tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-254734172024-03-13T12:32:48.408+01:00Stop State RacismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger489125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-33964217800767419612019-07-18T00:41:00.004+02:002019-07-18T00:41:42.800+02:00Move! Stop Deportation! RBB Solidarity - Workshops on the injustice of Deportation in Jena (Germany)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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#RBB Protest Workshops @11.00 hours<br />
Soli - Party @22:00 hours<br />
Refugee Black Box Solidarity #refugeeblackbox<br />
MOVE! Stop deportation!<br />
Workshops on The injustice of Deportation Refugee Black Box Solidarity -<br />
Djs Party LIVE Saturday, 20.07.19 in Jena<br />
11h to 20h Workshops and installation:<br />
Bring your knowledge and testimony into the Refugee Black Box [with your Statements and Slogans] on the injustice of Deportation<br />
We protest the new German law of mass deportation and criminalization of refugees by extension of deportation detention!<br />
We remain in the solidarity campaign against the 30.000 deportation plans for Nigerians refugees in German.<br />
We call for a black box for every Nigerian refugee to be deported!<br />
30 000 victims of human right abuse by deportation - 30 000 human beings - 30 000 lives – 30 000 stories: 30 000 black boxes!!!<br />
Nigerian refugee activists in Gotha will present their protest and
their call against the deportation scandal to Nigeria and the new
deportation law.<br />
Campaign to stop deportation for freedom of Movement - Nigerian Refugee Community in Gotha / Thueringen, Germany<br />
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Venue: Im Keller: Haus auf der Mauer Johannistrasse 26, 07743 Jena<br />
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Contact in Jena: Oury Diallo, tel. 015154660418<br />
Gotha: Vivian Chikodinaka: Tel. +4915216380860<br />
Prince Cassidy Presido: +4915214159888<br />
Loveth Nkechi and Saturday Joseph: +4915213413101<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-3407710723193381362019-03-20T00:12:00.002+01:002019-03-20T00:12:53.064+01:00 Together-we-are-Bremen calls for another rally in front of the police station Bremen Vahr Free Momodou! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Together-we-are-Bremen calls for another rally in front of the police station Bremen Vahr<br />
Free Momodou! <br />
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// THURSDAY, 21 March for the demonstration at 17h in Henri-Dunant-Straße, at Polizeigewahrsam / Landrover building. <br /> // We meet at 16.30h at the station Polizeipräsidium of tram line 1.<br />
**************<br /> Together-we-are-Bremen ruft zu einer weiteren Kundgebung vor dem Polizeirevier Bremen Vahr auf.<br />
Freiheit für Momodou!<br />
// DONNERSTAG, 21.März zur Demo um 17 in die Henri-Dunant-Straße, Höhe Polizeigewahrsam / Landrover Gebäude. <br /> // Wir treffen uns um 16.30h an der Station Polizeipräsidium der Straßenbahn-Linie 1. <br />
************<br /> Nous ne nous reposons pas tant que Momodou n'est pas libre!<br /> Ensemble-nous-sommes-Brême appelle à deux rassemblements cette semaine:<br />
Liberté pour Momodou!<br />
// JEUDI / 21 Mars / Démonstration à 17 ans rue Henri-Dunant, garde à vue en hauteur / Immeuble Landrover.<br /> //Nous nous retrouvons à 16h30 au commissariat de la ligne 1 du tramway.<br />
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For more than two weeks now a person from our alliance
Together-we-are-Bremen has been in deportation custody in the police
station of Vahr. We will not tolerate this in silence! Let's fight
together for Momodou's freedom.<br /> As long as Momodou is in deportation
prison, we will show our solidarity with him. As long as there are
deportations from the "Safe Harbor" Bremen, we will resist and fight
against the criminalization of black people. <br />
We demand: No deportations from Bremen! Not to Italy, Gambia, Afghanistan, nowhere! Together-we-are-Bremen.<br />
Free Momodou! <br />
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Seit nun über zwei Wochen befindet sich eine Person aus unserem Bündnis
Together-we-are-Bremen in Abschiebehaft im Polizeirevier Vahr. Das
werden wir nicht schweigend hinnehmen! Lasst uns zusammen für Momodous
Freiheit kämpfen.<br />
Solange Momodou in Abschiebehaft ist, werden
wir unsere Solidarität mit ihm zeigen. Solange es Abschiebungen aus dem
„Sicheren Hafen“ Bremen gibt, werden wir Widerstand leisten und gegen
die Kriminalisierung Schwarzer Menschen kämpfen. <br />
Wir fordern: Keine Abschiebungen aus Bremen! Nicht nach Italien, Gambia, Afghanistan, nirgendwohin! Together-we-are-Bremen.<br />
Freiheit für Momodou!<br />
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Depuis plus de deux semaines, une personne de notre alliance
Ensemble-nous-sommes-Brême est dans la prison au commissariat de police à
Bremen Vahr. Nous n'accepterons pas cela en silence! Luttons ensemble
pour la liberté de Momodou.<br />
Tant que Momodou sera en détention,
nous manifesterons notre solidarité avec lui. Tant qu'il y aura des
déportations du "port sûr" Brême, nous résisterons. Tant que le racisme
existera, nous nous élèverons contre lui.<br />
Nous voulons être forts
et constituer un signe de résistance et de solidarité contre les
expulsions et la criminalisation des Noirs. Nous exigeons: pas
d'expulsion de Brême! Pas en Italie, en Gambie, en Afghanistan, nulle
part! Ensemble, nous-sommes-Brême.<br />
Liberté pour Momodou!</div>
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German police demanded that Taher Rezai be returned to Afghanistan, but
Taher Rezai suicided at around 12:00 last night and according to people
Taher Rezai shoot him self from the second floor down to the bottom.<br />
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پلیس آلمان خواستار بازگرداندن طاهر رضایی به افغانستان شد، اما طاهر
رضایی شب گذشته ساعت 12:00 شب خودکشی کرد و به گفته مردم طاهر رضایی از
طبقه دوم به پایین خود را انداختهUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-12118954046350888492018-12-28T00:18:00.000+01:002018-12-28T00:18:13.609+01:00Call for the 14th anniversary to commemorate Oury Jalloh<header>
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Call For The 14th Anniversary Demo to Commemorate #OuryJalloh on January 7, 2019 in #Dessau / #Saxony-Anhalt </h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate">On behalf
of the survivors of the Diallo family, especially in the name of the
parents Mariama Djombo Diallo and Elhadji Boubakar Diallo, who died
without being informed and getting answers to their legitimate questions
about the cruel assassination of their son Oury Jalloh, we invite all
solidarians, activists, initiatives and organizations to our annual
demonstration to commemorate Oury Jalloh at</span> <span class="notranslate">January 7, 2019 to Dessau, German territory.</span></span><br />
<em><strong><span style="color: black;">Originally published by <a href="https://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/demoaufruf-zum-14-todestag-von-oury-jalloh-am-7-januar-2019-in-dessau-sachsen-anhalt/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Break the Silence</a>. Edited machine translation via Enough is Enough.</span></strong></em><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span class="notranslate">January 7, 2019</span></strong></span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em><strong>13:00:</strong></em> <strong>Opening gathering</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate"><strong><em>Meeting point: Main train station (Hbf) Dessau-Roßlau |</em></strong></span> <span class="notranslate"><strong><em>forecourt</em></strong></span></span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em><strong>14:00:</strong></em> <strong>Start of the demonstration</strong></span><br />
