Hello,
one short notice: On the occasion of the world wide action day on the 18.12.2015 members of the transnational network Afrique-Europe-Interact are going to organise two actions in Mali and Togo (see below). The activists in Mali are planing morover to publish a declaration which will be also translated on english.
Best wishes,
Nolager Bremen
P.S. For the german reading people: Afrique-Europe-Interact has recently published a new version of its 4-pages newspapers - it can be downloaded here:
P.P.S. Short Informations about the actions in Mali and Togo:
In Mali there will be on the 19 th of December 2015 in Kita (180 kilometres west of the capital Bamako) a commemoration action for those at least 184 Malian migrants, who have died since the beginning of the year in the Mediterranean Sea. Many of them come from the region of Kayes, of which Kita is a part. Concretely, relatives of at least 75 families, who have lost family members, will participate in the ceremony, among them hopefulle representatives from Balandougou as well. Because alone from this small town, which is made up of several villages, in april 2015 30 young people have lost their lives during several big maritime desasters (with more than 1.200 deaths) in the mediterranean sea. The region of Kayes is one of those regions in Mali, from which for decades innumerous migrants have set of – among other reasons because the population could not even a little bit benefit from the numerous gold mines or other mineral resources. The action in Kati is organized by self-organzied deportees, which are active in the network Afrique-Europe-Interact and who have been for a while building up their own agricultural cooperative.
In Togo the Association of the deportees of Togo will conduct on the 18th of December 2015 two actions in Sokodé in the north of the country: On the one hand side a conference is planned, which is to last several hours, which is going to focus especially on the situation of the deportees; on the other hand after that a demonstration for the rights of migrants and refugees is going to take place. Many of those active in the ATE are deportees from Germany, about whom the film Da.Sein, which was made in cooperation with Afrique-Europe-Interact, is about.