GEGEN DEN STROM mit Sascha Lübbe “Ganz unten im System. Wie uns Arbeitsmigrant:innen den Wohlstand sichern”

In the organizer's words:

GEGEN DEN STROM with Sascha Lübbe
"At the bottom of the system. How
migrant workers secure our prosperity"

Free admission

They toil on German construction sites, clean offices and toilets, make hotel beds, wash people in need of care in old people's homes, sit in trucks or toil in slaughterhouses: workers from abroad support our economy and our society. Today's guest workers are often exposed to the arbitrariness of their employers. Vacations, accidents at work and illness are often at their own expense. In recent years, economic, political and social conditions have developed almost imperceptibly, enabling precarious employment and undermining social justice. This has created a "working class" where hardly any money is paid for work: at the very bottom. Sascha Lübbe shows which factors contributed to its emergence and that it is high time to put an end to resentment. He is concerned with nothing less than the question: what kind of society do we want to live - and work - in?

Sascha Lübbe works as a reporter and author in Berlin. He has been nominated for the German Reporter:innen Prize, the German Journalism Prize and the Alternative Media Prize. His articles appear in Zeit Online, taz, NZZ, Welt am Sonntag, stern.de and other publications. His main topics are migration, integration and social inequality.

Esat Mogul (education officer, focus on human trafficking, Arbeit und Leben DGB/VHS NRW e.V.) will moderate Sascha Lübbe's reading.

The reading is organized by Gegen den Strom. The political series has been promoting political education for 20 years and offers a free lecture and discussion format in Hagen. Gegen den Strom - these are: Arbeit und Leben Berg Mark, DGB Region Ruhr Mark, Integrationsagentur des Caritasverbandes Hagen, Kulturzentrum Pelmke, Sozialistische Jugend Die Falken UB Hagen and VHS Hagen.

Supported by Arbeit und Leben Berg Mark.

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