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They give the fascists a hard time. Many posts in english.

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#FollowFriday #Cyprus #NoBorders #FortressEurope #Antifa #Antifascism #Greece

"Europe’s ‘template’ for migration: Tunisian strongman’s racist clampdown"

Fortress Europe is a sign of European weakness. The EU is better than this.

#EU #migration #FortressEurope #racism #Tunisia #Frontex

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-tunisia-strongman-kais-saied-curb-migration/

"Asylum seekers in #Greece ‘facing two great injustices of our time’ #Amnesty links wildfires and lack of legal migration routes to deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers.

Refugees and migrants in Greece are facing off against the “two great injustices of our times”, Amnesty International has said, as it linked wildfires and scant access to legal migration routes to the deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers.

As wildfires continue to rage across swathes of Greece, authorities in the country said they were working to identify the charred remains of 18 people found this week in the dense forests that straddle the country’s north-eastern border with Turkey.

Given there were no reports of missing people in the area, officials said it was possible the victims, who include two children, were asylum seekers who had entered the country irregularly. One day earlier, the body of another person believed to be an asylum seeker was found in the same area.

In recent days the fires have ripped through an area that had increasingly become a crossing point for thousands of refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said in a statement. Their arrival on EU soil had been “systematically” met with “forced returns at the border, denial of the right to seek asylum and violence”, it added.

“The 19 people killed by wildfires in northern Greece appear to be victims of two great injustices of our times,” said Adriana Tidona, a migration researcher with the organisation.

“On the one hand, catastrophic climate change … On the other hand, the lack of access to safe and legal routes for some people on the move, and the persistence of migration management policies predicated on racialised exclusion and deadly deterrence, including racist border violence.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/asylum-seekers-greece-wildfires-refugees-migration-climate-crisis

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Climate #Klimakrise #Klima #Refugees #ClimateRefugees #EU #FortressEurope #Wildfires #Convergence #Colonialism

The climate refugees are a reason to bring the concept of open borders again into discussion.

I know, it is complicated. The current administrative systems in place don't allow large influxes of refugees (there is not enpugh money, they say), and, much worse, societies of the the rich countries are moving entirely in the wrong direction with the current wave of racism.
It hurts to become aware that it won't be possible to maintain the actual levels of material wealth (anyway, I don't see so many happy faces around me...). To me it seems that this is one of the large drivers behind the current denial and racist response.

Now, I am not sure how to bring the idea of abolishing borders back on the table. The concept had some notable support some 10 years ago, but currently I see little possibilities for societal majorities (even the moderate political parties promote racist immigration policies). Although I hope that I am too pessimistic... Any ideas?

I think, the least we can do is to fight the militarization of immigration control. With every million spent in the 'security' industry, their lobby groups and influence on society are strenghtened. When there is business in racism, it becomes only worse.

#AbolishBorders #FortressEurope #BorderControl #NoBorderNoNation #ClimateRefugees #Refugees #Immigration

@JessTheUnstill

Those people got murdered by #Frontex and the #HCG because that was intended...

The #Lethality of the #borders of "#FortressEurope" is not an accident but intentional!

#FrontexKills #FerriesNotFrontex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_yLcgm_Dks&t=1028s

No Border Camp 2023
"From Monday 21st to Sunday 27th of August, the No Border Camp will take place in Groningen. Hundreds of international activists come together for a week for actions, meetings, workshops, discussion and culture as part of the struggle for a world without borders and freedom of movement for all. The No Border Camp draws attention to the repressive and militarized border and migration policy of the #Netherlands and the EU."
https://nobordercamps.eu/2023/08/18/press-release-persbericht-no-border-camp-2023/
#EU #FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #NoBorders #Refugees #Antireport

No Border Camp 2023
"From Monday 21st to Sunday 27th of August, the No Border Camp will take place in Groningen. Hundreds of international activists come together for a week for actions, meetings, workshops, discussion and culture as part of the struggle for a world without borders and freedom of movement for all. The No Border Camp draws attention to the repressive and militarized border and migration policy of the #Netherlands and the EU.
It is no coincidence that this year’s #NoBorderCamp is taking place in the north of the Netherlands, where only a year ago Ter Apel became the face of the failing migration policy. The border policy not only causes tragedy far from the Netherlands, such as the recent shipping disaster off the Greek coast, the consequences are also visible here. Everyone in the Netherlands remembers the images of the hundreds of people who had to spend the night in front of the gate of the registration centre in Ter Apel. Other degrading situations are taking place in the emergency shelters in the area and the rest of the country."
https://nobordercamps.eu/2023/08/18/press-release-persbericht-no-border-camp-2023/
#EU #FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #NoBorders #Refugees #Antireport

