NO! PEGIDA NO!PEGIDA NO! PEGIDA

freedomnotfrontex — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:41:11 +0000

Statement held by Bino Byansi Byakuleka akaPatras Bwansi at the rally against Berlin’s racist Bergida mobilizations. Bino Byansi Byakulekais is a member of the African Refugees Union.

It is negative energy demonstrating the climax point of the illness of racism and Islamophobic hatred within the Germany societies—say! Shame on you GERMANY. This energy (pegida)
is instrumentalized by the main stream. To prove this, the German government without being ashamed continuously keeps on allowing pegida actions and provides them tight securities on their demos. This is a total provocation by the state to us foreigners living in Germany.
They say the Germans are scared, that they have fears that need to be addressed.
But who addresses OUR fears? The fear to be attacked on the street at any moment at any place in Germany? The fear that it is becoming dangerous to live in Germany for people of color and black people?
That is why I want to strongly condemn the government of Germany for its negligence to carryout quick and transparent investigation on cases of everyday brutal racist attacks to us refugees and migrants.
That is why am here today with you on behalf of the ARU demonstrating against the pegida illness of discrimination and hatred against refugees and Muslim migrants.
We must stand strong in solidarity and deconstruct the capitalist and imperialist ideologies of dehumanizing humans by dividing us and keeping us in FEAR.
We must fight together against the political, military, economical and cultural interventions of EU member states in the refugee home countries. Likewise we demand the right to free choice of residence, the complete abolishment of lagers, to stop all deportations. We demand the German government to change the brutal asylum laws and migration policies.
We as ARU say no to Frontex.
We expect the European Union to take over responsibility for the constant mass murder and killings in the Mediterranean and give back the Nobel Peace Price from 2012 .
We demand the EU member states to commission an independent Mediterranean sea rescue company and to initiate a radical change in foreign and migration policies concerning border controls.
However, this is not a natural but a constructed development, because it is rooted in the evolution of imperialism as an ideological concept, which in turn is rooted in the systematic dehumanization of other humans ‐ the black and coloured people, the refugees, women, children, LGBTIQ people, disabled and homeless, workers, jobless, prisoners and sex workers‐ in short all the powerless people suffer most from the results of FEAR. As a consequence the majority of the population have to face daily oppression, enslavement, and discrimination.
Now the question is: How to deal with FEAR?
As Nelson Mandela say! “The brave man or woman is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
I believe that we are human beings, who are born free. Therefore we must free ourselves
again. It is possible to overcome FEAR and liberate ourselves from this bondage if each and every
one tries to reflect on his or her own personality within and in relation to the outside world, no matter what kind of gender, race, nationality, religion, education, and status they have. For me FEAR
creates a situation that can only be countered by the analyzing and realizing of the facts and
secondly by educating oneself. Therefore for the oppressed and discriminated people there is a big need to join hands and work together. That is why I say: “my right is your right!” My right to walk,
my right to act, my right to love. We are born free!

Gemeinsam gegen rassistische Hetze und soziale Ausgrenzung auf die Straße!

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:14:57 +0000

— english below —

Demonstration am 05.01.2015

Auftakt 17.00 Uhr Klosterstaße vor dem Sitz des Innensenats

#NoPegida #NoBergida #NoBärgida #NoRacism

Der “Patrioten e.V.” versucht mit einer Demonstration am 05. Januar in Berlin einen “Pegida”-Ableger unter dem Namen “Bärgida” zu etablieren. Hinter dem “Patrioten e.V.” stecken das rechte bis völkisch-nationalistische Umfeld von Gruppen wie “German Defence League”, “Pro Deutschland”, “Die Freiheit”, aber auch sogenannte “Identitäre” und Sympathisant_innen von AfD und NPD.

Als verängstigte Bürger_innen verharmloste Nazis und Rassist_innen mobilisieren seit Wochen zu Aufmärschen, die sich hauptsächlich gegen Geflüchtete und Muslime_a richten. Ängste vor dem Verlust von Privilegien und des eigenen sozialen Status werden geschürt, Sündenböcke erfunden und Betroffene gegeneinander ausgespielt.

Politiker_innen aus Bundes- und Landesregierungen verbergen mit zaghaften Abgrenzungen von Pegida ihre eigene Verantwortung für die rassistischen Mobilisierungen. Diskriminierende Debatten über einen angeblichen “Asylmissbrauch” dienen ihnen im politischen Tagesgeschehen als Rechtfertigung für Sanktionen, Verschärfungen des Asylrechts und die Ausgrenzung von Menschen. Die Argumentationsmuster und Vorgehensweisen ähneln dabei der “Das Boot ist voll”-Rhethorik Anfang der 1990er Jahre.

