Call for Support!
Interconnected Refugee & Migrant Movements -
Protest March against Fortress Europe!
From Strasbourg to Brussels, May and June 2014
Protest March against Fortress Europe!
From Strasbourg to Brussels, May and June 2014
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.
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!
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:
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@riseup.net or meet us almost every Sunday at
3 pm at Cafe Kotti in Berlin/Kreuzberg, just ask at the counter for us.
via email: freedomnotfrontex@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!!!
Greek Coast Guard drowned refugees: 9 children and 3 woman died
more information at welcome2europe
The announcement of the UNHCR:
“UNHCR expresses its concern for the continued loss of human lives at sea, on the occasion of the incident in Farmakonisi.
A fishing boat with 28 people onboard (25 Afghans and 3 Syrians), including many women and children, was overturned and sank in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 21, 2014, in the sea area of Farmakonisi. 16 of those on board were collected by the Coast Guard. A woman and a 5 year old child were found dead near the Turkish coast, while 10 more people (2 women and 8 infants and young children) are missing. Continue reading
“UNHCR expresses its concern for the continued loss of human lives at sea, on the occasion of the incident in Farmakonisi.
A fishing boat with 28 people onboard (25 Afghans and 3 Syrians), including many women and children, was overturned and sank in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 21, 2014, in the sea area of Farmakonisi. 16 of those on board were collected by the Coast Guard. A woman and a 5 year old child were found dead near the Turkish coast, while 10 more people (2 women and 8 infants and young children) are missing. Continue reading
Map of dead people caused by european border an migration policy
Let‘s march for our freedom!
We come from everywhere – to march from Strasbourg to Bruessels. May & June 2014
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 measuresContinue reading
hello all!
attached you can find the current version of the route of the protest
march. it is the shortest possibility and there ar two longer options,
you can find them in the text below.
so the route and time frame will be like this:
Sat, 17.5. Berlin - Freiburg (by bus or train)
Sun, 18.5. Freiburg ? Kehl ? Strasbourg, Concert
Border crossing DE / F
Mon, 19.5. Strasbourg, Action
Tue, 20.5. Protest march leaves from Strasbourg
Sun, 25.5. EU election
Mon, 26.5. Saargemünd ? Saarbrücken
Border crossing F / DE
Tue, 27.5. Saarbrücken, Action
Sun, 1.6. Perl ? Schengen
Border crossing DE / LUX
Thu, 5.6. Luxemburg, Action
Fri. 6.6. Steinfort ? Heinsch 14,3 km
Border crossing LUX / BEL
Sun, 15.6. Charleroi, action
Fri, 20.6. - 28.6 Brüssel, action week
right now for one week there is a tiny expedition going from brussels
direction strasbourg to get contacts and check out camping anf action
sides. if you have any contacts in all this villages in belgium,
luxemburg, saarland and around strabourg at the route - pls forward
them now. time is running and actually we only have good contacts in
strasbourg, saarbrücken and luxemburg for now!
greetinx,
jule
descriptions about the different options and links to all maps you can
find in the mail below:
hi everyone,
so here is my general thoughts about a possible improved route: if we take
the dates departure in straßbourg 20thMay and arrival in Bruxelles 20th
June, all in all we have 32 days make this distance.
my proposal of the route orientates on the original route and will take
exactly the same time(28 days), leaving us one day each for actions in 4
cities: saarbrücken, schengen, luxemburg, charleroi.
still as it has some prolongings of the route, there will be some bigger
steps of about 20km/day. still i think it makes much more sense to make
some big steps at some points(there are especially in areas where is not
much population), and then to have a whole day time at all of these cities
for proper actions and proper resting, instead of having smaller steps (for
the sake of not making it longer than 15km per day) and camping somewhere
in really abandoned places , relatively unprotected and unseen by the
people, and also having never time to rest properly during daytime.
So here is the proposed schedule(which is also attached as word document
with proper working hyperlinks):
1) it will be *Straßbourg-Saarbrücken* *118km* in 8 days=15km per day: *
http://bit.ly/1h8S5cQ <http://bit.ly/1h8S5cQ> (*avoiding the Vosges and
passing through bigger cities then the original route.)
2) one *day of action and rest *in *Saarbrücken*(the date would be the*
28thMay*, if confirmed this date should be also published soon i think, so
that we can mobilize german groups in that region)
3) after that there is the part in germany from *saarbrücken-
Perl/border/schengen*:*70 km* in 4 days (= 17,5 km/day)
*http://bit.ly/1jtRtSv* <http://bit.ly/1jtRtSv>
especially the last part from Merzig to Schengen is somehow challenging:
the original and direct route passes from Germany over the French border
and then back to germany and only after that to Luxemburg, meaning 3 border
crossings in 1 day. i guess this is really not a good option, especially
concerning that this is a really unpopulated area, so not much attention
there if police is going to intervene.
so thats why i propose a short detour here of about 5km (passing
through Nohn and Türsdorf*)* to stay in germany until we reach the german
border with luxemburg in perl. because thats quite a long step already from
merzig to perl, i suggest to stay there overnight to have a "safer" border
crossing to Luxemburg/schengen the next morning and still have more than
half of the day for actions/rest in schengen.
