Based on our own experiences as people being displaced in Basel, we deal with the "right to the city" both in terms of content and actively on the street. The "right to the city" group meets regularly, discusses, publishes and plans actions. We are open for interested people =)
Contact us!
Getting wind of "urban development"? It's the wrecking ball.
The history of the displacement in Basel is long and it continues. The wrecking ball is cutting deep aisles into our city, through which the cold wind of displacement is blowing.
Who wants that?
Try to explain to a child why it is fair that an investor who has never walked through a house, never lived there and never worked there can now decide that those who have invested a lot of time, attention and energy in this place must be removed:
Because the world is unjust?
Because it is capitalist?
Because we subordinate ourselves to the market?
No.
Our city is not for sale.
People in this City have the right to help shape the urban space, regardless of the origin or size of their wallet. We fight, together and for all.
Right to the city in Basel - from below!
4057 Basel
QuSol is a grassroots social center in the Matthäus district that brings people from different backgrounds together and provides space for political projects.
In our society, many people are affected by rising rents, job losses, poverty or police violence and are therefore struggling with psychological and material problems. In QuSol, we can come together as a neighborhood to get to know each other and build solidarity-based, emancipatory networks.
For example, the open café, regular free German courses or the "Lilith" meeting for women and genderqueer people take place here every second Friday. You can also come with your own ideas, we look forward to it!
Opening hours: Jeden zweiten Freitag 17-21 Uhr
4057 Basel
Our short description follows ;)
Our short description follows ;)
Collective Climate Justice (vormals Climate Games Basel) ist eine Gruppe von engagierten Menschen verschiedener Hintergründe. Aus unserer Sicht sind Regierungen und profitorientierte Unternehmen nicht gewillt und nicht fähig die Klimakatastrophe und die massenhafte Umweltzerstörung zu stoppen. Es ist deshalb notwendig und wichtig selbst aktiv zu werden und zu einer Bewegung beizutragen, welche bestimmt für globale Klimagerechtigkeit kämpft.
Im Rahmen unserer letzten Aktionstage im Sommer 2019 wurden mit dem Hauptsitz der Credit Suisse am Zürcher Paradeplatz und dem Hauptsitz der UBS in der Aeschenvorstadt in Basel zwei wichtige Standorte des Schweizer Finanzplatzes blockiert. Hunderte Menschen blockierten mit ihren Körpern die Zugänge zu den Hauptsitzen der beiden Grossbanken und zeigen, was sie wollen: den Investoren der Klimakatastrophe, namentlich Credit Suisse und UBS, den Geldhahn zudrehen! Credit Suisse und UBS sind die Hauptverantwortlichen des Schweizer Finanzplatzes für die weltweite Klimakatastrophe. Zwar wird hier kein Öl gefördert und keine Kohle verbrannt, aber von hier aus werden derartige Projekte finanziert und dadurch erst möglich gemacht.
Über neue Menschen die mit uns die Welt verändern wollen, freuen wir uns immer!
Kontakt via: info@climatejustice.ch
4057 Basel
Open meeting for women and genderqueer people
At Lilith, women and genderqueer people from very different parts of the world meet. We talk to each other about everyday and political issues that concern us. What we all have in common is that we know from our own experience what it means to be a woman or genderqueer person in a world characterized by social inequality and violence. We also see ourselves as part of a larger feminist movement, exchange ideas about feminist struggles in different countries and show solidarity with these struggles.
+41 61 331 06 36
4053 Basel
The OFFCUT material market is a place of inspiration and exchange platform for a proactive discussion of the topics of resource conservation and circular thinking. We provide action-oriented impulses for a process of social change, raise awareness of a more sustainable lifestyle and connect like-minded people.
Do you want to be a part of the OFFCUT movement?
We have big plans and there is a lot to do...
If you share our passion for materials, shapes, colours and textures, if would like to exchange ideas with like-minded people and you would like to follow up great visions and ideas with action, then get in touch with us.
As Benevol, you will be actively involved in the tasks and activities in the materials market. Depending on how much time you have, what you can do and what you like to do – there is always something to do with us: unpacking, sorting and putting away material donations, participating in events, offer workshops in our studio space and much more...
