Lampedusa Charter, the meeting has started‏

As i am also in Lampedusa, a short comment to Nevas Email. yes, Its an interesting meeting with about 200 participants from various spectrums and hopefully ending with an useful charta. But the meeting is mainly composed by Italian movement and with only a few activists from other countries. And the more important limit: only a very few migrants are present.

Tomorrow the discussion should be continued on perspectives and coming mobilisations. and instead - as done by Neva below - to bring a very shortterm proposal on 1st of march on the top of the agenda (and to pretend a European dimension, which is not given as it is only discussed in italy ... while in Hamburg another demonstration will take place for other reasons...) I strongly hope and will try to support tomorrow, that the project of a transnational Caravan/march to brussels in June will become the main priority of further mobilisation in the Charta meeting of Lampedusa. This process of the transnational Caravan  is really initiated by a coalition of groups of selforganised refugees, migrants, sans papiers from various european countries and it should be in the center of all next common mobilisations.

Best greetings,

hagen

Lampedusa Charter, the meeting has started‏

Dear all

A first report on the lampedusa meeting, the text will be available in english aoon: 

http://goo.gl/Smj073

Charter of Lampedusa, the meeting has started

The meeting to write collectively the Lampedusa Charter has just started in the Lampedusa island. For three days, on the island become the symbol of the sufferance of people risking
their lives in accessing Europe, hundreds of activists from Italy and other countries are building a collective process.

The common objective is to write a pact against EU policies controlling people movement, to affirm freedom of circulation and rights for all.

The meeting started on January 31st with the rich and intense meeting with the island's inhabitants, which outlined that closed borders destroy both lives of people living the border and the life of those who try to cross them.
"No militarization of the Mediterranean Sea, freedom of movement, no to migrants' detention centers, full citizenship rights" are the claims of today discussion aiming at completing the Charter by tonight, February the 2nd. A challenging deal, for sure!

Tomorrow, Sunday the 3rd, the discussion will tackle  the further steps of the Charter, for the concrete implementations of its principles through mobilizations and actions, starting from the proposal of a European first of march as a first step of common initiatives for the making of Europe as space  for rights and dignity.

This is the message from Lampedusa to all Europe: we can transform reality and build a different future, together in our differences.

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