Tag: Refugee Black Box

November 11, 2019

Let’s Mobilize to Jena: The VOICE 25th Anniversary of Refugee Struggle in Germany

We invite you to join us in celebrating our 25th anniversary!

Call to participate in the preparation of the 25th anniversary and call for participation in the celebration on the 6th and 7th of December 2019 in Jena

You are part of this history – a quarter of a century since the break-up of isolation
25. The VOICE Refugee Forum Silver Jubilee Anniversary, 1994 – 2019
Founded in Mühlhausen and Established in Jena / Thüringen

Francais en bas, Deutsch unten

The VOICE Refugee Forum for a quarter of a century is still at the forefront of dignity and self-determination, carrying a heavy burden of a quarter of a century – because many have been relieved of their journey – many have been able to find their place, a heavy burden must be placed on the ground so as not to lose themselves as a source for the next RefugeeBlackBox.

Breaking the Culture of Deportation – Deportation is the last ring of the slavery chain | RefugeeBlackBox – Solidarity (initiated in 2017)

You are part of this history as you are part of the future, do not forget yourself and neither the one who needs support in his struggle.

How to contribute: Contribute to the VOICE’s jubilee, choose and send a photo on The VOICE for the public exhibition, contribute to the RefugeeBlackBox. Refugee and migrants’ activists and asylum seeker activists are invited and everyone is welcome to give a few words about their experiences and their testimonies in the box. We have all it takes for peoples’ new world order of solidarity with the refugee! Every refugee is the story of RefugeeBlackBox-installation, it is also a certain power of knowledge and the wisdom to find your fight; to empower your presence and your issues in solidarity with the refugee struggles and movements.

Stop deportation! Defend the RefugeeBlackBox Solidarity, your silence is killing!
Each Deportation stop pulls down the mask, that covers the human face!
The fight against deportation and isolation has always been in the center of the VOICE‘s political activism. Fighting deportation means fighting against nationalism, white supremacy, and colonial racist injustice!

Next step: Arrival on Thursday, 5 December 2019

Starts on Friday, December 6, 2019 at 10:00 am: Video installation “RBB” on the Holzmarkt Jena:

– The VOICE Symposium on refugee grassroots community “Assembly” in Germany
– FightBack! Disrupt, disobey and organise against the regulated Dublin-deportations of refugees from Germany!

Saturday, 7 December 2019: Presentation | RefugeeBlackBox Parade | Music | Gyration and Performance

There will be a RefugeeBlackBox parade against the deportation crimes and against the colonial racism of Europe on 7th Saturday, December 2019. Calling for decentralized RefugeeBlackBox installation or info event before in the run-up of the December events.

facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox

The VOICE Refugee Forum Germany
Jena: Tel.: + 49 (0) 176 24568988 (Whatsapp), E- mail: thevoiceforum@gmx.de
Berlin: Handy :+49 (0)170/8788124 (Whatsapp), E- mail: the_voice_berlin@emdash.org
Thevoiceforum.org

Please donate: Let’s foster our solidarity – against deportations in Germany!

The activism of The VOICE Refugee Forum was invented by the self-organised struggle against deportations in Germany. We make our own history! Make your own BlackBox! Please donate to maintain the refugee movement!

Account: Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29
BIC: NOLADE21GOE
Code: 25yrs

Mobilisons-nous ensemble à Iéna – Le 25e anniversaire de la lutte des réfugiés en Allemagne !

Nous vous invitons à vous joindre à nous pour célébrer notre 25e anniversaire !

Appel à participer à la préparation du 25ème anniversaire et appel à participer à la célébration des 6 et 7 décembre 2019 à Iéna .

Vous faites partie de cette histoire – Un quart de siècle depuis la fin de l’isolement
25. VOICE Refugee Forum Jubilee Anniversary Forum, 1994 – 2019
Fondée à Mühlhausen et basée à Iéna / Thueringen

Le Forum des Réfugiés “The VOICE” est à la pointe de la dignité et de l’autodétermination depuis un quart de siècle, portant un lourd fardeau d’un quart de siècle – parce que beaucoup ont été soulagés de leur voyage – beaucoup ont pu trouver leur place, un lourd fardeau doit être placé sur le terrain afin de ne pas se perdre comme source pour la prochaine boîte noire des réfugiés.

