RESQSHIP is part of this year’s LOUD AID Festival at Hamburg’s Spielbudenplatz – a powerful political rally for diversity, solidarity and human dignity.
With a video presentation, a speech and an interview on stage, RESQSHIP makes visible what is happening every day at Europe’s external borders: the deaths in the Mediterranean as a result of political isolation. We talk about our civil sea rescue missions, about maritime solidarity – and about why we keep going despite all the adversity.
The LOUD AID Festival is supported by numerous artists who are working together to combat hatred and exclusion:
- digital live contributions from Culcha Candela
- Statements & songs by Sportfreunde Stiller
- “One Voice” – a live broadcast to Ukraine
- a video greeting and songs by Die Fantastischen Vier
Marlo Großhardt opens the evening program with the song “Oma” – a touching appeal to remembrance, responsibility and civil courage in the spirit of the generations.
Hamburg, Spielbudenplatz – On 11 July 2025, the neighbourhood will be transformed into a mile of lived diversity: in St. Pauli, self-organized and solidarity groups will take their messages to the streets – loudly, empoweringly and lovingly. More than 20 initiatives from Hamburg and beyond invite you to join in with campaigns, exhibitions and exchange formats. What unites them: a common commitment to a fairer world – for DIVERSITY.
Rally with attitude – in the middle of the neighborhood
Hamburg is proud of its cosmopolitanism – but global inequalities, isolation and structural violence often start right on our own doorstep.
The Initiative Mile on Spielbudenplatz brings precisely this to the streets:
Commemoration, resistance, self-organization, remembrance, inclusion, intersectionality and cultural diversity – live, open and low-threshold.
Hamburg – the “gateway to the world”
The port of Hamburg is a place of arrival – and at the same time of isolation.
From colonialism and the deaths in the Mediterranean to institutional and right-wing violence, global inequalities often begin on our own doorstep.
But at the same time, movements of remembrance, self-organization and solidarity – for justice, love and DIVERSITY – are alive here!
Commemoration. Remember. Empower. DIVERSITY. Celebrate.
The Initiative Mile will be co-designed by over 20 groups – including:
Amnesty International Hamburg
Anti-ableist action Lüneburg
ARCA – African Education Center / Fasiathek Asmara’s World
Clubkombinat Hamburg / What The Fear
Cop Watch Hamburg
Flora for all
Hamburg says NO to the payment card
I-Point Skateland
Kohero Magazine
Loud against Nazis
Magnus Hirschfeld Center
Grannies against the right
Remember Yaya Jabbi
RESQSHIP
Sea Punks
Sea-Watch
Skateboard
SüdheideBUNDT-Alliance for Democracy and Diversity We’llcome United Hamburg
Welcoming Out
We pack our deco suitcase – Youth remembers – decolonized!
Actions on the Mile:
- Interactive speeches & interviews
- Flash mob & democracy ballet with grannies against the right
- Skate ramps & creative hands-on stands
- Postcolonial Hamburg Quiz Book & Chill Lounge
- Wheelchair climbing campaign
- Dance Performance & Music
- Social media join-in campaigns
Postcolonial search for traces in Hamburg
In the middle of the neighbourhood, between Reeperbahn and Hafenstraße, bridges are being built – symbolically and in real life:
between past and present, between barriers and accessibility, between self-organization and solidarity.
For a city that shapes history(ies) anew and together.
The educational initiative “Wir packen unseren Deko-Koffer – Jugend erinnert – dekolonisiert!” (“We’re packing our deco suitcase – youth remembers – decolonized!”) goes in search of traces in post-colonial Hamburg – for a city that is making (all) history.
On the Initiative Mile, this can be experienced through an interactive post-colonial Hamburg quiz, developed with the Arbeitskreis Postkolonial Hamburg and the ARCA – Afrikanisches Bildungszentrum, funded by the BKM.
The Book & Chill Lounge is a special place to learn and unlearn: kohero magazine and the Fasiathek – Hamburg’s first Afro-centric library – invite you to engage in critical debate and empowering reading.
Escape. Arrival. Resistance.
The Mediterranean is considered the deadliest border in the world – a symbol of an isolationist policy that costs human lives.
Sea-Watch, RESQSHIP and the Sea Punks provide practical sea rescue there – with courage, humanity and maritime solidarity. They bring their perspectives to the Initiative Mile – just a few meters from the Port of Hamburg.
Yaya Jabbi fled across the Mediterranean and arrived in St. Pauli. He loved his family, wanted to learn, live and arrive. In 2016, he died in police custody in Hamburg.
The “Remember Yaya Jabbi” initiative commemorates his life with a moving short film – narrated by his older brother. It is a memory that calls for justice.
Cop Watch Hamburg documents racist police violence in so-called “dangerous places”. Their demand: consequences instead of repression.
The campaign “Hamburg says NO to the payment card” also makes it clear: exclusionary social policy has no place in a city of solidarity.
Feminist. Anti-fascist. Queer. Loud.
The Initiative Mile is a place of lived diversity:
Welcoming Out, the Magnus Hirschfeld Centrum and Clubkombinat Hamburg / What The Fear are committed to queer visibility, self-determination and awareness – on the Reeperbahn and everywhere.
