Although we still hope to return to meeting at Seerose, there are still acoustic issues to be worked out there, and in the meantime, we are meeting at Café X-Zeit at Welserstr. 10-12. Our April meeting was there and the May Stammtisch will also be there.
On the first Thursday of the month, April 3, 8:00 pm, the regular AVA Stammtisch was held – temporarily – at a different venue: at Café X-Zeit at Welserstr. 10-12.
Special topic for the evening: the surveillance case of 1973 here in Berlin. Ann Wertheimer and several of the other plaintiffs presented the facts of the case. More photos here.
Die Seerose has moved, and we are moving with them, to
Körtestr. 38 directly at the U-Bahn Südstern. We will be in the side room, starting our usual First Thursday Stammtisch as usual at 8 p.m. this February 6. Come enjoy the new place as we move on into the new year.
AVA-Berlin had a successful annual business meeting at La Parilla. More photos here.
On Sunday, December 8, from 12:00 am to 3:00 pm, American Voices Abroad Berlin will again be holding its annual business meeting in the separate room at La Parrilla at Albrechtstr.11 right behind the Friedrichstrasse station. If you are coming from the S-Bahn, cross the Spree and Schiffbauerdamm and there it is. See www.la-parrilla.de for details. (more…)
The plaintiffs in this complicated case have been telling a simplified version of our story for the last 40 years. Now, as issues of surveillance are becoming more and more relevant, there’s all the more reason for us to get it exactly right. This report explains what happened.
This case study was written by Ann Wertheimer, a member of Americans in Berlin for Mc-Govern (later Concerned Americans in Berlin [CAIB] and then the Berlin Democratic Club), with many thanks to everyone who sent me their notes and told me their recollections, with special thanks to Douglas Hillmer, whose contemporaneous notes from 1973 provided the framework for this report. And once again, a big thank-you to our lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – Mark Lynch, John Shattuck, William Schaap and David Addlestone. We hope that our continuing donations to the ACLU reflect our gratitude. Here is the Case Study.
Gasland Part II screening September 10th at 7:30pm at Radial System. Josh Fox will be there to introduce the film and for a Q&A after.
In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).
Jon Oberg, who joined us at the July 4th Stammtisch, blogged about Celebrating our Freedoms on the Fourth of July.
On the occasion of President Obama’s Berlin speech on June 19, 2013, AVA-Berlin joined the Amnesty International Berlin-Brandenburg group in calling for a closure of the Guantánamo prison camp. More photos here.
The following is the text of Ann Wertheimer’s speech on behalf of American Voices Abroad Berlin at the Amnesty International tent in Berlin (June 19, 2013): (more…)
Pam Selwyn introducing guest speaker Andrea Althoff.
Thanks to Andrea Althoff for her stimulating presentation at our Stammtisch on the subject of “The Mayas, the New Religious Pluralism and Democratization in Guatemala”. There were lots of questions which she patiently answered and everyone left with a much better picture of the complicated situation in Guatemala. The following is an excerpt from her lecture: (more…)
The hot topic of drones was the focus of our Stammtisch on Thursday April 4th. Otfried Nassauer, a founder and director of the Berlin Information-Center for Transnational Security and long engaged in peace and security research, spoke to us on the subject of drones and thoughts for new international laws regulating them. More photos here.
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A good time was had by all as we celebrated our 10th Anniversary. Thanks to Pam for hosting and Eva for entertainment. More photos here
Inauguration Celebration organized by Democrats Abroad Germany-Berlin Chapter. Our chair, Ann Wertheimer, spoke for AVA-Berlin. Her Inauguration Speech was well received by all. Video of Ann’s speech. More photos here.
We elected new officers, discussed the past year and ideas for projects in 2013 as we ate a huge brunch, and stared at the snowstorm out the window . View the Annual Report 2012 (it is also above under Who We Are). More photos here.
David MacBryde — a Berlin-based correspondent for The Rag Blog – offered a progressive perspective on developments in Germany and the Eurozone to the Rag Radio audience on Friday, November 9 in Austin, Texas. Listen to the interview here.
Photo by Charlie Martin / KOOP.
Alan Benson who has worked tirelessly to register Americans to vote was quoted in a Reuter’s article which was also carried by the New York Times.
Photos of the event sponsored by IBUSA on October 16, 2012.
The chair of AVA-Berlin, Ann Wertheimer, spoke on January 11, 2012, the 10th anniversary of the opening of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. American Voices Abroad Berlin joined Amnesty International Berlin-Brandenburg to mark this 10th anniversary and to call for an end to indefinite detention and unfair trials.
At the Stammtisch on Jan 6, 2011, fifteen AVAers heard from Meike Schubert and Chris Capps-Schubert about their ambitious Proposal for a GI Cafe in Kaiserslautern.
