Our first Thursday of the month Stammtisch is in the Seerose (Mehringdamm 47) in Kreuzberg. Take the U6 or the U7 to U-Bahnhof Mehringdamm, or buses 119 or 140.
So meet us at the Seerose starting around 8 p.m. in the pleasant and quiet back room for good conversation and for vegetarian specialties made with fresh ingredients at reasonable prices. See www.seerose-berlin.de for details. Come hungry!
We screened “When the Mountains Tremble,” Pamela Yates’ 1984 documentary depicting the involvement of the US military in Guatemala in the 1980s. The Guatemalan conflict, which began in 1960, six years after an American-organized coup toppled an elected president, lasted 36 years, with an estimated 200,000 people killed, more than 90 percent of them by government forces. Yates uses spot footage, interviews, video transmission, and re-enactment to show the war, and she focuses especially on the narrative of Rigoberta Menchú, the somewhat controversial Mayan-rights and peace advocate who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. (more…)
Our first Thursday of the month Stammtisch is in the Seerose (Mehringdamm 47) in Kreuzberg. Take the U6 or the U7 to U-Bahnhof Mehringdamm, or buses 119 or 140.
So meet us at the Seerose starting around 8 p.m. in the pleasant and quiet back room for good conversation and for vegetarian specialties made with fresh ingredients at reasonable prices. See www.seerose-berlin.de for details. Come hungry!
This month we invited Fabio Reinhardt, MdA, from the Berlin Piraten Partei, to tell us about the Piraten generally and also about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Many thanks to Fabio for an informative and engaging evening and for his patience in answering many questions. More photos here.
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.
On Sunday, Dec.11, 2011 we met for our annual business meeting at La Parilla. The Annual Report from the Chair 2011 is posted. More photos here. Please follow us on twitter.
AVA-Berlin demonstrating solidarity with Move-On and its “99% Congressional Speak- Out” on December 1st at the local offices of U.S. representatives & senators! Even though we don’t have our own member in Congress, we can speak out in solidarity with the Occupy Movement from here. More photos here. Enlargement here
For the 3rd year, AVA-Berlin sponsored a film at the ONE WORLD BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL: GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR (USA 2010), directed by Pamela Yates at ARSENAL Kino followed by a Q and A moderated by Anjana Shrivastava of AVA- Berlin (left) with Director Pamela Yates (middle) and Producer Paco De Onis (right).
AVA’s Carolyn Prescott exhibited in the Arsenal lobby a series of 14 paintings on American-sponsored regime change, including one that featured Guatemala. These small, narrative paintings make use of the traditional genre of Latin American retablos “to envision and make concrete historical events that seem distant and abstract.”
More photos here. GRANITO deals with the Guatemalen massacres of the 1980s. (more…)
An experiment using the internet for a discussion with Tom Hayden — to exchange information and insights on what is happening in the USA. Bring American friends, and (more…)
October 15, 2011. More photos here.
AVA’s Jane Hartmann sends this photo from NYC on October 11, 2011
Annette in Heidelberg, für das Netzwerk gegen die Todesstrafe, writes:Troy Davis: Gnadengesuch ABGELEHNT !!!! (more…)
The Executive Committee of American Voices Abroad Berlin has unanimously decided to support Rebuild the American Dream: If you would personally like to sign the Contract, please sign on individually at http://contract.rebuildthedream.com/. (more…)
Democrats Abroad Berlin together with AVA-Berlin and Bridge Builders Berlin are having their Independence Day Picnic at Tempelhof Airfield Park on Sunday (more…)
photo © karen axelrad
120,000 March in Berlin on March 26, 2011 against Nuclear Power Plants. More photos
video © karen axelrad
video © karen axelrad
photo © karen axelrad
AVA-Berlin with the Democrats Abroad Berlin and friends in front of the Brandenburg Gate as we show our solidarity with the protesters in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere in the U.S. Between 40-50 people were there. More photos here
Join AVA-Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate at 3 pm on Sat. March 12, and afterwords in the café of the Akademie der Künste (Pariser Platz 4) to support the public sector workers and discuss future actions. Protect and ensure a real democratic vision of America!
photo © florian schiedhelm. Click here for more photos
SEE our Solidarity Statement in our FaceBook Discussion forum
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.
On Sunday, December 5, 2010 we had our annual Brunch at La Parrilla.
The rest of the photos are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenaxe/sets/72157625534242034/
