U.F.O.S: Unconventional Fight and Organisation Strategies
👽 Solidaridad Antirrepresiva Berlin invites you to join us at U.F.O.S: Unconventional Fight & Organizational Strategies!
📅 October 25–26th, 2025
📍 New Yorck im Bethanien, Berlin
What specific actions can we engage in, individually and collectively, to fight back and resist?
Two days of talks, connections & collective struggles about:
- Alternative and self-managed media
- New Forms of Anti-Fascist Fights
- West-Sahara & Migrant Movements
Speakers include Irene Zugasti, Carmela Negrete, Jakob Reimann, Hüseyin Dogru, Orangotango/IRGAC, Proyecto UNA & Jaima de Tiris.
Let’s come together to exchange ideas, resist, and build new strategies.
There will be a fleamarket and infostands on both days, so feel free to contact us if you want to take part as a collective and present your project or initiative!
Free Palestine! Free all political prisoners!
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Saturday, October 25th
10h Open Doors
11-12:30h Podium: "Alternative and self-managed media " with Irene Zugasti (Diario Red Madrid) and Carmela Negrete (Diario Red Germany)
12:30h Küfa - Solikitchen by/for a person from Gaza
13:30-15h Podium: “Fighting repression against journalists in Germany informing about the genocide” with Jakob Reimann (Junge Welt) and Hüseyin Dogru (Red. media)
15:30-19h Workshop: “Antifa, Affect and Utopia: a strategical workshop” by Orangotango and IRGAC (Berlin)
17:30-20h Workshop: "Antifascist digital communication: denazifying the algorithm" by Proyecto Una (Catalunya)
(Workshop spots limited so come early!)
20-24h Pintxos, drinks & music
Sunday, October 26th
14h Soli-Paella
16h Kaffee & Kuchen
17h Documentaries about the occupation of West-Sahara (English subtitles)
- “Sand Bellies” (Pablo Montes Sánchez, Álvaro Montes Sánchez ,20', Documentary) https://nomadshrc.org/catalogue/public/films/85285
- “Little Sahara” (Emilio Martí, 30', Animation)
https://nomadshrc.org/catalogue/public/films/85163
18h Discussion in presence of representative of the Frente Polisario Nadjet Hamdi: the West-Sahara struggle and migrant movements
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About the speakers:
Irene Zugasti specialises in international relations, security and gender policies, working on women and armed conflict, and combines her work as an equality policy expert in public administration with research projects, training and feminist communication. She contributes as a columnist to various media outlets and is an equality expert.
Carmela Negrete writes about politics, labour rights, migration and current affairs for Spanish and German media outlets, including Diario Red and junge Welt. Her work has also been published in El Salto, eldiario.es, CTXT and Neues Deutschland. She is the co-author of The 5th Germany, a book about labour precarity. She has worked as a TV producer for Globo, Ruptly and EITB, and has appeared in the media on channels including Deutsche Welle, RBB, N24 and Canal Red.
Jakob Reimann mainly focuses on wars and conflicts in West Asia and North Africa, with Yemen and Palestine/Israel being his main areas of interest. He also writes about militarism, imperialism, terrorism and geopolitics, as well as the extreme right and authoritarian state restructuring in Germany.
Hüseyin Dogru is the founder of “red. media”, a socialist, anti-fascist news outlet. Initially he focused on social-political issues in Germany, Turkey, and Kurdish topics. Since 7 or 8 years he’s been concentrating on international politics; documentaries or articles about people’s struggle around the world.
Proyecto UNA is a writers collective with the mission to expose new forms of fascism hidden beneath seemingly harmless symbolism and to recognize and highlight feminist alliances forged in the heat of pixels.
From grassroots perspectives, they investigate digital communities, internet propaganda, and our relationship with technology.
https://pantube.tv/proyecto-una/
IRGAC: The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) zooms in on the global interconnections of authoritarian capitalism and reactionary populism and places them at the centre of scholar-activist debates.
Kollektiv Orangotango was founded in 2008. Since then it has been constantly developing through a network of critical geographers, friends and activists who deal with questions regarding space, power and resistance.
https://orangotango.info/about/
La Jaima de Tiris is a group in Germany which wants to tell people about the history, the culture and the struggles of the Sahrawi people. Western Sahara has been fighting for its self-determination for decades and is currently colonized by the Kingdom of Morocco. Until 1975, Western Sahara was a colony of the Kingdom of Spain. The struggles, the history and even the existence of the Sahrawi people is generally unknown in Germany.
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About the idea of the event:
In this series of talks and workshops we want to focus on strategies and concrete and feasible forms of organisation, both individual and collective, to confront and combat this feeling of powerlessness and incapacity that often paralyses us, and which is often imposed by the media and the powers that be, who in the end are the ones who have the capital and dominate the discourse.
One of the fields where we see more potential for subversion and change is in the alternative and self-managed media, which on several recent occasions have uncovered cases of corruption or networks of police terrorism, as in the case of the Directa investigation into the infiltrated police in Spain, or the Correctiv investigation that uncovered the plans of the extreme right in Germany to deport millions of immigrants. This kind of truthful and non-manipulated information is of vital importance in these times of disinformation and hoaxes, which seek to destabilise and create an atmosphere conducive to militarisation, war and the further rise of fascism.
Related to this first topic we want to discuss and propose new ways to make the anti-fascist struggle more attractive to the general public, and in particular to young people. Often, due to the constant bombardment of the far right on the internet and in the media, the left movement is perceived as ‘radical’, “woke” or simply ‘unconcerned with the real problems of the working class’, when in fact left politics are the only politics that put the well-being of the people at the centre. How can we break out of these mental and discursive frameworks imposed by the right and move on to the attack, instead of having to fight very low-level dialectical battles, which only muddy the debate?
In the same vein, we would also like to consider ways of creating broader and more compact fronts within the left, despite differences on core issues, to confront a right that is ideologically seamless, at least in principle. Is it possible to address fundamental divisions (such as for example the Palestinian issue in Germany, or the rights of transgender people in Spain) without creating fissures that paralyse an entire movement? Obviously there can be no tolerance of intolerance, but there could be a debate on the whole grey scale in between.
As a group of migrants in Germany, we see with concern that the dominant discourse blames all the country's problems on immigration, going so far as to speak of ‘imported anti-Semitism’ and deporting people simply for participating in pro-Palestinian protests. The German state finds it much easier to ‘externalise’ anti-Semitism and attribute it to migrants than to acknowledge the growing number of neo-Nazis in all its institutions and law enforcement agencies. Even more worrying is the fact that large sections of the German left continue to buy into the state narrative without reflection, falling into mental oversimplifications in an attempt to avoid a historical guilt that has paralysed them for far too long now. This is why we would like to address ways of including migrant/non-CIS voices in left movements, traditionally dominated by white European men, to explore other ways of combating such harmful discourses.
Also from this migrant and historically more precarious perspective we would like to be able to discuss tactics and methods of direct action and self-management in these times of more austerity and cuts in culture in order to invest more in war. The radical and autonomous movements in Germany, and in Berlin in particular, have benefited from a certain permissiveness of the state (granting cheap rental contracts to the ‘Hausprojekte’, for example), which has paradoxically disconnected them from the neighbourhoods and made them be caught by surprise when the situation gets really serious.
We want to deal with all these issues openly and honestly, in an optimistic way and without blaming each other.
New Yorck im Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2A
10997 Berlin
Deutschland