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.
Gira por la Vida – Tour for life: The Zapatismo is coming to Europe!
Group to support and organise the Zapatistas' trip to Europe and their visit to Basel.
In summer 2021, a caravan of about 160 Zapatistas will come to Europe, including Switzerland. For that, we are organising ourselves!
We are people from different collectives, organisations, spaces, squats, with different perspectives, backgrounds and languages.
4058 basel
there will be danceworkshops in basel for the next 12 months. it is about creating spaces in which people can meet, inspire each other and move together. every first sunday of the month there will be a workshop about another form of movement or a discussion round. if not noted, the workshops are open to all gender. the workshops are based on donation.
please watch closely wether the workshops are with enrolment and until when you can enrole.
lasst uns tanzen!
wir öffnen einen raum, indem menschen ihre begeisterung und ihr können für das tanzen teilen. um an den workshops teilzunehmen, musst du keine tanzerfahrung mitbringen. wir bewegen uns zusammen in neue richtungen.
teilnehmer*innen bestimmen individuell was sie zahlen können und möchten. die kollekte geht an die workshopleitende person und den raum. wenn nicht vermerkt, sind die workshops offen für alle geschlechter und ohne anmeldung. die workshops sollen in einem möglichst achtsamen, inklusiven und diskriminierungsarmen raum stattfinden können. dafür sind wir alle mitverantwortlich.
We are a nomadic space for contemporary feminism. Our vision is to foster debate culture and make queer feminist literature amenable.
Different formats and media for reading and listening enable an experimental and performative access to literature with a focus on feminism, pop culture and critical theory.
Platform for mutual support of self-organized spaces and collectives in Basel
The self-organized collectives of Basel, Restaurant Hirscheneck, Eiscafé Acero, Carambolage, Capri-Bar, queerfeminist library Sp!t, SUR3*TU, UG-Kollektiv, Infoladen Magazin, Druckkollektiv Phoenix, Getränkekollektiv, Elsi und Brockenbude Glubos call for financial support to keep our self-created structures alive!
Collective action
Over many years the self-organized groups and venues in this city have built independent structures which are not oriented towards profit increase or prestige of the people who co-organize them, and they enable many to have an income and projects on an equal footing. Organizing as a collective allows us to challenge internal hierarchies again and again and to fill the opening spaces and possibilities with critical content. Helping neighbors and other support work is lived solidarity.
Stay collective
Many of you used and still use these different spaces, as guests or customers, as visitors or friends, to organize politically. Now it is about helping the collectives to get over a difficult time and to prevent these structures from breaking away. In order to support each other as spaces, we hereby start a common fund for collective preservation. Wherever there is an emergency, the collected donations will be used directly and according to the most urgent need and necessity to pay the bills. Together we can keep these places alive for all who use and run them!
Donate by money transfer to:
Solikonto: CH62 0900 0000 1548 5487 4
4057 Basel
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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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.
critical intervention against migration regimes
Fiasko against fiasko
In Switzerland, Europe and many places throughout the world, migrants are judged “unwelcome”. Arriving people are rejected, isolated, administered and locked away. Somebody who wants to fight against this, who is searching for reliable information, is confronted with an impenetrable jungle of laws, orders and official despotism. Medias publish mostly superficial articles, repor- ted always from the same presumptuous perspective. Structures and conditions should not be questioned – we place a totally different demand on this newspaper!
face it: more than informing and commenting
In this newspaper there will be place for critical and self-determined texts written by people who no longer want to go along with a migration regime that categorizes, oppresses and exploits. By people who have had enough of a society who grants privileges and excludes, who want to rise their voice – silently and cautious, aloud and angry. By people who want to choose freely with whom they want to live with and in which manner and where their life should happen. People who demand this for everybody – open and in solidarity.
deal with it: think along, exchange and intervene
The point of this newspaper is to enforce awareness and to come into action against any illegalisation, discrimination and exclusion. Contribute with your own texts to criticize fundamentally all the social, economic and political structures that back up the migration regime. Different kinds of contributions are welcome – apart from reports and articles there will be place for creati- ve inputs such as pictures, drawings, comics and poems. All the contributions come out in the original language and with an English translation.
go further: let’s use (the) fiasko
Teichgässlein 31 (via Claragraben)
4058 Basel
For is a not-for-profit exhibition space in Basel (CH) showing contemporary art. The focus lies on works addressing the audience to critically-imagine popular phenomena of our present. The exhibitions are accompanied by a magazine for cultural studies.
For is a not-for-profit exhibition space in Basel (CH) showing contemporary art. The focus lies on works addressing the audience to critically-imagine popular phenomena of our present. The exhibitions are accompanied by a magazine for cultural studies.
Opening hours: Samstags 11-17
4058 Basel
space for queerfeminist matters and practices – espace pour des matières et pratiques queer féministes
The Sp!t is a queerfeminist space, collaboration and platform for activism, art, learning, exchange, connection and life itself
Sp!t is a platform for various feminist matters and practices.
The feminist library is located here.
We are looking forward to meet more individuals, collectives, organizations, accomplices and friends.
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Sp!t est un espace queer-féministe, une collaboration et une plateforme pour l’activisme, l’art, l’apprentissage, l’échange, les connections et la vie elle-même.
Sp!t est une plateforme pour des questions et pratiques féministes diverses.
La bibliothèque féministe se trouve ici.
Nous nous réjouissons de rencontrer d’autres personnes, collectifs, organisations, complices et amiexs.