Eden Womensday 2021: "No matter how, we have to keep ourself strong" by The bridge radioVon The bridge radio

Waiting Across Privileges / exhibited in Kunsthal C in Stockholm 2022Von The bridge radio

Here you will listen to an excerpt of an interview with scholar and activist Vanessa Thompsen, where she talks about the concept of Intersectionality (Kimberly Crenshaw) and Intersectionality of Struggles (Angela Davis).Listen to the full program here: https://soundcloud.com/bridgeradio/intersectionality-of-struggles-with-vanessa-thompsonVanessa Th…

Recording of a discussion in The Bridge Radio during a dinner where the members reflect over the care that takes place within The Bridge Radio. In the conversation, the collective think about how their own care needs change over time and what happens when those involved in the collective age and require more care. The sound and installation exhibit…

Here you will listen to a speech by Siroos Azizi Zadeh the father of the family who forcefully by the Danish state was separated from his wife, when she and two of their children were attempted to be deported to Iran. The family is still separated and Ghadam detained in Ellebæk prison.About the demonstration on the 2nd of April:"On April 2nd 2022, …

18th of May 2021 The Syrian community in Denmark started af 14 days long sit-in protest in front of the Danish parliament. They are resisting and protesting the decision of sending Syrian refugees back to Damaskus and are advokating for a more human refugee agenda in Denmark. Listen to their demands and join them the weeks to come.…

“It is a shame for a democratic place like Denmark to have a place like this, with people like us - Who cannot live, but are not dead.”21st of October 2020 the families living in deportation center Avnstrup in Denmark invited activists and supporters to join the first protest against the endless rules in the deportation regime in Denmark. They are …

Deportation camps are systemic racism!In this program we speak to the spokeswoman of Black Lives Matter in Denmark, Bwalya Sørensen and our friends from Sjælsmark about the state racism in connection to asylum camps and deportation camps in Denmark and the daily experiences of racism from staff in the camps.…

In the agreement with the leftwing parties last summer, the new government in Denmark promised to get the children out of Sjælsmark. All families have during the summer holidays been moved to Center Avnstrup in the woods outside of Roskilde. Though the center has no fences or military exercises in the area - a new set of rules are applied for the a…

We can’t breath. In the aftermath of the brutal police killing of George Floyd by the american police we urge you to listen to your fellow beings in your community who is being subjected to racism! Listen and acknowledge their experiences instead of doubting it! Racism exits very much in Denmark and Europe. Especially in relation to the asylum syst…

In this program we talk about the effects when refugees and asyluum seekers are moved around endlessly between camps in Denmark. The families living in Sjælsmark are suppose to move to center Avnstrup after the summer. This means all single people living in Avnstrup are now being moved to Sjælsmark. In this program we invited two of the people who …

This speech was made during the demonstration by black lives matter Denmark in Copenhagen.Sunday the 7th of June 2020Von The bridge radio

This speech was made during the demonstration by black lives matter Denmark in Copenhagen. Sunday the 7th of June 2020Von The bridge radio

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing online programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis.In this edition we are hearing testimonies from women* living in asylum and detention camps in Germany and Denmark, sharing experiences, information, demands and possibilities of …

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing online programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis.In this edition we are hearing testimonies of what is going on in the detention camps Sjælsmark and Kærshovedgaard in Denmark and talking about the limitations and posiblities of …

"Our Movement Is Loud" is an experimental radioplay in 4 channels, and was made as part of the "Choreographies Of The Social" Exhibition in Stockholm in 2019.Our Movement Is Loud produced collectively by people with and without Danish citizenship. They are linked to each other through their experience of the asylum system in Denmark.The audio insta…

Speech by Baba - Mohamed Hirabe by The bridge radioVon The bridge radio

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing online programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis.This week we talked with our friends in Germany from the collective Lampedusa Hamborg and Seed of Solidarity from Berlin to compare the situtation of the Danish asylum and detenti…

A resident of the Danish detention center Kærshovedgaard in Jylland is explaining the situation during the coronavirus and calling for solidarity!Listen to his statement in Danish and support the fight to close these detention centers!Let us make this corona situation an opportunity to release all migrants from detention and grant them equal rights…

An english speaking ally of the working collective of street vendors in Barcelona explains the situation and the new ways of organizing work among street vendors in Barcelona during the corona crisis.Von The bridge radio

The Bridge Radio is collecting testimonies, conducting interviews and producing programs with our friends and allies in the rest of Europe during the corona crisis. This week we talked with undocumented migrants living in Amsterdam and the organization City Rights Amsterdam about the issues of living in the city as an undocumented migrant during th…

“I WOULD STAY HOME IF I HAD ONE”Migrants living in the streets of Amsterdam are asking for proper housing to keep safe from the corona-virus outbreak.“We are sleeping 90 people together in the evening in a winter shelter, but in the morning we are kicked out. We dont have anywhere to go, we have no money even to buy things to protect ourselves from…

'Let's United an fight this Corona Virus' - this is a message from an inhabitant in the Deporation Camp Sjælsmark in Denmark. We hear about the conditions in the camp - lack of access to hygiene articles and lack of possibility of taking safety measures.'You rejected us. You have closed my border. You shattered away my life. You put me in jail.' - …

On this international womens day we celebrate and discuss the issues of migrating women, trans and queer people and their fight for basic rights and freedom in camps and in their everyday life.Listen and learn about the daily fights of women in the asylum system and how they celebrate womens day.Von The bridge radio

Now with the coronavirus many people across Europe and beyond are placed in isolation. However for many people this is an everyday reality. People in the asylum camp and migrant detentions centers, have been stuck for many years without neither the freedom to move nor to stay.The Bridge Radio are collect statements, experiences and demands from dif…

