We`ll Come United - Newsletter #3
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Dear friends!
We’ve got one month to go until then we’ll come united: on 16th of September in Berlin we’ll meet at the great parade for freedom of movement and for equal rights. Our mobilization is in full swing: networking in refugee camps, working on our community contacts, distributing flyers, meeting at information assemblies, preparing the trucks with different political motives, chartering buses. There is no summer break for the antiracist resistance anyway - not for the fights against deportations and certainly not for the people at the external borders in the Mediterranean. This is also the power of our common mobilization: we just bring to the streets of the capital on the 16th of September the and into the publicity of the general election, the issues that thousands of people are fighting for every day and in every place, without a break. We already stated in our call: "Now it's time to raise our voices together. We are much more than we think! We'll come United!"
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. We are many - the upcoming parade
There are now nearly 20 trucks and countless announced contributions. On our current list are trucks from Lampedusa in Hamburg, Arrivati on tour, City Plaza, Feminist Network, Youth Without Borders, Bleibistan – against Deportations to Afghanistan, Solidarity City Network, Oromo Community, Theater X, Never mind the papers, Alliance against Dublin deportations, Ferries not Frontex, CommUNITY Carnival, Dewalling the Wall, Women's Empowerment and the young people from the school in Nürnberg that got famous because of their protests against a deportation of their friend.
We will start at 16th September in front of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. We’ve got more and better reasons to start here than ever. Here is the place where the driving forces of the deadly EU border regime perform their work, being responsible for deportations and deprivation of rights. And we finish our parade at the Oranienplatz, also for good reasons: this place is still a central symbol of the self-organized refugee struggles.
From Mitte to Kreuzberg: it will be a colorful parade, a political carnival, an anti-racist manifestation.
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The Faces of We'll Come United |
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. Mobilization in Berlin-Brandeburg
We are mobilizing in Berlin and Brandeburg in the refugee camps in Bestensee, Oranienburg, Potsdam, Beelitz, Bad Belzig, Brandenburg, Eisenhüttenstadt, Frankfurt/Oder, Rathenow, Jüteborg, Luckenwalde, Hohen Lepisch, Lauchhammer, Schipkau, Guben, Prenzlau, Eberswalde, Angermünde, Templin and Bernau..
Further people, who are interested to support the mobilization in Brandenburg or in other places are very welcome to contact us via the central number for mobilization +49-1575-5290998.
We have leaflets for the camp mobilization in several languages: French, English, German, Tigrinya, further translations are currently being produced and printed: Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Pashtu, Swahili, Somali.
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Until today, 20 buses from the following cities have registered with us: Bielefeld / Paderborn, Darmstadt (2), Dresden, Frankfurt (2), Göttingen, Hanau (2), Hannover, Hoch-Taunus-Kreis, Kassel, Leipzig (1-2) Marburg, Munich, Osnabrück, Wiesbaden / Mainz, Wuppertal, Erfurt/Halle. From Rhein-Main, there are now eight buses, which will depart in the night to 16th of September and join together for a convoy to Berlin.
From the following cities there will be a coordinated journey (possibly also other buses): Bochum, Hamburg, Kiel, Lübeck, Nürnberg.
In Brandenburg, there will be more buses to the refugee camps.
Soon we will provide a more detailed information on departure times and stops on the website. If you want to contact one of the buses in your area, or if you want to register a bus, you can write us an e-mail. If your city is not in the list yet: It's up to you ... And if it's not enough for a whole bus: Arrange shared car rides!
Contact us for buses:busse@welcome-united.org. |
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.Urgent call for donations
Our biggest problem currently is: We really need money. First of all for the bus and train tickets for the refugees. To enable the biggest possible involvement of the refugee communities is the heart of our mobilization. We have quite many groups which want to join the parade and are preparing actively, but struggle with financing their bus by themselves. We want to enable these initiatives to participate. Please help collecting and help with donations it to our central account.
Account holder: borderline-europe
IBAN: DE81 4306 0967 4005 7941 01
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
GLS Bank
Keywords: welcome united
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. Last preparation meeting
On September 2nd and 3rd, a final coordination meeting will take place in Berlin. On Saturday, there will be an all-day workshop in the afternoon to discuss the final steps of mobilization. On Sunday, we meet with our all-regions network for the last planning steps. Further Information and invitation on our Website. |
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. Local actions from September 2nd
From the beginning of September we will start the “hot phase”. Decentralized and transnational actions will happen in more and more places - also in Athens, Barcelona or Strasbourg, where on the 2.9. a "white march" to remember the dead and the missing in the Mediterranean will take place. On the same day there will be also an action day in Göttingen. From 7th to 16th of September. there will be en event tour from Thessaloniki and Belgrade in a round trip through eight cities in Germany which will report on the current situation on the Balkan route, two years after the March of Hope. In Bielefeld, from 8th to 10th September, a Refugee Conference is organized under the title "No Stress Tour". At the same time there will be demonstrations: on the 9.9. In Bochum, in Munich (in front of the party centers) and in Hanau (as a mini-parade). Information stands, happening at train stations, actions against deportations, protests against the criminalization of sea rescue: Get activ, make yourself visible everywhere and let us know about your actions.
Contact us for updates regarding the action calendar: mail@welcome-united.org |
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