Dear supporters,

We thank you for your regular and spontaneous support in this year.

With your contribution, the network and the self-organisation of the refugee communities in Thüringen, Baden-Württemberg and Sachsen-Anhalt could be broadened.

In Thüringen, The VOICE Refugee Forum together with Break Isolation Netzwerk organised almost weekly visits in lagers and regular regional and Thüringenwide meetings of refugees from different lagers. In the meantime, the refugee community has a good network and a wide supporters’ network.

Liebe Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützer,

wir danken euch für eure regelmäßige und spontane Unterstützung in diesem Jahr.

Mit eurer Spende konnte die Vernetzung und Organisation der Flüchtlingscommunitys in Thüringen, Baden-Württemberg und Sachsen-Anhalt weiter ausgebaut werden.

Short Report on 2011 and Donation Call for The VOICE Refugee Forum https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2345

Break Isolation 2012 – Close down the refugee isolation camps

Report on the Action Day on October 22, 2011 in Erfurt.
Self-organization strengthened and demand on refugee lager committees for Break isolation in 2012

Kurzer Bericht über 2011 und Spendenaufruf für The VOICE Refugee Forum https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2344
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Break Isolation 2012 - JAHR DER SCHLIESSUNG DER FLÜCHTLINGSLAGER

Bericht über den Aktionstag am 22.Oktober 2011 in Erfurt.
Selbstorganisation stärken und Austausch Flüchtlingskomitees fördern Break Isolation Camp 2012.

Break isolation, Stop deportation! Experiences and possibilities of refugee liberation struggle in Vienna https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2349
Short Report and Donation Call for The VOICE Refugee Forum in December 2011 >> https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2345

Anti- deportation Workshop

Rally in Magdenburg, Film, Discussion and Soliparty with The VOICE Refugee Forum

Date: Friday, 16th of December 2011
Venue: White Rabbit, Freiburg
Time: 8PM
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Erfurt:
Veranstaltung zur Bilanz einer einjährigen Kampagne und möglichen Zukunfsperspektiven in Thüringen
Break Isolation! Die rassistische Isolation der Flüchtlinge durchbrechen - Selbstorganisation stärken

Referenten des Vortrags mit Diskussion: Miloud L Cherif, Clemens Wigger
Wann: 16.12.2011 | 19 Uhr | veto | Trommsdorffstr.5 | Erfurt
https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2315
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Isolation brechen, Abschiebungen stoppen! gemeinsam gegen deportation
Rex Osa von The VOICE Refugee Forum will seine Erfahrungen mit Flüchtingen, Migrant*innen, Antirassist*innen und Flüchtlingsunterstützer*innen hier in Wien teilen.
Am Montag, 19. Dezember 2011, 19:00 Uhr im DIDF-Verein, Gudrunstraße 133 (Nähe U-Bahn U1 Keplerplatz), 1100 Wien.
https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2346

Film, Diskussion and Soliparty with The VOICE Refugee Forum
in Freiburg

The Voice Refugee Forum was founded in 1994 while The Caravan for the rights of Refugees and Migrants came into existence shortly before the 2000 Federal Parliamentary Election. Both organizations are platform for Refugee self organization. Our central call as at then was “No Vote but a VOICE!”.
We have always brought our experiences to name and protest injustices together.

We have achieved lots through civil disobedience in connection to the inhuman Laws.
Not withstanding the limitation set before us, we have together named the residence restriction as an Apartheid law without being intimidated.
We have since our existence stood against deportation of our brothers and sisters because deportation has been mainly used to establish the separation between different Ethnic group, Religion, Skin Colour, Language and Sex to excise the dominance of Rich and the exploited class.

A representative of The VOICE (Rex Osa) will inform us about the new campaign Break the isolation – Close down all Refugee lager in the session. The discussion session and the Party should serve to support the Stuttgart Office of The VOICE in the first place to build its project „Refugees for Refugees “with 50 Percent of the proceeds going to The Voice Refugee Forum.

Nigerian Embassy deportation hearing in Köln – Less than 10 refugees participated >> https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2324
Short Report and Donation Call for The VOICE Refugee Forum in December 2011 >> https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2345

Info in Freiburg:
http://www.aktionbleiberecht.de/?p=2976

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The Voice of the Oppressed against wrong understanding of Solidarity

By Rex Osa (The VOICE Refugee Forum)

Position of The VOICE Refugee Forum on understanding of Self-organization and the struggle for their Voice

The history of oppression is long and the victims need the space to define our feelings and how to combat these oppressive structures but that doesn’t mean excluding people nor ignoring other struggles that stands against the system but a clear distinction of the need for rapid change without undermining our position

That resistance requires a revolutionary consciousness and orientation that would focus on naming the repression exactly the way they are and a projection of clear and concrete demands that gives no room to any form of solidarity that identifies the law as a borderline.

Our commitment is to mobilise the people against the brutal and repressive policies of the state and its neo-colonial politics of exclusion through empowering the self liberation of the victims of the systematic repression.

Our self organisation seeks to combine different struggles with our call for solidarity devoid of bourgeois democratic processes and negotiations that stand against the political position of the Victims but rather empowering Victims position of self determination.

Our Self organization is intended to take the struggle beyond just building structures that modifies Asylum Laws but structures aimed strengthening the resistance against everything that produces refugees both now and in the future.