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em><strong>.. 14 years without clearing up</strong></em></span></div>
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em><strong>.. 14 years without apology to the bereaved</strong></em></span></div>
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em><strong>.. 14 years without acknowledgment of the overwhelming evidence</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate"><em><strong>,</strong></em></span> <span class="notranslate"><em><strong>,</strong></em></span> <span class="notranslate"><em><strong>14 years without justice</strong></em></span></span></div>
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em><strong>.. 14 years without compensation</strong></em></span></div>
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;">Police, judiciary and politicians have denied the investigation of the murder of <a href="https://enoughisenough14.org/tag/oury-jalloh/">Oury Jalloh</a> in police custody for 14 years now and also denied the investigation of at least two more deaths in the Dessau police station.</span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;">An allegedly
independent judiciary has been protecting policemen from the Dessau
police station for 14 years, even though they know that the police
officers who have been there for many years arbitrarily and illegally
held people in police custody, tortured and even killed them …</span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;">The handling of
state authorities with the case of Oury Jalloh has opened a window that
shows the unity of powers of the Federal Republic of Germany:</span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;">In the <strong>Oury-Jalloh complex</strong> ,
the impunity of the perpetrators resulted in at least two other murder
cases in Dessau police station following the apparent murder of <strong>Hans-Jürgen Rose in December 1997</strong> : <strong>Mario Bichtemann in October 2002</strong> and <strong>Oury Jalloh in January 2005</strong>.</span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>The deaths
of Hans-Jürgen Rose and Mario Bichtemann also did not result in any
changes in this inhumane system of illegal deprivation of liberty and
torture as a result of the capped investigations of the prosecutor’s
office in Dessau-Roßlau and the higher management levels of the Dessau
Police Department.</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate">Although three people were murdered, the perpetrators remained undisturbed in office.</span> <span class="notranslate">At
the same time, the police chiefs responsible for Dessau were all
recruited undisturbed into the highest positions of the Interior
Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt.</span></span><br />
<span class="notranslate"><span style="color: black;">The</span> <strong><a href="https://enoughisenough14.org/tag/nsu-watch/">NSU complex</a></strong><span style="color: black;">, <strong>Police Murders of Blacks * People of Color * People</strong> from <strong>Kola Bankole 1994</strong> to <strong>Aamir Ageeb 1999</strong> , <strong>Ndeye Mareame Sarr 2000</strong> , <strong>Achidi John 2001</strong> , <strong>Laye Alama Conde 2005</strong> , <strong>Dominique Koumadio 2006</strong> , <strong>Christy Schwundeck 2011</strong> to <strong>Amos Thomas 2016</strong> , the police murder of <strong>Halim Dener in 1994</strong> and many other people, as well as the numerous unexplained deaths in judicial custody – such as <strong>Yaya Jabbie’s 2016</strong> , <strong>Jaber al-Bakr’s 2016</strong> or <strong>Amad Ahmad’s</strong> who burned to death in a prison cell in the prison in Kleve in <strong>September 2018</strong> –
have much in common: Investigations are delayed and obstructed,
evidence manipulated, disposed or not secured at all, accusations
ineligibly minimized or unlevied.</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span class="notranslate">If,
in exceptional cases, there should be legal proceedings against the
perpetrators* of the state, the court proceedings are a farce.</span> Hand in hand j<span class="notranslate">udges and public prosecutors guarantee the widest possible impunity of perpetrators who are working for the state.</span></span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>The need to organize independent control and reconnaissance structures</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate">A state can not and does not want to control itself, let alone judge itself.</span> <span class="notranslate">Ultimately,
this state of mind can only be counteracted by civil society-organized
control mechanisms and the establishment of independent <span class="notranslate">reconnaissance</span> structures that function on the basis of solidary networks.</span> <span class="notranslate">In the <strong>NSU-</strong> and in the <strong>Oury-Jalloh complex</strong>,
the essential findings were enforced with research of civil society and
donation-based investigations as well as reports by international
experts and against the resistance of all powers of this state.</span> <span class="notranslate">By
continuing to set up an international independent commission to clarify
the truth about the death of Oury Jalloh, we continue our
reconnaissance work – independent and unimpressed by judicial or
political decisions in the months and years to come.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate"><strong>We
have watched or investigated the impunity for perpetrators in the
service of the state as well as the passive and active support of crimes
against migrant lives long enough in Germany …</strong></span> </span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>… It is time for changes!</strong></span><br />
<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><em>Following the
impressive attendance of the last two demonstrations on January 7, 2017
and 2018, we hope for continuity in public support, solidarity and
determination to commemorate Oury Jalloh 2019!</em></span><br />
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>Never forgive never Forget!</strong></span></div>
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>No further casualties!</strong></span></div>
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>Control by civil society against state abuse of violence!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="notranslate"><strong>Clarification of the Oury-Jalloh Complex!</strong></span> <span class="notranslate"><strong>– Support an International Independent Commission!</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="notranslate" style="color: black;"><strong>Oury Jalloh – That was murder!</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">Two videos with cuts of the press
conference from the UN’s WGEPAD evaluation visit to Germany’s
preliminary report at the Berlin Federal Press Conference on the 27th od
February 27th (official part) including an interview with the Chief
Rapporteur Mr. Sunga on the Oury Jalloh case.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-47908175013004369992018-10-29T17:35:00.003+01:002018-10-29T17:35:24.825+01:00NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION, on NOVEMBER 10th, in ROME - United and in Solidarity against the government, racism and the Salvini decree<h1 class="title">
United and in Solidarity against the government, racism and the Salvini decree</h1>
<span class="submitted"></span>It is time to react, mobilize and unite against the attacks of the
government (to which previous minister Minniti has paved the way),
against the racist escalation and the Salvini decree that attacks the
freedom of all and everyone.
