<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>... Amsterdam, Sevilla, Torino, Bamako, London, Athens, Warsaw, <br>Hamburg, Malmoe, Ceuta, ...</i><br><br><b>Common Call for a Transnational Chain of Migration Related Actions<br>In the “heart of the monster” - Fighting the borderregime!<br>Transnationalization now!</b><br><br>Between February and October 2008 a series of events, protests and <br>actions will take place in various cities and countries all over <br>Europe and beyond : against the border regime, against detentions and <br>deportations, against the exploitation of migrant labour and for <br>legalization of all migrants. This transnational chain of struggles <br>builds on the three action days for freedom of movement and the right <br>to stay, which happened in previous years. But with this chain of <br>events we are aiming for something more. We strongly believe that the <br>transnational expression of migrants’ struggles against the “monster” <br>of migration controls must be something more than a one day event <br>once a year. We believe that the transnational space must be <br>understood as an unified space of migrants’ struggles, happening <br>everyday and right now.<br><br>This transnational chain of struggles is our attempt to find out what <br>is “common” among the manifold differences experienced by migrants in <br>Europe and beyond. Ranging from temporary seasonal workers who are <br>exploited in the fields of Andalusia in Spain; to "legal" migrants <br>who live and work everyday in Eurospace; undocumented migrants <br>working in irregular jobs in Italy or the UK, in factories or in the <br>home, as many women do; "tolerated refugees" living in an isolated <br>"junglecamp" in Northern-Germany; migrants detained in a camp in <br>Greece or Poland, or even in front of the externalized EU-borders in <br>Marocco or Ukraine. They all are crossing and forcing the boundaries <br>living inside and struggling against the same “monster” which is the <br>migration-regime!<br><br>Of course, we do not ignore the differences in realities and <br>struggles in various regions, countries or continents. But all over <br>the world capitalist exploitation is unimaginable without the global <br>differences, constructed through filters and zones, the hierarchies <br>and inequality, and through the external as well as the internal <br>borders. Illegalisation and deportations on one hand, selective <br>inclusion and recruitment of migrant workforce on the other hand, are <br>two sides of the same coin: migration management for a global <br>apartheid regime, whose most precarious conditions of exploitation <br>are based on the production of hierarchies in terms of rights and on <br>racist discrimination. Low wage countries in the south are used to <br>undercut wages through relocation of production, low wage sectors in <br>the north are targeting young migrant workers: trying to keep them <br>obedient by blackmailing them, as their right of residence is linked <br>to their jobs.<br><br>The increasing movements and daily fights of refugees and migrants <br>challenge the external borders of Europe as well as the social and <br>legal borders within Europe itself. The manifold struggles undermine, <br>crisscross and attack the brutal and murderous system of migration <br>control and racist exploitation.<br>This transnational chain of actions is a step toward the linking of <br>these struggles, an attempt to build communication and organization <br>across the borders, knowing that the demands for freedom of movement <br>and the right to stay aim directly at the „heart of the monster“, <br>which migrants everyday and everywhere are fighting against.<br><br><br>The stations:<br><br>--- </span><b>February 2nd in Amsterdam/Netherlands</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">: Launching point for the <br>chain with the conference „Migrant / Media / Metropolis - New labour <br>struggles in the global city“ which will be showcasing the current <br>union organizing campaign "cleaners for a better future" in the <br>Netherlands where migrants from Turkey, Morocco, Suriname, Ghana, <br>Capo Verde and Latin America are fighting for a living wage, respect <br>and full time jobs.