AUT: EU-presidency of Finland update #2

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>(First issue was named Tampere-update #1.)
>
>Contents:
>
>1) Declaration of Tampere counter-summit in English, German and Swedish
>2) Current list of Finnish organisers
>3) Contact adress for organising collective
>4) Requests for foreign contacts
>5) Actions of asylum and immigration struggles august-october 1999
>6) Information about seminar of October 13th
>7) Shortly about plans of "Alternative to EU" for the december.
>
>
>"EU-presidency of Finland update" is no means a brand used by some
>structure. All the organisers are encouraged to use name and running number
>when informing non-Finnish audience about happenings around Finnish
>presidency to help audience recognising what are the news about and has the
>message already been read. All the readers are asked to correct mistakes
>from the update.
>
>___________________________________________________________________________=
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>-
>1) Declaration of Tampere counter-summit in English, German and Swedish
>
>STRIKE BACK AGAINST THE EMPIRE: COUNTER-SUMMIT AGAINST THE EU'S
>IMMIGRATION AND INTERNAL SECURITY POLICIES, 15.-17.10.1999, TAMPERE,
>FINLAND
>
>Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the poverty and wars caused
>by globalisation and are trying to get to Europe, trying to find an even
>marginally better life for themselves and their families. While capital
>has been given a first class reception everywhere, these people have
>been interned, killed, deported and pushed into the arms of the criminal
>syndicates which control illegal immigration.
>
>Finland holds the presidency of the EU from July to December 1999. A
>special summit dealing with immigration and internal security issues is
>to take place in Tampere on October 15th and 16th. We invite everyone
>who demands the freedom of movement for all in Europe and a Europe of
>the people to come to Tampere on 15.10.-17.10. for a counter-summit. We
>demand that the wealth that we produce be used to enable people to move
>freely and to take part in our welfare.
>
>A well-publicised example of the injustice of the EU's asylum policies
>is the case of Abdullah =D6calan. He was neither granted asylum nor a fair
>trial in Europe and instead was seized and taken to Turkey where he was
>sentenced to death in a show trial.
>
>More interest in wiretapping than in welfare?
>
>In practice, "internal security" means increasing the powers given to
>the internal control mechanisms in the EU and pressuring the member
>states to accept these far-reaching controls. An example of this is the
>monitoring of telecommunications, such as e-mails and telephone calls,
>by the USA and by several EU states. We believe in a different
>definition of security.
>
>Finland and Europe are richer than ever before, but an even distribution
>of this welfare is said to be impossible. There is enough employment and
>wealth to share with the marginalised inside the Union as well as with
>the immigrants who come here. The focus of interest of the politicians,
>however, lies somewhere completely different. The EU is only one part of
>the globalised empire and seceeding from it is not a sufficient
>solution. The alternative is however in our hands, for while capital has
>become global, resistance, too, has crossed all borders.
>
>Covering up the symptoms does not cure the disease
>
>Instead of tackling the problems caused by the insecurity and temporary
>nature of work contracts, the problems caused by the cutting of funds
>for education and health care, the problems caused by unemployment and
>pollution, the EU is organising a media spectacle in which the
>politicians will attempt to gain popularity points by claiming to crack
>down on crime. Fighting crime effectively, however, is impossible
>without tackling the structures that make it feasible. The flow of drugs
>to Europe will last as long as cultivating them is the only viable
>alternative for the farmers in the South. Drug abuse and the ensuing
>crime will not stop unless those that have been forced to live on the
>edges of society have no better way of "pursuing happiness."
>
>Refugees and immigrants are criminalised although the real criminals are
>those who destroy the social structures and ecosystems of whole
>continents and move capital from one country to the next, devastating
>the national economies. The criminals are those who kill, intern and
>deport people.
>
>We invite everyone to come to Tampere and fight against the Fortress
>Europe!
>
>No to internment camps, no to the deportation of refugees, no to
>borders!