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Saturday the 30th of November activists from the four Danish deportation camps came together with activists with Danish citizenship in Copenhagen to demand that the new government close all the deportation camps in Denmark and stop imprisonment of refugees. The Danish centers Avnstrup, Sjælsmark, Ellebæk, and Kærshovedgaard are all in fact pressuri…

The Bridge Radio is now a part of the 2nd floor in Folkets Hus, Nørrebro together with 25 groups practicing activism and resistance against racial structures, patriarchy and capitalism.In this program we are sending live from the opening of the space that took place Friday the 15th of november 2019. Listen to some of the groups that are part of org…

Reporters from The Bridge Radio went to Departure Center Avnstrup to talk we people staying there about the current conditions and the relation between the Deportation Camps in Denmark to better understand the functions of the Danish Deportation Regime.Center Avnstrup is placed in the building of a former hospital 20 km from Roskilde and has been r…

Center Sandvad is an asylum camp north of Vejle in Jylland, where families with children seeking asylum live. The Bridge Radio visited friends in the Sandvad camp in July and did this short reportage. Hear Eden who lives in the camp show us around and explain about life in the camp, and hear interviews with other people living there.…

"Det er fuldstændig forkert at de har sagt at folk vil gerne blive i Sjælsmark" (...) "If we stay in Sjælsmark we feel that every second we are in jail" (...) "Jeg tror de har sagt det, fordi de har et job her og får gode penge."- The residents of deportation center Sjælsmark answer back!This wednesday an employee of Sjælsmark from Kriminalforsorge…

In conversation with Nicholas De Genova - about the border spectacle by The bridge radioVon The bridge radio

Institutional Racism & Racist Bias in Media - with Bwalya Sørensen, Black Lives Matter DK by The bridge radioVon The bridge radio

We as a black communities in the west and beyond, have very often expressed our violent experience with the western powers over it's violent policies, social exclusions and state racism towards black or brown minorities, indigenous people and the current refugees/ migrants in Europe.On this program we will be talking to Tom, who is a member of the …

In this second edition of Bridge Radio serie Knowledge is Not White, we spoke with Tara and Ahmed about their experience in the educational system and the exclusion of their knowledge.This program was broadcasted live the 1st of March 2019.Von The bridge radio

In this program, we will focus on the production of knowledge and question the hierarchies of who can produce recognizable knowledge in our society and whose knowledge are acknowledged?You will hear a converstation with rapper and activist Melz (London), activist Camilo (Hamburg) about decolonising of knowledge and finally you will hear an intervie…

Demonstration in front of UN in Copenhagen, December 18. 2018.Von The bridge radio

Demonstration in front of Danish Immigration Service, Copenhagen. November 27. 2018Von The bridge radio

This is an interview with We Are Here (Wij Zijn Hier - Amsterdam), made during the We'll Come United Parade the 29th of September 2018. In the interview we talk about their many years of self-organised struggle and organisation.Follow them through:https://www.facebook.com/WijZijnHier/?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser…

This project took place in Brazil in August 2018. This program was finalised in December 2018.Von The bridge radio

#1 Demonstration: Support the children in Sjælsmark at Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads in Copenhagen. The first demonstration in a series of demonstrations where people living in Sjælsmark Deportation Camp are mobilised to protest against the inhumane asylum system they are forced to live in.Von The bridge radio

Tuesday 20th of November people from Sjælsmark are going to protest at the danish parliament. For the rights of children, for the rights to a life outside of the deportation camp. They invite you to stand with them.Von The bridge radio

These last days, residents of Sjælsmark deportation camp have boycotted school, kindergarten, the cafeteria and meldepligt. Here you can hear why. Sjælsmark is an old military building turned into deportation camp for rejected asylum seekers in the beginning of 2015. The camp is part of the government's "motivational measures", which intend to moti…

This is in an interview with Salah and Abimbola from the Silent University in Hamburg, made during the We'll Come United Parade the 29th of September 2018. In the interview we talk about their project and politics of knowledge.Von The bridge radio

In June, the Bridge Radio had the chance to talk to David Otieno from Kenyan Peasants League and Mateus Costa Santos from La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa about the struggle for food sovereigntyVon The bridge radio

What you are about to hear is an interview with activists Napoli and La Toya who is part of the migrant struggle in Hamburg and Berlin, recorded during the 'Let Fear Go Tour' during their visits in Aalborg, Denmark. The Bridge Radio has asked the two activist about the position of migrant women in the migrant struggle - both about being in the asyl…

In this program, we will be talking about deportation and detention, specifically around two deportation camps in Denmark called Kæsrhovedgård and Sjælsmark.We are very happy to bring an interview with Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan, were we will talk about post-colonial critic of the human rights, selective memory politics, the right to have rights and t…

In this 3. program about the externalisation of EU border policies, we will be bringing you an interview with research at Stop Wapenhandel, Mark Akkerman. We will talk about the companies who profit from the policy of externalisation, how some achieve double-gain of the so-called refugee crises and come to establish themselves as counciling experts…

This is an interview with Bino an activist and radio producers from We are Born Free Empowerment Radio based in Berlin. He has been part of a long protest of migrants and refugees in Germany, starting with a 600 km protest march from different camps to Berlin and a tent occupation in Orianienplatz, Berlin. One key demand of the struggle was to abol…

In this program you will hear an interview with Martin Lemberg-Pedersen assistant professor at Aalborg University in Copenhagen about the EU politics of externalisation of borders, it's post-colonial connections and who profits.We will bring an interview with activist and critical journalist Ibrahim Diallo from Air Info and Saraha FM in Agadez, Nig…