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Authorsforpeace.com Html To Plain Text Authors for Peace - Home Home The Idea News Blog "hautbahnhof" 2015 Surveillance Blog Snowden's Germany Files / Snowdens Deutschland-Dateien David Miranda's unlawful detention Russian laws choking free speech must be repealed now The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance Art Spiegelman on Surveillance Stop Surveillance Hacking Online Polls Demo "Freiheit statt Angst" Nein zu Pegida 2015 Charlie Hebdo 1/2015 Free Liu Xiaobo 10/2014 Reset the Net 6/2014 Writers Against Mass Surveillance - Other Languages Die Demokratie verteidigen im digitalen Zeitalter Writers against mass surveillance POUR UNE DéFENSE DE LA DEMOCRATIE à L'èRE NUMéRIQUE En defensa de la democracia en la era digital LOTTIAMO CONTRO I SISTEMI DI SORVEGLIANZA Oproep tot democratie in het digitale tijdperk Ett upprop f?r demokrati i den digitala tids?ldern Til forsvar for demokratiet i en digital ?ra Uppropet f?r demokrati i en digital tid í tágu lyer?eis á t?lvu?ld ??????? ????????? ????: ??? ??? ????? ???? &# Dijital ?a?da Bir Demokrasi Savunmas? Δ Hentikan Pengintaian Masal Worldwide Reading for Snowden Snowden Interview The NSA Archive Snowden Interview by The Guardian Snowdens Deutschland-Akten NSA "America, No You Can't" / September 2013 NSA - Brief an Bundeskanzlerin Merkel + Letter to Chancellor Merkel / August 2013 BETWEEN LINES – An Hour of Beauty // Zwischen Zeilen - Eine Stunde Sch?nheit Release Li Bifeng / June 2013 —— & One Billion Rising February 2013 Reading for Pussy Riot December 2012 Liu Xiabo: I Have No Enemies - December 2012 Gangnam Style for Ai Weiwei - November 2012 APPEL DE STRASBOURG / STRASBOURG APPEAL / STRASSBURGER APPELL - October 2012 Free our Sisters - Pussy Riot September 2012 Aufruf Shahin Najafi - Juni 2012 Reading against Assad, for democracy in Syria - April 2012 Lesung gegen Assad, für Demokratie in Syrien - April 2012 ???? ?? ??? ????? ????? ?????? ??? ???? ??? Petition - Release Liu Xiaobo December 2012 Liu Xiabo we stand with you - March 2012 Liu Xiabo March 2012 Worldwide Reading Liu Xiabo M?rz 2012 Weltweite Lesung Appeal Liu Xiaobo 2011 Signatories Aufruf Liu Xiaobo 2011 Unterzeichner Herta Müller zu Liu Xiaobo 9/11 – Ten Years On 9/11 - Zehn Jahre sp?ter International Women’s Day 2011 Peace Day Event 2010 The Authors Reading Schedule Important Speeches - Wichtige Reden Joachim Gauck: Einbürgerungsfeier anl?sslich 65 Jahre Grundgesetz, 22. Mai 2014 The Life You Can Save - Always Contact 25.6.2016 Worldwide Reading on September 7th 2016 against Populism ? ??? Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The ilb is organizing a Worldwide Reading against Populism on September 7th. We think after the Brexit this is more useful than ever. We would be grateful if you participated. In this case please write us at: [email protected] Below you can find the appeal and a signatory list of authors, who have signed the appeal so far. Democracy without Populism The international literature festival Berlin (ilb) calls on all individuals, institutions and media outlets that care about democracy to participate in a worldwide reading of selected texts for Democracy and against Populism, on 7 September 2016. Populism describes a political position that aligns itself with the prevailing emotions, prejudices and fears of a population, and uses these to define an agenda promising simple and quick solutions to all problems. Some argue that populism is part of the inherent logic of politics, that it is present in some measure in all society, and can be a force for good. That may be, but history shows that populist feeling can quickly be manipulated by unscrupulous leaders, on the left and right wing, to ugly ends. Now, in many countries across the globe, in long established and newer democracies, populist sentiment is being stoked and exploited by demagogues such as Donald Trump in the US, Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in The Netherlands, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in Turkey, Nigel Farage in Britain, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Jacob Zuma in South Africa, Frauke Petry in Germany, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Narendra Modi in India – to name but a few. These rabble-rousers brazenly lie to the public, pledging fantasy policies, scapegoating minorities, trumpeting national superiority. Their inflammatory rhetoric distorts and devalues language, while their propaganda debases the public sphere as racist, sexist and nationalistic attitudes become mainstream. This firebrand approach threatens democracy, which depends on deep discussion not shallow sound bites. Populism thrives on binaries: it’s always us against them. Populism narrows the definition of “the people”, excluding immigrants, refugees, religious groups, indeed all minorities. Populism despises pluralism – never admitting that the opposite of pluralism is totalitarianism. With this worldwide reading, we express an urgent need for a better understanding of democracy, and for more critical yet humane political thinking, in our societies. We call on every individual to be more skeptical about the easy answers and quick fix “solutions” of demagogues. We ask simply that you stop and think. We call on the media, on journalists and editors, to refrain from sensationalist reporting and instead to frame the news in a more responsible way, not just uncritically disseminate the dangerous views and toxic speech of Populists. We call on respectable political parties to resist the temptation to follow in the footsteps of demagogues and thus shift the entire political spectrum towards extremes. We ask for a truthful, more compassionate and creative approach to politics, and more direct engagement with citizens. We call on governments to recognize the legitimate concerns of citizens who, discontented with Globalization in its current neo-liberal form, long for an alternative. We ask for earnest commitment to dealing with the growing inequality that is the underlying cause of much unrest in today’s world. In the near future all texts for the readings will be available in various languages on the website. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ??? Weltweite Lesung am 7.September 2016 gegen Populismus ? Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Freunde, das ilb organisiert eine weltweite Lesung gegen Populismus am 7. September. Wir denken nach dem Brexit ist dies hilfreicher denn je. Wir w?ren dankbar für Ihre Teilnahme. In diesem Falle schreiben Sie uns bitte an: [email protected] Demokratie ohne Populismus Das internationale literaturfestival berlin (ilb) ruft alle Menschen, Institutionen und Medien, denen Demokratie wichtig ist, dazu auf, am 7. September 2016 an einer weltweiten Lesung ausgew?hlter Texte für die Demokratie und gegen den Populismus teilzunehmen. Populismus ist eine politische Position, die sich den vorherrschenden Gefühlen, Vorurteilen und ?ngsten der Bev?lkerung anpasst und diese ausnutzt, um eine politische Agenda zu definieren, die die einfache und schnelle L?sung aller Probleme verspricht. Es wird von einigen argumentiert, dass Populismus als Kraft der Politik grunds?tzlich innewohne, zu einem gewissen Ma?e in jeder Gesellschaft existiere und eine positive Kraft sei. Das mag zwar stimmen. Aber die Geschichte zeigt, dass populistische Gefühle schnell von skrupellosen Führern, m?gen sie dem rechten oder linken Spektrum angeh?ren, für grausame Zwecke manipuliert werden k?nnen. Heute wird eine populistische Grundstimmung in vielen L?ndern weltweit – ob in traditionellen oder neueren Demokratien – von Demagogen angefacht und ausgebeutet: von Donald Trump in den USA über Marine Le Pen in Frankreich, Geert Wilders in den Niederlanden, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in der Türkei, Nigel Farage in Gro?britannien, Viktor Orbán in Ungarn, Jacob Zuma in Südafrika, Frauke Petry in Deutschland, Narendra Modi in Indien bis hin zu Wladimir Putin in Russland – um nur einige zu nennen. Diese Aufwiegler tischen der Bev?lkerung dreiste Lügen auf, sichern politische Fantasie-Programme zu, machen Minderheiten zu Sündenb?cken und pochen auf nationale überlegenheit. Ihre aufrührerische Rhetorik verbiegt und entwertet Sprache. Ihre Propaganda entwertet den ?ffentlichen Raum, da rassistische, sexistische und nationalistische Einstellungen zum Allgemeingut werden. Diese Hetzereien bedrohen die Demokratie, die von tiefer Diskussion lebt – nicht von geistlosen Parolen. Der Populismus w?chst und gedeiht am besten auf einfachen Gegens?tzen: Es geht um uns gegen die. Der Populismus begrenzt die Definition, wer zum ?Volk“ geh?rt, indem Zugewanderte, Flüchtlinge und religi?se Gruppierungen, ja alle Minderheiten, ausgegrenzt werden. Der Populismus verabscheut den Pluralismus – ohne sich dabei einzugestehen, dass das Gegenteil von Pluralismus der Totalitarismus ist. Mit dieser weltweiten Lesung fordern wir dringend zu einem tieferen Verst?ndnis von Demokratie und zu kritischerem und gleichzeitig menschlicherem politischen Denken in unseren Gesellschaften auf. Wir rufen jeden Menschen dazu auf, den einfachen Antworten und schnellen Scheinl?sungen der Demagogen skeptischer entgegenzutreten. Wir wollen einfach nur, dass Sie innehalten und nachdenken. Wir rufen Medien, Journalisten und Redakteure, dazu auf, sensationsheischende Berichterstattungen zu unterlassen und Nachrichten stattdessen verantwortungsvoller zu vermitteln, um auf keinen Fall die gef?hrlichen Ansichten und die vergiftende Sprache der Populisten unkritisch weiterzuverbreiten. Wir rufen alle respektablen politischen Parteien dazu auf, der Versuchung zu widerstehen, in die Fu?stapfen von Demagogen zu treten und das gesamte politische Spektrum dadurch radikal zu verschieben und die Demokratie zu entwerten. Wir fordern eine wahrheitsgetreue, mitfühlende und kreativere Herangehensweise an Politik und mehr direktes Bürgerengagement. Wir rufen alle Regierungen dazu auf, die berechtigten Sorgen ihrer Bürger anzuerkennen, die sich in ihrer Unzufriedenheit mit der gegenw?rtigen neoliberalen globalisierten Welt nach einer Alternative sehnen. Wir fordern ehrlichen Einsatz für die Bek?mpfung stetig wachsender Ungleichheiten, die Ursache vieler aktueller Unruhen sind. In Kürze werden alle Texte für die Lesung in diversen Sprachen auf der Website ver?ffentlicht. Unterzeichner / Signatories al-Madhoun, Rabai, Palestine Anchevski, Zoran, Macedonia Ayo, Ayoola-Amale, Nigeria Banerjee, Sarnath, India Basil, Priya, UK/Germany Battistella, Stefania, Italy Belli, Gioconda, Nicaragua Bonanno, Lyerka, Venezuela Bousselmi, Meriam, Tunisia Bracho, Coral , Mexico Buch, Hans Christoph, Germany Cartarescu, Mircea, Romania Chandigarh, Angelee Deodhar, India Cheheltan, Amir Hassan, Iran Chouliaras, Yiorgos, Greece Chraibi, Farouk, Marocco Costa, Beppe , Netherlands Dangor, Achmat, South Africa de Leeuw, Jan, Netherlands Denemarková, Radka, Czech Republic Dorfman, Ariel, Chile Droogenbroodt, Germain, Belgium/ Spain Faría, Rosana, Venezuela Frahm, Nina María, Germany Gaitano, Stella, South Sudan Grace, Patricia, New Zealand Graham, Jorie, USA Gy?rgy, Dragomán, Hungary Gyukics, Gabor G., Hungary Hirsch, Edward, USA Hoffmann, Isabell, Germany Hofstede, Bregje, Netherlands Hosfeld, Rolf, Germany Humayda, Iman, Lebanon Ihalainen, J.K., Finland Jelinek, Elfriede, Austria Jones, Gail, Australia Jonsdottir, Birgitta, Iceland Kapoor, Deepti, India Khan, Uzma Aslam, Pakistan King, Jemma, Wales Kittelsen, Erling, Norway Knauss, Sibylle, Germany Lebedev, Sergey, Russia Leenhardt, Jacques, France Leisten, Christoph, Germany Manea, Norman, Romania Marinic, Jagoda, Germany/Croatia Mestre, Juan Carlos, Spain Momogos, George, South Africa Morris, Paula, New Zealand M?ller, Monika, Germany Mukherjee, Neel, India Naficy, Majid, Iran/ USA Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih, France/ Iran Ngcowa, Sonwabiso, South Africa Nicolaas, Quito, Aruba Nirumand, Bahman, Iran/Germany Noiville, Florence, France Padel, Ruth, UK Palmen, Connie, Netherlands Plessen, Elisabeth, Germany Portante, Jean, France Qureshi, Amber, USA Raji, Remi, Nigeria Roggeman, Willem M., Belgium Rosenstock, Gabriel, Ireland Rumi, Raza, Pakistan Sajko, Ivana, Croatia Sakin, Baraka, Sudan Sánchez Barea, Ivonne, USA / Spain / Colombia Sansal, Boualem, Algeria Schulz, Hermann, Germany Stelter, Roland, Germany Suárez Céspedes de Jaldín, Biyu, Bolivia Szirtes, George, UK/Hungary Talvet, Jüri, Estonia Teller, Janne, Denmark Thien, Madeleine, Canada Thor, Annika, Sweden Turashvili, Davit, Georgia Ugresic, Dubravka, Croatia van Leeuwen, Joke, Belgium Versteeg, Wytske, Netherlands Visconti, Ortensia, Italy Vlavianos, Haris, Greece V? lker, Peter, Germany von Arnim, Gabriele, Germany von Waberer, Keto, Germany von Wysocki, Gisela, Germany Vold, Jan Erik, Norway Vosganian, Varujan, Romania Way, Nyein, Myanmar Yiwu, Liao, China 24.6.2016 Nexit Der dank des Referendums anstehende Austritt des Uneinigen K?nigreichs aus der Europ?ischen Union ist ein Schock für jeden redlichen Europ?er. Ein Austritt, der Bedauern ausl?st und Angst vor populistischen Tendenzen im restlichen Europa weckt. Ja, wir verlieren mit London einerseits einen aufmüpfigen Querulanten, einen marktschreierischen Neo-Liberalen, andererseits verlieren wir eben auch einen guten Freund. Einen Freund, der über Jahrzehnte an unserer Seite war, der dafür gesorgt hat, dass, nach der Wiedervereinigung, die deutsche Führungsrolle in Brüssel, welche Berlin dank der schieren Gr??e der Wirtschaft in den Scho? gefallen ist, nicht in Gro?mannssucht enden konnte. Die Briten haben sich, mehr noch als die Franzosen, immer als die Special Ones gesehen. Ob das berechtigt war oder nicht, steht nicht mehr zur Debatte. Die Mitgliedschaft Gro?britanniens ist Geschichte, und wir sollten schnellstens aus dem Ergebnis der Volksbefragung Lehren ziehen. Angela Merkels Idee, auf europ?ischer Ebene nach dem britischen Referendum erst einmal abzuwarten und blo? nichts zu überstürzen, ist absurd. Europa hat zu lange gewartet und die Augen verschlossen. Es ist an der Zeit, die europ?ischen Ideale zu verteidigen. Im Vertrag über eine Verfassung für Europa hei?t es: ?Die Werte, auf die sich die Union gründet, sind die Achtung der Menschenwürde, Freiheit, Demokratie, Gleichheit, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und die Wahrung der Menschenrechte einschlie?lich der Rechte der Personen, die Minderheiten angeh?ren. Diese Werte sind allen Mitgliedstaaten in einer Gesellschaft gemeinsam, die sich durch Pluralismus, Nichtdiskriminierung, Toleranz, Gerechtigkeit, Solidarit?t und die Gleichheit von Frauen und M?nnern auszeichnet.“ Populistischen und nationalistischen Rattenf?ngern à la Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders und Marine Le Pen widersteht die EU nur, wenn sie sich grundlegend reformiert. Brüssel muss den Europ?ern klarmachen, welche Werte es vertritt und welche Werte es uns garantiert. Das Europ?ische Parlament muss zum richtigen Parlament werden. Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten dürfen in Hinterzimmern nicht l?nger am EU-Parlament vorbei die ma?geblichen Entscheidungen über die Zukunft der Union treffen. Die europ?ischen Bürger müssen regelm??ig an Entscheidungen beteiligt werden. Unsere Chance liegt in einem vereinigten und vernünftigen Europa, nicht in einem unvernünftigen und zersplitterten. Die EU hat nur eine Zukunft, wenn sie sich reformiert und solidarisch zueinander steht. Weiter so geht nicht l? nger. Der Austritt Gro?britanniens ist ein Warnzeichen. Wir dürfen den Fremdenhassern und Nationalisten nicht kampflos das Feld überlassen. Demokratie verlangt von uns Einmischung und Teilhabe. Lehnen wir uns nicht zurück. Streiten wir für ein freies und demokratisches Europa. Jetzt und auf der Stelle, in den Parlamenten und auf der Stra?e. Matthias Fredrich-Auf der Horst 7.6.2016 EU/UK: Let's Stay United Appeal Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, Last week the international literature festival started an appeal calling on the British people to vote for a stay in the EU. Numerous writers have signed the appeal. Please find the letter here and the signatories below: Dear British Friends, The decision on whether or not to leave the European Union is entirely yours. We wish only to emphasize how much we value your membership. We dearly hope that you will stay with us. Only together can we continue to extend the peace and prosperity that we have achieved over decades. The EU needs you, and we believe you need the EU. Our affinities far outnumber our disparities. Let’s not gamble on the future. Let’s remain together, building on and improving our great Union. ?Aufruf für einen Verbleib in der EU ??? Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Freundinnen und Freunde, letzte Woche startete das internationale literaturfestival berlin einen Aufruf an das britische Volk für einen Verbleib Gro?britanniens in der Europ?ischen Union. Zahlreiche Schriftsteller haben den Aufruf unterzeichnet. Bitte finden Sie hier den Brief und unten angefügt die Unterzeichnerliste: Liebe britische Freunde, die Entscheidung, ob Gro?britanien die Europ?ische Union verlassen m?chte, ist in jedem Fall Eure eigene. Wir m?chten Euch lediglich wissen lassen, wie sehr wir Eure Mitgliedschaft in der EU wertsch?tzen. Wir hoffen von tiefstem Herzen, dass Ihr in der EU bleibt. Nur gemeinsam k?nnen wir den Frieden und den Wohlstand, den wir gemeinsam über Jahrzehnte aufgebaut haben, aufrechterhalten und ausbauen. Die EU braucht Euch und wir glauben, auch Ihr braucht die EU. Unsere Verbundenheit übersteigt bei Weitem unsere Verschiedenheiten. Lasst uns die Zukunft nicht aufs Spiel setzen. Lasst uns verbunden bleiben, um diese gro?artige Gemeinschaft weiter auszubauen und zu verbessern. Signatories / Unterzeichner: Priya Basil, Ulrich Schreiber (Initiators) and Bán, Zsófia (Hungary) Blaive, Muriel (France) Buch, Hans-Christoph (Germany) Cartarescu, Mircea (Romania) Cercas Mena, Jose Javier (Spain) Chervel, Thierry (Germany) ?osi?, Bora (Croatia) Dahl, Arne (Sweden) Donner, J?rn (Finland) Dragoman, Gy?rgy (Hungary) Feltrinelli, Inge (Italy) Grajauskas, Gintaras (Lithuania) Hausemer, Georges (Luxembourg) Helgason, Hallgrimur (Iceland) Hertmans, Stefan (Belgium) Jelinek, Elfriede (Austria) Joris, Lieve (Netherlands) Jungk, Peter Stephan (Austria) Kassabova, Kapka (Bulgaria) Kosslick, Dieter (Germany) Mak, Geert (Netherlands) Magnusson, Kristof (Iceland) Makri, Elina (Greece) Manguel, Alberto (France) Marías, Javier (Spain) Michalopoulou, Amanda (Greece) Michnik, Adam (Poland) Oksanen, Sofi (Finland) Palmen, Connie (Netherlands) Reybrouck, David van (Belgium) Rosenberg, G?ran (Sweden) Rudi?, Jaroslav (Czech Republic) Schneider, Peter (Germany) ?teger, Ale? (Slovenia) Teixeira, Paulo (Portugal) Teller, Janne (Denmark) Tokarczuk, Olga (Poland) Toussaint, Jean-Philippe (France) Zagajewski, Adam (Poland) Zsolt, Láng (Romania) 28.4.2016 Authors for Peace Appeal From Europe with Love: No Brexit, please. Beloved Britain! Island of my heart. Don’t leave me. I, the EU, won’t be the same without you. You made this commitment, signed the papers, agreed to start a family. You helped turn centuries of vexed history into a new, peaceful reality of shared values and goals. Yet, breakup looms before us now, a very public reckoning. Still, I feel a need to write to you in an intimate vein, a declaration of desire expressed in your own idiom. English: the lingua franca that you gave us. For more than forty years – for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health – we have been united. We have grown to twenty-eight members. Like all families we fight and backbite, are disloyal and competitive, mock the black sheep and sigh about the white cliffs of Dover. But in the end, following your venerable tradition, we can agree to disagree and find ways to rub along. Ours is a unique set-up: national sovereignty pooled in economic, social and political matters. An unprecedented feat! And now, after all that we’ve been through, and at a time when we need each other more than ever, you want to separate? You’ve had commitment issues before. Yes, I know, you’re not the only one. There are a few renegade-types in our band, and yet they remain very much in the fold. When you opted to stay out of the Euro and Schengen I respected this, because I understand that even between the closest people infinite distances exist. This is why I continue to accept our differences, and accommodate your need for greater autonomy. It is also why I conceded your wish to change our founding treaties. I can’t deny, I admire the way you assert yourself, often with understated irony. But relationships involve give as well as take. You know very well the economic arguments for us staying together. You’ve long valued our common policies on trade and agriculture, and especially our single market. Now you want to strike out on your own, but hang on to mutual advantages. How far that will be possible, we’ll have to see. Inevitably, there will be double standards and that won’t be easy – either for you, or for me. On the question of European politics you’ve always been touchy, regarding directives from Brussels as interference by the in-laws. It never seemed to help, and will perhaps make little difference now, to remind you that British MEPs are as involved as anyone else in drafting and voting on all rulings of the European Parliament. The harmonized laws across our lands are touchstones, shared norms that help equalize us. We can certainly be proud of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects the civil liberties of all our citizens. This is especially significant for you, since you have no written constitution. You know that even before talk of a separation began, your government had plans to rescind the Human Rights Act, the mechanism by which the ECHR is applied within your borders. At the risk of sounding like a jealous ex, I must warn: you could get divorced only to find that you left your most prized possessions in the old, shared residence – and have no way of reclaiming them. Just imagine if “fog on channel, continent cut-off” became the permanent forecast. A bleak outlook indeed, even for those who like lamenting bad weather. What are the prospects of finding another family as enlightened and diverse as the one you already have? What are the odds of striking good deals on your own in an arena full of much bigger players? In the current uncertain world climate, I fear that without each other our future will be chillier and lonelier. But together, united, we could define a new vision for the planet. What we have created, though flawed and, I concede, in dire need of improvement, is a democratic model that moves beyond the constraints of nationalism while still recognizing the validity of the nation state. The great challenges of our time, such as migration, climate change and terrorism, cannot be solved at a state level. They require the sort of international cooperation and solidarity that is the marrow of the European Union. I say this in full knowledge that we are already failing on many fronts – but also in the belief that we can fail better if we continue as one, whereas separation holds the risk of us all failing entirely. This is not a moment to turn away and reduce yourself, but rather a time to reach out and hold hands. What is our European project but a belief in a common humanity, a commitment to pluralism and upholding fundamental rights that should extend to all, like an inheritance? I still have faith that in our union there is a strength and a promise so large that it is worth holding on to. My darling island, forget your splendid isolation! Vote instead for a great rejuvenation of our European ties. We are made for each other. Let’s stay together. