The self-organized refugee squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki

Credit: Črna luknja

Credit: A-Radio Berlin *English, * German, * Spanish translation

The following audio is a recording made by activists of the self-organized refugee squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki, Greece. This material has been made available to us by our comrades at Črna Luknja, the anarchist radio show at Radio Študent in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

Berlin für Alle – Eine Einladung

Berlin für alle!

– deutsch – english – français – العربية — فارسی

Sonntag 14.02. | 13 Uhr | Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte | Greifswalder Str. 4 | Berlin

Es ist Zeit für eine soziale und antirassistische Offensive in Berlin! Eine kaputtgesparte städtische Infrastruktur und fast 80.000 Menschen, die in Berlin in 2015 neu angekommen sind, stellen die soziale Frage in einer neuen Dringlichkeit. Wir wollen diese Situation nicht den Rechten überlassen, weder der extremen Rechten, noch den Marktradikalen und ihrem Spar- und Kürzungswahn. Ihr Ziel ist es, die Alteingesessenen gegen die Neuangekommenen und die Unter- gegen die Mittelschicht auszuspielen. Nur eine neue soziale Allianz kann das verhindern. Wir brauchen einen Zusammenschluss der sozialen und politischen Kräfte, der die Konflikte der Stadt benennt und offensiv führt: Wohnungsnot, Rassismus, Angriffe gegen Geflüchtete, Zwangsräumungen, unhaltbare Zustände beim Lageso, teure Prestigeprojekte, usw. Einen Zusammenhang, der solidarische Praxen weiterentwickelt, der in der Lage ist, ein breites Angebot zur politischen und aktivistischen Partizipation zu machen und der bestehende Initiativen sichtbarer macht, ohne sie zu vereinnahmen.

In Germany A Passport From Nigeria Is Not Respected – Rex Osa, Activist

video on sahara-tv on embassy deportation crime with Rex Osa, Voice Refugee Forum

Germany based Nigerian activist, Rex Osa of the Voice Refugee Forum shed light on the harsh treatment Nigerian refugees and asylum seekers face in Germany and the little help the Nigerian Embassy in Germany provides. “Deportation we know is the culture in Germany,” explained Osa. He described the deplorable living conditions of refugees in Germany and the restrictions put on those with the status. “As a refugee in Germany you are not allowed to go outside your district. If you are by chance caught outside you are penalized,” said Osa, who accused the Nigerian Embassy in Germany of being involved in a “deportation scheme.”

another article on the topic at newspaper “der freitag” in german: Der Pass wird passend gemacht

 

International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination

Unser Europa hat keine Grenzen

Call for Papers

15-16 of June 2016, Malmö, Sweden www.mia-conference.se

Deadline for abstracts extended to 15th of February!

In the current era of increasing securitisation of border controls and restrictive asylum and migration politics, the journey to and within the EU is a life-threatening endeavour that has taken uncountable numbers of lives over the last decades. The bordering processes are not limited to the crossing of nation-state borders but also operate in everyday lives inside and across borders. Through processes of exclusion as well as processes of subordinated and differentiated inclusion, borders permeate all aspects of the welfare state, the labour market, and everyday lives. At the same time, there are numerous struggles by migrants who in different ways contest border regimes and racialised practices of policing., These developments are taking place in a context of hyper-polarisation of political reactions. Racist and fascist discourses feed into ideas of fear and emergency, parallel with a renewed growth of humanitarian and activist responses aimed at resisting migration control and challenging these discourses.