Support Your Local Bar, Not Qatar | Konrad Werner & Lea Beckmann

Its official! Berliners will have to return to the voting booths. Berlin's constitutional court ruled on Wednesday, that the Senate and Bezirks elections will have to be redone completely. Parties now have 2 months to get their ducks in a row and mount a sort of Sprint-Campaign before the re-election on February 12. Here to tell us all about the ramifications of this decision is friend of the show, frequent Radio Spaetkauf guest and co-host of the wonderful podcast Megan's Megacan, Konrad Werner.

 

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https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan

 

Climate activists are keeping busy in Berlin and celebrated a big success this week. Letzte Generation have joined forces with Ende Gelände and Extinction Rebellion to block off traffic to BER and the Klimaneustart 2030 initiative managed to collect around 262,000 signatures—way more than the 170,000 required to get a referendum going! Will we get to vote for decisive climate action on February 12 as well? 

 

https://klimaneustart.berlin/

https://letztegeneration.de/

 

We speak to Lea Beckmann, a lawyer and anti-discrimination expert for the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, to understand how Berlin law enforcement and Germany's judicial system are failing people with disabilities in cases of gendered harassment and violence. 

 

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https://www.frauen-gegen-gewalt.de/en/ 

https://www.weibernetz.de/welcome.html 

https://bodys.evh-bochum.de/ueber-bodys.html

 

 

And we discuss how Berlin is reacting to the criticism of the football World Cup in Qatar and what the Berlin Senate is doing about skyrocketing raccoon populations…

 

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This episode was recorded live at Two Fellas Brewery in Pankow, so you might hear a little extra background noise. https://twofellas.beer/

 

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Hosts: Izzy Choksey, Jöran Mandik, Matilde Keizer and Daniel Stern

Producer: Anne-Marie Harrison

 

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