Anti-kolonialer Streik

🔥 Call 4 Action 🔥

On the 15th of September, an imperative event awaits us: the Global Climate Strike.

In our collective consciousness, we recognize that the climate movement in Germany is fraught with issues of dominance, exclusivity, and Eurocentrism. The crux of this matter is that the communities most severely impacted by climate disruption hail from the Global South, as evidenced in the MAPA (Most Affected People and Areas). While global warming and climate change may appear as recent concerns in the Global North, those residing in the Global South have endured over five centuries of resource exploitation, land degradation through toxic industries, and weapon exports. It is imperative that we acknowledge colonialism and capitalism as principal catalysts of climate crisis.

Europe, through its role in fostering conflicts, perpetuating injustices, encouraging arms trade, dictating EU policies, influencing living standards, upholding white supremacy, and sustaining colonial legacies, has compelled countless individuals to flee their homelands. Yet, those who reach the Western shores find themselves subjected to unequal treatment, encountering violations of their rights, and facing militarized European borders that have resulted in loss of life. Furthermore, upon arrival, they are often relegated to isolation in camps and denied their fundamental human rights and needs.

This year, we emphatically reject collaboration with racist and neo-colonial structures and emphatically embrace a resolute Alliance for Anti-Colonial Climate Justice.

We must acknowledge that climate justice cannot exist without social justice, and social justice cannot exist without racial justice. The enduring struggles of the Global South demand boundless and unwavering solidarity. When we champion climate justice, it is imperative that we incorporate the perspectives of communities that have suffered for centuries under the yoke of colonialism and racist capitalism. We must unite against exploitation, oppression, and discrimination in all their manifestations, transcending borders and industries to foster a global movement for social, racial, and climate justice.

Our motto is clear: "Nothing about us without us." As advocates for Climate Justice, instead of expending our energy, time, and resources in futile collaboration with prejudiced groups and movements that only lead to disillusionment and tokenization within western-dominated structures, we seek unity with our fellow activists and communities both locally and across the Global South.

In light of this, we, as an anti-colonial collective, extend a resounding call for an Anti-Colonial Climate Strike on the 15th of September 2023 in Berlin. We cordially invite all groups, organizations, collectives, and individuals who are dedicated to dismantling borders, combating police brutality, resisting militarization, challenging the prison-industrial complex, dismantling patriarchy, and dismantling capitalism to organize and join us on the streets in solidarity for an Anti-Colonial Climate Justice protest alongside our siblings and communities in the global majority. This is an intersectional global struggle; its facets are interconnected.

Abolish Frontex, bring down the walls of fortress and lets break the borders between us for a free Palestine, Kurdistan, Sudan, Abyala, Balochistan and libration in the rest of the world.

Let us always keep in mind: "The people united will never ever be defeated."

In solidarity and empowerment,

Anticolonial climate and migration

justice team