find below a good opportunity to bring migration related struggles on
the streets of Frankfurt, during the actions against the inauguration
of the new European Central Bank (ECB):
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NoBorder goes Blockupy!
Antiracist networks call for actions against the inauguration of the new
ECB tower in Frankfurt on March, 18th
2014 was a historical year for social and political struggles of the
movements of migration: Record figures on crossing the Central
Mediterranean and the Aegean, collective mass runs of the fences of
Ceuta and Melilla, protests and persistant waiting for the right moment
in Calais and Patras, Revolts and hunger strikes in detention centers
all over Europe, the occupation of houses and squares in Athens, Rome
and Berlin, successful actions and church asylums against
Dublin-deportations as well as the actual reduction of the custody
pending deportation in Germany, the march for freedom from Strasburg to
Brussels, and much more.
Freedom but Frontex
Symbolic protests and daily resistance attack the ruling politics of
migration on all levels. Never before the inner and outer borders of the
EU have been that heavily contested. Frontex and thousands of deaths at
sea, deportations via Dublin-regulation, controls and arrest – regular
or à la „mos maiorum“, and the internment in detention centers are
examples for the deadly and inhuman EU-borderregime, that is confronted
with the rising of self-organized struggles for the right of freedom of
movement everywhere.
Reasons of flight and global crisis
The inequalities inside Europe are intensifying due to the
austerity-politics, the implementation follows the program of the
International Monetary Fund in the global south of the past decades.
There life under the conditions of crisis is normality, caused by
climate change, exploitation of resources and the theft of raw
materials, by landgrabbing, hunger crisis and resource wars. 1000 good
reasons to leave home in search of a better life.
Against division and exploitation...
The borderregime serves as a filter, that the „fittest“ at the most can
get through. Those in power speak of „management of migration“ in
combining measures of exclusion with the recruitment of cheap labor.
Residence permits are linked to employment, criminalization and
deportation are instruments of blackmailing migrants. Worldwide there is
a process of creating racist hierarchies, when social and political
rights are refused – with gradual differentiation for different groups
of migrants. This new Apartheid is customized to the requirements of the
employment market of the Global North and Germany last but not least. In
the shadows of the glass fronts of the skyscrapers the metropolitan
economics of services are functioning – on the basis of precarious
employment relationships and the hyper-exploitation mostly of migrants.
… crossing borders of different struggles
Sans Papieres and migrants (CISPM) declare during their transnational
meeting in November 2014 in Rome: „ We are convinced that the unique
cure to point the political responsabilities of so many injustices and
inequalities, is the unity among migrants, workers, precarious,
undocumented migrants, refugees, students, unemployed, asylum seekers
and each victim of the crisis…, and because the war among poor or
exploited only is useful to those who exploit, here in Europe or
anywhere else..“
The movements and struggles of migration are crossing throughout Europe.
The „social strike“ on November, 14th in Italy brought refugees and
workers together, in Hamburg and Berlin the current refugee-struggles
and right-to-the city-initiatives are connecting and they demand housing
space and working permits for all as well as the abolishment of
deportations. Whether actions or manifestations regarding
right-to-the-city, crisis or precarious labor – there are many possible
connections to develop an emancipatory overall perspective with and
within the struggles for global freedom of movement and against all
racist laws.
No more “Pegida”!
Connecting the protests against the politics of austerity and those
against the borderregime is even more important, as Europeanwide new
rightwing parties propagate authoritarian measures against the crisis.
Right wing and Nazis especially in the East of Germany protest against
the accommodation of refugees. Furthermore every week the right mob of
PEGIDA is on the streets. Except for some few cities in the East of
Germany the right wing mob could not gain ground in the streets so that
instead the few hundred racists face several thousands of
counter-demonstrators from Lübeck to Freiburg.
From Athens to Frankfurt!
Syriza's victory in Greece offers space to transform – not only for the
struggle against the brutal politics of austerity but also against
inhuman system of detention and the borderregime. Despite the coalition
with the right wing populists of the „Independent Greeks" the politics
of determent and internment in the Aegean is may going to change. We
will see in the weeks to come if elections sometimes can change
something - it depends on the pressure from the streets at last. Right
now we are observing the institutions of power in Brussels, Berlin and
Frankfurt applying pressure on the new Greek government to stick to the
rules of the EU politics of exploitation and exclusion.
That's why we will come to Frankfurt on March, 18th.
To set a radical mark of transnational solidarity inside the financial
metropolis of Frankfurt.
We antiracist groups and migration related networks call to come to
Frankfurt to make visible the demands and aims of the daily struggles
against exclusion and precarization: in resistance against the
tightening of asylum laws, against Dublin-deportations as well as the
new campaign "Push Back Frontex!" and for global freedom of movement for
all!
Action-Alliance against deportations Rhine Main
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