#FortressEurope 😡 #Refugees

Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hold onto power in an October parliamentary election.

https://apnews.com/article/poland-migration-referendum-election-e43f5f5f76a34a6f7f3a24b3d39fbc00

#FortressEurope 😡

Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hold onto power in an October parliamentary election.

https://apnews.com/article/poland-migration-referendum-election-e43f5f5f76a34a6f7f3a24b3d39fbc00

"[T]he EU’s suite of African anti-migration efforts amount to techno-political experiments: equipping authoritarian governments with repressive tools that can be used on migrants, and many others as well".

https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article67299

#Frontex #FortressEurope #EU #migration #surveillance #HumanRights

Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66448987

Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors tell local media.

#migrants #fortresseurope #fascism #neoliberalism #humanrights #freedomofmovement #control #death

#BKA ermittelt am Ärmelkanal
"Von der #Bundespolizei beschlagnahmte Rettungswesten können nun nicht mehr benutzt werden, um Überfahrten sicherer zu machen.
(...)
Sowohl die Bundespolizei als auch das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) beteiligen sich auch in diesem Jahr an Kooperationen zur Verfolgung von Schleusungen über den Ärmelkanal. Das berichtet das Bundesinnenministerium in der Antwort auf eine Kleine Anfrage der Linke-Abgeordneten Clara Bünger. Die Anstrengungen der Polizeibehörden werden von Treffen im sogenannten Calais-Format begleitet. Dort versammeln sich die Innenminister von Anrainerstaaten des Ärmelkanals. »Auch Deutschland nimmt – trotz nur mittelbarer Betroffenheit – an Treffen der Calais-Gruppe teil«, heißt es in der Antwort."
via @matthimon https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1175250.europaeische-polizeiaktion-bka-ermittelt-am-aermelkanal.html?s=35

#FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #Ärmelkanal #Migration #Refugees

#BKA ermittelt am Ärmelkanal
Deutsche Behörden verhindern Schleusungen aus der #EU
"Von der #Bundespolizei beschlagnahmte Rettungswesten können nun nicht mehr benutzt werden, um Überfahrten sicherer zu machen.
(...)
Sowohl die Bundespolizei als auch das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) beteiligen sich auch in diesem Jahr an Kooperationen zur Verfolgung von Schleusungen über den Ärmelkanal. Das berichtet das Bundesinnenministerium in der Antwort auf eine Kleine Anfrage der Linke-Abgeordneten Clara Bünger. Die Anstrengungen der Polizeibehörden werden von Treffen im sogenannten Calais-Format begleitet. Dort versammeln sich die Innenminister von Anrainerstaaten des Ärmelkanals. »Auch Deutschland nimmt – trotz nur mittelbarer Betroffenheit – an Treffen der Calais-Gruppe teil«, heißt es in der Antwort."
via @matthimon https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1175250.europaeische-polizeiaktion-bka-ermittelt-am-aermelkanal.html?s=35

#FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #Ärmelkanal #Migration #Refugees

The EU’s Dodgy Deal with #Tunisia is a Classic of the Genre: Undemocratic, Unlawful and Unlikely to Work
"After a first abortive effort, the EU’s three musketeers, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, #Italian and #Dutch Prime Ministers Georgia Meloni and Mark Rutte returned to seal a dodgy deal with reluctant partner President Saied of Tunisia, who will accept a bag of Euros in exchange for pretending to prevent refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. It isn’t clear what extra concessions Saied extracted between the trio’s first visit in June and that of 16 July. It could have been more money or more likely changes to the modality of payment, with the EUR 150 million of budget support particularly appealing to a man in his position. It was perhaps the wording of the agreement that was adapted, now stating explicitly that Tunisia is not a place for settlement of “migrants in an irregular situation” and that it only guards its own borders – while it agrees to the opposite."

