Planned Events in Erfurt:
Rally on Thursday, 23. June 2011, at 4pm (Am Anger)
Demonstration on Saturday, 22. October 2011.
We break the racist isolation of refugees in Thueringen - We need your support, participation and donation for the campaign
We call for the closure of all refugee lagers!
We are planning further rallies and campaigns to demand for the immediate closure of the refugees isolation camps in Zella-Mehlis, Gerstungen and Breitenworbis and to support the Gangloffsömmern' s refugees' demands for private housing in Thueringen.
LET'S join together to take control and set the rules to protest against the racist persecutors of refugees!
Refugees communities are starting to discuss the possibilities of several actions and the ultimatum to reach further protest against the lagers - against the residenzpflicht pass laws, deportations, abuse of freedom of movement and against the social exclusion from rights and benefits.
In reality we are more than them, the racist executors!!
During our meeting on the 17.05 in Jena the refugees from Gangloffsömmern lager re-confirmed the closure of their lager although they have not been officially communicated and informed about their next accomodation, but the pressure from the break isolation campaign in Thueringen has highly weighed on the district authority of Sömmerda and their denial of our demands for the lager closure.
Refugees in the lager are intimidated and threatened by the abuses of the authorities in order to isolate them, especially those who openly campaigned to critize the precarious and unhealthy living conditions and the various abuses of the refugee rights in lagers.
Join to keep watch on the district authorities to stop further isolation of the refugees and after the closure of the lagers in Thueringen!
For more information: Refugees Isolation Camp in Gangloffsömmern will be closed - District Sömmerda is quicker than The VOICE – https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2120
German Press:
Flüchtlingsheim vor Schließung - Thüringen: Künftige Unterbringung der Bewohner angeblich noch nicht klar https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2128
Break Isolation Campaign
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We will close the lagers! We are breaking the isolation of refugees in Thueringen!
Future events
The successful nationwide refugee conference in Jena in April followed by the easter Rally in the isolation camp in Zella-Mehlis was an important step to attain the awareness of our campaign to a higher level of political interventions that empower the resources of the refugees' struggles and the self-organisation to break the isolation from the lagers.
There will be inputs on the break isolation campaign in Thüringen with the participation of groups and refugee activists from the last events: Apolda, Jena, Mühlhausen, Eisenach, Zella-Mehlis, Erfurt, Saalfeld, Gotha, Schmölln, Gera, Suhl, Meiningen, Hildburghausen, Nordhausen, Arnstadt and others
Regular meetings and information about the campaign, The VOICE and the situations of refugees will be taking place on:
Every second and last Tuesdays of the month, at 6pm
Place: The VOICE Refugee Forum, Schillergässchen 5 in Jena
Planned Events in Erfurt are a rally on Thursday, 23. June 2011, (Am Anger) and a demonstration on Saturday, 22. October 2011. The activists of The VOICE will register the rally and write the call for discussion. Further events and rallies in the districts of the isolation camps will be discussed in the next meetings.
Newsletter and articles for local, regional and nationwide events, participants and supporters of our activities, including a call for donation should be initiated!
The successful solidarity for the closure of isolation lagers in the last three years in Katzhütte, Gehlberg, Apolda/Strobaerstraße and now Gangloffsömmern, the echo in the media on our activities, active participation in the campaigns, rallies and demonstrations as in Meiningen and Zella-Mehlis show: We are reaching our goals to close the lagers as we continue to take the support of the struggles in the self-liberation of the oppressed seriously. We will succeed!
Unite with the struggles of the oppressed and against the racist persecution of the refugees in Germany and show concrete support!
Further Appeal for participation and support of the campaign:
Everyone should do what he/she can do to support our struggles and our visions of living a life in freedom, dignity, humanity and autonomy.
Show your concrete solidarity for the self liberation of the refugees!
We urgently need regular financial support and donations. Self-liberation of the oppressed means autonomy of our struggles and political independence from the racist state structures of the authorities. We also need independence from the structures and often paternalistic attitudes of pro and non – governmental institutions, groups and organisations whose politics often only „humanize“ the repression of refugees without hearing our demands and our rights to freedom and dignity. Please join us, participate and donate to the struggles of refugees for the freedom of the oppressed!
At the moment we are calling for finance that is crucial to solve to keep our struggles and protest alive:
A big amount of the expenses for the 3 days – nationwide refugee conference in Jena with the rally in Zella-Mehlis has not been covered yet. (see video: http://vimeo.com/23153916)
The success of the campaign also depends on regular visits and contacts with the people in the lagers. The car that was donated to us last year is broken down and we are still hoping to have soon the possibility to repair it to enable us to regular visits again. Actually we need more cars and donations for our nationwide community network.
Also our main activists in other regions as Sachsen-Anhalt (Möhlau) and Baden-Württemberg and the new activists from Niedersachsen in (Braunschweig) who are doing a lot to organise with refugee communities in their regions and beyond for self-organisation need financial and infrastructural indepedence to be able to continue – even in psychological terms.
It is the consistency and our conviction in the political autonomy of the refugee struggle that forms our power.
Contribute to empower our autonomy and show your solidarity by regular support, Participation and donation!
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Update on Zella-Mehlis, Gerstungen, Gangloffsömmern and Breitenworbis
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The VOICE Refugee Forum
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