>
>Real security instead of increased control!
>
>For free movement and social solidarity!
>
>Antifa Finland, Autonome Offensive 99, Democratic Youth of Hervanta,
>Self-Employment Organisation of Iranian and Iraqi Kurds, Kurdistan
>Committee, Solidaarisuus, Socialist League, Finnish Anarchist Federation
>
>SCHLAGT ZUR=DCCK GEGEN DAS IMPERIUM - GEGENGIPFEL ZUM THEMA INNERE
>SICHERHEIT UND EINWANDERUNGSPOLITIK, TAMPERE, 15.-17.10.1999
>
>Hunderttausende von Menschen fliehen vor dem von der Globalisation
>verursachtem Elend und den Kriegen in die Staaten der EU, auf der Suche
>nach einem wenigstens etwas  besserem Leben f=FCr sich und ihre Familien.
>W=E4hrend das Kapital =FCberall erstklassig empfangen wird, werden diese
>Menschen interniert, deportiert, get=F6tet und in die Arme von illegalen
>Schlepperbanden getrieben.
>
>Finnland h=E4lt die EU Ratspr=E4sidentschaft von Juli bis Dezember 1999
>inne. In Tampere wird vom 15.-16.10. ein Sondergipfel zum Thema
>"Fl=FCchtlings- und Einwanderungspolitik und Innere Sicherheit"
>stattfinden. Wir laden alle, die f=FCr Bewegungsfreiheit in Europa und f=FC=
r
>ein Europa f=FCr alle einstehen, am 15.-17.10. zum Gegengipfel nach
>Tampere zu kommen. Wir fordern, dass der von uns produzierte Reichtum
>dazu benutzt wird, den Menschen eine M=F6glichkeit zu geben, sich frei zu
>bewegen und an dem Wohlstand teilzunehmen.
>
>Ein Beispiel f=FCr die Ungerechtigkeit der Asylpolitik der EU ist der Fall
>von Abdullah =D6calan. Ihm wurde in der EU weder Asyl noch die M=F6glichkei=
t
>zu einem fairen Prozess gegeben, und statt dessen wurde er in die T=FCrkei
>verschleppt wo er in einem Schauprozess zum Tode verurteilt wurde.
>
>Mehr Interesse am Lauschangriff als an der Wohlfahrt?
>
>Mit der "inneren Sicherheit" meinen die Politiker die Verst=E4rkung der
>Kontrollmechanismen und den verst=E4rkten Druck auf die Mitgliedsstaaten,
>sich diesen weitreichenden Kontrollmechanismen zu unterwerfen. Ein
>Beispiel hierf=FCr ist das Abh=F6ren und Ablesen von Telefonaten und E-Mail=
s
>durch die USA und einigen EU-Staaten. Unter Sicherheit verstehen wir
>etwas anderes.
>
>Finnland und die EU sind reicher als jemals zuvor, und trotzdem sagt man
>uns, das eine gerechtere Verteilung des Reichtums unm=F6glich sei. Obwohl
>es genug Arbeit und Wohlstand gibt, um es mit den Marginalisierten
>unsere Gesellschaft und ImmigrantInnen zu teilen, liegt das Interesse
>der Politiker anderswo. Die EU ist nur ein Teil des globalen Imperiums,
>und aus ihr auszuscheiden ist keine gen=FCgende L=F6sung. Die Alternative
>ist jedoch in unseren H=E4nden, denn w=E4hrend sich das Kapital global
>ausgebreitet hat, hat auch der Widerstand alle Grenzen =FCberschritten.
