Listen to the whole talk here:

https://soundcloud.com/bridgeradio/interview-with-de-genova

Listen to the whole talk here:

https://soundcloud.com/bridgeradio/interview-with-de-genova

De Genova - Prison and detention Camps by The bridge radio

In this 4th program in the seria 'Staying with the trouble's of privileges in common spaces' by the bridge radio, we will be focusing on intersectionality and how to develop intersectional practices in groups that work together across privilege. We will be talking about how and why intersectionality is important to think at the core of how we think and organize our social struggles.

Our guest with us is writer, educater and activist Lesley-Ann Brown who was one of the organiser of women’s march in 2017 in Copenhagen. She will soon be coming out with ther book 'Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son'. We interviewed Lesley Anna brown on her experience and opinion on the topic of intersectionality and working together in activism spaces. We will be talking about decolonisation, reproduction of discrimination and self healing in activist spaces.

You will also be hearing clips from Professor Kimberle Crenshaw who coined the term intersectionality and songs by Brenda fassie, Turiya Alice Coltrane, Miriam Makeba, Asa and Gil Scott-Heron.

Find Lesley-Ann Brown's book here:

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/decolonial-daughter-letters-from-a-black-woman-to-her-european-son/

And follow her through:

http://www.blackgirlonmars.com/

https://lesleyannbrownwrites.wordpress.com/

This program is the 3rd in the program seria 'Staying with the trouble's of privileges in common spaces' where we discuss problematics and strategies in working together across privilege in activist and social groups.

In this program we invited Julia Suárez-Krabbe to discuss decolonial strategies of working together across privilege.

Julia Suárez-Krabbe is lecture at Roskilde University and has written the book; ‘Race, Rights and Rebels; Alternatives to Human Rights and Development from the Global South'. She is also part of the Freedom of Movements in Copenhagen who have supported self-organized migrant struggles in Denmark.

In this program you will hear about the conference Colonial Amnesia/Koloniales Vergessen that included a memorial protest which took place 8th of April in Hamburg under the slogans 'Anything About Us Without Us is Against Us', 'It is Time for Justice', 'Reperation Now' and 'No Amnesty for Genocide'. The conference were about the German genocide on the Heroro and Nama people in what is now Namibia.

In the program we will be asking questions of how do we use the shared knowledge of the colonial past and present, to inform our current social struggles and the ways we organize between people of different privileges?

We will talk about strategies of decolonising activist groups, institutions and even ourselves of the colonial mentality and structures.

Guests in the program are artist and activist La Toya Manly Spain, activist Olivier Njeck from Black Media Group Hamburg as well as activists and organisers of the conference 'Kolonial Vergessen/Colonial Amnesia' Meryem Choukri, Jan Kawlath and Millicent Adjei.

This program was live transmitted the 10th of April and is the second in the seria 'Staying with the trouble's of privileges in common spaces' by the Bridge Radio.

Listen to the first one here:

https://soundcloud.com/bridgeradio/staying-with-the-troubles-of-privileges-in-common-spaces

On this program, The Bridge Radio will be focusing on working together in political activism groups, with very different positions and privileges given to individuals by the nation state. This program will try to focus on ways to heal, dismantles, dissolve and decolonise privileges, white supremacy, racism and discrimination in activism spaces.

The Ignorance and privilege of nations states aims to destabilize and strikes everywhere in our society today, which has everything to do with a dominant colonial culture. This colonial culture even appears in groups that aim to work in anti-fascist and anti-racists.

This program intended to articulate, discuss and find ways to navigate around this privileges and working together.

Decolonising racism, fascism and discrimination is an everyday practice - you do not break it once, but it is a process of an everyday life, because we have grown up in a racist, discriminative society structures that intends to divide us.

So how can we attempt to navigate privilege? How do we work together in subversive ways? How do we break existing power structures?

In this program seria, where the Bridge Radio will be guesting FSK, you will be hearing reflections on challenges of working together from many people from migrants and women’s political groups and space, were this colonial mindset is often very present.

We hope by putting a focus on this issue of working together across different nation states privileges, that we will help activists and individuals become aware of our different positions of privileges. Along with finding a sustainable, suitable way to co-exist in social and activism spaces... THE BRIDGE RADIO…

*From Donna Haraway 'Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene' (2016)

Who is Queen Mary Fireburn?

La Vaughn Belle - one of the two artists behind the new big sculpture in Copenhagen representing the Rebel Queen from the Virgin Islands - is explaining who is Queen Mary. La Vaughn Belle is an artist from the Virgin Island and this interview was done on the opening day for when the sculpture of the Queen was released in Copenhagen Harbour.

But what stories are told about Queen Mary in The Virgin Islands?

Listen here

This radio that was broadcases March 2. 2018 from CAMP (Center for Art on Migration Politics) is a discussion about migrant workers' struggle for rights and work permits through organizing.

Guests on the panel are:

Marius and Robert from "Metro Workers United," a group of workers mainly from Eastern Europe who have organized themselves during the construction work in the Copenhagen Metro.

Therese who has been involved in the organizing of Au Pairs in Denmark as a counselor and has herself worked as an Au Pair in Denmark in 2008. She holds an MA in International Migration and Ethnic Relations from Aalborg University and is now doing a project on domestic violence towards ethnic minorities and Au Pair workers.

The event is organized by the transnational radio collective The Bridge Radio and accompanies the collective's solo exhibition "Economy of Migrant Labor – for the Right to Work" on view in CAMP from January 19 – May 19, 2018.

For more info about the exhibition and The Bridge Radio, please visit: campcph.org/current-and-upcoming/2292017

The Bridge Radio covered the launch of 'After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives' Edited by Shahram Khosravi Friday 1 December.

Listen in for the launch of Shahram Khosravi’s new book After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, focusing on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. What are the consequences of forced removal? What dangers and challenges do they encounter following ‘removal’? And what forms of life do they create in countries to which they are sent?

Shahram Khosravi will introduce his new book, followed by responses to his research from The Bridge Radio and Ung i Sverige.

The Bridge Radio is a community radio made up of people with and without citizenship who make radio about migration and asylum politics. www.thebridgeradio.dk Ung i Sverige is a group of young activists that started organising this summer in Stockholm against deportations to Afghanistan. They believe in stopping the deportation to Afghanistan on the grounds that the country is not safe. www.ungisverige.nu

Shahram Khosravi is Professor at Stockholm University and Uppsala University. He has written the books, Young and Defiant in Tehran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2008); The Illegal Traveler: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders, Palgrave (2010); and Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2017).