Critical Mass is a monthly mass bicycle ride that takes place on the last Friday of each month in cities around the world. It was started here in San Francisco in 1992 by cyclists and activists who wanted to increase the visibility of bicyclists and reclaim public space by making social use of the streets on a regular basis.
Die erste Critical Mass hat sich in San Fransisco im Jahr 1992 gebildet. Die Idee hat sich schnell auf der ganzen Welt verbreitet. Heute gibt es in über 300 Städten weltweit eine monatliche Critical Mass.
Die Critical Mass hat keinen Organisator. Wenn am vereinbarten Treffpunkt die kritische Masse erreicht ist, fährt die Masse los. Es ist keine Route vorbestimmt. Wer zuvorderst fährt, bestimmt die Richtung.
Wer sich mit seinem Fahrrad in den Verkehr begibt, setzt sich täglich grossen Gefahren aus und wird als minderwärtiger Verkehrsteilnehmer marginalisiert. Finden sich jedoch hunderte von Velofahrer*innen, um gemeinsam eine Rundfahrt zu machen, so können sie dem motorisierten Verkehr auf Augenhöhe begegnen.
Die Critical Mass blockiert die Strasse nicht absichtlich. Durch die hohe Anzahl Teilnehmer*innen entsteht kurzfristig ein Stau. Im Gegensatz zum motorisierten Verkehr, der tagtäglich unsere Strassen versperrt, handelt es sich hierbei um einen Stau ohne jegliche Umweltverschmutzung. Zudem erlaubt dieser Stau eine soziale Interaktion zwischen den Verkehrsteilnehmer*innen, da sie sich nicht durch eine Karosserie isoliert sind.
Wo die Critical Mass auftaucht, erfahren die Autofahrenden, was den Velofahrenden täglich widerfährt: Das Auto wird zum machtlosen Gefährt, das sich den anderen Verkehrsteilnehmer*innen (hier Velos) unterordnen muss.
Während der Critical Mass wird der öffentliche Raum vorübergehend zurückerobert und wird zum Ort des sozialen Austauschs. Dadurch wird der Gesellschaft gezeigt, dass es sinnvollere Verkehrsmöglichkeiten gibt als den motorisierten Individualverkehr.
Die Critical Mass ist eine friedliche Veranstaltung.
Culture for everyone. A literary Telegram channel for reading and writing.
On this channel we create texts for a time, when certainties are not so certain anymore. Texts for a time, when occurrences are commented in the second they occur and become almost transparent in the process. Texts for a time that slips away from us. Texts like time fragments, that flicker up, are read and forgotten. Secret texts.
Texts about disappearance and the art of disappearing. About disappearance, which is an art, and art which disappears, when we do not see it. Texts for reflection.
What is going to disappear? What remains?
You have to say something about disappearance and want to contribute to this channel? Send a short poem or a short prose text to: kunstdesverschwindens@gmail.com
Please indicate whether your text is supposed to be posted anonymously or under your name.
This is a German channel. Texts in other languages can be posted with a German translation. We are happy to proofread the translations and we can help translating English or Spanish texts.
Texts that correspond to the concept of this channel will be posted.
All rights remain with the authors.
4058 Basel
The self-organized herbal pharmacy EPPA wants to create a place where people can share health-specific knowledge and find herbal medicine.
EPPA offers an alternative for all those who, like us, would like to become less dependent on conventional medicine and the pharmaceutical companies. In dealing with health, we want to give each other the tools to take care of ourselves.
Concretely, there is this space to share knowledge on medicinal plants and medical topics, to get advice and to pick up tea herbs, tinctures or ointments.
Opening hours: jeden ersten Samstag im Monat (14-17:00)
Messenger Event Organisation Basel
Once in the 90's a few messengers sat together and decided to start an organisation, that supports messenger events. At the beginning the focus was on alleycats, later also messenger championships and bike polo turnaments were organised. Some evenings and Pfefferracketen later, the statutes were created and adapted with the elaborate process of "copy-paste". MEO was born.
You search for financial support for your alleycat or for insider contacts? Or you want to get involved in the messenger scene of Basel? Reach out to MEO – or just the next messenger you know
079 631 90 32
4057 Basel
We are an internet café that offers many services free of charge for people in need. Especially the internet access. Writing support, printing, scanning, German courses, English courses and computer courses are also available. As well as events. For everyone! Migrants and Swiss.
