Radio Against Repression
Radio Against Repression
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The radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.
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The show centers on relationships between censorship, defunding, and repression, with specific topics including artistic freedom, the effects of political policies on creative expression, and the dynamics within Berlin's cultural landscape. Episode examples include discussions on policing education and how state repression impacts both artists and citizens' freedom of speech.
The radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.
A lecture by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, as part of the February 19th event: Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy, Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide – at bUm, Berlin.
The lecture was supposed to take place in a big lecture hall at Freie universitat, along with Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture. but the university cancelled the event after massive critique, amongst others from the Israeli ambassador, and from the mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, who called it antisemitic. The relocated event at bUm took place under police presence. A few days earlier, Albanese’s lecture at a University in Munich had also been cancelled, as we mentioned in Episode One.
Embracing the goal to ‘think global, act local’ we’ve paired this lecture with a critical reading on the notorious “education resolution” between artist and activist Zoë Claire Miller in the studio with artist Alex Head.
Huge thanks to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Zoë Claire Miller and bUm Berlin.
View the entire event at bUm here: https://vimeo.com/1058614428
KOP Berlin – https://kop-berlin.de/
Palestina Spricht – https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/
Rote Hilfe – https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt
3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine – https://3ezwa.de/
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No Deportations to Greece Fundraiser – bUm – PAUL-LINCKE-UFER 21,10999 BERLIN Friday 18.05.25 from 7pm
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