<br><br>--- </span><b>February 23rd in Sevilla/Spain</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> : Demonstration in the frame of an <br>action day for immigrants rights, coordinated through the countrywide <br>network REDI, just two weeks before the general elections in Spain. <br>Demonstrations, actions and meetings will be celebrated in Barcelona, <br>Madrid, Valencia, Pamplona, Burgos...and the 3 demands of all events <br>are: 1- Regularization of all immigrants, 2-Stop the police <br>repression on immigrants, 3- Equal rights for all. In andalucia there <br>will be a centralized demonstration in Sevilla with the central <br>slogan: "Migration is not the problem, the problem is precarity", <br>with the participation of buses from Malaga, Almeria, Cadiz and <br>people from all andalusian cities.<br><br>--- </span><b>March 8th in Torino/Italy</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">: mass mobilization for the legalization <br>of all<br>undocumented migrant workers and refugees.<br><br>--- </span><b>March 15th and 16th in Bamako/Mali</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">: Journées Ouvertes avec des <br>travailleurs migrants expulsés et refoulés =Open Days with migrant <br>workers who were deported or sent back<br>The Malian Association of deported migrants (AME), member of the Euro- <br>African network "manifeste euro-africain", will organize two days of <br>meetings with migrant workers who were deported from Europe or sent <br>back on their way. It will be an open space for migrants to tell <br>their stories and for debates, where the local population and <br>especially people who want to migrate are invited.<br><br>--- </span><b>(probably)March 29th in Athens/Greece:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> Actions will be organised <br>against border controls, police violence, detention, deportations, <br>against Dublin convention and in solidarity to refugees who reach <br>Europe. For their right to free movement, for their right to asylum <br>and residence in every country they choose!<br><br>---</span><b> March 29th in London/UK:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> Trade Union and Community Activist <br>Conference Against Immigration Controls, coming together to build a <br>campaign against the intensifying attacks on migrant workers and <br>their communities in the UK. This gathering seeks to develop the <br>capacity of migrants to resist the raids, detention and deportation <br>of migrants, and to challenge workplace exploitation and migrants' <br>exclusion from education, social services and health care.<br><br>--- </span><b>End of May/beginning of June in Warsaw/Poland</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">: Protest and press- <br>conference in front of the headquarter of Frontex against European <br>borderregime and its externalisation to East and South, combined with <br>a transnational online-demonstration against this European Border <br>Agency at the same day...<br><br>--- </span><b>August in Hamburg/Germany:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> Antiracist actioncamp with a focus on <br>EU-charter-deportations to Africa from Hamburg Airport.<br><br>--- </span><b>September 18th to 21st in Malmoe/Sweden</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">: Presentation and <br>evaluation of the chain of actions in the frame of the next European <br>Social Forum, discussing further perspectives of transnationalization <br>of migrationrelated struggles.<br><br>--- </span><b>October 7th near Ceuta in Marocco:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> Manifestation at the fence of <br>Ceuta. This is the anniversary of Ceuta and Melilla killings and was <br>decided as an international day of solidarity with migrants in <br>Nairobi (World Social Forum 2007).<br><br><br>Signatures:<br>--- Cleaners for a better Future/Holland; Justice for Janitors/Global <br>Campaigns;<br>--- Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores (SAT); Oficina de Derechos <br>Sociales (Malaga y Sevilla), Red Precarixs en Movimiento, <br>Coordinadora de Inmigrantes de Málaga (CIM), Asociacion Pro Derechos <br>Humanos de Andalucia (APDH), Centro Social La Casa Invisible <br>(Málaga), Corriente Roja;<br>--- Tavolo Migranti/Italy;<br>--- Association Malienne des Expulsés (AME)/Bamako<br>--- Network for Social Support to Immigrants and Refugees/Athens<br>--- London Noborders, No One Is Illegal (UK) and the Conference <br>Against Immigration Controls Organising Committee;<br>--- Refugee Council Hamburg, No one is illegal Hanau, Caravan-Group <br>Munich;<br>--- Reseau Manifeste Euro-Africain<br>--- Frassanito Network<br><br>Contact: <a href="mailto:frassainfo@kein.org">frassainfo@kein.org</a><br><a href="http://www.noborder.org">www.noborder.org</a></span></font><br><br><br><br></body></html>