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. NO COUNTRY BY ITSELF. IT’S TIME FOR ACTIVISM. REGISTER TO VOTE BEFORE 7TH JUNE AT GOV.UK/REGISTER-TO-VOTE 26.4.2016 No Brexit Wolfgang Tillmans' Open Letter Dear Friends, I’m sure you are also following with horror the rightwards drift and anti-EU sentiment brewing across Europe. The Dutch referendum should be the final wake-up call, alerting people to the real risk of the UK’s EU referendum resulting in a victory for Leave. The official ‘Remain’ campaign feels lame and is lacking in passion. It also lacks an active drive to get voters registered – and with the deadline already falling two weeks before the referendum, this should be an urgent priority. I want to get involved and actively campaign. In particular, I want to work towards maximizing turnout among younger voters by focusing on the first, crucial step: voter registration – the deadline for which is June 7! So anyone who hasn’t registered before this date has no chance of having a say, no matter how strongly they feel about the issue. So the really crucial date is June 7. Everyone’s grannies registered their vote long ago, but students no longer get automatically registered by their unis. This is because of a new law brought in by the Conservatives that makes it possible for them to disenfranchise up to 800,000 students, who as a group tend to move around a lot more and so drop off the voter register easily. I feel that we have reached a critical moment that could prove to be a turning point for Europe as we know and enjoy it – one that might result in a cascade of problematic consequences and political fall-out. Firstly, the weakening of the EU is a goal being actively pursued by strongmen like Vladimir Putin and European parties on the far-right. Brexit could effectively spell the end of the EU. It’s a flawed and problematic institution, but on the whole it stands for a democratic worldview, human rights and favours cooperation over confrontation. It could prove to be a one-in-a-generation moment. Can you imagine the years of renegotiations for undoing treaties, and all the negativity that would surround that. Over the past few weeks, my assistants at my London and Berlin studios and Between Bridges have been working with me on these texts and designs. Please feel free to share these posters, they work as print your own PDFs, or on social media, or in any other way you can think of. I consider them open-source, you can take my name tag off if more appropriate. Let’s hope for the best - but hope may not be enough Wolfgang Please download here a PDF (15 mb) of 25 ready-to-print posters which my studio and myself wrote and designed over the last few weeks. They are best in A3 but also work of course in A4. Just take the PDF to any copy shop and ask for A3 size colour laser prints. eu_campaign_wolfgang_tillmans.pdf File Size: 353 kb File Type: pdfDownload File 22.3.2016 World Poetry Day Tense Times A poem by Ashraf Fayadh This is Fayadh's first work since he was detained in Saudi Arabia. First published by The Guardian. Tense times for me, and sleep’s acting like a newly love-struck teen. I shall disregard the state my heart’s in and my mind’s upheavals like water bubbling past the boiling point. I am a part of the universe with which the universe is angry, a part of the earth of which the earth feels utterly ashamed, a wretched human towards whom other humans cannot maintain neutrality. Neutrality: an illusion like all the graces of which humans speak, so shamelessly theoretical. Truth is an inadequate term, just like Man, and love bumps about, a miserable fly trapped in a cube of glass. Freedom is very relative: All said and done we live in a circular prison With its bars of ozone; and when we are set free our fate is certain death. I am incapable of laughing. Completely incapable of smiling, even. Incapable, at the same time, of crying. Incapable of acting like a human being which doesn’t upset me in the slightest though it hurts so, to have a body covered with light down, to walk on two limbs, to depend wholly on your mind, to be drawn after your desires to the furthest point, to have your freedom trapped, to have others decide to kill you, to lose those closest to you without a chance to say farewell. What good does Farewell do, But to leave a sad impression? What good’s meeting? What good’s love? What good is it to be alive to this degree while others die from sorrow over you? I saw my father for the last time through thick glass, then he departed, for good. Because of me, let’s say. Let us say because he could not bear the thought I’d die before him. My father died and left death besieging me without it frightening me sufficiently. Why does death scare us to death? My father departed after a long time spent on the surface of this planet. I didn’t say farewell as I should have nor grieve for him as I should have and was incapable of tears, as is my habit, which grows uglier as time passes. The soldiers besiege me from all fronts in their uniforms of poor color, laws and regimes and statutes besiege me. Sovereignty besieges me; its highly concentrated instinct cannot be shaken by living creatures. My loneliness besieges me, my loneliness suffocates me, I am choked by depression, nervousness, and worry, remorse, that I’m a member of the human race, kills me. I was unable to say goodbye to all those I love and who departed, even temporarily. I was unable to leave a good impression about a final meeting. Then I yielded to the rifles of longing leveled my way. I refused to raise my hand and became incapacitated. Then I was bound by sorrow That failed to force me to tears. The Knowing gnaws at me from within, killing every shot I have at survival. The Knowing is killing me slowly and it’s much too late for a cure. Flüchtlingspolitik: ? sterreichische Künstler protestieren Wir distanzieren uns Ein Aufruf 3. M?rz 2016 Das aktuelle Verhalten der ?sterreichischen Bundesregierung in der Fluchtkrise ist kontraproduktiv und inakzeptabel. Ein Aufruf ?sterreichischer Kunstschaffender, den eingeschlagenen Kurs schleunigst zu ?ndern Wir protestieren gegen die Politik des Hochziehens von Grenzz?unen, des Abschottens, wie zuletzt auf dem Wiener "Balkangipfel" beschlossen, sowie der Einführung willkürlicher numerischer Obergrenzen bei der Aufnahme von Asylsuchenden. Dies führt – wie zu erwarten war und unmittelbar Realit?t wurde – zu einem Stranden der Flüchtenden in Griechenland und direkt in eine menschliche Katastrophe. Die Lage im ohnehin schon unter hoher Belastung stehenden Griechenland, das aufgrund der Geografie und des Fehlens direkter Fluchtrouten in Binnen-EU-Staaten automatisch zum EU-Erstaufnahmeland für Flüchtende aus den Kriegsgebieten Syriens und Iraks wird, wird zudem durch uneinsichtige und undiplomatische Haltungen mancher nationaler Regierungen versch?rft. Wir distanzieren uns entschieden von der Schuldzuweisung an die griechische Regierung und damit der v?lligen Entsolidarisierung mit der Bev?lkerung der betroffenen Regionen, wie sie etwa vonseiten der ?sterreichischen Bundesregierung praktiziert wird. Das Gerede von "Hausaufgaben" ist herablassend, v?llig unangemessen und zeugt h?chstens von der Untauglichkeit der angewendeten Denkschemata. Das Gegenteil, also politische und finanzielle Solidarit?t mit den betroffenen Erstaufnahmel?ndern wie Griechenland und Italien, tut not in einer sich anbahnenden humanit?ren Krise, für deren Versch?rfung die gesamte EU verantwortlich ist und zu machen sein wird. Wir fordern eine endlich gemeinschaftliche, gesamteurop?ische L? sung der Fluchtkrise durch konsequente Umsetzung oftmalig vorgeschlagener Ma?nahmen: direkte Einreisem?glichkeiten ohne lebensgef?hrliche überfahrten, rasche überprüfung des Asylstatus, Aufteilung der Flüchtenden auf alle EU-L?nder, schnelle und effiziente Integration. Das erfordert selbstverst?ndlich auch den Willen, die dafür n?tigen finanziellen Mittel aufzubringen, doch es ist in die Zukunft Europas investiertes Geld. In Sachen Finanzwirtschaftskrise war ein gemeinschaftliches Handeln schlie?lich auch m?glich. Sollte die EU ein Sch?nwetterprojekt gewesen sein, das einzig dem Zweck des Austauschs von Waren und Geldstr?men huldigt? Sollte etwa der Zerfall in nationale und nationalistische Projekte mit all dem inh?renten und hinl?nglich bekannten Bedrohungspotenzial die europ?ische Zukunft sein, die den politisch Verantwortlichen vorschwebt? Wir, die Unterzeichnenden, setzen uns für eine solidarische, humanit?ren und rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien folgende echte europ?ische Gemeinschaft ein, die alles dazu tut, Menschen, die vor Krieg und Vernichtung fliehen, aufzunehmen und die in der sich zuspitzenden humanit?ren Krise alleingelassenen Erstaufnahmel?nder wie Griechenland und Italien sofort und nachhaltig zu unterstützen. Wir fordern die umgehende Umsetzung aller dazu geeigneten Ma?nahmen ohne jede weitere Verz?gerung. Martin Amanshauser Gabriel Barylli Christoph W. Bauer Clemens Berger Reinhold Bilgeri Franz Josef Czernin Dimitré Dinev Erwin Einzinger Gustav Ernst Janko Ferk Antonio Fian Karin Fleischanderl Olga Flor Franzobel Barbara Frischmuth Petra Ganglbauer Karl-Markus Gau? Daniel Glattauer Sabine Gruber Wolf Haas Josef Hader Maria Haderlap Sven Hartberger Josef Haslinger Markus Hering Paulus Hochgatterer Maria Hofst?tter Alois Hotschnig Barbara Hundegger Karin Ivancsics Elfriede Jelinek Jensen Nils Jochen Jung Veronica Kaup-Hasler Ilse Kilic Anna Kim Magdalena Knapp-Menzel Alfred Kolleritsch Alfred Komarek Ludwig Laher Heinz Lunzer Karl Markovics Thomas Maurer Lydia Mischkulnig Felix Mitterer Margareth Obexer Kurt Palm Erika Pluhar Martin Pollack Birgit P?lzl Teresa Pr?auer Ursula Prutsch Doron Rabinovici Julia Rabinowici Christoph Ransmayr Elisabeth Reichart Willi Resetarits Kathrin R?ggla Peter Rosei Claudia Rossbacher Eva Rossmann Thomas Rothschild Gerhard Ruiss David Schalko Robert Schindel Ferdinand Schmatz Sabine Scholl Susanne Scholl Raoul Schrott Clemens Setz Stefan Slupetzky Michael Stavaric Marlene Streeruwitz Gerhild Steinbuch Erwin Steinhauer Cornelia Travnicek Sylvia Treudl Ilija Trojanow Ulrike Truger Vladimir Vertlib Peter Waterhouse Anna Weidenholzer Renate Welsh Fritz Widhalm Andrea Winkler Klaus Zeyringer (By Stamp_Hannah_Arendt-2.jpg: User:Prolineserver derivative work: The Photographer (Stamp_Hannah_Arendt-2.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) 8.1.2016 We Refugees By Hannah Arendt, January 1943 In the first place, we don’t like to be called “refugees.” We ourselves call each other “newcomers” or “immigrants.” Our newspapers are papers for “Americans of German language”; and, as far as I know, there is not and never was any club founded by Hitler-persecuted people whose name indicated that its members were refugees. A refugee used to be a person driven to seek refuge because of some act committed or some political opinion held. Well, it is true we have had to seek refuge; but we committed no acts and most of us never dreamt of having any radical opinion. With us the meaning of the term “refugee” has changed. Now “refugees” are those of us who have been so unfortunate as to arrive in a new country without means and have to be helped by Refugee Committees. Before this war broke out we were even more sensitive about being called refugees. We did our best to prove to other people that we were just ordinary immigrants. We declared that we had departed of our own free will to countries of our choice, and we denied that our situation had anything to do with “so-called Jewish problems.” Yes, we were “immigrants” or “newcomers” who had left our country because, one fine day, it no longer suited us to stay, or for purely economic reasons. We wanted to rebuild our lives, that was all. In order to rebuild one’s life one has to be strong and an optimist. So we are very optimistic. Our optimism, indeed, is admirable, even if we say so ourselves. The story of our struggle has finally become known. We lost our home, which means the familiarity of daily life. We lost our occupation, which means the confidence that we are of some use in this world. We lost our language, which means the naturalness of reactions, the simplicity of gestures, the unaffected expression of feelings. We left our relatives in the Polish ghettos and our best friends have been killed in concentration camps, and that means the rupture of our private lives. Nevertheless, as soon as we were saved—and most of us had to be saved several times—we started our new lives and tried to follow as closely as possible all the good advice our saviors passed on to us. We were told to forget; and we forgot quicker than anybody ever could imagine. In a friendly way we were reminded that the new country would become a new home; and after four weeks in France or six weeks in America, we pretended to be Frenchmen or Americans. The most optimistic among us would even add that their whole former life had been passed in a kind of unconscious exile and only their new country now taught them what a home really looks like. It is true we sometimes raise objections when we are told to forget about our former work; and our former ideals are usually hard to throw over if our social standard is at stake. With the language, however, we find no difficulties: after a single year optimists are convinced they speak English as well as their mother tongue; and after two years they swear solemnly that they speak English better than any other language—their German is a language they hardly remember. In order to forget more efficiently we rather avoid any allusion to concentration or internment camps we experienced in nearly all European countries—it might be interpreted as pessimism or lack of confidence in the new homeland. Besides, how often have we been told that nobody likes to listen to all that; hell is no longer a religious belief or a fantasy, but something as real as houses and stones and trees. Apparently nobody wants to know that contemporary history has created a new kind of human beings—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and in internment camps by their friends. Even among ourselves we don’t speak about this past. Instead, we have found our own way of mastering an uncertain future. Since everybody plans and wishes and hopes, so do we. Apart from the general human attitudes, however, we try to clear up the future more scientifically. After so much bad luck we want a course as sure as a gun. Therefore, we leave the earth with all its uncertainties behind and we cast our eyes up to the sky. The stars tell us—rather than the newspapers—when Hitler will be defeated and when we shall become American citizens. We think the stars more reliable advisers than all our friends; we learn from the stars when we should have lunch with our benefactors and on what day we have the best chances of filling out one of these countless questionnaires which accompany our present lives. Sometimes we don’t rely even on the stars but rather on the lines of our hand or the signs of our handwriting. Thus we learn less about political events but more about our own dear selves, even though somehow psychoanalysis has gone out of fashion. Those happier times are past when bored ladies and gentlemen of high society conversed about the genial misdemeanors of their early childhood. They don’t want ghost-stories any more; it is real experiences that make their flesh creep. There is no longer any need of bewitching the past; it is spellbound enough in reality. Thus, in spite of our outspoken optimism, we use all sorts of magical tricks to conjure up the spirits of the future. I don’t know which memories and which thoughts nightly dwell in our dreams. I dare not ask for information, since I, too, had rather be an optimist. But sometimes I imagine that at least nightly we think of our dead or we remember the poems we once loved. I could even understand how our friends of the West coast, during the curfew, should have had such curious notions as to believe that we are not only “prospective citizens” but present “enemy aliens.” In daylight, of course, we become only “technically” enemy aliens—all refugees know this. But when technical reasons prevented you from leaving your home during the dark house, it certainly was not easy to avoid some dark speculations about the relation between technicality and reality. No, there is something wrong with our optimism. There are those odd optimists among us who, having made a lot of optimistic speeches, go home and turn on the gas or make use of a skyscraper in quite an unexpected way. They seem to prove that our proclaimed cheerfulness is based on a dangerous readiness for death. Brought up in the conviction that life is the highest good and death the greatest dismay, we became witnesses and victims of worse terrors than death—without having been able to discover a higher ideal than life. Thus, although death lost its horror for us, we became neither willing nor capable to risk our lives for a cause. Instead of fighting—or thinking about how to become able to fight back—refugees have got used to wishing death to friends or relatives; if somebody dies, we cheerfully imagine all the trouble he has been saved. Finally many of us end by wishing that we, too, could be saved some trouble, and act accordingly. Since 1938—since Hitler’s invasion of Austria—we have seen how quickly eloquent optimism could change to speechless pessimism. As time went on, we got worse—even more optimistic and even more inclined to suicide. Austrian Jews under Schuschnigg were such a cheerful people—all impartial observers admired them. It was quite wonderful how deeply convinced they were that nothing could happen to them. But when German troops invaded the country and Gentile neighbours started riots at Jewish homes, Austrian Jews began to commit suicide. Unlike other suicides, our friends leave no explanation of their deed, no indictment, no charge against a world that had forced a desperate man to talk and to behave cheerfully to his very last day. Letters left by them are conventional, meaningless documents. Thus, funeral orations we make at their open graves are brief, embarrassed and very hopeful. Nobody cares about motives, they seem to be clear to all of us. I speak of unpopular facts; and it makes things worse that in order to prove my point I do not even dispose of the sole arguments which impress modern people —figures. Even those Jews who furiously deny the existence of the Jewish people give us a fair chance of survival as far as figures are concerned—how else could they prove that only a few Jews are criminals and that many Jews are being killed as good patriots in wartime? Through their effort to save the statistical life of the Jewish people we know that Jews had the lowest suicide rate among all civilized nations. I am quite sure those figures are no longer correct, but I cannot prove it with new figures, though I can certainly with new experiences. This might be sufficient for those skeptical souls who never were quite convinced that the measure of one’s skull gives the exact idea of its content, or that statistics of crime show the exact level of national ethics. Anyhow, wherever European Jews are living today, they no longer behave according to statistical laws. Suicides occur not only among the panic-stricken people in Berlin and Vienna, in Bucharest or Paris, but in New York and Los Angeles, in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. On the other hand, there has been little reported about suicides in the ghettoes and concentration camps themselves. True, we had very few reports at all from Poland, but we have been fairly well informed about German and French concentration camps. At the camp of Gurs, for instance, where I had the opportunity of spending some time, I heard only once about suicide, and that was the suggestion of a collective action, apparently a kind of protest in order to vex the French. When some of us remarked that we had been shipped there “pour crever” in any case, the general mood turned suddenly into a violent courage of life. The general opinion held that one had to be abnormally asocial and unconcerned about general events if one was still able to interpret the whole accident as personal and individual bad luck and, accordingly, ended one’s life personally and individually. But the same people, as soon as they returned to their own individual lives, being faced with seemingly individual problems, changed once more to this insane optimism which is next door to despair. We are the first non-religious Jews persecuted—and we are the first ones who, not only in extremis, answer with suicide. Perhaps the philosophers are right who teach that suicide is the last and supreme guarantee of human freedom; not being free to create our lives or the world in which we live, we nevertheless are free to throw life away and to leave the world. Pious Jews, certainly, cannot realize this negative liberty: they perceive murder in suicide, that is, destruction of what man never is able to make, interference with the rights of the Creator. Adonai nathan veadonai lakach (“The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away”); and they would add: baruch shem adonai (“blessed be the name of the Lord”). For them suicide, like murder, means a blasphemous attack on creation as a whole. The man who kills himself asserts that life is not worth living and the world not worth sheltering him. Yet our suicides are no mad rebels who hurl defiance at life and the world, who try to kill in themselves the whole universe. Theirs is a quiet and modest way of vanishing; they seem to apologize for the violent solution they have found for their personal problems. In their opinion, generally, political events had nothing to do with their individual fate; in good or bad times they would believe solely in their personality. Now they find some mysterious shortcomings in themselves which prevent them from getting along. Having felt entitled from their earliest childhood to a certain social standard, they are failures in their own eyes if this standard cannot be kept any longer. Their