<b>• For the immediate withdrawal of the security and
immigration decree passed by the government. NO to the Pillon bill about
family.</b><br />
<b>• Reception, welcome, hospitality and regularization for all immigrants and refugees.</b><br />
<b>• Solidarity and freedom for Mayor Mimmo Lucano! Hands off from the town of Riace and from NGOs.</b><br />
<b>• Against social exclusion.</b><br />
<b>• No to refoulements, expulsions, evictions.</b><br />
<b>• Against rampant racism, the fascist threat, violence against women, homophobia and any kind of discrimination.</b><br />
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For these reasons we call for a rally, to march in a a peaceful,
supportive, plural NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION, on November 10th , in Rome
(Italy)</h2>
<i>Platform voted by the anti-racist assembly of October 14th in Rome</i><br />
Communications et informations: <a href="mailto:10novembre18@gmail.com">10novembre18@gmail.com</a><br />
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<a href="https://a3f.org/it/content/national-demonstration-november-10th-rome-united-and-solidarity-against-government-racism-an">https://a3f.org/it/content/national-demonstration-november-10th-rome-united-and-solidarity-against-government-racism-an</a><br />
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24th anniversary of The VOICE Refugee Forum<br />
24 years of resistance by refugees in Germany<br />
04. to 07. October 2018<br />
Jena/East-Germany<br />
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Faulloch/Johannistor Am Pulverturm 07743 Jena<br />
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Discussion and workshops with Box Black Installation and Performance<br />
Refugee Black Box Installation „City Parade“<br />
Saturday, 6.10.218, 4pm till 6pm, in Jena<br />
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The VOICE, Our VOICE, will always be ours and can never be silenced!<br />
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24 years of active resistance by The VOICE Refugee Forum in Germany
is testimony to the fact that the self-organization of affected people
is the only viable alternative in the struggle of the oppressed. Our aim
is and remains to end the fears and insecurities associated with the
status of a refugee in Germany and throughout Europe.<br />
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On the occasion of the 24th anniversary of „The VOICE Refugee Forum“,
we will organize 4 days of socio-cultural and political events in Jena
from Thursday, October 4th to Sunday, October 7th.<br />
Once again we will address the inalienable human rights of freedom of
movement and resettlement and the importance of continued
self-organisation of refugees by identifying and exposing our
criminalisation through state persecution: the focus will be on the
analysis and description of deportations as crimes and the structural
cruelty of deportation detention facilities. We will install symbolic
BLACK BOXES, analysing, understanding and furthering our struggles.<br />
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The self-organization and networking by the directly affected of the
collective oppression is the community and it is also the weapon to
self-determination of refugees and Migrants.<br />
Please join us for a life decided by our quest for a free society, equality and human dignity.<br />
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Share Our Appeal To Refugee Communities And Other Migrants! Let’s
become the Ambassadors Of Our Community Networks. Your liberation is
bound up with mine! Our Liberty is bound together!<br />
We call on you to endorse and symbolize the Stop deportation struggle
with the refugee Black Box. We want to revive the political tools of
our struggles on related topics „disrupt the persecution and eu
authoritarianism“ against refugees and migrants.<br />
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The struggles of refugee resistance and justice is by our continuity in Germany. Support the refugee political movement.<br />
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To all Refugee Activists, Asylum Seekers and Migrants:<br />
We are calling on refugees/Asylum Seekers and Migrants to build
trustworthy Communities to strengthen our solidarity against the
continuous inhumane treatments in Germany and Europe. Self-organization
goes beyond telling our stories and our problems to the others. Its
objective should be empowering through an independent political platform
and self-determination in the refugee/Migrant community with
refugee/Migrant activists and for the refugees/Migrants.<br />
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Refugees‘ Endless Struggles Against<br />
Deportation | Colonial Injustice | Racism | For Freedom of Movement<br />
Contact us for further information on how to join and become active in
our Communities and the NETWORK. You can also inform us about your
demands for justice and struggles against refugee repressions and
injustice in your localities in the regions of Germany.<br />
We are inviting Refugees and Migrants to compliment this call by
sending us your appeals from your communities in solidarity for
networking.<br />
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Power Up, in Solidarity<br />
The VOICE Refugee Forum<br />
<a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/">http://thevoiceforum.org</a><br />
Contact Jena/Thür.:<br />
+49 176 24568988 | <a href="mailto:thevoicerefugeeforum@riseup.net">thevoicerefugeeforum@riseup.net</a><br />
Contact Berlin:<br />
+49 170 8788124 (WhatsApp) | <a href="mailto:the_voice_berlin@emdash.org">the_voice_berlin@emdash.org</a><br />
The COMMUNITIES NEED US:<br />
Donations account: The VOICE e.V., Sparkasse Göttingen,<br />
IBAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29, BIC: NOLADE21GOE,<br />
Account number 127829, Bank code: 260 500 01</div>
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Magsud A. versus the German Deportation Machinery 2:0 for Magsud Victory<br />
Disrupt the German Deportation Machinery and the persecution of refugees by the authoritarian state!<br />
Read below on the dubious persecution of refugees in Apolda and the
recent struggle of Dr. Magsud Aghayev against the Foreigner’s Office in
Apolda and the Bundesamt in Nürnberg<br />
Dr. Magsud Aghayev and his son Rafael got their residence permit back
after 3 years (M) and 9 years (R) without permanent residence from the
Foreigners’ Office in Apolda!!! This is really great news because their
defiance and determination in the face of persecution and intimidation
by the state is once again proof that we can resist and win even against
the monster.<br />
Both of them arrived in Germany in 2005 as father and son. Rafael,
his son, is the father of an 8-year-old boy who lives with his German
mother in Apolda. Dr. Magsud and his son were transferred to
Apolda after he led the struggle with other refugees to close down the
infamous Katzhütte isolation camp in 2008. The struggle of Dr Magsud for
the rights of refugees did not end with the closure of the notorious
Katzhütte camp nor in Apolda. As Dr. Magsud so often stated „We will
fight till the end“.<br />
Dr. Magsud was granted the right to stay in Germany in 2010 by
the administrative court of Meiningen without further deportation
threat. In 2012, Maqsud's permanent residence permits were withheld and
substituted with normal white A4-papers renewal for him and his son
without justification with bi-monthly to three months maximum
extensions. All the while, Magsud was being intimidated and
criminalized, persecuted and threatened with court processes, and by the
deportation deal between the Foreigner’s Office and BAMF. This deal was
meant to review his positive court decision to enable the nullification
of his residence permit granted by the court.<br />
In his struggle he had to face many awkward and funny situations:<br />
As a result of these shenanigans Magsud and Miloud from The VOICE Refugee Forum<br />
went to BAMF Hermsdorf in Thueringen in Febuary 2018, where they were told that the<br />
BAMF Nürnberg was in charge of his case. So Magsud tried to contact
Nurnberg but to no avail. A delegation was planned by Magsud to meet
with the officials of BAMF in Nürnberg on 2nd March 2018. This was
without notification because all attempts to reach them on phone before
had failed.<br />
Our delegates from Thueringen informed the officials at the
BAMF Nürnberg that we needed an answer to Magsud’s situation and that
the visit will not be the end of the protest. The BAMF officials then
promised to see to the case but said that the official in charge was
actually in Hermsdorf. Yet, they refused to name the official in BAMF in
Hermsdorf when asked. They responded that the officials were secret. In
the so-called rechtsstaat, the name of a public official suddenly
becomes a secret. Bravo!!! Wonder they say shall never end!!!<br />
No official in the office of the Bundesamt directly involved in his
case was known by name and there was no official letter or
other correspondence. It is important to know that the right to asylum
is of political and public interest and for the interest of the refugee
community. There must not be any secret about it.<br />
Shortly after Magsud led the delegation of refugees and activists on
the 2nd March 2018 to the BAMF in Nürnberg the Foreigner’s Office
informed Rafael and Magsud in the middle of March on the success of
their struggles against the Foreigner’s Office and the BAMF. They would
get back their stay permits with four years extension. We never doubted!<br />
The most fascinating lesson for us all here was Magsud’s
self-determination to fight politically. He refused to bow or solicit
paternalistic support but instead relied on the time tested solidarity
and the overriding common interest that is at the heart of our struggle
for justice. He could not afford to succumb to the discriminatory
bureaucrazy that intimidated, criminalised and persecuted him without
any reason other than to punish him, suppress his voice and silence him
for his fight for justice. He refused to take a lawyer for his political
protest and his unyielding determination coupled with the ironclad
solidarity from fellow refugees amongst others saw the case of BAMF and
the Foreigners’ Office collapse like a pack of cards and a hoax that it
was.<br />
It is obvious Dr. Magsud has been persecuted because of his
political activism in the refugee migrants community, The VOICE and the
Caravan, and in the break deportation network in Thueringen. He
