Support your Local Non-Citizen Struggle! Make the Mobilization Tour Possible!

The group “Refugee Struggle for Freedom” group is at the moment knocking on the doors of refugee camps in order to network, exchange, and organize with other Non-Citizens. The aim of the mobilization tour in Bavaria is to get in touch with Non-Citizens in order to enter into a collective resistance against the racist asylum system!

To make this resistance possible, it is needed:

  • People who can drive cars and cars
  • Sleeping places for people (in Munich, Landshut, Regensburg, Würzburg, Nuremberg) coming from outside
  • Possibilities to print and copy
  • Translations (English, French, farsi, arabic, wolof, etc.)
  • Money! (For tickets, petrol, copies) Here is the call out for donations. Please spread it widely, collect money in your groups and from relatives, organize soli-parties, write financial applications and so on.At the moment it is mobilized for big Non Citizen meetings in Munich on Friday 17th March 2017 and the weekend of the 25th and 26th of March 2017.

    Contact us (solidarity.with.refugees at riseup.net) or RSFF (inforsff at gmail.com) if you can organize with us or support with something.

    Resistance to the racist asylum system! Solidarity with the struggles of Non-Citizens!

Demonstration against deportations at the Bundesamt in Nürnberg // 09/02/2017

Last Thursday (09.02.17) around 70 refugee women, men and children protested in Nuremberg in front of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees. They protested against their Dublin deportations and for the right to have their asylum procedures in Germany. Most of them come from Ethiopia and are to be deported to Italy. One of the organizers told us on the phone that they had to live there on the street and were without any medical care. “In Italy, we have no human rights! Some of us would rather die than be deported to Italy.” She saw the two-hour demonstration from Nuremberg’s Hallplatz to the Federal Office as a success. Despite the cold many refugees have joined. Many of the women came to seek counselling from the International Women’s Cafe Soon, however, it was clear that there would be no individual solutions for them since most churches no longer accept people for church asylum. So they decided to organize a protest, in cooperation with the International Women’s Cafe.
Now they will meet next week to make further plans.

For a conditionless right to stay! Down with the inhumane Dublin system! Down with fortress Europe!

“Everyone should know what is going on” – Hungerstrike in Düren

Since one week, the Non-Citizen writer Farid B. is on hunger strike in Düren. He is protesting against the inhumane conditions in his camp and the discriminatory treatment by the operating organization Malteser. He was recently moved to a room that only measures ten square meters – two residents are supposed to live in it. That is far below the narrowly measured minimum standard. The refugees also receive out-of-date food. For three months the author has tried unsuccessfully to negotiate with the administration about these nuisances.

Farid B. decided on 13 January to stop eating as a protest, although he has health problems. Since he has no power to speak, he communicates to the outside through a friend. He told us on the phone that Farid B. wants to draw attention to these inhuman conditions with his protest: “Everyone has to know what is going on.” He also demands that the chief of the Malteser administration resigns.

So far, the organisation has not shown any reaction to the hunger strike. The officials from the North Rhine-Westphalian state government and the city hall of Düren ignore the protest. Only the caretaker of the camp has responded: He has threatened Farid B. and denounced him as a ‘traitor’.

We wish Farid B. a lot of strength for his legitimate and important protest and send solidarity greetings!

Sat / 21.01.2017 / 1 p.m. / Rally against deportations to Afghanistan

Deporting people to a country that suffers from war, a country which
travel warnings were announced for and not even German soldiers are
capable of protecting their bases? unthinkable? For us it is, but
the German government and especially the Bavarian government is of
different opinion. On 14. of December 2016 34 people from Afghanistan
were deported from Frankfurt airport to Kabul. Among them, 8 people came
from Bavaria. The responsible politicians justify this practice of
deportation to a war country by territorial means of escape. But the
situation in Afghanistan is actually catastrophic: Only in November 2016
there were 5 big attacks with over 50 dead people and numberless
casualties. Moreover in Afghanistan there are already more than a
million refugees within the country who are insufficiently or even not
provided or protected at all.
We have to fight against this practice of deportation! We don’t want any
deportations, not to Afghanistan or elsewhere! We show solidarity to all
people who stand up for a right of residence and against deportation!
Stop deportation – NOW!

