Berlin Stands with MENA Uprisings
(Deutsch unten) (النص باللغة العربية في الأسفل) (ترجمه فارسی در ادامه متن) *Contact us if your group would like to co-host this event* As part of the October International month in Berlin we are organizing a Read-Out/Paint-Out/Teach-Out to express our solidarity with the revolutionaries in our region. Berlin has become the home to many exiles from the MENA region and as the seat of the German state- the most powerful actor in the European Union, is a center of power Why Now? Why Berlin? Revolutionaries in the MENA region are battling a growing mountain of challenges and attacks, all while the EU, led by Germany, cuts deals with authoritarian regimes across the region while it “promotes human rights, democracy and stability” in the region. In Libya, modern-day slave-markets, described as “hell on earth”, boom in large part due to “fortress Europe”. Moria, the largest camp for refugees and asylum seekers in the Greek Island of Lesvos, was on fire as we wrote this, and Germany will not op