Presstatement/ statement To all social movements!
From Warsaw in Poland to Nouakchott in Mauretania
7th of October 06: Transnational Actionday against migration-control
From Warsaw in Poland to Nouakchott in Mauretania
7th of October 06: Transnational Actionday against migration-control
One year after the escalations in Ceuta and Melilla a broad network of Migration related initiatives call for freedom of movement in a transnational day of action. In dozens of cities in Europe and also in Africa manifestations and demonstrations are in preparation for 7th of October.
To organize such a day of migration-related actions was decided on the European Social Forum in May 2006, when about 15.000 people from different social movements met in Athens.
Since last year the militarisation of EU-migration policy has got another instrument: Frontex! Thats the name of the new European Border Agency, which is located in Warsaw. Frontex organised already EU-wide charter deportations and coordinates an operation now at the coast of West Africa: to intensify controls by ships and airplanes to prevent more so called African boatpeople from reaching Europe. At the moment (September 06) still without meeting any success: every day new boats are landing at the Canary Islands, with more people than ever before, and some starting at about a 1200 km distance from Mauretania or even Senegal. During the last months hundreds of people drowned or died of hunger or of thirst when they risked this new route. And the same is still happening in the Sicilian Channel.
European governments put increasing pressure to African countries to become henchmen for their inhuman migration-policy. Beginning in July 06 a so-called "African European summit on migration and development" took place in Rabat, again mainly in order to push African governments to adopt more systems of migration-control: to implement more visa-restrictions, to establish detention-camps, to accept "repatriation"-programms. Mainly North and West African countries are targets of this externalisation-process at the moment, and they are supposed to block migrants on their way to Europe and help to deport them to the desert or sub-Saharan countries.
The European governments are responsible for thousands of deaths of African people in the last years; it is a kind of war against migrants and refugees. The above mentioned Frontex-operation is another step in this war, aiming again on the destruction of the (new) flight-routes.
With this backdrop the following call for actions on 7th of October is an important step of common resistance against this inhuman policy. Eastern European activists will protest in front of the aforementioned Frontex-office in Warsaw, while in a press-conference in Nouakchott the illegalisation of migration will be strictly critisized.
From London to Athens, from Hamburg to Barcelona, simultaneous demonstrations and actions are exspected in dozens of cities all over Europe. And most important: not only in Mauretania, but also in Marocco, Tunesia and Benin activities have been announced as well.
As you can see in the long list of signatures many more organisations from various African countries have signed the call. They as well as many initiatives in Europe support the 3rd Day of Action on the 7th of October, which will be directed against the denial of rights, against the criminalisation of migrants and against all immigration controls, articulating clear demands within the framework of freedom of movement and the right to stay:
- For Europe-wide unconditional legalisation and equal rights for all
migrants
- For the closure of all detention centers in Europe and everywhere
- For an end to all deportations and the externalisation process
- For the uncoupling of the residence permit from the labour contract and
against 'precarity'.
Until now (20th of September 06) actions and demonstrations for 7th of
October are announced in:
- Austria
Vienna: Decentralised actions and collective demonstration against
detention-camps; Further information:
http://no-racism.net/thema/106
- Benin
Cotounou: Activities at 6th, 7th and 9th of October
- France: Paris
- Germany
Berlin: Manifestation and demonstration against a deportation-camp;
contact:
konsumfuerfreiesfluten@yahoo.com and
fluchtlingsbrandenburgini@yahoo.fr
More Informations
http://www.chipkartenini.squat.net/Archiv/aktionen/berichte/aktionstag_7_10_06/aktionstag_7_10_06.html
Hamburg: Nothern-germany-wide demonstration against externalisation an and
, more informations:
http://www.fluechtlingsrat-hamburg.de/ and
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/de/2006/09/494.shtml
Cologne: Demonstration for right to stay
Frankfurt: Concert for right to stay on 6th, Action at the entrance to the
international bookfair against externalisation and for the right to stay
at 7th, more informations: http://aktivgegenabschiebung.de/
Thuringia: Manifestation in front of the refugee-camp in Freienbessingen -
more informations: www.bergsteigen.net.tc
Nuernberg: Demonstration?
Augsburg: Demonstration for the right to stay
Suedbaden/Freiburg: various actions in the city.
more infos: www.aktionbleiberecht.de
contact: Info@aktionbleiberecht.de
- Greece
- Italy: Local activities in several cities
- Marocco
- Mauretania
Nouakchott and Nouadhibou: Press-Conferences and days of sensibisation
- Netherlands
Amsterdam: Action in the shopping centre of Zaandam (near Amsterdam) to
inform and mobilize the public on the two newly build detention boats in
the Zaandam harbour. Contact: info@allincluded.nl
- Poland
Warsaw: Demonstration with refugees from chechnia and manifestation in
front of Frontext-office
- Spain
Actions or demonstrations in Madrid, Barcelona, Almería, Valencia, Málaga
- Tunesia
- United Kingdom
London: 6th of October - Immigration Reporting Center - Close it down"
Contact: sarac@crossroadswomen.net London:
March in South London on 7th October, Assemble 12 noon at Imperial War Musuem Park, Elephant & Castle. Contact migrants@aktivix.org
'Movement-building' conference Queen Mary’s University Mile End, London E1
East London on Sunday 8th October, 10am-5pm;
Glasgow: Unity protest/manifestation 7th October, Contact: theunitycentre@btconnect.com
General contact: frassainfo@kein.org
More informations: www.noborder.org
The call:
3rd day of Migration-Related Actions: 7 oct 2006
all over Europe and beyond ...
