Statement about the conference ,,We want our World back!"
Defending Freedom of Science and Speech at the University of Hamburg!
Call for support for the conference “We want our World back!”
Unprecedented attack on academic freedom: The administration of the University of Hamburg has announced the withdrawal of the rooms for the conference “We want our World back”, which is taking place on campus from April 7 to 9, at such short notice and for political reasons. University President Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren only took office last year - does he really want to use his tenure to serve political censorship? As representatives of over 40,000 students, we will not accept this decision!
The conference, which more than 1300 people and world-famous academics and public intellectuals like John Holloway and María de Jesús Patricio Martínez will attend, is part of the series "Challenging Capitalist Modernity". It was hosted at the University of Hamburg
three times already, most recently in 2017, and is organized by the AStA of the University of Hamburg in cooperation with the Network for an Alternative Quest. Participants from academia, social movements, and the Hamburg student body will discuss pressing issues
of our time such as the climate crisis, alternatives to capitalism, and patriarchal violence together in workshops and panel events. To enable international participation, the conference will be simultaneously translated into Arabic, German, English, Italian, Kurdish, Spanish, and Turkish. This convergence space for science and civil society, as well as the truly international character of the conference are unique.
However, the university president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren does not seem to appreciate this pluralism. On March 28, he prohibited the use of the rooms that had been granted well in advance. The reason given has been a message from the “Verfassungsschutz” (German intelligence service) attesting “extremism” to the conference. While there is still no committee of inquiry in Hamburg investigating the involvement between the intelligence service and the far-right terrorist group NSU, the same intelligence agency assumes authority to portray critical discussion events as terroristic. It is an unparalleled scandal that the university president does not defend the sovereignty of the university but lets the intelligence service dictate who is allowed to engage in academic debate in the rooms of the
university. We are appalled by this attack on student self-governance, the autonomy of academia, and freedom of speech. The new university president Prof. Dr. Heekeren is mistaken in thinking that he can restrict scientific discourse on campus without consequences.
In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns, "The time bomb is ticking." The goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5 degrees set in the Paris Agreement is likely to be missed in a few years from now. The IPCC identifies fossil capitalism as the main driver of the climate crisis. The University of Hamburg is now preventing one of the largest international conferences on this existential crisis - while boasting about its Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society". It is particularly unfortunate that Kurdish speakers, who are suffering from immense repression in Turkey, are also participating in the conference. Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan has always been defaming political opponents as "terrorists". From the university president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren however, we had expected a commitment to freedom of speech.
All attempts on our part to hold talks with the university chair in order to reach an amicable solution have been rejected or ignored. This scandalous action has enormous implications as a precedent: Nothing less than the freedom of science is at stake. Will it be possible to host critical scientific events challenging the status quo at the University of Hamburg in the future? Is only research and teaching that accepts the social status quo still desirable? We will not accept that intelligence agencies can have decisive influence on the content of an international scientific conference. It is up to us to defend academic freedom.
We urge the university administration to provide the conference with the rooms that were promised long ago. We cannot let this unprecedented attack on academic freedom go unanswered.
We want our world back! And our university!
