Borders / Migration

from deletetheborder: This proposal was read at the Encuentro with the Zapatista Communities and the People of the World in Oventic on January 2nd 2007 in the plenary session for the Intergalatic Encuentro as a proposal for a theme to the Intergalactic and a Global Call to Action. more

from email, 18.07.2007: This is a wish list of stuff that we will need to get our hands on for the No Border Camp, which will take place near Gawtick form 19th-24th September 2007. more

We invite all people who want to get involved in organising the No Border Camp at Gatwick Airport (September 19th-24th 2007) to a second public meeting at RampARTs, Sunday 22nd July. more

18.07.2007: Invitation to contribute workshops and discussions at the No Border Camp, near Gatwick, UK, 19th-24th September 2007. more

from email, 13 July 2007: We're happy to invite you to East Europe Media activist Gathering which is taking place in Ukraine on August 11-20 in context of the noborders camp. more

No Border Camp Benefit London July 21st
3pm-midnight, Chat's Palace Community Arts Centre. 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London E9. Nearest station Homerton Silverlink, buses 242, 276, S2 and W15

A day & night of discussions, films, food and live music in solidarity with migrants & refugees. more

Info Day + Benefit, Sat 21st July – workshops and party, 3pm-late, Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Hommerton, Hackney E9 6DF

Report: A really constructive weekend of meetings was held on 30th June and 1st July to plan the No Border camp near Gatwick in September. Around 30 activists from around Britain came to London to discuss and share ideas and skills to figure out how we are actually going to do this! more

On the 24th of June 2006, at least four policemen tortured two migrants in the police station of Omonia in central Athens. They forced them to beat each other, beat them both and captured the torturing on a mobile phone camera. more

repost from imc-uk, 12.06.2007: This is an invitation to groups to join organising the Gatwick area noborder camp. We're organising a weekend of meetings in Rampart Social Centre in London from 30th June to 1st July more

Today the actions focus on demands for Freedom of Movement and Equal Rights for All. This morning there have been several decentralised actions in Rostock which included one at the city's Immigration Office, and another one at the Sonnenblumenhaus in Lichtenhagen (the place of the Nazi attacks against refugees in 1992).  more

via email, 28.05.2007: From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8 campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its infrastructure. The other world – the one we say is possible – will, once again, be revealed as already here. more

from email, 25.05.2007. A call from No Borders for a camp at Gatwick, September 2007.
"From 19th to 24th September 07 we will gather at Gatwick Airport for the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work together to try and stop the building of a new detention centre, and to gather ideas for how to build up the fight against the system of migration controls..." more

Fightinmg racist migration policies, neo-fascism and discrimination will be a major theme of the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Germany in 2007. Here's a selection of meetings, demonstrations and direct action on this subject.  more

Events around the UK for the National Weekend of Action For Refugees, 18-19 May. Events, discussions and demonstrations in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham, Coventry, Newcastle, Leeds more

08.05.2007: Greek activists against borders plan interventions in the war zone against migrants that is Evros.

"All of us are against the new detention camps intended for people that have committed no crime other than crossing the border “without papers”.

The new detention camps are a tangible proof of the undeclared war which “informally” rages along Greek borders. They constitute the symbol of a regime in which the foreigner, the migrant, the refugee becomes the “enemy” who has to be kept away from society and be punished for the sole fact that he/she is a refugee..." more