Dear all,
I write to the list because since on the 24th and on the 25th of October there will be the EU Council in Bruxelles concerning future measures on migration following the tragedy of Lampedusa, Federica and I, as part of the group Leventincinqueundici were thinking about organizing some common actions across Europe outside European embassy and consulates.
We think that the next EU meeting will pave the ground for an increasing militarization of the Mediterranean (enforcement of Frontex and deployments of drones as Italy has already started to do the last week). Thus, although we are aware that many of you are already involved in other actions at the moment, like the refugee struggles in Germany, the EU meeting won't be exclusively on Lampedusa and Italy but will concern migration policies at large.
For this reason we think that even if a common action is not possible at this point, maybe a series of decentralized actions and sit-in could be also fine (we know that there will be some protests in Frankfurt and in other towns in Germany during those days). however, we were wondering if, at least, it would be possible to address our protests against what's happening now at the European level after Lampedusa. We, as a group, will also support the Meltingpot statement http://www.meltingpot.org/Portiamo-l-appello-per-un-canale-umanitario-sul-tavolo-del.html#.UmK78fk71qU
but we would also like to do something more than sending or bringing this to the EU... so, I don't know if the struggle against the militarization of the Mediterranean could be supported also in your struggles the next week. We will try to involve also the families of the missing migrants, since it would be very important that it is a struggle from one shore to the other.
We hope that it will be possible to do something in connection with you
all the best,
Martina