Heute nehmen rassistische Angriffe europaweit zu. Ziel sind oft Geflüchtete und ihre Unterkünfte, Moscheen, Muslime_a, Rom_nija und Schwarze Menschen. Diese erschreckenden Entwicklungen nehmen wir zum Anlass, uns jeder Form von Rassismus noch entschlossener entgegenzustellen. Wir sagen: Rassismus blockieren ist unser Recht! Wir verhandeln und verharmlosen nicht, wir ergreifen die Initiative!

Der Widerstand wächst bereits: Bonn, Kassel, Dresden, München – mittlerweile stellen sich zehntausende den rassistischen Aufmärschen in den Weg. Wir rufen alle Berliner_innen dazu auf, sich den rechten, nationalistischen und rassistischen Gruppierungen ebenso in den Weg zu stellen! Pegida, Bärgida, egal unter welchem Namen, wir werden den organisierten Rassismus stoppen, in Berlin und anderswo!

Die Kämpfe gegen Rassismus und vor allem die Forderungen der erstarkenden Bewegungen von Geflüchteten zeigen die Richtung an, in die unsere Gesellschaft verändert werden muss. Stellen wir uns den Rassist_innen am 05. Januar entgegen! Machen wir deutlich, wie vielfältig und stark unsere Solidarität ist!

Bündnis gegen Rassismus

Erstunterzeichner_innen:

Afrika-Rat Berlin Brandenburg

Allmende e.V.

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads

Antifaschistische Linke Jugend (alj)

Berliner Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes-Bund der AntifaschistInnen

Bündnis Neukölln – Miteinander für Demokratie, Respekt und Vielfalt

Bündnis Zwangsräumung Verhindern

Büro Eta Boeklund, Dr. Angela Dreßler

FelS-Berlin (organisiert in der IL)

Kampagne Zusammen handeln – gegen rassistische Hetze und soziale Ausgrenzung

Initiative Grenzen_weg! der Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin

IniRromnja

ISD – Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland

Museum des Kapitalismus

NaturFreunde Berlin

ver.di Bezirk Berlin

Unterstützer_innen:

BO Gesundbrunnen

Jusos Berlin

Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Antifaschismus DIE LINKE Berlin

Die Linke. Berlin

ENGLISH

United against racist propaganda and social exclusion!

Demonstration on Jan. 5th 2015

at 5pm Stralauer Str./ corner Jüdenstraße (U2 Klosterstraße)

#NoPegida #NoBergida #NoBärgida #NoRacism

The “Patrioten e.V.” is trying to establish a branch of “Pegida” under the name “Bärgida” through a demonstration in Berlin on January 5th. At the bottom of the “Patrioten e.V.” is the right-wing and folkish-nationalist surrounding of groups such as “German Defence League”, “Pro Deutschland”, “Die Freiheit”, but also socalled “Identitäre” and symapthizers of AfD and NPD.

Trivialized as scared citizens, Nazis and racists have been mobilizing for demonstrations against refugees and Muslims for weeks. Fears of losing privileges and the own social status are being stoked, scapegoats invented and the ones concerned are played off against each other.

Politicians from national and federal governments hide their own responsibility for the racist mobilization through tentative dissociation from Pegida. Discriminating debates about alleged “asylum abuse” are serving as a legitimization for sanctions, aggravation of asylum laws and exclusion of people in daily political practice. The pattern of argumentation and the course of action thereby resemble the “The boat is full”-rhetoric in the early 1990s.

Racist attacks are increasing europe-wide these days. Often refugees and their accomodation, mosques, Muslims, Rom_nija and Black people are targeted. We take this shocking development as a cause to make an even stronger stand against any form of racism. We say: Blocking racism is our right! We do neither negotiate nor trivialize, we take the initiative!

The resistance is already growing: Bonn, Kassel, Dresden, Munich – by now, tens of thousands are opposing the racist demonstrations. We call all people in Berlin to also take a stand against right, nationalist and racist groups! Pegida, Bärgida, no matter under what name, we will stop organized racism, in Berlin and elsewhere!

The fight against racism and especially the demands of the increasingly strong movement of refugees show the direction to which our society must be changed. Let’s rise against the racists on Jan. 5th! We will make clear how diverse and strong our solidarity is!