Screenings from the Bronx to the Bay Area and AZ border! (Newsletter)
- From Here Team
- Apr 12, 2023
- 2 min read
Dear friends,
Spring is in the air, and we are busy!
The FROM HERE U.S. team is creating meaningful discussions on global migration and belonging from the key swing state of ARIZONA to the BRONX and the BAY AREA. Please join us if you are in the region and help us spread the word!
Also, we are honored to have launched a campaign – "Pass(t) Uns Allen" (Citizenship Suits Us) – challenging unjust citizenship laws in Germany. So far, it counts the co-sponsorship of more than 50 civil and non-government organizations and the signatures of hundred academics and social change stakeholders. Sign on a share with your German contacts!
More on both below!
CITIZENSHIP, NATURALIZATION AND VOTING RIGHTS
IMPACT CAMPAIGN
IN GERMANY
In 2020, when FROM HERE first premiered at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, our protagonist Miman Jasarovski felt motivated to take new action by seeing his own story on screen. He contacted activists of With Wings and Roots about challenging Germany’s unjust citizenship law. Together we approached racial justice and immigrant community organizations nationwide, such as the Turkish Federation Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB), the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD), the Migration Council Berlin (Migrationsrat), Inirromnja/RomaniPhen and others, to discuss what an inclusive and just citizenship law in Germany could look like.
We launched the campaign and a petition on Innn.it at the end of last year and published an open letter at the beginning of this year, which has been signed by almost 100 academics, civil society organizations, writers and activists.
Our demands are:
1) All people who are or born in Germany receive citizenship, regardless of their parents' residency status.
2) Abolition of all naturalization barriers and that all people who have lived in Germany for three years, even with interruptions, get a legal right to naturalization.
3) The legalization of multiple citizenships, including those from non-EU countries.
The goal is to establish a wide movement for fairer citizenship and naturalization laws in Germany and push for the draft of a law which will be discussed in the Parliament. To achieve this, we are doing active networking with civil society organizations, an online petition, film screenings with subsequent discussion rounds, nationwide events, political lobbying and more.
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