[Dissent-fr-info] G8 - 9 july at PonteGaleria

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Call for demo against border control and security politics under Centre for
identification and deportation in Ponte Galeria, close to Rome.


THURSDAY THE 9TH OF JULY, 2009 FROM 16.30
PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE IDENTIFICATION AND EXPULSION CENTER (CIE)
AT PONTE GALERIA

In the days of the g8 summit we will be outside the walls of Ponte Galeria,
while the so-called “great eight” will be hiding inside a military base
to discuss about crises.
The governments of the world talk in favour of a free circulation of goods
and capital, expecting to stop and control the flow of migration. At the
same time the only ways that people have to move are those related to the
tourist industry or labour exploitation.
Deportations, uncontrolled detentions and security politics characterised
by militarization, seem to be the answer of the industrialised countries to
the financial and social crisis that they in great part have created
themselves.
A few days ago the so called "security act" (pacchetto sicuezza) was
approved. Because of this law the territory of the Italian state will be
characterised as an open air laboratory of permanent repression even more
than before. The unauthorised entrance or staying on the Italian territory
is becoming a crime. The maximum detention period inside the CIE is
extended from 2 to 6 months. The racist squads are being legalised. This is
just to mention a few of the repressive norms that are included in the new
law. Meanwhile the inmates of the CIE in Milan, Bologna and Gradisca
d'Isonzo are already protesting with an hunger strike.

We want to return to Ponte Galeria because behind the walls of the CIE
there are people who have been arrested e.g. on their way home after a long
day of underpaid labour, while standing in line to renew their residence
permit or simply while waiting for a friend at a bus stop.
Whoever protests against the brutal living conditions imposed by these
“democratic” concentration camps (Overcrowding, lack of hygiene,
mind-bending medicines as instruments of mass sedation, lack of water and
negation of any assistance) undergoes physical violence and intimidation.
Beating-up and abuse from the police and the Red Cross (who manages the CIE
at Ponte Galeria) are daily routine. The last three months two dead
causalities have been registered: Salah Soudaini, dead after the sanitary
staff refused to provide him with medical assistance (and after undergoing
a police beating, according to the testimony of other inmates), and Nabruka
Mimuni, who had been in Italy for 30 years and who repeatedly threatened to
commit suicide if she was going to be repatriated, was left at the mercy of
her destiny.

It is unthinkable that people who have decided to leave the country of
their origin, often risking their life in an attempt to construct a better
future or who flea from an oppressive situation, find themselves locked
away in a concentration camp of the state.

Clandestinity is nothing but a condition imposed by racist and xenophobic
politics based on exploitation and continuous blackmailing. We do not
categorise ourselves in Italians or foreigners, but think of ourselves as
people from the world.

Freedom of movement for everybody.
Shut down the Identification and Expulsion Centres.
Against the society of fences and borders.

THURSDAY 9TH OF JULY, FROM 16.30 PROTEST AT PONTE GALERIA:
MUSIC, VOICES, WORDS.

Let's bring our creativity, our anger and our strength in front of those
walls. Let's make it possible for the people who are locked up to hear the
solidarity of all those, which do not want to tolerate anymore the
existence of these concentration camps. Nor do we want to tolerate the
tortures and the state murders that the authorities are hiding from us.
We will meet at the car park of the train stop “Fiera di Roma” where
the train to Fiumicino Airport stops (the corner between Via Gaetano Rolli
Lorenzini and Via Cesare Chiodi). Meeting point at Ostiense station at
16.00 in order to take the train all together.

ANTIRACISTS