Racism

ReachOut is an advisory centre for victims of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic attacks. The organisation offers, among other things, advice on legal possibilities, consultation regarding financial support, psychosocial counselling, and accompanied visits to authorities’ offices, doctors, lawyers and the court. Furthermore, the project offers various educational programmes for disseminators in the area of adult and youth education. The aim is to sensitise the public for the dimension and the consequences of racism and right-wing extremism as well as to achieve solidarity with the victims.

The non-profit association "Bund für Bildung" translates socially relevant issues into educational projects. The focus is on issues of inclusion, participation and democracy.

The Bavarian State Center for Political Education serves the purpose to support and strengthen the philosophy of a liberal democratic  system of government in the knowledge of the population as a non-partisan organization. To realize this purpose the Bavarian State Center offers a wide range of publications und educational programs for different target groups and cooperates with other organizations, that attend to civic education and further education.

Action Courage was founded in 1992 by citizens' initiatives, human rights groups, organizations and individuals from all social areas and political parties as an answer to the violent racism in the German cities of Moelln, Solingen, Hoyerswerda and Rostock. To maintain social peace in Germany, we are dependent on the cooperation of people of different origins, of all cultures, and religions. If we want to achieve mutual respect, we must actively fight for it.

What we want:
Action Courage demands and supports the social involvement and political participation of people of foreign origins.

With our work and projects we want to achieve:

• Encounters free of fear and prejudice
• Readiness to communicate
• Acceptance of foreign identities
• Concentration on common values as well as
• Disassociation from extremist actions and tendencies

Who we are:
We are a German group of active citizens and organizations of different cultures of all regions in the world.We are not onlookers. Discrimination of any kind is an attack on human dignity.

Therefore we defend ourselves with courageous actions against violent and open racism, as well as against latent and everyday racism in companies, local authorities, in schools and universities, in our leisure time and in our private life, in politics and the media.

Only if we are open us to the different worlds can we understand our own world and will we be able to live peacefully with each other.

What we do:

• We provide information and do educational and public relations work
• We lobby MPs and government officials
• We offer intercultural training for the police and the German army
• We document assaults and discriminations
• We work together with human rights and anti-racism groups

The Schwule Museum (gay museum) presents the diversity of homosexual life in a permanent exhibition on gay history and in regularly changing exhibitions. The historical exhibitions deal with different time periods and social conditions for homosexuals as well as their life strategies. In this way, the history and culture of homosexuals are reviewed and the research results can be presented. Manifold documents and statements of homosexuals about themselves and their life are collected and archived, allowing for scientific research.