AStA Universität Hamburg | Network for an Alternative Quest
Contact us still if you support our call:
SozialeBewegung@asta.uni-hamburg.de
First Signatories
Scientists and Academics:
Noam Chomsky, Laurate Professor of Linguistics and Professor Emeritus
Dr. Nazan Üstündag, Boğaziçi University
Dr. Mechthild Exo, Hochschule Emden/Leer
Prof. Norman Paech, Universität Hamburg
Dr. Iris Mendel, Universität Graz
Prof. Christine Löw
Prof. Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University
Michael Albert, Economist
Prof. Andrej Grubačić, Department Chair California Institute of Integral Studies
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor Emeritus University of Coimbra
Prof Priyamvada Gopal, Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge
Dr Raul Zelik, University of Vienna
Raul Zibechi, Journalist and political theorist
Dr Hannes Jung, Science4Peace Forum
Dr. Michaela Tzankoff, wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Zentrum für Weiterbildung
Dr. Sören Deister, Akademischer Rat a.Z., Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft, Mitglied im
Akademischen Senat der Universität Hamburg
Felix Bode, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Rechtswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg
Florian Muhl, research assistant Erziehungswissenschaften, Universität Hamburg
Hannah Ofterdinger, research assistant, Law, Universität Hamburg
Maria Kopf, research assistent, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann, Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Udo Mayer, Fachbereich Sozialökonomie, Universität Hamburg
Steffen Haag, wiss. Mitarbeiter und Doktorand, Universität Hamburg
Achin Vanaik, Retd. Professor, University of Delhi
Alex Demirovic, Apl. Prof. Dr., Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Anna Rebrii, PhD student, Binghamton University
AP Anthony Dest, Lehman College (CUNY)
Ass. Prof. Bengi Akbulut, Concordia University
Ass. Prof. Targol Mesbah, CIIS
Byron Mauricio Acosta Rangel, Professor Universidad del Cauc, P.H. candidate Colombia
Claire Pentecost, Professor Emeritus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dipl.Psych. Michaela M. Müller
Dr Kuba Szreder, lecturer Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Dr Les Levidow, Senior Research Fellow, Open University, UK
Dr Natasha Tanna, University of York, UK
Dr. Aaron Vansintjan, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vermont
Dr. Alexander Neupert-Doppler, Philosoph, Vertretungs-Professor an der Hochschule Düsseldorf
Dr. Alexandros Schismenos, Post-Doc, Aristotelian Universitiy of Thessaloniki
Dr. Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, University of Bath
Dr. Andreas Rentz, Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte Münchnen
Dr. Ben Ó Ceallaigh, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Britain
Dr. Christa Wichterich, Soziologin
Dr. Federico Venturini, University of Udine, Italy
Dr. Francis O'Connor, Wageningen University
Dr. Friederike Habermann
Dr. Gilberto Lopez y Rivas, Professor investigador del INAH Morelos Mexico
Dr. Gregory Sholette, Social Practice, Queens College, City University of New York
Dr. Jeanette Ehrmann, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Kamuran Akin, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Dr. Kateřina Vráblíková, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Dept. of Politics, Languages & International
Studies (PoLIS), University of Bath
Dr. Malav Kanuga, Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality and Change Center, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Max Oliver Schmidt, Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin
Dr. phil. Dieter Plehwe, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung GmbH
Dr. Silvia Marcos, Mexico
Dr. Stella Christou, Scuola Normale Superiore
Dr. Thore Prien, Seminar für Soziologie, Europauniversität Flensburg
Dr. Ulrike Flader, Universität Bremen
Dr.med.Dipl.Psych.Barbara Hofner
Dr*in Muriel Gonzâles Athenas, Innsbruck University, Austria
Elise Boyle Espinosa, PhD candidate, University of Aberdeen
Emmanuel Rozental, Pueblos en Camino adhere, Colombia
Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, The University of Manchester
Gulay Kilicaslan, Assistant Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Harriet Friedman, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto
Hon.-Prof. Dr. Frieder Otto Wolf, Freie Universität Berlin
Jack McGinn, London School of Economics, Middle East Centre
Jason Prince, Concordia University
Jens Wissel, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé, Mitarbeiter Institut für AVL, Universität Frankfurt
Julio Linares, Anthropology Department, London School of Economics
Kirsten Huckenbeck, Dozentin FB 4, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences / Redakteurin
Liisa L. North, Professor Emerita, York University
Lorenzo Velotti, PhD student, Scuola Normale Superiore
Luis Moreno-Caballud, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Pennsylvania
Mag. Dr. Andreas Exner, operative Leitung des Regional Center of Expertise Graz-Styria, Zentrum
für nachhaltige Gesellschaftstransformation der Universität Graz, Österreich
Mahmoud Patel, University of the Western Cape
Matthias Schmelzer, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena - Institute of Sociology
Michael Becker, Mitglied des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt am Main, Lehrbeauftragter an
der Hochschule Darmstadt
Michael Edwards, Honorary prof., University College London
Michael T. Taussig, Professor of Antropology, Columbia University, New York
Milena Rodríguez Aza, Doctorante en el Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades - BUAP
(México) Colombiana
Nicholas S.M. Matheou, University of Edinburgh
Nina Tzankoff, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht und Sozialrecht
Olga Kopenkina, Independent curator, lecturer New York University, Fordham University.
Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
Prof Federico Demaria, Ecological Economics and Political Ecology, University of Barcelona, Spain
Prof Julie Chateauvert, Elisabeth-Bruyere School of Social Innovation ta Saint Paul University,
Canada
Prof Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Elisabeth-Bruyere School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul
University, Canada
Prof, Dr. Timm Kunstreich, em. Ev. Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit und Diakonie Hamburg
Prof. (Dr.) Anuradha Chenoy, former Dean of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi
Prof. Barry K. Gills, Global Development Studies, Helsinki University
Prof. Dr. Andrea Mühlebach, Universität Bremen
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai, Chair of Development and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel
Prof. Dr. Bernd Belina, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
Prof. Dr. Dip.Ing. Kurt Bader, Universität Lüneburg
Prof. Dr. Dirk Martin, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Götz Bachmann, Universität Bremen
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Voß, Sexualwissenschaftler*in, Merseburg
Prof. Dr. Jens Wissel, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Julika Bürgin, Hochschule Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Oliver Bierhoff, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Fachbereich Sozialwesen
Prof. Dr. Susanna Spindler, Soziale Arbeit & Migration, Hochschule Düsseldorf
Prof. Em. Kariane Westrheim, Uni Bergen / Chair of EUTCC
Prof. John Holloway, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
Prof. Margara Millan, National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM
Prof. Nayanika Mathur Anthropology, University of Oxford
Prof. Norma Rantisi, Concordia University
Prof. Raymond Craib, American History, Cornell University
Prof.Dr. Brigitte Young, Politikwissenschaftlerin, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Professor Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Sebastian Friedrich, Sozialwissenschaftler und Journalist
Sherry Millner, Professor in Film, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Simon Sutterluetti, Universität Bonn, Institut für Medienwissenschaften
Sophia Wathne, PhD student, Scuola Normale Superiore
Sowmya Maheswaran, Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin & Berlin Institute for Empirical
Integration and Migration Research
Susana Draper, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Thomas Wallgren, Professor of philosophy, University of Helsinki
Torsten Bewernitz, Redaktion Express und Hochschule Darmstadt
Ulrich Brand, Politikwissenschaftler, Universität Wien
Vijay Kolinjivadi, Postdoctroal Fellow, University of Antwerp
Vilma Almendra, Pueblos en Camino Adhere Colombia
Walden Bello, PhD Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton
William I Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Faculty Councils of the Universität of Hamburg:
FSR Lehramt Universität Hamburg
FSR Sozialökonomie Universität Hamburg
FSR Sozialwissenschaften Universität Hamburg
FSR Kriminologie Universität Hamburg
FSR Erziehungswissenschaft Universität Hamburg
AStAs:
Freier Zusammenschluss der Studierenden, FZS
AStA Uni Hannover
AStA Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
AStA Uni Frankfurt
Other supporters:
Adriana Guzman Arroyo, Feminismo Comunitario Antipatriarcal
Ahmet Yaman, speaker of the Kurdish community Switzerland
Akiko Ahrendt, Rundfunktanzorchester Ehrenfeld/ ZDF Magazin Royale
Alan W. Moore, author, activist, art historian
Alessandra Pomarico, Indepdent curator, New York / Lecce
Alexander Glasner-Hummel, social scientist, Mitglied des Landesverbandes DIE LINKE BadenWürttemberg, Heidelberg
Ayreen Anastas, Artist, USA
Azar Mahmoudian, Independent Curator, Tehran
Azra Talat Sayeed, Chairperson for International Women's Alliance, IWA
Beate Schwartau, Alumnae Universität Hamburg
Begonia Santa-Cecilia, artist, Brooklyn
Bettina Gottschlich, "Familie für den Frieden"
Birgit Albrodt, "Familien für den Frieden"
Cansu Özdemir LINKE, Hamburger Bürgerschaft
Carola Ensslen, MdHB, DIE LINKE
Carolina Achilles
Christiane Schneider, Vice President Hamburger Bürgerschaft (ret.)
