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No Border Camp Ukraine
NN - 19.05.2007 00:04

11 tot 20 Augustus komt er weer een No Border kamp aan. Dit maal in Ukraine: net buiten de grens van "Fort Europa". Voor mensen uit Nederland (en meeste andere EU landen) heb je geen visa nodig.


No Borders, No Nations, Stop Deportations!
No Borders, No Nations, Stop Deportations!

Het kamp zal niet enkel en alleen over migratie en vrije beweging van mensen gaan, maar moet vooral ook gezien worden als een grond van communicatie tussen activisten uit het Westen en het Oosten.
Ook is het met het oog op de 'globalisering van repressie' belangrijk de komende jaren vooral 'solidair' te blijven en netwerken hieromheen te blijven bouwen.

Onderwerpen voor workshops, praktijktraining, debatten en dergelijke zijn ook kraken (zo wordt er de laatste jaren zelfs geprobeerd te kraken in Rusland!), carnival tactieken, femnimisme en gelijke rechten voor iedereen . De regel hier is vooral: Heb je iets te vertellen of wil je graag ergens meer over weten: kom en organiseer het jezelf of laat het de 'no border' groep weten en zij kijken of er wat te doen valt.

In Ukraine heerst er een gematigd politiek klimaat, wat erg verschilt van Rusland en Wit-Rusland. Dit betekend dat er waarschijnlijk geen vervelende 'raids' of arrestaties zullen vallen en dat we ons vooral kunnen richten op het overdragen

Acties zullen na het kamp plaatsvinden om de nieuw opgedane kennis meteen in de praktijk uit te voeren!

Komt allen! We kunnen allemaal van elkaar leren!

No more "Global Apartheid"!
Fuck the Borders and the State




CALL OUT FOR NO BORDER CAMP IN UKRAINE 2007

The camp will take place from the 11th to the 20th of August 2007 in the main region of transit and labor migration in Ukraine: Transcarpathia.

The eastward expansion of the European Union has resulted in moving the walls of “Fortress Europe” to the Western border of Ukraine. The Ukrainian region of Transcarpatia, of which the biggest cities are Uzhgorod and Mukachevo, has become a new borderline, with increasing militarization and major concentration of detention camps for refugees from the countries of Global South and former USSR, who try to escape war, totalitarianism or misery to the European Union countries. It is hard to find any “open” information about the conditions in the majority of these camps.

The condition of the refugees in Ukraine is very unstable: freedom of movement is restricted; it is hard to get a job or medical care, and no social security is provided. When one gets refugee status, the only support they get from the state is a single payment of a petty 3 euros.
In recent years Ukraine has even extradited asylum seekers to places like Uzbekistan, where they were imprisoned for years in the notorious authoritarian regime’s gulags.

The increase of border controls makes a big impact on lives of local people in the depressed region of Transcarpathia. The region is situated on the intersection of borders of five countries: Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. Four of them are now in the European Union, but Ukraine will not be its member in the near future. So “Fortress Europe” strengthens its Eastern frontiers on the borderline of Western Ukraine. Still, up to half of the working population of Transcarpathia works abroad. Ukraine cancelled the visa regime for EU nationals, but the EU has not made the access of Ukrainians to the European labor market (or even European countries’ territory) any easier, although it would be hard to imagine for example agriculture in the EU today without Ukrainian guest workers.

At the same time, Transcarpathia has been for a long time a very special region with its unique blend of local cultures and traditions, and now it turned out to be one of the main routes for international migration. Therefore, local border guards, security services and media, using xenophobic language, help to spread prejudices towards migrants among local population, which resulted in rising tensions in the region.

We demand the right of free movement for everyone, asylum for all the persecuted people and the right of people to migrate from depressed areas to work in other countries, if it can make their lives better. We demand abolishing all visa regimes. We want to tear down “Fortress Europe” contemporary border regime, which has lead to the state-sanctioned murder of thousands of people in its borders during recent years. The “Global Apartheid” policy should be stopped!

We continue the tradition of No Border camps on Eastern borders of the Fortress Europe, which were organized 1998-2000 on the border of Germany and Poland, in 2000-2003 on the Eastern border of Poland, in 2001 in Slovenia, in 2003 in Romania, in 2003 and 2005 on the border between Greece and Bulgaria and in Finland in 2004. The camps have also been organized on the Southern borders of Europe (on Sicily 2000 and on Tarifa of Spain 2001), inside Europe at airports and main sites of European surveillance and decision-making system (such as in Strasbourg 2002), on the border between Mexico and USA and in Australia. This year our international movement makes a major step forward, as the camp in Ukraine will be first ever organized on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Some of the aims of this camp are:
1) To create a ground for communication between activists from Eastern and Western Europe and from everywhere else: meeting, establishing contacts, sharing skills, knowledge and experience, etc. (workshops, discussions, practical trainings, concerts and much more).

2) To attract the attention of the people in Ukraine (but also in Russia and in the world) to the racist policy on migration; to address the questions of contemporary forms of racism and xenophobia.

3) To create contact with local people in the region of Transcarpathia: anti-racist education, open public events, film screenings, exhibitions, concerts and discussions, with an aim to improve local people’s attitude towards migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

4) To exchange information between us: how the authorities in different countries criminalize migration, what are the situations with deportation prisons, and to share the experiences of resistance in different countries. One of the practical results of the camp is going to be the publication of a brochure with the information from different countries on all these issues to reinforce our struggle (call-out with approximate questions is coming!).

5) To get more people from different anti-authoritarian collectives and movements in Ukraine, Russia and other ‘post-soviet’ countries involved with the migration-related issues; mobilize people for struggle against racism, criminalization of migration and deportation camps system.

We will discuss the possible ways and perhaps we will do some actions (but not in the very region of camp; it has been advised by everybody who’s in touch with the region that any confrontational actions done by activists from “outside” on such a sensitive issue could make the situation worse, not better). So first of all it will not be an action camp but a camp for communication, networking, planning and popular education.

Another event that is going to take place in the camp is an International Food Not Bombs gathering. There is an explosion of Food Not Bombs activities in Eastern Europe. In Russia alone there are about 50 groups that are regularly doing actions.

We already started to form a program of workshops, discussions, practical trainings etc. But we prefer the program of the camp to be formed by the people who will come there. So if you’ve got something to share or contribute – please let us know now! It can be any topic you are interested in, not only the main topic of the camp.

Please take into account that Ukraine has cancelled the visa regime for the citizens of the European Union, the USA and some other countries, so if you have a passport of some Western country you probably do not need any visa to join us.

Feel free to spread this call-out through your contacts.
More information and contact:  noborder2007@riseup.net
International mailing list:  noborder_ee_int@lists.riseup.net


EXTRA NOTE:

With this call-out we invite you to No Border camp, Ukraine.
If you have any ideas, questions or want to join us in preparations already now, help with building the camp in the week before the camp officially starts and that is most important – to form the program suggesting workshops, seminars, practical training or whatever – don’t hesitate to write us right now!

If you want to be regularly informed about ongoing preparations and more actively participate the preparation of the camp, to help to form the program suggesting workshops, seminars, practical training or whatever join international mailing list:  noborder_ee_int@lists.riseup.net (working language is English)

Please help us to spread this call-out as wide as it possible! Translate it in any language and distribute in your own country or wherever you can!

- E-Mail: noborder2007@riseup.net
 

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