4)* 2nd June Border crossing* *Perl-Schengen* and *day of action/rest in*
*Schengen *
5) *Schengen-Luxemburg:* *29km* in 2days=14,5km/day
*http://bit.ly/1ryN0PB*<http://bit.ly/1ryN0PB>
6) *5th June Day of action/rest in Luxemburg *
from there we have different possibilities. i propose following the
original route(a), as it is most direct and would allow us to have an
action/rest day in charleroi, while making a 18km detour to namur(b) would
cost us at least one day extra
7a)* Luxemburg-Charleroi: 173km *in 10 days(=17,3km/day) *part
1: http://bit.ly/1dqmBiX <http://bit.ly/1dqmBiX> + part
2: http://bit.ly/1fiviXT <http://bit.ly/1fiviXT> *(*Taking care to avoid to
cross the french border again 2 times by** using Route de Blaimont between
Beauraing and Hastiere**) *
7b) *Luxemburg- Charleroi via Namur 191km* in 11 days (=17km/day)
*http://bit.ly/1eOXkNX
<http://bit.ly/1eOXkNX>*
8) *16**th** June Day of action/rest Charleroi(->@Airport?) *
9) *Charleroi-Bruxelles: 60km i*n 4days(=15km/day) http://bit.ly/NSZ3au
10) *Arrival in Bruxelles* * Evening of 20**th** June and start of action
days at 21**th** June*
beacuse both versions (a) and (b) route are crossing the Ardennes (some
smaller mountains) there was a proposal to make a detour at the Luxemburg-
Charleroi part via Charleville-Mézières to avoid them. I think if we do
this we definately can not go to namur, because that makes the big detour
even longer(more then 50km).
7c)* Luxemburg-Charleroi via Charleville-Mézières 203 km* in 12 days
(17km/day)
http://bit.ly/1muyfwq
so already then with 203km compared to 173km in version (a) its a detour
of about 30km = 2days of walking, which would mean we have to cut action
days either in Bruxelles, or in Luxemburg/Schengen/Saarbrücken. So i
personally would still be in favor of the old planning, as what ive been
told the Ardennes are not that massive (mostly 300-400m altitude) and not
so hard to walk through as the Vosges for example and all in all it should
be less challenge to pass them compared to have 30 km extra of walking.
Also in that c) version we need to cross the borders again two times, as
Charleville-Mézières is in France.
So to bring the total facts together to compare all versions:
*(a) direct version close to original route: 450 km to walk in 28days + 4
action/rest days, 3 border crossings*
*(b) via namur: 470km to walk in 29 days + 3 action/rest days, 3 border
crossings*
*(c) via Charleville-Mézières: 480km to walk in 30 days + 2 action/rest
days, 5 border crossings*
*all three versions have a moderate average of about 16km/day. *
So i hope on this base you can have a good discussion in Bruxelles and
after that also a good tour to check out the places.
Borderless greets!
Robert
please link our blog our check it out for infos and material: http://freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org
find all documents at our wiki: https://we.riseup.net/march_for_freedom
attached you can find the current version of the route of the protest
march. it is the shortest possibility and there ar two longer options,
you can find them in the text below.
so the route and time frame will be like this:
Sat, 17.5. Berlin - Freiburg (by bus or train)
Sun, 18.5. Freiburg ? Kehl ? Strasbourg, Concert
Border crossing DE / F
Mon, 19.5. Strasbourg, Action
Tue, 20.5. Protest march leaves from Strasbourg
Sun, 25.5. EU election
Mon, 26.5. Saargemünd ? Saarbrücken
Border crossing F / DE
Tue, 27.5. Saarbrücken, Action
Sun, 1.6. Perl ? Schengen
Border crossing DE / LUX
Thu, 5.6. Luxemburg, Action
Fri. 6.6. Steinfort ? Heinsch 14,3 km
Border crossing LUX / BEL
Sun, 15.6. Charleroi, action
Fri, 20.6. - 28.6 Brüssel, action week
right now for one week there is a tiny expedition going from brussels
direction strasbourg to get contacts and check out camping anf action
sides. if you have any contacts in all this villages in belgium,
luxemburg, saarland and around strabourg at the route - pls forward
them now. time is running and actually we only have good contacts in
strasbourg, saarbrücken and luxemburg for now!
greetinx,
jule
descriptions about the different options and links to all maps you can
find in the mail below:
hi everyone,
so here is my general thoughts about a possible improved route: if we take
the dates departure in straßbourg 20thMay and arrival in Bruxelles 20th
June, all in all we have 32 days make this distance.
my proposal of the route orientates on the original route and will take
exactly the same time(28 days), leaving us one day each for actions in 4
cities: saarbrücken, schengen, luxemburg, charleroi.
still as it has some prolongings of the route, there will be some bigger
steps of about 20km/day. still i think it makes much more sense to make
some big steps at some points(there are especially in areas where is not
much population), and then to have a whole day time at all of these cities
for proper actions and proper resting, instead of having smaller steps (for
the sake of not making it longer than 15km per day) and camping somewhere
in really abandoned places , relatively unprotected and unseen by the
people, and also having never time to rest properly during daytime.
