A two-day conference on the housing crisis to answer crucial questions: Who really owns our cities today? Who is running our public and private spaces? We compare two iconic European cities experiencing similar problems with different approaches: Athens, with the most severe housing crisis in Europe, and Berlin with its recent experience of the referendum […]
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Transnational meeting of grassroots collectives for Housing Justice
The European Action Coalition for the right to housing and to the city (EAC) is a network of 35 grassroot collectives and organisations active in more than 20 countries in Europe. Twice a year, the EAC members meet in a different European country. This time, the meeting will take place in Exarcheia, Athens. The Athens’ […]
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10 Years Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Greece
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Office in Greece, is celebrating its 10th anniversary! We are delighted and honored to invite you to a two-day event to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the opening back in October 2012. • 30/09, at 19.30: Public discussion unter the title “Anti-fascist perspectives in the time of the turn to […]
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Politics of Liberation
1st Seminar: Dylan Riley “What Next? The End of Democratic Capitalism and the Tasks of the Left” You can watch the seminar live here. Politics of Liberation is a bi-monthly seminar series which will be convened by Rosa Vasilaki and Giorgos Souvlis and will take place in the premises of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Kallidromiou […]
Outsourcing Europe’s Borders
Please register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/outsourcing-europes… Speakers: Apostolis Fotiadis (researcher), Rahmane Idrissa (political scientist), Muhammad al-Kashef (human rights lawyer and migration activist), Angela Melitopoulos (artist/filmmaker), Nandita Sharma (activist scholar) This programme, organised by research group System of Systems with the support of RLS Greece, brings together activists, legal practitioners, artists and researchers to explore the […]
Memory, Affect and Agonism
The research program Queer Politics/Public Memory drawing on the mobilizations, protests, cultural practices and solidarity gatherings following the murder of the activist Zak Kostopoulos/ Zackie Oh, organizes the first Roundtable from a series of scheduled public discussions, titled “ Memory, Affect and Agonism”. Taking as a starting point the political mobilizations “with anger and grief” […]
Against a mainstream (Far) Right
Panel discussion, Thursday, September 19th 2019, 19:00 All around Europe, but also in the Americas, the Far Right is on the rise. It is not necessarily a very militant version of Far Right organizations that gain ground, it is far more an extreme conservative, reactionary, in many cases religious Right that manages to persuade […]
X them out! A Black Map of Athens
“X them out! A Black Map of Athens” is a street campaign designed with the aim of pinpointing and highlighting the unseen criminality related to racist attacks in the public space. It is a joint initiative of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Office in Greece, and the organization HumanRights360. To begin with, we selected 50 of […]
Neo-Nazism on trial
In July 2018, after 5 years, the trial against the Nazi terrorist organization NSU in Germany was completed. The organization had committed 10 racially motivated murders in the period 2000-2007. The trial verdict was disappointing: not much light was shed on the case, contrary to what Chancellor Merkel herself promised when the organization’s criminal activity […]
