We are here because something is going wrong in Europe.

Here we are the witnesses of the lies of the European Union: a space of free movement and security

for Banks and Capitals and Terror and Death for the people at the external and internal borders.

Here are the refugees who survived these borders, we come from war and persecution and we are

persecuted here too. Treated as criminals our fingerprints are registered in the EURODAC system.

The Dublin III Regulation says that we are not entitled to choose where we want to go, that we have

to live in the first “safe country” where we arrived in Europe. Here is the first lie. Is Hungary a safe

country where Asylum seekers are put from six months to one year in prison without having committed

any crime? Is Italy a safe country, where tens of thousands of refugees are living on the streets, or are

reduced to slavery as cheap labor force for agriculture?

“Safe country” in Europe is even not Germany for the asylum seekers. Is it “safe” to live under threat

of being deported at any time? Police come to the refugee camps by 4 clock, pick you up and put you

tied up in an airplane. They send you back to a country where you have been already in jail or where

you had to live on the street, even though you have right to international protection.

Is this “Safety”? What kind of safety is this? For whom?

When we as non-EU nationals are identified by the fingerprints in the EURODAC System, the EU States

start to trade with our lives to determine where we have to be packed and sent .

Do they know they are dealing with people, or not? Why are we not everybody in the same way entitled

to decide where we want to live? Are not we in Europe?

This situation is no longer to be tolerated.
We demand to:

Abolish Dublin III regulation immediately.

Deportation is a crime against human dignity.

Dublin III is a State organized traffic of human beings.

Make Dublin III illegal !

Every day from 4 to 8 pm we are at Pariser Platz Brandenburger Tor – in front of the EU Representation in Berlin.
Contact us: 0152 1867 4747

Stop Deportation – Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants

https://vimeo.com/95348489

إقرأ البيان التضامني باللغة العربية

The Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants stand in strong solidarity with the massive self-organized protests of African refugees against the oppressive policies of the Israeli government.

In the last weeks we were observing with much appreciation as tens of thousands of refugees took to the streets to protest against the worsening of their situation through new draconian state policies, the corrections to the “Anti-Infiltration Laws”, which permit incarceration without trial of any person suspected of “infiltrating” the country. For those aims the government has built a new “open” detention center, located in the middle of the Naqab desert in the south of the country. This center is supposedly an open detention center, meaning that the persons incarcerated are allowed to leave during the day only. When a couple of weeks ago around 200 refugees initiated a protest march from the detention center towards Jerusalem, they were arrested and sent to an incarceration center for African refugees. The danger of being sent to those centers lurk upon each refugee residing in the country, and refugees are constantly being kidnapped in broad daylight by the Israeli immigration authorities in many big cities, and in ever growing numbers since the amendment to the law. This practice is being done according to clear racial profiling, and has little to do with the legal status of the arrested, which is usually only to be verified later. Furthermore, the state of Israel refuses to install a system of processing asylum requests, and insists on labeling the refugees as illegal infiltrators, which leads to the situation today in which close to none of the 60,000 African refugees in the country have had their asylum case examined.

We, as a self-organized network of refugees and migrants see the self determination of the protesting refugees as an inspiring and important step against state oppression and the struggle against colonialism and racism. Without letting well-meaning but often paternalistic white NGO´s dictate the tone of their struggle, tens of thousands of refugees have managed to organize themselves into a country-wide general strike and huge manifestations, which have proven once more that the power of subjective self-organization is the key to any struggle against oppression. Through the days of action we have witnessed many brave acts of civil disobedience, including a general strike in several cities, huge marches and manifestations. The racism which is directed at the African refugees, much like the “Anti-Infiltration Law” which now condemns them as criminals, has its root in the colonial history of the state of Israel. The “Anti-Infiltration Law” was first legislated in 1954, once again under the pretense of state security, to prevent Palestinian refugees from coming back to their land, which was stripped away from them during the Nakba, the 1947-48 displacement of a major part of the Palestinian population. The Nakba, and the following occupation of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza in 1967, are the cause of the large numbers of Palestinian refugees forced until today, three generations later, to live in exile in the middle east and around the globe, often in overcrowded refugee camps in disastrous humanitarian conditions. Those refugees are still strictly denied return to their country, even though the state of Israel allows immigrants of Jewish descent from all over the world, which in most cases are not refugees and hold a citizenship of another country, to acquire the Israeli citizenship and immigrate.

We see the oppression, from which the protesting refugees are suffering, as directly connected to the racist and colonialist mindset of the zionist project, very similar to the European colonial and racist mentality under which we as refugees and migrants suffer here. Those policies are being implemented by the west in our countries of origin and are the direct reason of our flight. The zionist project, which itself could not have been possible without the support of the European colonial powers and enjoys its impunity, also has its hand in several armed conflicts and the support of oppressive regimes in the African continent through arm sales and the trainings of militaries and paramilitary groups, an involvement which can be traced decades back, as the Israeli government was one of the last allies of the Pretoria Apartheid regime in South Africa. We see the struggles and protests of refugees everywhere as struggles against these racist and colonialist policies which exploit and destroy our countries.

In Solidarity,

The Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants

 The english statement as PDF

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Die 18. Sendung der “The Voices” Radiosendung, die Themen sind die Proteste der Flüchtlinge in Palästina, Racial Profiling und die Demonstration im Andenken an Oury Jalloh in Dessau.