optimism is the vain attempt to keep head above water. Behind this front of cheerfulness, they constantly struggle with despair of themselves. Finally, they die of a kind of selfishness. If we are saved we feel humiliated, and if we are helped we feel degraded. We fight like madmen for private existences with individual destinies, since wa are afraid of becoming part of that miserable lot of schnorrers whom we, many of us former philanthropists, remember only too well. Just as once we failed to understand that the socalled schnorrer was a symbol of Jewish destiny and not a shlemihl, so today we don’t feel entitled to Jewish solidarity; we cannot realize that we by ourselves are not so much concerned as the whole Jewish people. Sometimes this lack of comprehension has been strongly supported by our protectors. Thus, I remember a director of a great charity concern in Paris who, whenever he received the card of a German-Jewish intellectual with the inevitable “Dr.” on it, used to exclaim at the top of his voice, “Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, Herr Schnorrer, Herr Schnorrer!” The conclusion we drew from such unpleasant experiences was simple enough. To be a doctor of philosophy no longer satisfied us; and we learnt that in order to build a new life, one has first to improve on the old one. A nice little fairy-tale has been invented to describe our behaviour; a forlorn émigré dachshund, in his grief, begins to speak: “Once, when I was a St. Bernard …” Our new friends, rather overwhelmed by so many stars and famous men, hardly understand that at the basis of all our descriptions of past splendors lies one human truth: once we were somebodies about whom people cared, we were loved by friends, and even known by landlords as paying our rent regularly. Once we could buy our food and ride in the subway without being told we were undesirable. We have become a little hysterical since newspapermen started detecting us and telling us publicly to stop being disagreeable when shopping for milk and bread. We wonder how it can be done; we already are so damnably careful in every moment of our daily lives to avoid anybody guessing who we are, what kind of passport we have, where our birth certificates were filled out—and that Hitler didn’t like us. We try the best we can to fit into a world where you have to be sort of politically minded when you buy your food. Under such circumstances, St. Bernard grows bigger and bigger. I never can forget that young man who, when expected to accept a certain kind of work, sighed out, “You don’t know to whom you speak; I was Section-manager in Karstadt’s [A great department store in Berlin].” But there is also the deep despair of that middle-aged man who, going through countless shifts of different committees in order to be saved, finally exclaimed, “And nobody here knows who I am!” Since nobody would treat him as a dignified human being, he began sending cables to great personalities and his big relations. He learnt quickly that in this mad world it is much easier to be accepted as a “great man” than as a human being. The less we are free to decide who we are or to live as we like, the more we try to put up a front, to hide the facts, and to play roles. We were expelled from Germany because we were Jews. But having hardly crossed the French borderline, we were changed into “boches.” We were even told that we had to accept this designation if we really were against Hitler’s racial theories. During seven years we played the ridiculous role of trying to be Frenchmen—at least, prospective citizens; but at the beginning of the war we were interned as “boches” all the same. In the meantime, however, most of us had indeed become such loyal Frenchmen that we could not even criticise a French governmental order; thus we declared it as all right to be interned. We were the first “prisonniers volontaires” history has ever seen. After the Germans invaded the country, the French Government had only to change the name of the firm; having been jailed because we were Germans, we were not freed because we were Jews. It is the same story all over the world, repeated again and again. In Europe the Nazis confiscated our property; but in Brazil we have to pay 30% of our wealth, like the most loyal member of the Bund der Auslandsdeutschen. In Paris we could not leave our homes after eight o’clock because we were Jews; but in Los Angeles we are restricted because we are “enemy aliens.” Our identity is changed so frequently that nobody can find out who we actually are. Unfortunately, things don’t look any better when we meet with Jews. French Jewry was absolutely convinced that all Jews coming from beyond the Rhine were what they called Polaks—what German Jewry called Ostjuden. But those Jews who really came from eastern Europe could not agree with their French brethren and called us Jaeckes. The sons of these Jaecke-haters—the second generation born in France and already duly assimilated—shared the opinion of the French Jewish upper class. Thus, in the very same family, you could be called a Jaecke by the father and a Polak by the son. Since the outbreak of the war and the catastrophe that has befallen European Jewry, the mere fact of being a refugee has prevented our mingling with native Jewish society, some exceptions only proving the rule. These unwritten social laws, though never publicly admitted, have the great force of public opinion. And such a silent opinion and practice is more important for our daily lives than all official proclamations of hospitality and good will. Man is a social animal and life is not easy for him when social ties are cut off. Moral standards are much easier kept in the texture of a society. Very few individuals have the strength to conserve their own integrity if their social, political and legal status is completely confused. Lacking the courage to fight for a change of our social and legal status, we have decided instead, so many of us, to try a change of identity. And this curious behavior makes matters much worse. The confusion in which we live is partly our own work. Some day somebody will write the true story of this Jewish emigration from Germany; and he will have to start with a description of that Mr. Cohn from Berlin who had always been a 150% German, a German super-patriot. In 1933 that Mr. Cohn found refuge in Prague and very quickly became a convinced Czech patriot—as true and loyal a Czech patriot as he had been a German one. Time went on and about 1937 the Czech Government, already under some Nazi pressure, began to expel its Jewish refugees, disregarding the fact that they felt so strongly as prospective Czech citizens. Our Mr. Cohn then went to Vienna; to adjust oneself there a definite Austrian patriotism was required. The German invasion forced Mr. Cohn out of that country. He arrived in Paris at a bad moment and he never did receive a regular residence-permit. Having already acquired a great skill in wishful thinking, he refused to take mere administrative measures seriously, convinced that he would spend his future life in France. Therefore, he prepared his adjustment to he French nation by identifying himself with “our” ancestor Vercingetorix. I think I had better not dilate on the further adventures of Mr. Cohn. As long as Mr. Cohn cant’t make up his mind to be what he actually is, a Jew, nobody can foretell all the mad changes he will have to go through. A man who wants to lose his self discovers, indeed, the possibilities of human existence, which are infinite, as infinite as is creation. But the recovering of a new personality is as difficult—and as hopeless—as a new creation fo the world. Whatever we do, whatever we pretend to be, we reveal nothing but our insane desire to be changed, not to be Jews. All our activities are directed to attain this aim: we don’t want to be refugees, since we don’t want to be Jews; we pretend to be English-speaking people, since German-speaking immigrants of recent years are marked as Jews; we don’t call ourselves stateless, since the majority of stateless people in the world are Jews; we are willing to become loyal Hottentots, only to hide the fact that we are Jews. We don’t succeed and we cant’t succeed; under the cover of our “optimism” you can easily detect the hopeless sadness of assimilationists. With us from Germany the word assimilation received a “deep” philosophical meaning. You can hardly realize how serious we were about it. Assimilation did not mean the necessary adjustment to the country where we happened to be born and to the people whose language we happened to speak. We adjust in principle to everything and everybody. This attitude became quite clear to me once by the words of one of my compatriots who, apparently, knew how to express his feelings. Having just arrived in France, he founded one of these societies of adjustment in which German Jews asserted to each other that they were already Frenchmen. In his first speech he said: “We have been good Germans in Germany and therefore we shall be good Frenchmen in France.” The public applauded enthusiastically and nobody laughed; we were happy to have learnt how to prove our loyalty. If patriotism were a matter of routine or practice, we should be the most patriotic people in the world. Let us go back to our Mr. Cohn; he certainly has beaten all records. He is that ideal immigrant who always, and in every country into which a terrible fate has driven him, promptly sees and loves the native mountains. But since patriotism is not yet believed to be a matter of practice, it is hard to convince people of the sincerity of our repeated transformations. This struggle makes our own society so intolerant; we demand full affirmation without our own group because we are not in the position to obtain it from the natives. The natives, confronted with such strange beings as we are, become suspicious; from their point of view, as a rule, only a loyalty to our old countries is understandable. That makes life very bitter for us. We might overcome this suspicion if we could explain that, being Jews, our patriotism in our original countries had rather a peculiar aspect. Though it was indeed sincere and deeprooted. We wrote big volumes to prove it; paid an entire bureaucracy to explore its antiquity and to explain it statistically. We had scholars write philosophical dissertations on the predestined harmony between Jews and Frenchmen, Jews and Germans, Jews and Hungarians, Jews and … Our so frequently suspected loyalty of today has a long history. It is the history of a hundred and fifty years of assimilated Jewry who performed an unprecedented feat: though proving all the time their non-Jewishness, they succeeded in remaining Jews all the same. The desperate confusion of these Ulysses-wanderers who, unlike their great prototype, don’t know who they are is easily explained by their perfect mania for refusing to keep their identity. This mania is much older than the last ten years which revealed the profound absurdity of our existence. We are like people with a fixed idea who can’t help trying continually to disguise an imaginary stigma. Thus we are enthusiastically fond of every new possibility which, being new, seems able to work miracles. We are fascinated by every new nationality in the same way as a woman of tidy size is delighted with every new dress which promises to give her the desired waistline. But she likes the new dress only as long as she believes in its miraculous qualities, and she discovers that it does not change her stature—or, for that matter, her status. One may be surprised that the apparent uselessness of all our odd disguises has not yet been able to discourage us. If it is true that men seldom learn from history, it is also true that they may learn from personal experiences which, as in our case, are repeated time and again. But before you cast the first stone at us, remember that being a Jew does not give any legal status in the world. If we should start telling the truth that we are nothing but Jews, it would mean that we expose ourselves to the fate of human beings who, unprotected by any specific law or political convention, are nothing but human beings. I can hardly imagine an attitude more dangerous, since we actually live in a world in which human beings as such have ceased to exist for quite a while, since society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed; since passports or birth certificates, and sometimes even income tax receipts, are no longer formal papers but matters of social distinction. It is true that most of us depend entirely upon social standards, we lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us; we are—and always were—ready to pay any price in order to be accepted by society. But it is equally true that the very few among us who have tried to get along without all these tricks and jokes of adjustment and assimilation have paid a much higher price than they could afford: they jeopardized the few chances even our laws are given in a topsy-turvy world. The attitude of these few whom, following Bernard Lazare, one may call “conscious pariahs,” can as little be explained by recent events alone as the attitude of our Mr. Cohn who tried by every means to become an upstart. Both are sons of the nineteenth century which, not knowing legal or political outlaws, knew only too well social pariahs and their counterpart, social parvenus. Modern Jewish history, having started with court Jews and continuing with Jewish millionaires and philanthropists, is apt to forget about this other trend of Jewish tradition—the tradition of Heine, Rahel Varnhagen, Sholom Aleichemn, of Bernard Lazare, Franz Kafka or even Charlie Chaplin. It is the tradition of a minority of Jews who have not wanted to become upstarts, who preferred the status of “conscious paria.” All vaunted Jewish qualities—the “Jewish heart,” humanity, humor, disinterested intelligence—are pariah qualities. All Jewish shortcomings—tactlessness, political stupidity, inferiority complexes and money-grubbing—are characteristic of upstarts. There have always been Jews who did not think it worth while to change their humane attitude and their natural insight into reality for the narrowness of castle spirit or the essential unreality of financial transactions. History has forced the status of outlaws upon both, upon pariahs and parvenus alike. The latter have not yet accepted the great wisdom of Balzac’s “On ne parvient pas deux fois”; thus they don’t understand the wild dreams of the former and feel humiliated in sharing their fate. Those few refugees who insist upon telling the truth, even to the point of “indecency,” get in exchange for their unpopularity one priceless advantage: history is no longer a closed book to them and politics is no longer the privilege of Gentiles. They know that the outlawing of the Jewish people in Europe has been followed closely by the outlawing of most European nations. Refugees driven form country to country represent the vanguard of their peoples—if they keep their identity. For the first time Jewish history is not separate but tied up with that of all other nations. The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted. 2.2.2016 Saudi Court overturns Ashraf Fayadh's death sentence Panel of judges downgrades punishment for apostasy conviction to eight years in prison and 800 lashes A Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet accused of renouncing Islam, imposing an eight-year prison term and 800 lashes instead. The decision by a panel of judges came after Ashraf Fayadh’s lawyer argued his conviction was seriously flawed because he was denied a fair trial. In a briefing on the verdict, Abdulrahman al-Lahem said the judgment revoked the death sentence but upheld that the poet was guilty of apostasy. In a memo posted on Twitter, Lahem details Fayadh’s new punishment. He is sentenced to eight years in prison and 800 lashes, to be carried out on 16 occasions, and must also renounce his poetry on Saudi state media: ?????? ?? ???? #????_???? ??????? ???????? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ?????? ????? ???? ????? ????????? ?? ?????? Adam Coogle, Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: Instead of beheading Ashraf Fayadh, a Saudi court has ordered a lengthy imprisonment and flogging. No one should face arrest for peacefully expressing opinions, much less corporal punishment and prison. Saudi justice officials must urgently intervene to vacate this unjust sentence. Author Irvine Welsh said: When this twisted barbarism is thought of as a compromise, it’s way past time western governments stopped dealing with this pervert regime. The lawyer maintained that Fayadh was innocent and called for his immediate release from prison. Fayadh, who was born and lives in Saudi Arabia, has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale and has been a key leader of Edge of Arabia, a British-Saudi art organization. Fayadh was first detained in August 2013 in Abha, in South Western Saudi Arabia, by the country's religious police, also known as the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The 35-year-old was released on bail only to be arrested again on January 1, 2014, when he was sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes. After his attorneys appealed, judicial authorities decided to re-try his case before a new panel of judges, who sentenced Fayadh to death in November 2015, on charges of promoting atheism in his 2008 poetry collection, "Instructions Within". According to Human Rights Watch: Prosecutors charged him with a host of blasphemy-related charges, including: blaspheming “the divine self” and the Prophet Muhammad; spreading atheism and promoting it among the youth in public places; mocking the verses of God and the prophets; refuting the Quran; denying the day of resurrection; objecting to fate and divine decree; and having an illicit relationship with women and storing their pictures in his phone. On Twitter, many continued to criticise Saudi Arabia and its human rights record, despite the reduction of Fayadh's sentence. PEN International: Reduced sentence & flogging for Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, remains wholly unacceptable https://t.co/3BoSF7jGXo pic.twitter.com/oxJfP6IBK7 PEN International (@pen_int) 2. Februar 2016 Zena tweets: A relief that #AshrafFayadh death sentence has been dropped. But 8 years & 800 lashes for no crime is not justice. pic.twitter.com/w7kCHycvFi — Zena (@Zena__E) February 2, 2016 Bandar Almogtrb adds: #?????_???_?????_????_???? ????? ?? ??????? ?????? ??????? ???? ???????? ??? ??? ?? ???????? ???? ??? ????? ???? ??? ????! — Bandar al-mogtrb (@1mogtrb) February 2, 2016 Justice is the immediate release of Ashraf Fayadh and compensating him for what has happened to him and his family from all this And Naser Al-marshdi says its high time Saudi Arabia had a written law to avoid what he described as arbitrary rulings by judges: ???? #????_???? ???? ???? ??? ????? “????? ???????”? ???? ????? ????? ??????? ?? ???? ?????? ??????? ?????????? ??????????? ???????. — N.AL-marshdi (@NaserAlmarshdi) February 2, 2016 Ashraf Fayadh's case is clear proof that there needs to be written laws which judges abide to and not base their rulings on their feelings and impressions and personal interpretations Meanwhile, Shatha Nour is shocked anyone would celebrate this decision as a victory for Saudi justice: #?????_???_?????_????_???? ??????? ?????? ?? ????? ?????? ???? ?????? ?? ???? ??? ???? 8 ?????? ?? ???? 800 ????? ?? ??? ?? ??? ???????? — ??? ???? (@shatha_writer) February 2, 2016 I am shocked with those celebrating Saudi justice. Is jailing him for eight years just? Or are the 800 lashes just? What justice are you talking about? Authors for Peace demands the immediate and unconditional release of Ashraf Fayadh! 