Official Announcement: Break the Deportation DNA Chain: "Refugee Black
Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted" - Beyond the
Court rooms!
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4308
27th to 29th January 2017 in Jena, Thuringen
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"Our main focus of discussion will be breaking the deportation chain
from within; with discussions on strategies of Break Deportation Acts:
Our historical backgrounds and past political struggles against
deportation and social exclusion will be the guide to our continued
engagement for justice and human dignity."
The VOICE Refugee Forum, Activists of the Refugee-Migrant Community
Network together with Anti deportation activists will be presenting and
discussing the very first agenda and plan of the project event: "
Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted"
in Jena, over the weekend of the 27th to the 29th.
This is a Prepar-Tainment weekend meeting for the political project
event:
"Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted"
What do we want to talk about?
Our main focus of discussion will be breaking the deportation chain from
within; with discussions on strategies of Break Deportation Acts: Our
historical backgrounds and past political struggles against deportation
and social exclusion will be the guide to our continued engagement for
justice and human dignity.
We want to discuss how we, the refugee-migrant community activists in
Germany overcome the different faces of injustice in Europe. We will
speak about our experiences, the struggles and campaigns of the refugee
community against the deportation cultures of the German and European
racist nationalism, against social exclusion in Germany. About how we
fight against the abuse and violation of our rights, the corruption of
the deportation system, societal ignorance including German elites and
politicians vis-à-vis human dignity and freedom of movement.
Prepar-Tainment Agenda
Friday and Saturday (27th and 28th):
There will be Workshops and Podium discussions. During discussions the
Photo Exhibition of the Refugee Community Strike protest “We will Rise”
by the Oplatz Refugee Movement will be part of our political arena with
Street theatre, Rallies and Demonstration. In the evenings after
discussions and workshops, there will be Solidarity Music and Concerts.
Saturday evening:
Cultural Contributions and Solidarity Live Concerts in Café Wagner,
Jena. Also on the list are:
– Schwabinggrad Ballett together with the performance group Arrivati who
call themselves „autonomous collective of refugees and People of
Colour“, from Hamburg.
– System D „a crossing borders musical experience, challenging the
oppression, political situation, borders control: Reggae is not dead.“
(Leipzig)
Sunday: Continuation of the discussions and perspectives on the way
forward
"Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power of the afflicted"
is a political experiment and a process to re-create our alternative
space and critical enlightenment, through the Refugee Political
Solidarity X-Ray on the decades of refugee struggles against the
centuries of colonial injustice of deportation.
The concept is a process of inspirations from struggles like: The
Caravan Internation Refugee Congress Jena – “Unite against Deportation
and Social Exclusion” – the beginning of the Residenzpflicht campaign in
2000, Oury Jalloh’s death in Police Cell No 5 in Dessau and the ensuing
court trial in 2008, the Caravan Festival on Colonial Injustice in Jena
2010, Break Isolation Refugee Camp in Erfurt, Würzburg to Berlin Protest
march in 2012 and the Refugee International Tribunal in Berlin in 2013,
which were organized by The Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and
Migrants. It is in the spirit of continuity of The VOICE Refugee Forum
struggles since 1994 from the Mühlhausen refugee camp.
Refugee Black Box actions are planned to expose the ignorance of the
society on the abuses and crimes of deportation regimes and to make the
colonial injustices of the system visible.
Like Marcus Garvey said, “Never forget that intelligence rules the world
and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as
possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent”.
Like in a tribunal, it is about charging the system and giving a
platform to the afflicted to bring their own charges to public
awareness. In addition, it has elements of a festival with its cultural
space. The idea parodies the black boxes of aircrafts. It contains
sensitive information that are vital to its functionality. The afflicted
can submit their charges and these would form the basis of the next
protest actions against the pervasive colonial injustice.
Join us in the 2017 grassroots struggles of the refugees community
movement, to make “Refugee Black Box – The irrepressible voice and power
of the afflicted" a concrete and empowering political solidarity weapon.
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"By coming together, we will continue to learn from each other, develop
our strength by continued self-empowerment to break the deportation
culture and to overcome the different faces of injustice in Europe. Most
of us are victims of war. Some of us lost our families; many of us are
separated from their children, wives and husbands, while countless
number of us died on 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 brutal and greedy exploitation and
exclusion, various forms of psychological torture and expected to
gratefully accept our unspoken label of subhuman or „Untermensch“ in the
name of refugees because we don‘t have bombs raining on us." - Review on
Break Deportation Culture – Deportation is criminal and we fight to stop
it! http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4210
Deportation and its corruption of legal systems and regimes are
criminal. Stop the deportation system! Fight racist nationalism!
Lets shake things up! - Bring down the deportation regimes! Stop the
deportations!!!
Please make donations, engage and work with us for an independent
refugee community and Join us for the 2017 grass root struggles of the
refugees communities on our movement to make “The Refugee Black Box " a
concrete political solidarity weapon.
The events will be financed by public donation and solidarity
contribution only.
Förderverein The VOICE e.V., Sparkasse Göttingen,
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29 Code „Break Deportation“
http://breakdeportation.blogsport.de | http://thevoiceforum.org |
http://thecaravan.org
Links:
Flüchtlingskongress vom 21. April bis 1. Mai 2000 in Jena
The Caravan Internation Refugee Congress Jena 2000 – “Unite against
Deportation and Social Exclusion”
https://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/karawane-kongress/
Refugee Struggle against Residenzpflicht 2000
Einblick in den Kampf gegen die Residenzpflicht
http://residenzpflicht-apartheid.net/download/residenzpflicht-reader.pdf
Oury Jalloh Campaign Revisited - Break the Silence Archives 2005 - 2009
(English and German) http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1213
"Unite against colonial injustice in commemoration of the victims of
Fortress Europe" http://www.karawane-festival.org
Break Isolation – Refugee Protest March from Würzburg to Berlin!
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/2683
Refugee International Tribunal in Berlin in 2013,
http://www.refugeetribunal.org
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Please Donation // Bitte Spende:
English:
The VOICE Refugee Forum is an independent community network of refugee
political activists who are fighting for the respect of our human rights
in equality, freedom and human dignity:
Thank you all!
In solidarity,
The VOICE Refugee Forum
Donation Account:
Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
Sparkasse Göttingen
Kontonummer: 127829
BLZ: 260 500 01
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29
BIC: NOLADE21GOE
Deutsch:
The VOICE Refugee Forum ist ein unabhängiges Community-Netzwerk von
politischen Flüchtlingsaktivist_innen, die für die Wahrung ihrer
Menschenrechte in Gleichheit und Freiheit sowie für ihre Menschenwürde
kämpfen:
Thank you all!
In solidarity,
The VOICE Refugee Forum
Donation Account:
Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
Sparkasse Göttingen
Kontonummer: 127829
BLZ: 260 500 01
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29
BIC: NOLADE21GOE
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