Listen here / Hier Anhören

20,000 refugees have demonstrated last sunday, the 5.1.2014, in Tel-Aviv, protesting the government´s policies of not processing asylum requests and imprisoning asylum seekers in detention centers without trail. (Video: a speech by a refugee from Eritrea during the demonstration)

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20,000 Flüchtlinge haben am letzten Sonntag, den 5.1.2014, in Tel Aviv gegen die Asylpolitik der Regierung demonstriert, die das nicht Bearbeiten von Asylanträgen und Inhaftierungen von Asylsuchenden enthält. (Video: ein Redebeitrag eines Flüchtlingen aus Eritrea während der Demonstration, englische Untertitel)

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Um die zwei Tausend Flüchtling_Innen und Unterstützer_Innen sind Sonntag von Oranienplatz zu dem Büro von Innensenator Frank Henkel am Alexanderplatz marschiert, gegen die geplante Räumung des Protestcamps am Oranienplatz demonstriert und sich für die Forderungen des Flüchtlingsprotestes stark gemacht, unter denen die Abschaffung von Residenzpflicht, Lagern und Abschiebung.

Wir, Asylsuchende, Flüchtlinge, Migranten und Aktivisten sind Teil der Protestbewegung, die sich aus den Lagerunterkünften über ganz Deutschland ausbreitet. Wir werden auf der Strasse kämpfen bis unsere Rechte und Forerungen erfüllt sind. Wir gehen nicht zurück ins Lager!

Die aktuelle Welle des Protests nahm ihren Anfang in Würzburg, wo eine Gruppe Asylsuchender in einen Hungerstreik trat in Reaktion auf den tragischen Selbstmord eines Freundes.
Die menschenunwürdigen Bedingungen und das jahrelangen Warten in Ungewissheit über eine Entscheidung über seinen Asylantrag trieben diesen Menschen in seine verzweifelte Tat. Die Würzburger Gruppe fordert nichts weniger als die sofortige Umsetzung und Anerkennung von Menschenrechte für Flüchtlinge und Asylsuchende. Viele Menschen in Lagerunterkünften und Aktivisten in Solidarität sind in diese Kampf mit eingestiegen und unterstützen die Forderungen:

• Stoppt alle Abschiebungen
  jede Abschiebung ist ein Vebrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
• Schließung aller Lagerunterkünfte
  Wir entscheiden Wo und unter welchen Bedingungen wir leben wollen
• Abschaffung der Residenzpflicht! Überall!
• Stoppt die Erniedrigungs-Maschinerie
  Essenspakete / Gutscheine statt Bargeld / Arbeitsverbot

Europas Krieg gegen Migration, in der Deutschland eine führende Rolle einnimmt,
ist im vollen Gange. An den Grenzen, sowie innerhalb der einzelnen Ländern werden die mörderischen Methoden als Sicherheitskonzepte angewandt. Etliche Sterben täglich an den Toren der Festung Europa koordiniert und umgesetzt von Frontex, die gemeinsame europäische Grenzpolizei, “offiziell “Migrationsanalyse genannt”)

Jede Migrationsgeschichte hat ihre eigene Gründe und Bedingungen, der Feind jedoch ist uns allen derselbe: Die staatlichen Kräfte, die uns in unmenschlichen Verhältnissen einsperren und die uns die fundamentalen Menschenrechte vorenthalten.

Wir rufen alle auf sich diesem Protest anzuschließen!
Organsiert Euch! Erzählt es euren Freunden!
Kommt zu unseren Zelt!

mehr Informationen:
Karawane Netzwerk: thecaravan.org

The Voice – Refugee Forum: thevoiceforum.org
DÜSSELDORF – refugee-resist-duesseldorf.de
BAMBERG – fluechtlinge-bayerns.com
WÜRZBURG – gustreik.blogsport.eu
AUB – asylaub.wordpress.com
REGENSBURG – strikeregensburg.wordpress.com

Brandenburg and Berlin’s refugees are on strike!
We take our power back

We; asylum seekers, refugees, migrants, and activists; join in the protest movements of asylum seekers all over Germany; we prefer to stay in the street till we get all our rights and demands . We will not go back to the camps.

The current wave of protests started in Würzburg on March 2012, when a group of asylum seekers opened a hunger strike in reaction to the tragic sucide of an asylum seeker in the Würzburg camp earlier that month. The sucide was due to the inhuman conditions of his life at the camp and the years of awaiting a decision in his case. Würzburg’s group demands asylum seekers rights to be implemented and respected, and asylum seekers from different camps in Germany have joined their protest, as well as numerous of activists who joined in solidarity.

The struggle is one for us all. The demands are nothing less than fundamental human rights, which germany violates:

• Stop deportation (every deportation is a crime against humanity)
• Close all asylum-camps: we all have the right to choose where and under which conditions we want to live
• We demand our freedom of movement: abolish the residenzpflicht (restriction on movement) everywhere
• Stop the machinery of control and degradation:
Food Packages / vouchers (Gutscheine) instead of money /
Prohibition to work /

Europe has launched a war against migration, in which Germany plays a central role. Murderous policies are being enforced by europe’s “security” forces, both on the borders and within the European Countries; hundreds die everyday on the doors of ‘Fortress Europe’ as a result of opetations conducted by Frontex (joint border Police of all European countries).

Every migration story has its own particular narrative and circumstances, yet we all face the same persecutor; the same forces who enclose us in inhuman conditions and steale our rights.

We must stand together in solidarity.
(Resist the machinery of suppression (?))
We have to take our (stolen) rights and our power back!

We call upon all Asylum seekers and supporters of this struggle to join our protest. Come to our tent, tell your friends

more Information:

Karawane Netzwerk: thecaravan.org

The Voice – Refugee Forum: thevoiceforum.org
DÜSSELDORF – refugee-resist-duesseldorf.de
BAMBERG – fluechtlinge-bayerns.com
WÜRZBURG – gustreik.blogsport.eu
AUB – asylaub.wordpress.com
REGENSBURG – strikeregensburg.wordpress.com