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From: "rcam" <rcollins-AT-netlink.com.au>
Subject: AUT: FW: [noborder] inivitation to Munich
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:54:12 +1100


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From: noborder-admin-AT-kein.org


Invitation to next noborder-meeting in Munich
from 30th of November to 2nd of December 2001

Dear friends!
As it was appointed in June in Barcelona the next noborder-meeting will take
place in Munich. The meeting place is close to the main train-station, in
Schwanthalerstraße 80 in the back-building called
One-World-House/Eine-Welt-Haus. If you have problems to find, you can call
us by my mobilphone: 0049-172-6688454

Activists from France, Italy, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Spain,
Netherlands, England, Austria, Switzerland and first time Greece have
already agreed to come, so we can expect a more international participation
in our grassroot-meeting than ever before. And we hope some more friends
(from Scandinavia, Belgium, Slovenia ...)  will decide to come.
We ask all of you for another confirmation, because we have to know how many
people finally  will come from different cities to provide enough sleeping
places and food. Please answer soon!

And please do not forget your sleeping-bags and matresses.

We propose, that all participants should reach in the early evening of
Friday, 30th of November. We are in the One-world-House from 5.p.m onwards.
If you reach earlier, let us know in advance, if you can reach not before
the late night, call us by the phone.

We want to start Fridayevening with short presentations and first
discussions at 7 p.m.  Saturday, the 1st of December, and Sunday, the 2nd of
December, should be used for a lot of exchange and debates, for developing
existing campaigns and planning new projects.

Following list of topics we propose for an agenda of the meeting. The order
should be decided together on Friday evening in Munich.

Concerning some topics you will find comments and remarks as an appendix.
We hope, some more discussions will happen on the list within next weeks
before the meeting.

The topics:
1. Evaluations of camps, Genova, 13th of October ...
2. Proposal for an international nobordercamp in Strasbourg in summer 2002
3. Proposal for a campaign against IOM
4. Supporting-project for chechen refugees
5. news and development of deportation-class-campaign
6. Migration and Globalisation, next summits....
7. Structure of our network, ideas to develop the noborder website ..


Some comments and remarks:

Evaluations:
Short evaluations concerning the chain of bordercamps last summer, the
July-7-experience, the publix theatre caravan and last not least Genova
should be exchanged first. (In a following extra-message I will send out
some thesis and questions, which we had discussed in make-world-festival a
few weeks ago. People of different countries and noborder-groups
participated in this workshop, some notices about the debate is included
too!).

13th of October, international action day, should be evaluated too.
Something happened in various countries, but not really interconnected and
without a common public effect. And it should be discussed, how it can be
avoided, that familiar groups, working on detention-centers, announced
another international action day some weeks before. We should try to lead
together such events and mobilisations, we should contact this groups again
and try to improve at least a coordination. (Concerning 13th of October look
also to the topic IOM below.)

Bordercamps and Strasbourg project:

We do not know, in which countries similar noborder-camps or activities will
be planned again next year. We have heard something from Poland, and it
seems to be sure, that in Germany another camp will take place 2002. Friends
from Spain have announced to concentrate their activities against the
EU-presidency, beginning in December til June 2002. Firstly we should
collect all this informations.

But main topic of discussion in this part should be the proposal to tackle a
common international nobordercamp in Strasbourg next summer.
We think, that both external and internal arguments speak well for this
idea:

On one hand to create an europeanwide mobilisation for freedom of movement
against the Schengen Information System as a symbol of european policy of
control, exclusion and selection of migration.

On the other hand to organise first time a common camp, seen as an important
step forward to improve exchange and networking on an european level.

Most crucial point will be the question, if enough groups from different
countries will carry out and take responsibilities for such a project. It
would be very important to know, which groups and persons can imagine to be
involved both in preparation and in mobilisation. From our point of view at
least groups from four different countries, willing to be deeper involved,
are needed to start the project, to make it really an international thing.
And we hope, that some more groups will help in mobilisation and will send
at least some representatives.

Some friends from different countries, who has met at make-world-festival in
Munich, have appointed to elaborate a draft of a common call within next
weeks to have a better base of discussions in the noborder-meeting. It
should be send out  in advance.

Focuses and approaches, alliances and concrete steps of next international
preparation-meetings should be discussed in the meeting, if we decide to
start... and we hope we do!

