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32 Demands for 32 Detaineed

Solidarity from Nürnberg

 

32 Demands for the 32 Detainees from Donauwoerth

Solidarity from Wuppertal

32 Demands for the 32 Detainees from Donauwoerth

To lay down one’s own work in protest in order to demand better working and living conditions – for people in precarious working conditions or with an uncertain residence status this is often not possible. Those who work hard without a contract, or whose residence status depends on a permanent position, are often forced to be particularly cautious at work. But also people who do not get a work permit in the first place cannot go on strike in Germany – from a purely legal point of view. When refugees went on strike at the Donauwörth reception centre in February 2018 against the 80 cent jobs, they were denied this basic right as well. For some years now, the #EuroMayDay parades in various European cities have been an attempt to make different precarious realities of life and work visible and to bring precisely those to the streets who cannot strike like the epitomised assembly line workers – such as illegalised people, care workers or mothers.

Solidarity from Cologne

In the beginning of this year, refugees in Donauwörth organised a strike in the 80-cent jobs (1). The Malteser threatened them with the reduction of the pocket money of all people strikers. What followed, was worse: Massive police brutality and mass imprisonment. People in the asylum procedure are forced, among other things, by work prohibitions into these precarious jobs. For 80 cents an hour they clean the camps or work in the canteen.

(1) https://solidarityandresistance.noblogs.org/post/2018/02/13/strike-in-reception-camp-donauworth/

With slogans like “Lager still means exclusion” or “The authorities are threatening refugees with imprisonment“, refugees fight since years “For decentral accommodation for all!“. Isolation is the ultimate principle of all Lagers – no matter if they are in the desert of Libya, the forest of Bavaria or the industrial areas of large cities in Germany. Isolation intensivses control, harrassment, chicanes, and penalization. The AnkER-centres (5) are a racist idea from the “middle of society”, and every Lager is a health endangering, life-threathening, exploitative, and repressive catastrophy.