Re: <nettime> the silence on the rising fascism

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Liebe Nettimers,

to cont. thoughts on this thread... We will retain the original frame/
title...

We just had the odd and extraordinary fortune of being able to see Masha
Gessen in person make the Heinrich Boll Stiftung look like utter
muddling political f/tools and morally bankrot, as was already apparent
to so many of us... especially to all the diverse migrant communities...
and all those who have ever had the lovely experiences of the
Ausländerbehörde ( immigration office ) who get to decide your fate, and
if you have permission to stay, live and work in De. ... and/Or all
those other migrants who are in detention Lagers, awaiting asylum
applications to be accepted, or have already been rejected.  The latter
of course highly are unlikely have time to investigate all the
intricacies of this Middle East furor, because they are tucked away in
remote isolated fucked up detention facilities, w/ very restricted
access to normal lives.

Gessen's latest visit to DE almost didn't happen... her Hannah Arendt
prize was almost rescinded, and the ceremony that should have been at
the Bremen City Hall with hundreds of seats, was instead moved to a
private dinner... w/ room for about a dozen guests ( if we heard that
number correctly ). She had to correct the Boll Stiftung
hosts/politicians, who said they honored to have here her and are very
interested to create open dialogue on the issues. This was extremely
disingenous, i.e. Total Bullshit ! Gessen was in excellent diplomatic /
ninja form !

And it may never have occurred, had it not been for bold solidarity
actions from other writers like Sanaz Azimipour:

https://www.theleftberlin.com/my-statement-on-the-heinrich-boll-foundations-decision-to-withdraw-from-awarding-the-hannah-arendt-prize/

...

This is part of the "Silence on The Rising Fascism" that we wished to
alert the Nettime list to. It was a slight rhetorical trick to perhaps
get more readers engaged by referencing previous posts. The orig post
was pointing to very real and urgent situations that require informing
the public and mobilizing community responses !

Because if the wide variety of voices cannot find public spaces to speak
out then we cannot put proper pressures on the actors and supporters of
fascist war crimes and racist ideologies and neo-colonial structures ! 

Btw Oyoun, which we put in our original post as a local pragmatic story,
which requires urgent solidarity. It would be fantastic to see cultural
venues and cultural workers from all over over Europe and elsewhere
spread this news and show that they will not accept this kind of censur.
And btw, NINE WORKERS at Oyoun face losing their visas to live and work
in DE, if their job contracts are not upheld at Oyoun. They are not
ALLOWED to look for employment elsewhere That is how the thick notorious
DE bureaucracy fucks with peoples lives and their freedoms of
expression. And this will continue to get worse in situations like
having to fight off false accustaions of anti-semitism.

Again a link to Oyoun ( this one is the Open Letter ), which no one here
on Nettime seems to have read and give any attention to :

https://oyoun.de/en/news/offener-brief-oyoun-muss-bleiben/

...

Dont have time to go further on Gessen's extraordinary visit, but here
is a very quick XLT encapsulation:

Many more things to say about Masha being hosted at Heinrich Boll. It
was very unsettling just to see her placed on the Hot Seat being more or
less interrogated about her writing by three Germans who tried to
dissect her, with very visiable uniformed and armed COPS sitting in
corner the room ( presumably for protection, but also like guardians of
the German political stance on the State of Israel ) ! It's not Masha
who should be on trial, it's fascists in state power perpetrating war
crimes that need to be challenged and taken apart ! The whole evening
was spent mostly having to defend the Ghetto comparisons to her idiot
low level inquisitors, rather than taking the discussions into a more
radical direction of actual political interventions to STOP THE GENOCIDE
! ... if we have time, we'll try and take it further in a Subslack form.

...

We hope the conversation on Nettime gets a little more inspired !

All the best

The XLterrestrials


p.s. For those who want to watch Gessen's talk at Boll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4yypPG-OE
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4yypPG-OE>

And Samantha Hill on Arendt prize situations ( pretty feirce for a
Guardian analysis )

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/18/hannah-arendt-prize-masha-gessen-israel-gaza-essay
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/18/hannah-arendt-prize-masha-gessen-israel-gaza-essay>





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> Am 18.12.23 um 10:59 schrieb Fr?d?ric Neyrat via nettime-l:
>> https://www.trans-planet.org/abolishing-the-world-order-in-a-radical-ceasefire
> Thank you for this hint - I actually wasn't aware of it and enjoyed 
> reading it. I have one question about the text, considerably about this 
> statement: "There is no Call that is not a call to organization". As far 
> as I see, organisation is only possible if you make a distinction 
> between organised and non organised people - at least in a political 
> context. But than you continue with an invitation to contribute 
> artworks, which is obviously located in an artistic context. Thus my 
> question is: Do you consider art as politics or politics as art?
>
> BTW: It is great that it is emphasised that (nearly) all people suffer 
> from wars - we are all people (even if there are certainly better ways 
> than war to draw attention to this).
>
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