Between 1992 and 2025, 83 individuals were killed in interactions with the police in Switzerland, averaging just below three deaths per year. Between May and August 2025, Michael, Camila and Marvin were killed following Lausanne police brutal interventions. Riots, peaceful demonstrations and commemorations followed their deaths. One day after Marvin’s death, racist, transphobic, antisemitic, sexist Whatsapp communications from Lausanne police were released in the press. On that day, the counter investigation reporting on the killing of Roger Nzoy in 2021 in Morges demonstrated that police impunity relied on racist assumptions. Justice For Michael collective will come to share about killings that took place in Lausanne since 2016. The cases will be summarized to give a short historical overview and demonstrate the longevity and extend of systemic racism in Lausanne police. The collective will also share about organizing against police brutality. We invite everyone interested in the topic as well as anyone interested in sharing experiences about organizing against police brutality.

Thai boxing, known as Muay Thai, is a traditional martial art from Thailand that uses all eight weapons: punches, kicks, elbows, and knees. Thai boxing allows us to feel our own strength, burn off energy, release negative feelings, and have a lot of fun together. The workshop will cover the basics and give participants the opportunity to try them out together. We will do a short warm-up, followed by playful practice of the first techniques. Please wear comfortable (sports) clothing that allows you to move freely. If you have bandages, boxing gloves, or shin guards, please bring them with you. You don’t need any basic knowledge or anything else to participate. Everyone is welcome, and we want to create a space together where everyone feels comfortable and can recognize and respect their needs and limits. A maximum of 16 people can participate.

Please sign up via Signal-Messenger by Friday morning before the workshop at @banilla.25 (User name) for the workshop so that it can be planned.

The US has the highest number of prisoners worldwide. Who is affected by this and what impact does it have on the prisoners‘ environment? These questions will be addressed and supplemented with personal experiences.

Support for LGBTQAI+ people in Morocco and the MENA region*

We are a resistance network of queer and LGBTQAI+ voices from Morocco and other arab/ islamic countries. Many of us have experienced imprisonment, violence, or oppression because of our sexual orientation or gender identity. Through our solidarity work, we aim to provide emergency support and shelter to LGBTQAI+ people who are in danger. We support those fleeing persecution in their asylum processes, document attacks and human rights violations against LGBTQAI+ people and build solidarity networks across North Africa and the Middle East. Since 2020, QAS has helped twenty queer people escape life-threatening conditions in North Africa and the Middle East and find refuge in safer countries. Many more remain in acute danger. We focus on life-saving interventions.

We talk about our solidarity, experiences, and difficulties -especially during the COVID-19 pandemic- which we have been experiencing since 2020.

*(MENA = Middle East and North Africa)

We will give a 3 hours workshop to work together on individual stress, collective panic and lack of solidarity in the street. We prepared different exercises that involve the body (not sport properly but movement anyway) for which you can come in comfortable clothes and with a bottle of water. We will share our tools and tips to train our breathing, body and sense awareness, movement, but also to face street violence and arrests in context of demo. Toward a collective culture of defense that allows more combative practices in our struggles, feel welcome to join this workshop and lets build together an empowerful moment !

On 31 October 2024, an explosion occurred in an apartment in the Ampelokipi district of Athens, killing our comrade Kyriakos Xymitris while handling explosives and seriously injuring our comrade Marianna. As a result, our friend and comrade Dimitra was arrested at Athens airport on 4 November 2024 and has been in custody at Korydallos Prison in Athens ever since. Other comrades, Dimitris, Nikos, and the seriously injured Marianna were also taken into custody by the Greek state.

Comrades from Berlin and Athens remember Kyriakos, who spent most of his life in Athens but also lived in Berlin for several years and, as a revolutionary anarchist, shaped various struggles against the state and capital with his omnipresence. There will be reports on the current status of the Ambelokipi case as well as on the solidarity work and support for the prisoners, the importance of international solidarity and we might also expect contributions from Marianna and Dimitra.

Freedom for our comrades Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Z, Dimitris and Nikos Romanos!

Kyriakos in our hearts!

What happens to you when the cell door closes behind you? When you have to make your bed in pretrial detention and don’t know how long you’ll have to stay? When a pane of glass separates you from your family during visits? When you’re in a place where there is simply no sense of security

We are two people who were arrested during a demonstration in Basel in 2016, and another person who looks back on the events of that time from the perspective of those affected. First, we will talk about our experiences, focusing on our feelings. Our input is intended to serve as a starting point for the subsequent small group discussions. We would like to exchange ideas about how such situations affect us, how they shape us in the long term, and how we as a community can support and defend those close to us

Julie Perini’s documentary film, The Gentleman Bank Robber, is a portrait of revolutionary rita bo brown. A white working-class butch from rural Oregon, bo became known as “The Gentleman Bank Robber” in the 1970s for combining her butch style of dress with a polite way of demanding funds from bank tellers. The film moves between everyday moments with bo in and around her current home in Oakland, California, and historical retelling of the events of bo’s extraordinary life through interviews with bo and her collaborators, archival materials, and rare social movement ephemera. 

Documentary feature film, 2017, 46 minutes Language: English