Briser la culture de la déportation – La déportation est le dernier cercle vicieux de la chaîne des esclaves| RefugeeBlackBox – Solidarité (Initié en 2017)

Vous faites partie de cette histoire comme vous faites partie de l’avenir, ne vous oubliez pas vous-même et ceux qui ont besoin de soutien dans leur lutte.

Comment contribuer:
Contribuer au jubilé de The VOICE, choisir et envoyer une photo sur The VOICE pour l’exposition publique, contribuer à la RefugeeBlackBox. Les activistes réfugiés et migrants et les demandeurs d’asile sont invités et chacun est invité à donner quelques mots sur ses expériences et témoignages dans la boîte. Nous avons tout ce dont nous avons besoin pour le nouvel ordre mondial de solidarité des peuples avec les réfugiés !
Chaque réfugié est l’histoire de l’installation RefugeeBlackBox, c’est aussi un certain pouvoir de connaissance et de sagesse pour trouver votre combat, pour renforcer votre présence et vos enjeux en solidarité avec les luttes et les mouvements des réfugiés.

Chaque fois qu’on arrête la déportation, le masque qui recouvre le visage humain tombe!
La lutte contre la déportation et l’isolement a toujours été au cœur de l’activisme politique de The VOICE. Lutter contre la déportation, c’est lutter contre le nationalisme, la suprématie blanche et l’injustice raciste coloniale!

Etape suivante:
Start on Friday, December 6, 2019 at 10:00 am: Video installation “RBB” in the HolzMarkt Jena:

– Le Symposium VOICE sur l'”Assemblée” des communautés de réfugiés en Allemagne
– À bas les rebelles ! Désorganiser, désobéir et s’organiser contre les expulsions réglementées de Dublin – Arrêter l’expulsion des réfugiés de l’Allemagne

Samedi 7 décembre 2019 : Présentations | RefugeeBlackBox Parade | Musique | Gyration et performance

Il y aura un défilé RefugeeBlackBox contre les crimes de déportation et le racisme colonial en Europe le 7 décembre 2019.

Appel à l’installation décentralisée de RefugeeBlackBox ou à un événement d’information avant les événements de décembre.

Facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox/

Le Forum des réfugiés “The VOICE” Allemagne

Jena: Handy Tel : + 49 (0) 176 24568988 (Whatsapp),
Courriel : thevoiceforum@gmx.de
Berlin: Handy Tel : +49 (0)170 8788124 (Whatsapp)
Courriel : the_voice_berlin@emdash.org
Thevoiceforum.org

Lasst uns nach Jena mobilisieren: The VOICE‘s 25 jähriger Geburtstag von Flüchtlingskämpfen in Deutschland

Wir laden euch ein, mit uns zu feiern.

Aufruf zur Teilnahme an den Vorbereitungen zum 25. Geburtstag und Einladung zu den Feierlichkeiten am 6. und 7. Dezember 2019 in Jena

Du bist Teil dieser Geschichte — Ein Vierteljahrhundert seit dem Aufbrechen der Isolation
25. Silbergeburtstag von The VOICE Refugee Forum, 1994-2019
gegründet in Mühlhausen und verwurzelt in Jena / Thüringen

The VOICE Refugee Forum ist seit einem Vierteljahrhundert die Speerspitze im Kampf um Würde und Selbstbestimmung. Dabei tragen wir die schwere Bürde eines Vierteljahrhunderts — weil viele ihren Platz finden konnten, muss ein schwerer Anker gesetzt werden, auf dass sie nicht selber als Ursprung einer neuen RefugeeBlackBox verloren gehen.