19.Jun.06 - [this call is also available in french, spanish, german, italian and greek, see www.noborder.org]
"In the name of fighting clandestine immigration, governments are adopting repressive policies and are expanding the frontiers of wealthy nations through centers of detention, ejections, expulsions and selection of the labour force."
(from the migration-related Appeal of Bamako/Mali at the Polycentric World Social Forum in January 2006)
The European migration regime makes migrants 'illegal'. One of the main measures of the European Union authorities against the movements and struggles of migration is currently the establishment of camps and other instruments of migration control outside Europe, in African and east European countries (their 'externalisation').
When thousands of migrants and refugees collectively stormed the border fences of the Spanish enclaves in Ceuta and Melilla in October last year, the crucial demands for freedom of movement and for equal rights were clearly brought to public attention, at least for the moment. The inhuman, barbaric reactions, the fatal shootings and mass deportations to the desert, mirrored the escalating level of conflict and the crisis of the European migration regime.
But there is an ongoing process undermining this migration regime, not only from 'outside' the borders, but also from the inside. All over Europe, almost every day, there are social and political struggles, protests and campaigns against camps and deportations, for asylum rights for women and men, for legalisation, for European citizenship rights based on residence rather than nationality and against the exploitation of migrant labour. These struggles go far beyond any narrow understanding of European identity.
Our new joint call for a Day of Action follows the mobilisations on 31 January 2004 and on 2 April 2005, when we held the first and second days of action on migration in more than 50 cities across Europe. At the European Social Forum in Athens in May 2006, the issue of migration for the first time had its own thematic 'axis'. A growing network of migration-related initiatives decided in the final assembly to take
another step and coordinate actions around 7 October.
Taking into account specific regional and national conditions and the circumstances of various struggles, our Day of Action aims for resistance at European and even transcontinental levels. Our mobilisation will make the first moves towards Europe-wide central activities in order to develop the idea of a common demonstration in 2007, either in Brussels or at another place of public interest. Our aim is to address Europe as a whole and not only national governments.
In addition the chosen date in October is a reminder of the events in Ceuta and Melilla in 2005. We will make a particular effort to build cooperation with initiatives in Africa. A simultaneous day of actions in European and African cities in October would help to promote an axis on migration in the next World Social Forum, which will take place in Nairobi (Kenya) in January 2007. This corresponds with the Bamako Call which we have already quoted from: 'In the period from the Bamako Forum to the one in Nairobi, we propose a year long international mobilisation in defense of the right of all people to circulate freely around the world and to determine their own destiny... Finally we call for an international day of mobilisation that could take place in the sites/symbols of the frontiers (airports, detention centers, embassies, etc.)'.
Above all, we are determined to stress the global dimension of migrant struggles today. Thus, we intend to connect our Day of Action with the initiatives and ongoing mass mobilisations of the American migrants movement in the next future.
The 3rd Day of Action will be directed against the denial of rights, against the criminalisation of migrants and against all immigration controls, articulating clear demands within the framework of freedom of movement and the right to stay:
- For a European unconditional legalisation and equal rights for all migrants
- For the closure of all detention centers in Europe and everywhere
- For an end to all deportations and of the externalisation process
- For the uncoupling of the residence permit from the labour contract and
against 'precarity'.
Signatories as of 7th of september 2006:
Austria:
no-racism.net | euromayday Vienna | révolté | Infoladen Salzburg |
Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft (Bundesvertretung) | Infomaden |
Deserteurs- und Flüchtlingsberatung | KOMAK MigrantInnen | IG Bildende
Kunst | ATIGF | YDG - Neue Demokratische Jugend | Grundrisse | LEFÖ -
Counselling, Education and Support for Migrant Women | eipcp vienna | GAJ
Wien; Anatolische Föderation Österreich; Rosa Antifa Wien (RAW);
FZ-Autonomes feministische FrauenLesbenMädchen-Zentrum;
Belgium:
Organisation des Exilés Politiques Ivoiriens (OEPI) | Coordination pour la
Régularisation (CRER)
Benin:
Association Interfricaine pour la Promotion et la Défense des Droits des
Réfugiés et Demandeurs d'Asile (AIPDRDA) | Le Conseil Africain des Actions
Concertées (CAFAC) | Le Réseau des Alternatives Dette et Développement
(RECADD)
Cameroon:
Association des Amis des Familles et Victimes des Migrations Clandestines
(AFVMC), Doula;
Canada:
Action Canada pour la Population et le Développement | Coalition d'Appui
aux Travailleurs et Travailleuses Agricoles migrants
Congo (RD):
Groupe des réflexions et d' appui pour la promotion rurale (GRAPR);
Nouvelles alternatives pour le développement (NAD)
Cote D'Ivoire:
Mouvement Ivorien des Droits de la Jeunesse (MIDJ) | Reseau Ouest Africain
pour le Developpement(ROAD), Abidjan | Association de Soutien à l'Auto
Promotion Sanitaire Urbaine(ASAPSU), Abidjan | Marche Mondiale des Femmes
section Côte D'Ivoire(MMF-CI)
France:
Avà Basta, Corse | Association des travailleurs maghrebins de France
(ATMF) | Réseau IPAM | Parti Communiste Français et son réseau "Migrations
et citoyenneté | Association des Marocains en France (AMF) | GISTI (groupe
