Day of action at detention and deportation centers in NL‏

http://no-border.nl/27-oktober-landelijke-actiedag-bij-detentie-en-uitzetcentra/#english

Call out and announcement of a day of action at detention and
deportation centers

The No Border Network, founded in the Netherlands in June, calls for a
nationwide day of action on October 27th 2012, seven years after the
fire at detention and deportation center Schiphol, that cost the lives
of eleven people.

Several groups in the country organize a demonstration or another action
to be announced at a detention or deportation center in their region.
There will also be a demonstration at the freedom restricting center in
Ter Apel and more announcements are to be expected.

October 26th 2005: shortly before midnight fire broke out in the cell
complex at Schiphol. The complex turned out to be a fire hazard, the
communication poor, the fire brigade was standing in front of the wrong
gate, guards could not get doors open and the military police rushed the
refugees that were let out of their cells into a cage, at gunpoint.
Eleven people suffocated and burned in cells that had not been opened.
Traumatized refugees were thrown in isolation. Responsible ministers got
off scott-free. A Libyan refugee, Ahmed Issa al-Jeballi, accused of
causing the fire, is up to this day still fighting for justice: acquittal.

When the Schiphol fire is discussed, fire resistance is the issue. A
feigned solution was found in building a new border prison at Schiphol
West, a bunker of which the management will largely be privatized and be
in the hands of construction company BAM. The city of Haarlemmermeer
signed for its construction, because it is their territory. At the same
time, last year the city of Haarlemmermeer took control of the
commemoration of the Schiphol fire and announced that it would be the
final commemoration.

It is not fire resistance that should be the issue, but the existence of
border prisons on its own.

When migration detention is discussed, the circumstances are the issue.
Report after report comes out about bad food, the lack of medical care,
the frequent use of isolation cells, aggression of blundering private
guards of the company G4S, and intimidation by the 'Dienst Terugkeer en
Vertrek' (Department of Return and Departure). But it is not
circumstances that should in the first place be the issue, but the
existence of border prisons on its own.

When the foreigners law is discussed, alternative methods of forcing
people to leave the country are the issue. Humanistic and religious
organizations often agree with this, and make an effort to further
programs for so called voluntary return.

But it is not alternatives that should be the issue, but the existence
of the racist foreigners law on its own.

Voluntary return does not exist. People only return 'voluntary' after
having been under pressure for a long time, in the freedom restricting
location with a daily obligation to stamp, after having been forced to
live on the street, been locked up on a regular basis, in fact been
outlawed, gotten sick, desperate, and in the end see no way out anymore.
Women and children that cannot be kicked out on the street, are being
placed in so called family locations where strict penal regimes prevail
and where there is no recreation space for children.

The government presents migration as a problem. But it's not migration
that is the problem, but the exploitation of all those countries where
refugees come from. Whether it is because of war, drought, flooding,
famine, repression, religious or political prosecution, no man flees
voluntary. Return, as it is called so beautifully, can therefore never
be voluntary! The Western democracies, that have built their prosperity
on the capitalist destruction of land, air and water, the theft of
resources and slave labor, respond to the refugees, that seek a better
life here, with repression. A machinery that is aimed at separating
useful people from useless people, all by capitalist standards. Laws,
police, border control, identity control, everything is aimed at
controlling migration from poor countries. And multinationals profit.

With this day of action we state: right to freedom of movement and
settlement for all. No alternatives or nicer cells, but abolition of all
prisons in which people are being broken for the sole purpose of
realizing their deportation, willingly or unwillingly.

Commemorate not only the deaths of the Schiphol fire, but commemorate
all deaths caused by the policy of migration control. The suicides, the
drownings in the Mediterranean Sea, the sick persons that starve. Take
action against the murderous practices of the Fortress of Europe!

The city of Haarlemmermeer wanted the commemoration of last year to be
the final one. Therefore commemoration day becomes day of action on
October 27th, with demonstrations at the following locations:

Detention- and deportation center Schiphol Oost - starts 14.30, get
together at 13.30 uur, at MKZ, Eerste Schinkelstraat 16, Amsterdam
Sign up to be on the bus: info@no-border.nl, subject: 27 oktober
Schiphol

Detention center Kamp Zeist - starts 14.30 hr near Kamp Zeist,
corner Kampweg/Richelleweg (at overpass), Soesterberg. (AAGU)

Detention- en deportation center Rotterdam, 14.30 hrs. at detention
center, call out Occupy Rotterdam

Detention center Alphen aan den Rijn, get together at 15 hrs. at
train station Alphen a/d Rijn (AFA Den Haag)

Freedom restricting location Ter Apel - starts 14.30 hr at Freedom
restricting location Ter Apel (read the call out by AFA Fryslan,
onderzoeksgroep Alaska and Werkgroep Vluchtelingen Vrij)

Family location Gilze-Rijen - Get together at 13.00 hrs,
Steenakkerplein in Gilze, from there we walk to the family location
Gezinslocatie Gilze-Rijen, Prinsenbosch 2. Arrival there will be: 14.30
uur. The actie will last until 15.30.


More, and more details will follow.

No Border Network
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