Durchbrecht die Kultur der Abschiebungen — Abschiebung ist das letzte Glied in der Kette der Sklaverei | RefugeeBlackBox – Solidarity (Initiated in 2017)
Du bist Teil dieser Geschichte und weil du auch Teil der Zukunft bist, vergiss weder dich noch jene, die in diesem Kampf deine Unterstützung brauchen.

So kannst du dich beteiligen:
Beteilige dich am Jubiläum von The VOICE und schick ein Foto für die öffentliche Ausstellung, trage zur RefugeeBlackBox bei. Geflüchtete, migrantische Aktivst*innen, Flüchtlingsaktivst*innen und alle anderen sind eingeladen, ein paar Worte zu ihren Erfahrungen und ihren Erlebnissen zur Box beizutragen.

Wir haben alles, was wir für eine neue Weltordnung der Solidarität mit Geflüchteten brauchen! Jede*r Geflüchtete ist die Geschichte einer RefugeeBlackBox-Installation und damit eine gewisse Macht des Wissens und der Weisheit, deinen Kampf zu finden; deine Präsenz und deine Anliegen in Solidarität mit den Kämpfen und Bewegungen der Geflüchteten zu ermächtigen.

Stoppt Abschiebungen! Verteidigt die RefugeeBlackBox Solidarität, euer Schweigen tötet!

Jede Abschiebung reißt dem menschlichen Antlitz die Maske herunter! Der Kampf gegen Abschiebungen und Isolation stand schon immer der Mittelpunkt des politischen Aktivismus von The VOICE. Gegen Abschiebungen kämpfen heißt gegen Nationalismus, weiße Vorherrschaft und koloniale, rassistische Ungerechtigkeit kämpfen!

Nächster Schritt: Ankunft: Donnerstag, 5.12.2019
Beginn: Freitag, 6.12.2019, 10.00 Uhr

Auf dem Holzmarkt in Jena wird es eine RBB-Videoinstallation geben.
– The VOICE- Symposium zu einer Versammlung der Flüchtlingsgrasswurzelcommunity
– Kämpft zurück! Stört, seid ungehorsam und organisiert euch gegen die durchregulierten
Dublin-Abschiebungen von Flüchtlingen aus Deutschland

Samstag, 7.12.2019: Präsentation | RefugeeBlackBox | Parade | Music | Gyration und Performance

Am Samstag, dem 7. Dezember wird es eine RefugeeBlackBox-Parade gegen Abschiebungsverbrechen und den kolonialen Rassismus Europas geben. Wir rufen zu dezentralen RefugeeBlackBox-Installationen oder Infoveranstaltungen im Vorfeld der Dezemberveranstaltungen auf.

facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox

The VOICE Refugee Forum Germany

Jena: Handy Tel.: + 49 (0) 176 24568988 (Whatsapp), E- mail: thevoiceforum@gmx.de
Berlin: Handy Tel.: :+49 (0)170/8788124 (Whatsapp), E- mail: the_voice_berlin@emdash.org
Thevoiceforum.org

Bitte spendet: Lasst uns unsere Solidarität stärken – Gegen Abschiebungen in Deutschland

Der Aktivismus von The VOICE Refugee Forum war die Erfindung des selbstorganisierten Kampfes gegen Abschiebung in Deutschland.

Wir machen unsere eigenen Geschichte! Macht eure BlackBox! Bitte spendet, um die Flüchtlingsbewegung aufrechtzuerhalten!

Bankkonto: Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29
BIC: NOLADE21GOE
Code/Stichwort: 25yrs

August 5, 2019

STOP THE DEPORTATION OF NIGERIANS – FOR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT!

Deutsch: Flüchtlingsprotest und Solidaritäts-Demonstration in Gotha zusammen mit The VOICE Refugee Forum
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4625

Refugee Protest and Solidarity in Gotha together with The VOICE Refugee Forum

Saturday, 10.08.2019 Gotha Train Station

10 am | RBB Solidarity Installation

2 pm | Rally

3 pm | DEMONSTRATION

Refugee Protest in Gotha: There will be Refugee Black Box Installation – Paint it Black! before the Demonstration on Saturday, August 10th, 2019 | 10 am

RBB Performance Gyration | Music and Cultural Programm till the end.