committed no crime, activism is no crime and we’re all supremely proud
of him! He is a worthy example to young and new refugees in Germany and
the message is clear: If you do not fight for your right, the so-called
rechtsstaat will deny your rights! Basta!!!<br />
After three years of fighting, Magsud and his son Rafael got his residence permit back!<br />
"I will fight till the end" he says, and we reply, “We will fight with you all the way!!! <br />
We are proud of every supporter as we congratulate especially the
refugee activists from Bamberg refugee camp who were very motivated to
support Magsud A during his delegation meeting in the BAMF in Nuremberg
on the 02.03.2018. <br />
More information on the persection and criminalisation of Magsud in<br />
Apolda will be televised by the community!<br />
Find links to protest actions and activities of Magsud Aghavev<br /><a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/magsud">http://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/magsud</a><br /><a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/maqsud">http://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/maqsud</a><br />
The VOICE Refugee Forum<br /><a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/">http://thevoiceforum.org</a><br />
Break Deportation Network<br /><a href="http://breakdeportation.blogsport.de/">http://breakdeportation.blogsport.de/</a><br />
Caravan Refugee/Migrants Network<br /><a href="http://thecaravan.org/">http://thecaravan.org</a><br />
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</header>In the early morning of March 14, 2018, a deportation was
successfully prevented in the Donauwörth reception centre. Afterwards, a
large police operation was carried out in the afternoon. Those
residents who were in their rooms were locked in, both entrance and exit
doors of the reception centre had been locked as well. Room searches
and identity checks were carried out. 29 people were arrested.<span id="more-278"></span>On
the one hand, the police operation in the afternoon of 14 March 2018
has been triggered by the deportation, which was prevented in the
morning between 3:00 am and 4:00 am, when approximately 100 people left
their rooms in the reception centre and demanded that the deportation be
stopped. On the other, there a strike against the 80-cent jobs and the
German courses in the reception centre has been going on in the last few
months. The refugee activists demand the recognition of their asylum
claims, or that they may leave Germany if they do not obtain a right to
stay.<br />
The German bureaucracy prevents people from leaving the country and
keeps them imprisoned for several years, while forcing them to be
inactive through work bans and education bans.<br />
While preventing the deportation in the early morning, no violence,
resistance or the like emanated from the refugees. People joined the
corridor collectively and demanded to stop the deportation of one
person. Despite the legal protest, the names of the activists were
recorded, some of them were taken away by police in the afternoon. More
than 100 police officers were on duty.<br />
This operation follows a tactics of criminalisation and intimidation
on the part of the police, aimed at refugee activists who are fighting
for their right to stay.<br />
According to current information, 28 persons are in custody, 1
activist is in detention awaiting trial (“Untersuchungshaft”). They are
accused of trespassing and “ringleadership”.<br />
<a href="https://solidarityandresistance.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/15/mass-detention-after-protest-in-donauworth-on-14-03-2018/" target="_blank">https://solidarityandresistance.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/15/mass-detention-after-protest-in-donauworth-on-14-03-2018/ </a><br />
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Video: <a href="https://solidarityandresistance.noblogs.org/files/2018/03/hhiiii-Mittel.mov">Festnahme </a><br />
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Berlin, 05.01.2018<br />
Press
Release of PEACE (Peer Exchange of African Communities for Empowerment)
Network and The VOICE Refugee Forum Network in Germany to the dramatic
stopping of the investigations and 13th memorial anniversary of the
murder of our brother OURY JALLOH.<br />
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“We stated from the beginning of our calls and campaigns since 2005
that Oury Jalloh was murdered but very few believed us. Now the
mainstream talks of murder while we suffer from scars inflicted on us by
the state and the society, in the span of 13 years” (Mbolo Yufanyi from
The VOICE Refugee Forum and PEACE International)<br />
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"Oury Jalloh Struggle Lives On ! – Demonstration on 07.01.2018 in Dessau"<br />
On the 7th of January 2018, it will be 13 years since Oury Jalloh, a
brother from Sierra Leone was brutally murdered at the hands of the
German police in the city of Dessau, Germany. For 13 years, The VOICE
Network and the African/Black Community has stood besides the Initiative
in remembrance of Oury Jalloh and supported its call for “TRUTH,
JUSTICE and REPARATIONS”, especially to our brother’s family. Almost 13
years have gone and the German state and Police have responded with
“LIES, INJUSTICE and continuous BRUTALITY”.<br />
The Chief Attorney Heike Geyer from Halle announced in her press
release of 12 October 2017, that she had after careful examination of
the available evidence [...] “closed the investigation of the death of
Oury Jalloh" because allegedly there is not sufficient evidence and new
knowledge to his death was not to be expected, since "a multitude of
possibilities are conceivable" and consequently a suicide cannot be
ruled out.<br />
We should remember that on the day of the murder of OURY JALLOH on
January 7, 2005, a hypothesis was already established and documented
before the beginning of the crime investigation: "Now I'm going to the
basement, where a black African denizen in a detention cell has lit
himself." These were the words of the first investigators from Stendal
who later destroyed more that 1 hr of video evidence that they collected
from the cell where our brother was murdered.<br />
From the different fire investigations and reports independently
organised and sponsored by the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh
and also following recent reports from National media, it could not have
been possible for our brother to commit suicide<br />
The majority of the experts in the fields of fire protection,
medicine and chemistry came to the conclusion that the condition of the
cell and the body after the fire can not be explained without the use of
small amounts of accelerators such as light gasoline, according to
Monitor. In addition, the theory of self-burning is as good as to rule
out: “Oury Jalloh was at the beginning of fire probably completely
incapacitated or even already dead", quoting Süddeutsche newspaper from
16.11.2017<br />
Following the chronology of the German history especially with
respect to Africa in particular but also Europe, we are not surprised of
the heinous crime carried out by the German police and covered up by
their justice system. There is an African Proverb that says, "When you
follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him." <br />
This continuous colonial reality, reflected through organized killing
of (to be) Migrants in the Mediterranean, the deportation practices,
the investigations against relatives of the victims of NSU or the rise
of the AfD and other right-wing entities in Germany and Europe, the
criminalization of refugees especially Africans, make it more important
than ever for African/Black people to come together to challenge and
fight these evils of the 21th Century.<br />
Remembering and fighting for justice for Oury Jalloh, Layé Kondé,
Mariama Sarr, Christy Schwundeck, Dominique Kuomadio (the list goes on)
and all the others is a matter of self-defense. <br />
The more united we are in challenging and defending ourselves and
values against these monsters of the 21th Century, the more we expose
the cracks of a world order and systems that have failed us and Humanity
in general and will destroy us and Humanity if we do not stop them.<br />
OURY JALLOH IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CASE — NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN!<br />
RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE – OR – EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE!<br />
Black Nation Germany: Auf zur Oury Jalloh Demo am 07.01.2018 in Dessau<br />
<a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4450">http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4450</a><br />
Pressemitteilung des Zentralrates der afrikanischen Gemeinde in Deutschland<br />
Solidarität mit der „Initiative zum Gedenken an Oury Jalloh“ gegen rassistische Bewegungen“<br />
<a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4446">http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4446</a><br />
Aufruf zur Demo am 07.01.2018 in Dessau<br />
Update on: <a href="https://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com/">https://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com/</a><br />
Our community is the media!<br />
Contact for Reference and inquiry:<br />
Dr. Mbolo Yufanyi<br />
+49 (0) 1708788124. <br />
Reference:<br />
<a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/tod-von-oury-jalloh-ard-bericht-oury-jalloh-wurde-wahrscheinlich-getoetet-1.3751880">http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/tod-von-oury-jalloh-ard-bericht-oury-...</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/monitor.wdr/videos/1609164162455851/?fref=mentions">https://www.facebook.com/monitor.wdr/videos/1609164162455851/?fref=mentions</a><br />
<a href="https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/shared/sozialearbeit/News/gutachten-entwicklung-gewalt-deutschland.pdf">https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/shared/sozialearbeit/News/gutachten-entwickl...</a><br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/79113052">https://vimeo.com/79113052</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On
Friday, 15th of December 2017, 209 people from Sierra Leone in the
transit camp in Deggendorf started a 'strike of closed doors'. In
protest, the children and young people refused to attend the German
class as access to other educational institutions is denied. The adults
haven't left the accommodation and denied to work in the 80 cents jobs.
