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Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin
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On the horrendous occasion of the brutal Israeli and US attacks on Iran, as well as the renewed ground invasion and bombing of Lebanon, we will be joined by Dorna to discuss what has been unfolding over the last week, how this should be interpreted within the colonial imperialist power structure, and what we in…
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A discussion of the artist duo’s current show “The Circulation of Labour, Capital and Life as a Supply Chain”, that mixes artistic intervention with the permanent artifacts of the Dommuseum Hildesheim. We explore the political expediency of racism both historically and in the context of censorship, defunding and repression in contemporary Germany. Exhibition Until April…
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Radio Against Repression reports back from the Academic Boycott Conference Berlin shining a light on how Israeli Universities and research centers play an integral role in occupation and genocide, and the ways in which their German counterparts are complicit and breach international and humanitarian law through exchange programs, common infrastructure and joint projects. With a…
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What is the revolutionary potential of art in troubled times? We sat down with long-time artistic director of the Freedom Theater Jenin, Palestine, to explore lessons on resilience and the revolutionary potential of the creative act. This show was recorded with Tobasi at the end of 2025 in Berlin. Tune in to Radio Against Repression…
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It has been the most striking feature of current political repression in Germany: police brutalizing protesters with extreme force. Especially in Berlin, police violence against political dissidents has become a regular occurrence. But what is behind this violence? Anabel from the Arrest Documentation Unit (ADU) will be joining R A R live in the studio…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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