Borders / Migration

from libcom, 30 May 2009: "The Minister of Public Order, Mr Makroyannakis, has announced the launching of a mass-scale pogrom of immigrants in the center of Athens after the euroelections. He pledged to “clean” the center of the city from immigrants and displace them in what he called “a ghetto” at the outskirts of Athens. The camp which will use the old NATO base of Aspropyrgos in the city’s heavily industrially polluted rustbelt, is expexted to hold more than 2,000 ‘illigal’ immigrants..." more

from clandestinenglish, 25 May 2009: "They came to help. "40 officers from 20 countries came to work with 165 Greek border guards in the exercise". FRONTEX came to help Greece. Together they‘ll render crossing the borders even more life - risky. Together they will justify the higher prices traffickers are going to be asking for the job. High tech surveillance on the borders: "Frontex officers are using heartbeat and carbon dioxide detectors, along with heat cameras and other sensors to scan vehicles, and are watching the border with a surveillance helicopter and aircraft" at "the hottest area of illegal immigration in Europe", the border with Turkey that is..." more

from FdCA via anarkismo, 19 May 2009: "Now it will be a criminal offence to "aid and abet clandestinity" by acting to show solidarity with immigrants without residency permits, to give them jobs, to treat them medical assistance, to welcome them into schools... On 14th May (2009), Italy's lower house passed a bill on security which for the first time establishes the legal basis for new discriminatory policies in all levels of civil society against other human beings and workers who emigrate to Italy in their search for a better future..." more

from email, 9 May 2009: "The Calais No Border camp is a joint venture between French and Belgian activists and migrant support groups and the UK No Borders Network. It aims to highlight the realities of the situation in Calais and Northern France; to build links with the migrant communities; to help build links between migrants support groups; and lastly, but not least, to challenge the authorities on the ground, to protest against increased repression of migrants and local activists alike..." more

from avtonom, 11 March 2009:"Recently Swedish activist Etranger questioned two Moscow activists, Utka and Igor, on state of anti-racist movement and activities of anti-migrant groups. In this interview, Utka and Igor represent themselves and not any particular group..." more

from OL, 11 March 2009: "Benefit event for Konstantina: Screenings, discussion, food and live music on Friday March 13 2009 from 5 to 11 at 100 Flowers squat, 2A Belgrade Road, Dalston N16 8DJ. Konstantina Kuneva is a female, single mother, migrant worker and grassroots syndicalist who was attacked with sulfuric acid by employer-hired thugs in late December 2008. She has suffered major injuries and is being treated in intensive care in Athens since..." more

from IRR, updated 17 February 2009: "Every day, across the UK, aggressive raids are being carried out at workplaces to root out those without papers. Britain's ethnic restaurant sector is under attack from government officials who, in their single-minded drive to meet ever higher targets for deportation, have no interest in the impact of their policies on small family businesses or the effect on Britain's high streets..."  more

from london noborders, updated 17 March 2009: "London NoBorders, Campaign Against Immigration Controls, SOAS Detainee Support Group and Campaign To Stop Arbitrary Detention at Yarl’s Wood call:

For An End to Immigration Detention - Saturday 21st March 2009. Gather 11.30am at Bedford Town Centre to march from Bedford to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, to demonstrate between 12.30 and 2pm +++ Benefit Night: Friday 20th March 2009, 5pm onwards @ Ramparts Social Centre, Rampart Street, London E1 2LA - nearest tube Whitechapel..." more

from london noborders, updated 17 March 2009: "Groups from France and the UK including people involved in the UK NoBorders Network agreed in a recent meeting in Lille to organise a transnational Noborder Camp in Calais, France, from 23-29th June 2009, including a transnational demonstration on Saturday 27th June in Calais..." more

from everyonegroup, 9 January 2009: "At the present time, in spite of all the EU directives, resolutions, warnings, conferences and the inspection carried out by a delegation from the European Commission, no measures, no projects, no real social integration programmes have been undertaken to help the Roma people in Italy. Unfortunately the right-wing and far-right wing Italian Government is finding no opposition in this critical field from their political opponents... These measures are also making life very difficult for the Roma with Italian citizenship or those who took refuge in Italy in the 1970s and 1990s..." more