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.

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, we have organised our own events or participated in events to shed light on individual facets, make care work visible and gain further networkers. Individuals are also welcome to join our group.

In July 2021, we organised an event on the situation of carers in Germany from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe together with the Fair Mobility project. The project helps to enforce fair wages and fair working conditions for employees from Central and Eastern European EU countries on the German labour market by providing advice, information and legal assistance. You can find more information here.

We co-organised the demonstration and rallies on Women's Struggle Day on 8 April 2022 and contributed a speech. As part of the Weeks against Racism March - May 2022, we organised an event on the topic of racism in care. We were co-organisers of the Easter March 2022 in Heidelberg on 16 April. On 1 May 2022, we will be represented with a stand at the rally.

We are currently planning 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 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. We also want to highlight grievances in politics, which has so far largely ignored the challenges surrounding care work and taken it for granted despite the economic and social burdens of 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