[noborders-brum] NO BORDERS LONDON STATEMENT

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London noborders statement in response to the proposed 3rd day of action.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/06/343419.html

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NO BORDERS LONDON STATEMENT

noborders london | 23.06.2006 21:53 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social 
Struggles

People are on the move around the world. In response to the 
globalisation of capitalist relations that bring poverty, starvation and 
war; in response to the world getting smaller; in response to the 
adverse affects of climate change, in response to our needs.


The attempts by states to control the movement of people leads only to 
criminalisation, apartheid and death. People are divided into those with 
and without documents, workers divided into those with and without 
rights, and countries divided into a strict hierarchy of wealth. 
Thousands die as they try to cross borders, as the conditions of 
detention become unbearable or as the threat of return to unbearable 
conditions get closer. Selective inclusion and illegality are methods to 
divide and control us all. No One Is Illegal!


We support FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT and the RIGHT TO REMAIN for all

Migrants are not victims to be pitied, but a movement of strength that 
is escaping from the global practices of capture and control, even if to 
be confronted by new controls. It is the vital space where a 
post-national anti-capitalist politics is articulated. The precarious 
nature of migrants lives is an example of how the bosses of the world 
would like to make the vast majority of us. Their struggles are those 
that we will all have to take up for ourselves too.

No Borders London support all those in struggle against borders, against 
their incarceration in detention centres, against their deportation, 
against their super-exploitation as ‘illegal’ workers. We work to 
develop spaces of solidarity where resistance and life can be developed.

London is a global city with a fantastic history of migration and 
struggle. No Borders London calls for a continuation of this politics 
and life, against a politics of division between the settled and the 
latest migrants.

We support the call from the European Social Forum in Athens for common 
actions in support of these struggles.

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