d'information et de soutien des immigrés) | Collectif de soutien aux sans
papiers (MILLAU 12) | Droits Devant !! | MRAP (Mouvement contre le racisme
et pour l'amitié entre les peuples) | Alternative Libertaire | Les Verts;
teachers union SUD-Education; RESF (Réseau Education sans Frontières);
Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire; ACORT (Assemblée Citoyenne des
originaires de Turquie ); RACORT (Rassemblement des Associations
Citoyennes des Originaires de Turquie); CSSP49 (Collectif de Soutien aux
Sans-Papiers du Maine-et -Loire; Act Up-Paris; Femmes de la Terre;
Association Khamsa; Reseaux NoVox; Réseau Féministe "Ruptures";
Germany:
Refugee Councils from Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen |
Action-Alliance against Deportations, Rhine-Main | no one is illegal,
Hanau | Cafe Exil Hamburg | AGIS Darmstadt | Caravan for the rights of
refugees and migrants, Munich | NoLager Bremen | Kooperative
Flüchlingssolidarität Hannover | The Voice Refugee Forum Jena | Initiative
against the chipcard system, Berlin | Caravan for the rights of refugees
and migrants, Hamburg | Kölner Appell gegen Rassismus e.V. | Local group
of the "Society for Threatened Peoples", Hamburg | Antirassismusplenum
Göttingen | Aktion Bleiberecht Freiburg/Südbaden | Bündnis gegen Lager
Berlin/Brandenburg
Greece:
Network for Social Support to Immigrants and Refugees | Network for
Political and Social Rights | Antiracist Initiative of Thessaloniki
Turkish Minority Moovement for Human and Minority Rights | Greek Migrants
Forum
Italy:
Tavolo Migranti | ARCI | Associazione Todo Cambia, Milano | Coordinamento
Immigrati Bergamo | SINCOBAS; Colletivo No Border, Napoli; COBAS;
IWW-Invisible Workers of the World/Rete europea dei migranti e dei
precari;
Razzismo Stop - Veneto; Coordinamento migranti - Verona; Movimento
antagonista toscano; Senza Confine - Roma; Federazione RdB-CUB; TPO -
Bologna; AQ16 - Reggio Emilia; Laboratorio Paz - Rimini;
Mali: CAD | Association des Initiatives de Developpement (AIDE), Bamako;
Indymedia Mali; Foram (Forum pour un autre Mali); Retour, travail et
dignité;
Marocco:
La confédération des élevés étudiants et stagiaires africains au Maroc |
Pateras de Vida | Association des Sans papiers et des Démandeurs d'Asile
au Maroc (ASDAM) | réfugies sans frontiere | alter forum | Attac Maroc |
Chabaka Tanger | Association Africa Maghreb pour le développement Maroc,
Nador| Collectif des refugiés au Maroc | Réseau des associations de
quartier du grand Casablanca | Conseil des Migrants Subahariens au Maroc |
AMDH | Association national outre les frontieres (ANOF) | Africa Maghreb
pour le développement
Mauretania:
Association Mauretanienne de Droits de l'Homme (AMDH)
Netherlands:
"All included" | La plateForme Intercontinentale des MRE, Amsterdam
Niger:
Le Réseau National Dette et Developpement (RNDD)
Poland:
Free Caucasus committee
Senegal:
Agence Internationale pour le Développement du Sénégal (AIDE)
Spain:
Coordinadora de Inmigrantes de Málaga (CIM) | Casa Argentina de Málaga |
Federación de Inmigrantes de Marbella | Centro Social-Casa de Iniciativas,
Málaga | Colectivo Entránsito, Málaga | Red Precari@s en Movimiento |
Oficina de Derechos Sociales, Sevilla | Caravana Ninguna Persona es
Ilegal, Sevilla | Indymedia Estrecho | Asociación Cultural La Dinamo,
Madrid | Ateneu Candela, Terrassa | Col.lectiu Intercultural de Terrassa |
Colectivo Desequilibris | Casa de Nicaragua de Terrassa | El Frijol
Rebelde (Soli Guatemala) | Tejedoras de Redes | Federación Centro de las
Culturas | Partido Humanista | CGT-Andalucía | Colectivo Zapatista de
Granada | Espai per a la Desobediencia a les Fronteres (área metropolitana
de Barcelona) | Asociación Humanista Bakau | Plataforma de Solidaridad con
los Inmigrantes, Málaga | Asamblea por la Regularización sin Condiciones,
Barcelona | Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (SOC), Almería | Federación
Estatal de Asociaciones de Inmigrantes y Refugiados – FERINE | Colectivo
de Colombianos Refugiados en España – COLREFE | Comité Madrileño por la
Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia - COMADEHCO (Madrid) |
Asociación de Chilenos en España – ACHES (Madrid) | Asociación TANGRA
(Madrid) | Derechos para Todos y Todas (Madrid) | Asociación Cultural
INKARRI (Madrid) | Asociación ESPACIO DE SOLIDARIDAD (Madrid) | Asociación
de Inmigrantes y Refugiados en el Estado Español – ENTREIGUALES (Madrid) |
Centro Internacional para la Promoción y la Investigación los Derechos
Humanos – CINPROINDH | Asociación Hispano Americana – ASOHMA (Madrid) |
Comisión Española de Ayuda a Refugiados – CEAR | SOS Racismo - Madrid |
Asamblea Social de Rivas (Madrid) | Foro Alternativo de la Inmigración
(Valencia) | Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (Andalucía) | Izquierda Unida
(Málaga) | Associació Papers i Drets per a Tothom (Barcelona) | Asamblea
Social Universitaria (Barcelona)
Sweden:
ingen människa är illegal(no one is illegal network)
Ukraine:
noborder Kiev
United Kingdom:
The Campaign to Close Campsfield | Barbed Wire Britain | Noborders London
| no one is illegal | No Borders Glasgow | Stop Deporting Children |
Birmingham NoBorders | Latin American Workers Association, London |
Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organization (IRMO), London | Todas las
Voces Todas radio show, London; Justice for Cleaners; Zimbabwe Action Group;
European Organisation and Networks:
Frassanito-Network | Europäisches BürgerInnenforum/Forum Civique Europeen;
Next Genderation;
Individuals:
France: Jérôme Dablain, Anaik Pian, zita.trancart, Pierre Cordelier,
Huguette Cordelier, Hyacinthe ROBERT, Sylvain George, Jean Claude Mavungu,
Zine-Eddine Mjati, Monique Crinon Cedetim, Baeza Laure,
Maroc: Hamid Harbal, Mina Tafnout,
Suisse: Francisco Merlo,
UK: Nicholas Ndebele, Moses Makhula, Floyd F. Mutambiranwa, Godfrey Nyandoro
To organize such a day of migration-related actions was decided on the European Social Forum in May 2006, when about 15.000 people from different social movements met in Athens.
