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.
Climate Justice Basel
Call for climate justice in Basel and worldwide!
The electorate approved the Basel2030 climate justice initiative with 56.7%. In the run-off question, the counter-proposal was accepted with a majority of 61.9%. With this result, climate justice, the polluter pays principle and "1.5°C" are written into the constitution as a guideline for state action! The desire of the people of Basel for consistent climate targets is great. Now it is about the implementation.
Measures for climate justice
We demand that emissions be reduced particularly quickly over the next 5 years. The population should be involved in the process and those who are particularly affected should receive additional support. It is important to move forward in many different areas, e.g. to immediately stop climate-damaging projects such as the Rhine tunnel, to promote innovative start-ups or to introduce further training for teachers to support them in communicating the climate crisis in the classroom.
We demand all this and much more. In the "Necessary Measures for Climate Justice and Net Zero by 2037" we have thought about what the implementation of the initiative requires. We have handed over the list of measures to the government and look forward to continuing to implement the initiative in the future. There is a lot to do.
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🗒 Klimaznacht + Input/Diskussion Pensionskassen am Do, 2. April
📅 02. April 18:01, LoLa, Lothringerstrasse 63, 4056 Basel
SUSU – regularly invites to drink and draw
Once a month we get together to draw or be creative otherwise and to have a drink. About place and time we inform on a telegram-channel, instagram and b-Seite. Bring friends, pens and drinks.
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Elsi is a squated house at Elsässerstr. 128-132, in Basel 4056. Elsi is an autonom, selfcreated place, where livingareas exist and projects and events can take place .
Elsi is a squated house at Elsässerstr. 128-132, in Basel 4056. Elsi is an autonom, selfcreated place, where livingareas exist and projects and events can take place .
Against total administrative control in asylum camps! More autonomy to migrated people!
The Velotour d'Horizon arrives in Basel on Friday, 17.7. Let's welcome the autonomously organised cyclists and have a good time together.
On 19 July, anyone who feels like it an cycle with us to Delémont.
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We are a bunch of different people who want to live in wagons.
We are also up to to share our everyday life with many others, build things together, make fires or go swimming in the Rhein.
We have little desire to pay rent, to look only at the next house wall or to adhere to building regulations.
You will find us in the harbour
UFO MINK meets every month in Basel. The main goal of the group is to support people who accompany others in crises and to reflect and work out collective ways of dealing with crises. We always take the time to exchange information about our condition in general and especially about our own support structures and situations.
UFO MINK emerged from the workshop series "Good for nothing" in Basel in autumn 2018. The series revolved around depressive experiences in resistant everyday life and tried to develop a collective approach to individual crises. Following this series of events, this group was founded to support support supporters and to promote collective approaches to dealing with crises. UFO MINK meets every month in Basel. The main purpose of the group is to support people who accompany others in crises and to reflect on and develop collective ways of dealing with crises. We always take the time to exchange information about our condition in general and our own support structures and situations in particular.
The first project of UFO MINK was the brochure "Für Unterstützende von Menschen in Krisen", which was published in December 2019 and can be found under the following link
https://brrkd.info/article/3101
You are very welcome to contact us or come and join us. You can reach us via:
ufomink@immerda.ch
We like to get mails encrypted, but unencrypted is also possible. Our PGP key is available at https://keys.immerda.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8D5A0FC6E76B7140
P.S.
We use underlines to include all people, regardless of gender identity, in the language. In addition, we use the apostrophe to indicate that the category woman or man is socially constructed. Since a reader reads the apostrophe as a short pause, we prefer this instead of the star.
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Right to the City for All – in Basel and everywhere.
Der Verein Stadt für Alle setzt sich für eine sozialverträgliche, bezahlbare und ökologische Stadt ein, die frei von Renditezwängen und Ausgrenzung belebt wird. Wir dokumentieren städtische Prozesse, insbesondere auf dem Wohnungs-, Immobilien- und Bodenmarkt Basels. Wir intervenieren in die öffentlichen Diskussionen um Stadtentwicklung und Wohnpolitik. Und wir unterstützen Hausgruppen, Quartiervereine oder Mieter:innen.
The "Summe" is an association of Basel's art and project spaces. The aim is to promote exchange between artists, projects and space operators, and to make them visible.
The ∑ SUMME is reinventing itself and will offer a portal for the visibility, networking and strengthening of the Basel art scene with a brand new website from autumn 2023. The ∑ SUMME will be (even) more than the well-known biennial events: it will be agenda, info portal, archive and exhibition space.
The "Summe" is an association of Basel's art and project spaces. The aim is to promote exchange between artists, projects and space operators, and to make them visible.
The ∑ SUMME is reinventing itself and will offer a portal for the visibility, networking and strengthening of the Basel art scene with a brand new website from autumn 2023. The ∑ SUMME will be (even) more than the well-known biennial events: it will be agenda, info portal, archive and exhibition space.
The ∑ SUMME was founded in 2015 by the artist-curator collective Dr. Kuckus Labrador and in December 2015, for the first time, the group exhibition ∑ SUMME was organised with over 20 project spaces in Basel. For this, the project spaces joined forces for the first time for a larger action, which brought increased attention and provided an opportunity for the various initiatives and projects to exchange information about their activities and goals. Since 2019, the ∑ SUMME has been organised as an association.
Group of neighbours fighting gentrification and for a good live for all.
After five years of housing struggle, the Steinengraben had to make way for a luxury project of the owner Helvetia-Versicherung. It is now enhancing the former city oasis in a prime location with expensive offices and loft apartments A luxury building project of the owner Helvetia-Versicherung is now disfiguring the former city oasis in a prime location with expensive offices and loft apartments.
We the community of Steinengraben are now scattered to the four winds. Steinengraben is gone but not everything that has grown between us could be destroyed with the demolition..
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Information and networking platform for social and ecological transition in the Basel region.
BaselWandel is an open platform for socially and ecologically committed and interested people in the Basel region. We offer a stage and a ground on which your project can grow by networking with other committed people and informing the public.
Through our networking platform we enable interested parties to meet different projects, bring committed people from different areas closer together and promote the development of a strong and diverse community from many individual initiatives.
As an information platform, we create an overview of all organisations and projects that are committed to social and ecological transition in the Basel region.
BaselWandel is organised as an association and sees itself as an open structure, which enables people and organisations to become involved as individual or collective members and to implement networking projects.
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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.