Strasbourg – OPlatz — Berlin Refugee Movement https://www.oplatz.net Abolish Residenzpflicht! Abolish ‚Lagers‘! Stop Deportations! Right to Work and Study! Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:08:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.oplatz.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-fist-small-32x32.png Strasbourg – OPlatz — Berlin Refugee Movement https://www.oplatz.net 32 32 Call for Support: Protest March to Bruxelles https://www.oplatz.net/call-for-support-protest-march-to-bruxelles/ https://www.oplatz.net/call-for-support-protest-march-to-bruxelles/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:08:55 +0000 http://asylstrikeberlin.wordpress.com/?p=4012   Interconnected Refugee & Migrant Movements –
  Protest March against Fortress Europe!
  From Strasbourg to Brussels, May and June 2014

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The European council and the European ministers of foreign affairs make racist and prohibitive policies against refugees and migrants on a very high level. In reaction to the recent admitted mass drowning in the Mediterranean, they only concluded to arm the forces that control and aggressively prevent people’s movement, such as frontex. They will hold their next summit at the 26th and 27th of June in Brussels.

Different groups of refugee and Migrant movements in Europe plan a protest march from Strasbourg to Brussels. This will begin shortly before the European parliament elections at the end of May. The marching refugee and supporting activists will walk about 450 km within one month. In an action week before the council’s summit, we will raise our protest against the policies of fortress Europe!

A group of people active in and supportive of the Refugee Movement from Oranienplatz have started to mobilize for the march and prepare the action. We would be happy about many different kinds of support:

  • share contacts with us:
  • to (international) refugee movements, help to make huge network possible
  • to people living in lager in Germany, for info events
  • to people/groups who could helporganize sleeping places along the route
  • we also need more contacts to trustworthy journalists and your support in raising media attention, accompany the protests with own media
  • legal support/anti-repression/anti-trauma
  • organize decentralised actions, let’s have global action times!
  • contribute to the local actions
  • think about actions especially to support the massive border crossing (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium)
  • organize transport for refugees in your region to take part in the march/action week/single actions
  • lend materials: busses/car trailers, big tents, kitchen equipment, sound systems, generator, media equipment, tools…
  • medical support & child care
  • produce mobilization material (movie, web propaganda, stickers, banners, poster, songs…)
  • spread flyers, posters, call; link our blogs (freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org and asylstrikeberlin.wordpress.com)
  • we need a huge amount of money to finance 6 weeks of food for some hundred people! we also need money for tickets/public transport, gasoline, transport cars, renting/buying material,  mobilization, anti-repression: please support us by donating, applying at foundations, organising soli parties etc!!!
  • take part in the Protest March! Starting around the 20th of May in Strasbourg
  • take part in the Action Week in Brussels 20th June – 27th June

For any questions or ideas, proposals or information you can reach us via email: freedomnotfrontex[at]riseup[.]net or meet us almost every Sunday at 3 pm at Cafe Kotti in Berlin/Kreuzberg, just ask at the counter for us.

Thanks a lot and see you on the street!!!

]]> https://www.oplatz.net/call-for-support-protest-march-to-bruxelles/feed/ 0 Let‘s march for our freedom! https://www.oplatz.net/lets-march-for-our-freedom/ https://www.oplatz.net/lets-march-for-our-freedom/#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:38:17 +0000 http://asylstrikeberlin.wordpress.com/?p=3994 We come from everywhere – to march from Strasbourg to Bruessels. May & June 2014

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We are asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants, migrants from many European countries, we are Europeans with a “migration background”, we are all those who have no full priviledge of citizenship, but also citizens who share a common anger against the racist EU migration policy.

We decided to organize a European caravan which will go from the largest number of European countries towards Brussels (Belgium), where the European institutions are settled. Showing that we don’t respect the borders they impose us, holding us prisonners of the states borders and in the lagers, we will exercise our basic right of freedom of movement and adress our demands directly where the decisions come from.

We have a dream:

  • Freedom of movement and of residence for all asylum seekers
  • Stop the Dublin trap and the obligatory residence in Lagers throughout Europe
  • Permanent documents without criteria (not depending on working contracts or individual state prosecution)
  • Stop the imprisonment and deportation of migrants
  • Same working conditions for all
  • Same political, social and cultural rights for all: right to study and to work
  • Stop the European imperialist policies: no more free trade treaties and NATOwars
  • Abolish Frontex, Eurosur and other anti-migration policies and measures

Join us !

Starting in may 2014 with the EU Parliament elections: The caravan/march will start as common transnational project at the end of May in Strassbourg, the march will last about 3-4 weeks from Strasbourg to Brussels.

Central action in Brussels to adress the Summit: The transnational march will end in Brussels with massive protests at the EU-summit on migration policy, the 26th and 27th of June 2014. The arrival in Brussels will be one week before the summit, around the 21st and 22nd of June, we will have a week of actions in the city of Brussels to make them aware of our anger.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE !

Decentralised actions: refugees and migrants unite, wherever you are! Local activities and decentralized actions already started on the 18th of December 2013, for the international day of migrants and refugees against racism : actions have been taken all over Europe in the same time and with the same demands (see our web blog : http://freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org/) Also, decentralized actions and marches will start already in May in reference to the European paerliament elections. All activities should come together in Strasbourg to start the common march (the exact date still has to be confirmed). Wherever you are, take action in solidarity with European refugees and migrants, feel free to initiate creative and local actions !

Join us anywhere you are !

Contact us : freedomnotfrontex@riseup.net

www.freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org www.refugeestrikeberlin.net

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