Since last year the militarisation of EU-migration policy has got another instrument: Frontex! Thats the name of the new European Border Agency, which is located in Warsaw. Frontex organised already EU-wide charter deportations and coordinates an operation now at the coast of West Africa: to intensify controls by ships and airplanes to prevent more so called African boatpeople from reaching Europe. At the moment (September 06) still without meeting any success: every day new boats are landing at the Canary Islands, with more people than ever before, and some starting at about a 1200 km distance from Mauretania or even Senegal. During the last months hundreds of people drowned or died of hunger or of thirst when they risked this new route. And the same is still happening in the Sicilian Channel.
European governments put increasing pressure to African countries to become henchmen for their inhuman migration-policy. Beginning in July 06 a so-called "African European summit on migration and development" took place in Rabat, again mainly in order to push African governments to adopt more systems of migration-control: to implement more visa-restrictions, to establish detention-camps, to accept "repatriation"-programms. Mainly North and West African countries are targets of this externalisation-process at the moment, and they are supposed to block migrants on their way to Europe and help to deport them to the desert or sub-Saharan countries.
The European governments are responsible for thousands of deaths of African people in the last years; it is a kind of war against migrants and refugees. The above mentioned Frontex-operation is another step in this war, aiming again on the destruction of the (new) flight-routes.
With this backdrop the following call for actions on 7th of October is an important step of common resistance against this inhuman policy. Eastern European activists will protest in front of the aforementioned Frontex-office in Warsaw, while in a press-conference in Nouakchott the illegalisation of migration will be strictly critisized.
From London to Athens, from Hamburg to Barcelona, simultaneous demonstrations and actions are exspected in dozens of cities all over Europe. And most important: not only in Mauretania, but also in Marocco, Tunesia and Benin activities have been announced as well.
As you can see in the long list of signatures many more organisations from various African countries have signed the call. They as well as many initiatives in Europe support the 3rd Day of Action on the 7th of October, which will be directed against the denial of rights, against the criminalisation of migrants and against all immigration controls, articulating clear demands within the framework of freedom of movement and the right to stay:
- For Europe-wide unconditional legalisation and equal rights for all
migrants
- For the closure of all detention centers in Europe and everywhere
- For an end to all deportations and the externalisation process
- For the uncoupling of the residence permit from the labour contract and
against 'precarity'.
Until now (20th of September 06) actions and demonstrations for 7th of
October are announced in:
- Austria
Vienna: Decentralised actions and collective demonstration against
detention-camps; Further information:
http://no-racism.net/thema/106 - Benin
Cotounou: Activities at 6th, 7th and 9th of October
- France: Paris
- Germany
Berlin: Manifestation and demonstration against a deportation-camp;
contact:
konsumfuerfreiesfluten@yahoo.com and fluchtlingsbrandenburgini@yahoo.fr More Informations
http://www.chipkartenini.squat.net/Archiv/aktionen/berichte/aktionstag_7_10_06/aktionstag_7_10_06.html Hamburg: Nothern-germany-wide demonstration against externalisation an and
, more informations:
http://www.fluechtlingsrat-hamburg.de/ and http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/de/2006/09/494.shtml Cologne: Demonstration for right to stay
Frankfurt: Concert for right to stay on 6th, Action at the entrance to the
international bookfair against externalisation and for the right to stay
at 7th, more informations:
http://aktivgegenabschiebung.de/ Thuringia: Manifestation in front of the refugee-camp in Freienbessingen -
more informations: www.bergsteigen.net.tc
Nuernberg: Demonstration?
