Eden Womensday 2021: "No matter how, we have to keep ourself strong" by The bridge radio

Waiting Across Privileges / exhibited in Kunsthal C in Stockholm 2022

Here you will listen to an excerpt of an interview with scholar and activist Vanessa Thompsen, where she talks about the concept of Intersectionality (Kimberly Crenshaw) and Intersectionality of Struggles (Angela Davis). Listen to the full program here: https://soundcloud.com/bridgeradio/intersectionality-of-struggles-with-vanessa-thompson Vanessa Thompson is Dr. des at Göethe University at the institute of sociology (Frankfurt)and was one of the persons in a panel at Bandung du Nord in Paris in beginning of May 2018. The panel was called “Effects of racism on oppressed femininities and masculinities: how to articulate them and fight against them together?” Some of the reporters from the Bridge Radio where there and we felt the need and urgency to continue this talk in our activism groups to transmit it to people who where not able to attend the conference.

Recording of a discussion in The Bridge Radio during a dinner where the members reflect over the care that takes place within The Bridge Radio. In the conversation, the collective think about how their own care needs change over time and what happens when those involved in the collective age and require more care. The sound and installation exhibited 2022 in Kalmar Kunstmuseum, SE.

Here you will listen to a speech by Siroos Azizi Zadeh the father of the family who forcefully by the Danish state was separated from his wife, when she and two of their children were attempted to be deported to Iran. The family is still separated and Ghadam detained in Ellebæk prison. About the demonstration on the 2nd of April: "On April 2nd 2022, we call to the streets everyone who want to stand up against Denmark’s differential and discriminatory approach to refugees. Racism and oppression has been allowed to be passed as laws for far too long. And now the hypocrisy has become clearer than ever." Read more about the demonstration here: https://www.facebook.com/events/541407163916846?ref=newsfeed

18th of May 2021 The Syrian community in Denmark started af 14 days long sit-in protest in front of the Danish parliament. They are resisting and protesting the decision of sending Syrian refugees back to Damaskus and are advokating for a more human refugee agenda in Denmark. Listen to their demands and join them the weeks to come.

“It is a shame for a democratic place like Denmark to have a place like this, with people like us - Who cannot live, but are not dead.” 21st of October 2020 the families living in deportation center Avnstrup in Denmark invited activists and supporters to join the first protest against the endless rules in the deportation regime in Denmark. They are fighting for a normal live outside the camps in the normal society.

Deportation camps are systemic racism! In this program we speak to the spokeswoman of Black Lives Matter in Denmark, Bwalya Sørensen and our friends from Sjælsmark about the state racism in connection to asylum camps and deportation camps in Denmark and the daily experiences of racism from staff in the camps.

In the agreement with the leftwing parties last summer, the new government in Denmark promised to get the children out of Sjælsmark. All families have during the summer holidays been moved to Center Avnstrup in the woods outside of Roskilde. Though the center has no fences or military exercises in the area - a new set of rules are applied for the adults living with their families in these corridors. You have to check in with the staff two times a day. In the morning and in the afternoon. Making it nearly impossible for adults to manage to go into town to visit friends and families because the center is located in a remoted area. If they do not check in it can be seen as a criminal offence. This center can very easily incriminate a large group of refugees only for not checking in electronically two times a day. The rules are meant to keep people in the center and are limiting their freedom of movement severely.

We can’t breath. In the aftermath of the brutal police killing of George Floyd by the american police we urge you to listen to your fellow beings in your community who is being subjected to racism! Listen and acknowledge their experiences instead of doubting it! Racism exits very much in Denmark and Europe. Especially in relation to the asylum system. 
In this program three black people living in deportation center Sjælsmark are discussing racism with a fellow activist from Copenhagen.

In this program we talk about the effects when refugees and asyluum seekers are moved around endlessly between camps in Denmark. The families living in Sjælsmark are suppose to move to center Avnstrup after the summer. This means all single people living in Avnstrup are now being moved to Sjælsmark. In this program we invited two of the people who have recently moved into Sjælsmark from center Avnstrup. One of our guests has been moving around 8 camps in the 3 years he has been applying for asylum in Denmark! “It is a kind of way of playing games on the refugees. You start all over again and again and again.”

This speech was made during the demonstration by black lives matter Denmark in Copenhagen. Sunday the 7th of June 2020

This speech was made during the demonstration by black lives matter Denmark in Copenhagen. Sunday the 7th of June 2020

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing online programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis. In this edition we are hearing testimonies from women* living in asylum and detention camps in Germany and Denmark, sharing experiences, information, demands and possibilities of actions to make awareness about the rights of women* living in these camps.

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing online programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis. In this edition we are hearing testimonies of what is going on in the detention camps Sjælsmark and Kærshovedgaard in Denmark and talking about the limitations and posiblities of organizing resistance against the new Home Travel Agency the Danish Integration Ministry announced this week.

"Our Movement Is Loud" is an experimental radioplay in 4 channels, and was made as part of the "Choreographies Of The Social" Exhibition in Stockholm in 2019. Our Movement Is Loud produced collectively by people with and without Danish citizenship. They are linked to each other through their experience of the asylum system in Denmark. The audio installation consists of different perspectives, positions and voices that coincide in a story about the fight against expulsion. These interwoven stories take place in an imaginary scenario and are told by activists working inside and outside the asylum camps. The stories in the radio play are based on real events that have taken place in asylum camps, airplanes and in larger protests that The Bridge Radio and its network has participated. The process of creating the radio play started with a workshop in writing and drama for radio with writer Athena Farrokhzad, director Saga Gärde and sound designer Arash Pandi. Contributors: Texts and voices: Laila, Serafin, Cedric, Barly, Kirstine, Arash, Nanna, Arendse, Shakira, Fayeza, Carina, Nanna, Kathrine and Allan. Sound recordings from the Bridge Radio Archive: Quotes by Audre Lorde, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nicholas De Genova and Bertolt Brecht. Radio drama workshop: Athena Farrokhzad and Saga Gärde. Recordings and editing: The Bridge Radio. Sound design: Arash Pandi.

Speech by Baba - Mohamed Hirabe by The bridge radio

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing online programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis. This week we talked with our friends in Germany from the collective Lampedusa Hamborg and Seed of Solidarity from Berlin to compare the situtation of the Danish asylum and detention camps with the life of migrants in Germany.

A resident of the Danish detention center Kærshovedgaard in Jylland is explaining the situation during the coronavirus and calling for solidarity! Listen to his statement in Danish and support the fight to close these detention centers! Let us make this corona situation an opportunity to release all migrants from detention and grant them equal rights of citizens with access to healthcare, the job market and education!

An english speaking ally of the working collective of street vendors in Barcelona explains the situation and the new ways of organizing work among street vendors in Barcelona during the corona crisis.