STOP THE TERROR OF DEPORTATIONS – BREAK THE ISOLATION!!

We Nigerians, refugees from Gotha, together with activists from The VOICE Refugee Forum are calling for your solidarity. We live here in the refugee lager in Gotha and are witnessing how our brothers and sisters are being deported at nighttime.

Most of us have a long journey to escape the horror that we have experienced. On our way, we survived the desert and the Mediterranean sea. Some of us survived as well the streets of Italy, where we looked for a small shelter to protect ourselves and children from the rain and cold winds. Now, we do not sleep because every night the police might come and deport us back to Nigeria or any other country. Our lives are dominated by the permanent fear that the German government is putting on us and our children.

This fear has increased since last year we heard that the Nigerian and German governments are talking to deport up to 30.000 Nigerian brothers and sisters from Germany. They are selling and pushing us without asking how and where we would like to live. They ignore our wishes to live a life in peace, security and dignity. We have not fled to here to live in an isolation camp in Thuringia. We want to shape our future and that of our children.

We cannot accept how we are pushed from one to another country and how
our lives are endangered. We cannot accept how unsafe countries and
societies are labeled safe and refugees are sent back there, as it is done for refugees from Afghanistan.

We call for a parade and demonstration with Refugee Black Box Installation and Performance here in Gotha. With our presence we show what the bureaucrats in both, the German and Nigerian, governments are doing: They destroy our lives. Since 2011 both governments have strengthened their cooperation. One of the main areas is migration. On the one side the people are biometrically captured by technology provided by Germany and on the other side Nigerian refugees are deported from Germany. The award for every deported refugee is economical contracts and money that is fed to a corrupt regime.
We call for other refugees to solidarize and build a common struggle against the inhuman attacks on us. The new laws are further cutting the minimum rights we had. We have no other opportunity than to stand up for our dignity and those of our children.

We ask all other refugees to build their own Refugee Black Boxes and installations to show the communities’ networks of solidarity. Let us know how you see the deportations and the isolation that you are forced to live in.

We call on all progressive activists, friends and sympathizers, refugees and non-refugees to join us in launching our campaign against deportation of Nigerians and to protest against the deportations and against isolation of refugees.

Bring your Refugee Black Box!

Send your solidarity message to us. If you are not able to come to make your own Black Box you can send a photo of your Refugee Black Box to the Facebook page of the Refugee Black Box:

https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox or check your messenger for
@RefugeeBlackBox

If you cannot come you can give a small or big donation for our fellow sisters and brothers that want to come to Gotha from Erfurt, Jena or elsewhere but cannot afford the ticket due to the limited money they have as refugees. Donations, one Euro or more, can be transferred to the account of THE VOICE Refugee Forum given below.

RBB Press: Refugee Black Box is a political agenda.

Power to the people in the revolutionary form and not just as a slogan. The idea must be extended to all people of the world in a practical way. Slow but powerful and strong.

Solidarity is not only our weapon, but it is our resisted oppressed bodies.
Our presence is our resistance and our resistance is our solidarity.

The Refugee Black Box activists with African Community of Guineans in Jena, The Afghanistan refugee community and MOVE in Erfurt with the Refugee Cafe in Goettingen will be demonstrating with us.

Contact:

Gotha: Vivian Chikodinaka: Tel. +49 152 16380860, Prince Cassidy Presido: +49 152 14159888

Jena: The VOICE Refugee Forum +49 176-24568988, Oury Diallo: +49 151 54660418

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox/

Donations to:

Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
Sparkasse Göttingen
Kontonummer: 127829
BLZ: 260 500 01
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29
BIC: NOLADE21GOE

We are grateful for any donation (tax deductible, donation receipt if wanted)!

