Break Isolation: De Verbranders Ep31 with Rex Osa and Aino Korvensyrjä

In this episode, we talk with Rex Osa and Aino Korvensyrjä about what it means to be in solidarity with people who self-organize against encampment, isolation, and deportation. In doing so, they take us to the struggles that took place in southern Germany’s large asylum and deportation camps in 2017 and 2018—struggles that continued in the following years.

Self-organizing, as Rex explains, is the ability of people who are affected by structural violence to organize themselves and to be part of the decision-making process in struggles for their dignity and liberation. What does practical solidarity with people facing state violence require? How do you organize together with the people most affected in a way that centers their dignity? And what is the importance of archiving our struggles from below?