hallo everybody!
we want to update you on the actual situation in Mitilini and our camp
activities.
the last people are leaving the " journey back to Lesvos2" - Camp,
tomorow, few of us will stay here stil.
the week of activities 6-12.8.14 was great. We came with 60 people, most
of us ex minors who had been in Lesvos when they first arived in greece
and now live in other european countries and have papers.
some of us are selforganised in the JOG (youth without borders) some are
stuck in greece and dream of getting out . some are just newly arived,
have been in PIKPA or in Moria and although they are still on their way
they are strong and decided to help also others. most of us know from
own experiances how it feels to arive as a refugee in an unknown place.
many fo us made "holidays" for the first time in their lifes.
our camp place in karpouzi, that many of you remember from noborder2009,
prooved again to be the ideal place to be together. swimming making an
own kitchen and having enough space and shadow for plenary and diskussions.
the strongest moment was when we made a konzert in front of the
Detention center in Moria, which ended up with half of us being on the
fences and all of us and the detained refugees, dancing inside and
outside! for 3 hours.
part of the detained people we had met the days before in PIKPA .
since musicians from greece ( RENOVATIO-Revolutionary Hard Core
Rap-Ragga) and germany (ZEZAKOSA balkanswing/gipsyfolk ) where with us
, making musik was part of our activities.
pictures and reports of all activities start now to be uploaded at
http://lesvos.w2eu.net
before we had made a visit in the nearby village of Moria informing the
lokals about the situation of detained refugees and bringing them the
book we have made of our Oktober travel and activities.
coming back and talking again was obviously making the people more
willing to listen to us , who we are and why we are there. the not yet
functioning of the prison and the use by the coast guard of the PIKPA to
keep the people because in Moria there is not enough space, gives good
arguments to explain why this prison build with european money is not at
all wanted or needed and might as well get closed before it opens. the
new informations say that they plan to open the pre detention of MORIA
in ..february 2015.
three times we made welcome partys in PIKPA, meeting the new coming
refugees that the coast guard , due to the high number of new arivals ,
brings and forgets there for days.
with no medical care, no psychological care, but at least free for few days.
today some families are in PIKPA since 10 days! although the coastguard
had asked the permission from"the village of all together" to bring them
there for few hours.
but we did not only dancing and welcoming
also distributing our newly made booklet in english farsi and arabic;
WELCOME TO GREECE!
an Info guide for refugees and migrants
http://w2eu.info/pritings.en.html
last monday we made again a memorial ceremony for the dead at the greek
türkish borders in THERMI and specially remembered the 19 year old
brother of one of the Afghan people being now in PIKPA, whos brother was
the last dead buried here by our friends.
we took part in an action of the "village of all together" for the
palästinian people, surounding the harbour of mitilini holding hands,
and where thanked for our presence (60 people is a respectfull number of
participants).
and produced in a workshop a foto excibition of our reasons to flee our
countries of origin and to be in europe.
we screened at the infopoint 2009, the film we made of our spontanuous
visit inside the detention of Moria in oktober 2013.
unfortunately not many lokals followed our activities,
but the lokal newspaper made 4 times an artikel making public all what
we did, with in a very positiv way.
this time we had with us friends we met last year in PIKPA having just
arived in Greece and who then had made the experiance of detention in
Moria and of different prisons in greece .
our group is growing and many people we do give informations and
infoguides tell us:
"thank you for welcoming us and when i get papers i will join you!"
many of us on the other hand say:
"i wish i would have also been welcomed like this, when i arived here
some years ago."
so we decided to continue our yearly welcoming camp activities on Lesvos
and keep growing and spreading the informations people at the border
regions badly need.
a welcoming culture has been established in Lesvos
and nobody can stop the rain!
marily
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