living in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: The projects related NewYorck in Bethany is about to be legalized. reason enough to talk about how the road ahead may be walked towards a social center. Opened by occupying space provides an infrastructure for many groups in the neighborhood. Thus, easily, and even organized the rooms for plenaries and meetings of any country, with the appropriate equipment for painting activities for banners, technology (projectors, etc.) for information sessions is available. At present we do that is, the Initiative for Future Bethany, our thoughts, ob wir unser Büro jetzt zu einem Stadtteilbüro, zu einem Büro für ungewöhnlichen Stadtteilprotest, mit anderen Gruppen zusammen ausbauen wollen. Wir haben hierzu innerhalb unsere Gruppe diskutiert und würden jetzt gerne mit anderen zusammen diese Diskussion weiterführen, um auch einen vielfältigeren Einblick zu bekommen. Natürlich ist die Idee eines Stadtteilbüros nicht neu, das Rad schon Jahrhundertelang erfunden und trotzdem bewegt viele von uns immer noch und immer der Slogan „Eine andere Welt ist möglich.“ Unbedingt! Leitende Fragen hierfür werden daher auch wie immer sein: "Wie sieht der Widerstand im neuen Jahrtausend aus? Ist die bisher angewandte Praxis veraltet? Oder gibt es heute politisch more appropriate methods? We can only find out when we get involved on the new and not stuck in nostalgia. The discussions are trying to achieve what we do must be linked with the discussion of how we want to achieve it. "
exciting to order the discussion we are different people here can speak out. The office is obviously not a finished project and will . probably never be So let's start the discussion just with different voices and opinions have
Karla:..
We need an office, not that is not established and unconventional, such as district management An office that go to where people without fear speak of repression (Hartz IV, etc., and offices harassment) and to their problems. An unbiased point of contact for the neighborhood.
Giovanni
It should be a radical left office and a service office for networking. So it would have to give material of local fights (bäume-ini/media-spree etc.) and thus give an overview and give the individual battles in their abstraction. In particular, for campaign work, it makes sense to for you to support groups. For example it is currently essential to win to sink many groups for the work of media spree because of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg otherwise a very different neighborhood is.
Liliane:
The New Yorck scene has a certain connection, so not all will come. Here it should be a kind of "Expert_innenenwissen" collect and distribute for neighborhood issues and, therefore, how does petition for a demo, etc. or I'll call for you at times and here is ne distribution list for public relations. Basically, this will be supported
Johnny:
Es soll ein politisches Stadtteilbüro be. For this we need two or three groups, the need for their own work as a day the space and infrastructure, while also wanted to have additional latch with the work of the district offices. It must not only act to neighborhood groups, including Antira-Gruppen/globalisierungskritische-Gruppen have indeed directly related to the district, because here are the problems so immediately visible. It should then take place every month or so also neighborhood meeting, which speaks about the issues. First, it would need the infrastructure and then we should talk to different groups of times to discuss the concept and let's see how the others see it. I would find be nice if this will emerge new topics, so what about for example with the environment or the traffic in Kreuzberg. Is it not possible to intervene directly. The topic interested many Anwohner_innen determined, but as the implementation is difficult because it remains in isolation. We need to encourage many people to watch your city as the direct and take control.
Sarah: I am not quite so clear with what groups can we work together in practice. Is it because the potential is present at all? We need to think first in more detail.
Antonio: We should also think about different spectra. Also include on the one hand people who have the desire, for example, independent set of parties in the committees and to draw the information. We could ask, for example, that the citizens of Deputies no longer be established by the parties. That is absolute nonsense. On the other hand, we must of course strengthen unconventional forms of protest. So criticize neighborhood management work, make demos, writing open letters or just occupy houses. I think as well that such resolutions, like those of the Pink Rose totally good to think about ever again, free society and to demand.
Johann: A district office is difficult for all to implement. It should not remain in the left-wing radicals, but also not a social worker office, because we do not have the skills. The focus liegat political protest ever and give support, so always have a connection regardless of political protest of the ruling structures. There are not many groups, so you should fasten that on actual people who are ready to try to speak as an experiment of example 6 months, the time and energy tuck. I do think that we, the IZB, because first of all should take responsibility for the infrastructure, etc. and for the bumping. Then developed what or we need to rethink it again. It should hold its always important to conduct education on the social rights of people to make the problems in the city visible.
Marc: We're not the first to Rumschlag themselves with the thought of at the district level are politically active. Not only in Berlin and other cities in this country there are experiences that we can learn from. In other countries, and political fields, there is. Mentioning would as the Advisory Service for Squatters in London, the Oficinas de Derechos Sociales in Spain, the strategy of organizing by U.S. unions, the work of social centers in Italy. Ichfände be good if at the very beginning, before moving on to the district office daily, would be panels and discussions to reflect on such experiences, to see how we can also move from the retracted and often less successful tracks and politically promising way to follow. Some possible projects could be, for example, maintaining the website Kreuzberg-info and then from a district newspaper, an information office for contacts with fixed opening times, jobs for groups and of course, always, for certain campaigns, such as Media Spree or alliances, of course, a time-step campaign office.