28.1.2016 Authors for Peace unterstützt www.wirmachendas.jetzt Flüchtlingshilfe : Keine Angst, wir machen das! Weder Obergrenze noch Abschiebung werden uns helfen, die Zukunft zu gestalten. Das geht nur mit dem Willen, gut zusammenzuleben. Dafür steht die Bewegung Wir machen das. Von Heike-Melba Fendel und Annika Reich ver?ffentlicht am 28.1.2016 / Zeit online Seit dem vergangenen Sommer wird in unserem Land über geflohene Menschen geredet, gestritten und befunden wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr. "Der Flüchtling" ist in Fernsehund Zeitungsberichten, in den Worten von Politikern und Agitatoren zum Pr?fix geronnen: Flüchtlingsfrage, Flüchtlingsstrom, Flüchtlingsplage, Flüchtlingskrise. Doch die Wirklichkeit beginnt jenseits dieser Schlagw?rter. Die Wirklichkeit der Menschen, die nach Europa gekommen sind und noch kommen werden, die vor Krieg, Armut und Tod fliehen und auf der Flucht ihr Leben riskieren. Aber auch die Wirklichkeit all derer, die sich europaweit engagieren. Globalisierung war die l?ngste Zeit getrieben von technischen Errungenschaften und wirtschaftlichen Interessen. Menschen von weit au?erhalb unserer Komfortzone waren bis zum vergangenen Sommer meist blo?er Gegenstand von Fernsehnachrichten und folgenloser Facebook-Diskussionen. Heute stehen diese Menschen und ihre Schicksale leibhaftig vor uns: Sie sind aus Fakten, Strategien und Analysen hervorgetreten – in das hiesige Leben, in diese Gesellschaft, oft direkt in unseren Alltag. Politik, ihre positiven Folgen, aber auch ihr Versagen werden durch die zahlreichen Aufgaben, vor die die Neuankommenden uns stellen, geradezu k?rperlich erfahrbar. Jetzt und hier und für uns alle. Darauf reagieren Teile unserer Gesellschaft, wie sie es in den fetten Jahren gelernt haben: Sie versuchen sich abzugrenzen, sie pochen auf ihre Rechte und ihre Sorgen. Ihre Bedrohungsszenarien und Verlust?ngste trüben einen klaren Blick auf die Menschen, die zu uns kommen. Dabei kann von Mangel keine Rede sein. Deutschlands Wirtschaft brummt wie lange nicht. Doch egal, ob wir schimpfen, handeln oder wegschauen, ob wir hier leben oder gerade erst hier ankommen – wir alle formen, Mensch für Mensch, ein neues Miteinander, eine neue Gesellschaftsordnung. Für oder gegeneinander. Wir haben es in der Hand. Die vielen freiwilligen Helfer, darunter auch zahlreiche engagierte Profis, sind in den vergangenen sechs Monaten vorangegangen. Jetzt sind wir alle gefragt, mit Ideen, Projekten und politischem Druck auf die neuen Gegebenheiten zu reagieren und die Zukunft aktiv mitzugestalten. Wir werden um ein neues Miteinander ringen, uns dabei irren und verlaufen, aber jeder Fortschritt muss Fehltritte und Rückschl?ge aushalten. Wir wollen diesen Fortschritt mitgestalten. Gemeinsam mit weiteren Unverzagten ein Vorgehen mit den und für die Menschen entwickeln, die es hierher geschafft haben. Das ist dringend n?tig, um zu zeigen, wie viele wir sind. Man h?rt, liest und sieht zumeist jene, die am lautesten schreien und viel Zeit und Sitzfleisch für reale wie mediale Stammtische haben. Hunderttausende andere aber investieren diese Lebenszeit in handfeste und, nicht selten, aufreibende Unterstützung. Ihre Motive sind so vielf?ltig wie die gew?hlte Form der Unterstützung. Wir respektieren diese Menschen, wir m?chten sie ermutigen und uns mit ihnen austauschen. Wir machen das ist ein Bündnis von Neuankommenden und Einheimischen. Es steht dafür ein, die Rechte und Bedürfnisse der geflohenen Menschen zu berücksichtigen und diese Rechte dauerhaft in einen gemeinsamen Alltag zu führen. Diese Bereitschaft endet nicht, wenn wir mit Problemen konfrontiert werden. Damit das Zusammenleben gelingt, müssen die eigentlichen Probleme erkannt und benannt werden: Sind es wirklich vornehmlich die neuangekommenen Menschen, die sich nicht an Regeln und Gesetze halten und wenn ja, welche Rolle spielen in diesem Kontext ihr Rechtsstatus und ihre Lebensbedingungen? Ist es wirklich die schiere Zahl der Menschen oder sind es die Verfahren, denen sie unterworfen werden, die das System zum Kollabieren bringen? Kollabiert es wirklich? Abschottung ist nicht realistischWir wollen diese Fragen auf der Basis von allt?glichen Erfahrungen und wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen diskutieren. Darüber wollen wir uns jenseits von Kampfbegriffen und politischen Parolen auf Basis unserer Verfassungswerte auseinandersetzen. Wir machen das, was sinnvoll ist. Und das ist vor allem: Teilhabe sichern. Teilhabe an Ausbildung, Arbeit und einer menschenwürdigen Wohnsituation. Aber auch Teilhabe an allem, was unser Leben ausmacht, allem was dazu geh?rt – Freuden und Fehlern. Wir machen das, was realistisch ist. Abschottung ist nicht realistisch. Wir brauchen keine Abschreckungspolitik, sondern einen realistischen und pragmatischen Umgang mit Zuwanderung, der sich den Herausforderungen stellt und Zuwanderung als Chance versteht. Wir machen das, was nahe liegt. In der Reihenfolge der Dringlichkeit. Dass von staatlicher Seite vielfach mehr Hürden aufgebaut als Schwellen abgebaut werden, macht uns fassungslos, aber nicht handlungsunf?hig. Wir verbinden eigenes pragmatisches Reagieren auf Notst?nde mit einer kritischen Analyse des staatlichen Handelns. "WIR", das waren zun?chst 100 Frauen aus Kunst, Wissenschaft und ?ffentlichem Leben. "Wir" sind inzwischen ein wachsendes Bündnis zahlreicher Initiativen, Personen und Institutionen. Uns verbindet das gemeinsame Ziel, der Herausforderung weltweiter Migration mit Menschlichkeit und Sachverstand zu begegnen. "MACHEN", das bedeutet: Jede und jeder, wie sie oder er kann. Vom Kleiderfalten bis Lobbyismus, von Sammelklage bis Seenotrettung, vom Beherbergen bis zum Bauvorhaben, von Rechtsberatung bis Sprachvermittlung, von kultureller Teilhabe bis Arbeitsplatzvermittlung, vom pers?nlichen Statement bis zur Medienkampagne. "DAS" ist die Bewegung weg von Mitleid und Meinung, Hilfe und Abwehr hin zu einer Kultur des Teilens und der selbstbestimmten Gestaltung einer offenen Gesellschaft. Ob ohne, mit oder gegen politische Institutionen, entscheidet sich in der Praxis t?glich aufs Neue. Wir haben keine Angst, wir haben einen Plan. Und wir sind bereit, ihn jederzeit den sich ver?ndernden Anforderungen anzupassen. Ein arabisches Sprichwort besagt, dass ein Mensch vierzig Tage an einem Ort leben muss, um dazuzugeh?ren. Verabschieden wir uns von einer Vorstellung von Heimat, die mit Geburts- und Herkunftsort verbunden ist. Freunden wir uns mit einem Konzept von Zugeh?rigkeit an, das der globalisierten Welt entspricht. Und tun wir dies im Sinne von Hannah Arendts "pólis": als Raum, der entsteht, wo immer sich Menschen verbünden, um gemeinsam zu sprechen und zu handeln. Unabdingbare Voraussetzung für einen solchen Raum ist die gleichzeitige Anwesenheit vieler Perspektiven. Wir wollen ein Leben mit all diesen Perspektiven in einem gemeinsamen Raum. Wir freuen uns auf die Zukunft. Wir machen das. Wir machen das wurde initiiert von 100 Frauen: Heike-Melba Fendel Autorin und Inhaberin einer Künstler- und Veranstaltungsagentur, Prof. Dr. Julia Eckert Sozialanthropologin, Stefanie Lohaus Journalistin, Herausgeberin des Missy Magazins, Prof. Dr. Tania Singer Soziale Neurowissenschaftlerin und Psychologin. Direktorin am Max-Planck-Institut für Kognition und Neurowissenschaften, Annika Reich Autorin, Priya Basil Autorin und Gründerin von Authors for Peace, Dr. Ines Kappert Direktorin des Gunda Werner Instituts der B?ll Stiftung, Prof. Katharina Grosse Malerin, Dr. Marion Detjen Zeithistorikerin und Autorin, Prof. Dr. Sabine Hark Soziologin, Gender Theorie, Shermin Langhoff Intendantin des Maxim-Gorki Theaters Berlin, Christina Clemm Rechtsanw?ltin, Prof. Michelle Howard Architektin, Luzia Braun Journalistin und Filmemacherin, Bettina Khano Bildende Künstlerin, Tanja Dückers Autorin und Journalistin, Annemie Vanackere Intendantin des HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Suse Marquardt Casterin, Karin Graf Literaturagentin, Nicole Hackert Galeristin, Selmin ?al??kan Generalsekret?rin von Amnesty International in Deutschland, Emily Dische-Becker Journalistin, Kathrin R?ggla Autorin, Dramatikerin, Essayistin, Vize-Pr?sidentin der Akademie der Künste, Prof. Dr. Katharina de la Durantaye Rechtswissenschaftlerin, Alison Smale Chefin der International NYT in Berlin, Christiane Teichgr?ber Dipl. Sozialwirtin, Expertin für CSR und Fundraising, Theresia Enzensberger Journalistin, Herausgeberin von BLOCK, Prof. Dr. Christina v. Braun Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Filmemacherin, Vize-Pr?sidentin des GoetheInstituts, Prof. Dr. Hanne Loreck Kunsthistorikerin, Theorie und Gender Studies, Sonja Anders Chefdramaturgin und Stellvertretende Intendantin des Deutschen Theaters Berlin, Lanna Idriss Bankdirektorin BHF und Gründerin von Gyalpa, Elisabeth Ruge Autorin und Literaturagentin, Anke Domscheit-Berg Publizistin, Internetaktivistin, Mechthild Holter Inhaberin der Agentur Players für Regisseure, Autoren und Schauspieler, Annett Gr?schner Autorin, Dr. Hella Dietz Soziologin, Dr. Catherine Newmark Journalistin (Deutschlandradio Kultur, Philosophie Magazin), Elke Schmitter Journalistin und Autorin (Der SPIEGEL), Dr. Adania Shibli Autorin, Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe Betriebswirtschaftswissenschaftlerin, Erika Hoffmann Sammlerin, Katrin G?ring-Eckardt Politikerin, Prof. Dr. Jutta Brückner Regisseurin und Drehbuchautorin, Nora Bossong Autorin, Sally McGrane Journalistin und Autorin, Susanne Gretter Lektorin, Cordelia Dvorak Dramaturgin, Regisseurin, Ausstatterin und Produzentin, Sandra Meisel Bildende Künstlerin, Frauen-Kunstprojekt ?Der Strich“, Lisa D. Modesch?pferin und -aktivistin, Inga Humpe S?ngerin, Komponistin, Tina Mendelsohn Journalistin, Filmemacherin, Moderatorin von Kulturzeit, Gudrun Gut Musikerin, Produzentin, Shelly Kupferberg Kulturjournalistin und Moderatorin, Antje Ravic Strubel Autorin, übersetzerin, Erica Overmeer Fotografin, Sophie Zeitz übersetzerin, Ulrike Demmer Journalistin, Kerstin Meyer Spezialistin für Entwicklungspolitik, Prof. Karin Sander Bildende Künstlerin, Susanne Pfeffer Kuratorin, Anna Sartorius Grafikerin, Dr. Angelika Taschen Verlegerin, Claudia Müller Filmemacherin, Judy Millar Bildende Künstlerin, Prof. Monica Bonvicini Bildende Künstlerin, Rebecca Raue Bildende Künstlerin, Mascha Jacobs Journalistin, Herausgeberin von Pop. Kultur und Kritik., Silvia Bovenschen Autorin, Sarah Schumann Malerin, Aysun Bademsoy Filmregisseurin, Dr. Charlotte Seither Komponistin, Maria Cecilia Barbetta Autorin, Katharina Teutsch Freie Kulturjournalistin, Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger Amerikanistin, Dr. Annette (Katinka) Bagwathi Sozialanthropologin und Kunsthistorikerin (HKW Berlin), Andrea Hannah Hünniger Freie Kulturjournalistin, Autorin , Olga Grjasnowa Autorin, Andrea Sartorius Restauratorin, Maria Eichhorn Bildende Künstlerin, Katrin Greiling Designerin, Dr. Zaia Alexander Autorin und übersetzerin, Vanessa Stern Schauspielerin, Komikerin, Friederike Heller Theaterregisseurin, Dramaturgin, Dr. Julia Voss Journalistin (Kunstressort der FAZ), Dr. Bettina Springer Kuratorin, Kulturwissenschaftlerin und Unternehmerin, Carolin Paulus Politikwissenschaftlerin und Beraterin bei Christian Boros/Boros GmbH, Claudia Voigt Kulturjournalistin, Autorin (Der Spiegel), Marion Ackermann Direktorin der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Lena Bopp Journalistin (Feuilleton der FAZ), Julia Schramm Politologin, Autorin, Sookee Rapperin, Dotschy Reinhardt Jazzs? ngerin und Autorin, Lina Muzur Programmleitung Aufbau Verlag, Bassant Helmi Deutsch-arabische Industrie- und Handelskammer, Iris von Tiedemann Coaching for Female Leadership Qualities, Nesrin Thomsen Human Rights Watch, Uta Grosenick Verlegerin, Barbara Gross Galeristin, Ulrike Draesner Autorin, Miriam Seyffarth Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Elisabeth Wellershaus Journalistin, Prof. Leiko Ikemura Bildende Künstlerin, Marianne Goebl Design Managerin, Margarete Stokowski Autorin, Prof. Dr. Angela McRobbie Kulturtheoretikerin, Christiane zu Salm Unternehmerin, Sammlerin, Philomene Magers Galeristin, Judith Orland Campaignerin bei Oxfam, Cécile Calla Journalistin, Theresa zu Eltz Regisseurin, Dr. Helga Lutz Kunstwissenschaftlerin, Jen Allen Kunstkritikerin, 26.1.2016 14.01.2016 Worldwide Reading of selected poems and other texts in support of Ashraf Fayadh DOCUMENTATION Please take your time and have a look 30.11.2015 14.01.2016 Worldwide Reading of selected poems and other texts in support of Ashraf Fayadh The international literature festival Berlin (ilb) and Authors for Peace call on all individuals, institutions, schools and media outlets that care about justice and freedom to participate in a worldwide reading of selected poems and other texts in support of Ashraf Fayadh, on 14 January 2016. Ashraf Fayadh, a 35 year-old Palestinian poet and art curator, who lives in Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to death by a Saudi court on 17 November 2015 for the “crime” of apostasy. He was denied access to a lawyer throughout his detention and trial. Fayadh has been a key figure in taking Saudi contemporary art to a global audience. Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern, and a friend of the poet, described him as “someone who is outspoken and daring.” Besides renouncing Islam, Fayadh also stands accused of blaspheming and promoting atheism through his collection of poetry, Instructions Within, published in 2008. Fayadh has asserted that the poems are “just about me being [a] Palestinian refugee … about cultural and philosophical issues. But the religious extremists explained it as destructive ideas against God.” The charges, coupled with the lack of due legal process, show that it is not Fayadh who is guilty but rather Saudi Arabia that is once again guilty of disregarding human rights and the rule of law. In various surveys the kingdom continually ranks as one of the least free countries in the world. According to Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia’s ever more repressive laws now criminalize free expression and give the authorities excessive police powers that are not subject to judicial oversight. Ashraf Fayadh’s case is not the story of one man, but a symbol for all the victims of a deeply repressive regime that is supported by Western governments who claim to value freedom and democracy above all. Right now Saudi Arabia sits on the UN Human Rights Council, a body whose members are supposedly those who uphold the highest standards of civil liberties. Saudi Arabia is there since 2013 thanks to secret vote-trading deals conducted with the UK, as revealed by Wikileaks. Other Western countries keep weapons and legitimacy streaming towards Saudi Arabia in order to keep oil flowing towards themselves. Caught in the current are ordinary people like Ashraf Fayadh, whose rights go unheeded in the kingdom and abroad. Amidst all the recent outrage expressed by Western leaders against IS, in the rhetoric of war and threats of retribution, there has not been a word about Saudi Arabia’s role in helping to promulgate the virulent form of Islam practiced by IS. There is no doubt about the overlaps in their ideology: both certainly endorse lashing or beheading (on the latter front Saudi Arabia actually outdid IS in the last year) anyone who does not share their views. With this worldwide reading, we demand that the UK and US governments intervene on behalf of Ashraf Fayadh as a first step towards pressuring Saudi Arabia to raise its human rights standards. We further demand that the United Nations suspend Saudi Arabia from the Human Rights Council until its abysmal record on upholding civil liberties improves. We also call on Western governments, especially in the UK and the US, to acknowledge the problems inherent in maintaining cozy, unquestioning relations with a country renowned for systematic human rights abuses. Freiheit für ASHRAF FAYADH Das internationale literaturfestival berlin (ilb) und Authors for Peace rufen alle Menschen, Institutionen, Schulen und Medien, denen Freiheit und Bürgerrechte wichtig sind, zur Teilnahme an einer weltweiten Lesung von Gedichten und Texten als Unterstützung für Ashraf Fayadh, am 14. Januar 2016 auf. Ashraf Fayadh, ein 35-j?hriger, in Pal?stina geborener Dichter und Kurator, der in SaudiArabien lebt, ist von einem saudischen Gericht am 17. November 2015 für die “Straftat” des Abfalls vom Glauben zum Tode verurteilt worden. W?hrend der Haft und der Gerichtsverhandlung wurde ihm nicht erlaubt, sich einen Anwalt zu nehmen. Fayadh ist eine Schlüsselfigur in der Vermittlung zeitgen?ssischer Kunst aus Saudi-Arabien für ein weltweites Publikum. Chris Dercon, der Direktor der Tate Modern und ein Freund des Dichters, hat ihn als ?jemand beschrieben, der freimütig und mutig ist.” Zus? tzlich zur Verleugnung des Islams wird Fayadh auch der Blasphemie und der F?rderung des Atheismus in seiner 2008 ver?ffentlichten Gedichtsammlung Anweisungen von Innen angeklagt. Fayadh hat dagegen versichert, dass die Gedichte ?allein von mir als Flüchtling aus Pal?stina handeln … über kulturelle und philosophische Probleme. Aber religi?se Extremisten haben es als zerst?rerische Ideen gegen Gott gewertet.” Die Vorwürfe, zusammen mit der Abwesenheit eines den Rechtsnormen verpflichteten Prozesses, zeigen, dass es nicht Fayadh ist, der schuldig ist, sondern eher Saudi-Arabien, das sich erneut schuldig macht, indem es, Menschenrechte und Rechtsgrunds?tze missachtet. In den Ranglisten landet das K?nigreich st?ndig auf einem der letzten Pl?tze, wenn es um Freiheit und Demokratie geht. Gem?? Human Rights Watch kriminalisieren Saudi-Arabiens immer repressivere Gesetze die freie Meinungs?u?erung und geben den Beh?rden überm??ige Polizeimacht. Von richterlicher Kontrolle keine Spur. Ashraf Fayadhs Fall ist nicht allein seine Geschichte - sie steht vielmehr symbolisch für alle Opfer eines von Grund auf repressiven Regimes, das von westlichen Regierungen unterstützt wird. Regierungen, die eigentlich st?ndig die Werte der Freiheit und Demokratie als leuchtendes Banner vor sich her tragen. Im Moment ist Saudi-Arabien sogar Mitglied im UN-Menschenrechtsrat, einer Organisation, die per se die allerh?chsten Standards der zivilen Freiheiten repr? sentiert. Saudi-Arabien sitzt in diesem Gremium seit 2013, da es heimlich mit Gro?britannien einen Stimmen-Deal verabredet hatte, wie Wikileaks enthüllt hat. Andere westliche Staaten verkaufen an Riad für viel Geld Waffen und applaudieren bei allen m?glichen Gelegenheiten den Saudis ?ffentlich, damit blo? weiterhin das ?l flie?t. In dieser Zwickmühle sitzen Menschen wie Ashraf Fayadh ohnm?chtig fest. M?nner und Frauen, deren Rechte sowohl im K?nigreich, als auch au?erhalb der Landesgrenzen unbeachtet bleiben. W?hrend der zu Recht kürzlich von westlichen Politikern ge?u?erten Abscheu über die Verbrechen der IS-Terroristen - es wurde mit Krieg und Vergeltung gedroht -, ist kein Sterbensw?rtchen über Saudi-Arabiens unrühmliche Rolle bei der Verbreitung der gewaltt?tigen Variante des Islam, die eben der selbst ernannte Islamische Staat praktiziert, gefallen. Und es gibt eben keinerlei Zweifel, dass sich die Ideologien von Saudis und Islamisten ?hneln: beide hei?en Auspeitschungen und Hinrichtungen von denjenigen gut, die nicht hundertprozent ihrer Ansicht sind. Wobei Saudi-Arabien im letzten Jahr sogar mehr Menschen hingerichtet hat als der IS. Mit dieser weltweiten Lesung fordern wir Gro?britannien und die Vereinigten Staaten auf, sich für Ashraf Fayadh einzusetzen und so, in einem ersten Schritt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Saudi-Arabien die Menschenrechtsstandards endlich anhebt. Au?erdem fordern wir, dass die Vereinten Nationen Saudi-Arabien vom UN-Menschenrechtsrat ausschlie?en, bis das K?nigreich seine entsetzliche Menschenrechtsbilanz verbessert hat und Freiheit und Bürgerrechte anerkennt. Zus?tzlich appellieren wir an alle westlichen Regierungen, besonders die britische und amerikanische, zuzugeben, dass es Probleme gibt, wenn man gleichzeitig freundschaftliche, unkritische Beziehungen zu einem Land unterh?lt, dass systematisch Menschenrechtsverletzungen begeht. Die gesamten Lesetexte werden demn?chst in mehreren Sprachen auf der Website www.worldwide-reading.com ver?ffentlicht. Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns, wenn Sie teilnehmen wollen, unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse: [email protected] ?????? ??????? ?????? ????? ????? ?????? ????? ??????? ?? ????? 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(????????? ?????????? ???? ???? ???????? ???????). ???? ??????? ?????? ????? ??????? ?? ????? ???? ????/? ??????/????? ?? ????????. ????? ?????? ?????????? ??: [email protected] Signatories: Héctor Abad, Colombia Alaa Al-Aswany, Egypt Ahmed Almulla, Saudi Arabia Badria Al-Shihi, Oman Martin Amis, UK/ USA Chloe Aridjis, Mexico/ UK Homero Aridjis, Mexico Rae Armantrout, USA Carmen-Francesca Banciu, Germany John Banville, Ireland Priya Basil, UK/ Germany Corina Bernic, Romania/ Germany Charles Bernstein, USA Carol Birch, UK Knut Boeser, Germany Alida Bok, Sweden Mirko Bonné, Germany Piedad Bonnett, Colombia Rachid Boudjedra, Algeria Hans Christoph Buch, Germany Rafael Cardoso, Brasil Brian Castro, Australia Patrizia Cavalli, Italy Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Iran Mariana Chiesa Mateos, Argentina/ Spain/ Italy Noam Chomsky, USA Jennifer Clement, USA/ Mexico Edwidge Danticat, Haiti/ USA Marie Darrieussecq, France Keki Daruwalla, Pakistan Michael Day, USA Ale? 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Venue: Museo de la libertad, Plaza 24 de Septiembre, Santa Cruz Time: 7:30 - 9 pm Participants: 6 readers, two singers and a painter Website: http://penbolivia.org Bosnia and Herzegovina Organiser: PEN Bosnia Herzegovina Bulgaria Organiser: MENAR Film Festival Venue: Cinema House, ul. "Ekzarh Yosif" 37, 1000 Sofia Time: 7:00 pm Participants: Maya Tzenova Website: http://en.menarfest.com/welcome.html Canada Organizer: SEK Beddiari, from ADAB Canada (Auteurs de la Diaspora Arabe et Berbère au Canada) and BEROAF Editions Venue: 2515, rue Delisle, Montreal, H3J1K8 Time: 6:30 pm Participants: Expecting 20 to 30 poets and writers China Organiser: Chris Song Zijiang Venue: La Casa Bistro, Central, Hong Kong Time: 6:30 pm Participants:Bei Dao, Lau Yee Ching, Chris Song, James Shea, Ng Mei Kwan, Gabriel Wu, Zeit Fong, Matthew Cheng and others Croatia Organiser: Croatian PEN, Croatian Writers Society & BOOKSA Literary Club Venue: BOOKSA Club Marti?eva 14d, Zagreb Time: 6:00 pm Participants: Tomica Bajsi?, Ana Brnardi?, Branko ?egec, Lana Derka?, Tomislav Domovi?, Dorta Jagi?, Miroslav Kirin, Tonko Maroevi?, Kemal Muji?i?, Sibila Petlevski, Ivan ?amija, Davor ?alat, Dinko Tele?an, Luka Mavreti?, Nade?da ?a? inovi?, PEN centre president Website: https://hr-hr.facebook.com/Booksa-163143567055433and Denmark Organiser: Danish PEN / Amnesty International Denmark Venue: Saudi Arabian Embassy, Om?gade 8, ?sterbro, Copenhagen Time: 4:30 pm - 5 pm Egypt Organiser: Cairo Literature Festival / Mohamed El-Baaly Venue: Al Kotob Khan (Cairo, Maadi, 13, road 254, Degla) Time: 7:00 pm Participants: Abdelmoneim Ramadan (Poet), Abdelrehim Youssef (Poet), Ahmad Al- Shahawy (Poet), Ahmed Shawki Ali (Novelist & Writer), Fatma Kandil, (Poet & Critic), Ghada Khalifa (Poet), Muhammed Abd Elnaby (Novelist & Writer), Montaser Abdel Mawgoud (Poet), Waheed Taweela (Novelist & Writer) Website: http://cairoliteraturefestival.org/ar/ France Organiser: Maison des écrivains et de la littérature Venue: Paris Organiser: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani Venue: Amicale Rooms of the Agora Building, Council of Europe, Strasbourg Time: 6 pm - 8 pm Germany Organiser: Agora – Gesellschaft für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur e.V. Venue: Buchhandlung Fritz Scherer, Paul-Baehr-Stra?e 4, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen Time: 6 pm - 7:30 pm Participants: Michael Scholz und Susanna Traut Website: www.kultur-agora.de Organiser: Lenaugrundschule in Berlin-Kreuzberg / Katrin Schings Venue: Bibliothek der Lenau-Grundschule in Kreuzberg Time: 3 pm Participants: Katrin Schings, Children 2nd to 4th grade Organiser: network for international affairs (nefia e.V.) Venue: Newsroom of ze.tt, Berlin Website: www.nefia.org Organiser: Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought in Kooperation mit der Lettrétage Venue: Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin Time: 8 pm Participants: Nihad Siris; Faten El Dabbas und Leila El-Amaire von i,slam; Deutsche Jugend für Pal?stina; Deutsch-Kunst-Kurs der 10. Klasse der Bertha von SuttnerOberschule, Hamid Fadlalla Cora Josting vom Ibn Rushd Fund Languages: English, German, Arabic Additional Information: Musikalische Umrahmung mit Trommel Website: www.lettretage.de http://www.ibn-rushd.org/typo3/cms/de/events/joint-activities/worldwide-reading-for-ashraf-fayadh/ Organiser: Europ?isches Gymnasium Bertha von Suttner / Sibylle Seite Venue: Reginhardstr. 172, 13409 Berlin Time: 10 am Participants: Sibylle Seite, Leistungskurs Deutsch 12 Website: www.bertha-vonsuttner.de Organiser: Schliemann-Grammar School Berlin / Christina Gruhle Venue: Schliemann-Grammar School Berlin, Dunkerstr. 64, 10439 Berlin Time: 8:15 am 9:30 am Organiser: Gemeinschaftsschule Campus Efeuweg / Alexandra Gebhardt Venue: Gemeinschaftsschule Campus Efeuweg, Schulcafeteria, Berlin Participants: Flüchtlinge, Schüler Organiser: Indieberlin Venue: Bülowstr. 