Why are our brothers and sisters under siege from around 1000 police for more than a week with a final attack announced to be coming very soon? The brutality of the police in oppressing political resistance in Germany has a long history. How far it will go this time? Why did the district ruling green party implement a state of emergency in four streets around the area where the abandoned school is based? Why is nobody allowed to move in this area? Why are inhabitants, shop owners and workers having to prove their identities and walk with officers by their side to reach their own apartment or working place? Why is freedom of the press suspended and the public being left blindfolded about what happens behind the fences and inside the building?
We need to be aware that everything possible to defame and to criminalize the refugees can be presented later on if there is an echo of what happened in the case of Oury Jalloh’s tragic killing.
How long you will close your ears to the voices of the refugees?
The refugee activists on the roof of one school in Germany’s capital gave their answer on a sheet: ”You can’t evict a movement“.
The refugee movement is everywhere, like in Berlin, Hannover (“Stop killing refugees”) or Hamburg (“We are here to stay”). It’s members now have a long history of resisting and dying under a growing and highly sophisticated system of human right abuses, isolation and deportation. Sadly this is also accompanied with an equally long history of NGOs, churches, politicians and alleged supporters undermining the movements call for self-determination and self-organization.
But refugees takes it all on and continue to fight for justice – like right now on the roof edge of the abandoned school building in Berlin. Is this what democracy should look like? Is everyone getting this clear message from Berlin-Kreuzberg?
In 2003 Umberto Bossi, then leader of the rightwing party Northern League, declared in the aftermath of an earlier drowning disaster of boat peoples, “I want to hear the roar of canon! The immigrants must be hunted down, for better or worse! At the second or third warning – boom! Fire the canons at them! Otherwise this will never stop!”
Today in Berlin-Kreuzberg we must ask whether the politicians in charge (here the green party*) seem to adopt the same position only with different rhetoric and a different party background?
What is their real position in Europe’s elimination system towards people who fled to this continent because Europe is engaged in their home countries like Ivory Coast, Sudan, Libya, Niger, Mali or Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?
Do they acknowledge their wars, warmongering and military coups to maintain the business with highest profit rates are producing refugees day by day. When the victims of these policies turn towards Europe the hunt against them starts and if it’s not the roaring canon then it’s the pushing of human beings back into deserts, piling the boats, firing gunshots or beating refugees to death at the borders. And inside the borders of the fortress of so called human rights and democracy there is nothing different in general than an agenda to eliminate the evidences of all these crimes by isolating people in the Lagers, by preparing for their deportation, by putting them in prison, by denying them basic rights thus placing them at a high risk of death because of the lack of means to survive and to stay healthy. These action then transmitted by the planting of pain, trauma and sickness into the next generation.
Who can live with it?
We call on all refugees to critically rethink and strengthen our networks in our communities and act together.
(*who even sell wars as part of a global democracy process and initiated the first war from German ground after the Second World War)
External Links
Refugee Camp Berlin, Olhauer Strasse, Berlin-KreuzbergSolidarity with the refugees in Berlin-KreuzbergBerlin Refugee StrikeRefugee ProtestWe are here to stay - campaign
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We need to be aware that everything possible to defame and to criminalize the refugees can be presented later on if there is an echo of what happened in the case of Oury Jalloh’s tragic killing.
How long you will close your ears to the voices of the refugees?
The refugee activists on the roof of one school in Germany’s capital gave their answer on a sheet: ”You can’t evict a movement“.
The refugee movement is about self-determination
The refugee movement is everywhere, like in Berlin, Hannover (“Stop killing refugees”) or Hamburg (“We are here to stay”). It’s members now have a long history of resisting and dying under a growing and highly sophisticated system of human right abuses, isolation and deportation. Sadly this is also accompanied with an equally long history of NGOs, churches, politicians and alleged supporters undermining the movements call for self-determination and self-organization.But refugees takes it all on and continue to fight for justice – like right now on the roof edge of the abandoned school building in Berlin. Is this what democracy should look like? Is everyone getting this clear message from Berlin-Kreuzberg?
In 2003 Umberto Bossi, then leader of the rightwing party Northern League, declared in the aftermath of an earlier drowning disaster of boat peoples, “I want to hear the roar of canon! The immigrants must be hunted down, for better or worse! At the second or third warning – boom! Fire the canons at them! Otherwise this will never stop!”
Today in Berlin-Kreuzberg we must ask whether the politicians in charge (here the green party*) seem to adopt the same position only with different rhetoric and a different party background?
What is their real position in Europe’s elimination system towards people who fled to this continent because Europe is engaged in their home countries like Ivory Coast, Sudan, Libya, Niger, Mali or Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?
Do they acknowledge their wars, warmongering and military coups to maintain the business with highest profit rates are producing refugees day by day. When the victims of these policies turn towards Europe the hunt against them starts and if it’s not the roaring canon then it’s the pushing of human beings back into deserts, piling the boats, firing gunshots or beating refugees to death at the borders. And inside the borders of the fortress of so called human rights and democracy there is nothing different in general than an agenda to eliminate the evidences of all these crimes by isolating people in the Lagers, by preparing for their deportation, by putting them in prison, by denying them basic rights thus placing them at a high risk of death because of the lack of means to survive and to stay healthy. These action then transmitted by the planting of pain, trauma and sickness into the next generation.
Who can live with it?
We call on all refugees to critically rethink and strengthen our networks in our communities and act together.
(*who even sell wars as part of a global democracy process and initiated the first war from German ground after the Second World War)
External Links
Refugee Camp Berlin, Olhauer Strasse, Berlin-KreuzbergSolidarity with the refugees in Berlin-KreuzbergBerlin Refugee StrikeRefugee ProtestWe are here to stay - campaign
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