>
>Die Krankheit kann nicht durch eine Verdeckung der Symptome =FCberwunden
>werden
>
>Anstatt sich mit den Problemen der Unsicherheit der Arbeitsbeziehungen,
>der K=FCrzung der Gesundheits- und Ausbildungsetats, der
>Umweltverschmutzung und der Arbeitslosigkeit zu besch=E4ftigen,
>organisiert die EU ein Medienspektakel, bei dem die Politiker mittels
>leerer Floskeln vom Kampf gegen die Kriminalit=E4t punkten wollen. Der
>Kampf gegen die Kriminalit=E4t ist jedoch unm=F6glich, wenn man die tiefere=
n
>Gr=FCnde ausser Acht l=E4sst. Der Drogenfluss nach Europa wird so lange
>anhalten, wie es f=FCr die Bauern im S=FCden der einzige Weg ist, sich =FCb=
er
>Wasser zu halten. Den Drogenkonsum und die dazugeh=F6rende Kriminalit=E4t
>wird es so lange geben, wie es den Aussenseitern der Gesellschaft keine
>bessere M=F6glichkeit zum "Gl=FCck" er=F6ffnet wird.
>
>Fl=FCchtlinge und ImmigrantInnen werden kriminalisiert, obwohl die
>tats=E4chlichen Verbrecher die sind, die die Umwelt und die
>gesellschaftlichen Strukturen auf ganzen Kontinenten zerst=F6ren und durch
>Kapitalverschiebungen die Wirtschaft gesamter L=E4nder ruinieren. Die
>Verbrecher sind diejenigen, die Menschen morden, internieren und
>deportieren.
>
>Wir laden alle ein, in Tampere gegen die Festung Europa zu k=E4mpfen!
>
>Nein zu Internierungslagern, nein zur Abschiebung von Fl=FCchtlingen, nein
>zu Grenzen!
>
>Echte Sicherheit statt mehr Kontrolle!
>
>F=FCr die Bewegungsfreiheit und f=FCr gesellschaftliche Solidarit=E4t!
>
>Antifa Finnland, Autonome Offensive 99, Demokratische Jugend Hervanta,
>Arbeitsbeschaffungsverein der Kurden Iraks und Irans, Kommittee f=FCr
>Kurdistan, Solidaarisuus, Sozialistische Liga, SAL
>
>
>SL=C5 TILLBAKA IMPERIET
>Tammerfors 15-17 oktober
>Alternativt toppm=F6te mot EU:s invandrar- och s=E4kerhetspolitik.
>
>Som en f=F6ljd av globaliseringen flyr hundratusentals m=E4nniskor undan n=
=F6d
>och krig. De s=F6ker sig till Europa i hopp om att finna =E5tminstone n=E5g=
ot
>b=E4ttre levnadsf=F6rh=E5llanden f=F6r sig och sina familjer.
>Samtidigt som kapitalet =F6verallt f=E5tt ett f=F6rstklassigt mottagande, h=
ar
>dessa flyende m=E4nniskor internerats, f=F6rvisats, d=F6dats och drivits i
>armarna p=E5 de kriminella ligor som beh=E4rskar den illegala invandringen.
>Finland fungerar fr=E5n b=F6rjan av juli till slutet av december som
>ordf=F6randeland i EU. 15-16 oktober arrangeras i Tammerfors ett extra
>toppm=F6te, vars huvudteman =E4r den inre s=E4kerheten och invandringen. Vi=
 har
>beslutat att under samma tid till Tammerfors bjuda in alla de r=F6relser oc=
h
>individer, som  i v=E5r del av v=E4rlden kr=E4ver att den fria r=F6rlighete=
n skall
>g=E4lla alla m=E4nniskor, s=E5v=E4l inom som till Europa.
>Vi kr=E4ver att de rikedomar vi med v=E5rt arbete producerar anv=E4nds till=
 att
>ge m=E4nniskorna m=F6jligheter att r=F6ra sig fritt  och r=E4tten att ta=
 del av den
>v=E4lf=E4rd man hela tiden f=F6rs=F6ker f=F6rv=E4gra oss, ist=E4llet f=F6r=
 till  st=F6djandet
>av kapitalets tillv=E4xt.
