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You should rest on Sunday, but I worked yesterday-but I had one of the most beautiful jobs in a long time: I was able to moderate a Berlin screening of the freshly awarded documentary “Sisterqueens” with a Grimme price. The film accompanies three young rappers from Berlin for four years, from their first attempts (the youngest was nine at the time!) To appearances on large theater stages. Their rap career started with a project in a Berlin girls’ center, i.e. a youth center only for girls-in which kids can come together and learn from each other with social workers and various backgrounds. The rap project was instructed by such established artists: inside like Ebow, Alice Dee, Sister Fa or Haszcara.
And of course the project is now in danger. Because we can’t have any nice things. As part of the Berlin state government’s reduction orgy, the CDU and SPD, especially in the topics of education and culture, it has a project that combines education and culture and social and empowerment and good life for everyone, of course particularly difficult. We have to save. So, supposedly, it had to. Until about last week.
Because in the last week you could no longer participate in daring U-Turns in politics. Do you still know 500 billion new debt? Yes, so many things happen every day that I forget what was going on last week. Only a small reminder: for months, oh what, the whole traffic light, the CDU categorically has every form of special funds and new debts, contrary to the recommendation of economic experts: the inside of the traffic light has even paralyzed, the country has paralyzed (with the active help of the FDP, but we can now ignore it again in an indefinite period) and is with this conviction in the election campaign pulled. And now that she won him and Merz becomes a chancellor? She is no longer interested in your gibberish of the past. 500 billion debts, where there were no two billion for basic child protection. Hurray!
There should be a few cents for projects like Sisterqueens, right? Their success is visible to emphasize young women to raise their voice and they learn to speak important skills such as publicly, formulate texts and much more. But no, the money is intended for the military and infrastructure. Well, everyone: R that has already driven over a completely dilapidated motorway bridge (ie … all), is pleased with the announcement of the investments in the infrastructure. Whether maybe a few cents drop for the train? Once a trip from Berlin to Cologne that works?
One can hope that the hope fluctuates with every word that you read in the exploratory paper of the CDU and SPD published on weekends: increase in the commuter flat rate! Agrardiesel! And for these tax gifts, which does not really change the dilapidated infrastructure, let alone think new climate silver, then you have to believe social issues. Projects such as Sisterqueens take place at the state level, but the direction at which it is also possible at the federal level does not really give hope: Citizens’ gates: the money should be canceled in the inside, i.e. as inhumane conditions as at Hartz IV. And not only should recording programs for people from Afghanistan be ended, but also family reunification for refugees is also suspended. Apart from the brutality of such ideas from the torture cellar, I also wonder how it should work with the integration when people are to be cut off so violently by their family. But only Merz, Lars Klinbeil, Markus Söder and Saskia Eschen alone know that.
Honestly: it would be so easy to lose hope. The SPD seems to have been completely abandoned. But instead of eating and taking Klingbeil as a role model, I prefer to stick to the Sisterqueens: “Why is Germany so rich and the borders so unequal?” We can wait a long time for the answer – but by then we can at least try to save projects like the Sisterqueens ourselves.