Opening hours: Mo - Fr 11-18 Uhr, Sa 10 -17 Uhr
The internet is not only about the sharing ideas and information. It's about decentralizing power. That's why nearly every government and corporation on the planet is against net neutrality. - And why we must fight for it!
Under the name of wolke7 we're providing a local, encrypted and independent cloud service for storing and sharing data with other people.
A tiny team of volunteers maintains ther servers, the website and everything besides that. We are interessed in managing data in a propper way and being a part of a complex challange for our society.
The project is based on open source software of nextcloud and runs on our own servers.
B-Seite is an agenda who aims to create an overview over the subersive everday life in Basel and its diverse, self-organized events and initiatives.
B-Seite
… is a calendar to provide an overview of the subversive everyday life in Basel, as well as the various self-organized events and self-administered initiatives.
… should empower the different anti-capitalist, DIY, ecological, emancipatory, queer*feminist, anti-racist, revolutionary, spontaneous, planned, … events.
… should make these events more accessible.
… is a tool to connect the various initiatives, whether on the digital platform or out there in the real world, for example with the monthly print version or mutual support.
… should continue the idea of the former, analogue B-Flyer (thanks for that<3).
4058 Basel
Carom…
...is a collectively self-organzied place since 2015
...is a bar with space for encounters, exchange and local pub
...is a venue for enjoying music, film, exhibitions and political debates
...has the desire for hierarchical and non-discriminatory spaces
…is enlivened by different people through mutual support and cooperation
4057 Basel
The magazine invites you to browse through rebellious stories, exchange ideas and discuss with each other
The space is a self-organised meeting place for anyone interested in anti-authoritarian ideas. And for anyone looking for access to knowledge and history that is critical of the existing social order.
We see the writing, distribution and reading of texts – be they theoretical essays, stories or experience reports – as an important part of resistance practice. Our selection of books and brochures includes historical and current content, but is by no means complete or conclusive. In this sense, we want to broaden our perspectives, strengthen analyses and make them accessible through texts and discussions.
In addition to the library service, brochures, zines and flyers are available to borrow and take with you. Or you can drop by for a chat with us. From time to time we organise information and discussion events, as well as readings and film evenings. We are always open to suggestions. You can also find material from us to write letters to prisoners. Our address can also be used for this purpose, and letters received can be collected during opening hours.
We see ourselves as part of the fight against gentrification and displacement in the neighbourhood. Together with the collectively run neighbourhood pub Capri Bar, which is right next door, we form a place beyond the obligation to consume and the logic of profit. We want to create physical moments of community to counter the increasing shift of social life into the isolation of digital space. Let’s fill the magazine with life together!
Opening hours: Montag 16-21h & Freitag 16-20h
4058 Basel
Housing Project and Neighborhood Center in the Rosental – part of the Mietshäuser Syndikat cooperative, former housing struggle.
Including green courtyard, concert room Schuppen, Bistro Fräulein Schranz, Schrumpel-vegetable-outlet, EPPA-herbs and alternative health, common ateliers and much more to explore.
Opening hours: variabel
Our schools! Our universities!
End Fossil Basel is getting things moving in our schools and at the University of Basel! Together we make the education system - our schools and the University of Basel fit for the future. Come to an event or contact us - Join us!
END FOSSIL: OCCUPY schools and universities!
Between September and December 2022, we occupied more than 50 schools and universities around the world to #EndFossil.
It is important that we organize ourselves as youth at work, at university, but also at our schools! For a social ecology and the end of the fossil industry, as well as its influence on society!
Our 3 principles:
1. youth led - The occupations are organized by young people. All are welcome to join!
2. climate justice - The political framework behind the occupations is that of climate justice. We want an end to the fossil fuel industry in order to achieve climate neutrality and global social justice. We want to achieve our goal through a global and socially just process.
3. occupy until we win - Our intention is to occupy (high-)schools in a wide variety of locations, disrupting public life until our demands are achieved.
We take our inspiration from countless historical examples, such as the 2006 Penguin Revolution in Chile, the 2016 Primavera Secundarista in Brazil, the global mobilization in and after 1986, and many others that have shown us that young people have the power to change society from the ground up. Our goal is nothing less: we start as students, but we want the whole society to take action for climate justice.
We are unstoppable - Another world is possible! We will not give up until the fossil era is over!
#MayWeOccupy
Telegram: https://t.me/endfossilunibasel
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endfossilbasel/