66, 10783 Berlin Time: 5 - 8 pm Participants: Eva Loschky, Petra van Laak, Noel Maurice, Polly Trope, Claudia Rapp, Valentina Stone, Alex J. Eccleston and others Website: www.indieberlin.de Organiser: internationales literaturfestival berlin in Zusammenarbeit mit dem HAU Hebbel am Ufer Venue: HAU Hebbel am Ufer 2 Berlin Time: 7:30 pm Participants: Readings by Frank Arnold, Fadhil al-Azzawi, and Liao Yiwu. Panel with Ulrike Freitag, Adania Shibli, Peter Schneider, moderated by Priya Basil Website: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de Organiser: Willy Brandt Schule / Marie Pohl Venue: Willy Brandt Schule, Grüntaler Str. 5, 13357 Berlin Participants: Marie Pohl, English Course Organiser: Amnesty International Venue: Villa Ichon, Goetheplatz 4, Bremen Time: 7:00 PM Participants: (Probably) Irmgard Laaf, Siegfried Maschek Website: http://www.amnesty-bremen.de/Main/20151216004 Organiser: Literaturhaus Villa Augustin Venue: Literaturhaus Villa Augustin, Antonstr.1, 01097 Dresden Time: 7 pm Participants: Uta Hauthal Additional Information: Anschlie?end Konzert der "Verschenkten Lieder" mit Uta Hauthal (Gesang) undKonrad M?hwald (Klavier) Organiser: Rotraut de Neve / YOP year of performance Venue: Hamburg Organiser: Filmraum Hamburg in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Writers' Room Hamburg Venue: Filmraum Hamburg, Müggenkampstra?e 45 Time: 8 pm Participants: Daniel Bielenstein, Henry Holland, Sascha Prei?, Larissa Rode und Claire Walka Mohammed Alhisamawi, Jaber Tomizi Website: www.filmraum.net Organiser: Marktkirche Hannover / Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann Venue: Marktkirche Hannover Organiser: International School Hannover Region - Languages Dept. / Jake Eagle Venue: Bruchmeisterallee 6, 30169 Hannover Participants: English Class K12 Students Website: www.is-hr.de Organiser: Sandra Burkhardt, Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig Venue: Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, W?chterstra?e 34 Time: 6 pm Participants: Simon Kalus, Esther Becker, Ronya Othmann, Wolfram Lotz, ?zlem ?zgül Dündar, Jan Kuhlbrodt, Martina Hefter, Einführung: Josef Haslinger Organiser: Georg-D. Schaaf, Verband der Freien Lektorinnen und Lektoren e. V. (VFLL), Regionalgruppe Rhein/Ruhr Venue: Di?zesanbibliothek, überwasserkirchplatz 2, 48143 Münster Time: 7 - 8 pm Participants: Abdo Abboud, Astrid Dehe, Udo W. Hombach, Kirsten Krumeich Website: http://www.lektorenverband.de/freeashraffayadh-vfll-lesung-in-muenster/ Organiser: Internationale Armin T. Wegner Gesellschaft e.V. und der Verband Deutscher SchriftstellerInnen, Sektion Bergisches Land / Ulrich Klan Venue: City-Kirche, Kirchstr. 5, 42103 Wuppertal Time: 7 pm Participants: Olaf Reitz, Safeta Obhodjas, Michael Zeller, Andreas Steffens, Anne Linsel, Firas Aldani, Ulrich Klan Additional Information: Musical reading Greece Organiser: Hellenic Authors’ Society and the Poets Circle Venue: "Epi Lexei" bookshop Academias Street, Athens Time: 8 pm Participants: Yiorgos Chouliaras, Stathis Gourgouris, Persa Koumoutsi, Sarah Thilykou and others Website: www.authors.gr Italy Organiser: Journal la macchina sognante, ¢Gruppo giovani di Amnesty International di Bologna, Gruppo musicale Hudud, Associazione Movimento DAL Sottosuolo, multiVERSI, poet Enea Roversi Venue: Libreria Ubik- Irnerio, Via Irnerio, 27, Bologna Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Participants: Gruppo giovani di Amnesty International di Bologna (the youth group of Amnesty International in Bologna), Gruppo musicale Hudud, Associazione Movimento DAL Sottosuolo, multiVERSI, poet Enea Roversi Website: http://lamacchinasognante.com https://www.facebook.com/events/1724257111193778/ Organiser: UAAR, Italian Humanist Association in collaboration with Amnesty International, Chiara Comita Venue: Piazza San Carlo, Torino Time: 5:30 pm Organiser: Griot Bookshop & editoriaraba Venue: Spazio Formiche di Vetro, via dei Vascellari 40, Rome Time: 6:30 pm Participants: Francesca Caferri, journalist; Riccardo Noury, Amnesty International Italy, spokesperson; Simone Sibilio, professor at Cà Foscari University; bilingual readings by Muhammad Abdel Kader (Arabic) and actors from Formiche di Vetro (Italian) Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/835640286535272/ Organiser: UAAR, Italian Humanist Association in collaboration with Amnesty International, Chiara Comita Venue: Saudi Arabian Embassy, Rome Time: 5:30 pm Organiser: UAAR, Italian Humanist Association in collaboration with Amnesty International, Chiara Comita Venue: Urban Center, Via Carpenino, La Spezia Time: 5:00 pm Organiser: Q Code Mag Venue: Libreria les Mots, via Carmagnola angolo via Pepe, Milano Time: 6:30 pm Participants: Jolanda Guardi, translator and professor of Arabic literature; a representative from Amnesty International Italy; bilingual readings by Tareq al-Jabr (Arabic) and an Italian actor (tbc) Website: http://www.librerialesmots.it/ Organiser: University of Napoli L’Orientale, Dpt. of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean Venue: room 2.1, palazzo del Mediterraneo, Napoli Time: 8:30 pm Additional Information: Poems will be read in the class of Arabic language and literature Organiser: Associazione POP, progetto Ottobre in Poesia Venue: La Sala Conferenze delle Messaggerie Sarde, Sassari Time: 7 pm Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/659022027534468/659206744182663/ Organiser: ITTE – Itinerari teatralizzati Place: Villacidro Time: 7 pm Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/659022027534468/659206744182663/ Latvia Organiser: Literature Without Borders (Latvia) Venue: NicePlace Mansards, 21 Kri?jā?a Barona street, Rīga Time: 7:00 pm Participants: Jānis Rokpelnis, Kārlis Vērdi??, Edvīns Raups, Pēteris Draguns, Toms Treibergs, Jelena Glazova, Dmitry Kuzmin, Artur Punte, Sergej Timofejev, Semjon Hanin and other poets and translators Lebanon Organiser: Jahida Wehbe Mauritius Organiser: Ledikasyon pu Travayer / Alain Ah-Vee Place: Grand River North West, Port Louis Time: 6 pm Participants: Umar Timol, Ashish Beesoondyal, Helina Hookoomsing, Pascal Nadal, Tania Haberland, Richard Sedley Assonne, Norman Tambanivoul, Vincent Pellegrin, Sarah-Jane Naraina, Indranee Canthiram, Begum Bedullah, Anne-Marie Joly, Noor Adam Essack, Vijay Naraidoo, Alain Fanchon, Dini Lallah, Aqiil Gopee, Yusuf Kadel, Henri Favory, Marie-France Favory Mexico Organiser: Magali Tercero, Presidenta PEN México Venue: Casa Refugio, Casa Citlaltépetl 25, Col. Condesa Time: 7 pm Participants: Homero Aridjis, María Baranda, Carmen Boullosa, Hernán Bravo Varela, Rocío Cerón, Alicia García Bergua, Tanya Huntington, Rose Mary Espinosa, José ángel Leyva, Víctor Manuel Mendiola, Eduardo Milán, Miryam Moscona, Philippe OlléLaprune, Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Qui?ones, Josué Ramírez, María Rivera, Magali Tercero, Eduardo Vázquez Martín y María Elena Ruiz, among others Website: penmexico.org.mx/index.html Myanmar Organiser: PEN Myanmar Center Venue: PEN Myanmar Center 31, Upper Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Township, Yangon Time: 7 pm Participants: Maung Day and others Netherlands Organiser: PEN International / Writers Unlimited Venue: Writers Unlimited Festival, The Hague Participants: Jennifer Clement, Jung Chang New Zealand Organiser: Courtney Sina Meredith Venue: Auckland Central Library 44-46 Lorne St, Auckland Time: 5:30 PM Participants: Courtney Sina Meredith, Robert Sullivan Website: http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/Events/Events/pages/lifeandfreedomforashraffayadh.aspx Nigeria Organiser: PEN Nigeria Venue: Obafemi Awolowo University, Institute of Cultural Studies, Ibadan Time: 5:30 pm Participants: W?lé ?óyínká, Jahman Aníkúlápó, Tóyìn Akinoshó, Folú àgóí, Perpetual Ezeifule, Dèjì Tóyè, Jùm??k?? Verisimo, Iquo Diana, ???gun Adéfilá, Dagar Tollar, Dámì àjàyí, ??lá ?l?runy?mí, F??mi ??s??fisan, R??mí Rájí, Tádé ìpàde?lá, F??mi Morgan, Servio Gbàdàm??sí, Rótìmí Babatúndé, Ay??délé ?l??fintúàdé, Ayodele Olofunlua, Funmi Aluko, Benson Eluma, Yomi Ogunsanya, Adebayo Lamikanra, Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, Adébáy?? Mo??balájé, Chijioke Uwasomba, ?ládélé Noah, Dí??kárá ?l??runt??ba-ójù, R??pò Ewéńlá Organiser: PEN Nigeria Venue: Freedom Park, Marina Lagos, Ife Time: 4 pm - 7 pm Participants: W?lé ?óyínká, Jahman Aníkúlápó, Tóyìn Akinoshó, Folú àgóí, Perpetual Ezeifule, Dèjì Tóyè, Jùm??k?? Verisimo, Iquo Diana, ???gun Adéfilá, Dagar Tollar, Dámì àjàyí, ??lá ?l?runy?mí, F??mi ??s??fisan, R??mí Rájí, Tádé ìpàde?lá, F??mi Morgan, Servio Gbàdàm??sí, Rótìmí Babatúndé, Ay??délé ?l??fintúàdé, Ayodele Olofunlua, Funmi Aluko, Benson Eluma, Yomi Ogunsanya, Adebayo Lamikanra, Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, Adébáy?? Mo??balájé, Chijioke Uwasomba, ?ládélé Noah, Dí??kárá ?l??runt??ba-ójù, R??pò Ewéńlá Organiser: PEN, Association of Nigeria Authors, AJ House of Poetry, Lagos International Poetry Festival, Committee for Relevant Art, Culture Advocates Caucus Venue: University of Ibadan, Institute of African studies, Lagos Participants: W?lé ?óyínká, Jahman Aníkúlápó, Tóyìn Akinoshó, Folú àgóí, Perpetual Ezeifule, Dèjì Tóyè, Jùm??k?? Verisimo, Iquo Diana, ???gun Adéfilá, Dagar Tollar, Dámì àjàyí, ??lá ?l?runy?mí, F??mi ??s??fisan, R??mí Rájí, Tádé ìpàde?lá, F??mi Morgan, Servio Gbàdàm??sí, Rótìmí Babatúndé, Ay??délé ?l??fintúàdé, Ayodele Olofunlua, Funmi Aluko, Benson Eluma, Yomi Ogunsanya, Adebayo Lamikanra, Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, Adébáy?? Mo??balájé, Chijioke Uwasomba, ?ládélé Noah, Dí??kárá ?l??runt??ba-ójù, R??pò Ewéńlá Norway Organiser: Erling Kittelsen Place: Kongensgt. 16, 0153 Oslo Time: 15. January, 8 pm Palestine Organiser: Qattan Foundation Venue: Oregano coffee, Ramallah center, Old quarter Time: 6 pm Participants: Mohammad Daqqa, Khaled Jouma, Fares Sabaneeh, Hala Shrouf, Ahmad Yaqoub, Liana Badr, Muhanad AbdelHamid Portugal Organiser: PEN Clube Português (Portuguese PEN Centre) and Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (Portuguese Authors' Society) Venue: Auditório Maestro Frederico de Freitas, Av. Duque de Loulé, 31 Time: 6:30 pm Participants: Members of Portuguese PEN and other poets, who will read poems by Ashraf Fayadh, their own poems and poems by authors who cannot be present Russia Organiser: Russian poets / Sakharov Center Venue: Sakharov Center, 57 Zemlyanoy Val Street, bld 6., Moscow Time: 7 pm - 9 pm Website: http://www.sakharov-center.ru/ Serbia Organiser: Kulturni Front / Grad - European centre for culture and debate Place: Bra?e Krsmanovi? 4 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Website : http://www.gradbeograd.eu/clanak_program_datum.php?datum_pocetka=2016-01-14 Singapore Organiser: NUS Middle East Institute and Yale-NUS College Venue: MEI Seminar Room, Blk B, Level 6, 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119620 Time: 5 pm Spain Organiser: Basque PEN Venue: Euskal Herria, Agoitz Plaza 1, 48015 Bilbo Sweden Organiser: G?teborg Litteraturhus / Swedish PEN Venue: Heurlins plats 1, Gothenburg Time: 6 pm Participants: Meira Ahmemulic, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Jesper Brygger, Karin Brygger, Stewe Claeson, ?ke Edwardson, Helena Eriksson, Linn Hansén, Gunnar D Hansson, Kennet Klemets, J?rgen Lind, Tetz Rooke, Jessica Schiefauer Website: goteborgslitteraturhus.se/nyheter Organiser: Swedish PEN and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Stockholm Venue: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Stockholm, Sergels Torg Time: 6 – 7 pm Website: http://kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/ Switzerland Organiser: Literaturhaus Basel Place: Basel Organiser: index | Wort und Wirkung Venue: Elisabethenstr. 14a 8004 Zürich Time: 8 pm Participants: u. A. Melanie Katz, Ulrike Ulrich, Annette Lory, Ahmad Alrayan Organiser: Verein SCHRONK! Biel/Bienne Venue: Schiffl?ndte / Port de plaisance Biel/Bienne Schweiz Time: 6 pm Website: https://www.facebook.com/schronkbielbienne http://www.schronk.ch UK Organiser: English PEN / The Mosaic Rooms Venue: The Mosaic Rooms - A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road , London Time: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Participants: Selma Dabbagh, AL Kennedy, Ruth Padel and others Additional Information: The opening of The Mosaic Rooms’ exhibition, Suspended Accounts, featuring new work by emerging Palestinian artists, will follow the reading. Website: https://www.englishpen.org/event/worldwide-reading-for-ashraf-fayadh/ Organiser: Lancaster Central Library / Carol Birch Place: Market Square, Lancaster, UK Time: 7 pm - 9 pm Participants: Jo Baker, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Carol Birch, Carole Coates, Andy Darby, Carys Davies, Paul Farley, Sarah Hymas, Pauline Keith, Angela Martin and Saleel Nurbhai Organiser: Joanna Guthrie Venue: Norwich Arts Centre, 51 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, UK Time: 8 pm Participants: George Szirtes, Moniza Alvi, Tiffany Atkison, Helen Ivory, Andreas Holland, Joanna Guthrie, Martin Figura, Laura Scott and others Website: https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/events/poetry-for-ashrad-fayadh/ Organiser: Wales PEN Cymru / Menna Elfyn, University of Wales Venue: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Time: 7 pm Organiser: Scottish PEN Place: Glasgow Organiser: Scottish PEN Place: Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh Organiser: Ledbury Poetry Festival Place: Ledbury, Herefordshire Time: 1 pm Website: www.poetry-festival.co.uk Ukraine Organiser: Ukrainian Literary Center Venue: 1-3/5, Pushkinska str, Kupidon bar Time: 7 pm Website: http://facebook.com/events/918476674902371/ Organiser: Book Maestro Club Venue: 37, Baydy Vyshnevetskogo str, Kobzar Muzeum, Cherkasy Time: 4 pm Participants: Artur Shapoval, Nyuta Bondarenko, Boghdan Chernenko, Denis Andrushenko, Nika Skrypay, Yaroslav Lytvyn, Liudmyla Shlihta Website: http://litcentr.in.ua/news/2016-01-14-3836 Organiser: YE Bookstore Venue: 30, Lesi Ukrainki str, YE Bookstore, Lutsk Time: 5 pm Participants: Olga Lyasnyuk, Vitaliy Tkachuk, Anna Lutsiuk, Maria Marchenkova Website: http://litcentr.in.ua/news/2016-01-14-3836 Organiser: 99 Poetry Club Venue: 193, Lenin avenue, Lenin Gallery, Zaporizhzhya Time: 6 pm Participants: Oles Barlig, Tetiana Savchenko, Viktoria Petrova, Yuriy Ganoshenko, Viktoria Petrova, Olena Olshanska Website: http://facebook.com/events/1016060281784001/ USA Organiser: Agnes Scott College / Waqas Khwaja Venue: Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA 30030) Frannie Auditorium, Campbell Hall Time: 6 pm Participants: Franklin Abbot, Funmi Akinfenwa, Calvin Burgamy, Alan Grostephan, Kai Issa, Latianna Nichols, Paige Sullivan, Marcus Taylor, Dan Veach, Ajay Vishwanathan, Waqas Khwaj Organiser: The International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. Co-sponsors: UI Center for Human Rights and Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Venue: Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton), Iowa City Time: 12 pm Website: iwp.uiowa.edu Organiser: Catherine Fletcher Venue: Terraza 7 Café, 40-19 Gleane St, Jackson Heights, New York Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Participants: Idra Novey, Bob Holman, Mohamad Hodeib Website: www.terrazacafe.com Organiser: PEN American Center / Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf Venue: Brooklyn Museum, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York Time: 7:00 PM Participants: Natalie Diaz, Ru Freeman, Lawrence Joseph, Dina Omar, Dread Scott, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell Website: http://www.pen.org/event/2015/12/22/life-and-freedom-ashraf-fayadh Organiser: Kelly Writers House Venue: Kelly Writers House (at the University of Pennsylvania) 3805 Locust Walk Time: 12:00 pm Participants: Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Ariel Resnikoff, among others Website: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0116.php Organiser: Peace / Works & The Green Line Café Poetry Series hosted by Leonard Gontarek Venue: The Green Line Café, 45th & Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Time: 7 pm Website: www.greenlinecafe.com Organiser: MFA Program in Creative Writing, BSU Venue: Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA Time: 2 pm Participants: Pierre Joris, Martin Coreless-Smith & others Organiser: Teatro Paraguas Venue: Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe NM 87507 US Time: 5 pm Participants: Open Mic Website: www.teatroparaguas.org Organiser: Deborah Wodraska Venue: Kismet Creative Center, 3409 Iowa Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118 USA Time: 7 pm Participants: Deborah Wodraska, Hart L'Ecuyer Organiser: Emily Farranto, Andy Young, Khaled Hegazzi Venue: Ten Gallery, New Orleans 8.1.2016 ?????? ?????? ??????? | Jews & Arabs Kiss | ??? ????? ??????? The Israeli Ministry of Education decided to ban from the school program a book dedcribing an affair between a jewish woman and an arab man. So TimeOut Tel Aviv has decided to ask jews and arabs to meet and to kiss. 15.11.2015 A MESSAGE FROM PARIS by Ian McEwan Ian McEwan, who is living in Paris this month, sent a deep and moving email to Edge. The death cult chose its city well—Paris, secular capital of the world, as hospitable, diverse and charming a metropolis as was ever devised. And the death cult chose its targets in the city with ghoulish, self-damning accuracy—everything they loathed stood plainly before them on a happy Friday evening: men and women in easy association, wine, free-thinking, laughter, tolerance, music—wild and satirical rock and blues. The cultists came armed with savage nihilism and a hatred that lies beyond our understanding. Their protective armour was the suicide belt, their idea of the ultimate hiding place was the virtuous after-life, where the police cannot go. (The jihadist paradise is turning out to be one of humanity’s worst ever ideas; slash and burn in this life, eternal rest among kitsch in the next). Paris, dazed and subdued, woke this morning to reflect on its new circumstances. Those of us who were out on the town last night can only wonder at the vagaries of chance that lets us live and others die. As the slaughter began, my wife and I were in a venerable Paris institution, a cliché of the modest good life since 1845. In this charming restaurant in the sixieme, one shares crowded tables with goodwilled strangers, visitors and locals in a friendly crush. With our Pouilly Fume and filets d’hareng, we were as good a target as any. The cult chose the onzieme, the dixieme, barely a mile away and we didn’t know a thing. Now we do. What are those changed circumstances? Security will tighten and Paris must become a little less charming. The necessary tension between security and freedom will remain a challenge. The death-cult’s bullets and bombs will come again, here or somewhere else, we can be sure. The citizens of London, New York, Berlin are paying close and nervous attention. In January we were all CharlieHebdo. Now, we are all Parisians and that at least, in a dark time, is a matter of pride. Lesen Sie McEwans E-Mail auf Deutsch: ian_mcewan_zu_den_attentaten__wir_sind_jetzt_bürger_von_paris.pdf File Size: 754 kb File Type: pdfDownload File 16.11.2016 11.11.2015 Aufruf für eine menschliche Flüchtlingspolitik Authors for Peace unterstützt den Aufruf engagierter Mitbürger/innen für eine menschliche Flüchtlingspolitik Ein Teil der Bundesregierung überschreitet dieser Tage eine rote Linie. Er verwirft und durchkreuzt die deutsche Flüchtlingspolitik, die bisher die Not der Menschen erkannte und pragmatische L?sungen suchte. Jetzt sollen Frauen und Kinder sich keine Hoffnung auf eine Rettung aus dem Kriegsgebiet mehr machen dürfen. Der Familiennachzug soll unterbunden werden. Viele brechen deshalb bereits auf, um trotz des kommenden Winters über die lebensgef?hrlichen Routen nach Europa zu gelangen. Es bahnt sich eine humanit?re Katastrophe an: Sie wird bewusst in Kauf genommen, um Abschreckungseffekte zu erzielen. Fast alle Flüchtlinge, auch die aus Syrien, sollen nur noch subsidi?ren Schutz bekommen. Damit h?tten sie zun?chst nur eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis von einem Jahr. Ihre Chancen auf eine Ausbildung, einen Arbeitsplatz, auf den Erwerb der deutschen Sprache würden sich dramatisch verringern. Offenkundig ist ihre Integration nicht mehr gewollt. Das ist nicht nur schlimm für sie selbst, sondern auch schlimm für Deutschland, denn ihre Ausgrenzung wird kein einziges Problem l?sen, sondern nur neue Probleme schaffen. Es wird mit fragwürdigen Zahlen argumentiert. Dass Hunderttausende von geflüchteten syrischen M?nnern wegen Familiennachzugs um den Faktor ? vier oder mehr“ (de Maizière, 6.11.15) multipliziert werden müssten, ist in unverantwortlicher Weise übertrieben. Insgesamt haben laut Statistik des BAMF 2015 bisher rund 100.000 Syrerinnen und Syrer Asylantr?ge gestellt, von denen nur eine Minderheit nachzugsberechtigte Ehegatten und minderj?hrige Kinder hat. Durch den immer wieder angefeuerten Konflikt innerhalb der Regierung entsteht der Eindruck von Unberechenbarkeit. Es wird Unsicherheit geschürt, die das Land spaltet und die AfD und Pegida st?rkt. Es wird aus undurchsichtigen Gründen eine Symbolpolitik betrieben, die nicht mehr an Probleml?sungen interessiert ist. Wir fordern die Bundesregierung auf, auf dem Pfad einer menschlichen Flüchtlingspolitik weiterzugehen und ihre Regierungsverantwortung wahrzunehmen. Wir stehen vor der Herausforderung, den Geflohenen mit einer Bleibeperspektive in Deutschland Arbeit, Teilhabe und Integration zu erm?glichen. Dafür fehlen bisher die Konzepte und Programme. Die Bundesregierung sollte, im Interesse Deutschlands, sich diesen Herausforderungen stellen und die Zukunft gestalten, anstatt alleine auf Abschottung und Abschreckung zu setzen und Scheinl?sungen zu verbreiten. Bitte unterschreiben Sie den Aufruf hier. 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Mitarbeiterin David Jack Ulrike Ruf Musikerin Alina Herbing Antje Buchholz Architektin Annemarie Friederich Stephanie Sch?nfeld Angestellte Jana Reich Verlegerin Christopher Wenzel Diakon Christian Rüsenberg Unternehmer Ariane Schr?der Drehbuchautorin Johanna Ewert Evi Kehrstephan Schauspielerin Peter Behne Ricarda Wenzel Diakonin und Sozialp?dagogin Katrin B?hme Judith D?ker Schauspielerin, Autorin Sebastian Reuss Marina Dietweger Friedrich Alber Geigenbauer heiko neumeister künstler Anja Tuckermann Schriftstellerin Clemens Krümmel Kunsthistoriker Brigitte Karpenstein Katja J?nsson Johannes Suhm Schauspieler Marleen Wolter Theaterschaffende Julia Reichert Dramaturgin Anette v. Jankó Heilpraktikerin Jürgen Randau Rentner karin sander prof. an der eth, zürich martin lauffer handchirurg Tine Mothes Researcherin Linda Schneider Sofie Gross Schauspielerin J?rg Englbrecht Buchh?ndler annette riedel Architekt Christian Bojidar Müller Schauspieler lara medak pr beraterin Helga Lutz Kunsthistorikerin/Wissenschaft Nora Jokhosha Jonas Schiffauer Sara Bernshausen Anja Stegen Politikwissenschaftlerin Antonia Kühne Designerin Bjoern Hartwig Lucie Zelger Schauspielerin Marina Rimkus Studentin Katja Hettler Designerin Susann T?nse Justizangestellte Celia Angel Office Managerin Johanna Grenzheuser Künstlerin Hans Angerer Künstler suse marquardt Castingdirector J?rg Brodde Kunstmaler MarieAnnick Schmid Studentin Francesca Bonosi Nele Br?nner Hatun Froese Lehrerin Bettina Diallo Grafikerin Gabriele Schmiedl Irene Sarre Illustratorin Anna Tautfest Künstlerin Tim Mainz Rettungsassistent Mia Grau Heiko Glawe DGB-Regionsgesch?ftsführer Laura Coppens Dr. Dorothee Wiese Universit?tsdozentin Stephanie Leder Post-Doc Geographische Entwicklungsforschung Elke Kattner-Fallis Gesch?ftsführerin Erich Pick Künstler, Kulturwissenschaftler Maike Voigt Priya Basil Schriftstellerin nora sdun galeristin / verlegerin Ingo Vetter Professor, HfK Bremen Dagmar Filter Leitung Zentrum GenderWissen Hamburg Anna Lena Grau Künstlerin Verena von Hatzfeldt Lisa Bendiek Manfred Wolter Dipl.