On Saturday, 16th of December 2017 they started a hunger strike. The
protest involves 44 children and young people, as well as 40 women
(among them 12 pregnant women) and 125 men. The starting point of the
protest was the violent deportation of a man from Sierra Leone on Friday
morning, which was stopped in the last minute at the airport.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />****<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Statement of striking refugees in Deggendorf</strong></span><br /><br />We
are Sierra Leoneans seeking for protection here in Germany but have
been frustrated instead of protected. And we have resolved to strike
action based on the following reasons:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Every Asylum seeker from Sierra Leone in Deggendorf gets always negative results in the form of :</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">1. Dublin deportation<br />2. Rejection of asylum application<br />3. Asylum application is 'invalid'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- The next point is that we now stay in a camp for 2 years instead of the initial 6 months, with no schooling, no work permit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- Very poor accommodation facilities with 8 occupants in a room, with poor hygiene and toilet facilities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- Very poor quality of food.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- Deportation to Italy with serious
torture and no proper arrangements for reinstatement of the immigrants
in Italy thereby leaving the immigrants on the street suffering.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- Forceful deportation of pregnant women, children, sick people and sucking mothers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- No medication for immigrants for certain sickness.<br />And now established to us that this is a private camp and cannot allow any journalists.<br /><br />On
this basis we have started on 15th December 2017 a close door strike
with no schooling and on Saturday 16th December and Sunday 17th December
hunger strike and on Monday, we will be going to city council to get
clearances to have a peaceful protest accross Deggendorf with
continuation of no schooling and hunger strike.<br />This is to let the whole world know how Germany is treating the immigrants.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" class="media-element file-default image-style-none" data-delta="1" height="329" src="https://refugeestruggle.org/sites/default/files/2.gruppenfoto.jpg" title="sierra leon protest deggendorf 15.12.17" width="585" /></span><br />
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No one talks about our situation. People talk a lot about us, but not
with us. You might look us strange and change to the opposite street.
Sometimes they call us immigrants, sometimes refugees, but always
pejoratively. As if we are not humans. We are told we have to adapt.
Whoever does not, can fly out. Out to Afghanistan, back to the war. A
war your democratic government has brought upon our lives. Or out to
Serbia, Kosovo, Albania. There is not even a war there, they say. Next
it will be ‘Go back to Syria’.<br />
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They build expensive apartments that we, and like many, cannot
afford. They say, we should wait a little longer. Put some effort. Then
it will work. With the integration. We are diligent on the
language-course, work, children at home, minimum wage and zero
job-security. Now can we please stay?<br />
Your police are controlling us. Day after day, Night after night.
Because we look different. Because we have black hair? We are a danger,
experts say. Many believe it. You can choose to do so too. There are
already too many who do.<br />
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Yet, we are the happy survivors. The ones who made it. Too many do
not succeed. Starving in Libyan concentration camps, paid for their
failure at their fences, to try it over the sea. That is why they want
to build even higher fences, even further south. For that there is
plenty of money. But not for cheap apartments, they say. Or for more
Kindergartens. For all our children.<br />
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But we are many. And not alone. Many want to understand, many want to
help. But we do not want any help, no charity event. We want
solidarity! We want everyone to have the same rights. We stand for the
right to stay. We do not want anyone to be humiliated by the likes of
Job Center or the police. That money is there for the needs of all and
not for their weapons and profits.<br />
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That is why we come together. That is why we show ourselves. Show our
will and our ideas for a completely different living together!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-53177815511535331372017-11-06T17:28:00.001+01:002017-11-06T17:28:17.429+01:00Libyan Coast Guard killing refugees on Europes demand<div class="entry-content">
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<a href="https://sea-watch.org/en/dramatic-rescue-operation-sea-watch-3/" target="_blank">Dramatic first rescue operation for Sea-Watch 3 </a></h3>
<b>The violent and reckless behavior of
Libyan Coast Guards has caused at least five deaths on the Central
Mediterranean Sea this morning, as the crew of the Sea-Watch 3 was
called to their first rescue mission by the Italian Maritime Rescue
Coordination Center. A helicopter of the Italian Navy had to intervene
to prevent more fatalities. 58 people are now safe aboard the Sea-Watch
3, despite all efforts, our medical team was not able to revive an
infant in our clinic. The Libyan Coast Guards forced a few of the
passengers on their vessel and took them back in direction Libya. By
interfering in the rescue operation, the Libyans clearly violated
international law: The incident took place at 30 nm off the coast, in
international waters far outside of Libyan territorial waters.<br /> </b><br />
At
approx. 7 am, the crew aboard Sea-Watch 3 received a call of Rome MRCC.
North of Tripoli a sinking inflatable boat in international waters had
sent a distress call. The Sea-Watch 3 crew arrived on location at about
the same time as a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat and started boarding
of people in distress. The Libyan Coast Guard approached the boat as
well and took over people from aboard the boat, however beating and
threatening them. Onboard panic started and a numerous refugees fell
overboard. The Libyan ship took off with inappropriate speed while
people were still latching onto the side, being dragged by their vessel.
