Tag: Wahlheymatpost
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Stay: The New Migration Challenge Germany Can’t Ignore
If nothing changes demographically, Germany will have 16 million fewer workers by 2060 than today. According to most projections, the country needs around 400,000 new workers every year from abroad. We often hear this fact in the news, but what we hear much less about is how many international people leave Germany again—and this seems […]
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“We Can’t Let Protection Become a Privilege”
WahlheYmatPost: Can you briefly introduce your organization? What is its main mission in Berlin? Vicky Germain: The Migrationsrat Berlin e.V. (Migration Council Berlin) is an umbrella organization of more than 90 BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and/or migrant self-organizations and post-migrant groups in Berlin. Its central mission is to improve the social, political, […]
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Neustart Berlin: A Fresh Start Without Everyone in the Room
Berliner Morgenpost — together with Tagesspiegel, EUREF Campus, and radioeins — launched a strong new initiative: Neustart Berlin. Everyone was invited to submit an ongoing project that could revitalize Berlin and give the city a fresh start for the 21st century and beyond. More than 70 initiatives applied; a jury selected eight of them to […]
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Berlin, Hold My Book: Why Physical Still Beats Digital
Ok. This is going to sound like a typical “back in my day” kind of old man rant. But hear me out, because I’m not talking about a world swallowed by time. Despite claims to the contrary, Berlin is still full of places that offer a key to a door that still stands today: a […]
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Remembering as Resistance – How AKEBI Confronts Racism in Berlin
WahlheYmatPost: Can you briefly introduce your organization? What is its main mission in Berlin? Erkin Erdoğan: AKEBI e.V. is a Berlin-based non-profit association, founded by migrants from Turkey in 2014. The name “AKEBI” is the acronym of “Association of Activists Against Racism, Nationalism, and Discrimination” from the Turkish language. We had a preceding anti-racist network […]
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The Berlin Lesson: Trust People, Not Bureaucracies
I was reading Walter’s article about volunteering, and made me think deeply. I come from a society where volunteering was never a tradition. The imperative was: everyone takes care of themselves. If someone works unpaid, they are considered a loser or being taken advantage of. Applying to university never required any kind of volunteer experience, […]
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