January 18, 2017

[Testimony] The symbol of the Refugee Black box: Break the silence, break deportation by Regina Mauricia Kiwanuka

Original source: The voice forum

Break the silence, break deportation by Regina Mauricia

Some say that the Africans must try and forget or accept the calamities that befell the African continent. “Stop singing colonial injustices, stop singing the slave trade slogan,” they say. We all know that these calamities have not only ravaged other lands in other continents, they have succeeded in eliminating populations over populations of various nations in the course of escaping the detritus left behind by the aggressors. Today, a refugee is either burned alive in cell number 5 and forever silenced, or brutally deported and left for dead, or they are dumped here in asylum camps with horrible conditions.

That is the situation at home and abroad, and that is why refugees shall never forget and or try and accept the calamities because the old ones are being replaced with fresh ones. Refugees are ambushed here and also at home with the injustices in our homelands and the ones here in Europe.

Witnessing our brothers and sisters getting kidnapped from the shores of the African continent and dragged to faraway continents to enslave and abuse them in the most inconceivable manner that shall haunt and torment the Africans for generations to come is not something that leaves one´s memory. As if that was not enough, before the poor African peasants
could recover from the first dreadful trauma, the very same people returned in another form of enslavement known as colonialism.

The continent was demarcated to satisfy the colonial masters´ tastes and likings. The demarcation separated the populations under the divide and rule policies of the masters. Before the African people picked up the pieces to try and reorganize their continent, the resilient leaders of the continent that were to guide it back to its tracks, were killed off one by one by the same aggressors. Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Ben. Kiwanuka (Uganda),
Stephen Biko (South Africa), the list is endless.

This confusion resulting from the selfish intrusion that tore the African continent apart during the masters´ conflict among themselves for ownership of various lands and regions, is the same tyrannical operation imposed on the minorities in the name of deportation here in the federal republic of Germany. This collision that impacted the African continent and spread on to other lands in various continents has compounded us together in a form of the minorities of the western hemisphere.

The black box symbolizes the subsequent transparency expected to emerge from all the atrocities imposed on the refugees in Europe and especially here in Germany. The black box must be broken to reveal and to correct all the wrongs subjugated to that fateful Airplane. The Airplane was enormously tampered with and killing many in the process, that reads our homelands. We are the refugees, the minorities that should be compensated within the human rights horizons, compensated for the afflictions that befell us in accordance with the black box´s findings.

The aggressive deportations, the inhuman conditions in the asylum camps, the social exclusions that shall always remind us of the apartheid, the burning of refugees like Oury Jalloh in cell number 5 in Dessau. The brutal killings of refugees within the police brutality in the form of serving and protecting the citizens, the various forms of psychological torment are all patterns of brutal and greedy exploitation.

This interprets that the Berlin conference of 1884 to 1885 that begun the colonial journey is tantamount to the FRONTEX. The FRONTEX is the killer whale to the refugees, just as the horrible nightmare of colonialism affected all refugees and destroyed their countries. FRONTEX is another REPRODUCTION of the same exploitation and infringement, because this time the invasion to our numerous countries whether colonized or not has a different formula.

Silence is not an option, it is a non-existing phrase in our understanding. The ancestors in those days had no voice, they were
attacked and destroyed right before their very eyes, some were even caught unaware. This is another generation that is expected to respect humanity for proper reconstruction and to eradicate the ignorance of the society on the abuses and crimes of the deportation regimes and to unfold the colonial injustices of the system up to this day. Regina Mauricia Kiwanuka, Oldenburg The VOICE Refugee Forum – Refugee Community Network

Spenden für die Kampagnen der Flüchtlingscommunity zur Beendigung von Abschiebungen und sozialer Ausgrenzung

http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3915

January 17, 2017

WE WILL RISE كُلّﻪ ما تَمامْ in Jena

We will rise - Exhibition and Archive in Progress

German | English | French | Arabic


Zeitraum: Donnerstag, 26.01.17 – Freitag, 03.02.17
Ort: Campus Foyer Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3
Eröffnungsveranstaltung: Freitag, 27.01.17 um 16Uhr in Hörsaal 5 [Mit
Adam Bahar von der Ausstellungsgruppe aus Berlin und Aktivist_innen vom
Netzwerk “Break Deportation”]

