Tag: Macedonia
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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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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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Eviction attempts at the Idomeni have begun!
After more than 3 weeks of refusing to move from the Idomeni border (Greek-Macedonian), the police force has started to forcibly evict the protesters forcibly sending them to Greek cities such as Athens and Thessaloniki (source: http://livetickereidomeni.bordermonitoring.eu/2015/12/09/9-12-2015/). As a reminder, these are mostly the people who do not come from Syria, Irak and Afganistan and…
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The sealing off of the ‘Balkan borders’
The EU has finally struck a deal with the Turkish government at 29.10.2015 in which 3 bilion Euros per yer, visa liberalizations and unfrozen EU membership negotiations, negotiations that the EU froze with Turkey in 2005 under pretense of R. Erdoğans government style as authoritative, will be exchanged for the Turkish role as an external…
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The EU is closing its borders, letting through only certain nationalities!
News from Anti-Racist Front Without Borders, gathered by the activists from the borderzones: Idomeni, Greece (Greek-Macedonian border): Today, as yesterday, only Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are allowed to pass, everyone else is halted. Despair has started to spread among the people gathered there. Some have been in Eidomeni for four days. The food is not…
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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:…
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Dramaturgy of safe corridor through the Balkans
The category of Border monitoring will be used to give reports about the flow of people throught the borders of the so called “Balkan route”. The route watch will mostly include borders and registration centers between Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Austria. All information will be first-hand and forwarded from the groups of…