Civan Akbulut, Mitglied im Integrationsrat Essen
Claudia Korol, Feminist writer and educator, Argentina
Connor Hayes, PhD student
Connor Murphy, Sinn Fein MLA
Cornelia Kerth, social scientist, Chair VVN-BdA
Daniel Brown, PhD student at the London School of Economics
Dario Azzellini, political scientist, author
David Morgan, journalist and writer
Deniz Celik, MdHB, DIE LINKE
Dipl.Ing. Horst D. Göllnitz
Dipl.Soz. Micha Hintz, Lehrbeauftragter an der Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, der
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen und der Europäischen Akademie der
Arbeit in der Universität Frankfurt
Dmitry Vilensky, artist, Chto Delat, St. Petersburg / Hamburg
Doug Nicholls, GFTU General Secretary
Dr Derek Wall, writer
Dr Radha D’Souza, writer and social activist
Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley, anthropologist
Dr. Alan Moore, Indepedent curator and Art Historian, Madrid
Dr. Carsten Krinn, AWO Esslingen
Dr. Cornelia Lange
Dr. Günter Rexilius, Priv.Doz., Dipl.Psych. Psychol. Psychotherapeut
Dr. Kerem Schamberger, Communication Scientist
Dr. med. Michael Wilk, physician
Dr. Sarah Glynn, writer
Dr.med.Beppe Savary-Borioli, MP Forum Alternativo Ticino/Schweiz
Dr.med.Dipl.Psych. Barbara Hofner
Elena Aguayo
Elke Dangeleit, anthropologist, journalist, politician, DIE LINKE, district parliament FriedrichshainKreuzberg von Berlin)
Emilio Fantin
Ernst Krefft, physician
Estella Schmid, writer and political activist
Esther Winkelmann, romanist
Françoise Vergès, writer, theorist, antiracist feminist activist, public educator, independent curator
Paris
Gabriel Kuhn, author, Stockholm/Schweden
Gisela Rhein, 'Familien für den Frieden'
Giulia Gabrielli, artist, Whitney Museum ISP fellow, New York / Venice
Gloria Luz Rascón Martínez
Heike Geisweid, Lawyer
Heike Rösch, Chair - Allenstein / Betreutes Wohnen
Heike Sudmann, MdHB, DIE LINKE
Hywel Williams MP, Plaid Cymru, Wales
Ilija Trojanow, author
Jakob Jakobsen, artist, Copenhagen
James Kelman, Booker Prize Winner novelist, Scottland
Janet Biehl, author and artist
Jesal Kapadia, artist, Brooklyn
John Hunt, journalist
John Kastan, The Jewish Board
Josef Mühlbauer MA, Autor, PhD-Student, Queeranarchist
Jutta Gernert
Katharina Günther, islamic studies
Kitty Kraus, artist, Berlin
Lord Hylton, House of Lords, UK
Lydia Förster, Verein Familien für den Frieden e.V., Darmstadt
Marco, Open Protest Network
Mark Mason, US Domestic and Foreign Policy Analyst
Marko Ulvila, politician, Finland
Marleen Rothaus, artist
Martha Rosler, artist, Brooklyn
Metin Kaya, DIE LINKE. Fraktion in der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft Frieden, Migration, Sport,
Netzpolitik
Mizgin Ciftci, DIE LINKE
MPA, artist, Los Angeles
Naomi Anne Kubota, Die Linke, VVN-BdA, former research assistant Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
Natascha Sadr Haghighian, artist, Berlin
Nick Hildyard, policy advisor
Nika Dubrovsky, Artist, Germany and UK
Nikolay Oleynikov, artist, Chto Delat, St. Petersburg / Lecce
Norbert Trenkle, Krisis
Olga Kopenkina, Independent curator, lecturer New York University, Fordham University
Pierre Joris, poet
Rahila Gupta, Chair - Southall Black Sister
Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, president of Fundacion De Los Comunes
Reem Shadid, curator, Director, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Rene Gabri, Artist, USA
Rita Bilal, Familien für den Frieden
Ruth Stiasny-Seligmann
Sabu Kohso, writer, theorist, New York / Tokyo
