For care workers and feminists, it's long been clear: we are in a permanent care crisis. Staff shortages, nursing shortages, and overwork are the symptoms. (Union) industrial action and strikes are an important lever for improving conditions in the care sector and fighting for a better status. What are good strategies for creating better working conditions for care workers? How can we network and organize across different sectors?
We would like to discuss this with trade union activists, interested parties, and feminists at the symposium.
The event will take place in Leipzig in spoken German and is free of charge for participants.
Event in Leipzig is fully booked! If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please send an email to care@knoe.orgWe will let you know on Thursday at 15 pm whether you can move up the list.
Online participation in the nationwide networking slot is possible (14:15 – 16:15)!
Our Process
from 9 pm Arrive
10:00 p.m. Opening, Arrival & Getting to Know Each Other
11: 00-13: 00 pm
1. Building strong and diverse groups (Leipzig, on-site)
In this workshop, we'll explore how we can create inclusive groups in the long term. How can we create an atmosphere where everyone is welcome? How can we pull together and leverage diversity to become stronger? We'll share some tips and have time for reflection and exchange.
Alice Hamdi has been active in urban political movements for around 15 years and supported the nurses' strike as an organizer. She provides training for corporate, social, and politically active groups and organizations for the "Movement School."
2. Bodywork and somatic sensing in the context of care and collective organizing (Leipzig, on-site)
Together, we take time to immerse ourselves in our bodies—as a source of strength, archived knowledge, and connection. Amid the ongoing care crisis, caught between overload and political struggle, our bodies also need attention and care. Dey invites us to understand the body as a tool for political practice and organizing—and to make the concept of care not only theoretical but also physically tangible. What does your body need to stay in motion—as a healthy part of a strong feminist movement and for networking?
Senja Brütting (Pronouns: keins/senja) is a spaceholder for racism-sensitive empowerment spaces, a somatic practitioner, and a movement/dance artist in various performance collectives focusing on anger, pleasure, sex & rage, diaspora, and visibility. Senja studied International Social Work with a focus on peacebuilding and subsequently choreography, dance education, and performance at Tanzzentrale Leipzig.
13:00 p.m. Lunch break
Online from 14:15 pm – arrival together – Access link will be sent upon registration.
14:30 pm Workshop: Regional (on-site in Leipzig) and nationwide networking (online and on-site in Leipzig)
In this workshop, we want to offer you a space that provides networking opportunities and resources to strengthen feminist (strike) alliances and labor struggle organizations. How can we better highlight the rights of care workers, and how can we initiate productive collaborations and projects/actions? There will be a space for concrete networking in Saxony and Central-Eastern Germany, as well as a space for nationwide networking.
Moderation:
Paul Klinger (no pronouns) works professionally as an assistant for disabled people and is part of the solidarity alliance Care-Work Kassel – a civil society alliance of activists and employees that provides solidarity support and political accompaniment to labor struggles in the care sector.
Leos Feminist activism began in 2019 as part of the 8M project. For over three years now, she has been involved with the group FemStreik in running LilaOFU: a "feminist living room" in Leipzig's east end for FLINTA* people to hang out and show solidarity in various life situations. She is also pursuing a doctorate on nursing and migration.
16:15 p.m. Coffee break
16:30 p.m. Joint reflection, open questions, outlook
17:00 p.m. ending
After the conference, we would like to take you to a bar to round off the evening.
The event will be held in spoken German. Interpretation is available upon request; please indicate this when registering.
Information about barriers and access to the venue can be found here.