Augsburg: Demonstration for the right to stay
Suedbaden/Freiburg: various actions in the city.
more infos: www.aktionbleiberecht.de
contact:
Info@aktionbleiberecht.de - Greece
- Italy: Local activities in several cities
- Marocco
- Mauretania
Nouakchott and Nouadhibou: Press-Conferences and days of sensibisation
- Netherlands
Amsterdam: Action in the shopping centre of Zaandam (near Amsterdam) to
inform and mobilize the public on the two newly build detention boats in
the Zaandam harbour. Contact:
info@allincluded.nl - Poland
Warsaw: Demonstration with refugees from chechnia and manifestation in
front of Frontext-office
- Spain
Actions or demonstrations in Madrid, Barcelona, Almería, Valencia, Málaga
- Tunesia
- United Kingdom
London: 6th of October - Immigration Reporting Center - Close it down"
Contact:
sarac@crossroadswomen.net London: March in South London on 7th October, Assemble 12 noon at Imperial War Musuem Park, Elephant & Castle. Contact
migrants@aktivix.org 'Movement-building' conference Queen Mary’s University Mile End, London E1
East London on Sunday 8th October, 10am-5pm;
Glasgow: Unity protest/manifestation 7th October, Contact:
theunitycentre@btconnect.com General contact:
frassainfo@kein.org More informations: www.noborder.org
The call:
3rd day of Migration-Related Actions: 7 oct 2006
all over Europe and beyond ...
19.Jun.06 - [this call is also available in french, spanish, german, italian and greek, see www.noborder.org]
"In the name of fighting clandestine immigration, governments are adopting repressive policies and are expanding the frontiers of wealthy nations through centers of detention, ejections, expulsions and selection of the labour force."
(from the migration-related Appeal of Bamako/Mali at the Polycentric World Social Forum in January 2006)
The European migration regime makes migrants 'illegal'. One of the main measures of the European Union authorities against the movements and struggles of migration is currently the establishment of camps and other instruments of migration control outside Europe, in African and east European countries (their 'externalisation').
When thousands of migrants and refugees collectively stormed the border fences of the Spanish enclaves in Ceuta and Melilla in October last year, the crucial demands for freedom of movement and for equal rights were clearly brought to public attention, at least for the moment. The inhuman, barbaric reactions, the fatal shootings and mass deportations to the desert, mirrored the escalating level of conflict and the crisis of the European migration regime.
But there is an ongoing process undermining this migration regime, not only from 'outside' the borders, but also from the inside. All over Europe, almost every day, there are social and political struggles, protests and campaigns against camps and deportations, for asylum rights for women and men, for legalisation, for European citizenship rights based on residence rather than nationality and against the exploitation of migrant labour. These struggles go far beyond any narrow understanding of European identity.
Our new joint call for a Day of Action follows the mobilisations on 31 January 2004 and on 2 April 2005, when we held the first and second days of action on migration in more than 50 cities across Europe. At the European Social Forum in Athens in May 2006, the issue of migration for the first time had its own thematic 'axis'. A growing network of migration-related initiatives decided in the final assembly to take
another step and coordinate actions around 7 October.
Taking into account specific regional and national conditions and the circumstances of various struggles, our Day of Action aims for resistance at European and even transcontinental levels. Our mobilisation will make the first moves towards Europe-wide central activities in order to develop the idea of a common demonstration in 2007, either in Brussels or at another place of public interest. Our aim is to address Europe as a whole and not only national governments.
In addition the chosen date in October is a reminder of the events in Ceuta and Melilla in 2005. We will make a particular effort to build cooperation with initiatives in Africa. A simultaneous day of actions in European and African cities in October would help to promote an axis on migration in the next World Social Forum, which will take place in Nairobi (Kenya) in January 2007. This corresponds with the Bamako Call which we have already quoted from: 'In the period from the Bamako Forum to the one in Nairobi, we propose a year long international mobilisation in defense of the right of all people to circulate freely around the world and to determine their own destiny... Finally we call for an international day of mobilisation that could take place in the sites/symbols of the frontiers (airports, detention centers, embassies, etc.)'.
Above all, we are determined to stress the global dimension of migrant struggles today. Thus, we intend to connect our Day of Action with the initiatives and ongoing mass mobilisations of the American migrants movement in the next future.
The 3rd Day of Action will be directed against the denial of rights, against the criminalisation of migrants and against all immigration controls, articulating clear demands within the framework of freedom of movement and the right to stay:
- For a European unconditional legalisation and equal rights for all migrants
- For the closure of all detention centers in Europe and everywhere
- For an end to all deportations and of the externalisation process
- For the uncoupling of the residence permit from the labour contract and
against 'precarity'.