Sasha Lilley, writer and journalist, USA
Seval Gümüs, activist, kurdish, Demokratischen kurdischen Gesellschaftszentrum e.V. Mitglied im
Forum der Kulturen Stuttgart
Sina Reisch, Ende Gelände
Stephan Jersch, MdHB, DIE LINKE
Stephanie Rose, MdHB, DIE LINKE
Stephen Smellie, Branch Secretary, UNISON South Lanarkshire
Suely Rolnik, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, and curator, Sao Paulo
Susann Schölzel
Ullrike Röding-Gilberg, internationalist
Uwe Gottschlich, "Familie für den Frieden"
Vahram Aghasyan, artist, Yerevan
Valentina Leduc Navarro, Regisseurin
Walter M. Garcia, teacher in Florida U.S
Xóchitl Leyva Chiapas
Initiatives and groups:
Antifaschistische Aktion Lüneburg/Uelzen
Arbeitskreis Zivilklausel an der Uni Kassel
Autonomedia, Non-Profit Publisher, Brooklyn
Autonomen Ringvorlesung "Krieg & Frieden"
Cafe Knallhart
Café Libertad
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)
Feministas de Abya Yala
FG DeKolonial e.V. - Fachgesellschaft für rassismuskritische, postkoloniale und dekoloniale
Theorie und Praxis
Freund*innen der kurdischen Freiheitsbewegung Braunschweig
Gefangenen Infos
Hoenkeldruck
Initiative Demokratischer Konföderalismus
Institute of David Graeber
Kaffee Kollektiv la gota negra GbR
Kaffeekollektiv Aroma zapatista e.G.
Lützerath Lebt
MAF-DAD (Verein für Demokratie und Internationales Recht)
Mittelbau Initiative Hamburg
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign
PM Press
Quijote Kaffee GmbH
Schöner Leben Göttingen
Solidarity Economy Association
Students For Future Kassel
Tejiendo Redes y Rebeldías
Unrast Verlag
Ventana al Sur
Vereinigung Demokratischer Juristinnen und Juristen
Ya Basta Netz Deutschland
Second signatories
Scientists and Academics:
Professor Silvia Federici, Hofstra University
Michael Löwy, Emeritus Research Director, CNRS, Paris
Eleni Varikas, Emeritus Professor, Universite de Paris 8
Josef Barla, Research Assistant, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Alice von Bieberstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Joey Whitfield, Cardiff University
Dr Natasha Tanna, University of York
John Hess, Senior Lecturer II, English/American Studies, Universtiy of Massachusetts Boston
Dr Hanifi Baris, Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Eric Shragge, Associate Professor (retired) School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University , Montreal
Arturo Escobar, Professor of Anthropology and Political Ecolog, University of North Caroline, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Britta Wittner, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der TU Braunschweig
Mattias Wahlström, PhD, Associate Professor, Universität Göteburg
Dr. David Templin, Historiker, Universität Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer, Universität Bielefeld
Kirstin Katolla, Universität Bielefeld
Anton Törnberg, assistant prof, Universität Göteburg
Judith Rachbauer, Mag, Professorin für Religion und Deutsch an einer BMHS
Professor Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier, Universität Bielefeld
Dr András B. Göllner, Prof. em., Concordia University,Montreal, Canada
Asier Amezaga-Etxebarria, PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of the Basque Country
Christian Zeller, Professor of Economic Geography and member of editorial board of emanzipation – Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische Strategie
Dr. Daniel Thewes, PostDoc am Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum, Gruppe Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Institut für Informatik