>Ett exempel p=E5 EU:s or=E4ttvisa flyktingpolitik =E4r den behandling Abdul=
lach
>=D6calan utsatts f=F6r. Han f=F6rv=E4grades asyl i Europa , f=E4ngslades av=
 de
>turkiska myndigheterna och d=F6mdes i en farsartad r=E4tteg=E5ng till d=F6d=
en.
>
>AVLYSSNING ELLER V=C4LF=C4RD?
>
>Med "inre s=E4kerhet" avses i praktiken st=E4rkandet av =F6vervakningsappar=
aten
>och p=E5tryckningar f=F6r att f=E5 medlemsl=E4nderna att  ta i bruk l=E5ngt
>utvecklade =F6vervakningssystem. Ett exempel p=E5 detta =E4r den screening =
av
>epost- och telefontrafik som USA och en del EU-l=E4nder idkar, med hj=E4lp =
av
>ny teknologi. Vi anser att s=E4kerhet inneb=E4r n=E5gonting helt annat.
>Finland och Europa =E4r rikare =E4n n=E5gonsin. =C4nd=E5 p=E5st=E5s det=
 vara om=F6jligt att
>utj=E4mna rikedomarna. Syssels=E4ttning och v=E4lst=E5nd skulle f=F6rutom=
 =E5t de
>utslagna, =E4ven r=E4cka till =E5t dem som invandrat hit. Detta =E4r emelle=
rtid
>n=E5gonting f=F6retagen och politikerna inte =E4r intresserade av. EU =E4r =
enbart
>en del av globaliseringsprocessen och imperiet. Det =E4r d=E4rf=F6r inte he=
ller
>n=E5gon l=F6sning p=E5 problemen att g=E5 ut ur unionen. Vi har emellertid =
ett
>mycket b=E4ttre alternativ till hands. Samtidigt som kapitalet breder ut si=
g
>=F6ver v=E4rlden, har ocks=E5 motst=E5ndet =F6verskridit alla gr=E4nser.=
 Det =E4r i den
>internationella soldariteten alternativet finns.
>
>SJUKDOMEN F=D6RSVINNER INTE GENOM ATT MAN D=D6LJER SYMTOMEN
>
>Ist=E4llet f=F6r att ta upp fr=E5gor g=E4llande os=E4kra och oregelbundna
>arbetsf=F6rh=E5llanden , nedsk=E4rningar i h=E4lsov=E5rd och utbildning, f=
=F6roreningar
>och arbetsl=F6shet g=F6r sig unionens mediaspektakel popul=E4rt genom att k=
=E4mpa
>mot brottsligheten. Det =E4r trots allt om=F6jligt att bek=E4mpa kriminalit=
eten,
>genom att bortse fr=E5n andra problem. Str=F6mmen av droger till Europa kan
>inte stoppas, s=E5 l=E4nge som odlingen av drogv=E4xter f=F6r b=F6nderna i=
 syd =E4r det
>b=E4sta och ibland det enda s=E4ttet att f=F6rs=F6rja sig och sina familjer=
>Drogbruket och den kriminalitet det f=F6r med sig, minskar inte heller, s=
=E5
>l=E4nge de utst=F6tta inte kan finna n=E5gra b=E4ttre v=E4gar till=
 "lyckan". Man
>skuldbel=E4gger flyktingar och invandrare, trots att de verkliga
>brottslingarna =E4r de som f=F6rst=F6r samh=E4llen, kulturer och natur i he=
la
>v=E4rldsdelar och saboterar nationalekonomier genom ekonomiska transaktione=
r.
>Kriminella =E4r ocks=E5 de som m=F6rdar, internerar och utvisar m=E4nniskor=
, som
>endast hoppas p=E5 ett m=E4nniskov=E4rdigt liv.
>
>KOM TILL TAMMERFORS F=D6R ATT SL=C5SS MOT FORT EUROPA
>
>NEJ till interneringsl=E4ger, NEJ till utvisning av flyktingar, NEJ till
>gr=E4nser!
