this year with a slight delay but as hopefully as ever we are asking for
your support and anti Frontex actions everywhere you'll find yourselves at at the moment. The dates for this year's actions are between 21 and 23 of May. Please forward the call (below and attached) to your contacts and join the struggle against the border regime!
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us the translation.
Antyfrontex team Warsaw
AntiFrontex 21-23 May 2016
This year more than ever, we need your support to say NO to the European
Union’s migration policies and criminal activities of its border control
agency, the Frontex.
Closing borders and cutting the wealthy Europe off from the countries
of South and East – plundered and kept in poverty – aims at preserving
inequalities on both sides. Borders do not only work outwards. Their
tightening causes increasing limitation of people’s rights and freedom
also here, in Europe. Shifting the “problem” of migration onto countries
such as Turkey, ignoring the death of thousands in the Mediterranean,
imprisonment of those seeking help and better life in Europe, are
directly linked to preserving capitalism as a system, in its most
bloodthirsty variant.
Work conditions for those who are illegally employed in Europe on a
mass scale are often not unlike slavery. Only a tiny percent of those
appealing for asylum get the papers which enable them to escape the lot
of illegal worker. Keeping migrants in a precarious position serves only
economic exploitation, and makes it possible to quickly get rid of them
whenever they claim any of their rights. It simultaneously allows for
keeping wages low for local workers who can always be replaced by
illegal underpaid workforce. The anti-migrant hysteria throughout Europe
accounts for a cynical political game whose aim is to keep the power and
privilege for a handful of the most well-off.
For a few years now in Warsaw, on the anniversary of the agency’s
emergence which coincides with that of the racist murder on Max Itoya,
AntiFrontex Days are organized by an alliance of groups and activists in
solidarity with migrants. This year, we are not limiting actions to
Poland’s capital where the Frontex headquarters are located. We want to
invite various groups and people in different locations to express their
solidarity with migrants and workers. Let us say this together: we do
not consent to policies of exploitation and exclusion which those in
power try to force upon us.
May 21th to 23th are to be days of objection towards Frontex and EU’s
policies towards refugees. We encourage you to initiate actions of
solidarity in your locations, so that we’re all able to broadcast our
lack of consent to the power discourse that dominates. Let art activism,
happenings, meetings, demonstrations and direct actions: all activities
which you see as relevant in your local context, be a firm and bold
outcry against EU’s policies. Choose for yourselves the form of action
you find most suitable.
Please send us info documenting the events, your appeals, articles or
other elements of what you do, so that we can all share them via our
sister site and inspire one another to take action.
Migracja.noblogs.org
Write us: antyfrontex [at] riseup [dot] net
NO to Border Regime and Policies of Exploitation!