Slovénie: Appel Ljubljana Calling

L'appel de Ljubljana - "LJUBLJANA CALLING!"

Le groupe d’activistes slovène 'Antifascistes sans frontières'
(Protirasistična fronta brez meja) lance un appel à une rencontre
internationale, à la manifestation et à l'action solidaire en
Slovénie. Cette rencontre se tiendra à Ljubljana, capitale de la
Slovénie, ce 31 octobre à 11h. Le groupe constate que depuis une
semaine la situation se complique entre la Slovénie et la Croatie. La
Slovénie se militarise et impose des quotas d'entrée de réfugiés sur
son sol, alors que la Croatie tente de contourner ce quota en faisant
se déplacer des colonnes de réfugiés à travers champs, via ce qui est
dénommé la frontière verte. Le récent mini-sommet de Bruxelles est
considéré comme ayant pour but de réduire les flux de migrants et
réfugiés, en mettant en place des hot spots en Grèce, en tentant par
ailleurs de faire de la Turquie une zone tampon où seraient maintenus
les réfugiés. Les militants disent constater que l'attitude de la
police est celle de la déshumanisation des migrants et la
transformation de la route des Balkans, pour imposer des procédures de
police, la sélection et les expulsions. D'autre part les autorités
réduiraient de plus en plus souvent l'activisme. La réunion a pour
objectif de lutter contre la militarisation de la Slovénie et les
tentatives de l'UE de briser les mouvements des réfugiés et migrants.
Après la manifestation, les militants se rendront à la frontière pour
exprimer leur solidarité avec les réfugiés et migrants. Contact:
frontabrezmeja@gmail.com

+++ "LJUBLJANA CALLING!" +++
Call for international meeting, manifestation and solidarity action in Slovenia
Poziv na mednarodno srečanje, manifestacijo in solidarnostno akcijo

(ENGLISH)

For more than a week the so-called Balkan Route is passing through
Slovenia. The Slovenian government intended to impose the entrance
quota of 2500 refugees per day and Croatia answered by sending the
refugees and migrants over the so-called “Green” border. This
controversy between Slovenia and Croatia created dire humanitarian
conditions for the refugees and migrants. The Slovenian government
used this self-induced humanitarian emergency and what they call a
chaotic situation on the Southern border to rapidly militarize the
society and call for an EU summit on the Balkan Route.

The results of the Sunday summit are measures corresponding to EU
policies, meant to demolish the movement of refugees and migrants.
They decided on concrete measures to slow down refugees and migrants
with the intention of establishing so-called hot spots in Greece and
to designate Turkey as a buffer zone for refugees and migrants. After
pushing the people on their journey to freedom and a decent life in
dire humanitarian conditions, they used terrible images from the
Slovene-Croatian border to talk more about deportation,
externalization of the repressive and violent migration regime, the
selection and stratification of refugees and migrants in the process
of registration of which the aim is to destroy their collective power.

We are the people daily involved in solidarity with refugees and
migrants travelling through Slovenia trying to reach their final
destinations. We do not see refugees and migrants as either hopeless
victims or as an invasive force but autonomous people with a desire
for a better life. What we are perceiving in our day to day
engagements on the border is that the attitude of the Slovenian
authorities leads to the dehumanization of refugees and migrants and
turns this route into a total institution whose aim is to isolate
refugees and migrants from the broader society and subject them to
procedures of policing, selection and deportation. We also perceive
that activities of solidarity by independent volunteers are more and
more restricted by authorities.

We believe that the only way to address these dire humanitarian
conditions of refugees and migrants is to build relations with them.
The solution is not sending people back or subjecting them to a life
without perspective in closed refuge centres isolated from broader
society. The solution is to build a common European society together,
as citizens, refugees and migrants.

We call to meet in Ljubljana, on Saturday 31 of October, 11am to
participate in a transnational meeting and manifestation against the
militarization of Slovenian borders and the attempts of the EU to
break the movement of refugees and migrants. After the manifestation
in Ljubljana, we will go together to the border as international
independent volunteers to express solidarity with refugees and
migrants and to build another, open Europe together.

Contact us at frontabrezmeja@gmail.com
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