Therefore Jugendliche ohne Grenzen and Karawane München call up for a
demonstration in Munich to show a signal of solidarity against
deportation to Afghanistan and to show the Bavarian government that we
absolutely refuse their politics of deportation.

Saturday / 21.01.2017 / 1 p.m. / Stachus, Munich

Link to the event.

دیپورت به افغانستان

دولت آلمان اخراج اجباری مهاجران افغان به افغانستان را شدت بخشیده است. در روز شنبه تاریخ ۱۴ جنیوری از فرودگاه فرانکفورت ۳۴ نفر به افغانستان دیپورت شدند.

هم اکنون شما و تمامی مهاجران افغان دیگر به یک تظاهرات کاملا قانونی و بدون خشونت دعوت شده اید تا مخالفت خود را با این تصمیم نادرست اعلام نماید.

امید است که ما را در روز برفی در تظاهرات همیار باشد تا دیپورتی ها را به افغانستان متوقف بتوانیم.

با احترام حمایت کنندگاتان و مدد کاران اجتماعی

قرار ما:

 مکان: اشتاخوس , مونشن
راس ساعت: ۱۳:۰۰
تاریخ: روز شنبه .۲۱.۰۱

Where? Munich, Stachus
When? Saturday, 21.01.
Time: 1:00 p.m.

#RefugeeStruggle Rap from #SendlingerTor …. and beyond!

Teuglife and MC Fayital have been part of the recent Refugee Struggle at Sendlinger Tor and the following protest march to Nürnberg. Both will play at the Fight Deportations! Soliparty in Kafe Marat on January 14th.

Teuglife Kane

Teuglife International – Refugee Revolution

Teuglife Kane and the Je ll Person

MC Fayital

MC Fayital – Clash

MC Fayital – Avetisma Verball

 

Daily Resistance #3: Non-Citizens Uprising in Bavaria

Our friends from the Daily Resistance collective have just published a special issue on the Refugee Struggle that took place in autumn 2016 at Sendlinger Tor in Munich.

http://dailyresistance.oplatz.net/daily-resistance-3/

Daily Resistance is a periodical newspaper on actual paper written by refugee activists aimed to reach people in lagers. We want to inform them on the state of resistance in Germany and to empower them for their everyday resistance against the system.

The issue is available in 7 languages:

Apart from articles on the struggles in Bavaria written by Refugee Struggle activists, it also contains a great poster with pictures of their struggle, and a Ways to stop Deportation comic.

The issue is now ready for distribution:

We are looking for people who have contact to people living in Lagers and so-called refugees and can help to spread Daily Resistance.
It is one thing to produce this paper, print it, hand compile it (!) but a totally different one to get it out into the world.
Join us and spread the newspaper to the newcomers and others concerned!
How can I distribute the newspaper?
Please send us an email on dailyresistance@oplatz.net .
In the email please write:
1- Your postal address
2- Your telephone number
3- How many copies from each language you would like to receive
We would like to ask you to tell us in which languages you would need the newspaper. Because we print different languages separately and for reducing the costs we try to give to each person just the language they want, unlike the mixed format of last issues.

“I want to tell the people…” – Statement zu Zakis Abschiebung nach Afghanistan (de/en)

ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW

Am Montag, den 14.03.2016, wurde Zaki nach 6 Wochen Haft in der Abschiebehaftanstalt JVA Mühldorf und 3 Wochen im Hungerstreik nach Afghanistan abgeschoben.

Folgendes Statement & Zusammenfassung haben wir nach der Abschiebung gemeinsam mit Zaki bei Telefonaten zwischen Deutschland und Afghanistan verfasst. Wir freuen uns, wenn es verbreitet und veröffentlicht wird.

Freundinnen und Freunde von Zaki,
Zaki

München & Kabul, 17.03.2016.

