CTM strongly shares the worries and concerns that the Berlin Council for the Arts, the Coalition of the Independent Scene, the bbk Berlin, inm berlin, LAFT Berlin, the Section Visual Arts of the Akademie der Künste, and the Berlin Film Festival Network have already expressed against the plans of the Berlin Senate for Culture to massively intervene in the freedom of the arts and especially future art funding with the administrative implementation of a so-called anti-discrimination clause. We therefore reject this clause in its current form, and emphatically endorse the appeal of the aforementioned groups and initiatives.

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