>En verklig trygghet ist=E4llet f=F6r =F6kad kontroll!
>F=F6r fri r=F6rlighet och samh=E4llelig solidaritet!
>___________________________________________________________________________=
__
>2) Current list of organisers in Finland
>
>Antifa Finland               - nationwide moderate network against racism a=
nd
>                               for tolerance. http://www.kaapeli.fi/~antifa
>Autonome Offensive 99        - check first issue
>Democratic Youth of Hervanta - Local group of Left youth, organisation near
>Left union party which has no official ties with
>                               party. Democratic youth as whole has not (ye=
t?)
>                               endorsed declaration. Democratic youth:
>http://www.vasemmistonuoret.fi
>Self-Employment Organisation - Organisation runned by kurd refugees from
>Iran and
>of Iranian and Iraqi Kurds     Iraq dealing with hard task to find
>employment for
>                               it's members
>Kurdistan Committee          - Organisation of Kurds campaining for peace t=
o
>                               Kurdistan and supporting autonomy of Kurdist=
an.
>Solidaarisuus                - Check first issue
>Socialist League             - Check first issue
>Finnish Anarchist Federation - Check first issue
>___________________________________________________________________________=
_
>_____
>3) Contact adress for organising collective
>
>Tampere countersummit
>P.O. Box 318
>FIN-00171 Helsinki
>phone: 358-(0)9-135 2110
>e-mail: tampere99@xxxxxxxxxxx
>url: http://come.to/tampere
>wait for fax to come...
>____________________________________________________________
>4) Requests for foreign contacts
>
>Here are things you can do to help worldwide struggle against fortress
>Europe...
>
>-Translate declaration of Tampere counter summit to your language if it has
>not yet been translated. If that was not enough, translate this as well.
>When starting work, contact us to ensure someone else is not doing that
>already.
>-Distribute this message to your own contacts, and find people interested t=
o
>be updated about our plans.
>-Estimate would it be worth of it to agitate people to travel to Tampere in
>your own language area. If so, we can use ready flyer and poster frame for
>flyers and posters of various languages, but we need translated texts and
>language area or local organising committee contact adress of a trip! We ca=
n
>also print posters and flyers in Finland, but since we are broken we
>recommend you to pay for that. We printed our A3 posters with one extra
>color with 56 euros/1000, but posting costs as well. Of course, there is no
>any barriers to make completely own design.
>-Link Tampere counter summit page to your webpage. Advertise and join to ou=
r
>e-mail list, openeurope.
>You can join openeurope-list by sending message
>
>subscribe openeurope
>
>to
>
>lists@xxxxxx, without subject.
>
>There is also a closed version of the list, which will be used if the fact
>anyone has acces to open list causes trouble. You may join closed list by
>sending a presentation to antti.rautiainen@xxxxxxxxxxx, presentations will
>be delivered to all list members.
>-Collect endorsers for the declaration. Political parties, individuals,
>formal and non-formal organisations are all allowed to join endorser list,
>which will be used in www-page and mediawork.
>-Organise or participate to local events in Europeanwide action day against
>fortress Europe 15th of october
>-If you know important organisations or groups which want to be updated but
>have not e-mail access, let us know their fax adress.
>_______________________________________________________________________
>5) Actions of asylum and immigration struggles august-october 1999
>
>20th of august, France - Sans papier-movement begins a march to Paris
>19th of september, Lisbon Portugal - Demonstration for immigrant rights
>22th of september, Bruxells Belgium - Demonstration for commemoration of
>Semira Adamu in front of the ministry of justice
>25th of september, Milano Italy - Demonstration in front of the Via Corelli
>internation camp
>30th of september, Paris France - Demonstration of Sans-Papier movement
>15th of october, Europeanwide action day, counter actions around themes of
>EU topmeeting of Tampere in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain,
>France, Finland...