Signatories as of 7th of september 2006:
Austria:
no-racism.net | euromayday Vienna | révolté | Infoladen Salzburg |
Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft (Bundesvertretung) | Infomaden |
Deserteurs- und Flüchtlingsberatung | KOMAK MigrantInnen | IG Bildende
Kunst | ATIGF | YDG - Neue Demokratische Jugend | Grundrisse | LEFÖ -
Counselling, Education and Support for Migrant Women | eipcp vienna | GAJ
Wien; Anatolische Föderation Österreich; Rosa Antifa Wien (RAW);
FZ-Autonomes feministische FrauenLesbenMädchen-Zentrum;
Belgium:
Organisation des Exilés Politiques Ivoiriens (OEPI) | Coordination pour la
Régularisation (CRER)
Benin:
Association Interfricaine pour la Promotion et la Défense des Droits des
Réfugiés et Demandeurs d'Asile (AIPDRDA) | Le Conseil Africain des Actions
Concertées (CAFAC) | Le Réseau des Alternatives Dette et Développement
(RECADD)
Cameroon:
Association des Amis des Familles et Victimes des Migrations Clandestines
(AFVMC), Doula;
Canada:
Action Canada pour la Population et le Développement | Coalition d'Appui
aux Travailleurs et Travailleuses Agricoles migrants
Congo (RD):
Groupe des réflexions et d' appui pour la promotion rurale (GRAPR);
Nouvelles alternatives pour le développement (NAD)
Cote D'Ivoire:
Mouvement Ivorien des Droits de la Jeunesse (MIDJ) | Reseau Ouest Africain
pour le Developpement(ROAD), Abidjan | Association de Soutien à l'Auto
Promotion Sanitaire Urbaine(ASAPSU), Abidjan | Marche Mondiale des Femmes
section Côte D'Ivoire(MMF-CI)
France:
Avà Basta, Corse | Association des travailleurs maghrebins de France
(ATMF) | Réseau IPAM | Parti Communiste Français et son réseau "Migrations
et citoyenneté | Association des Marocains en France (AMF) | GISTI (groupe
d'information et de soutien des immigrés) | Collectif de soutien aux sans
papiers (MILLAU 12) | Droits Devant !! | MRAP (Mouvement contre le racisme
et pour l'amitié entre les peuples) | Alternative Libertaire | Les Verts;
teachers union SUD-Education; RESF (Réseau Education sans Frontières);
Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire; ACORT (Assemblée Citoyenne des
originaires de Turquie ); RACORT (Rassemblement des Associations
Citoyennes des Originaires de Turquie); CSSP49 (Collectif de Soutien aux
Sans-Papiers du Maine-et -Loire; Act Up-Paris; Femmes de la Terre;
Association Khamsa; Reseaux NoVox; Réseau Féministe "Ruptures";
Germany:
Refugee Councils from Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen |
Action-Alliance against Deportations, Rhine-Main | no one is illegal,
Hanau | Cafe Exil Hamburg | AGIS Darmstadt | Caravan for the rights of
refugees and migrants, Munich | NoLager Bremen | Kooperative
Flüchlingssolidarität Hannover | The Voice Refugee Forum Jena | Initiative
against the chipcard system, Berlin | Caravan for the rights of refugees
and migrants, Hamburg | Kölner Appell gegen Rassismus e.V. | Local group
of the "Society for Threatened Peoples", Hamburg | Antirassismusplenum
Göttingen | Aktion Bleiberecht Freiburg/Südbaden | Bündnis gegen Lager
Berlin/Brandenburg
Greece:
Network for Social Support to Immigrants and Refugees | Network for
Political and Social Rights | Antiracist Initiative of Thessaloniki
Turkish Minority Moovement for Human and Minority Rights | Greek Migrants
Forum
Italy:
Tavolo Migranti | ARCI | Associazione Todo Cambia, Milano | Coordinamento
Immigrati Bergamo | SINCOBAS; Colletivo No Border, Napoli; COBAS;
IWW-Invisible Workers of the World/Rete europea dei migranti e dei
precari;
Razzismo Stop - Veneto; Coordinamento migranti - Verona; Movimento
antagonista toscano; Senza Confine - Roma; Federazione RdB-CUB; TPO -
Bologna; AQ16 - Reggio Emilia; Laboratorio Paz - Rimini;
Mali: CAD | Association des Initiatives de Developpement (AIDE), Bamako;
Indymedia Mali; Foram (Forum pour un autre Mali); Retour, travail et
dignité;
Marocco:
La confédération des élevés étudiants et stagiaires africains au Maroc |
Pateras de Vida | Association des Sans papiers et des Démandeurs d'Asile
au Maroc (ASDAM) | réfugies sans frontiere | alter forum | Attac Maroc |
Chabaka Tanger | Association Africa Maghreb pour le développement Maroc,
Nador| Collectif des refugiés au Maroc | Réseau des associations de
quartier du grand Casablanca | Conseil des Migrants Subahariens au Maroc |
AMDH | Association national outre les frontieres (ANOF) | Africa Maghreb
pour le développement
Mauretania:
Association Mauretanienne de Droits de l'Homme (AMDH)
Netherlands:
"All included" | La plateForme Intercontinentale des MRE, Amsterdam
Niger:
Le Réseau National Dette et Developpement (RNDD)
Poland:
Free Caucasus committee
Senegal:
Agence Internationale pour le Développement du Sénégal (AIDE)
Spain:
Coordinadora de Inmigrantes de Málaga (CIM) | Casa Argentina de Málaga |
Federación de Inmigrantes de Marbella | Centro Social-Casa de Iniciativas,
Málaga | Colectivo Entránsito, Málaga | Red Precari@s en Movimiento |
Oficina de Derechos Sociales, Sevilla | Caravana Ninguna Persona es
Ilegal, Sevilla | Indymedia Estrecho | Asociación Cultural La Dinamo,
Madrid | Ateneu Candela, Terrassa | Col.lectiu Intercultural de Terrassa |
Colectivo Desequilibris | Casa de Nicaragua de Terrassa | El Frijol
Rebelde (Soli Guatemala) | Tejedoras de Redes | Federación Centro de las
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Granada | Espai per a la Desobediencia a les Fronteres (área metropolitana
de Barcelona) | Asociación Humanista Bakau | Plataforma de Solidaridad con
los Inmigrantes, Málaga | Asamblea por la Regularización sin Condiciones,
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Estatal de Asociaciones de Inmigrantes y Refugiados – FERINE | Colectivo
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Asociación de Chilenos en España – ACHES (Madrid) | Asociación TANGRA
(Madrid) | Derechos para Todos y Todas (Madrid) | Asociación Cultural
INKARRI (Madrid) | Asociación ESPACIO DE SOLIDARIDAD (Madrid) | Asociación
de Inmigrantes y Refugiados en el Estado Español – ENTREIGUALES (Madrid) |
Centro Internacional para la Promoción y la Investigación los Derechos
Humanos – CINPROINDH | Asociación Hispano Americana – ASOHMA (Madrid) |
Comisión Española de Ayuda a Refugiados – CEAR | SOS Racismo - Madrid |
Asamblea Social de Rivas (Madrid) | Foro Alternativo de la Inmigración
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Birmingham NoBorders | Latin American Workers Association, London |
Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organization (IRMO), London | Todas las
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Frassanito-Network | Europäisches BürgerInnenforum/Forum Civique Europeen;
Next Genderation;
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NO BOMBS NO BOSSES NO BORDERS (NoBo)3
24.09.2006 17:15
RESPONSE TO OCTOBER 7 DECLARATION
(NoBo)3 r my enemy (NoBo)3 cowardly non-communist (NoBo)3 uncle tom (NoBo)3 bandwagon jumper (NoBo)3 r the definition of petit bourgeoise (NoBo)3 deserve to b legally detained
(NoBo)3 hereby condemn the ESF, No Borders London and the October 7th Declaration.
