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from the Associazione Ya Basta!
For people dignity against neoliberism
Lombardia

Centro Sociale Leoncavallo

via Watteau 7, Milano, tel 02 6705185, fax 02 6705621,
email: yabasta@xxxxxx
csleo@xxxxxx


Dear friends

We partecipated to the meetings held in Berlin and Paris for the
construction of a European coordination between the various groups
working
on migrants.

According with the outcome of the Paris meeting, we are preparing the
action
day against fortress Europe on October 15, but first we prepared this
reflection document. Let us know what you think about.

Besides, by partecipating to the PGA conference called in Bangalore
(India)
from August 22 to August 25, we will present the initiative and collect
all
possible support from the extra-european movements active in this
network.

As you can see in our proposal for reflection, in the action days for
Semira
Adamu we are considering to organize some demonstrations focusing on the
lager for sans-papier opened in Milan. This demo will almost certainly
be
called for September 25, Saturday. If you are interested in knowing more
about it, just answer this message.

We will send you also an introductory letter to our political
activities.
For us, this is a work aimed to prepare the PGA meeting to be held in
London
on October/ November, about which we?ll start discussing at the end of
the
month. Give it a look, and tell us what you think about.

Finally, we would like to know if the meeting called in Gent for Aug.
21 ?
22 is going on or will be postponed.

See you soon.

Associazione ?Ya Basta! For people dignity against neoliberism? -
Lombardia
via Watteau 7
20125 Milano
Italia.
tel 02 6705185
fax 02 6705621
email yabasta@xxxxxx


Some thoughts about the Autumn, the fortresses and the borders

The symbol of World War IV is an enormous wall going from the Rio Grande
to
Turkey, then Gibraltar and then up cutting out Eastern Europe, to end up
dividing Japan and Australia from the rest of South-Eastern Asia.

While the rulers of Europe meet to decide ? from the top of their
Palaces --
who deserves political aylum and who doesn?t,  Europe sees the migration
of
the victims of World War IV -- the victims of the war engaged by
neoliberalism against humanity after those of the Cold War. And while
european politicians seek ?legal? measures to restrict people
circulation,
in a few years thousands of people died at the Schengen borders: drawn
into
seas or rivers, blown by mines, sunk by Navies, shot by the police, hung
beyond the border in bilateral jails, etc.

USA and Schengen walls have each caused in those last 5 years a number
of
casualties at least 5-10 times larger than the Berlin wall in 30 years,
and
the Schengen information system registers with absolute precision
pictures,
data and fingerprints even from babies.

Their crime: to be born out of these borders.
Their life: to work for the wealth of  Europe/ USA or being criminalized
by
mass media.
Their function: to shift class conflict into race conflict
Their destiny: rejection.

Still their courage, their resistance, their struggles for basic rights
tell
us that it?s possible to create a world containing many worlds.

One year ago, on September 23, Semira Adamu was killed by this
mechanism,
suffocated with bare hands by a policeman. Her fault: not having in her
pocket a document ?legal? enough to cross the Wall.

Let?s turn this anniversary in a moment of confrontation, denounciation
and
mobilization!

September 25, Saturday, could become a day of recall and struggle for
Semira
and for all those who share her destiny.

Since its construction -- or even before -- we are struggling against
one of
the hatred symbols of the Wall: the lager for sans-papier in via
Corelli,
Milan. Since the first day of its opening we demand its closure
denouncing
the abuses hidden behind it: police violence, attempts to suicide, lack
of
medical care. It?s a lager. We must close it. It could become the focus
of
this day of struggle.

Our country proceeds on the path choosen for it: demonize migrants,
reject
refugees, build ghettoes for Rom gipsies, citizens of the world since
immemorial time.

The Europe of civil rights, so barbariously trodded by neoliberistic
left-wing governments also in our country, passes through:

- The immediate stop to all expulsions
- The closure of all lagers for immigrants
- The regularization of all sans-papiers
- Free circulation and free sojourn

Struggling next to migrants against the Wall of fortress Europe, many
european groups are going to meet on October 15 for an action day
against
all rejections to be built in all cities of the fortress, and on Sunday
16
in Tampere, Finland, at the end of the European summit on immigration
and
?safety? within the Schengen borders. Two days in which we?ll struggle
to
recall a story beginning 500 years ago, a story of migration from the
fortress, initially by conquistadores and exploiters, then by ?european
indios? exploited and with no papers.

A story of conquer, exploitation and fortresses going on also today,
with
men and women out of this Wall pushing to enter, with landless
populations -- as in Kurdistan -- for which the right of asylum has been
turned into a practical joke or with population without future like in
Chiapas, for which the right to a decent life keeps a deception, men and
women which, with courage,  keep on resisting and building those worlds
containing many worlds.

But our dreams can go far away, and they join those of our camerades
living
on the other side of the Wall telling them: we are struggling with the
same
stones, and by beating on two sides, the cracks on this Wall will widen
much
faster.

And if this day of struggling within the fortress would be carried to
the
people beyond the Wall? And if our camerades worlwide, with which we
shared
other paths of struggle as the Intercontinental Caravan or the G8
summit,
would know, accept, support and enforce this day of struggle, turning it
into a day against all neoliberistic fortresses, against all borders?

Associazione Ya Basta!
For people dignity against neoliberism
Lombardia

Centro Sociale Leoncavallo

via Watteau 7, Milano, tel 02 6705185, fax 02 6705621,
email: yabasta@xxxxxx
csleo@xxxxxx




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