Robert:
The room is too small for ne district library or so, as would be the sofa - intercultural Anwohner_innenforum - appropriate. However, it should not necessarily be a service agency but simply have information material and bring the network self-organization that means based on the structures responsible. This includes of course also a lot of people. We should start with smaller time hours, and then to explore possible topics. .
Meret:
It would be a shame if it is only a district office, it should be an open office where you can also meet different subject areas, more in the sense of open offices to exchange and encounter.
Gabriele:
The district has a higher incidence of social problems. While in Bethany quite different groups to address the whole range of social problems at different levels, the focus of the district offices would be clearly in the Kiez. The district but I would not as a finished living space, and take much less as a community, but as a place where social problems and conflicts are experienced locally and be experienced. Rent increases, restructuring, displacement processes, traffic measures, district policy, freedom, etc. are issues that interfere in a district office to us can, but can be heard not only at the district level. So I see three general tasks. First, the work of political groups to be paid to the district, runterzubrechen in the sense of "global" problems. Second, conflicts and protests in the neighborhood to other social levels tie back - because the problems are rarely solved at the district level - the successful struggle against repression, for example, only move the problem to other streets. And problems in the district are dealing not only with "city". Major areas of activity would therefore including insecurity, illegality, education. Third, the district office should not be another place (only) are for left / radical leftist groups. Of which there is in my opinion not enough. Rather, it should be to attract other groups and individuals to support wider protests and learn from them. eswegen I believe it is wrong from the beginning is an excessive demand on groups or fighting to provide that should the district office to play a role. It may not always absolutely on a democratic basis and anarchist, 100 -% emancipatory move. It would also be questionable whether this is such as ours.
After the discussion we tried to identify some key points which we found important.
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It is a political district office will *
course we want first of all to intervene politically, to encourage debate, criticism and the criticism will give visible. Therefore, it can be, only a political district office, because neither a Sozialarbeiter_innenbüro with the corresponding resources are available, yet this reality can be influenced politically, which is our interest.
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It aims to support the organization
* upfront Many initiatives to make individual Protests visible and disappear. The district office can therefore first end Introduced for contacts, information and be set up as a contact file and in public relations help to discussions in a toast. It thus supports the idea of organization and has so many people go through processes like you to get involved themselves. In the New Yorck there are also the infrastructure that will translate into concrete terms with others. Also rooms for group meetings, rooms for events, materials, mailing address for groups, PC work, painting and craft stuff and and and. The office works only with the existing infrastructure. It should mal mit festen Bürozeiten beginnen.
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Es soll offen sein * Das Stadtteilbüro sollte nicht ein weiterer Ort (nur) für linke/linksradikale Gruppen sein. Vielmehr sollte es darum gehen, auch andere Gruppen und Einzelpersonen anzusprechen, breitere Proteste zu unterstützen und vor allem auch von ihnen lernen. Deswegen ist es auch falsch zunächst einen zu hohen Anspruch an Gruppen oder Kämpfe zu stellen, die für ein Stadtteilbüro eine Rolle spielen sollten. Es kann nicht immer gleich absolut basis-demokratisch, herrschaftskritisch, 100-%-emanzipatorisch go. Ie it should include a willingness to be there to support various groups, but not interfering with their structure. This result then yes also new opportunities.
* There is some social problems in the city make visible
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The whole range of social problems is of course quite different levels. The focus in the district office, however, is clearly in the neighborhood where social problems and conflicts are local experience and be experienced. The groups should also have interest in "global" problems in the district runterzubrechen tie back and conflicts and protests in the neighborhood to other social levels - because the problems are in the rarest cases, the solutions to conflicts at the district level - successful struggles against repression, for example, only move the problem to other streets or neighborhoods. Of course, the link between fighting and lead bold claims or resolutions to establish to the city as a habitat defined by itself new, so in the sense we think Kreuzberg confidently as "autonomous republic".
* E s lives with the social center in Bethany
* The district office also survived and is possible only through a social center of Bethany, for here we find also the corresponding infrastructure. This also means that the groups want to participate, can engage in the surrounding area, because of course there are low-threshold variants. It requires a certain degree of independence and self-responsibility, because there are not stop the boss who tells you what to do. But the district office also lives on the available opportunities to take time to just quickly, just to paint a poster and meet people. As colorful as varied and as discursive, for another world is finally possible. Absolutely!
developing initiatives active. They make contact with other initiatives, it can give you infrastructure available - rooms for meetings or computer work stations etc - thus it occurs naturally in competition with a district management that the group wants to involve only and politisch leiten. Hier müsste natürlich immer aufgepasst werden, dass man die Gruppen nicht in ihrer Struktur beeinflusst, sondern nur unterstützt. Wir haben ja in Kreuzberg immer mal wieder das Phänomen, dass sich Gruppen kurz konstituieren und dann wieder auflösen. Vielleicht kann man durch ein Stadtteilbüro auch Leute dann für eine kontinuierlichere Arbeit gewinnen, weil sie mit unterschiedlichen Thematiken dann auch in Berührung kommen. Es geht also um drei wesentliche Punkte: Um Information, also Anlaufstelle und sammeln von Material, um das unterstützen von Organisierung, natürlich ist das wie auch noch völlig offen und um Infrastruktur.