NoBo3 denounce all borders - London, Europe, Earth or universe, self or other, master or slave, black or white - not just borders of space but also borders of value and time, like the borders of the calendar - these devices just serve to break us up, to control and pacify us.
1. "Migrants"
The UK Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act of 2002 formally changed the name of detention centres to removal centres. This action was part of a shift in the semantic dimensions of confinement and oppression that need to be considered along with the physical/ spatial or psychical/ temporal dimensions. Another suicide of a refugee in detention last month shows how lethal these conditions are. While the 'concentration camp' and the 'ghetto' are dimensional extensions of the semantic space of the 'nation', imprisonment is just such a feature of another dimension of 'citizenship'. The semantic elasticity of the IRCs is shown by the fact that Oakington is signposted off the A14 - not even as an Immigration "Removal" Centre, but an Immigration "Reception" Centre. Even the term 'immigration' and its semantic association with 'asylum' (again, a term that denotes mental illness as a replacement for the term refugee - a term which links a person's identity as a resister of the polarisations of imperial war) - needs to be resisted, along with nationalism; Counter strategies must be re-introduced such as opening up the semantics of diaspora and inter/antinationalism.
Basically we should also remind ourselves that while spatial dimensions are confined, temporal dimensions must be expanded in order for imprisonment to be damaging (i.e. smaller space, longer time) - But most crucially this is meaningless unless semantic dimensions are simultaneously invaded and controlled. Communication, as much as the commune, is a basic element of Communism. In the IRCs, while one of the most damaging aspects of the confinement is the openness of the temporal dimension - there is no time limit to the detention, we have also seen the damage caused by the control of semantic dimensions. The lack of any differentiation between convicted criminals, refugees and migrants, the lack of access to judicial process - or rather the spectre/image/spectacle of process removed from any real concept of justice - all of this is underpinned by the control of the means of communication. By providing phones, lawyers, communication and then withholding access at any given point, detainees are shunted around semantic/ psychic spaces at a disorientating speed.
This is the mental equivalent of 'flying' imprisonment - a tactic used on a proletarian organiser in Pakistan where he was moved around cells and prisons on a daily, twice daily basis. It is also used on terror suspects at Belmarsh. In the Pakistan case this tactic failed, as the said organiser was able to reach more people and spread his message further. This can also happen in semantic space as more and more concepts are brought into contact with a revolutionary critique. The control of spatial, temporal and semantic space with and as new technology is something that is now being developed. Curfews, tagging, surveillance are nothing new - and the subtlety as well as the scale and savagery with which they are being put into practice is only apparently new.
In fighting the spatial and temporal borders we also fight the semantic borders - We refuse all imposed description and orientation such as 'migrant' or 'immigrant' - thereby refusing to dignify colonial borders and psychopathic geometry. For us, the power of movement is also of self-definition, documentation and consciousness.
1. "Europe"
As the European Union grows in power, Pan-European internationalism will create more problems than it solves. Whereas some may see “European-wide” links as being a healthy way of superceding nationalism, for us the real key to internationalism lies in its universalism. We suggest that the abandonment of “Europe-wide” organising is necessary to allow a more egalitarian way of organising which does not privilege the “European”, whether understood in terms of culture, race or region.
It is precisely these three dimensions of the semantic space of “European” that gives it such a volatile ideological value. It can be understood by different people in different ways. Those that understand it terms of region perforce must adopt the sort of territorialism, which is characteristic of the state, in this case the emerging European Union. Another conception is racial, which originated in the consolidation of a White social elite in European colonies outside Europe. The third, ie cultural, associates the highest level of human achievement with the history of Europe from the days of ancient Greece to today.
Europe-wide organising has a reactionary effect by:
Encouraging a European identity as something separate from humanity
in general by privileging European connectedness.
Discouraging the participation of people from non-European diasporas
living in Europe by discriminating against their social, cultural and political connections with places outside Europe
Obstructing a critical appraisal of Eurocentrism, institutional
racism and White Supremacy by adopting a structure which facilitates all three.
