AUT: (fwd) (en) [caravan99] thoughts and actions (2)about the Autumn, the European fortresses and the borders (fwd)

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>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 01:00:30 -0400
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>Subject: (en) [caravan99] thoughts and actions (2)about the Autumn,
>     the European fortresses and the borders
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>Some thoughts
>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 ñ from the top of their Palaces --
>who deserves political aylum and who doesnít, 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 ìlegalî 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 itís 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 ìlegalî enough to cross the Wall.
>
>Letís 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. Itís 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
>ìsafetyî within the Schengen borders. Two days in which weíll struggle to
>recall a story beginning 500 years ago, a story of migration from the
>fortress, initially by conquistadores and exploiters, then by ìeuropean
>indiosî 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
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