Walking home along Audre-Lorde-street in Berlin Kreuzberg feels so right!
… wandering what these young women near Omar Ibn al-Khattab Mosque might think about?
Audre Lorde and her much younger soul sister May Ayyim would have, eventually, discussed black – African and German identity while walking there to confront white male dominance …?
https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/home
Nikita inspired us at https://www.visitberlin.de/en/event/long-night-museums-2023 with his sounds near the ‘room of silence’, letting us feel enlightened by how creation is fostered by sorrow and silence: thank you Nikita from Russia, having left your home to live refreshed in free movement here in D – Berlin.
Source: https://nikitazhukovskiy.com
It is fun thinking of Lahore, city of noise and cars, food and digital innovation.
While Berliners admire their Alexanderplatz TV Tower in summer, Punjab-based people in Pakistan`s Lahore suffer bad air and lack of meaningful job prospects for young people.
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One of the many exceptions to differ in Pakistan is of course music such as … https://soundcloud.com/berlin-to-lahore/beginning-of-love
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Lahore is an ever-growing urban agglomeration between 11 – 15 million inhabitants: the number 15 was given when we tried to travel to one of the many suburbs at ‘Bahria Town’ on Sunday: in vain! Continue reading
… this was an awesome concert at Kesselhaus Berlin, Kulturbrauerei at Schönhauser Allee, truly joyful inspiration for these dark & foggy days :-)
LIFEBELTS scattered along Berlin Spandau’s Citadel “Appellplatz” refer to military call grounds of Prussia’s wars in the late 18th until end of 19th century. Patricia Pisani’s allusion to global escape mechanisms is talking about the worldwide more than 80 million refugees the UN system currently aims to assist, with no end of the crisis in sight: a ‘MUST-SEE’ worth visiting while in Berlin, on until November 14, 2021, see link: https://www.zitadelle-berlin.de/weltbewegend/.
While Germany’s autumn colours are in full swing, Sudan struggles again with military powers, fore more info see https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59033142
… and Berlin continues digesting post elections results (Sept 26, 2021) with forthcoming mayor Franziska Giffey, likely to form a new Red – Green – Red coalition :-).
Being trained on-the-job! with Susanne #berlinsights.de
Do., 07.10.2021 – Fr., 08.10.2021
Veranstalter: HU Berlin; Fonte-Stiftung
#berlinsights.de quotes September 17, 2021:
Enteignungsinitiative: Wohnungsankauf «Hinterzimmerdeal»
“Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen” © dpa / Christophe Gateau/dpa/Archivbild
Enteignungsinitiative: Wohnungsankauf «Hinterzimmerdeal»
Berlin (dpa/bb) – (…) According to the Initiative “Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen”, speaker Moheb Shafaqyar says: “We do support transfer of housing as public good, yet not along deals arranged in the backyard (so-called ‘Hinterzimmerdeals’) and not at speculative prices.”
The issue of socialisation or ‘Vergesellschaftung’ in German terms would mean good business for Berlin along neutral budgeting, according to Shafaqyar. Accordingly, the Initiative wants companies owning more than 3000 appartments to socialize these, meaning to no longer owning these against a given compensation (‘Entschädigung’) – as long as such entail the intention of making a profit (“Gewinnerzielungsabsicht”). The intitiative claims that this would stop raising rents and ensure affordable housing, in the longterm. Berliners can vote September 26, 2021, in parallel to the Parliament of Berlin (‘Abgeordnetenhaus’) and parliamentary elections, in favour of the said socialisation of rents.
SOURCE:© dpa-infocom, dpa:210917-99-253956/2 © dpa
translation @berlinsights.de
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