Nigel Gibson, Professor, Emerson College, Boston USA
Marian Kirwel, Tutor & SHK am Institut für Medienkultur und Theater der Uni Köln
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD, FHEA), Director of Post Graduate Research Students Pathway Lead MREs, Sociology, Department of Social and Policy Sciences - University of Bath
Jörg Klewitz, Soziologe, Informatiker, 1984er Fachschaftsrat Informatik, Hamburg
Jan Kordes, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Humangeographie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Leon Krings, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Hildesheim
Dr. Francis O'Connor, Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University and Research
Dr Benedikt Buechel, University of Dundee
Dr Jan Yasin Sunca, academically affiliated with Bielefeld University, co-director of the faculty of political science at Rojava University
Prof. Alexandra Rau
Andrea Vetter, Transformationsforscherin
Thomas Fickel, PhD Student, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.
Hêlîn Öztürk, research assistant, TU Darmstadt
Distinguished Prof. David Harvey, Dept. of Anthropology, City University of New York,
Prof. emeritus, Peter Linebaugh University of Toledo
Ürpf. Dr. Andreas Fisahn, Uni Bielefeld, Rechtswissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Darko Štrajn, Uni Ljublina
Prof. Dr. Dieter Schönecker, Philosophie, Universität Siegen
Necmettin Türk, PhD Candidate, University of Hamburg
Rastko Mocnik, sociologist, retired university teacher, Ljubljana and Belgrade
Prof. i.R. Dr. Steffi Richter, Japanologie, Universität Leipzig/Ostasiatisches
Dr. Tobias Schmitt, Universität Hamburg
Prof.Dr. Klaus Schlichte, Universität Bremen
Dr. Simon Teune, Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung
Prof. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Prof. Uta Ruppert, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Dr. Gilberto Rescher, Soziologe, Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Lateinamerika, Zentrum der Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Hermann Behrens, em. Hochschule Neubrandenburg
Dr. Andrea Dreusch, Microbiologist
Dr. Lothar Zechlin, Prof. für Öffenliches Recht i.R., Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Poilitikwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scheerer, Prof. im Ruhestand, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik, Lamarr Institut für Maschinelles Lernen und KI
Leslie Gauditz, Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung e.V.
University committees
FSR Holzwissenschaft
Alle Frauen Referat
AStA Uni Bremen
AStA Universität Bielefeld
AG Kritische Geographien Globaler Ungleichheiten (AG an der UHH)
Initiatives and groups
Bildungskollektiv Biko
KOMintern (Kommunistische Gewerkschaftsinitiative – International)
Unicorns Uni Hamburg
Volksrat der Eelamtamil*innen Deutschland
LAG-FEMINISMUS, Die LINKE Landesverband Hamburg
Linksaktiv-Hamburg-Mitte
Students Defend Kurdistan
unter_bau, Alternative Hoschulgewerkschaft Uni Frankfurt
End Fossil: Occupy! Universität Frankfurt
Freie Hütte aus dem Mietshäuser Syndikat Verbund
Interventionistische Linke (IL)
LabourNet Germany
Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan
Initiative of Mutual Studies of the students of Rojava and Bremen
Zores, Bremen
Missy Magazin
TVStud Hamburg
Students For Future Bremen
Basis Antifa Lübeck
Solinet Hannover
gira zapatista red hamburgo
Kollektiv Abya Yala Anticolonial Hamburg
