Against Fatherland – 5 years of uprising in Belarus – exhibition & events

Against Fatherland

5 years of uprising in Belarus – exhibition, guided tours & events

07. until 16. October 2025
daily 3-6 pm
at Hole of Fame, Königsbrückerstr. 39, 01099 Dresden

August 9, 2025 marked five years since the uprising in Belarus against Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime. The biggest uprising Belarus had seen since its independence. All parts of the society took to the streets. Since then, people in Belarus have been persecuted for participating in the protests and sent to prisons and camps. The repression continues to this day. At the beginning of September 1187 people were counted as political prisoners.

We would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back at what happened then and how the repression continues to affect people today.

In a photo exhibition, we show the first three nights of the protests in 2020 and the reaction to the massive police violence. We look at specific social groups that participated in the protests and the importance of neighborhood meetings in the uprising. Furthermore, the exhibition shows the extent to which anarchist groups were involved in the events. And the perspective of those imprisoned will be represented through their artistic work created in prison. The specific situation in women’s prisons is also addressed.

Opening event – Tuesday, October 7, 2025 | 7 p.m.
Guided tour of the exhibition

Lecture – Friday, October 10, 2025 | 7 p.m.
What does it feel like to help organize a rebellion?

Guided tour of the exhibition
Saturday, 11 October 2025 | 3 pm in English

Militarization of the israeli society [EN]

A talk with anti-zionist, army objectors, anarchists from Tel -Aviv

After nearly two years of genocide, with tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered, including over 18,000 children, Israel continues its ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Every day, Israeli soldiers and their allies kill dozens of Palestinians seeking food as famine takes the lives of countless others. At the same time, armed settlers, supported by the Israeli army and encouraged by the government, are carrying out pogroms across the West Bank.

How did Israel, which refers to itself as “the only democracy in the Middle East,” become such a murderous state?

And what can be done to stop the genocide?

Friday 17:00-18:30 @IZ

Call for solidarity process support on 26.08.

On August 26, another person from Heibo has to appear in court. Hopefully for the last time, it will be about §113: “Resistance to law enforcement officers” and once again the course of events leading up to the trial, including the eviction, the threat of imprisonment and untenable charges, has already worn on the nerves.

Continue reading “Call for solidarity process support on 26.08.”

08.06.24 antiauthoritarian-antifaschist block at the Demo #WirSindDieBrandmauer

You cannot vote fascism out of society!

🫵🏽Being an anti-fascist is not an option, but rather a necessity for all those who believe in a just and equal society, without fascism and all other authoritarian ideologies!

✊🏽We are going together at 08 June 2024 to the demonstration #WirSindDieBrandmauer there will be an antiauthoritarian-antifascist block in #Dresden

meeting point: 3pm Goldener Reiter

You can read more about the topic here:

Climate strike 31.05.24 – What do authoritarianism and climate change have to do with each other?

Quite simply! That would of course be too short-sighted! 
Let’s briefly look at two aspects. 

For a society, authoritarian politics means that political or economic solutions are implemented centrally. In the past and present, this means that large-scale projects are usually implemented over the heads of the inhabitants of affected regions. These can be dams, mining, tourism projects, company relocations and the like. Governments and businesses usually work hand in hand here. For the local people, this means that nature and their livelihoods are destroyed. Large corporations or the state itself make a profit from this. 

It is not uncommon for regions to be selected for this purpose in order to suppress rebellious inhabitants and gain political control over areas by destroying the livelihoods of local people. 

This is usually sold as infrastructure or development investments, allegedly created jobs or supposedly necessary energy projects. 

And this brings us to the second aspect of authoritarian politics. If people do not share these perspectives, do not benefit from these projects in any case, but instead point out the destruction of the environment and the consequences for the climate and want to save the affected regions, they are criminalized, subjected to massive repression and, in some regions of the world, simply murdered. 

Exploitation of resources and the destruction of nature is also taking place on a massive scale in Germany, for example through mining and its contaminated sites and the establishment of huge unnecessary corporations such as Tesla in Grünheide. 

That’s why we’re also present with Stop Authoritarianism Campaign at the climate strike on 31 May in Dresden!

Against authoritarian politics!
For a decentralisation of the energy supply!
Solidarity with the climate activists affected by repression!

Meeting point 2pm at Goldener Reiter.
We wanna walk than together to Schlossplatz, where the demo starts.