AUT: EU-summit on immigration

[<finlandia@xxxxxxx>]

Information about the Tampere counter-summit

>From the beginning of July to the end of December, Finland will serve as
president of the European Union. One central aim on this period is re-
definition of EU's immigrant policies. For this reason there will be held a
special European Council meeting (so called EU summit) on immigrant policies
and internal security in Tampere, 15th-16th of October. The finnish movement
will organize as reaction against EU policies on immigration items an European
counter-summit.

We hope that Tampere will be a part of a larger campaign against borders and in
support of the sans-papiers all around Europe. We propose to start the campaign
with an European demo in Belgium in the Semira Adamu memorial day (26.9). The
demo will be very important as a moment of rupture against the eurofortress. We
propose also the continuation of the campaign during the following weeks with
for example a European action day (15.10) and in final the Tampere
demonstration (16.10). At the moment we have received clear expression of
interest in participating in the Tampere demo from the european movement, in
particular from Italy and Germany.

In the organization of the counter-summit are involved at the moment the
Finnish Anarchist League (SAL), the syndacalist organization Solidaarisuus, the
Finnish revolutionary socialist organization Sosialistiliitto. Also autonomists
are involved (at the moment not in a official way ? but in a few days the
participation will be officialized). The contact with European movements and
organizations will be carried out by single organization through own
international networks. Also contacts with refugee and immigrate organization
are in progress. The Finnish Communist Party (SKP) have also published in the
newspaper Tiedonantaja information regarding the countersummit. The home-page
of Tampere event function at the site http://come.to/tampere. We have planned
to move the site in a few days under the ECN server. Regarding the site we need
urgently materials,documents, expressions of solidarity and in particular help
for the french pages (translation of english and italian texts in french).

Regarding the campaign in general and regarding Tampere in particular our point
of view is that the eurofortress have to pay an high price for some events of
the last year as the murder of Semira Adamu, as the closing of the French
border in occasion of the demo of Paris in March, as the aggressive  policy of
German Police against the antifa block in the demo of Köln, as the way to act
against demonstrations in Bruxelles and so. All this event have a political
price and now is time for fortress europe to pay.

Regarding the technical aspect of the Tampere event the situation is under
control and information regarding all the detail will be avalaible at the end
of August.

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