From hipsters to vegans to political graffiti, Boxhaganer Platz is the heart of Friedrichshain.
In Kreuzberg, I came upon the Refugio Center run by the local Protestant Church. Near the Refugio Center, activists have hung refugee-friendly banners. More refugee-friendly propaganda in Schillerkeiz. In Friedrichshain, Karl Marx holds up information regarding the Spanish exclave of Melilla, where African refugees have been detained.
A goat motif in the northern section of the city.
Near the Liebig Collective, I came upon activists protesting rent hikes. Across the street, a building was strewn with graffiti and political propaganda. In Friedrichshain, anarchist graffiti mixes with other odd motifs drawn from Marvel comics. More posters featuring comic book art.
Walking in Friedrichshain, I came upon Liebig Collective, an anarcho-feminist community. Strange motifs and politics mix near the Liebig Collective. There’s plenty of feminist messaging in the vicinity. Nearby, the visitor is struck by anti-fascist banners and posters.
In Kreuzberg, I came upon an anarchist library which had recently been raided by police. Nearby, I spotted another anarchist center in a nearby park. Anarchist colors of red and black, in Schillerkeiz, another neighborhood in the vicinity. Kreuberg and Friedrichshain are plastered with wall posters honoring Rojava, a Kurdish […]
Walking along Kreutziger Straße in the Berlin neighborhood of Friedrichshain, I was struck by an unusual building adorned with murals and political banners. The facade displays many motifs, for example a skull which looks like it belongs in the Mexican Day of the Dead. Another section of wall looks like […]
As if the 2016 U.S. presidential election wasn’t contentious enough, Mexico stands to be no less divisive and ridden by controversy. Current front runner for the July 1st presidential contest, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (often simply known by the acronym AMLO), is a longtime fixture of the outsider political left, […]
To what extent will the festering matter of Crimea inflame east-west tensions and further contribute to a “new Cold War”? Late last year, I was invited to the Yalta European Strategy meeting (or YES), an annual Kyiv gathering of policymakers, experts and others. Ever since Russia militarily occupied Crimea in […]
Recently, in the process of reading about the Trump-Russia affair, the U.S. public also learned a bit about the inner politics of Ukraine’s power elite. As part of the larger investigation into foreign money streaming to Trump and his associates in advance of the 2016 election, special counsel Robert Mueller […]