After Sea-Watch had already repeadtedly alarmed the Libyans about their
life-threatening practice, an Italian Navy helicopter had to intervene,
briefly stopping the Libyan ship, to prevent further deadly
maneuvering. At least 5 people were killed in the boat’s sinking, among
them a child whom the medical crew onboard Sea-Watch 3 was not able to
reanimate.<br />
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“Probably,
nobody would have had to die today if only we had the possibility to
operate reasonably in a calm environment. Instead of coordinating the
rescue operation with the vessels present such as a ship of the French
Navy, the Libyans tried to take as many people as possible back to Libya
– and accepted the loss of several lives”, says head of mission
Johannes Bayer. “These deaths have to be blamed on the Libyan Coast
Guards who have obstructed a safe rescue with their brutal behavior. The
responsability is on the side of the European Union, however, who
trains and finances these militias. They act in the EU’s will. The
European governments finally have to draw conclusions from this incident
and stop the collaboration with the Libyan Coast Guards. The EU has to
stop to rate migration control higher than human rights!”<br />
Libyan
Coast Guards have clearly breached international law by bringing an
unknown number of people onboard their vessel, probably with the goal to
take them back to Libya. “We were at high seas, outside of libyan
territorial waters, about 30 nm north of Tripoli – even outside of the
consecutive zone. There, the Libyans have no sovereign rights
whatsoever”, says Sea-Watch captain Pia Klemp.<br />
Almost a year ago,
October 21 2016, in a similar disastrous event many people died when,
during a rescue operation of Sea-Watch 2, the so-called Libyan Coast
Guard had tried to displace refugees back to Libya from international
waters.<br />
All 58 survivors are now safe aboard the Sea-Watch 3. We will post updates here!<br />
<em>Photos: Lisa Hoffmann / Sea-Watch</em></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-49002296584070158842017-11-03T00:05:00.002+01:002017-11-03T00:05:39.543+01:00In memory of Lamin, killed by Suisse police"Last time I was sleeping on a wall next to Ouchy, police on bicycle
draw me back from the wall and throw tear gas in my sleeping bag, on my
face."<br />
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"They stop me in the street, ask me to come inside their bus, put
handcuffs on my hands, they closed its windows in order that nobody
could see or hear me, they beat me badly without no reason. After this
they brought me to a place I didn't know and drop me there."<br />
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We are standing for our brother that passed away.<br />
In the night of the 24th October 2017, Lamin Fatty passed away at the
age of 23 in between the walls of the police station of Lausanne.<br />
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On the 7th October 2017, a black man was killed in Ticino under the bullets of the police.<br />
Last year Herve Madundu was shot down by the police, in Bex.<br />
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Each and every one of us could have been victims of their own cases.<br />
We don't want to wait to know who will be the next one to die in their hands.<br />
Police brutality is increasing against blacks and immigrants.<br />
Police brutality on black people in the streets and in the police stations has to stop, now.<br />
Police have to stop to beat us and to take our money.<br />
We need free movement and the respect of our basic humanity.<br />
We ask the autorithies to let the family and friends see Lamin. We
ask that the authorities stop blockinf the access to the investigation.
We ask justice for Lamin.<br />
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Stop stressing us<br />
Stop beating us<br />
Stop killing us<br />
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Supported by:<br />
AFU - Association Féministe UNIL<br />
Allianz Gegen Racial Profiling<br />
À Qui Le Tour<br />
Bla*sh<br />
Collectif Afro-Swiss<br />
Collectif Faites des Vagues<br />
Collectif R<br />
Collectif Sans-Retour<br />
Droit de rester pour tou-te-s<br />
Groupe Regard Critique UNIL<br />
l'Amar<br />
Perce-Frontières<br />
Sankofa -Platform for People of African Heritage<br />
Sleep-In<br />
SolidaritéS Vaud<br />
SUD Étudiant.e.s et Précaires<br />
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PRESS RELEASE � 29.10.2017 (Lausanne)<br />
Lamin, died in the hands of the police because he was black <br />
He came from Gambia and had left his life there to try building a new
one and getting medical care. It is in a cell of the police center of
Bl�cherette in Lausanne that Lamin died, left alone, on the october
24th. He was 23 years old.<br />
We met Lamin before, we knew he was
sick and he has just left the hospital after undergoing a serious brain
surgery from which he had a visible scar on his skull. The population
office (SPOP-in charge of deportation) was aware of his situation and
knew that Lamine needed regular medical controls and that he was unable
to travel at that time. <br />
Without having committed any crimes,
Lamin was arrested at Lausanne station by border guards, real
��cowboys�� who act in a total opacity and are regularly using force,
undermining the freedom and integrity of people<br /> .<br /> Lamin was
black, considered illegal, despise his inscription in the population
office (SPOP) and the asylum seekers assistance institution (EVAM). He
was part of this ��deportable�� category of people, volontarily isolated
from the rest of the population and victim of police violence on a
daily basis, which is considered as normal�toward � non-white��
individuals.<br />
According to the little informations we have, Lamin
was taken by the police to the emergency services of CHUV (hospital)
after loosing consciousness and, no one in CHUV opposed to his
incarceration back to police station of Blecherette after examination.
It is surprizing, as we all know he was recently hospitalized for
serious health reasons�! Where is the coherence in medical officials who
provided important health care to Lamin and who, at the other hand,
gave a green light for his detention and expulsion�?<br />
His death
gave place to a brief information from the police, picked up by the
medias, but presenting surprizing contradictions and aiming to
criminalize Lamin. <br />
No, Lamin was not just in violation of
foreign law, he was receiving emergency help from the state and was in
possession of the attestation of it, issued by SPOP. He was hosted in a
EVAM center and was then available to the autorities at all times.<br />
No, Lamin was not to be deported to Lucerne Canton. He had been
assigned to Canton of Vaud and registered at the SPOP as his papers
attested.<br />
No, Lamin was not isolated, he had friends here and he
was in contact with some collective organizations fighting for
immigrants rights.<br />
What really happened to Lamin between Sunday and Tuesday�? Too many unspoken words, contradictions, silences around his death.<br /> Is it because � he�was just an illegal immigrant��,�Madam Procuror?<br /> Why did you delay the recognition of the corpe�until Monday without any explanation?<br />
According to today's statement by the Procuror, the border guards would
have mistaken him with another person, which they had only realized on
Friday�! If that is true, that emphasizes the way police (border guards,
canton police, etc) commits constant negligence, bad treatments and
abuses on black people or ��people without the right paper��, with
serious consquences that can lead to death. Lamin had a document with
him attesting that he had been assigned to Canton of Vaud and was
presenting visible health problem. How could he have been mistaken for
someone to be deported in Lucerne and moreover, how could he not have
bee subjected to any precaution related to his health�!<br />
Clearly
he has not been heard and his individual situation was not considered�:
all this because his words did not hold the same value as any other
citizen who can claim his rights in the eyes of police.<br />
We demand now that the veil be lifted on all those shadows�!<br />
Because everything is incomprehensible and scandalous in his interpellation and in his death. <br />
Because this is really a sadly emblematic case of the treatment
reserved to immigrants in ��irregular situation�� and of the lack of
attention given to them<br /> Because this is showing the absurdity of the criminalization of non-authorized stay<br />
Because the word ��illegal�� is not harmless�: it produces and spreads a
message that this category of people are ��sub-citizens��, without
rights and upon whom the autorities have all rights�!<br />
Because violence against immigrants, and especially against black people, is still invisible, trivialized and without limits..<br />
Because illegal immigrants� life matters. Asylum seekers�s life, rejected on not, matters. Black people life�s matter�!<br />
We demand a public debate on police violence so that the autorities
have to come out from the shadow and impunity in which they operate in a
total indifference.<br />
To say goodbye to Lamin, to show solidarity
with his family and relatives, to show solidarity with every other black
and immigrant people whatever their permit, who have been victims of
police violence�:<br />
We call for protest <br /> (authorized demonstration, anyone can come, no matter ��illegal�� or not)<br /> Wednesday november 1th, 17pm, Place de la Riponne, Lausanne<br />
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Collectif R</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-7804802423722830672017-10-30T17:02:00.001+01:002017-10-30T17:02:41.320+01:00Demonstration to support the Anglophone Population in Cameroon35 Years of dictatorship and Killings in Cameroon, Enough is Enough:
Join the demonstration on November 6, 2017, Cameroon Embassy in Berlin<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-50194204091006149802017-10-21T16:32:00.000+02:002017-10-21T16:32:58.544+02:00Mutual Aid Disaster Relief volunteers attacked by SWAT Team in Puerto Rico<h1 class="entry-title">
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Several police vehicles, an armored tactical vehicle, and law
enforcement personnel including swat team pointed their guns at relief
workers while surrounding and then entering our base of operations in
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico in the early hours before dawn of October 16th,
2017. Law enforcement communicated that they were acting from a call
that Mutual Aid Disaster Relief volunteers were engaged in “kidnapping”.