https://ecre.org/editorial-the-eus-dodgy-deal-with-tunisia-is-a-classic-of-the-genre-undemocratic-unlawful-and-unlikely-to-work/

#EU #FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #migration #refugees #Antireport

The EU’s Dodgy Deal with #Tunisia is a Classic of the Genre: Undemocratic, Unlawful and Unlikely to Work
"After a first abortive effort, the EU’s three musketeers, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, #Italian and #Dutch Prime Ministers Georgia Meloni and Mark Rutte returned to seal a dodgy deal with reluctant partner President Saied of Tunisia, who will accept a bag of Euros in exchange for pretending to prevent refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. It isn’t clear what extra concessions Saied extracted between the trio’s first visit in June and that of 16 July. It could have been more money or more likely changes to the modality of payment, with the EUR 150 million of budget support particularly appealing to a man in his position. It was perhaps the wording of the agreement that was adapted, now stating explicitly that Tunisia is not a place for settlement of “migrants in an irregular situation” and that it only guards its own borders – while it agrees to the opposite."

https://ecre.org/editorial-the-eus-dodgy-deal-with-tunisia-is-a-classic-of-the-genre-undemocratic-unlawful-and-unlikely-to-work/

#EU #FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #migration #refugees #Antireport

In die Wüste verschleppt

"#Tunesien setzt Mi­gran­t:in­nen im Grenzgebiet zu #Libyen aus. Menschen in der Region machen entsetzliche Funde, wie neue Videos und Fotos zeigen."
via @tazgetroete
https://taz.de/Tunesien-deportiert-Migrantinnen/!5947548/

#Migration #FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #EU #Antireport #Refugees #Migration

Ελληνάκο βλέπεις πόσο εύκολα μένεις χωρίς σπίτι, περιουσία ΧΩΡΙΣ ΠΌΛΕΜΟ; #φωτιες_2023 #πυρκαγια

Μα ούτε τώρα θα νιώσεις την δυστυχία των άλλων γιατί είσαι παρτάκιας, πελατάκι και οσφυοκάμπτης #refugees #fortresseurope

Re 5/5 Meloni is pushing her right-wing, dehumanising election promises for less migration, while Tunisia continues to violate human rights and use racist rhetoric.We say: No cooperation with racists! #FreedomOfMovementForAll! #HumanRightsForAll!#FortressEurope must fall!

Konservative wollen #Asylrecht ändern: Der Zynismus und die Geschichtsvergessenheit der #CDU sind atemberaubend

Teile der CDU fordern, das #Grundrecht auf individuelles Asyl abzuschaffen. Das ist ungeheuerlich, denn es wurde auch als Reaktion auf die Gräuel der Nazis erdacht. Der Vorstoß zeigt die tiefe Krise der #Union.

#RefugeesWelcome #FortressEurope #ThorstenFrei

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/cdu-politiker-wollen-abschaffung-des-asylrechts-wo-der-rechtsruck-wohnt-10167280.html

No border! No Nation! Gegen den menschenverachtenden Asylkompromiss der EU!

"Durch den "Asylkompromiss" der EU wurde #Asylrecht praktisch abgeschafft.
Die deutsche Innenministerin #nancyfaeser welche den Kompromiss mit aushandelte, nannte ihn historisch, wir nennen es eine historische Schande.
Nicht genug, dass Tausende an den Grenzen der #EU und im Mittelmeer sterben, jetzt sollen sie per Schnellverfahren abgeurteilt und abgeschoben werden, sollten sie es doch bis auf europäischen Boden schaffen, was meistens bedeute, in Lager und Gefängnissen zu landen. #Frontex und die Abschottung sind inzwischen zu einem eigenen Industriezweig geworden, mit dem sich viel Geld verdienen lässt. Die menschenverachtenden Mechanismen zur Abschottung und #Überwachung gegen #Migration dienen den Herrschenden gleichzeitig als hervorragendes Übungsfeld für repressive Aufrüstung gegen Menschen, welche dieses kapitalistische, patriarchale und zerstörerische System ablehnen."

https://emrawi.org/?No-border-No-Nation-Gegen-den-menschenverachtenden-Asylkompromiss-der-EU-2732

#AbolishFrontex #FortressEurope #FightTheFortress #Bundesregierung #Asyl