>15th of october, Koblenz Germany - Demonstration outside headquarters of
>german border patrol
>16th of october, Tampere Finland - International demonstration against EU
>topmeeting
>___________________________________________________________________________=
_
>6) Information about seminar of October 13th
>
>DRAFT of conference announcement
>PLEASE SEND COMMENTS BY AUGUST 23rd - I will then make a final version for
>wide distribution
>
>FROM:
>Folkets Bildningsf=F6rbund
>Alternative to the EU - Finland
>Friends of the Earth Finland
>
>TO: Concerned citizens
>    Media
>    Researchers
>
>FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:
>
>INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON EU, "INNER SECURITY" AND HUMAN RIGHTS
>TAMPERE, FINLAND 13th OCTOBER 1999
>
>With the coming into effect of the Schengen and Amsterdam Treaties
>EU-cooperation in the fields of justice, home affairs and border controls
>has been greatly advanced. The treaties set the stage for many further
>developments in the form of implementation and refinement. The treaties and
>their various annexes, enforcement manuals and protocols form an unusually
>complex and convoluted package of legislation. Public scrutiny of the
>existing treaties as well as democratic influence on new reforms has
>therefore been made extremely difficult. Hence, there is an urgent need to
>provide a "citizen's guide" to the significance of recent EU-developments
>for basic human rights and liberties.
>The international expert meeting in Tampere, October 13th 1999, is designed
>to serve as one such guide. The meeting is organised by three Finnish,
>non-party NGOs. The organising parties do not have a common view on
>EU-politics, but we all agree about the need for enhanced public debate as
>a prerequisite for informed and effective democratic influence and action.
>
>The meeting in Tampere brings together prominent legal scholars and
>sociologists from a least five western European nations to analyse the
>effects of ongoing and planned developments of justice, police and
>border-control cooperation within the European Union. The confirmed
>speakers are (August 13th):
>
>        - Nicholas Busch, lawyer, editor of Fortress Europe, Switzerland/Sw=
eden
>        - Ole Krarup, prof., MEP, Denmark
>- Peter Noorlander, programme director, Justice, England
>- Thomas Mathiesen, prof., Norway
>- Lode van Outrive, prof., MP, Belgium
>
>All speakers have earned international recognition for their contributions
>to research and public debate on EU-cooperation in the fields of justice,
>immigration, asylum, policing and data protection and the effects of this
>cooperation on fundamental human rights and liberties.
>
>The working langauge will be English. Participation in the debate in other
>languages will be facilitated. Proceedings are scheduled for the whole day,
>from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30. p.m. Each speaker will present a paper followed by
>debate. Together the papers seek to provide the essential conceptual tools,
>interpretative guidance and empirical facts required for citizens,
>journalists and public officials wishing to understand, monitor and
>influence EU-policies.
>
>The last two hours will be used for a panel-debate focusing on the agenda
>of the EU-summit on "Internal Security" in Tampere, October 15th and 16th.
>Representatives of immigrant and anti-racist organisations, the Commission
>and the EU-presidency are expected to take part in the panel.
>
>More information:
>
><thomas.wallgren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>___________________________________________________________________________=
___
>
>7) Shortly about plans of Alternative to EU for the december.
>
>Althought busy working with Tampere, we are all the time planning activity
>against Helsinki topmeeting 11th-12th of december as well. Energetic
>international demonstration and accomodation for the participators is the
>least we can guarantee for foreign participators.
>
>Meanwhile Alternative to EU, movement which has its roots in movement which
>opposed Finnish membership in European Union, is organising a round table
>discussion between European movements about the future of EU-resistance.
>Alternative to EU is able to finance travelling costs of one participator
>from each East-European country, thus if you are from East-European country
>and interested, write to vanessaklotzer@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>More information about Helsinki events in coming numbers of update.
>__________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
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