Nørrebro Pride 2020
by kbj102
August 22th 2020 from Nørrebro St. to Folkets Park
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ORGANISATION -
This year’s nørrebro pride will be divided into blocks of 20
At the front will be the global majority BIPoCs (Black/Indigenous/People of Colour) followed by blocks consisting of Allies
White Allies please be aware of those around you and how much space you take
Each block will be separated from each other by banners
MASKS ON -
Please wear masks at the demonstration! Please be mindful of each other! Go to your local supermarket or pharmacy to purchase a mask.
Or watch this video on how to make your own: youtube.com/watch?v=lybOKHT4cKQ
We in Nørrebro Pride hope to be able to do a mask workshop in the days leading up to the pride, but please bring your own. We understand that not everyone can wear one for the entirety of a demonstration, and we will not police. Be mindful of your community!
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS -
Know that it is your right to assemble in public! Know that research on the global Black Lives Matter mobilisations, has shown that it is NOT demonstrations leading to spikes in Covid-19 cases!
Fight governments using the pandemic to continue anti-Black, anti-migrant, anti-poor and anti-LGBT rhetoric to prevent us from fighting back!
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Like last year, this year’s Nørrebro Pride has a theme. The aim of the theme is to explore how different issues affect our communities. Last year the theme was ‘home’. This years theme is PANDEMIC.
The hunt for profit everywhere leads to deforestation, extraction of resources, displacement of people and disregards human life and nature. Out of capitalism and neocolonialism new zones appear that produce pandemics. Indigenous and colonized communities have called for climate justice and warned everyone else for ages.
We can see how the pandemic also affects groups differently. The realities of racial capitalism means that pandemics will and have affected Black communities, and other migrant and of colour communities, more than white ones. And even during a pandemic, racist policing and white supremacist violence demonstrates how Black people are not safe; not in the USA, Brazil, Kenya, France nor in Ellebæk or the forests of Bornholm. Led by Black people all over the world, we must continue to insist that Black Lives Matter, everywhere and always.
In all of this, we must remain focused. We must look at how we respond. We as queer and trans people are used to being viewed as contagious, and used to building community at times when nobody wants to engage with us. We refuse to be shamed into silence yet again. If the pandemic, and politics around it, is spreading we need to focus on how our resistance to all of things is also spreading.
Black resistance is spreading! Indigenous resistance is spreading! Migrant resistance is spreading! Queerness is spreading! Transness is spreading! Our legs are spreading! Let us together make sure that it continues to do so!
We ask groups, persons, collectives and communities that see themselves in Nørrebro Pride, to think about how the issue of ‘PANDEMIC’ plays out where you are. Here are some reflections we had in mind for us all:
How can our communities act to assist each other in times of crisis? Who keeps us alive, and who lets us thrive? Why are Black people, colonized groups, migrants and LGBTQ+ ppl seen as carriers of disease? How do we resist these narratives? Why have LGBTQ+ people had rights rolled back under the Covid-19 pandemic? How come chosen families are not seen as legitimate forms of support or ways of living, not even during a pandemic? What does it mean to be stuck in situations that may claim your life or mental health?
Who gets to pay for the bailout packages made during the crisis? What happens to the people who cannot be sent home from work, and who protects them? How come the health of imprisoned people and people in asylum and deportation camps is not protected? And why do we allow our elders, chronically ill and at risk groups continue to be neglected?
Why do working class and migrant communities continue to be policed in public during Covid-19? Why are people forcibly rehoused? How is protest being vilified or criminalised by the media and politicians? Do they expect only silence? How can we insist on our right to organise and march in the streets? And how can we do so while honouring our dead?
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***Who owns Nørrebro Pride?***
Nørrebro Pride is a set of community-based demonstrations, events and happenings. It is organised by volunteer activists who make up a core group. The core group gets a fresh start every spring.
***Black/Indigenous/People Of Colour leadership***
Nørrebro Pride places racialized queer/trans people at the centre, and they make up the majority of the core group. Nørrebro Pride was made for those of us who are Black/Indigenous/People Of Colour to reclaim Pride itself – therefore we will always be at the front.
***Local oriented***
It takes place in Nørrebro, and is anchored to the politics and daily life of the neighbourhood. This means that we reach out to our neighbours and try to understand how our lives interact. Nørrebro – like many other areas around the country – is a politically charged area, and we show that queer/trans people have always been here.
***Accessibility***
Nørrebro Pride has to strive to be better than City- and State-level social policy, policing and city planning that does nothing to address the question of accessibility. To us accessibility is many things: it concerns physical infrastructure, single parents, homelessness, race/racism, incarceration amongst other things. It is the core group's responsibility to find ways of making Nørrebro Pride more accessible. This means i.e. finding ways of paying or providing for transportation for people who are incarcerated; having meetings in locations that are accessible for all; providing accessible bathrooms; finding better ways of communicating. The group has to change according to the needs of the community.
***Anti-racism, anti-Blackness and anti-Islamophobia***
Nørrebro Pride community is made up of differently racialized people. Each person should be reflective about the communities they are part of, and recognize how they might be part of reproducing anti-Blackness and/or Islamophobia.
Pride should not fetishize us, tokenize us, speak over us, or speak for us. No forms of racism will be tolerated. The ideology of colour-blindness must be defeated.
***No borders! No nations! / Anti-nationalism & -borders***
The nation-state creates asymmetrical power-relations amongst us, by granting some people access over others – through citizenship or other forms of benefits. Nørrebro Pride is made up of different diaspora people that are affected by the border regime. Nørrebro Pride has to organise across those privileges that the state is enforcing, and challenge these hierarchies.
***Organizing against gentrification***
Our neighbourhood is a target for gentrification. Decades of housing policies have created The ghetto law is a racist and classist legislation that continues to push out the most marginalised in the community.
Nørrebro Pride organises with affected communities against these developments, and consider it part of our DNA. Gentrification is an lgbtq issue too.
***No to Pinkwashing***
Pinkwashing simply means that LGBTQ-issues are being used to push an islamophobic, racist, or settler colonial agenda. It is pinkwashing when politicians and journalists try to paint Nørrebro as a dangerous place for LGBTQ-people; It is pinkwashing when businesses and corporations portray themselves as our allies, but exploit us and lobby for lower wages and worse labour rights; It is pinkwashing when states use LGBTQ-people as an excuse to invade or oppress other countries or people – as the case of the state of Israel and it’s attempt to appear LGBTQ friendly, and to justify its settler colonial apartheid against Palestineans.
***Anti-commercial***
Nørrebro Pride will not be used as a platform to earn money and gain commercial sponsorships. Businesses and corporations are not welcome.
Nørrebro Pride wishes to organise with and around any non-commercial group, NGO, community that wants to be our allies in the fight for justice and queer liberation.
***Our own economy***
Nørrebro Pride tries to establish its own economy that can finance our activities. We do this through people’s kitchens, poster sales and fundraising parties.
We believe that redistribution of resources and solidarity internally in our community is important, and therefore compensate the most marginal in our community (transport from camps/asylum centers, food tickets, performance fees etc.).