After checking everybody’s belongings without consent, they force<span class="text_exposed_show">d volunteers out of what was the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Puerto Rico hub at gunpoint and the threat of arrest. </span><br />
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Law enforcement intimidation also included aggressive questioning of
our purpose there and whether or not we were protestors or Antifa, had
we ever used the raised fist, if we were distributing propaganda, an<span class="text_exposed_show">d if we were planning to overthrow the government.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">The state used similar <a href="http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2005/11/liebenthal-headline-aid_worker_arrested.mp3">intimidation and disruption tactics</a> against revolutionary disaster relief workers in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, <a href="https://libcom.org/library/why-misogynists-make-great-informants-how-gender-violence-left-enables-state-violence-ra">Brandon Darby</a> being just one example. </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">We know that repression from the
state intensifies when our organizing is perceived by those in power as
effective. Rather than be intimidated into silence and passivity, this
just furthers our resolve to continue organizing from below to support
people’s survival and self-determination. </span><br />
And to answer the question, no. We
are not planning on seizing state power and overthrowing the government.
We do not need to. The state is decaying and will fall by its own
weight. We are building relationships of support that can withstand
every crisis and give people fertile imaginations full of the
possibilities of what can be built in the power vacuums for when the
inevitable does happen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-89051335708795691222017-09-17T00:02:00.001+02:002017-09-17T00:02:23.178+02:00We'll come united - Anti Racist parade in Berlin16th of September 2017: 10.000 march on antiracist parade in Berlin<br />
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<b>Such a beautiful day!<br /><br />We will stay united! Watch out! </b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-72243360386173380362017-08-03T00:20:00.000+02:002017-08-03T00:20:06.935+02:00Stop deportation - Abolish the Dublin System! Freedom of movement for all!<div class="field field-name-node-image field-type-image field-label-hidden">
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<b>Invitation</b>: Refugee Black Box SOLIDARITY in Munich on 19.08.2017<br /><a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4382/">http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4382/</a><br />
Demonstration<br />
Stop deportations“ Abolish the Dublin System! Freedom of movement for all!<br /><a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4381/">http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4381/</a><br />
When<br />
Sarturday: 19.08.2017 at 1pm<br />
Where<br /><b>Demonstration: Meeting point at 1pm - 4pm in Munich Central Train Station, Germany</b><br />
"Organizers: Sierra Leone United Association in Germany:<br />
We want to protest together against deportations and the Dublin-system.<br />
They destroy human dignity. In the German asylum system and the
Dublin-System there is no freedom of movement. People are prisoners
without freedom. This life destroys the mental health of the people and
leads them into prostitution and criminal act."<br />
Demonstration: „Stop deportations! Abolish the Dublin system! Freedom of movement for all!“<br />
Start: 1 pm at Central Train Station in München<br />
Workshops:<br />
Start: 7 pm (place will be communicated later)<br />
How to prepare my own interview? (Arrival Aid)<br />
Informations about the Asylum system in Bavaria<br />
Gettogther Party:<br />
Start: 10 pm (Arabellapark, address will be communicated later)<br />
Mixed-Music from Turn Tables: Bigger Rizer DJ&Musics-Performance /
Music-Performance by Maligie Kappay / DJ Tims / DJ Salman / Sierra
Leone cultural dance<br />
Sprache des Events: English / German translation possible / more
translations has to be requested before // Englisch / Deutsch ist
möglich / andere Sprachen müssen vorher angefragt werden<br />
Zielgruppe: all people who are interested and who are in solidarity / alle interessierten und solidarischen Menschen<br />
End of Call<br />
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Refugee Black Box SOLIDARITY in Munich on 19.08.2017<br />
Refugee protest against deportations and for the abolition of Dublin
deportations in public interest and for security!! - We want to protest
together against deportations and the Dublin-system!<br />
Refugee BLACK BOX Activists invited in Munich on 19.08.2017<br />
Bavaria - Refugee Migrants Political Community Movement<br />
Refugee Resistance and Protest Against Deportation for the Dignity of humans and for our Security in Germany. <br />
We want to protest together against deportations and the Dublin-System.<br />
“They destroy human dignity. In the German asylum system and the
Dublin-System there is no freedom of movement. People are prisoners
without freedom. This life destroys the mental health of the people and
leads them into prostitution and criminal act." by Organizers of<br />
Sierra Leone United Association in Germany and in the support with
activists of Sierra Leone Refugee Community in Bavaria with The VOICE
Refugee Forum Network Thueringen, Berlin and Bavaria
@Solidarity#RefugeeBlackBox<br />
We joined the Organizers of Sierra Leone United Association in
Germany's demand to stop deportations and abolish the Dublin System:
“Freedom of movement for all!" <br />
We are resisting the injustice of deportation. We are collectively
criminalized as refugees to become the crimes of deportation regimes in
Europe because being a refugee is already a crime. We are criminalized
to be deported before they know our names in forced return deportation.<br />
We are demanding for immediate protection of refugee in freedom and for all rights to freedom of movement:<br />
Stop Deportation and Stop Dublin Deportation Policies!<br />
Fight against colonial Injustice!<br />
Break Deportation for Freedom of Movement.<br />
Our freedom is a movement.<br />
Use your rights to freedom of movement!<br />
Our democracy now!<br />
All activists that are against deportation are invited to support our
protest against Deportations for public interest and security!! <br />
Demonstration Against Deportations on 19.08.2017 at 1pm - 4pm<br />
in Munich Central Train Station, Germany<br />
Later: Workshops with activists and participants of Refugee-Migrants Political Community Movement Activism Germany<br />
Organizers: Sierra Leone United Association in Germany<br />
All activists that are against deportation are invited to support our
protest against Deportations for public interest and security!!<br />
Stop deportations! Abolish the Dublin System! Freedom of movement for all!<br />
<a href="http://thevoiceforum.org/node/thevoiceforum.org">http:thevoiceforum.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox/">https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeBlackBox/</a><br />
Solidarity#ReefugeeBlackBlock<br />
#RefugeeBlackBox<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-71956740921347317312017-02-01T21:56:00.002+01:002017-02-01T21:56:19.552+01:00Trump’s Muslim Ban Spurs Strong Resistance: Thousands at Airport Protests
Thousands from New York City to Seattle went on January 28 to the nation’s major airports to protest President Donald’s Trump’s order banning for 120 days Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations, an order issued that same day. The protests, initiated by immigrant rights groups through social media, took place not only at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York—where it grew to several thousand—but also at Dulles in Washington, D.C., O’Hare in Chicago, and at the Los Angeles and San Francisco airports.