Die Ausstellung wird in Jena im Rahmen der Aktionstage “Refugee Black Box – die ununterdrückbare Stimme und Kraft der Gequälten- Jenseits der Gerichtssäle!“ gezeigt. Initiiert von „The VOICE Refugee Forum – Netzwerk der Flüchtlingscommunity“ und dem thüringenweiten Netzwerk „Break Deportation“ werde in Jena vom 27. – 29. Januar 2017 neben der Ausstellung, auch Diskussionen, Demonstrationen und Konzerte stattfinden.
Mehr Infos zum Programm auf:

breakdeportation.blogsport.de // thevoiceforum.org

WE WILL RISE كُلّﻪ ما تَمامْ Ausstellung und Archiv im Prozess
WE WILL RISE schafft Raum für Reflektion innerhalb der Bewegung und Austausch mit Menschen, die (noch) nicht Teil der Bewegung sind. Es ist eine wachsende Wanderausstellung und ein Archiv. Der Fokus richtet sich auf die Protestzelte, den Protestmarsch von Würzburg nach Berlin, das Protestcamp am Oranienplatz und die besetzte ehemalige Schule in der
Ohlauerstraße. Die Ausstellung macht Geschichte sichtbar und zugänglich, um Gegenwart und Zukunft zu verändern. Die Ausstellung und das Archiv sind ein Anfang und im Prozess. Sie können nur durch eure Beteiligung weiter wachsen – fügt hinzu was euch wichtig ist. Wir wollen gemeinsam mit euch einen permanenten Ort für diese Arbeit erkämpfen.


[english]

Space of time: Thursday 26th of January till Friday 3rd of Feburary 2017

Place: Campus Foyer Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3

Opening Event: Friday, 27th of January at 4pm in lecture room 5 [With
Adam Bahar from the Exhibition group Berlin and activists from Break
Deportation Network]

The Exhibition is part of the Political action days „Break the Deportation DNA Chain: “Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted – Beyond the Court rooms!“ Initiated by The VOICE Refugee Forum – Refugee Community Network with Break Deportation Network Thueringen Discussions, Exhibition, Demonstration and Concerts will take place in Jena from 27.- 29. January 2017.

More infomation and program on: breakdeportation.blogsport.de //thevoiceforum.org

WE WILL RISE كُلّﻪ ما تَمامْ Exhibition and Archive in Progress
WE WILL RISE gives a space for reflection for the people of the refugee movement aswell as an exchange with people who are not (yet) part of the movement. It is a growing exhibition and archive. It focusses especially on the time since the tent actions and the protest march from Würzburg to Berlin, the protest camp on Oranienplatz and the squatting of the former school in Ohlauerstr. It has the aim to make history visible and accessible and to use it for the present and the future. The exhibition
and archive is just a beginning. It can only grow if you take part in it and add what is important to you. We want to struggle together with you for a permanent place for this work.

 

 

— français —

 

WE WILL RISE كُلّﻪ ما تَمامْ Exposition et archives en cours
WE WILL RISE propose un espace de réflection au mouvement des Réfugié.e.s et vise à créer une plateforme d’échange avec un public qui ne fait pas (encore) partie de ce mouvement. Cette exposition et ces archives s’étendent sans cesse. L’accent est mis sur l’histoire du mouvement depuis les “Tent Actions” (installations de tentes sur des places publiques), la marche de protestation de Würzburg à Berlin, le “Protest Camp” (occupation d’une place publique par la construction d’un campement) sur l’Oranienplatz et l’occupation de l’ancienne école dans la Ohlauer Straße. Notre but est de rendre cette histoire visible et
accessible et de l’utiliser pour la lutte présente et à venir. L’exposition et les archives ne sont qu’un début. Elles ne pourront
croître que si vous y participez et y ajoutez ce qui est important pour vous. Luttons ensemble pour trouver un espace pour accueillir ce travail au long terme !