Das Statement:

„So I want to tell the people what happens in Germany and what they do there to us. People burn themselves in the deportation prisons. They hang themselves, they cut themselves. I will remember what is going on there, in the JVA Mühldorf.
This is racism: Freedom is just for you.
I will not stop to fight for freedom. It does not matter if you are black or white, because freedom is for all the people.
We are not criminal, not Taliban, we don‘t do anything to somebody. It is not for my self interest. Racism destroys also the future of young generations. If they don‘t deeply unterstand, it is very dangerous.“

(Zaki aus Kabul, 17.03.2016) Continue reading ““I want to tell the people…” – Statement zu Zakis Abschiebung nach Afghanistan (de/en)”

Solidarity with the hungerstriking refugees in deportation prison Mühldorf!

Leider haben wir es aufgrund verschiedenster Widrigkeiten nicht geschafft, den Aufruf mit den Unterschriften zeitnah zu veröffentlichen.
Inzwischen ist der Hungerstreik beendet. Einige haben aufgehört zu streiken, zwei Streikende wurden nach Afghanistan abgeschoben. Eine Zusammenfassung der Ereignisse folgt noch.

Vielen Dank für die Solidarität an die Unterzeichnenden!

Solidarity with the hungerstriking refugees in deportation prison Mühldorf!

Since Sunday, 21st of February 2016 in the deportation prison in
Mühldorf (Bavaria) five refugees are in hunger strike. They protest for
the improvement of their imprisonment conditions and against their
deportations.

On Tuesday, 23rd of February a fire broke out in one of the prison
cells. The circumstances are still not clear, authorities accuse Ahmed
Saidzade – one of the hunger strikers – that he has set the fire.

On Wednesday, 24th of February 2016 Ahmed Saidzade was deported under
perilous circumstances with Air India to Afghanistan. Despite that fact
that he had been injured from the fire in his cell on Tuesday night, the
German authorities returned him. The psychological and physical
situation of Ahmed Saidzade was catastrophic in these circumstances.

With his deportation, the authorities and the airline Air India ignored
this dangerous situation and put their racist asylum policies so above his
life. And last but not least the situation in Afghanistan continues
perilous! Protests at the airport in Frankfurt and through a fax and
telephone campaign remained unheard.

Another four refugees are still on hunger strike in the deportation
prison Mühldorf. Because of the detention they are isolated from the
public and thus limited in their possibilities of direct personal, political
and legal support.

On Thursday, 25th of February, the foreign office in Munich was squatted
in solidarity with the hunger strike. Activists chained themselves on
the central entrance door and blocked it six hours untill they were evicted.

These were the demands:

1. A right of return for Ahmed Saidzade and all other deportees!
2. The release of all detainees in detention!
3. The suspension of deportations of the hunger strikers in Mühldorf and all other deportations!
4. The closure of the detention centers in Bamberg, Manching, Mühldorf am Inn, anywhere!
5. Right to stay for all!

What can you do to support the hunger strikers?

> Sign these demands. Send the name of you/ your group to solidarity.with.refugees@riseup.net.
> Spread the word, so that the voices from those in the inside are being heard!
> Put pressure on the responsibles with solidarity actions, protest letters and so on!
> Send solidarity messages to the hungerstrikers

Media reports about the hunger strike in Mühldorf (list not complete)

About the hunger strike
(started at 21.02.2016)
BR
Wochenblatt
Resistance of Refugees

About the fire
23.02.2016
Innsalzach
OVB Online

About the deportation of the hungerstriker Ahmed S.

24.02.2016
OVB Online
Refugee Struggle For Freedom

About the solidarity action
25.02.2016
Abendzeitung München
BR
TZ
Bild
Pressemitteilung

About the manifestation at the JVA Mühldorf

01.03.2016
Waffen der Kritik München
Wochenblatt

About the deportation of the hungerstriker Zaki

08.02.2016 und 14.03.2016
Gescheiterter Abschiebeversuch am 08.02.2016: – Not Safe
– Antirassistische Plattform München

Offener Brief: Zaki muss bleiben!

Abschiebung am 14.03.2016: Aufruf zum Fax- und Mailprotest bei Air India in Frankfurt gegen die Abschiebung am 14.03.2016