Showing posts with label Migration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Migration. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 June 2018

The unbearable death toll of Fortress Europe

[The Independent]

List of 34,361 documented deaths of refugees and migrants 
due to the restrictive policies of "Fortress Europe" | PDF file



The List only details refugees whose deaths have been reported: the toll is almost certainly far higher than 34,361. As international media coverage of the refugee crisis has taught us, many more deaths go undocumented. Migrants are lost at sea, or die in the backs of trucks; they are killed in perilous conditions in camps, or by far-right hate groups; or the extreme stress of their situation leads them to take their own lives.

It's 34,361 and rising: 
how the List tallies Europe's migrant bodycount 
Niamh McIntyre and Mark Rice-Oxley, The Guardian
“We have no way of knowing the actual number of deaths, but this does show there has been a gradual and very steady increase,” says Thomas Spijkerboer, professor of Migration Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “The major significance of the List is in its signals. It shows that this has been ongoing for 25 years and the people who pretend to be shocked now should have been shocked a long time ago.”


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Monday, 25 December 2017

Solidarity with migrants and refugees

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Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Dark Tranquillity: no place for racism in music


Mikael Stanne | Anchors to Asphalt interview [excerpt] 
I think that for me the most frustrating part is just seeing people's ignorance, you see that in the small cities of Sweden, they are very hostile and angry about immigration, for instance. It is embarassing to me. I like to think that we should be better than that, we should be more than that. [...] At least everyone I've ever met out of our fans has always been like super open, like super intelligent, cool and respectful. 


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Wednesday, 7 June 2017

No wars, no limits, no borders



I wish I had wings to fly away, far away
Meet smiley faces who never ask where I came from;
not to ask about colour, race, or religion
What difference does it make if we're all humans?
No wars, no limits, no borders. 
Earth is everyone's right.



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Thursday, 23 June 2016

Once upon a time in Athens, #38


Victoria Sq., 02.06.2016

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Sunday, 29 May 2016

Against fascism in Europe and everywhere


Excerpt from Austria’s Norbert Hofer and the rise of fascism and the far right across Europe, Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin, Dream Deferred 
We believe the situation in Europe today shows a growth and development of [...] [fascist and far right racist populist parties] that is without parallel since the 1930s. And after the experience of fascism in power in Europe and the Holocaust, we know just how dangerous that can be. The need to stop history repeating itself could not be more important. 
This means that fascist and racist organisations need to be opposed on all levels – political, ideological and organisational. None of them is yet unstoppable. In much of Europe, there is a desperate need for large-scale, broad-based campaigns against the fascist and far right racist parties, both electorally and on the streets.


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Friday, 6 May 2016

Solidarity with migrants: end detention now!

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Thursday, 14 April 2016

Against austerity and racism: London, 16.04.2016

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Thursday, 31 March 2016

No borders: solidarity with refugees and migrants



This image incorporates a reference to the Syrian refugee child Aylan Kurdi, who was drowned in the Aegean Sea in September 2015.

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Friday, 18 March 2016

London, 19.03.2016: for migrants and refugees, against racism and fascism





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Thursday, 18 February 2016

Courage and dignity against the barbed wire


Warren Richardson took this photograph at the border from Serbia to Hungary on 28 August 2015; today it was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year 2015 prize. It may be read as a symbol of hope against the policies of Fortress Europe that have caused so many deaths of migrants and refugees. As Warren Richardson states on the World Press Photo webpage, the picture was taken "around three o’clock in the morning and you can’t use a flash while the police are trying to find these people, because I would just give them away. So I had to use the moonlight alone." In this sense, the picture embodies and underlines the actual political harshness that migrants and refugees are faced with, rather than turn them into a spectacle; and as such, it may also be read as a reflection on the politics of photography.

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Friday, 25 December 2015

#RefugeesWelcome

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Friday, 2 October 2015

Once upon a time in Athens, #21


In the world of bosses we are all immigrants

 Themeli St., 13.09.2015, mural: Jnor - NDA, Lila

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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Tear down the walls of Fortress Europe

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Saturday, 19 September 2015

Once upon a time in Athens, #18


Victoria Sq., 13.09.2015

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Saturday, 12 September 2015

Refugees Welcome Here: London, 12 September

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Monday, 7 September 2015

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



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.

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Friday, 4 September 2015

Solidarity with refugees: European day of action


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! 

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Thursday, 18 June 2015

End austerity now, stop blaming immigrants



With the Tories going it alone in government we know exactly what to expect. More nasty, destructive cuts to the things ordinary people care about- the NHS, the welfare state, education and public services. 
The People’s Assembly Against Austerity is calling a major national demonstration on Saturday 20 to send a clear message to the Tory government; we demand an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top. 
We'll be assembling the demonstration in the heart of the City of London right on the doorstep of the very people who created the crisis in the first place, and marching to the doorstep of Parliament. We demand that the bankers and elite should pay for the crisis and not the majority who had nothing to do with it. 
Anti-racism & anti-fascism bloc on June 20 demo
Calling all anti-racist campaigners.  
As the new government gets set to push through ever harsher austerity policies, we need to be united in our response.  
Whilst people suffer under public services cuts, poverty-wages, attacks on workers' rights, rising homelessness, the dismantling of the health service and the welfare state, the government tries the old divide and rule trick of blaming immigrants. 
Enough of this racism and xenophobia - we know who is to blame! 
Every major party remains committed to austerity so the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity is calling a major national demonstration & festival just weeks after the election to send a clear message to the new government; we demand an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top.

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Friday, 24 April 2015

Migrant lives matter: protest in London



The death of 950 African migrants in the latest loss of a ship crossing from Libya to Europe has exposed the appalling human cost of the 'Fortress Europe' immigration policy imposed by European Union and the British government. 
Anti-migrant rhetoric of the establishment politicians, UKIP and the Katie Hopkins obsessed media has lead to thousands of people, many of whom are fleeing nations torn apart by Western intervention, drowning in the sea. 
In the first quarter of 2015, approximately 1,700 migrants have already drowned, 30 times as many as in the same period of 2014, leading to fears of a record death rate this year. Last year nearly four thousand bodies were recovered from the Med, and that figure is just those that were found. The EU needs to change it's policy to stop this and restart the rescue.


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