Radio Against Repression

With the removal of Ari, a statue commemorating the sexual slavery of over 200.000 women at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII, Berlin once again enacts political censorship through the arts.

In 1992, the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, began weekly Wednesday protests and to commemorate the 1000th protest, a public statue known as The Statue of Peace was installed opposite the Japanese embassy in Seoul. 

Ari, a sister to that statue, is a sculpture of a young woman created by the Korean artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung located in the Berlin district of Moabit, until 18th of October 2025. The campaign in Germany seeks to put pressure on the Japanese government for acknowledgement and reparation while also drawing attention to the politicians in Germany that have pushed for her removal - Stefanie Remlinger (Green Party), and former Berlin mayor Kai Wegner to name but two.

We chart the history of this powerful movement, the relevance of its goals and strategies for contemporary Germany and the attempts of multiple politicians to relativize the specific crimes of the Japanese army in a manner that attempts to obscure the established pipeline between sexual abuse, anti-democratic efforts and the billionaire class.

AGF

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KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/

Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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Discussing censorship and the threat thereof in the German cultural scene, as a form of negative psychic and political energy that enters the physical and social body. With Siegmar Zacharias, performance artist and founding member of freelance dance ensemble berlin, and Merlin Gebhard, theater director and musician. Join Radio Against Repression to discuss the playbook of defunding and strategies of resistance.

Hosted by Jara Nassar and Alex Head

Seigmar Zacharias https://soundcloud.com/siegmar-zacharias/re-generation-master-10-10

Merlin Gebhard https://sprechwerk.hamburg/produktionen/they-thought-they-were-free/

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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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Tune in for a Q+A episode with Jara and Alex, live in the studio, where they will discuss everything that's been happening in Germany recently - the defunding of the Collecting Dreams literature festival, whether Germany will cast a deciding EU vote to bring in a mass-surveillance law known as "Chat Control", and of course the largest protest for Palestine in the history of Germany.

"Chat Control" https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-what-is-actually-going-on/

Radio Alhara (Jara Nassar October 8th at 6pm) https://www.radioalhara.net

Alt Orient (Fake Lines Levant drop Oct 17th) https://soundcloud.com/altorient

Energy, Flows, Power, and Politics Along the Berlin-Spandauer Shipping Canal https://www.plural-studio.net/tour

CSU Repression Package https://www.csu-landtag.de/lokal_1_4_2273_Unionsfraktionen-zeigen-klare-Kante-Starkes-Netzwerk-gegen-Judenhass-und-Extremismus.html

90mil programme https://www.90mil.berlin/artschool/

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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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Artist Irwan Ahmett is interviewed about the worlds that brutal resource extraction has created and destroyed. From the sacred mountains of Papua to the live-streamed genocide of Palestinians on your device, Irwan’s work with Tita Salina charts the terror of now and the eternal creativity of the human species over deep time.

#Branding #Death #TheBody #ColonialHypocrisy #Gaza #Palestine #TheIndonesianHospital #LiveRadio

Interview by Alex Head

Images: #1 A rotten security post container on a decaying reclaimed island. #2 Offering to the ocean - 1 #3 One of the ugliest beaches made from metropolitan residents' sins caused the silting of the rivers in Jakarta. #4 Offering to the ocean - 2

Tracklist:

Glass Assembly - ai yamamoto https://aiyamamoto.bandcamp.com/track/glass-assembly

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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.

BABA DEIN HERZ - Jara Nassar https://www.instagram.com/p/DLcRZv2ibCW/

1001 Accurate Memories - Alex Head https://www.plural-studio.net/1001-accurate-memories

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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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On air discussion with Jason Oberman 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”. https://www.instagram.com/jason.oberman/

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

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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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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.

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

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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

In episode one: Policing Education, we give a subtextual reading of the parliamentary resolution "Confronting anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment at schools and universities and securing free space for debate". Analysed with guests within and adjacent to contemporary formal education in Germany, sounding the alarm around shrinking spaces for free speech and expression.

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.

With performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, jewelz, an independent radio activist of 10 years, and artist Alex Head.

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KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/

Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt

3ezwa, association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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