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Stop-Sign

The society in which we live is marked by different power relations (racism, sexism, etc…). These power relations also make themselves noticeable on this very camp. They produce structural exclusions, hierarchies, dominances and traumas. They equip certain people with privileges, from which they structurally exclude others – that means not only in individual cases but on a broad basis. That can practically mean that certain people won’t get their word in edgewise on general assemblies, or that others often dominate discussions. Or that positions of speakers are taken unenequally serious. Amongst other things, through the way in which we communicate with each other, we either contribute towards reestablishing power relations over and over again, or towards questioning these. read more