-P?dagoge Wiebke Schwarzhans Künstlerin Rebecca Raue Bildende Künstlerin Hannes K?hler Autor/übersetzer Marie Luise Birkholz Doktorand*in Kristín von Kistowski Biologin christiane schneider Andrea Behrends Ethnologin anna kasten stella hilb schauspielerin Sabine Wedemeyer Pressesprecherin Gülay Ak?n Autorin; Kunsttherapeutin Sonja Enste P?dagogin Erdmute Alber Hochschullehrerin Johanna Sarre Unimitarbeiterin Claudia Müller Regisseurin Hanne Loreck Professorin für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaft, Gender Studies Friedemann Krapoth Jan Frohburg Architekt Kerstin Ziege Rechtsanwaltsfachangestellte Katrin Fillinger Artdirektorin Lina Muzur Lektorin Alina Pfeifer Studentin Anja Schmalfu? Marie Detjen Schülerin Maria Walke Michaela Hassini Taemassistentin / z.Z. ohne Arbeit Arno Kleinofen Regisseur Ellen H?ring de Vázquez Redakteurin J?rg Braunsdorf Buchh?ndler Daniel Klotz Webentwickler Sandra Meisel Künstlerin Julia Roth Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Autorin Terhi Dostal Wiebke M?rkl Krankenschwester Matthias Kottmann Rechtsanwalt Jenny LIndner Journalistin Andrea Warner Beraterin, Coach, Trainerin Hanna Mei?ner Soziologin Karin Schr?er Angestellte Tobias Kirsch Webentwickler Barbara Kantel Franziska Schneeberger Studentin Elisa Müller Studentin Yasmin Owaida Dolmetscherin/Studentin andrea huyoff Künstlerin/ Notunterkunft privat Tobias Schwencke Vicki Schmatolla Musikerin Emel Erdem KA Christine Tarawally Sozialassistentin Lars Koesling Manager Christian Hanussek Künstler Samira Sinjab-Behrmann Hotelier Valentin Moritz Autor Olga Grjasnowa Schriftstellerin juan casanova atencion al cliente Helena Eckert Studentin Iris von Tiedemann Business Coach christiane Eckert Dana Schmalz wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Mechthild Holter Künstler-Managment lanna Idriss Banker und Unternehmerin Hannah Stockmann Filmemacherin ?ebnem Bahad?r Dolmetscherin/Universit?tsdozentin Susanne Sch?nlein-H?pfner Grace Mendonca DJ Sabine Hark Professorin für Gender Studies, TU Berlin Catherine Newmark Journalistin Bahati Glass S?ngerin Simone Hermes Student*in Canan Turan Filmwissenschaftlerin & Filmemacherin Oliver Feldhaus Maria Pazoukhine Andreas Schmidt Student*in Mirjam Lücking michaela barthe selbst?ndig PR Agentur Lisa Landeck Student*in Twelbeck Kirsten Professorin für Nordamerikastudien Karlotta Ehrenberg Autorin Kerstin Meyer Sachverst?ndige Entwicklungspolitik Christine Koschmieder Literaturagentin Bianca Ich Lehrerin/Pate Bernd Singelmann Inhaber Werbeagentur Brian Currid übersetzer Inga Schwarz Ethnologin Uta Maria Bücker ?rztin Krystyna Kuhn Autorin Maria Knissel Schriftstellerin Ulrich Karpenstein Rechtsanwalt Maximilian Steinbeis Journalist laura Eckert Künstlerin Annika Reich Autorin Heike Drotbohm Ethnologin Sandra Gugic Autorin Kai Vásquez Freiberufler Patrick Findeis Autor Julia Eckert Professorin für Sozialanthropologie Michelle Howard Architekturprofessorin Nicole Zeisig Botschaftsangestellte Matthias Fredrich-Auf der Horst Journalist / Authors for Peace Inger-Maria Mahlke Autorin Jan Groh Schriftsteller / Freier Journalist Eva-Lena L?rzer Journalistin Cordelia Dvorák Regisseurin Annett Gr?schner Schriftstellerin Alena Schr?der Journalistin Lisa Dickreiter Autorin Dilek Güng?r Autorin Sophie Zeitz Literaturübersetzerin katharina grosse künstlerin Mascha Jacobs (Journalistin) Emily Dische-Becker Journalistin/Filmproduzentin Martin Keune Schriftsteller Marion Detjen Historikerin 4th November 2015 DISGUSTING NEW SURVEILLANCE POLICIES IN THE UK BIG BRITISH BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Spy agencies will be able to track everyone’s internet use without warrant UK governments have signed secret orders on data collection for years New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen’s use of the internet without any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory powers bill unveiled by Theresa May. Requires web and phone companies to store records of websites visited by every citizen for 12 months for access by police, security services and other public bodies. Makes explicit in law for the first time security services’ powers for the “bulk collection” of large volumes of personal communications data. Makes explicit in law for the first time powers of the security services and police to hack and bug into computers and phones. Places new legal obligation on companies to assist in these operations to bypass encryption. New “double-lock” on ministerial authorisation of intercept warrants with panel of seven judicial commissioners given power of veto. But exemptions allowed in “urgent cases” of up to five days. Existing system of three oversight commissioners replaced with single investigatory powers commissioner who will be a senior judge. Prime minister to be consulted in all cases involving interception of MPs’ communications. Safeguards on requests for communications data in other “sensitive professions” such as journalists to be written into law. ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN Read the bill: draft_investigatory_powers_bill.pdf File Size: 3540 kb File Type: pdfDownload File This document includes: foreword by the Home Secretary guide to powers and safeguards draft Investigatory Powers Bill explanatory notes to the draft bill Authors for Peace supports Liberty’s Safe and Sound 8 Point Plan for a secure and private Britain 1. Judicial sign-off 2. Respect our data 3. Targeted surveillance - for a reason 4. Transparency and Redress 5. Use of intercept evidence in court 6. Fair and open international data sharing laws 7. Protect our encryption standards 8. Recognition of the unique threat hacking poses to our security GET INVOLVED HERE! 26.10.2015 Merkel und die Flüchtlinge: Ja, wir schaffen das Eine bemerkenswerte Kolumne von Georg Diez bei Spiegel Online Der berühmte, der bleibende, der richtige MerkelSatz, über den immer noch gestritten wird von Leuten, die Politik auf Prozentzahlen und Wahlumfragen reduzieren, ist tats?chlich der Schlüssel zu einer guten Gesellschaft. Lesen Sie bitte hier weiter! 2.10.2015 Für ein Europa der Menschen und der Menschenrechte! So viele Menschen wie noch nie seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs sind auf der Flucht und suchen Schutz, auch in Deutschland und Europa. Viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger zeigen eine überw?ltigende Hilfsbereitschaft. Doch Realit?t ist auch: Fast t?glich werden in Deutschland Unterkünfte angezündet, Flüchtlinge oder die, die ihnen beistehen, angegriffen. W?hrend tausende Flüchtlinge auf ihrem Weg nach Europa im Mittelmeer ertrinken, schotten viele europ?ische Regierungen ihre Grenzen ab. Und vielen, denen die Einreise gelingt, steht eine monatelange Odyssee in unwürdigen Verh?ltnissen bevor. Auch wenn die Hilfsbereitschaft der Bev?lkerung beeindruckend ist - Europa bietet insgesamt ein verheerendes Bild. Es zeigt sich uneinig, hilflos, kleinkr?merisch. Unser Kontinent verr?t seine Ideale. Keine Frage – die Anzahl der Flüchtlinge stellt unsere Gemeinwesen vor enorme Herausforderungen. Aber wer, wenn nicht eine der friedlichsten und wohlhabendsten Regionen der Welt k?nnte diese Aufgabe stemmen? Eine Region, die auf Werten gründet wie Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. Eine Region, die ihre Vielfalt als St?rke begreift. Unser Europa steht an einem Scheideweg. Wie wollen wir leben? Wer wollen wir sein? Wollen wir diejenigen sein, die sich mit Stacheldraht abschotten? Wollen wir diejenigen sein, die ihre Haltung von der aktuellen Befindlichkeit und der Kassenlage abh?ngig machen? Oder wollen wir diejenigen sein, die nicht von ihren Werten abrücken? Die für Menschlichkeit und die Wahrung von Menschenrechten stehen? 26 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer haben die Menschen in allen Teilen Deutschlands angesichts der Not der Flüchtlinge pragmatisch und engagiert ein Beispiel dafür gegeben, was es hei?t, in einer friedlichen, freiheitlichen und gerechten Gesellschaft zu leben. Von diesen Werten dürfen wir nicht wieder abrücken. Wir müssen und wollen auch in Deutschland weiter wachsen an den aktuellen Herausforderungen: Statt neue Abschreckungsma?nahmen in Form von Einschnitten im Aufenthalts-, Asylund Sozialrecht vorzunehmen, gilt es, Teilhabe zu erm?glichen, Grundbedürfnisse zu decken und Zug?nge in Bildung und Arbeit zu ?ffnen. Es ist Zeit, sich zu bekennen. Wir, die Unterzeichnenden, bekennen uns zu Humanit?t und Solidarit?t der Wahrung von Menschenrechten sicheren Zugangswegen und fairen Asylverfahren Schutz vor Hetze und Anschl?gen einer offenen, menschlichen und von Vielfalt gepr?gten Gesellschaft Anl?sslich des bundesweiten Flüchtlingstages starten Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Gewerkschaften, Flüchtlingsinitiativen, Künstler und Privatpersonen einen bundesweiten Aufruf. Dieser formuliert 25 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung ein breit verankertes Selbstverst?ndnis: Asyl ist ein Menschenrecht! Solidarit?t, Mitgefühl und Humanit?t geh?ren zu einem offenen, vielf?ltigen Deutschland und zu Europa. Zu den Initiatoren geh?ren Amnesty International, Brot für die Welt, Pro Asyl, der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund und der Parit?tische Wohlfahrtsverband, aber auch Kulturinstitutionen wie die Berliner Festspiele. Künstler und Kulturschaffende wie Die ?rzte, Nina Hoss, Herta Müller, Herbert Gr?nemeyer und Volker Schl?ndorff haben ebenfalls unterzeichnet. UNTER-STüTZEN SIE DAS BEKENNTNIS! Unterzeichnen Sie bitte hier. 28.9.2015 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Migrants and Refugees Millions of migrants seeking asylum in Europe face hostility, racism, and red tape. John Oliver does one admittedly tiny thing for one of them. And here is Nujeen's answer and her encouragement for other refugees: 28.9.2015 Authors for Peace supports Exit now! Fill in the form and generate your resignation letter: The intelligence agency I work for... lost its moral compass violates fundamental freedom or democratic principles abuses the idea of “national security“ in order to justify violations of the constitution Next The Dagger Complex in Darmstadt, Germany acts as a central point of the NSA's surveillance and espionage activity in Europe. Intelexit supporters, the initiative helping people break free from the secret services, dropped information flyers to the 1100 employees working there. This is a wonderful way to reach out to the spying community – we are currently working on more ways of participation to reach out and help people who want to break free. More information at www.intelexit.org ?16.9.2015? Für Einwanderung und Toleranz, gegen Nazis und Fremdenfeindlichkeit Carolin Kebekus - "Wie bl?d du bist": 11.9.2005 #NoHateSpeech 6.9.2015 Germany welcomes refugees with open arms Munich mayor: "I don't think about numbers, only refugees' safety." Dieter Reiter said he was surprised at how effectively his city had responded to the crisis. “Of course there are some limits responding given the space we have in Munich, but that is not the question I am asking myself. Every day I am asking myself how can we accommodate these people, these refugees, how can we give them a feeling that they are safe here in Munich, here in Germany. I am not really thinking about how many people can we afford and can we take here in Munich. That is not the question.” "In reality, life as we live it here is already far more diverse," German President Joachim Gauck said. "In our heads we know this, but the spirit sometimes lags behind. We as a nation must redefine ourselves, as a collective of different people, but who all accept common values." 31.8.2015 Deutschland hei?t Flüchtlinge willkommen - Klare Kante gegen Fremdenhass "Es gilt das Grundrecht auf Asyl!" "Jetzt ist deutsche Flexibilit?t gefordert." Kanzlerin Merkel hat den wachsenden Zustrom von Flüchtlingen als "zentrale Herausforderung für l?ngere Zeit" bezeichnet. Es sei eine "nationale Aufgabe", die mehr Flexibilit?t erfordere. Für den Umgang mit Flüchtlingen nenne das Grundgesetz "klare Grunds?tze", sagte Merkel auf ihrer Sommer-Pressekonferenz in Berlin. ?Es gibt keine Toleranz gegenüber denen, die die Würde anderer Menschen in Frage stellen. Wir k?nnen stolz sein, auf die Humanit?t unseres Grundgesetzes." Was Angela Merkel jenen sagt, die bei hetzerischen Demonstrationen mitlaufen: 24.8.2015 Aufruf zur Leseperformance ?berlin liest? zur Situation der Flüchtlinge und Asylsuchenden zum Auftakt des 15. internationalen literaturfestivals berlin 9. September 2015, 6 bis 17.30 Uhr ? ??? ? Mit welchen Worten und Bildern kann das Schicksal der Flüchtlinge und Asylsuchenden noch eindringlicher ins Licht gerückt werden? Das ilb ruft gemeinsam mit der Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung Berlinerinnen und Berliner dazu auf, gleich zu Festivalbeginn am 9. September 2015, literarische Texte zur Situation von Flüchtlingen und Asylsuchenden in Europa und weltweit vorzutragen. Hierfür wird das ilb eine Broschüre mit Texten zur Verfügung stellen. Auf unserer Homepage (http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm/berlin-liest) finden Sie ab 20. August ein PDF mit Texten, die internationale AutorInnen zu diesem Thema verfasst haben. Es k?nnen auch eigene oder selbst ausgew?hlte, thematisch passende Texte gelesen werden. Die Leseperformance ?berlin liest? beginnt am 9. September, 6 Uhr und endet 17.30 Uhr – eine halbe Stunde vor Beginn des 15. ilb im Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Jeder Teilnehmer erh?lt eine Tageskarte für das ilb (nach Verfügbarkeit). Im Rahmen von ?berlin liest? wird auch im Haus der Berliner Festspiele ab 10.00 Uhr gelesen: Das Buch ?Neue Heimat? von Marina Naprushkina, das über die Situation von Flüchtlingen in Berlin Aufschluss gibt. Die Auswahl des Ortes ist Ihnen selbst überlassen. Das hei?t, die Lesung kann in einer U- oder S-Bahn, vor der eigenen Haustür, auf einem Platz, in einem Park oder Unter den Linden stattfinden. Sie sollte zwischen 5 und 15 Minuten dauern. Falls Sie in einer Fremdsprache lesen m?chten – wunderbar! Dann informieren Sie uns bitte, in welcher Sprache Sie lesen werden. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn auch Sie sich an ?berlin liest? beteiligen würden. Wir ben?tigen bis 30. August: l Ihren Namen l den Titel des von Ihnen ausgesuchten Werks l den Namen des Autors l den genauen Ort, wo Sie lesen werden l den genauen Zeitpunkt Ihrer Lesung Eine Woche vor Beginn des Festivals werden wir alle Lesungen über unsere Website und auf Facebook bekannt geben. Bitte schreiben Sie uns an [email protected] oder per Post an internationales literaturfestival berlin, berlin liest, Chausseestr. 5, 10115 Berlin oder per Fax an 27 87 86 85. ? ?Call to take part in the ?berlin liest? reading performance on the situation of refugees and asylum-seekers to launch the 15th international literature festival berlin on 9thSeptember 2015 What words and images can cast light on the fate of refugees and asylum-seekers? On September 9th, the beginning of the festival, the ilb, together with the Heinrich B?ll Foundation, would like to invite all Berliners to read literary texts on the following theme: the situation of refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and around the world. For this purpose, we will provide a brochure with texts. Starting August 20th, you can find on our homepage (http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm/berlin-liest) a PDF file containing an overview of texts that have been written by international authors on this topic. However, you can still read your own creation or text that is thematically appropriate. This year’s reading performance ?berlin liest? on September 9th begins at 6 a.m. and finishes at 5.30 p.m. – half an hour before the 15th ilb opens its doors at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Every participant will receive a day ticket for ilb (subject to availability). As part of ?berlin liest? there will be a reading at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from 10 a.m. on. The book ?Neue Heimat? by Marina Naprushkina will be presented. It shows the situation of refugees in Berlin. The choice of the reading location is entirely up to you: it can take place in an underground or train station, on your doorstep, in a public square, in a park or on Unter den Linden. The reading should take between 5 and 15 minutes. If you want to read in a foreign language – wonderful! Please inform us about the language you will be reading in. We would be delighted to count you among our participants. We need the following information – by August 30th: l your name l the title of the work you will be reading from l the author's name l the exact place of your reading l the exact time of your reading One week before the festival starts we will announce all the readings on our website and on Facebook. Please send us an e-mail to [email protected] or mail to internationales literaturfestival berlin, berlin liest, Chausseestr. 5, 10115 Berlin or per Fax at 27 87 86 85. 15. August 2015 NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’ The National Security Agency’s ability to capture Internet traffic on United States soil has been based on an extraordinary, decadeslong partnership with a single company: AT&T. Documents provided by Edward Snowden mention a special relationship between the National Security Agency and an unnamed telecommunications company. Here’s how they figured out that’s AT&T. By Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin, ProPublica and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica Please read more 1.7.2015 ?NSA high priority targets for Germany? The United States National Security Agency has been massively targeting phone numbers of top German ministers and public officials responsible for commerce, finances, economics and agriculture – including even Angela Merkel's personal assistant. WikiLeaks publishes today, 1 July 2015, a list of 69 German government telephone numbers from a high-priority NSA target interception list demonstrating economic and political espionage against Germany for almost two decades. WikiLeaks is also publishing classified interception reports resulting from the surveillance, showing the US and UK spying on German officials discussing their positions and disagreements on the solution to the Greek financial crisis. Merkel intercepted talking to her personal assistant One intercept report is based on private communication between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her personal assistant. The other is based on a British intelligence interception of the communications of German Chancellery Director-General for EU Affairs Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut. The Merkel document details a US intercept of the Chancellor on 11 October 2011 and is classified two levels above Top Secret, an indicator that the material is considered highly sensitive. Even so, it is cleared for sharing with other members of the US-led "Five Eyes" spying alliance of UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the intercepted talk between Chancellor Merkel and her assistant, the Chancellor talks about her views on solutions to the Greek financial crisis and her disagreement with members of her own Cabinet, such as Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, on matters of policy. She also discusses the positions of French leaders, and of the heads of the key institutions of the Troika: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and IMF Director Christine Lagarde. In the conversation Merkel also stressses the urgency of enacting the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) and of putting pressure on the US and British governments to bring it about. The FTT was first introduced in September 2011 by EU Commission President Jose Barroso. It has been strongly opposed by major banks and, within the EU, by the governments of Britain and Sweden. The Top Secret NSA interception report was shared with British intelligence. UK bugged Franco-German Greece bailout plan, gave intercept to US A separate report published today by WikiLeaks, based on communications intercepts made by British intelligence (GCHQ) and shared with the NSA, details the German government's position ahead of negotiations on a EU bailout plan for Greece. The report refers to an overview prepared by German Chancellery Director-General for EU Affairs Nikolaus MeyerLandrut. Germany was, according to the intercept, opposed to giving a banking licence to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), however it would support a special IMF fund into which the BRICS nations would contribute to bolster European bailout activities. The report also cites Meyer-Landrut's belief that a resolution to the Greek crisis would require greater private-sector involvement. He believed a full-term team would have to be placed in Athens to monitor the situation. NSA economic espionage extends as far back as the Clinton Presidency The NSA high-priority German target list makes clear a US emphasis on intercepting the communications of government offices and political officials dealing with economic, commerce and even agricultural policy. The earliest targets on the list date from as far back as the Clinton Presidency, which added Oskar Lafontaine, who was German Finance Minister from 1998 to 1999. The target selectors also include Werner Müller, German Federal Minister for Economics 1998–2002; Barbara Hendricks, former Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of Finance and current Federal Minister for the Environment; and Ida-Maria Aschenbrenner, Head of Office of Minister of Finance Theo Waigel from 1989 to 1998. Target selectors include ministers, their staff, and groups working on preparations for meetings of the G7 and the WTO. One of the included selectors is a phone number at the European Central Bank. The list even includes central switchboards for key departments and fax numbers. WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said: "Today's publication further demonstrates that the United States' economic espionage campaign extends to Germany and to key European institutions and issues such as the European Central Bank and the crisis in Greece. Our publication today also shows how the UK is assisting the US to spy on issues central to Europe. Would France and Germany have proceeded with the BRICS bailout plan for Greece if this intelligence was not collected and passed to the United States – who must have been horrified at the geopolitical implications?" Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison and Kristinn Hrafnsson 9.6.2015 Take Action Now Our Human Rights Act protects every one of us: young and old; wealthy and poor; you and your neighbour. It’s held the State to account for spying on us; safeguarded our soldiers; helped rape victims; and guarded against slavery. Would you be happy if our most basic freedoms weren’t properly protected? Because that’s the threat we face. The Government wants to scrap our Human Rights Act – weakening everyone’s rights. We cannot let them get away with it. join us - please click here 14.5.2015 TTIP ist eine Gefahr für die Buchpreisbindung, damit eine Gefahr für die Buchhandlungen und die Qualit?t des kulturellen Angebots Das transatlantische Handels- und Investitionsschutzabkommen TTIP ist eine Gefahr für den station?ren Buchhandel, weil es die Buchpreisbindung aufs Spiel setzt. Der deutsche Buchhandel fordert, dass die Buchpreisbindung in dem Vertragswerk explizit ausgenommen wird. Bauernopfer für den Businessplan. Unternehmen wie Amazon, Google & Co sind auf Seiten der USA in das Abkommen involviert. In deren Gesch?ftsmodellen ist der (kulturelle) Inhalt Mittel zum Zweck, geformt werden Vertriebssysteme, die den Kunden binden. Die US-Digitalwirtschaft will keine Buchpreisbindung, sie will für massentaugliche Einzeltitel einen Preiskampf gegen den station?ren Handel. Sie will Preise und Konditionen selbst bestimmen und ihre monopolartige Marktmacht festigen. Das ruiniert den Buchhandel vor Ort. Buchpreisbindung für die Vielfalt. Bewusst und politisch gewollt greift die Buchpreisbindung aber unter anderem in Deutschland in den Wettbewerb ein. Der Kunde zahlt für ein Buch überall denselben Preis – ganz gleich, ob er in einer kleinen Sortimentsbuchhandlung, einem Buchkaufhaus oder über das Internet kauft. Ausnahmeregelung für die Leser. Der Gesetzgeber hat erkannt, dass feste Ladenpreise zum Erhalt einer intakten Buchhandelslandschaft und zu einem vielf?ltigen, qualitativ hochwertigen Buchangebot beitragen – und damit dem Leser zu Gute kommen. B?rsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels Unterzeichnen sie bitte hier 13.5.2015 Save the British Human Rights Act We’ve already got a “British Bill of Rights” – it’s called our Human Rights Act. Help us save it. Why is Save Our Human Rights Act important? Our Human Rights Act protects every one of us: young and old; wealthy and poor; you and your neighbour. Our HRA has already achieved so much. It’s held the State to account for spying on us; safeguarded our soldiers; and supported peaceful protest. It’s helped rape victims; defended domestic violence sufferers; and guarded against slavery. It’s protected those in care; shielded press freedom; and provided answers for grieving families. Its protections are the most fundamental – those we should all enjoy, because we’re human. Think about it. Which of them would you go without? The right to life? The right not to be tortured? The right to a fair trial? Would you really be happy if these basic freedoms weren’t properly protected? Because that’s the threat we now face. The Government wants to scrap our Human Rights Act, and replace it with their “British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities”. This would weaken the rights of everyone, meaning less protection against powerful interests. It would also limit human rights to only those cases the Government considers “most serious”. Can we really trust political elites to decide when our freedoms should apply? These are the same politicians who, in 2012, came for open justice. In 2013, they destroyed legal aid. Last year, they attacked Judicial Review. This year, we cannot let them take our Human Rights Act too. 8.5.2015 NSA violated US law A US court ruled that the National Security Agency's mass surveillance initiative exposed by Edward Snowden is illegal The courts stood up to NSA mass surveillance. Now Congress must act The appeals court in New York found that the ‘collect it all’ policy is unlawful. On 1 June, Congress can make sure it is stopped once and for all. The unprecedented and unwarranted bulk collection of the entire U.S. population's phone records by the government is illegal because it wasn't authorized by Congress, a federal appeals court said as it asked legislators to balance national security and privacy interests. A threejudge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan permitted the National Security Agency program to continue temporarily as it exists, but it all but pleaded for Congress to better define where boundaries exist or risk "invasions of privacy unimaginable in the past." The program was revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who called the ruling “extraordinarily encouraging” in a live-streamed interview at the Nordic Media Festival. 3.5.2015 BND’s listening post at Bad Aibling was abused for NSA spying on European partners The French-based aviation giant Airbus has challenged the German government over allegations that Berlin’s foreign intelligence agency engaged in industrial espionage against the company on behalf of the Americans. A closed parliamentary inquiry in Berlin has heard evidence of how the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, used its biggest eavesdropping complex to monitor communications at the Elysée Palace, the office of the French president, the French foreign ministry, and the European Commission in Brussels and then passed on the information to the Americans. The disclosures triggered allegations of lying and cover-ups reaching to the very top of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration. Please read more Bitte lesen sie mehr 8.4.2015 The dick pic test It is currently perfectly possible, and perfectly legal, that a government employee has seen you naked. The question is: Are you bothered? There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and, yes, dick-pics. 18th November 2014 Authors for Peace supports 24 April 2015 Worldwide Reading Commemorating the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide The International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb) and the Lepsiushaus Potsdam are calling for a worldwide reading on 24 April 2015 - the day that marks 100 years since the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Several hundred Armenian intellectuals – poets, musicians, parliamentary representatives and members of the clergy – were arrested in Constantinople (today Istanbul) on 24 April 1915, and deported to the Turkish interior where most of them were murdered. It was the start of a crime against humanity. The extermination of the Armenians during World War One was the first systematically planned and executed genocide of modern times. More than a million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire died during this genocidal campaign. The events took place before the eyes of the whole world and were clearly documented by German, Austro-Hungarian, Italian, American, Scandinavian, Armenian and Ottoman sources as well as by a great number of historical research projects. As early as August 1915, The New York Times reported on a methodically planned programme of ethnic cleansing and extermination which was unprecedented in history up to that time. The German Reich’s government, which was allied to the Ottoman Empire, reached the same conclusions without undertaking anything against what was happening. The Turkish political world denies the Armenian Genocide up to the present day, although the facts have been known for more than a hundred years. The Indian writer Arundhati Roy has spoken publicly about this scandal on many occasions, including at the 2009 International Literature Festival Berlin. A great number of Armenian voices were silenced in 1915 and in the years thereafter. Since then, others have become loud and have spoken out against forgetting, among them an increasing number of voices from the democratic Turkish civil society. In remembrance of the victims and in association with the demand for international recognition of the genocide, we are calling for a worldwide reading on 24 April 2015, with literary texts from Armenian authors, among them Siamanto, Komitas, Yeghishe Charents, William Saroyan, Hovhannes Shiraz, Paruyr Sevak, Hakop Mntsuri, Silva Kaputikian and Hrant Dink. First signatories: Rolf Hosfeld, Konrad Kuhn, Ulrich Schreiber, Hasmik Papian __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. April 2015 Weltweite Lesung zum hundertsten Jahrestags des V?lkermordes an den Armeniern Das internationale literaturfestival berlin und das Lepsiushaus Potsdam rufen zu einer weltweiten Lesung anl?sslich des 100. Jahrestags des Beginns des V?lkermords an den Armeniern am 24. April 2015 auf. Mehrere Hundert armenische Intellektuelle - Dichter, Musiker, Parlamentsabgeordnete und Geistliche - wurden am 24. April 1915 in Konstantinopel, dem heutigen Istanbul, verhaftet, ins Innere der Türkei deportiert und die meisten ermordet. Es war der Auftakt zu einem Menschheitsverbrechen: Der V?lkermord an den Armeniern w?hrend des Ersten Weltkriegs war der erste systematisch geplante und durchgeführte V?lkermord der Moderne. Ihm fielen im Osmanischen Reich mehr als eine Million Armenier zum Opfer. Die Ereignisse fanden unter den Augen der Welt?ffentlichkeit statt und sind durch deutsche, ?sterreichisch-ungarische, italienische, amerikanische, skandinavische, armenische und osmanische Quellen sowie zahlreiche historische Forschungen eindeutig belegt. Schon im August 1915 sprach die New York Times von einem methodisch geplanten S?uberungs- und Vernichtungsprogramm, das man in der Geschichte bisher noch nicht erlebt hatte. Die mit dem Osmanischen Reich verbündete deutsche Reichsregierung kam zu dem gleichen Ergebnis, ohne etwas dagegen zu unternehmen. Die türkische Politik leugnet den osmanischen Genozid an den Armeniern bis heute, obwohl die Tatsachen seit nunmehr fast hundert Jahren klar auf der Hand liegen. Die indische Schriftstellerin Arundhati Roy hat diesen Skandal unter anderem auf dem internationalen literaturfestival berlin 2009 ?ffentlich thematisiert. Zahllose armenische Stimmen sind 1915 und in den Jahren danach zum Schweigen gebracht worden. Andere sind seitdem laut geworden und ergriffen das Wort gegen das Vergessen, darunter auch immer mehr Stimmen aus der demokratischen türkischen Zivilgesellschaft. Im Gedenken an die Opfer und verbunden mit der Forderung nach internationaler Anerkennung des V?lkermords rufen wir am 24. April 2015 zu einer weltweiten Lesung mit literarischen Texten armenischer Autoren auf, unter anderen von Siamanto, Komitas, Yeghishe Tcharenz, William Saroyan, Hovhannes Shiraz, Paruyr Sevak, Hakop Mntsuri, Silva Kaputikian und Hrant Dink. Erstunterzeichner: Rolf Hosfeld, Konrad Kuhn, Ulrich Schreiber, Hasmik Papian 20. M?rz 2015 Was ist mehr wert: Das Leben eines griechischen Rentners? Oder ein deutscher Streifenwagen? fragt in seiner Spiegel Online-Kolumne Jakob Augstein nach den Blockupy-Protesten. Aus den Demonstrationen gegen die EZB wurde in Frankfurt ein Aufruhr gegen das System - und viele sind emp?rt. Aber wenn wir die Gewalt der Stra?e verachten, warum akzeptieren wir dann die Gewalt der Politik? Lesen sie augsteins provokanten text hier 20.2.2015 The Great SIM Heist How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle By Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Read more: please click here 18.2.2015 Did GCHQ illegally spy on you? Have you ever made a phone call, sent an email, or, you know, used the internet? Of course you have! Chances are, at some point over the past decade, your communications were swept up by the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance program and passed onto Britain's intelligence agency GCHQ. A recent court ruling found that this sharing was unlawful but no one could find out if their records were collected and then illegally shared between these two agencies… until now! Because of Privacy International's recent victory against the UK intelligence agency in court, now anyone in the world — yes, ANYONE, including you — can find out if GCHQ illegally received information about you from the NSA. Join Privacy International's campaign by entering your details below to find out if GCHQ illegally spied on you: Did gchq spy on you? 16.2.2015 What's in a name? Authors for Peace supports ?The United Nations World Food Programme? On 14 February 2015, Paris Saint-German played against Caen at Parc des Princes. For most players this game was just another day on the job. For Zlatan Ibrahimovi? this was his most important game to date. Underneath his sweater he had 50 new names tattooed. Names of people he’d never met, but still wanted to keep close. Names of some of the 805 million people suffering from hunger today. These people don’t often make the front page, yet hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. This is a campaign from the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. In emergencies, they get food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 75 countries each year. About 11,500 people work for the organisation, most of them in remote areas, serving the hungry. Support The United Nations World Food Programme and Zlatan Ibrahimovi?’s fight against hunger at http://WFP.org/805millionnames. 6.2.2015 Investigatory Powers Tribunal GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful The British Tribunal has handed down judgement in relation to the regime governing the soliciting, receiving, storing and transmitting by UK authorities of private communications in a case brought against the intelligence agencies in respect of alleged interception activity involving UK and US access to communications. The Complainants are Liberty, Privacy International, Amnesty International and seven overseas human rights groups. UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’. “The regime governing the soliciting, receiving, storing and transmitting by UK authorities of private communications of individuals located in the UK, which have been obtained by US authorities … contravened Articles 8 or 10” of the European convention on human rights. Article 8 relates to the right to private and family life. Article 10 refers to freedom of expression. In considering the outstanding matter of foreseeability the Tribunal declares: THAT prior to the disclosures made and referred to in the First Judgment and the Second Judgment, the regime governing the soliciting, receiving, storing and transmitting by UK authorities of private communications of individuals located in the UK, which have been obtained by US authorities pursuant to Prism and/or (on the Claimants’ case) Upstream, contravened Articles 8 or 10 ECHR, but THAT it now complies with the said Articles. liberty_ors_judgment_6feb15.pdf File Size: 275 kb File Type: pdfDownload File 29.1.2013 Authors for Peace believes in the free and open Internet - with no arbitrary fees or slow lanes for sites that can't pay The most important FCC vote of our lifetime is about to happen On Feb 26 the FCC* will vote to save net neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Some members of Congress, on behalf of their Cable donors, are trying to stop the FCC from protecting the Internet we love. There isn't much time to stop them, contact them now. * The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. 19.1.2015 Open letter to Cameron GCHQ intercepted emails from the BBC, New York Times, Guardian and many others We, the undersigned, believe that the Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Data Code of Practice as drafted provides wholly inadequate protection for journalists’ sources. The revelation that the Metropolitan Police and other forces have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to view the phone records of The Sun and its political editor and other journalists in order to identify and punish lawful police sources has caused widespread alarm across the journalism industry. The new code appears to do very little which would stop a repeat of such abuse of RIPA. The Act was intended for tackling serious crime such as terrorism but it is clearly being used by police in relation to relatively minor crimes. The new code states: “Communications data is not subject to any form of professional privilege – the fact a communication took place does not disclose what was discussed, considered or advised.” The mere fact a public official has contacted a newspaper is highly privileged information. That an individual has contacted a lawyer or doctor tells us little. But the fact they have contacted a journalist identifies them as a source and exposes them to recrimination. It is in everyone’s interest that the state recognises the over-arching importance of protecting the confidentiality of journalists’ sources. Public sector whistleblowers will not come forward to journalists in future if law enforcement agencies have the power to view journalists’ phone records at will The new guidelines merely state that the degree of interference with privacy “may be higher where the communications data being sought relates to a person who is a member of a profession that handles privileged or otherwise confidential information (such as a medical doctor, lawyer, journalist, Member of Parliament, or minister of religion). “Such situations do not preclude an application being made. However applicants, giving special consideration to necessity and proportionality, must draw attention to any such circumstances that might lead to an unusual degree of intrusion or infringement of privacy, and clearly note when an application is made for the communications data of a medical doctor, lawyer, journalist, Member of Parliament, or minister of religion.” The new guidelines also state that RIPA requests involving journalists can continue to be signed off internally at the agency concerned. RIPA requests for journalists’ phone records should carry the same safeguards as already exist under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act when it comes to police requests for journalistic material and should be extremely rare. RIPA requests involving the telecoms records of journalists (and so, also their sources) must require the approval of a judge who is best placed to balance the public interest in disclosure of the information versus the over-arching public interest in respecting the confidentiality of journalists’ sources. The new Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Data Code of Practice must explicitly prevent law enforcement officials viewing the phone records of journalists who are not themselves under suspicion of committing any crime. The draft code only makes reference to “the degree of interference with privacy” and says nothing about the issue of state interference with press freedom. This is why a judge must consider the case for overriding source protection. The code needs to balance the seriousness of the alleged crime against the public interest in protecting the confidentiality of all journalistic sources and potential whistleblowers. The guidance needs to make it clear that a public official communicating information to a journalist without official approval (ie. a leak) cannot be sufficient justification for a RIPA telecoms request. The signatories: Stig Abell, Managing Editor, The Sun Perry Austin-Clarke, Group Editor, Newsquest Yorkshire Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times Sam Barcroft, Owner, Barcroft Media Neil Benson, Editorial Director Regionals, Trinity Mirror Bob Bounds, Editor, Medway Messenger David Bourn, Editorial Director, Scottish Provincial Press Martin Breen, Editor, Sunday Life Christine Buckley, Editor, The Journalist Simon Bucks, Associate Editor, Sky News Tony Carlin, Editor, Evening Times Ian Carter, Editorial Director, the KM Group Denis Cassidy, President, National Association of Press Agencies Martin Clarke, Publisher, Mail Online Pete Clifton, Editor-in-Chief, Press Association Paul Connolly, Readers Editor, Belfast Telegraph Nick Constable, Director, West Coast News Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman Allan Crow, Editor, Fife Free Press Paul Dacre, Editor, Daily Mail and Associated Group Editor in Chief Bart Dickson, Editor, Pressteam Scotland David Dinsmore, Editor, The Sun Ted Ditchburn, Managing Director, North News and Pictures Noel Doran, Editor, The Irish News Oliver Duff, Editor, The i Paper Denise Eaton, Editor, Kent Messenger Chris Elliott, Readers Editor, The Guardian Lloyd Embley, Editor-in-Chief, Trinity Mirror Robin Esser, Executive Managing Editor, Daily Mail Chris Evans, Director of Content and Editor, The Daily Telegraph Kate Farrington, Director, West Coast News Lynne Fernquest, Editor, Bath News & Media Charles Garside, Assistant Editor, Daily Mail Liz Gerard, Editor, SubScribe Mike Gilson, Editor, Belfast Telegraph Sarah Goldthorpe, Editor, Soldier magazine Alison Gow, Digital Innovations Editor, Trinity Mirror Regionals Toby Granville, Group Editor, Daily Echo & Dorset Echo Geordie Greig, Editor, The Mail On Sunday Jonathan Grun, Emeritus Editor, Press Association David Helliwell, Editor, News & Star/The Cumberland News Ian Hislop, Editor, Private Eye Neil Hodgkinson, Editor, Hull Daily Mail David Holdsworth, Controller, BBC English Regions Michael Jermey, Director of News and Current Affairs, ITV Peter John, Group Editor, Newsquest Worcester/Stourbridge Rachael Jolley, Editor, Index on Censorship Mark Jones, Editor, Gazette Newspapers David Jordan, Director of Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC Gary Lawrence, Group Editor, Swindon Advertiser Mark Leech, Offside Sports Photography Michael Leidig, Editor, Central European News Luke Lewis, Editor, Buzzfeed UK Lisa Markwell, Editor, Independent on Sunday Leigh Marles, Editor, Wirral Globe Donald Martin, Editor-in-Chief, DC Thomson Newspapers John Mulholland, Editor, The Observer Ian Murray, Editor-inChief, Southern Daily Echo Dawn Neesom, Editor, Daily Star Victoria Newton, Editor, The Sun on Sunday Rachel Oldroyd, Managing Editor, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Barrie Phillips-Jones, Editorial Director, NWN Media Dominic Ponsford, Editor, Press Gazette Amol Rajan, Editor, The Independent Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief, Guardian News & Media John Ryley, Head of Sky News Gerry Sammon, Editor, Rochdale Observer, Middleton Guardian, Heywood Advertiser Sarah Sands, Editor, Evening Standard Mike Sassi, Editor, Nottingham Post Bob Satchwell, Executive Director, Society of Editors Jason Seiken, Editor-inChief, Telegraph Media Group Moira Sleight, Editor, Methodist Recorder Chris Smith, UK Editor, Digiday Shailesh Solanki, Editor, Eastern Eye Paul Staines, Editor, Guido Fawkes’ Blog Jon Steafel, Deputy Editor, Daily Mail Ian