"Globalisation" has highlighted our increasing need to develop counter-strategies at a global level. For this to succeed we need to ensure that an organisational practice that embraces the whole of humanity, rather than allowing a method of organisation which asserts the autonomy of one of the richest parts of the world which has a track record of spreading destruction, exploitation and brutality across the world since the inception of capitalism in the sixteenth century C.E.
3. "Rights"
We have also recently seen the Government start to overtly attack Human Rights laws (rather than the passive attack on these 'rights' through their disregard) in order to obscure the failures of the British justice system while the press continues to fuel racist hysteria in Britain by concentrating on the fact that detainees on early release were migrants or 'foreigners' as they are phrasing it. This is despite the fact that refugees in detention centres are being illegally locked up and deported against their Human Rights as guaranteed by British, European and International law.
Having attacked the rights of Afghani refugees who hijacked a plane to escape the Taliban (Just like some newspapers in the 30s attacked the 'right' of Jews to escape Auschwitz), they have simultaneously covered up the fact that there is an ongoing Hunger strike at British Detention Centres and Immigration Removal Centres, where conditions have become so bad that people have committed suicide. There has also been a cover up of the beatings by Home Office sanctioned Immigration Officers at SERCO and Premier of migrant detainees who talk to the press in order to expose their treatment.
This amounts to a joint effort by Home Office and the Press to collaborate in the genocide of refugees by beating, torturing and ultimately deporting them to war-zones, which they have fled and will certainly be killed. The power of the state to confer and withhold human rights is the power to grant life and death. Given that in Europe we do not have the right to bear arms or have a death penalty, the right to kill remains in the hands of the army.
In reality, many very different concepts are united under banner of the human rights, often in an inconsistent manner. For example in Germany, human rights for immigrants mean something completely different than human rights for natives. Why free speech is a human right, but a right to land is not? Concepts such as human rights and terrorism are ever present in political discussion, but their content is blurred to say the least.
The concept of human rights is for sure, a core idea of "enlightment" of the 18th century - a racist concept based on a Newtonian physical conception of light as the presence of God on Earth - a scientific justification for white supremacy. Marxist materialism on the other hand, in its rejection of humanism was a departure from enlightement which was recuperated as Leninist totalitarism.
However, we see no problem in using Human Rights as an argument in practice, either for refugees or when defending rights of workers against illegal sacking. We have both good and bad experiences for example with liberal human rightists and consistency of their practice in regards to rights of anarchists - for example ACLU of USA has always stood by anarchists when their civil rights have been violated, whereas in contrast, Amnesty International does not support anybody who has for example been defending himself (such as anti-fascist Tomek Wilkoszevski doing 15 years in Poland), and very seldom those who have been framed for committing criminal offences (such as anarchist Aleksei Cherepanov in Russia).
Self defence should not be less of a right than free speech, everybody should have a right to kill a violent Nazi. Self-defence should not be a privilege of statists. On the other hand, mob justice is far too often glorified by anarchists, image of a lynch mob may hardly suit promoting direct action among such groups as black people.
We have much first-hand experience of terrorist hysteria, for example recently an anti-terrorist case was opened against Bulgarian anarchist for distribution of leaflets only. Bosnian anarchists told which kind of advertisement NATO and SFOR are paying in the local press - corpses in bodybags under header "terrorist, this is your destiny"... although during 9 years of defacto colonial occupation there has not been a single terrorist attack against NATO or SFOR troops in Bosnia! Which of course does not mean that suspected people are not sent to Guantamo... 200 years ago concept of terror was reserved for states only, nowadays it is even used in the context of property destruction.
We therefore stick to Marx's critique of jurisprudence, its class-based nature, its abstract subjects. This critique cannot help looking at the ideology of "civil liberties" and "human rights". We are very much aware of the (objective) inconsistency of anarchists and libertarians. Their aims may be revolutionary, and we are likely to fight the same battles, and yet any demand for "rights" – even "natural", "human", "universal" ones – maintains the same limits and contradictions exposed by Marx. The capitalist state acknowledges "rights" only as its foundations, its "natural base", and never separates them from horrible "duties" (e.g. to give up part of one's income to maintain the police and the army). As to "human rights", they depend on the same trans-national legislation, which declared embargos [economic blocks] to "hostile" (non-human?) countries, and allowed imperialists to raze down cities and bury soldiers alive in their desert trenches.
If we mistake freedom for the "totalitarianism of the rights of man", we will surrender to the abuses of the world cops. Nevertheless, we must fight on the enemy's ground, use the enemy's concepts and show how they really work, turn them against the enemy in a stylish way (style is the real martial art, the base of every fight; fighting techniques are the consequence). From this point of view, we want to show what jurisprudence is and what effects it has in today's authoritarian state and the empire which states are a part of. We will do it by wearing the spectacles of "civil liberties" defenders, drawing the least obvious conclusions, laying the stress on the most obscure and contradictory aspects, such as ius resistentatie [the right to resistance] and the necessity to test out the law, all aspects that can turn the law inside out. The lawyer must use the law to attack the law, just as any worker must work against work - and the victim make a victim of its victimisation. This cannot be done in isolation but through constant proletarian intervention - lawyers, human rights, anarchist or support groups are all very well, but the struggle is lost without active groups of the exploited classes (for example refugees), self-organised against their exploitation.
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(No Bo)3
What the fuck?!
24.09.2006 18:43
ARSE!
try and semantically link that to some kinda form of oppression...
how do you expect to get that across to people like refugees?
anarcho-racists fuck off
25.09.2006 16:12
no bo daddy