Borders / Migration

from OL, 13 August 2009: "The NoBorders Camp is taking place at Lesvos, Greece on August 25-31. Every day: Assembly, seminars, discussions, screenings. Discussions on migrant rights, Frontex, work, nationality, class, gender, religious identity. We would like to invite you to join us to share with us the experience of what is going on at the borders, to discuss the problems, to coordinate our actions, to fight..." more

from calais, 11 August 2009: "This felt like a real practical prevention of police attempts to hassle, arrest and quite clearly attack migrants in broad daylight in the centre of Calais in front of tourists and Calaisiens. This was made possible by our numbers increasing only slightly today, so come to Calais and continue the work to support migrants here... more

from email, 16 July 2009: "The international Camp and the Mesopotamian Social Forum (MSF) in Kurdistan will take place from the 25th till 30th of September 2009 in Diyarbakir/ Southeast Turkey. Despite the repression that predominantly members of the pro kurdish DTP are exposed to ever since the communal elections in March 2009, the Camp will take place as part of the Mesopotamian Social Forum..." more

via mostlywater, 9 July 2009: "Italy's parliament has given final approval to frightening legislation that allows vigilante-style citizen patrols to operate in the alleged fight against illegal immigration. The legislation passed also calls for jail terms of up to three years for people who knowingly house illegal immigrants and lengthens the amount of time that migrants can spend in detention..." more

from libcom, 8 July 2009: "The first mass anti-racist protest march of the week, organised by anarchists, clash[ed] with strong riot police forces and a handful of collaborating nazis leading to long street battles around the coveted Agios Panteleimonas area..." more

via clandestinenglish, 30 June 2009: "Social polarisation, which is seen by many as a result of the December Uprising, peaked again last week with yet another urban guerrilla attack by the Sect of Revolutionaries, a group that had attacked a police department and a TV station with automatic weapons last winter..." more

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 email, updated 27 June 2009: "Directions to camp and workshop programme +++ NoBorders calls for a world without papers, where everyone lives where they choose. The route of the demo is the reverse of the walk that many migrants in Calais make on a daily basis - from Coquelles, where they are detained, to the lighthouse, where there is a daily food distribution.

We call on all individuals and groups that struggle for the rights of migrants to sign this call and mobilise for the demo. The demo is part of a NoBorder camp that is taking place in Calais from 23rd to 29th June. The demo will start at 10am from the lighthouse on Boulevard des Alliés..." 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 email, updated 15 August 2009: "In the last few years the island of Lesvos has represented one of the main entrance gate for thousands of refugees and migrants seeking to reach Europe. More than 1,100 migrants and refugees have lost their lives that way in Aegean sea the last 20 years. That’s why we would like to invite you to join us in August 2009 (25-31), to share with us the experience of what is going on at the borders, to discuss the problems, to coordinate our actions, to fight..." 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