Tag: balkan route
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European Borders update 15.4.2016. Greece starts rejecting people as Turkey labeled ‘safe third country’
TURKEY: Up to 30.000 refugees started heading to Turkey during the last 48 hours, Spiegel Online reports based on the information provided by the volunteers. This follows several attacks by IS at refugee camps in Northern Syria. However, Turkey refuses to let them to cross the border. As already known, Turkey is building a 911km…
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Update at the borders 5.4.2016
By Are You Syrious? #GENERAL: On Wednesday interior ministers of Germany, Austria and Switzerland met in Vienna to talk about refugees and terrorism. German interior minister Thomas de Maizière suggested to make a deal with North African countries as EU did with Turkey. “The method is right”, he said, meaning deporting illegal migrants and for…
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European borders update, 11.3.2016
By Are you Syrious?, 11.3.2016 #LEBANON: At the present, the long term international volunteers in Lebanon are coordinating centrally around a Lebanese NGO called Salam LADC (Lebanese Association for Development and Communication). Salam has strong ties with the local authorities responsible for refugees, the UNHCR, the Lebanese Military (essential permissions for visiting and distributing at…
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Smashing the fence at the Greek-Macedonian border!
Videos of the freedom struggle for open borders followed by strong repression near Idomeni, 29.2.2016. ”The build-up at Idomeni camp, which can accommodate up to 1,500 people but is currently sheltering more than 6,000, began last week after Macedonia began refusing entry to Afghans and imposed stricter controls on Syrians and Iraqis. EU members Slovenia…
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Important information when crossing into Austria and anti-pushback protests in Šid (Serbia)
Via Welcome2Europe: An Austrian police officer officially stated on the TV news which questions are being asked at the Austrian registration center in Spielfeld. 1. What is your final destination? 2. What are you planning to do there? Legal experts advice people not to go into details regarding their future plans but instead insist and…
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The self-organized refugee squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki
Credit: Črna luknja Credit: A-Radio Berlin *English, * German, * Spanish translation The following audio is a recording made by activists of the self-organized refugee squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki, Greece. This material has been made available to us by our comrades at Črna Luknja, the anarchist radio show at Radio Študent in Ljubljana, the capital…
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Callout for Balkan support conference in Göttingen
SOLIDARITY HAS NO BORDERS! Bundesweites Vernetzungstreffen für Supporter*innen, Aktivist*innen, Fluchthelfer*innen und Individuen, die auf der Balkanroute Menschen auf der Flucht unterstützen oder unterstützt haben. 13.- 14. Februar 2016 // OM10 // Göttingen Wir möchten euch Unterstützer*innen auf der Balkanroute einladen, an diesem Wochenende in Göttingen zusammenzukommen, zu erzählen, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und zu reflektieren was in…
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European bordezones update
Important: #WeatherAegean: United Rescue issues an IMPORTANT warning for the Aegean Sea: A huge storm is expected Saturday the 16th of January and Sunday the 17th of January which will be a thunderstorm on some of the islands accompanied by high waves. Also, snow is expected to fall on some of the islands in the…
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Solidaritat öffnet die Grenzen – Call for support für Idomeni!
Unterstützungs-Aufruf / Call for support: „NoBorder-Train-Kitchen Idomeni” 3. Dezember 2015 Infotelephon: 0030 – 69466-50046 Liebe Freund_innen und Genoss_innen, es ist mittlerweile gut 4 Wochen her, seit wir uns an Euch mit der Bitte um Eure Unterstützung gewendet hatten. Ursprünglich um nach Slovenien zu fahren – um dort gespendetes Material (Zelte,Decken,Schlafsäcke etc ) an geflüchtete Menschen…
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(Possible) Enactment of EU’s policies of “slowing down” the movement flows
European’s Unions recent plans to manage the movement of people by slowing the flows at the so called ‘Balkan route‘ is apparently taking its first steps. To not enter the abstract theoretical discussions let us qoute the information posted from the Anti-racist Front Without Borders (17.11.2015), gathered by the activists and volunteers at the borders:…