Stammtisch First Thursday – March 1, 2012 8 pm

This month we’ve 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 that has (finally) been in the news. The evening will be in English, so if you are just beginning to learn German, don’t worry.

Take the U6 or the U7 to U-Bahnhof Mehringdamm, or buses 119 or 140. Enjoy good conversation, vegetarian specialties made with fresh ingredients at reasonable prices and learn about the Piraten and ACTA!

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!

Protesting Guantánamo at the Brandenburg Gate

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.

Listen to Ann’s full speech below. More photos here.

2011 Annual Business Meeting and Brunch Dec.11

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.

Supporting Occupy at our Stammtisch Dec. 1, 2011

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

Granito at the One World Film Festival on Sun. Nov. 27- 8 pm

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…)

Special Discussion with Tom Hayden in CA on Tues. Nov.15

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…)

In support of Occupy Wall Street at the Brandenburger Gate

October 15, 2011. More photos here.

New York Occupy Wall Street Protests

AVA’s Jane Hartmann sends this photo from NYC on October 11, 2011

The worst kind of injustice Troy Davis Denied Clemency

Annette in Heidelberg, für das Netzwerk gegen die Todesstrafe, writes:Troy Davis: Gnadengesuch ABGELEHNT !!!! (more…)

Rebuild the American Dream

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…)

Independence Day Picnic

Democrats Abroad Berlin together with AVA-Berlin and Bridge Builders Berlin are having their Independence Day Picnic at Tempelhof Airfield Park on Sunday (more…)

AVA-Berlin joins Demo Against Nuclear Power

photo © karen axelrad
120,000 March in Berlin on March 26, 2011 against Nuclear Power Plants. More photos

Video of the Anti-Atom Demo in Berlin

video © karen axelrad

Video of the Rally supporting US Labor

video © karen axelrad

Demonstration in Support of U.S. Labor

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

Demonstrate in support of the public sector workers

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!

AVA-Berlin Supports Workers Rights in Wisconsin

SEE our Solidarity Statement in our FaceBook Discussion forum

Demo supporting democracy in Egypt

AVA-Berlin joined today in solidarity with the people of Egypt along with the Egyptian-German Network for Changing Egypt, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many other groups at the Brandenburg Gate. More photos. Short video of the Egypt demo

Event “Together for Egypt” Feb.5, 2011

Proposal for a GI café in Kaiserslautern

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.

Annual Brunch Business Meeting – Sun Dec 5, 2010

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/

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