 

 

— arabic —

 

WE WILL RISE كُلّﻪ ما تَمامْ
— العربية — تم انشاء فكرة هذا المعرض والأرشيف من اجل خلق مساحة  للتفاكر
بين أفراد الحركة وايضاً من اجل إبراز تاريخ الحركة وتبادل الأفكار مع
الأشخاص الذين لم ينضموا بعد للحركة .وهو عمل مستمر وينمو مع الوقت  ويركز
المعرض خاصة علي الفترة من بداية حركة احتجاجات الاجئين بالخيام ومسيرة
الاجئين علي الأقدام من مدينة فيزربورغ الي برلين .وفترة الخيام في
اورانيمبلاتز والمدرسة التي احتلها الاجئين في شارع اولوار وذلك من اجل جعل
هذا التاريخ ظاهرة ويمكن الوصول اليه حاليا او حتي في المستقبل .هذا المعرض
والأرشيف يمكنه فقط ان يتواصل اذا أبديت الاهتمام بالمشاركة والإضافة ف
ه بما تراه مهما لك . ومع  عبارة الناشطة الاميريكية في حقوق السود انجيلا
ديفيز  ان حركة احتجاجات الاجئين في المانيا هي احدي الحركات المؤثرة في
القرن الواحد وعشرين  والتي جعلت الرائ العام يهتم بقضية الاجئين  وجعلها
في كل وسائل الاعلام  لذلك ياتي هذا المعرض كنقطة مهمة في توثيق تاريخ هذه
الحركة وابرازه

January 11, 2017

Break the Deportation DNA Chain: “Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted” – Beyond the Court rooms!

Break the Deportation DNA Chain: "Refugee Black BoxOfficial Announcement: Break the Deportation DNA Chain: “Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted” – Beyond the Court rooms!

27th to 29th January 2017 in Jena, Thuringen

“Our main focus of discussion will be breaking the deportation chain from within; with discussions on strategies of Break Deportation Acts: Our historical backgrounds and past political struggles against deportation and social exclusion will be the guide to our continued engagement for justice and human dignity.”

The VOICE Refugee Forum, Activists of the Refugee-Migrant Community Network together with Anti deportation activists will be presenting and discussing the very first agenda and plan of the project event: ” Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted” in Jena, over the weekend of the 27th to the 29th.

This is a Prepar-Tainment weekend meeting for the political project event:
“Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted”

What do we want to talk about?

Our main focus of discussion will be breaking the deportation chain from within; with discussions on strategies of Break Deportation Acts: Our historical backgrounds and past political struggles against deportation and social exclusion will be the guide to our continued engagement for justice and human dignity.

We want to discuss how we, the refugee-migrant community activists in Germany overcome the different faces of injustice in Europe. We will speak about our experiences, the struggles and campaigns of the refugee community against the deportation cultures of the German and European racist nationalism, against social exclusion in Germany. About how we fight against the abuse and violation of our rights, the corruption of the deportation system, societal ignorance including German elites and politicians vis-à-vis human dignity and freedom of movement.

Prepar-Tainment Agenda

Friday and Saturday (27th and 28th):

There will be Workshops and Podium discussions. During discussions the Photo Exhibition of the Refugee Community Strike protest “We will Rise” by the Oplatz Refugee Movement will be part of our political arena with Street theatre, Rallies and Demonstration. In the evenings after discussions and workshops, there will be Solidarity Music and Concerts.

Saturday evening:

Cultural Contributions and Solidarity Live Concerts in Café Wagner, Jena. Also on the list are:

– Schwabinggrad Ballett together with the performance group Arrivati who call themselves „autonomous collective of refugees and People of Colour“, from Hamburg.

