woensdag 28 november 2012
Join the refugees in the camp eviction - come sleep
The judge has decided that our camp is to be evicted. Friday is the day. We invite everyone to join us in the camp. Protest against the treatment of refugees in Nederland. Show that we do not take how our protest is treated. We have calmly made just demands. Now politicians don't want us to show anymore how it really is Nederland. They want to put us in prisons for months and months, to hide the problem. Refugees who stand up for their rights get punished like heavy criminals. This is not acceptable. We call on everyone to join us in protest! Come this thursday at 5pm. We have space for you.
Freedom!
http://kamposdorp.blogspot.nl/2012/11/join-refugees-in-camp-eviction-co…
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Press release for international distribution, by M2M
We Are Here, for our Right to Be
Judge gives go ahead to Amsterdam mayor. Eviction of protest camp in Amsterdam expected this Friday November 30, 2012
Press Conference in the Camp today at 5 pm
Notweg 32, 1068 LL Amsterdam
This morning at 9 a.m. the judge decided that the camp of refugees may be evicted, if necessary by force. The Mayor of Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands, has ordered the eviction of the protest camp of refugees in the western suburb of Amsterdam called Osdorp. The approximately 100 refugees demonstrating in the camp are determined to stay where they are and face the police force and subsequent detention. They call on all people to witness this show down and show support in a manifestation in front of the camp and on the streets of Amsterdam. This event starts Thursday 29th of November at 2 p.m.. The eviction can be expected the morning after. We call for witnesses, observers and comapssionate citizens to join and demand the right to live for all who are here. We intend to turn this crack down into a Theatre of Hope.
{with apologies for double postings}
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A Statement of Clarification Coming from the Refugee Camp i Vienna
Leser-Kommentar | Clifford Aghator, 7. Dezember 2012, 12:31
I have been here in this country for more than eight years without the possibility of reaching my future goals - I have spent eight years here, as an Asylum seeker. This simply means that I walked out of fire into a frying pan. This also means that Austria is a dream-killing field.
The refugees and Asylum seekers alike are not entirely idiots or illiterates who do not know their rights, or who do not recognize when their rights are being infringed upon. I sometimes feel that the Europeans are still blind to see how far forward the entire world has moved.
At this point, it also surprises me that many Asylum seekers are still indoors despite the calls we have made for them to come out to support the refugee camp in Sigmund Freud Park, Vienna. If they had joined us, those Austrians and far right journalists, who are insinuating that we are being used by activists and political parties, would lose what little ground they had under their feet. The activists who give us support listen to us and help us reach out to the general public. Is that a bad thing to do? We have suffered a lot of repression and we have been subjected to become a voiceless entity who's been left with the sole option of failing in every direction we turn and yet we hear that Austria is a free state, that everyone has freedom to speech, movement and, at least in theory, to much more.
The media has also played a high role in undermining the refugees who are currently fighting against the inhuman treatments in the camps. The same goes to the political parties who are benefiting right now from the activities relating to the campaigning refugees, likewise the manipulators of the Asylum System. With this, I often ask myself "what do Human Rights mean to the Austrian who sees the high level of inequality and says nothing?". Why is it, that nobody questions this ‘deal' a certain mayor in Carinthia made with the ministery of internal affairs, to welcome refugees to his town - except from Africans and Chechens?
Reacting to the article in Der Standard of Thursday 29. Nov, which was titled TRAISKIRCHEN UND DAS "SPRACHROHR"-PROBLEM, which said asylum seekers have never been so well organized, I'd like to point out, that there is always a moment of truth. What goes up must come down, the racism, repression and incrimination asylum seekers have been treated with, have caused repercussion. I have lived in a refugee camp and you guys have not. I have been discriminated against, I have seen obvious racism, hatred and I know what freedom looks like. Freedom is the complete opposite of what I have experienced in Austria. You accuse refugees of being lazy and not wanting to do anything. How would you expect the opposite when your focus is to annihilate our right to participate in and contribute to this society. Talents and dreams die here. There is no milk and honey in abundance in this country, this is why everyone is so dehydrated and the continuous manipulation of the Asylum System by all the internal ministers past and present, will definitely suffocate anything good if we continue to hide in our 6" beds.
Clifford Aghator; I see myself as an activist because the pressure I have been living in since almost a decade made me to stand up for myself and my family. I am raising 3 kids in this situation and I so much wish that it should change any time soon. Since this article is not only about myself, I'd consider myself as freedom fighter.
http://derstandard.at/1353208309327/A-Statement-of-Clarification-Coming…