Neutrality – Without Us!

Please find the link to the official invitation here. The event will be held in German.

The right-wing populist battle of culture with the “principle of neutrality”

For a time already, the term “principle of neutrality” is shifting more and more in the focus of the public discourse. Right-wing populists use it as a strategy to oppose projects and private stakeholders in Berlin and nationwide. Critics just like anti-fascists and anti-racists are supposed to be unsettled and silenced. The main objective is to gain the power to define terms like democracy, neutrality or freedom of expression. But how do right-wing (institutional) players try to exploit these terms? Which connections can be drawn between human rights, democratic values, the Beutelsbach consensus and the state programs against right-wing extremism? To discuss this and more, we would like to get in touch with people from civil society, politics, academia, and administration.

Input: Hamid Mohseni (MBR Berlin / BMB e.V.)

Participants in the panel discussion: Dr. Franziska Drohsel (Lawyer), Rona Tietjen (Bezirksstadträtin für Jugend, Wirtschaft und Soziales Pankow), Dr. Heike Radvan (Diplom-Sozialpädagogin, Professorin an der BTU Cottbus), Astrid Landero (Frauenzentrum Paula Panke e.V.)

Moderated by: Annika Eckel (Licht-Blicke / pad gGmbH)

When: 12. September 2019 from 6 p.m. till 8 p.m

Where: Kulturkantine, Saarbrücker Str. 24, 10405 Berlin (U-Bhf Senefelder Platz)