Low-threshold, solidarity, help for self-help.
Form of our Internet café: self-administration.
All work without voluntary work. Education, which we hush ourselves out, is important to us. Above all, access to education for all.
Opening hours: Dienstag, Mittwoch (Frauentag), Freitag jeweils 10.00-18.00 Uhr und Samstag/Sonntag jeweils von 14.00-17.00 Uhr.
078 209 61 75
4056 Basel
EVERY MONDAY
...we produce handmade, fresh pasta and
serve you from 12 o'clock a
lunch menu at St.Johann.
Come by and eat with us!
WHERE
12 - 14.00
Fatiostrasse 23
4056 Basel
EVERY MONDAY
...we produce handmade,
fresh pasta and serve you
from 12 o'clock a lunch menu
at St.Johann.
Come by and eat with us!
WHERE
12 - 14.00
Fatiostrasse 23
4056 Basel
REGISTRATION
Please register until 11.00
register via jobhack@immerda.ch
or by SMS to 078 209 61 75,
so that we have enough food.
Spontaneous visits also
welcome!
The Pasta Day is organized by Job-Hack,
an independent group of unemployed and
people affected by poverty. The group is supported
by the Contact Point for the Unemployed in Basel.
LUNCH MENU
Appetizer: Colorful salad
Main course: Fresh pasta and delicious sauces
Dessert: Small surprise
+ Espresso
Collection
Opening hours: MO, 12-14 Uhr
0616819291
4057 Basel
We advise you on legal issues in the areas of work, unemployment and social security.
We support you in your company if you want to defend yourself against unfair conditions, for example
We are committed to improving working and living conditions
We defend the interests of wage earners
We are clearly partisan, because we always side with the wage earners!
The IGA is the trade union for precarious workers, those who work temporarily, on an interim basis, on call and in several part-time jobs at the same time. The job seekers, those who have been excluded, those with reduced pensions, those who are on the subsistence level, the self-employed, bogus self-employed, undocumented workers - and of course all those who still have a permanent job.
Opening hours: Mo, Di und Do 14-17 Beratung
R.A.B. - revolutionary antipatriarchal alliance basel
R.A.B. is an alliance of anti-patriarchal forces of the extra-parliamentary left in Basel. Our focus is on the 25th of November which is the international day against violence towards women and genderqueer people as well as the 8th of march¹.
Every day we experience being suppressed by the patriarchy. In a capitalist system, patriarchal structures lead to the exploitation of women and genderqueer people.
We don't want more gender diversity in the head positions, we want do abolish capitalist systems. Part of that is to overcome gender specific work segmentation, specifically reproduction and care work. We want to overcome the binary gender roles of “men” and “women”. The liberation from patriarchy must go hand in hand with the liberation from imperialism.
In R.A.B. we summon our anger towards daily sexism and transphobia, towards the daily violence that far too often even leads to femicide and murder of trans people. Let us use our differences as strength. Together against the patriarchy!
R.A.B. - revolutionary antipatriarchal alliance basel
¹ historically: historical: international women's struggle day
4056 Basel
where is the spice of utopia?
here we go on a search sometimes. just join!
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Welcome to RADIOPOLIS.CH
Radiopolis is a neighbourhood radio with a range as borderless as possible.
The program is only limited by the radio format.
From live sets, conversations and other ideas everything is possible.
We want to offer as many people as possible a platform and thus promote cultural and thematic networking.
We advocate a solidarity-based and non-profit-oriented opinion.
We firmly reject all forms of discrimination, racism, sexism and homophobia.
We are pleased about all inputs and willingness to participate.
Do you have an idea or contributions which you think would fit into our program?
Get in touch with us and we will get back to you.
Yours
RADIOPOLIS
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Live chat and current information:
Telegram live chat: t.me/radiopolis
Instagram: @faksepolis
4057 Basel
The OFF is collective and self-organized, occupied and participative.
Let's drink cool drinks together, discuss, organize exciting events, play concerts, organize karaoke evenings, invent pub quizzes, sometimes smoke, sometimes eat together and just chill out without the pressure to consume.
You can find the monthly program on our Telegram channel or as a print version.
The OFF is only accessible via 3 steps.
The toilet is not wheelchair accessible.
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).