NEIN ZU BEZAHLKARTE

NEIN zur Bezahlkarte Berlin Brandenburg is an initiative that brings together people from different backgrounds in response to the introduction of the discriminatory SocialCard (Bezahlkarte) for benefit recipients under the Asylum Act. 

On Sunday 30. November, the initiative hosts a special solidarity flea market and dinner at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA. 

15:00 - Flea market and cake bazaar
18:00 - Soli dinner 

Support the fight against the Bezahlkarte by joining us from 15:00 onwards. Feel free to bring your old clothes and homeware and browse a selection of second-hand goods. If you want to inform yourself about the Bezahlkarte, this is the time and place to do that with a hot drink and a tasty slice of cake.

From 18:00 onwards, dinner will be available. On the menu:

Stir fried rice noodles with pickled cucumber and carrot 
Bean cracker
Pumpkin shot

All proceeds from event go towards the initiative NEIN zu Bezahlkarte!
We will use the donations to open up more places where people can exchange vouchers for cash as well as more locations where people can pick up vouchers! 

Last but not least, don’t forget to BRING CASH!

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Statement from NEIN zur Bezahlkarte Berlin Brandenburg:
“The payment card restricts people in their everyday lives and is discriminatory. It prevents the people concerned from having free access to their money and makes their lives unnecessarily difficult. The introduction is based on racist politics. This follows right-wing populist demands and violates human dignity.
Instead of providing solutions, the payment card creates a system of control and monitoring. We and many others want to prevent precisely this and therefore say quite clearly: No to the harassment card!
We demand bank accounts and cash for all! Enough money to live on, to spend it on whatever and without the authorities having access to it.
We demand the abolition of the discriminatory Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act and equal social rights for all!
We call on all of you to show solidarity with each other and let the racist symbolic politics come to nothing. Organize yourselves for voucher exchange campaigns and against the discriminatory and exclusionary system.”