Duration: February to November 2023
Financing:
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Learning from the Global South
Collective defense of human rights_Experiences from Latin America
In Latin America, civil society activism is one of the main drivers of social innovation and democratic development. Civil societies have developed innovative forms of mobilization and organization. One of the central fields of civil society activism is the collective defense of human rights. The backgrounds of activists are as diverse as the goals they defend: women's rights, the environment, indigenous peoples, children, minorities, refugees or LGBTQ+ groups.
The project aims to
- to report on human rights in Latin America and the experiences and approaches of human rights activism in this continent,
- denouncing the threats faced by human rights activists z
- to raise awareness of the importance of defending human rights in our own context.
We want to achieve this goal by
- collaborating with local, regional and international organizations,
- offering activists a space to present their activities and those of the organizations to which they belong,
- to situate their experiences in a regional or continental context and
- to promote exchange and reflection on the defense of human rights in our context.
Duration: February to November 2023
Financing:
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Narrating migrant biographies. Workshop for the production of political podcasts
Individual stories have the potential to convey a message; they can become a vehicle for discourse that describes situations, explains problems and provides answers. Biographies convey knowledge and enable the transfer of experiences that can initiate the learning process on almost any subject. The question, however, is how to tell and convey this story.
How to make a story mobilize, transmit the most important ideas, spread and become a reference for a specific audience? This project aims to provide the necessary tools to do so.
This project is based on biographical work to develop the narrative on migrations. We will work with activists from migrant associations from different communities to collect biographical testimonies and process them through the podcast medium. The biographical approach in the context of migration can serve to inform the host society about the migrant reality, but it can also make an important contribution to community building.
Duration: April to November 2023
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European Network of Returnees and Emigrants
The project aims to promote transnational exchange between organizations offering advice to European returnees and people wishing to emigrate. Our partners in the project are the Raphaelswerk e.V. (Hamburg) and the Asociación Granadina de Emigrantes y Retornados (AGER) (Granada). Both are dedicated to advising and supporting German and Spanish returnees and emigrants, respectively.
We want to open a transnational learning space that allows us to learn about different contexts and approaches. Our objective is to identify the needs of vulnerable returnees, as well as those of people who want to migrate in order to
- to learn about, develop, test and adapt experiences, methodologies and tools that allow us to improve our work and
- to create a transnational network of organizations doing similar work to identify, make visible and defend the interests of migrants and returnees at the European level.
Duration: March 2023 - March 2024
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Financing:
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Genealogy of the political thought of the new of the new rightists
Have you ever wondered where Donald Trump's narrative comes from? What elements do VOX leaders appeal to in order to structure their narrative? Is there a conceptual root between what the far-right says in Spain, France, Hungary or even Latin America?
This seminar will help you understand his political thought on the contemporary ultra-right in Spain and Latin America.
It is a discourse that goes far beyond mere communicational tactics. On the contrary, they are elements of premises, assumptions and theories developed by a group of thinkers for several decades: the ideologues of the new right wing.
Philosophers who defend the authoritarian proposal, who reject human rights, who justify racism. They are the ideas of those who seek a system that erodes democratic values. They are the ideas for destruction.
You will get the necessary tools to detect their manipulations and disarticulate their arguments. An opportunity to effectively prevent their narratives and frames from spreading in society.