VIDEOS FROM BREAK ISOLATION CAMP 2012 ERFURT
PROTEST MARCH 2012 WÜRZBURG TO BERLIN
Break Isolation – Refugee Protest March from Würzburg to Berlin!
Joint press release of the coordinating committee of the asylum seekers and their supporting activist groups in Germany
August 9, 2012
A call has been published by the coordination committee of striking refugees in which the several groups of activists in the field of refugee issues had called for a gathering to organise a new project in the series of the chain struggles of refugees in Germany in order to stimulate an all-together event. The struggle had started since 19th March '12 in Würzburg, Bavaria, and had been extended at the moment to seven cities in four Regions.
The gathering had been held on 4th and 5th August in Frankfurt with the presence of coordination committee and the representatives of different groups and the project is to gather all strikers in the capital of the Federal republic of Germany, Berlin. The primary plan of the project was put forward during two days of debate.
In the end two different trajectories were chosen from Würzburg to Berlin. The shorter trajectory was chosen for the march and the longer one for the cars to reach Berlin; in both refugees and supporting activists would participate. The departure day has been set to 8th of September 2012.
The two day meeting lead to the formation of five workgroups to organise the projects which are: Financial workgroup, Logistics workgroup for both trajectories, Communication workgroup, Documentation work group and the Media workgroup.
The call will be translated into several languages and in the following days will be published in the striking refugees' websites in different cities and in the official websites of the activists of refugee issues.
The summer camp "Break Isolation " will be started from 23rd of August 2012 in Erfurt, Gispersleben. http://www.thecaravan.org/refugeecamp 2012 that is organised by The VOICE Refugee Forum and The Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants in Germany.
The coordination committee is in accordance with the objectives of the Summer camp "Break Isolation" and declares that the Berlin march and the summer camp share the same objectives and the Berlin march is an important serious project for the Camp. The coordination committee will hold a Conference and workshops to present the way the protest tents will function on 25th and 26th of August a meeting to organise the march to Berlin.
We are organizing to break the isolation on a nationwide mobilizzation against deportation and Lager protest to close down the refugee camps and to break the Residenzpflicht restriction in all over Germany.
The coordination committee of striking refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany (Würzburg, Aub, Regensburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin)
http://refugeetentaction.net
KARAWANE Für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und Migrantinnen -
The Voice Refugee Forum-
Karawane München-
Karawane Berlin-
linksjugend ['solid] NRW
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BREAK Isolation Flüchtlingsprotestmarsch von Würzburg nach Berlin
August 11th, 2012
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung des Koordinationskomitees der protestierenden Flüchtlinge in Deutschland
und der unterstützenden Gruppen für die Verteidigung der Flüchtlingsrechte (9. August 2012)
Vor einiger Zeit ist ein Aufruf seitens des Koordinationskomitees der protestierenden Flüchtlinge veröffentlicht worden. In diesem haben bekannte Gruppen und Organisationen in der Flüchtlingsbewegung zu einem gemeinsamen Treffen aufgerufen, um ein gemeinsames Projekt zu initiieren und die Kämpfe der Flüchtlinge in Deutschland in einer gebündelten Aktion zu verbinden. Der Kampf begann am 19. März in Würzburg (Bayern) und hat sich nun auf sieben Städte in vier Bundesländern ausgeweitet. Dieser Kampf befindet sich in der Expansion. Am 4. und 5. August fand nun das Treffen in Frankfurt am Main statt. Das Koordinationskomitee der protestierenden Flüchtlinge und Vertreterinnen und Vertreter unterschiedlicher Gruppen nahmen teil. Bei diesem Treffen wurde über eine Aktion beraten, welche die protestierenden Flüchtlinge in der Hauptstadt zusammenführen soll. Zwei Tage lang wurde über den Vorschlag eines Marsches nach Berlin, Hauptstadt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, diskutiert. Über die Idee der Aktion „Karawane der Flüchtlinge und Streik in Berlin“ wurde hinsichtlich Theorie und Taktik diskutiert.
Am Ende des Treffens wurden zwei separate Routen ausgehend von Würzburg als der nördlichsten Stadt Bayerns festgelegt. Die erste kürzere Route ist als Fußmarsch und die zweite längere Route nach Berlin als Fahrtroute geplant. Die Präsenz der Flüchtlinge, Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten wird die Aktionen entlang beider Routen stärken. Nach eingehender Analyse und Austausch über die Details wurde der 8. September 2012 als Beginn der Aktion festgelegt.
Das Treffen endete mit der Gründung von fünf Arbeitsgruppenzwecks Vorbereitung, Planung und Verwirklichung der Aktion. Die fünf Arbeitsgruppen sind: Finanzgruppe, Arbeitsgruppe zur Planung beider Routen, Kommunikationsgruppe, Dokumentationsgruppe und Mediengruppe.
Die Vorbereitung und die Aufrufe dieser Aktion werden in verschiedenen Sprachen erstellt und übersetzt. In den kommenden Tagen werden diese auf den Internetseiten der protestierenden Flüchtlinge und auf den Internetseiten der in der Flüchtlingsbewegung aktiven Gruppen veröffentlicht.
Am 23. August 2012 beginnt in Erfurt Gispersleben im Bundesland Thüringen das Flüchtlingssommercamp „Break Isolation“:http://www.thecaravan.org/refugeecamp2012, welches von The VOICE Refugee Forum und KARAWANE für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen in Deutschland organisiert ist.