It is further more aimed at enforcing and strengthening the movement of the oppressed as our problems does not end with modification or removal of the racist and segregating laws but to create a continuous movement of the oppressed to combat everything that leads to deportation, wars and racism etc.

The major Task of The Voice is to empower the establishment of different refugee communities and committees on Lager and Regional level as a strategy to break the isolation notwithstanding all institutionalized racist restriction. We are bent on creating a step by step, long lasting and continuous structures of the refugee’s resistance against all that we are confronted with on a daily basis, be it the German social welfare Law for asylumseekers (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz), isolation in Lagers, Movement Restriction (Residenzpflicht), deportation and even the destruction of our countries that precipitated our flight from our home countries.

We Say No to compromising reforms and insist on our belief in continuous works through our presence to instigate changes at all level as well as prompting the effective actions on the parliamentary level. But these changes are not the end destination of our struggle.

We stand to defend our autonomy of struggle although we do recognize the position of different parties or NGOs in their negotiations with their counterparts or colleagues in the bid to reform the system or the laws.

We welcome every campaign against the exclusion or maltreatment aimed at strengthening the self organization of the oppressed and not just actions and discussions that enhances public awareness but fail to mobilize more people to solve the origin of the problem itself.

Therefore, we see our duty to create our own space and pressure through our presence in the public and around other oppressed people. We are bent on naming the injustice, the oppression in its concrete and specific forms from our experiences.

Years of our struggle has shown that the diversity of the people participating in our networks “The VOICE Refugee Forum” and “The CARAVAN-for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants” are the source of progress in the movement of the oppressed, especially for the refugees. We have seen that confrontation and exchange of the various positions, views and experiences from each individual teaches us to examine the dominating media and the ruling classes worldwide.

The process of our self-organizations, everyone has the opportunity to get direct face to face information rather than just through mass media dominated by the journalists, experts and interested members of the ruling class with vested interests.

We welcome everyone to share experiences and knowledge that could strengthen our solidarity base against the colonial and capitalists system which are the basis of all we fight against on the daily level.

Join us and leave behind absolute positions derived on basis of biased information without questioning them. We are open to everyone who would accept us the way we are rather than those trying to teach us how we should behave with our experience with police brutality, state and institutional racism, rape, unspeakable violence etc.

We define our demands. We acknowledge suggestions and advice from those who accept our legitimate right to speak openly about our sufferings, our visions and dreams without prioritizing compromise to the ruling society.
Our self-determination and autonomy are non-negotiable hence our inevitable demand for an alternative structure.
We want genuine solidarity not paternalise support.
We want people who fight with us and not just fight for us.
We reserve the right to speak in our own voice for ourselves.
We refuse to allow you speak for us because we cannot allow you write our history.

Protest Continues as Embassy Ignores Call to Stop Corrupt Collaboration https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2231

The Colonial Collaboration of the Nigerian Embassy with the German State! https://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/nigeria+deportation+embassy

The Voice Baden Württemberg
Böblingerstr 105
70199 Heslach-Stuttgart
Tel.: 017627873832
Email:thevoice_bdw@yahoo.de

Eng/Deut: Information Events of The VOICE Refugee Forum - Solidarity Act in Germany and Austria:
https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2348

For your Donation/Für Spende:

Kurzer Bericht über 2011 und Spendenaufruf für The VOICE Refugee Forum https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2344
Short Report on 2011 and Donation Call for The VOICE Refugee Forum https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2345

Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
Sparkasse Göttingen
Kontonummer 127829
BLZ: 260 500 01
BAN: DE97 2605 0001 0000 1278 29,
BIC: NOLADE21GOE

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Eng/Deut: Information Events of The VOICE Refugee Forum - Solidarity Act in Germany

We have always brought our experiences to name and protest injustices together.

Break isolation, stop deportation! Experiences and possibilities of refugee liberation struggle
thevoiceforum.org/node/2349
Deutsch:
Rex Osa in Wien: Isolation brechen, Abschiebungen stoppen! gemeinsam gegen deportation http://no-racism.net/article/3973/
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Isolation brechen, Abschiebungen stoppen! gemeinsam gegen deportation

Rex Osa von The VOICE Refugee Forum will seine Erfahrungen mit Flüchtingen, Migrant*innen, Antirassist*innen und Flüchtlingsunterstützer*innen hier in Wien teilen.
Am Montag, 19. Dezember 2011, 19:00 Uhr im DIDF-Verein, Gudrunstraße 133 (Nähe U-Bahn U1 Keplerplatz), 1100 Wien.
https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2346

09.01.12 in Magdeburg: Aufruf zur ersten Anhörung im nächsten Jahr, "Der Fall Oury Jalloh" - The VOICE (Refugee) Forum Berlin

Remembering!! - Mbolo Yufanyi and Mumia Abu Jamal Speeches on Video Tributes to Oury Jalloh in 2008
https://thevoiceforum.org/node/2358

* "The Case of Oury Jalloh": The VOICE Refugee Forum's Call to the First Court Hearing Next Year in Magdeburg (09/01/2012).
* Aufruf zur ersten Anhörung im nächsten Jahr, "Der Fall Oury Jalloh". 09.01.2012 in Magdeburg