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Media library with inspiring approaches

Here you will find local and inspiring approaches from the anti-racist work of all 13 supporting organizations of the weact project and allied civil society actors. The mentioned approaches are based on 8 categories, which act as focal points of the work within the counselling services. The following categories are particularly emphasized in the weact project: Health, Culture & Media, Housing, Education, Labor, Social Affairs, Racial Profiling.

What Would You Do? Bike Theft

Learning Videos, Structural racism

A social experiment is conducted to observe how people in public react to an alleged crime. Three different people attempt to break into a bicycle in a busy place – a white teenager, a black teenager and a young white woman. The aim of the experiment is to find out whether and to what extent […]

Integration media service

Media

Here you will find facts, figures and data on the following topics Flight and asylum, migration and integration Click here for the website

Stealing bikes in Holland – Learning video

Learning Videos, Structural racism

This social experiment was conducted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2014. Three young man that dress the same, have the same height and are of the same age, try to steal a bike. All men have been ‘stealing’ the bike for 30 minutes. They all used the same utensils (hammer, saw, plyers) for the same […]

Housing instead of accommodation

Living

Wohnen Statt Unterbringen – Reloaded is a cooperation project between the organisations Tür an Tür e. V. and ZAM e. V. At the centre of the project is the idea that all people should have access to suitable and affordable housing, regardless of their origin, legal status or economic situation.

Visualising racism against Sinti and Roma

Structural racism

The director of the Sinti Union Schleswig-Holstein e.V., Sinteza Kelly Laubinger, was rejected as a new member by a fitness centre because she belongs to a minority group. When Laubinger learned that this had happened to other Sinti at the same gym, the Sinti Union Schleswig-Holstein decided to make the racist incident public.

Book project against racism

Education

How should we deal with books that use the racist term for Sinti and Roma without reflection or reproduce racist clichés?

Brush to self-empowerment

Culture

In September 2023, the Sinti Union Schleswig-Holstein launched the art project “Mit dem Pinsel zur Selbstermächtigung”.

Festival of Collected Dreams

Culture

Hannover’s first (post-)migrant literature festival took place from 8 to 10 September 2023.