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DeZIM_lunch_discussion | AntiRaktiv: Community-based anti-racism counseling between political aspirations and precarious realities

In this event, we will provide an insight into the practice and working methods of community-based anti-racism counseling and discuss how this approach can be strengthened and established in the long term.

When: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm

Where: DeZIM-Institut, Mauerstrasse 76 10110. Berlin, DeZIM_Saal

Please register here by 20.5.: Registration

An event as part of the DeZIM Stakeholder Wednesdays

The project “Active against (everyday) racism! Empowerment, Counselling and Education - AntiRaktiv”, supported by the umbrella organization of migrant organizations in eastern Germany (DaMOst e.V.), has set up community-based counselling centres in several eastern German states over the past two years. These centres support people who experience racist discrimination - from a perspective of solidarity, self-organization and political participation.

The focus is on structural challenges, precarious working conditions and the need for protection and care for counselors and communities. At the same time, we will demonstrate the potential of this approach as a form of political self-empowerment - especially in times of social polarization and increasing attacks on democratic spaces.

Procedure

After a short introduction, Lina Mitschke will give an impulse on the political dimensions of community-based counseling - with a view to theory, practice and the tension between claim and reality. We will then discuss experiences, regional characteristics and perspectives for the future with Mary Lange, Aïma Samat and the audience.

Our guests

  • Mary Lange, sociologist, anti-discrimination counselor and coordinator of the project Community-based Counseling against Racism at DaMOst e.V. For many years, she has been involved in supporting those affected and in setting up anti-discrimination counseling structures in East Germany.
  • Aïma Samat, anti-racism counselor and co-regional head of the Brandenburg counseling center at AntiRaktiv, educational consultant and process facilitator with an intersectional, decolonial and power-critical approach.
  • Lina Mitschke, art historian, political image maker and project manager of AntiRaktiv. She teaches postcolonial theory and global art history and researches the decolonization of visual culture. Co-founder of the Saxony-Anhalt branch of the party Die Urbane. A hip-hop party for which she ran in the 2021 federal elections.
  • Moderation: Prof. Dr. Ali Konyali

More about the project: www.antiraktiv.de

 

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