– System D „a crossing borders musical experience, challenging the oppression, political situation, borders control: Reggae is not dead.“ (Leipzig)

Sunday: Continuation of the discussions and perspectives on the way forward

“Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted” is a political experiment and a process to re-create our alternative space and critical enlightenment, through the Refugee Political Solidarity X-Ray on the decades of refugee struggles against the centuries of colonial injustice of deportation.

The concept is a process of inspirations from struggles like: The Caravan Internation Refugee Congress Jena – “Unite against Deportation and Social Exclusion” – the beginning of the Residenzpflicht campaign in 2000, Oury Jalloh’s death in Police Cell No 5 in Dessau and the ensuing court trial in 2008, the Caravan Festival on Colonial Injustice in Jena 2010, Break Isolation Refugee Camp in Erfurt with the preparation of the Refugee Protest March from Würzburg to Berlin in 2012 and the Refugee International Tribunal in Berlin in 2013, which were organized by The VOICE Refugee Forum and The Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants. (See links below) It is in the spirit of continuity of The VOICE Refugee Forum struggles since 1994 from the Mühlhausen refugee camp.
Refugee Black Box actions are planned to expose the ignorance of the society on the abuses and crimes of deportation regimes and to make the colonial injustices of the system visible.

Like Marcus Garvey said, “Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent”.

Like in a tribunal, it is about charging the system and giving a platform to the afflicted to bring their own charges to public awareness. In addition, it has elements of a festival with its cultural space. The idea parodies the black boxes of aircrafts. It contains sensitive information that are vital to its functionality. The afflicted can submit their charges and these would form the basis of the next protest actions against the pervasive colonial injustice.

Join us in the 2017 grassroots struggles of the refugees community movement, to make “Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted” a concrete and empowering political solidarity weapon.
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“By coming together, we will continue to learn from each other, develop our strength by continued self-empowerment to break the deportation culture and to overcome the different faces of injustice in Europe. Most of us are victims of war. Some of us lost our families; many of us are separated from their children, wives and husbands, while countless number of us died on the journey to Europe under the watchful eyes of FRONTEX. As a result, many of us remain traumatised today. Yet, instead of being given the necessary therapeutic and other support, we are discriminated against, subjected to brutal and greedy exploitation and exclusion, various forms of psychological torture and expected to gratefully accept our unspoken label of subhuman or „Untermensch“ in the name of refugees because we don‘t have bombs raining on us.” – Review on Break Deportation Culture – Deportation is criminal and we fight to stop it! http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4210

Deportation and its corruption of legal systems and regimes are criminal. Stop the deportation system! Fight racist nationalism!

Lets shake things up! – Bring down the deportation regimes! Stop the deportations!!!

Please make donations, engage and work with us for an independent refugee community and Join us for the 2017 grass root struggles of the refugees communities on our movement to make “The Refugee Black Box ” a concrete political solidarity weapon.

The events will be financed by public donation and solidarity contribution only.

Förderverein The VOICE e.V., Sparkasse Göttingen,
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29 Code „Break Deportation“

http://breakdeportation.blogsport.de | http://thevoiceforum.org | http://thecaravan.org

Corrected: Break Isolation Refugee Camp in Erfurt with the preparation of the Protest march from Würzburg to Berlin in 2012

Links:
Flüchtlingskongress vom 21. April bis 1. Mai 2000 in Jena
The Caravan Internation Refugee Congress Jena 2000 – “Unite against Deportation and Social Exclusion”
https://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/karawane-kongress/

Refugee Struggle against Residenzpflicht 2000
Einblick in den Kampf gegen die Residenzpflicht
http://residenzpflicht-apartheid.net/download/residenzpflicht-reader.pdf

Oury Jalloh Campaign Revisited – Break the Silence Archives 2005 – 2009 (English and German) http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1213

“Unite against colonial injustice in commemoration of the victims of Fortress Europe” http://www.karawane-festival.org

Break Isolation – Refugee Protest March from Würzburg to Berlin! http://thevoiceforum.org/node/2683

Refugee International Tribunal in Berlin in 2013,
http://www.refugeetribunal.org/