Tear down the walls of Fortress Europe

Photograph by Darko Vojinovic/AP [The Huffington Post]


Asian Dub Foundation

See also:

• Once upon a time in Athens, #18
• Refugees Welcome Here: London, 12 September

• Solidarity with refugees: European day of action
• Solidarity with Calais migrants against borders, racism and fascism | 12 September

• End austerity now, stop blaming immigrants
• Migrant lives matter: protest in London
• Fortress Europe: the precarious lives of refugees
• Death by drowning: precarious refugee lives
• Systematically drowning migrants and refugees
• A watery graveyard for migrants and refugees
• Hanif Kureishi: Europe degrading the immigrant
• Fortress Europe: incalculable cost in human lives
• Fortress Europe's death toll in the Mediterranean
• Farmakonisi: no justice for the drowned refugees

Once upon a time in Athens, #20

Lenorman St., 13.09.2015, mural by Sidron - NDA

Living in a panel: Sergio Toppi

[Pinterest]

Sergio Toppi

See also:

Against the infinity of sadness, #1

Art and social protest: Black Lives Matter

Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty [NYMag]

Scott Olson

Getty Images | National Journal | The Guardian | The Independent

That day I was carrying a mask because I thought it might get heavy. [The police] just started launching tear gas after tear gas after tear gas. [...] That’s when I was happy I had the gas mask. That gas was really thick, and I was able to walk into it. She had nothing on. She was hurting. If I didn’t have a mask on, my eyes would have been burning too much to ever take that picture. She stayed there for a while and then she started to be overcome from the effects of gas. Someone came and helped her and got her out of there. An amazing person to put up with what she did. 

Quoted in Behind the best pictures from Ferguson, with Getty photographer Scott Olson | Joe Coscarelli, NYMag

[Eric Drooker | Facebook]

Eric Drooker 

Ferguson: Hands Up, Don't Shoot! | The New Yorker

"The painting is most definitely informed by my experience, as someone who’s been on the receiving end of police brutality — as well as someone who’s witnessed numerous incidents of police violence toward peaceful protesters," Drooker said. "The composition is a subjective view of someone in the street, beholding a military-style assault by police." 

New Yorker’s Ferguson cover artist has been on the front lines of police protests | Benjamin Mullin, Poynter

See also:

• Racism, police violence, and neoliberalism

• Molly Grabapple: on police violence in Ferguson
• Black lives matter: the Baltimore uprising
• To look you in the eyes

• (No) justice for Trayvon Martin

Once upon a time in Athens, #19

Siggrou Av., Panteion underpass, 11.09.2015

Once upon a time in Athens, #18

Victoria Sq., 13.09.2015

Refugees Welcome Here: London, 12 September

[Refugees Welcome Here - National Day Of Action]

Refugees Welcome Here

London, 12 September 2015

See also:

• Solidarity with refugees: European day of action
• Solidarity with Calais migrants against borders, racism and fascism | 12 September

• End austerity now, stop blaming immigrants
• Migrant lives matter: protest in London
• Fortress Europe: the precarious lives of refugees
• Death by drowning: precarious refugee lives
• Systematically drowning migrants and refugees
• A watery graveyard for migrants and refugees
• Hanif Kureishi: Europe degrading the immigrant
• Fortress Europe: incalculable cost in human lives
• Fortress Europe's death toll in the Mediterranean
• Farmakonisi: no justice for the drowned refugees

Remembering Salvador Allende

The glasses Salvador Allende wore when he died, Photograph by Roberto Candia/AP [USC Dornsfire]

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende moments before his death, Photograph by Orlando Lagos [World Press Photo]

Solidarity with Calais migrants against borders, racism and fascism | 12 September

[Solidarity with Calais migrants against racism and fascism]

Solidarity with Calais migrants against racism and fascism

12 September 2015

We reject the politics of xenophobia, and are disgusted by those who seek to dehumanise migrants. We see the so-called “migrant crisis” as a humanitarian crisis, of migrants uprooted by war and poverty coming into contact with a brutal and inhumane border regime, engineered to kill. We are calling for anti-racists and anti-fascists to join us in Dover to stand in solidarity with migrants, demand an end to borders and stand up to the racists seeking to sow division and hatred.

Our mobilisation joins other campaigns fighting racism, nationalism and the border regime including convoys heading to Calais with much needed resources and campaigns against immigration raids, deportations and detention centres.

London Antifascists

Solidarity with refugees: European day of action

[#EuropeSaysWelcome: European Day of Action for Refugees]

#EuropeSaysWelcome: European Day of Action for Refugees

12 September 2015

It's time to speak out against the deadly borders that have been enacted in our name. People all over Europe are organizing resistance and solidarity in their towns and cities. On the 12th of September we want to show with thousands of people all over Europe our solidarity with those fleeing war, violence and destitution.

We want to let all the refugees know: You are welcome! 

London 1 | 2 | Dover | Birmingham | Chichester | English Football League 

Glasgow | Edinburgh | Orkney | Dublin | Oslo | Malmo | Copenhagen 

Bologna | Milan | Athens | Nicosia | Warsaw | Prague | Sidney

Art and social protest: police violence in Athens

Guy Denning, Zeus and Cronus, 2012 [Guy Denning]

Guy Denning

Athens, 29 June 2011, Photo by John Kolesidis/Reuters [EnetEnglish.gr]

Police violence in Greece: not just ‘isolated incidents'

Amnesty International, 2012, p. 10 

[N]umerous allegations have been received regarding excessive use of force, including the use of chemical irritants against peaceful or largely peaceful demonstrators, and the use of stun grenades in a manner that violates international standards. For example, video footage, photographs, press reports and witness testimonies point to the repeated use of excessive force by police in the demonstrations organized against the austerity measures on 15, 28 and 29 June 2011, including the excessive use of chemical irritants against largely peaceful demonstrators.

Guy Denning, Public Servant [Guy Denning | Facebook]

Athens, 15 June 2011, Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP [SFGate]