So here is the proposed schedule(which is also attached as word document
with proper working hyperlinks):
1) it will be *Straßbourg-Saarbrücken* *118km* in 8 days=15km per day: *
http://bit.ly/1h8S5cQ <http://bit.ly/1h8S5cQ> (*avoiding the Vosges and
passing through bigger cities then the original route.)
2) one *day of action and rest *in *Saarbrücken*(the date would be the*
28thMay*, if confirmed this date should be also published soon i think, so
that we can mobilize german groups in that region)
3) after that there is the part in germany from *saarbrücken-
Perl/border/schengen*:*70 km* in 4 days (= 17,5 km/day)
*http://bit.ly/1jtRtSv* <http://bit.ly/1jtRtSv>
especially the last part from Merzig to Schengen is somehow challenging:
the original and direct route passes from Germany over the French border
and then back to germany and only after that to Luxemburg, meaning 3 border
crossings in 1 day. i guess this is really not a good option, especially
concerning that this is a really unpopulated area, so not much attention
there if police is going to intervene.
so thats why i propose a short detour here of about 5km (passing
through Nohn and Türsdorf*)* to stay in germany until we reach the german
border with luxemburg in perl. because thats quite a long step already from
merzig to perl, i suggest to stay there overnight to have a "safer" border
crossing to Luxemburg/schengen the next morning and still have more than
half of the day for actions/rest in schengen.
4)* 2nd June Border crossing* *Perl-Schengen* and *day of action/rest in*
*Schengen *
5) *Schengen-Luxemburg:* *29km* in 2days=14,5km/day
*http://bit.ly/1ryN0PB*<http://bit.ly/1ryN0PB>
6) *5th June Day of action/rest in Luxemburg *
from there we have different possibilities. i propose following the
original route(a), as it is most direct and would allow us to have an
action/rest day in charleroi, while making a 18km detour to namur(b) would
cost us at least one day extra
7a)* Luxemburg-Charleroi: 173km *in 10 days(=17,3km/day) *part
1: http://bit.ly/1dqmBiX <http://bit.ly/1dqmBiX> + part
2: http://bit.ly/1fiviXT <http://bit.ly/1fiviXT> *(*Taking care to avoid to
cross the french border again 2 times by** using Route de Blaimont between
Beauraing and Hastiere**) *
7b) *Luxemburg- Charleroi via Namur 191km* in 11 days (=17km/day)
*http://bit.ly/1eOXkNX
<http://bit.ly/1eOXkNX>*
8) *16**th** June Day of action/rest Charleroi(->@Airport?) *
9) *Charleroi-Bruxelles: 60km i*n 4days(=15km/day) http://bit.ly/NSZ3au
10) *Arrival in Bruxelles* * Evening of 20**th** June and start of action
days at 21**th** June*
beacuse both versions (a) and (b) route are crossing the Ardennes (some
smaller mountains) there was a proposal to make a detour at the Luxemburg-
Charleroi part via Charleville-Mézières to avoid them. I think if we do
this we definately can not go to namur, because that makes the big detour
even longer(more then 50km).
7c)* Luxemburg-Charleroi via Charleville-Mézières 203 km* in 12 days
(17km/day)
http://bit.ly/1muyfwq
so already then with 203km compared to 173km in version (a) its a detour
of about 30km = 2days of walking, which would mean we have to cut action
days either in Bruxelles, or in Luxemburg/Schengen/Saarbrücken. So i
personally would still be in favor of the old planning, as what ive been
told the Ardennes are not that massive (mostly 300-400m altitude) and not
so hard to walk through as the Vosges for example and all in all it should
be less challenge to pass them compared to have 30 km extra of walking.
Also in that c) version we need to cross the borders again two times, as
Charleville-Mézières is in France.
So to bring the total facts together to compare all versions:
*(a) direct version close to original route: 450 km to walk in 28days + 4
action/rest days, 3 border crossings*
*(b) via namur: 470km to walk in 29 days + 3 action/rest days, 3 border
crossings*
*(c) via Charleville-Mézières: 480km to walk in 30 days + 2 action/rest
days, 5 border crossings*
*all three versions have a moderate average of about 16km/day. *
So i hope on this base you can have a good discussion in Bruxelles and
after that also a good tour to check out the places.
Borderless greets!
Robert
please link our blog our check it out for infos and material: http://freedomnotfrontex.noblogs.org
find all documents at our wiki: https://we.riseup.net/march_for_freedom
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten