[sheffield-noborders] callout: european day of action for migrant rights 29th october.

[Chris]

Hi

Just saw this on Indymedia:

  no more deaths on borders! no more walls!

  a call for a europe-wide day of actions against the
  deaths and brutality occuring as a result of the
  fortress europe border regime. adapted from a call put
  out by the a migrants collective in malaga.

  call for a european action day 29//10//2005

  The collective attempts by more than four thousand
  migrants to cross the borders between Africa and Europe
  have shown the brutality of the European border regime.
  In the last two weeks ten people were shot dead by
  border police. Since then, Moroccan authorities have
  rounded up and “deported” more than 2,500 people, and
  abandoned them without food and water in the Sahara
  Desert. More than 36 people have died there so far.

  The news of the past two weeks shows only a small part
  of the brutality at Europe’s borders, where hundreds of
  migrants drown every year crossing the Straights of
  Gibralter, suffocate in trucks, or are blown up by
  landmines in the fields between Greece and Turkey.

  The reaction of the Spanish Government and the European
  Comission is military reinforcement of the borders and
  externalising the “management” of migrants. European
  colonialism and economic policies created the sitations
  that are forcing people to flee. Now, being pushed by
  the German government and others, refugees are being
  made invisible to Europe; caught way before the borders
  and held in “transit” prisons far away. Third
  countries, such as Morocco are made to handle the
  situation in exchange for economic aid. The EU has
  given 40 million Euro to Morocco to build up border
  defences. The Moroccan government uses these deals to
  systematically violate human rights, torturing,
  deporting and murdering migrants.

  Across Europe groups are organising acts to reject this
  brutality at the borders. We are calling for a
  coordinated day of action on 29th October 2005.

  For Freedom of Movement
  No one is illegal!


  download article as pdf flyert to print and distribute
  (text in english and german):
  http://freak-animals.org/ptx/english/pdf/border_actionday_29-10_pr.pdf


  for the original callout (spanish) see here:
  http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16170/index.php

  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326064.html

Chris

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