Europe, German, Call: NoBorder goes Blockupy/Frankfurt, March, 18th‏

"We will see in the weeks to come if elections sometimes can change
something - it depends on the pressure from the streets at last."

Wow, what a genius new idea this leftwing electoral politics thing, why no
one ever tried it before? I guess in the next few weeks it will be put to
its first great historic test!


> hello,
> 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):
>
> ++
>
> 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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> rhein-main.antira.info