Rhine-Neckar

Care Revolution Rhine Neckar network

Solidarity City, ver.di, the Feminist Alliance Heidelberg and the Church Service in the World of Work invited Gabriele Winker from Care Revolution Freiburg to an impulse event on 18 May 2021 with the aim of initiating a broad discussion and forming a network.

Solidarity City, ver.di, the Feminist Alliance Heidelberg and the Church Service in the World of Work invited Gabriele Winker from Care Revolution Freiburg to a kick-off event on 18 May 2021 with the aim of initiating a broad discussion and forming a network.

Our network now includes

• Antifascist Initiative Heidelberg - Interventionist Left

• EVA. Empathy-Diversity-Exchange. Frauenverein Heidelberg e.V. (intercultural association, a platform for the socio-cultural exchange of people with different cultural backgrounds)

• FAU Heidelberg (formerly: Independent Grassroots Union Heidelberg)

• Feminist Alliance Heidelberg

• Church Service in the World of Work (KDA)

• Solidarity City Heidelberg (emerged from the Seebrücke)

• Verdi

Since then, together with other groups and initiatives, we have organised demonstrations, rallies, events or participated in events such as the Women's Struggle Day, the Weeks against Racism, Easter marches, May Day, climate strikes, Seebrücke activities against the current asylum policy (payment card, isolation/deportation), in working groups/activities of the Alliance against the Right in Heidelberg and the Inclusion Network.

We are in the process of implementing a film project: "Care stories - Who cares?". We want to raise awareness, show and make visible how diverse, how everyday and how normal paid and unpaid care work is.

We will start in May 2025 with quarterly open discussion evenings.
What does care work mean for each of us? How can it be distributed more fairly and better recognised? What political and social changes are needed?

The evenings will be characterised by sharing and reflecting together on experiences, challenges and possible changes: We want to talk, listen and empower each other - everyone is welcome!

We want to give people a voice, hear their stories of successful and problematic care experiences, from everyday life and/or work, and make them public. In addition, we want to point out grievances in politics, which has largely ignored the challenges surrounding care work to date and takes them for granted despite the economic and social burdens on those affected.

We want to draw the utopia of a world in which care work can be and is performed by all people as a matter of course, because it is economically and socially possible to take it on without being disadvantaged in life.

Contact: rhein-neckar@care-revolution.org and heidi.flassak@online.de