The protests of the Muslim ban were only the latest of almost daily protests against Trumps policies around the country, the largest of which was the January 21 women’s march on Washington, D.C. that involved about four million in the United States.
In New York City, where I joined the demonstration, some 5,000 protestors rallied at Terminal 4, in the parking structure, along the parking lot, in the walkways, and finally blocking the streets and stopping airport traffic. At one point the Port Authority, a joint New York-New Jersey agency, stopped Airtrain Service to prevent more demonstrators from arriving, but Andrew Cuomo, Democratic Party governor ordered service restored and protestors continued to arrive. In Seattle protestors marched into one terminal’s ticketing area.
Demonstrators in New York chanted, “No Hate, No Fear, Immigrants are Welcome Here,” and held many handmade signs with slogans such as “Let Them In,” which was also a chant. When police appeared in riot gear to remove people blocking an entrance to Terminal 4 and then the roadway, the chant of the peaceful protestors became, “Why you wearing riot gear? We don’t see no riot here.”
The protest had the flavor of the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011. People used the “human mic,” repeating together an announcement or proposal to make themselves heard. Some supporters brought dozens of pizzas to the march and distributed them, as others brought bags of food, bananas, granola bars, and also hand warmers. Most of the demonstrators had traveled at least an hour each way by bus, subway, and Airtrain to get to the protest in cold winter weather.
The crowd in New York was made up mostly of young white men and women, though being New York there were immigrants from all over the world among them, and a number of Muslims, some of the women in hijabs. A number of women were wearing the pink “pussy hats” from the earlier women’s protests against Trump.
As the size of the crowd grew after 1:00 p.m., with at least two organized protests at 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., the throngs became more militant, moving into the streets in defiance of police who everywhere seemed to behave with restraint.
At one point the crowd of protestors, some from Jewish organizations, such as Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), some of whom carried pro-Muslim signs, chanted, “Never again! Never again!” The obvious meaning was that neither Jews nor Muslims should ever again face a holocaust again. The chant was taken up by all of the protestors.
Those arriving at the airport on incoming or leaving on outbound flights found themselves awash in a sea of protestors chanting, “No ban, no registry, fuck white supremacy.” A few older white men hollered the usual, “Get a job,” but some Muslim Americans arriving with their suitcases joined the demonstration as protestors greeted them with “Welcome home!”
News that the American Civil Liberties Union had won a partial suspension of Trump’s ban swept through the crowd at some point as did information about further protests planned for the following day.
The resistance to Trump is growing, creating tens of thousands of new activists who are being radicalized by the protests and now see themselves as part of a national movement. While we are not there yet, we are heading towards a social protest movement that could reach the enormous proportions of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
Dan La Botz, January 29, 2017
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* http://newpol.org/content/trump’s-muslim-ban-spurs-strong-resistance-thousands-airport-protests
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-31893792421479352412016-06-10T10:44:00.000+02:002016-06-10T10:46:08.200+02:00Your liberation is bound with mine<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yYk3rKsna5E/V1p-RFTxEZI/AAAAAAAABGk/UadrLA_tDoELavKNTWMMNx1MCUI33RSJgCLcB/s1600/watson.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yYk3rKsna5E/V1p-RFTxEZI/AAAAAAAABGk/UadrLA_tDoELavKNTWMMNx1MCUI33RSJgCLcB/s320/watson.jpg" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25473417.post-4364134246903127692016-05-27T23:27:00.002+02:002016-05-27T23:27:20.473+02:00The calculated and monitored dying in the Central MediterraneanWatchTheMed Alarm Phone Statement in light of the current situation in the Mediterranean Sea and yesterday’s events:<br />
<b>The EU and Death at Sea: The calculated and monitored dying in the Central Mediterranean</b><br />
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Yesterday, on Thursday the 26th of May, it took more than four hours for rescue vessels to arrive. Four hours of worrying and of attempts to support the anxious people on board of an overcrowded wooden boat. In a SOS call at 6.21am, our WatchTheMed Alarm Phone shift team passed on the GPS coordinates to the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Rome. Shortly before, an emergency call had reached us via a satellite phone. The caller informed us about two boats carrying 500 people each, among them many Syrian and Iraqi refugees. At 10.31am, rescue finally approached but an hour earlier, the second boat had already capsized, within eyeshot. So far it is unclear how many people drowned or disappeared. MRCC Rome reported in their daily statement about one capsized boat and 96 survivors. Fatalities were not mentioned. However, the private rescue boat Sea-Watch, which arrived at the site of distress in the early afternoon, had to recover bodies of drowned people.<br />
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<b>Calculated Dying</b><br />
Over the past three days, and once again, thousands of refugees and migrants left the Libyan shores on overcrowded boats and moved toward Sicily: About 2600 people on Tuesday, 3000 on Wednesday and 4000 yesterday, Thursday. Nobody can still claim to be surprised, least of all those responsible for EU migration policies. But they refuse to abolish the deadly visa regime and to open up legal and safe routes. To<br />
the contrary: the Balkan route which migration movements had struggled to open up last summer, was violently closed down. Among yesterday’s victims in the Central Mediterranean Sea are now again Syrian and Iraqi refugees. As a result of the closure of the Balkanroute and the inhumane EU-Turkey deal, refugees who arrive in Greece are being imprisoned on the Greek islands with the threat of being deported back to Turkey, while those on the Greek mainland are left without any perspective of leaving the country soon. These political changes force refugees onto the much more dangerous route via Libya.<br />
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<b>Monitored Dying</b><br />
For nearly one year now, the military operation EUNVFOR MED/Sophia seeks to monitor the Central Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and Italy. Its central mandate is the combating of the so-called smuggling networks. These ‘smuggler-hunters’ are equipped with all sorts of high-tech, the zone off the coast of Libya is amongst the best monitored maritime spaces of the world. How difficult could it be to send a small<br />
surveillance aircraft hourly along this well-known migration route in order to locate and immediately rescue refugee boats? Instead, and again and again, Italian coastguards, private initiatives and NGOs are those<br />
who prevent even worse disasters from occurring at sea. And when they then transport survivors to Sicily, capacities are simply lacking which means that situations as experienced yesterday occur, situations that<br />
are apparently wanted by the responsible authorities: the dying at sea continues. And as long as it is possible, disasters are being concealed, suppressed or played down in order to avoid renewed public outcries.<br />
We do cry out, once more and time and again about the border deaths of the past 20 years, and about yesterday’s deaths. If only there were legal and safe migration routes, nobody would have to die at sea. The<br />
dying at sea is not a natural catastrophe and also no accident. It is, in fact, the calculated outcome of the EU border and visa regime. The dying at sea is human-made and already tomorrow, through the opening of<br />
borders and free access to ferries, it could fade into history as a dark chapter.<br />
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The long summer of migration in the Balkans has demonstrated that once borders are open, there are no ‘smugglers’ anymore. One pays high sums and takes dangerous paths only when one is forced to do so by Frontex and co.<br />
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A world without borders is possible and both Frontex and the ‘smugglers’ would then have disappeared.<br />
In this sense, we say: Ferries not Frontex<br />
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WatchTheMed Alarm Phone (27.05.2016)<br />
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