Solidarisch mit dem Flüchtlingssommercamp „Break Isolation“ erklären wir seitens des Koordinationskomitees der protestierenden Flüchtlinge und den anwesenden Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten, dass die Ziele des Marsches nach Berlin und des Camps nicht voneinander getrennt sind. Der Marsch nach Berlin ist einer der Aktionen der vom Camp und dessen Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren ernsthaft unterstützt und solidarisch mit vorbereitet werden. Aus diesem Grunde werden Flüchtlinge aus den protestierenden Zelten an zwei Tagen, den 25.08.12 und 26.08.12, die Proteste und die dort gemachten Erfahrungen in einem Workshop am ersten Tag und in Konferenzen vorstellen und in einem zweiten Workshop am zweiten Tag die Vorbereitung des Marsches vorantreiben.
Wir mobilisieren bundesweit um Isolation zu brechen, gegen Abschiebungen und Lager, für die Schließung aller Heime und für die Befreiung von der Knechtschaft der Residenzpflicht in ganz Deutschland.
Koordinationskomitee der protestierenden Flüchtlinge (Aub, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Regensburg, Würzburg)
www.refugeetentaction.net
KARAWANE für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen
KARAWANE München
KARAWANE Berlin
THE VOICE Refugee Forum
Linksjugend ['solid] NRW
Call for Refugee Protestmarch Würzburg Berlin
https://vimeo.com/48698751
Refugee Protestmarch Würzburg Berlin first step
https://vimeo.com/49116954
Für mehr Menschenwürde - Flüchtlingsproteste in Deutschland (3sat, kulturzeit, 05.09.2012)
https://vimeo.com/49163990
Protestmarch 29.9. Wittenberg/Möhlau
https://vimeo.com/50750488
(English) Archive 2012:
Refugee Protest March from Würzburg to Berlin!
The human being’s mission to achieve freedom is not to stand in line but to disrupt the queue
You, all the asylum seekers that live under inhumane conditions in Germany and see your lives and the lives of your children going through a gradual death, you who like prisoners are kept in asylum seekers’ camps, facing all the Apartheid discriminatory conditions that treat you like second class citizens, you who expect your deportation order to arrive at any moment, you who stand at the lowermost layers of the society, carrying all the weight of the unfair society on your shoulders, whilst the only thing you are allowed to do is to obey the cruel and inhuman rule of limited travelling range, NOW is the time to rise up against all this!
NOW is the time of our uprising because we do not want to passively witness the death of one of us, since the inhumane treatment of the asylum seekers in Germany can lead any human being to a gradual or a sudden death. Now after 5 months since the start of the asylum seekers’ protest in Germany, that began on 19th of March 2012 in Würtzburg and inspired asylum seekers of other cities to rise up, the movement strengthened by the resistance and perseverance of the asylum seeker is going to aim for a much bigger step.
We will NOT respect the laws that do not respect us as human beings
The striking asylum seekers all over the Germany who have initiated a strong and coordinated joint protest, have decided to launch a new action on 8th of September: on this day asylum seekers will move towards Berlin from 2 different routes and after gathering in this city they will show to the German government that any action towards implementation of the inhumane deportation law will be responded back by the asylum seeker’s movement and will not remain unopposed. They will shout louder than ever that they will continue their struggle until the asylum seekers’ camps with their catastrophic conditions are abolished. In fact by gathering in Berlin, the asylum seekers will actively disobey the discriminatory law of limited travelling range, which forces the asylum seekers to remain within a certain area. This well coordinated action, which is solely organized by the asylum seekers themselves and is independent of any political party or group, will be a way to strongly voice the opposition against the ‘limited travelling range’ law.
As mentioned before, the march towards Berlin will start simultaneously from 2 separate routes: one in which asylum seekers will walk from Würzburg towards Berlin and the other where they will use transportation means and will pass through west of Germany. The two marches will arrive at the same time in Berlin and will join each other. This action will first be launched by the asylum seekers from two provinces of South Germany (Bayern and Baden–Württemberg), but will not remain limited to only these two provinces. All asylum seekers living in camps and places that are on the way to Berlin will be visited and they will all be invited to join the protest.
We call all the asylum seekers who like us will no more bear the inhuman conditions and have in different ways revolted against them, to join us so that by uniting our forces we can bring the decades of struggles for the asylum seekers’ rights to its long awaited goal.
In Berlin we will stand hand in hand and in solidarity and we will once more announce our legitimate demands;
– we demand the abolishment of all the asylum seekers’ camps in Germany
– deportation is an inhumane law, a law that solely serves the political and economic interests of those who are in power, this law must be abolished
– we demand that the law of the limited free travelling of the asylum seekers is abolished.
To all asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in Germany:
we have all left our countries for different reasons, and we all came to this country hoping for a better and safer life. Most of us have come from thousands of kilometers away to this place, going through all sorts of agony, danger and suffering to get here. We have tolerated all the hardship hoping for a better life in future. It is perhaps now the time to wear the same shoes we were wearing when we crossed all the borders on the way to here, it is perhaps now the time to travel for some more tens of Kilometers ahead, this time not alone but all together towards creating a better world.
To the asylum seekers of southern provinces: on 8th of September we will all gather in Würtzburg and will be looking forward to all and each of you joining us.
The asylum seekers of other provinces who share our concerns: we will do our best to come to your camps and to move together with you towards Berlin.
Coordinating committe of the strikning asylum seekers in Germany