Stewart, Editor, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday Beverly Thomas, Managing Editor, Cambrian News Ltd Darren Thwaites, Editor-in-Chief, Trinity Mirror North East Martin Townsend, Editor, Sunday Express Richard Trinder, Managing Editor, The Yorkshire Times Catherine Turnbull, Editor, Haverhill Echo Nick Turner, Head of digital content development, Cumbrian Newspapers Fran Unsworth, Director, BBC World Service Group Kevin Ward, Editor, South Wales Argus John Wellington, Managing Editor, Mail on Sunday Neil White, Editor in Chief, Local World Derbyshire & East Staffordshire Hugh Whittow, Editor, Daily Express Doug Wills, Managing Editor, Evening Standard and Independent titles Giles Winn, Editor, The Murnaghan Programme, Sky News Richard Wintle, Editor, Calyx News Agency John Witherow, Editor, The Times Peter Wright, Editor Emeritus, Associated Newspapers Ted Young, Editor, Metro 17.1.2015 Spiegel Online exclusive: Digital Arms Race: NSA Prepares USA for Battle Mass surveillance is only the beginnung. Snowden's Documents show that the intelligence agency NSA is arming America for future online wars. NSA Docs on Network Attacks and Exploitation Excerpt from the secret NSA budget on computer network operations / Code word GENIE Document about the expansion of the Remote Operations Center (ROC) on endpoint operations Document explaining the role of the Remote Operations Center (ROC) Interview with an employee of NSA's department for Tailored Access Operations about his field of work Supply-chain interdiction / Stealthy techniques can crack some of SIGINT's hardest targets Classification guide for computer network exploitation (CNE) NSA training course material on computer network operations Overview of methods for NSA integrated cyber operations NSA project description to recognize and process data that comes from third party attacks on computers Exploring and exploiting leaky mobile apps with BADASS Overview of projects of the TAO/ATO department such as the remote destruction of network cards iPhone target analysis and exploitation with Apple's unique device identifiers (UDID) Report of an NSA Employee about a Backdoor in the OpenSSH Daemon NSA document on QUANTUMSHOOTER, an implant to remote-control computers with good network connections from unknown third parties A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE In recent months, the extent of mass surveillance has become common knowledge. With a few clicks of the mouse the state can access your mobile device, your e-mail, your social networking and Internet searches. It can follow your political leanings and activities and, in partnership with Internet corporations, it collects and stores your data, and thus can predict your consumption and behaviour. The basic pillar of democracy is the inviolable integrity of the individual. Human integrity extends beyond the physical body. In their thoughts and in their personal environments and communications, all humans have the right to remain unobserved and unmolested. This fundamental human right has been rendered null and void through abuse of technological developments by states and corporations for mass surveillance purposes. A person under surveillance is no longer free; a society under surveillance is no longer a democracy. To maintain any validity, our democratic rights must apply in virtual as in real space. * Surveillance violates the private sphere and compromises freedom of thought and opinion. * Mass surveillance treats every citizen as a potential suspect. It overturns one of our historical triumphs, the presumption of innocence. * Surveillance makes the individual transparent, while the state and the corporation operate in secret. As we have seen, this power is being systemically abused. * Surveillance is theft. This data is not public property: it belongs to us. When it is used to predict our behaviour, we are robbed of something else: the principle of free will crucial to democratic liberty. WE DEMAND THE RIGHT for all people to determine, as democratic citizens, to what extent their personal data may be legally collected, stored and processed, and by whom; to obtain information on where their data is stored and how it is being used; to obtain the deletion of their data if it has been illegally collected and stored. WE CALL ON ALL STATES AND CORPORATIONS to respect these rights WE CALL ON ALL CITIZENS to stand up and defend these rights. WE CALL ON THE UNITED NATIONS to acknowledge the central importance of protecting civil rights in the digital age, and to create an International Bill of Digital Rights. WE CALL ON GOVERNMENTS to sign and adhere to such a convention. Would you like to sign the appeal on change.org? sign? Please click here We would like to hear from you. What do you think? Join the discussion! Read other comments. comment? Please Click here Public Intervention: More than 560 authors from 83 countries have signed an appeal against mass surveillance. There is hardly any issue more pressing than systematic mass surveillance and the dangers it poses to democracy and civil liberties. Under the name "Writers Against Mass Surveillance", a small group of authors has formulated an international appeal, signed by more than 560 renowned authors from around the world, including six Nobel Prize Laureates. It calls for an "International Bill of Digital Rights,“ demands that the United Nations passes a binding convention to protect civil rights in the digital age and calls upon all citizens to stand up and defend these rights. After organizing an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel asking her to take action with regard to the NSA-affair, Juli Zeh, Eva Menasse and Ilija Trojanow decided to broaden the protest to a global audience. They were joined by Janne Teller, Priya Basil, Isabel Cole and Josef Haslinger, and altogether they coauthored and initiated the appeal "A Stand for Democracy in the Digital Age". They organized the global intervention independently, relying solely on personal contacts and private networks. "Surveillance violates the private sphere and compromises freedom of thought and we no longer want to watch the inaction of decision makers,“ says German writern Juli Zeh. "We all have to stand up now, and we as writers do what we can do best: use the written word to intervene publicly." First Signatories (by countries): ALBANIA Anila Wilms ALGERIA Boualem Sansal ANGOLA José Eduardo Agualusa ARGENTINIA Maria Teresa Andruetto, Edgardo Cozarinsky, María Sonia Cristoff, Marcelo Figueras, Carlos Gamerro, Alberto Manguel, Guillermo Martinez, Elsa Osorio, Claudia Pi?eiro, Samanta Schweblin. AUSTRALIA Debra Adelaide, Chris Andrews, Venero Armanno, Larissa Beherendt, James Bradley, Brian Castro, Nick Cave, Miriam Cosic, Michelle de Kretser, Nick Earls, Delia Falconer, Anna Funder, Helen Garner, Elisabeth Holdsworth, Linda Jaivin, Gail Jones, Evelyn Juers, Thomas Keneally, Nam Le, James Ley, Angelo Loukakis, David Malouf, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Rose, Rosie Scott, John Tranter, Kirsten Tranter, Arnold Zable AUSTRALIA/USA Lily Brett, Geraldine Brooks. AUSTRIA Olga Flor, Karl-Markus Gau?, Thomas Glavinic, Josef Haslinger, Monika Helfer, Klaus Hoffer, Alois Hotschnig, Elfriede Jelinek, Michael K?hlmeier, Eva Menasse, Robert Menasse, Robert Pfaller, Doron Rabinovici, Kathrin R?ggla, David Schalko, Robert Schindel, Clemens J Setz, Marlene Streeruwitz, Peter Weibel, Josef Winkler AUSTRIA/GERMANY Daniel Kehlmann BANGLADESH Ahmad Mostofa Kamal BANGLADESH/UK Tahmima Anam BELARUS Svetlana Alexievich BELARUS/USA Valzhyna Mort BELGIUM Gie Bogaert, Saskia De Coster, Patrick De Rynck, Jozef Deleu, Laurent Demoulin, Charles Ducal, Joris Gerits, Jos Geysels, Luuk Gruwez, Thomas Gunzig, Peter Holvoet-Hanssen, Elisabeth Marain, Pierre Mertens, Bart Moeyaert, Elvis Peeters, Erik Spinoy, Rik Torfs, Koen Van Bockstal, Walter van den Broeck, Miriam Van hee, David van Reybrouck, Annelies Verbeke, Paul Verhaeghe, Roel Verschueren, Erik Vlaminck, Georges Wildemeersch BELGIUM/FRANCE Carl Norac BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS Joke van Leeuwen BOSNIA Miljenko Jergovic BRAZIL Mar?al Aquino, Rafael Cardoso, Bernardo Carvalho, Jo?o Paulo Cuenca, Jo?o Ubaldo Ribeiro, Luiz Ruffato, Paulo Scott BULGARIA Georgi Gospodinov BULGARIA/UK Kapka Kassabova CAMEROON Patrice Nganang CANADA Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Cory Doctorow, Yann Martel, Colin McAdam, Michael Ondaatje, John Ralston Saul, Madeleine Thien CHILE Carla Guelfenbein, Arturo Fontaine Talavera CHILE/ARGENTINA/USA Ariel Dorfman CHILE/USA Lina Meruane CHINA Liao Yiwu COLOMBIA Antonio Ungar, Héctor Abad, Oscar Collazos, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Juan Gabriel Vásquez CROATIA Slavenka Drakulic, Nenad Popovic, Dubravka Ugre?ic CUBA Leonardo Padura Fuentes CUBA/SPAIN Iván de la Nuez Cuba/USA José Prieto CZECH REP Jaroslav Rudi DENMARK Niels Barfoed, Suzanne Br?gger, Tom Buk-Swienty, Peter H Fogtdal, Katrine Marie Guldager, Iselin C Hermann, Peter H?eg, Sven Holm, Hanne Vibeke Holst, Carsten Jensen, Pia Juul, Peter ?vig Knudsen, Morten Kringelbach, J?rgen Leth, Ib Michael, Morten Ramsland, Morten Sabroe, Pia Tafdrup, Janne Teller DJIBOUTI Abdourahman Waberi ECUADOR Francisco Proa?o Arandi EGYPT Alaa al-Aswany, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif EGYPT/USA Mona Eltahawy, Mansura Eseddin EL SALVADOR Horacio Castellanos Moya FINLAND Monika Fagerholm, Jarkko Tontti, Kjell West? FRANCE Jean-Jacques Beineix, Céline Curiol, Marie Darrieussecq, Philippe Djian, Lionel Duroy, Mathias énard, Jér?me Ferrari, Anne-Marie Garat, Laurent Gaudé, Pascale Hugues, Alban Lefranc , Roger Lenglet , Virginie Lou-Nony , Jean Mattern , Betty Mialet , Catherine Millet , Frédéric Mitterrand , Hélène Neveu Kringelbach , Philippe Pozzo di Borgo , Flore Vasseur FRANCE/CANADA Martin Winckler France/USA Jonathan Littell Georgia Tamta Melaschwili GERMANY Friedrich Ani, Michael Augustin, Anke Bastrop, Ulrich Beck, Artur Becker, Josef Bierbichler, Marica Bodro?i¢c, Mirko Bonné, Ralf B?nt, Nora Bossong, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Daniela Dahn, Liane Dirks, Doris D?rrie, Ulrike Draesner, Kurt Drawert, Tanja Dückers, Carolin Emcke, Sherko Fatah, David Finck, Julia Franck, Franziska Gerstenberg, Christoph Giesa, Roman Graf, Günter Grass, Kerstin Grether, Annett Gr?schner, Gert Heidenreich, Christoph Hein, Thomas Hettche, Paul Ingendaay, Steffen Kopetzky, Mareike Krügel, Michael Krüger, Michael Kumpfmüller, Antje Kunstmann, Katja Lange-Müller, Benjamin Lauterbach, Jo Lendle, Michael Lentz, Ulli Lust, Angelina Maccarone, Kristof Magnusson, Sten Nadolny, Christiane Neudecker, Norbert Niemann, Ingo Niermann, Markus Orths, Georg M Oswald, Inka Parei, Annette Pehnt, Antje Rávic Strubel, Christoph Ransmayr, Annika Reich, Moritz Rinke, Charlotte Roos, Eugen Ruge, Peter Schneider, Erasmus Sch?fer, Ingo Schulze, Hilal Sezgin, Peter Sloterdijk, Tilman Spengler, Burkhard Spinnen, Ulrike Steglich, Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Ilija Trojanow, Regula Venske, Marius von Mayenburg, Thomas von Steinaecker, Gisela von Wysocki, Jan Wagner, Alissa Walser, Theresia Walser, Florian Werner, Roger Willemsen, Ron Winkler, Juli Zeh, Jan Christophersen GHANA/USA Kwame Dawes GHANA Nii Parkes GREECE Kostas Akrivos , Petros Markaris, Amanda Michalopoulos, Michailis Modinos, Nina Rapi, Thanassis Valtinos HAITI/USA Edwidge Danticat HONG KONG/USA Xu Xi Hong HONG KONG Nury Vittachi HUNGARY Tibor Babiczky, Zsófia Balla, Zsófia Bán, Báthori Csaba, Gy?rgy Dragomán, Peter Esterhazy, Krisztián Grecsó, Noémi Kiss, László Krasznahorkai, Lajos Parti Nagy, Anna T. Szabó ICELAND Bj?rk, Oddny Eir, Einar Már Guemundsson, Hallgrímur Helgason, Bjarni Jónsson, Andri Sn?r Magnason, Steinnun Sigureardóttir, Sjón, Jón Kalman Stefánsson INDIA Shahid Amin, Amit Chaudhuri, Tishani Doshi, Naresh Fernandes, Amitav Ghosh, Ramchandra Guha, Anjum Hassan, Ranjit Hoskoté, Raj Kamal Jha, Anjali Joseph, Ruchir Joshi, Girish Karnad, Mukul Kesavan, Amitava Kumar, Pankaj Mishra, Kiran Nagarkar, Jerry Pinto, Arundhati Roy, Arundhati Subramaniam, Jeet Thayil, Altaf Tyrewala INDIA/UK Salil Tripathi, Suketu Mehta IRAQ Jabbar Yassin Hussin IRAQ/FINLAND Hassan Blasim IRAQ/GERMANY Najem Wali IRELAND Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín ISRAEL Assaf Gavron, David Grossman, Etgar Keret, Yitzhak Laor, Sami Michael, Amos Oz, Zeruya Shalev ITALY Andrea Bajani, Andrea de Carlo, Massimo Carlotto, Umberto Eco, Erri de Luca, Paolo Giordano, Dacia Mariani ITALY/AUSTRIA Sabine Gruber JAPAN Tosihiko Uji, Jordan Elias Farkouh LEBANON Dominique Eddé LEBANON/CANADA Rawi Hage LIBYA/EGYPT Ahmed Fagih LUXEMBOURG Ranga Yogeshwar MACEDONIA Nikola Madzirov MALAWI Samson Kambalu MALAYSIA Tan Twan Eng MALTA Pierre Mejlak MEXICO Rosa Beltrán, Sabina Berman, Carmen Boullosa, Ana Clavel, Alma Guillermoprieto, Angeles Mastretta NETHERLANDS René Appel, Abdelkader Benali, Ronald Bos, Ian Buruma, Gerrit Bussink, Saskia de Jong, Job Degenaar, Renate Dorrestein, Rudolf Geel, Arnon Grünberg, Joke J Hermsen, Marjolin Hof, Tjitske Jansen, Liesbeth Lagemaat, Thomas Lieske, Geert Mak, Nelleke Noordervliet, Ester Naomi Perquin, Aleid Truijens, Manon Uphoff, Jan van Mersbergen, Anne Vegter NEW ZEALAND Pip Adam, Tim Corballis, Patricia Grace, Nicky Hager, Ingrid Horrocks, Lloyd Jones, Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire, Courtney Sina Meredith, Sarah Quigley, Anna Sanderson, C. K. Stead NEW ZEALAND/UK Susan Pearce NIGERIA Helon Habila, Ben Okri, Chika Unigwe NIGERIA/GERMANY Olumide Popoola NORWAY Jostein Gaarder, Per Petterson PAKISTAN Mohsin Hamid, Ahmed Rashid PAKISTAN/UK Kamila Shamsie PALESTINE Suad Amiry, Mourid Barghouti, Najwan Darwish, Nathalie Handal, Sahar Khalifeh, Raja Shehadeh, Adania Shibli, Ghassan Zaqtan PALESTINE/ISRAEL Ala Hlehel PERU Santiago Roncagliolo PHILIPPINES/CANADA Miguel Syjuco POLAND Ignacy Karpowicz, Beata Stasi¢cska, Witold Szab ¢cowski, Olga Tokarczuk PORTUGAL Pedro Rosa Mendes ROMANIA Mircea Cartarescu RUSSIA Vladimir Aristov, Alan Cherchesov, Victor Erofeyev, Alisa Ganiyeva, Dmitri Golynko, Alexander Ilichevsky, Sergei Lebedev, Stanislav Lvovsky, Mikhail Shishkin, Alexander Skidan, Alexander Snegiryov SAMOA Albert Wendt SAUDI ARABIA Raja Alem SENEGAL Cheikh Hamidou Kane SERBIA David Albahari SERBIA/CROATIA Bora ¢Cosic SLOVAKIA Michal Hvorecky SLOVENIA Gabriela Babnik, Ale? Car, Ale? Debeljak, Mojca Kumerdej, Miha Mazzini, Du?an ?arotar, Ale? ?teger SOMALIA/SOUTH AFRICA Nuruddin Farah SOUTH AFRICA Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Zakes Mda, Margie Orford, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Gillian Slovo, Ivan Vladislavi, Zukiswa Wanner SOUTH AFRICA/AUSTRALIA JM Coetzee SOUTH KOREA Hwang Sok-Yong SPAIN Ricardo Bada, Javier Cercas, Rafael Chirbes, Juan Goytisolo, Julio Llamazares, Javier Marías, Antonio Mu?oz Molina, Rosa Montero, Javier Salinas. SPAIN/GERMANY José F A Oliver SUDAN Jamal Mahjoub SWEDEN Arne Dahl, Per Olov Enquist, Aris Fioretos, Jan Guillou, Bj?rn Larsson, Henning Mankell, H?kan Nesser, Tomas Transtr?mer, Svante Weyler SWITZERLAND Melinda Nadj Abonji, Sybille Berg, Peter Bieri, Irena Bre?ná, Melitta Breznik, Iso Camartin, Alex Capus, Martin Dean, Catalin Florescu, Christian Haller, Reto H?nny, Eveline Hasler, Franz Hohler, Pedro Lenz, Charles Lewinsky, Klaus Merz, Julian Schütt, Peter Stamm, Alain Sulzer, Urs Widmer SYRIA Hala Mohammed TANZANIA/UK Abdulrazak Gurnah THAILAND/US Rattawut Lapcharoensap TUNISIA/FRANCE Tahar Bekri TURKEY Yasar Kemal, Zülfü Livaneli, Murathan Mungun, Celil Oker, Orhan Pamuk, Buket Uzuner UK Akkas Al-Ali, Tariq Ali, David Almond, Martin Amis, Nigel Barley, Julian Barnes, Priya Basil, John Berger, Jane Borodale, William Boyd, John Burnside, Louis de Bernières, Isobel Dixon, Joanne Harris, Kazuo Ishiguro, Pico Iyer, Stephen Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Stella Newman, Henry Porter, Martin Rowson, Manda Scott, Will Self, Owen Sheers, Philip Sington, Tom Stoppard, Adam Thirwell, David Vann, Nigel Warbuton, Irvine Welsh, Jeanette Winterson UK/INDIA Rana Dasgupta, Nikita Lalwani UK/JORDAN Fadia Faqir UK/PAKISTAN Hanif Kureishi UK/US Lionel Shriver UKRAINE Myroslav Marynovych, Oksana Zabuzhko USA John Ashbery, Paul Auster, Elise Blackwell, TC Boyle, Alexander Chee, Isabel Fargo Cole, Billy Collins, Don DeLillo, Colin Dickey, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Eslami, Richard Ford, Jorie Graham, George Dawes Green, Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Kostova, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Jonathan Lethem, Barry Lopez, Ben Marcus, Tyler McMahon, Claire Messud, Josip Novakovich, George Packer, Tim Parrish, Richard Powers, James Salter, Sapphire, Richard Sennett, Jane Smiley, Art Spiegelman, Anne Waldman, Alice Walker, Eliot Weinberger, Jeffrey Yang USA/BOSNIA Aleksandar Hemon USA/China Ha Jin USA/ROMANIA Domnica Radulescu ZIMBABWE Brian Chikwava, Peter Godwin This appeal ran, 10th December 2013, in each of the following papers: Austria – Der Standard; Australia – Sydney Review of Books and Australian Book Review; Bangladesh – The Daily Star; Belgium – De Standaard; Brazil – O Globo; Croatia – Novi list; Denmark – Politiken; France – Le Monde; Finland – Hufvudstadsbladet; Germany – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Greece – Eleftherotypia; Hungary – Népszabadság; Iceland – Frettabladid; Ireland – The Irish Times; Israel – Haaretz; Italy – La Repubblica; Kenya – The Star; Netherlands – de Volkskrant; Norway – Aftenbladet; Pakistan – Dawn; Poland – Gazeta Wyborcza; Russia – Nezavisimaya Gazeta; Slovakia – SME; Slovenia – Delo; Spain – El Pais; Switzerland – Neue Zürcher Zeitung; Sweden – Dagens Nyheter; UK – Guardian New signatories as of 10th December 2013: Eduardo Sguiglia Argentina Judith Rodriguez Australia Olivia Halliday Australia Richard Flanagan Australia David Rain Australia Dietmar Koschier Austria Thomas Rothschild Austria Wolfgang Mayer-K?nig Austria Jutta Treiber Austria Wolfgang Hermann Austria Thomas Edlinger Austria Dorothea Macheiner Austria Hans Georg Nenning Austria Michael Amon Austria Gerhard Concic Austria Anna Kaucic Austria Dorothea Nürnberg Austria Susanne Dobesch-Giese Austria Walter Weiss Austria Gerhard Blaboll Austria Friedrich Damk?hler Austria Renate Scheider Austria Michael Beisteiner Austria Magdalena Tschurlovits Austria Peter Paul Kaspar Austria Ingrid Schramm Austria Zdenka Becker Austria Johannes Diethart Austria Alexander Peer Austria Ruth Kluger Austria/USA Irene Dische Austria/USA Zdenko Lesic Bosnia Adriana Lunardi Brazil Alek Popov Bulgaria JeanClaude Awono Cameroon Sharon Goodier Canada Vanessa Moeller Canada Brian Campbell Canada Susan McMaster Canada Harry Posner Canada Hugh Hazelton Canada Jane Munro Canada Gary Geddes Canada Hilary Clark Canada Dionne Brand Canada Charles Foran Canada Haroon Siddiqui Canada Marian Botsford Fraser Canada Olive Senior Canada Inge Israel Canada Janice Lore Canada Julie Berry Canada Michèle Blanchet Canada Cathleen With Canada Lorri Neilsen Glenn Canada Jane Silcott Canada Lisa Pasold Canada Lisa Martin-DeMoor Canada Liu Dejun China Laura Restrepo Columbia Camila Charry Noriega Columbia Klaudija Brnad Croatia Nade?da ?a?inovi? Croatia Tonko Maroevi? Croatia Zvonko Makovi? Croatia Tomica Bajsi? Croatia Ingrid ?afranek Croatia Sibila Petlevski Croatia Sanja Roi? Croatia Vjera Balen-Heidl Croatia Mladen Machiedo Croatia Branko ?egec Croatia Seid Serdarevi? Croatia Miroslav Kirin Croatia Predrag Matvejevi? Croatia Tomica Bajsi? Croatia José Prieto Cuba/USA Hanu? Karlach Czech Republic Anne Marie Ejrn?s Denmark Mette Jensen Denmark Abeer Mohamed Abdel Hafez Egypt Samir Abdrabou Egypt Samir Abdrabou Egypt Jüri Talvet Esonia Kirsti Simonsuuri Finland Ben Hellman Finland J. K. Ihalainen Finland J?rn Donner Donner Finland Kristiina Laehde Finland Fredrik Therman Finland Yahia Belaskri France Emily Bilman France Nicole Latil France Peter Stephan Jungk France Lila Azam Zanganeh France/Iran Sonja Gansefort Germany Utz Rachowski Germany Karin Schr?der Germany Petra Mettke Germany Hussain Al-Mozany Germany Barbara Bojack Germany Adel Karasholi Germany Brigitte Burmeister Germany Helmut Arntzen Germany Irmela Brender Germany Eberhard J?ckel Germany Harald Grill Germany Helmut Richter Germany Astrid Vehstedt Germany Günter Wallraff Germany Michi Strausfeld Germany Julius Franzot Germany Claudia Scherer Germany Marlen Pelny Germany Felizitas Leitner Germany Roland P?llnitz Germany Anne Linsel Germany Friedrich Pf?fflin Germany Hendrik Jackson Germany Fitzgerald Kusz Germany Francis Nenik Germany Ralph Grüneberger Germany Joochen Laabs Germany Olaf Georg Klein Germany Fritz Deppert Germany Gabriele Pommerin-G?tze Germany Lutz G? tze Germany Annerose Kirchner Germany Jeannette Lander Germany Jürgen Ehlers Germany Thomas B. 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Meier-Lenz Germany/France Péter Farkas Germany/Hungary Bahman Nirumand Germany/Iran Peter Kleinert Germany/Turkey Renan Demirkan Germany/Turkey Frank Mackay Anim-Appiah Ghana Maria Papayanni Greece Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay Hungary Bragi ólafsson Iceland Kristín ómarsdóttir Iceland Khalil Rostamkhani Iran Hassan Abdulrazzak Iran/UK Manal Al-Sheikh Iraq Christine Murray Ireland Kay Boland Ireland Ralf Sotscheck Ireland Carlo Gébler Ireland Jochen Gerz Ireland/Germany Gabriele Dadati Italia Andrea De Carlo Italy Adriana Buongiovanni Italy Paola Traverso Italy Ban’ya Natsuishi Japan Fakhri Saleh Jordan Iman Humaydan Lebanon Coral Bracho Mexico Jennifer Clement Mexico/USA Galsan Tschinag Mongolia Sushma Joshi Nepal Otto de Kat Netherlands Pam Mander New Zealand Joanna Randerson New Zealand Julie Ryan New Zealand Lesley Marshall New Zealand Jan Kemp New Zealand Heidi Ankers New Zealand Patricia Grace New Zealand Cathie Dunsford New Zealand Karin Meissenburg New Zealand David Howard New Zealand Alan Duff New Zealand Gioconda Belli Nicaragua Guillermo Cortés Domínguez Nicaragua Jumoke Verissimo Nigeria Ben Okri Nigeria Kamran Mir Hazar Norway Eugene Schoulgin Norway Jon Fosse Norway Jan Erik Vold Norway ?yvind Fosse Norway Gloria Guardia Panama Alejandro Sánchez-Aizcorbe Peru Santiago Roncagliolo Peru Patricia de Souza Peru Isaac Goldemberg Peru/USA S. 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Schweinsberg Germany Charlotte Wiedemann Germany C. Elizabeth Murray Ireland Raffaella Salierno Italy Chiara Macconi Italy Franca Tiberto Italy Guy Rewenig Luxembourg Fouzia Rhissassi Marocco Hassan Mekouar Marocco Bouchra Boulouiz Marocco Rose Mary Espinosa Mexico Homero Aridjis Mexico Ma Thida Myanmar Threes Anna Netherlands Wouter Krijbolder Netherlands Christel Jansen Netherlands Frans Budé Netherlands Els van der Pluijm Netherlands Paul Beers Netherlands Jasper Mikkers Netherlands Klaas Rusticus Netherlands Simen de Jong Netherlands Anneloes Timmerije Netherlands Mineke Schipper Netherlands Jan Honout Netherlands Michael H. 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