unter_bau, selbstverwaltete Hochschulgewerkschaft Goehte-Universität Frankfurt
End Fossil: Occupy! Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
StudentsDefendKurdistan Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Ökologiebewegung Mesopotamiens, Nord-Kurdistan (Südosttürkei)
Initiative zur Rettung von Hasankeyf, Nord-Kurdistan (Südosttürkei)
Kurdisches Gesellschaftszentrum Frankfurt/M
Vorstand der Rosa-Luxemburg-Initiative e.V
Bildung - Macht - Rassismus
Fridays For Future Flensburg
Ende Gelände Flensburg
Other supporters
Azad Yusuf Bingöl, Migrationsbeirat der Landeshauptstadt München & Redakteur bei Radio LORA 92.4
Dr. Stefan Meretz, Ingenieur und Informatiker
Dipl.-Ing. (Arch.) Tomislav Knaffl
Annette Triebler-Martin
Carola Rackete
Manfred Rotermund
Mayia Shulga
David Amacher
Julia Norman
Anja Hortmann, Landschaftsökologin und Aktivistin
Lida Weerts, spokeswoman from ‘Kurdisk kvinnenettverk Oslo’
Dr. Ellen Künzel – Como Consult GmbH
Passar Hariky,Schauspieler, Sprecher der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Partizipation und Flucht der Linken in Berlin, Geschäftsführer und Gründer des kurdisch-deutschen Verlags Passarname, Vorstandsmitglied des migrantischen Künstlervereins Stabiler Rücken und angehender Politikwissenschaftler
Anja Flach, Ethnologin, Autorin
Agnes v. Alvensleben, Diplomsozialpädagogin
David Elder, teacher
Ashish Kothari, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Hanan Benammar, artist, Oslo
Mirjam Pietchamoa, theatermaker, Germany
Gerrit Peters, Mitglied des Bezirksvorstandes Die LINKE Berlin Treptow-Köpenick
Simon Villa Ramirez
Gabriele Hatscher
Žiga Brdnik, Unabhängiger Journalist und Filmkritiker
Wissenschaftler*innen
Distinguished Prof. David Harvey, Dept. of Anthropology, City University of New York,
Prof. emeritus, Peter Linebaugh University of Toledo
Ürpf. Dr. Andreas Fisahn, Uni Bielefeld, Rechtswissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Darko Štrajn, Uni Ljublina
Prof. Dr. Dieter Schönecker, Philosophie, Universität Siegen
Necmettin Türk, PhD Candidate, University of Hamburg
Rastko Mocnik, sociologist, retired university teacher, Ljubljana and Belgrade
Prof. i.R. Dr. Steffi Richter, Japanologie, Universität Leipzig/Ostasiatisches
Dr. Tobias Schmitt, Universität Hamburg
Prof.Dr. Klaus Schlichte, Universität Bremen
Dr. Simon Teune, Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung
Prof. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Prof. Uta Ruppert, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Dr. Gilberto Rescher, Soziologe, Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Lateinamerika, Zentrum der Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Hermann Behrens, em. Hochschule Neubrandenburg
Dr. Andrea Dreusch, Microbiologist
Dr. Lothar Zechlin, Prof. für Öffenliches Recht i.R., Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Poilitikwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scheerer, Prof. im Ruhestand, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik, Lamarr Institut für Maschinelles Lernen und KI
Leslie Gauditz, Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung e.V.
Alex Zollmann
Yeter Tan
Ercan Ayboga, Co-Autor des Buches "Revolution in Rojava" und Umweltingenieur, Frankfurt/M
Günter Andreas Zeller
Simone Heller, Hamburg, Juristin im Ruhestand
Jürgen Sylvester
Angela Schäfer
Ernst-Ludwig Iskenius, Arzt
Anselm Schindler, Sprecher von BlockGas
Friedo Michnia, Piratenpartei Hamburg
Christiane Bock
Christa Blum
Gitti Grüter, MA Filmregie