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The March for Freedom started yesterday in the morning in the german village Perl with a lot of support to cross the border to Luxemburg. Making photo together, with solibanners from the night before like most of the other days was our first political morning action. From the sleeping place, the gym of the village, the march started with a loud demonstration through the village.
The border in this area is the river Mosel. Schengen is an important symbolic place along the way of the march, because of the Schengen agreement. It gives the citizens of Europe the privilege to cross the borders of the member states without any control, but for non-citizens, refugees, sans-papiers and migrants, it means everything else than freedom of movement.
Before the crossing the bridge, there was a press conference. Some activists made clear why they participate in the March For Freedom. The restriction of movement, capitalism, racism and the deaths in the mediteranean sea, caused by fortress Europe, were the main topics.
To make visible the danger that a lot of people have to face to reach the coasts of europe, some of the refugee activists crossed the river by boat or jumped out of the boat and swam to the other side. Bloody they reached Schengen, at the point where the heads of the european states left the luxury boat after signing the agreement in 1990.
The three columns which inform about the history of the agreement got redecorated to show the brutal reality of its affects.
After a while the demonstration continued untill it reached the Schengen museum. A museum which also deals with the story of Frontex. The tunesian delegation, which is participating in the march for freedom, made an exibition with pictures and long lists of names of the ones who are missing and the ones who died in the sea or in the hands of the european authorities. A group which occupied the roof of the museum hang up a banner asking: „Frontex. Où sont nos enfans?“ (Frontex, where are our children?) and another banner stating „Frontex kills“.
On the way along the river an exibition showed the terrible situation for refugees in Greece.
The afternoon ended with food and a cultural programm, then the march continued for the last 4 km to the sleeping place in Remerschen.
The whole day the police was almost not visible and also didn‘t react repressively against any action. Until now the march didn‘t have any serious problems with border crossing, but still there is another border to cross on the way to Brussels. On the 6th of June the march will enter Belgium. Since the G7 summit takes place on the 4th and 5th of June in Brussels, Belgium has announced that they will make restrictive border controls from the 1st to 6th of June.
The leaders of the seven most dominant capitalist nations don‘t like to be disturbed when they make their dirty business.
As the biggest consumers of resources and energy in the world and leaders in production of weapons, they want to avoid seeing the victims of their policies.
„We are here, because you destroy our countries.“
The march will continue, and the goal is to reach Brussels. The fight will go on until it is impossible to ignore the voices of people who get victimised by capitalism, rulership, racism and wars.
Today we painted a lot of banners. The sad news of the death of Muslim reached us, but we also got the message of resisting refugees. Not just in Mexico people go to the streets to demand freedom and a safe, human place to life, but also in Ankara in Turkey.
The turkish nation stopped the progress of the asylum requests of the refugees from Afghanistan. They don’t say yes, they don’t say no. The people need to continue waiting, with no status, always labeled as asylum seeker and always with the fear of being deported back, to the place where one escaped from. The turkish government refuse to continue the procedure. The refugees from Afghanistan are already longer resisting against this practice. They organized themselves before in Istanbul. Since some time they also protest against the UNHCR, because the UNHCR ignores the inhuman situation ot the afghan refugees in Turkey.
A part of the group of afghan refugees are in hunger strike for 7 weeks. They also sewed their mouths to underline the seriousness of their struggle. They protest in front of the UNHCR building. The population supports them. They get food and material, like blankets from the neighborhood.
Respect the human rights. Don’t ignore and exclude people because of their origin.
We will not stay silent if this treatment continues.
MUSLIM H. DIED ON THE 24th OF MAY, 2014 IN A PRISON IN LANDSHUT, BAVARIA, GERMANY. AFTER HAVING RESISTED SUCCESFULLY AGAINST HIS OWN DUBLIN DEPORTATION TO HUNGARY, HE WAS ARRESTED BY BAVARIAN POLICE. HOW MUSLIM DIED IS NOT CLEAR. BUT IT IS CLEAR, THAT HE DIED IN THE HANDS OF PRISON GUARDS
WE DEMAND A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DEATH.
Saarlouis the 29th of MayCall of the Protest March for Freedom for Action in Schengen (LUX) on Sunday 1stof June
On the 13th day of the Protest March we will reach the city Schengen through our third border crossing from Germany to Luxembourg.
After the press conference at 11 am we will cross the bridge from Perl to Schengen to start our action in this symbolic city for racist asylum and migration policies.
Schengen is the city in which the Schengen Treaty was signed. In Schengen the EU is celebrating freedom of movement and „Europe without borders“ as well as FRONTEX. It is celebrating the privileges of the European citizens while criminalizing migration.Therefore the Schengen Treaty on the other hand means the establishment of Fortress Europe, migrant defence and deaths at the borders of Europe and its seas as well the violation of human rights.
We call all refugees and solidarious groups to join us in Perl to cross the border together to reach Schengen. Through creative actions we want to celebrate there the freedom of movement for EVERYONE and at the same time we want to scandalize the killing militarization of Schengen’s outer borders. We want to abolish Frontex, the Dublin System and all anti-migration policies of Europe.
Also on the 5th and 6th of June the Council of the European Union will come together in Luxembourg Ville (Place de l’Europe 4) to discuss the Task Force for the Mediterranean, the Schengen System as well as the new executive director of FRONTEX. Therefore join also our action day on the 5th of June in Luxembourg Ville!!
Let’s come there together and smash borders and racism!!
The March for Freedom share the anger of our friends in Calais who were violently evicted by the police today from their self-organised camps and hundreds of people were forced to leave their places of resistance.
We also express our rage to the already announced eviction of the squats in the coming days in Calais. We wont stay silent to this brutal way of treating human beings. We show our full solidarity with the sans-papiers. You are not alone!
The french police and government must respect the human rights, freedom of residency and freedom of movement.
RESISTANCE CAN NOT BE EVICTED
28th of May, 2014
for more information check the page : http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
In Bavaria a new wave of refugee protests just started. In the last weeks and days several protest tents were set up.
We stand in solidarity with the striking refugees in Bayreuth,Landshut,Würzburg and NürnbergWe are oneMarch for Freedom1st of June, 2014SchengenThe March for Freedom share the anger of our friends in Calais who were violently evicted by the police today from their self-organised camps and hundreds of people were forced to leave their places of resistance.
We also express our rage to the already announced eviction of the squats in the coming days in Calais. We wont stay silent to this brutal way of treating human beings. We show our full solidarity with the sans-papiers. You are not alone!The french police and government must respect the human rights, freedom of residency and freedom of movement.RESISTANCE CAN NOT BE EVICTED28th of May, 2014for more information check the page : http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
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