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== Every 2nd, 4th *Saturday* of the Month - 15:00 - "Anti-Google Café" - Kalabala!k, Reichenbergerstr. 63A==
=== Next "Anti-Google Café": Saturday 28 April 12 May - 15:00 ===
Join an open discussion occasion for everyone to share their thoughts and ideas.
= Next Events =
== June 14th - Mark the date- TBD ==
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= Past Events =
== Wednesday, 16 May - 20:00 - SO36 - "Why Google is NOT a Good Neighbor" ==
https://www.helle-panke.de/topic/3.html?id=2462
'''Why Google is not a good neighbour'''
''What can we do when big tech-companies and start-ups push their way into our neighborhoods''
"It is a good day for Berlin", Mayor Michael Müller emphasized when he presented the project of a "Google Campus for Entrepreneurs" in Kreuzberg alongside Google's vice-boss in Germany. Since this announcement Google is building its new Campus at the former substation "Umspannwerk" Ohlauer-Str. /Paul-Linke-Ufer – exactly in the area with the highest jumps in rental prices in Berlin. According to the IT Group, the
"Google Campus" should provide developers, founders and investors with a meeting place.
At issue is the promotion of entrepreneurship through education and networking.
According to Google, the goal is to promote the "Berlin start-up ecosystem". The fact
that exactly this praised "start-up ecosystem" is already responsible for displacement
pressure on established Kreuzberg cultural institutions, shows the conflict between the
Kreuzberg "Privatclub" and one of the "Internet billionaires" (BZ) who owns
"Rocket-Internet".
Such a displacement is already completed in another large space in Görlitzer Park.
Until recently, the old Agfa factory in Lohmühlenstraße was still home to small
businesses, cultural institutions and associations. Now the "Factory Görlitzer Park",
the "biggest European club for startups" including a private university for
programmers, has been built. Also at the "Factory", a "Google for Entrepreneurs" has
been involved.
Anyone who wants to see how such developments pushed by tech companies and start-ups
can change an urban area in a very short time must look to San Francisco and the Bay
Area with the Silicon Valley. San Francisco, the former city of American counter
cultures, LGBTQ movement and Chinese immigrants, has become one of the US's most
expensive spots, exacerbated by the entrance of Facebook’s glittering new campus into
the city centre in what is said to be the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast, with
nearly 70 luxury condos on the upper floors for the super-rich.
On May 16th, we want to talk to different players from politics and neighborhood
initiatives in the SO36 about what can be done so that Kreuzberg and Berlin do not have
to go the same way as San Francisco or parts of central London, where poor and ordinary
people have already been forced out of their neighborhoods.
Panel
*'''Erin McElroy''' (San Francisco/[2]Anti-Eviction Mapping Project)
*'''Conni Pfeiffer & Stefan Klein''' ([3]GloReiche/No-Google-Campus)
*'''Katalin Gennburg''' (spokeswoman for the Left Party Berlin for Urban Development, Tourism, Smart City)
*'''Janosch Somer''' (Counter Campus)
Moderation: Nina Scholz
Admission: 7:30 PM start: 8 PM
Costs: 2.00 Euro / reduced 1.00 Euro
'''Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018, 20:00 bis 22:00 Uhr in Berlin '''
SO36
Oranienstraße 190
10999 Berlin
https://www.helle-panke.de/topic/3.html?id=2462
== Saturday, April 21th - 22:00 - Communist Counter Campus Party, @k9, Kinzigstraße 9, 10247 Berlin ==
