With performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, jewelz, an independent radio activist of 10 years, and artist and author Alex Head. Guest contributions from Aviad Albert, an Israeli citizen working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, Thomas Herzmark, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen and Carmen an academic working in the field of religion in Germany.

Radio Against Repression is the radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.

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A lecture by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, as part of the February 19th event: Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy, Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide - at bUm, Berlin.

The lecture was supposed to take place in a big lecture hall at Freie universitat, along with Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture. but the university cancelled the event after massive critique, amongst others from the Israeli ambassador, and from the mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, who called it antisemitic. The relocated event at bUm took place under police presence. A few days earlier, Albanese’s lecture at a University in Munich had also been cancelled, as we mentioned in Episode One.

Embracing the goal to 'think global, act local' we’ve paired this lecture with a critical reading on the notorious “education resolution” between artist and activist Zoë Claire Miller in the studio with artist Alex Head.

Huge thanks to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Zoë Claire Miller and bUm Berlin.

View the entire event at bUm here: https://vimeo.com/1058614428

KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/ Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/ Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt 3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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No Deportations to Greece Fundraiser - bUm - PAUL-LINCKE-UFER 21,10999 BERLIN Friday 18.04.25 from 7pm

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On air discussion with Jason Oberman's addressing their three part series Inciting Hatred and Slinging Insults: Exploring the Legal Apparatus of the BRD on The Left Berlin. Jason Oberman (they/them) is an anti-zionist Ashkenazi Jewish American based in Zürich. A musician, composer, songwriter and rogue scholar who formerly lived in Berlin, Jason researches, lectures and writes on Jewish identity, Zionism, Palestine, and Germany’s weaponization of the “fight against Antisemitism”. They are a member of Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in der nähe Ost and Kollektiv Doykait. https://www.instagram.com/jason.oberman/

Interview with performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar. Joined by Alex Head and juwelz in the studio.

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Announcement: 🎭 Radical Performance Making Workshop "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." – Bertolt Brecht

How can performance be a tool for social change?

Join Dani Mo for a 3-part workshop series to discover theory and get into the practice of making radical performances using Brechtian theatre techniques. From Verfremdungseffekt and Gestus to epic storytelling and devised performance.

🗓 Dates: May 13, 20, 26 (Tuesdays & Monday) 🎤 Optional showcase date: May 31 ⏰ Time: 19:30–22:00 📍 In-person at 90mil (wheelchair accessible) 💶 Sliding Scale Pricing & Solidarity spots available 🎟 Beginners & experienced welcome! 💡 Ideal for performers, activists & storytellers. ✨ Create your own radical performance vignette & discover how theatre + performance can challenge power and shape new narratives.

🔗 Info/Booking: https://90milartschool.softr.app/workshop-details?recordId=recOglTiZiGOE2VvZ 📩 Questions? Resistart@proton.me 📷 Insta post:https://instagram.com/p/DJJXpqXsug4

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Radio Against Repression shares perspectives from within the Occupy Against Occupation (Bezetzung gegen Bezatzung), protest camp currently active opposite the German parliamentary building (Bundestag), in Berlin. Join us live from the studio for a one-to-one discussion of interviews and vivid sonic landscapes, exploring the camps’ wider goals while centering the crises Israel has long created for Palestinians.