An anti-racist festival with an uncompromising stance in favor of freedom of movement. Berlin, 4th – 6th July
RESQSHIP is co-organizer of the anti-racist Scirocco Festival in Berlin! Together with the cultural-political initiative Open Dreams, which was founded by people with their own migration experience, we are creating a space for exchange, resistance and visions beyond the existing border regime.
Almost exactly 10 years ago people on the move, many from Syria, started to walk on the highways from Hungary towards Germany. Their direct, spontaneous action forced open the closed internal borders of Fortress Europe.
We remember and take inspiration from that event. The Scirocco Festival encourages defiance, it presents practical “toolkit of resistance” to oppose racist and discriminatory practices inside the border regime, such as camps and deportations.
Scirocco refuses the normalization of violence against people without the “right” papers. It opens a space to envision alternatives radically different to the present where we live, and by doing so it projects a different political horizon. Let’s think together and connect with each other to resist border violence!
And, by the way… you may wonder, why Scirocco? A warm wind blowing from the South in the central Mediterranean sea, facilitating dangerous sea-crossings. And as any wind, it knows no passport!
Further information here.
