No Borders camp at Lesvos
Last Hours | 18.09.2009 10:07 | Migration
At the end of August a No Borders camp was held on the Greek island of Lesvos. Last Hours has published a personal account from the event offering an insight into the racist immigration policies that the camp was called against, and the failure of the camp to achieve any meaningful improvement for those migrants trapped on the island.
After a long cross-country journey home, passing through innumerable European border controls with a wave of the magical papers accessible to us by geographical accident of birth, and having had plenty of time for analysis and reflection, we still feel the Lesvos No Borders camp 09 (25th-31st August) to have been a failure. Despite the energy and determination of the participants, our short presence on the island didn’t seem to, on the whole, leave the migrants trapped in Lesvos any better off than before, and resembled essentially the worst form of anarcho-tourism...
The full article can be read at
http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/no-border-camp-at-lesvos/
The full article can be read at
http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/no-border-camp-at-lesvos/
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