Category: International Refugee Movement
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Freedom to move, freedom to stay! Rally in front of BAMF, 6 September, 13h
The asylum-seeking population is mostly affected by the lack of opportunities, by the limitations of the state and its structures. Their integrity, their identity, their lives are in mortal danger where they come from and when they arrive here they are met with indifferent and inhumane treatment by the BAMF and the Ausländerbehörde. These institutions…
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Success! YOU STILL CAN’T EVICT A MOVEMENT!!!
After six days of protest the district provided a favorable response and met almost all of our demands. The document is now under Napuli’s name. Now it’s possible to establish an info-point again which is allowed to be as big as 7 x 11 meters. The document states that “the info-point can be used as…
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Justice for the Moria 6!
On 8 September 2020, the infamous Moria refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece burned to the ground, throwing fortress Europe’s policies of deterrence through immiserating conditions, border externalisation and ‘containment’ on the Aegean ‘hotspot’ islands back into the international spotlight. The fires came a week after a resident of the camp tested positive for COVID-19 and…
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Undisturbed. Podcast by Bijan Sabbagh
Undisturbed is a tunnel to understanding global leftist movements. Another podcast from Colourful Voices Host: Bijan Sabbagh Latest episode: Veronica Velez and the Uprising of Colombia (June 2, 2021) Colombia was witness of massive protests and police violence throughout last weeks. In an interview with Veronica Velez, A Colombian activist and lawyer based in Berlin,…
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Eine Präsidentschaft ist keine Monarchie! Für eine echte Demokratie im Tschad
KUNDGEBUNG: 15.05.2021, 15:30 Pariser Platz (Französische Botschaft) Das Schreckensregime des tschadischen Diktators Idriss Déby fand am 20.04.2021 ein Ende. Durch seinen Tod besteht erstmals seit 31 Jahren die Chance auf Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie im Tschad. Doch leider deutet viel darauf hin, dass mit der Einsetzung seines Sohnes Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno als Präsident des…
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COVID-19: No one is safe until All are protected!
Open Letter from the Transbalkan Solidarity Group Currently there are tens of thousands of refugees and other migrants in the Balkans. Some of them are accommodated in official collective centers, while a large number of people fall outside the system, surviving through the help of the local population and support provided to them by volunteers…
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Grenzenlose Solidarität mit Arash
*** Deutsch – English – فارسی – Français *** Arash Dosthossein ist politischer Aktivist aus dem Iran, der aufgrund seiner politischen Tätigkeiten 2012 nach Deutschland geflüchtet ist. Er beteiligte sich 2012 am Protestmarsch von Würzburg nach Berlin, der als Beginn der kämpferischen Refugee-Bewegung gesehen wird. Seine politischen Tätigkeiten in Deutschland haben mehrfach zu seiner Kriminalisierung,…
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Camp Moria is on fire! Abolish all camps!
by Women in Exile For months, camp residents, activists and migrant organisations have been warning of a catastrophe in the camp in Moria. The warnings were ignored. The EU has preferred to sit back and try(!) to make the people into minor roles in its dirty theatre of deterrence. But they will never manage that!…
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A voice from Moria
My name is Raed Alabd. I am from Syria. I came here to the Lesbos Island to Moria camp on 9 December 2019. I came alone. I was working in Syria as a agency advisor for health, safety and environment for petrol companies and I liked my job. After one month, when I came here…
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Urgent Call from Moria Camp for Help in Corona Times
Update 2/9/2020: This call was the second open letter to the EU and its member states to evict the Moria camp on the greek island of Lesvos in face of the pandemic threat. The inhabitants of the overcrowded camp have not received any answer so far, while everyone on the spot, including the support initiatives…