Pressrelease: The VOICE Refugee Forum on Refugee Protest March from Würzburg to Berlin will arrive in Wittenberg
Invitation: Würzburg to Berlin - Refugee Protest march Stop in Wittenberg on 28-29.09.2012
Flüchtlingsinitiative Möhlau, 26.09.2012
Refugees' march for our Liberty
"For us, there is no paper in the book of law! - We fight for the realisation of a world based on justice and freedom." (Statements of the striking refugees)
We call on all refugees to join the nationwide refugees protest march from Wittenberg to Berlin to break the isolation and to liberate ourselves from the state repressions. We will disobey all racist and discriminatory rules of the German authorities or institutions as we set the new order of solidarity to restore our dignity: We are breaking the obligatory restriction of movement that criminalizes our physical presence and our existence as refugees and as human beings.
Enough is enough!
Refugee protest marchers from Würzburg (http://www.refugeetentaction.net) will arrive on 28th of September in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and meet with refugees from Sachsen-Anhalt. Oumarou Hamani Ousman (Bitterfeld) and Salomon Wantchoucou (Wittenberg) from Flüchtlingsinitiative Wittenberg will join the protest march to Berlin.
Lets us come together! Join the protest march from Lutherstadt Wittenberg to Berlin to support the demands of the protest march for:
Freedom of movement for all end Residendenzpflicht!
Stop the deportations and close down all the lager-camps for refugees!
We are inviting you all to the manifestation during the arrival of the protest marchers in Wittenberg on 28th September 2012 from 16:00 Hrs (at the Schlossvorplatz).
On 29.09.2012 there will be a press conference at 11:00 Hrs ( the Schlossvorplatz). and The demonstration begins at 13:00 Hrs.
Demonstration Route http://goo.gl/maps/mCAG3
There will be a visit to Möhlau lager at 16:00 Hrs (See detailed program below)
Everyone is invited! Come and support us! Solidarity is the power!
The Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants.
Contact in Wittenberg:
Salomon Wantchoucou
Tel.: 017699321843
The VOICE Refugee Forum and Flüchtlingsinitiative Wittenberg.
Web: www.thecaravan.org or www.thevoiceforum.org
refugeeinitiativewittenberg.blogspot.com
Background information on the refugee strikers
The refugee protest march to Berlin started in Wuerzburg on the 8th of September 2012 after months of refugees protest against the inhumane treatments of refugees to condemn the human right abuses against the refugees and the decades of underdeveloped asylum policies of discrimination and criminalisation of refugees in Bavaria state and the federal republic of Germany.
The refugee movement emerged as a reaction to the suicide of Mohammad Rahsepar in March 19th, 2012, who couldn't bear the burden of the misery imposed on us in the refugee lager of Würzburg anymore. Since then there have been nation wide tents of refugee protest actions and hungerstikes to express the solidarity for a better situation, for the basic demand to restore the dignity of refugees and for the freedom of movement for everybody in Germany by the refugee strikers.
On Thursday, September the 13th at about 10:00 Hrs the refugees proved their independence by destroying their personal identity documents and crossed the former inner German border. With this action they break the Residenzpflicht and continue their way to Berlin.
..passing through Erfurt and Leipzig to arrive in Wittenberg on 28th till 29th September 2012!
Program on 28th September 2012:
From 16:00 Hrs: Arrival and Manifestation at Schlossvorplatz
20:00 Hrs:: Videoclips of the protestmarch
Program on 29th September 2012:
11:00 Hrs: Press conference with the refugee protest march activists in the (Schlossvorplatz)
13:00 Hrs: Demonstration: (Schlossvorplatz)
16:00 Hrs: Visit to Möhlau lager
20:00 Hrs: Film Residenzpflicht and discussion: Film documentary on Colonial injustice and the apartheid restriction of movement (After: Discussion on collaboration of deportation in
Germany, the struggle for the closure of the lager in Möhlau and unite to strengthen the struggles of the refugees)