Hamburg: "We are are coming to you" – The refugee community needs you!
Foto: Refugee Community Meeting in Jena on 30.July
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4209
Refugee-Migrants Political Community Meeting in Hamburg on the 18th and
19th of August 2016
Dear refugees activists in Hamburg,
"We are are coming to you" – The refugee community needs you!
We will reconcile our differences and unite our political resources to
empower our struggles for an independent space to nuture and protect our
community.
Refugee Activists and Members of Refugee-Migrants Political Community
Meeting in Hamburg on the 18th and 19th of August 2016.
We want to inform and implore refugees living in Hamburg and in other
cities in Germany to support the meeting by showing/confirm their
interest to participation in and contribute to the meeting. We are
planning to discuss the 2nd preparatory meeting of our nationwide
meeting "Refugee-Migrants Political Community Movement Activism" in
September and other issues. Amongst them, the continued and intensified
wars and deadly exploitation of the home countries of refugees, which
are the actual causes of flight for most refugees.
Further, we want discuss the on-going assault on refugee rights in
Europe and expose the hypocrisy surrounding the notion of human rights,
freedom and human dignity that are often-touted as European values with
the dubious and catastrophic collaborations/agreements with dictatorial
governments ranging from Turkey to Sudan.
Since the last couple of years, the orchestra of „Refugee Welcome“ has
serenaded the ears and heads of many in this country with sonorous tones
to appease the insatiable quest of being 'helpful'. Yet, this orchestra
has virtually been tone-deaf to the fate of thousands who the government
is spending millions to deport to countries where their safety, security
and dignity cannot be guaranteed. This orchestra has blinded-folded the
zealous 'helpers' to the deliberate division of refugees by the
government, as a way among other things, to weaken and diffuse the
potential solidarity between refugees in this country.
We cannot allow them to fool us anymore! It is time to unite against
this archaic but effective strategy of divide and rule. We must seize
the initiative and together, defy the odds.
The Injustice against refugees in Europe has many faces:
By coming together, we will continue to learn from each other, develop
our strength by continued self-empowerment to overcome the different
faces of injustice in Europe. Most of us are victims of war, brutal and
greedy exploitation. Some of us lost our families, many of us are
separated from their children, wives and husbands, while countless
number of us died in the journey to Europe under the watchful eyes of
FRONTEX. As a result, many of us remain traumatised today. Yet, instead
of being given the necessary therapeutic and other support, we are
discriminated against, subjected to various forms of psychological
torture, and expected to gratefully accept our unspoken label of
„Untermensch“ in the name of refugees because we don't have bombs
raining on us.
However, we must not give in to these challenges we must OVERCOME them
by UNITING!!!
Interested delegates from refugee communities are invited and should
confirm their participation.
"We are coming to you" - Those who cannot come to Hamburg can organize
their refugee community meeting in their regions and inform us when we
can come to you.
More information on the program of the meeting, place and contact
persons will be published on this group forum.
Protocol of Refugee Community Meeting with activists of The VOICE
Refugee Forum in Jena, Saturday, 30.07.2016
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4208
Regular meetings will continue:
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