Visiting Programme I - 5th to 15th September 2005
The first visiting programme will take place from 5th to 15th September 2005. We will welcome Andreia Carla Ferreira da Silva from Rio de Janeiro. She is involved in the squatters' project of the Frente da Luta Popular. Furthermore, Leonel Yáñez will join the team. He is a social and a communication scientientist form Santiago de Chile and a member of AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.
During the two weeks the experts will visit projects in big cities of Germany which work in the areas of (re-)appropriation as well as the struggle against the privatisation of public goods, public space or which concentrate on the role of state power.
PROGRAMME
Monday, 5th September (Muenster)
10 hrs presentation of the project and the visiting programmeabout 12 hrs city tour - privatisations in Muenster
16 hrs visit to the Medienforum Muenster (citizens' radio)
Tuesday, 6th September (Bremen)
10 hrs Visit to the Besuch Menschenrechtsverein (Human Rights Group) in Bremen
15 hrs Meeting members of the campaign against the privatisation of vocational schools in Bremen
evening: first evaluation session
Wednesday, 7th September (Ruhr Area)
10 hrs Visit to the Gastkirche (Guest Church) in Recklinghausen
15 hrs Visit to the citizens' initative "Wohnen in Hassel" ("Living in Hassel" trying to establish a cooperative against the privatisation of labourers' settlements in Gelsenkirchen-Hassel
Thursday, 8th September (Muenster)
11 hrs Visit to the intercultural centre "Don Quijote"
14.30 hrs Visit to the Streets Magazine "draußen!"
evening: second evaluation session
Friday, 9th September (Cologne)
11 Uhr Visit to the Sozialistischen Selbsthilfe Koeln-Muehlheim (SSM) (Socialist self-help Muehlheim), BERICHT (in German)
18 hrs Meeting members of kanak-TV and kanak attak Cologne
Monday, 12th September (Berlin)
9 Uhr Visit to the Christlichen Wohngemeinschaft (Christian flat sharing community)
11 hrs Visit to the Bethanien - yorckstraße 59 reloaded (occupied house and future social centre)
14 hrs Visit to the waggon village Lohmühle
evening: discusison with members of FelS/ Intersol on internationalistic cooperation
Tuesday, 13th September (Berlin)
11 hrs: Visit to the Kastanienallee 77 (k77) (formerly occupied house)
14 hrs: Visit to AK Kraak (alternative video-magazine)
17.30 hrs: Visit to the RAW-Tempel
evening: Meeting members of the migrants' and refugees' "organisation" plataforma
Wednesday, 14th September (Berlin)
10.30 hrs City Tour Berlin: Neoliberal changes (Alexanderplatz to Potsdamer Platz)
15 Uhr Visit to Radio Matraca
Thursday, 15th September (Muenster)
final evaluation session of the whole visiting programme