Laut gegen Nazis, Südheide gegen Rechts, Omas gegen Rechts and Flora für Alle show clear opposition to fascism, right-wing agitation and exclusion.
Accessibility is also political:
Anti-ableist Action Lüneburg criticizes special structures such as special schools and workshops – and uses a wheelchair climbing campaign on the mile to highlight how inaccessible places such as the Reeperbahn often are.
Pause for thought. Remember. Moving forward together.
For all those who died on the run.
For Yaya Jabbi.
For living on in our movements – loudly, lovingly and justly.
Minute’s silence for the people who died on the run!
Approx. 18:00 Spielbudenplatz Hamburg (an initiative of Laut gegen Nazis e.V.)
The current decisions of the new German government have far-reaching consequences. People fleeing wars, climate change and poverty are finding it even more difficult.
Since 2024, over 30,000 children, women and men have died in the Mediterranean alone.
The number of unreported cases is likely to be significantly higher.
Thousands of people have also died on the Balkan route and overland in recent years.
Once they arrive in Germany, those in need of protection are exposed to reprisals and prejudice from civil society. This has been stoked for years by right-wing populists from the AfD and some democratic party politicians.
The CDU/SPD-led German government recently announced the cancellation of all state funding for sea rescues in the Mediterranean – the cancellation of this funding is forcing an even higher death rate on one of the world’s most dangerous escape routes.
The policy of sealing people off began long before this. The rejections at the external borders through massive border controls and deportations are inhumane and at the same time a violation of applicable European law.
The Ampel government under Chancellor Scholz already announced mass deportations of people, which are now being carried out under the current federal government. Children are even being officially picked up from school and taken home so that the whole family can be removed from Germany immediately.
By implementing these measures, current politicians are chasing after the AfD’s long-standing demands.
This is how racism, discrimination and contempt for humanity are being stirred up in this civil society. Together with all those involved, we are holding a minute’s silence:
For all those who have died on the run.
For Yaya Jabbi – who died in Hamburg after fleeing, in police custody, in a system that makes racist violence possible.
For the continuation of life in our movements – loudly, lovingly and justly.
We remember the dead – and at the same time demand an end to the dying:
At Europe’s external borders. In the camps. On the streets. In the institutions.
We also want to work with the relevant authorities to try
After the minute’s silence,
Nadine Fingerhut & Jörn Menge play their song for sea rescue in the Mediterranean.
HOPEFUL SOULS
https://open.spotify.com/intl- en/track/0sv5KmGvEVZSbiHvlnRTIP?si=2kT10VVHSfepdEzmWrP_1A
Marlo Großhardt opens our event with the song “Oma” – a touching appeal to remembrance, responsibility and civil courage in the spirit of the generations.
We are delighted that he is supporting our rally with his song “Oma”.
This song touched millions of people on social media!
At a time when we are all aware that the spectre of right-wing extremism is growing ever larger. At a time when you could argue that it would have made sense if we had listened to contemporary witnesses and many a grandma.
This song is both moving and a testimony to our times.
Lyrics:
Hello, Grandma, I didn’t want to disturb you
But I’m more scared than ever right now
You always joined us at the kitchen table
And said to myself: “Never again, that’s it”
You’ve been away for quite a while now
But I wish for your wise ear one last time
Because we, we are electing Nazis to the council again
And fighting back is currently very hard
Yes, because they haven’t been listening to us for a long time
And the solution they have is clearly a taboo
Because they, they stir up hatred of the unknown again
You can’t rely on humanity right now
I am speaking for the very first time since the election
With my friends about where we are going
If this really escalates here in a few years’ time
But I fight so long that it doesn’t happen in the first place
Hello, grandma, I didn’t want to disturb you
But I’m more scared than ever right now
They’re coming back now, yes, with their fucking chatter
But I know: Never again, that’s now
After this wonderful song, we will have a short table talk on stage with representatives of the Omas gegen Rechts. About emotions after this song and the current situation this country finds itself in.
A country that bears more responsibility than any other country in the world due to its own history.
Thanks to Marlo and all the grannies who warned us again and again!
Live broadcast
“One Voice” – supported by Sportfreunde Stiller
On July 11, Kultur.Konvoi will bring the OneVoice format to Spielbudenplatz – live at the Loud Aid Festival by Laut gegen Nazis. OneVoice opens a digital window into another reality of life and brings Ukrainian musicians to the multimedia walls of soccer stadiums (e.g. Borussia Mönchengladbach or SC Freiburg) and festivals (e.g. Pinot&Rock, OpenAir St. Gallen). The special thing about it is the interaction, both sides see and hear each other. Now the format is coming to Hamburg. This time the musician Alex will be live from Kharkiv. He plays music, talks about his everyday life – and listens to us. In the encounter of such different realities, something entirely positive develops. It shakes us up – and at the same time makes it clear what happens when fascism wins.
How does it feel when freedom and security become abstract concepts?
Kultur.Konvoi has been connecting artists from Ukraine with people from Europe since 2024. Whether through light art, music or other artistic formats. Kultur.Konvoi also supports people in Ukraine directly. For example, through the delivery of ambulances and the realization of mental health surf camps for traumatized young people.
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