(One more comment: During make-world-festival we have had opportunity to
discuss and to make appointments with activists from Mexico, where two
"borderhacks" already happened, and from Australia, where a first
nobordercamp is scheduled for April 2002. A common webpage, emphasizing an
intercontinental(!) noborder-networking and linking to the respective
websides, was considered, also a short common call for global freedom of
movement came into discussion. One idea was to present these nobordercamps
at the 2nd world social forum in Porto Alegre in February 2002.)

Campaign against International Organisation of Migration (IOM):

In Barcelona the role from IOM as one of the most important institutions of
worldwide migration-control was mentioned, the friend of Kiev, for example,
has pointed out the work of IOM in Ukraine: rearmament of the border to
Russia.

In the polish nobordercamp last summer somebody from antiracist group from
Bremen/Germany prepared a workshop about the same theme (a longer text about
IOM, basing on this statement, will follow soon on this list...) and  a
common campaign was first time  proposed.

In a meeting (of "noborder-east") in Kiev in the beginning of October the
idea was discussed again and we want to use the nobordermeeting in Munich
now for a presentation of concrete steps to launch this campaign.
After a  period of research and first information-events we can imagine to
prepare a decentralized international actionday against the
IOM-field-offices, which can be found in more or less all countries. One
idea could be to use 13th of October 2002 for this actions, probably also a
good push  to establish "our" international actionday on a higher level of
coordination.
In a further perspective a common demonstration in Geneva (during a
plenary-meeting of IOM) is thinkable or alternative in Vienna, where IOM´s
east-european head-office is located and where we will find some more
important institutions involved in "combatting illegal migration", for
example ICMPD (the group from Vienna published a big article about it last
year..).

Supporting project of chechen refugees:
During the last camp in Poland and in the meeting, just mentioned, in Kiev
another initiative from the Moscow group was discussed and started: to
support chechen refugees by providing informations, which they can use in
their need or intention to escape from horrible conditions in Inguschetia or
Russia. A booklet is already scheduled, with reports about the
asylum-situation and living-conditions, which chechen refugees have to
expect in transitcountries (Belarus, Ukraine, Poland..) as well as in aiming
countries (mainly Belgium, France and Germany, sometimes Scandinavia or also
Poland).

In the meeting in Munich at least a workshop is planned to realise and
continue this project. We hope, that some more groups are interested and can
contribute, especially since "the case" of chechen refugees is an "example".
Afghanish refugees and others would need such informations too, the "chechen
project" could be seen as a first experience.

"Globalisation and Migration" - Brussels, Sevilla, Kopenhagen  ...?!?
We had started such a discussion in Paris in December last year,
unfortunately we could not continue in Barcelona. We hope we will find the
time to reopen the debate, not too much on an abstract level or in questions
of therms (globalisation versus imperialism, class/antiracist struggle
versus multitude...). We can exchange, discuss and learn from each other
about respective concepts, estimations and conditions. We cannot expect to
equalize our experiences and approaches belonging to quiet different social
and ideological backgrounds.

But central questions run: Are we interested to tie noborder-networking to
socalled antiglobalisation-movement, to strengthen a really
internationalistic approach, to polarize against protectionist demands, to
root "freedom of movement" in a "globalisation of rights", to be open minded
for other parts of a colourful, mixed and sometimes strange movement? (More
questions or thesis are, as already mentioned, in the following
extra-message with the text from make-world-festival.)

We, as noborder-network, are not able and, we think, we do not want to
mobilise to each summit, permanent eventhopping cannot be a solution for
anything. But coordinations are possible and useful, although if only parts
of our network are involved in (alliance)mobilisations, presenting our
"themes"on street as well as in counter-conferences.

(For example for Kopenhagen, probably place of a next EU-summit in December
2002, scandinavean groups think for a following up project from Gothenburg,
seeing it as a more regional mobilisation.)

Beyond this we should discuss, if, where and how often we will try to set a
common focus. Most favoured project for next year from our point of view is
Strasbourg. We would set it beyond any countersummit-mobilisation, but it is
an open question, if it will win bigger interest outside "our spectrum",
during make-world-festival we have got a lot of inspirations.

Some more practually questions:

Brussels is very soon (demonstrations and actions from 13th til 15th of
December), so we cannot really prepare something. But an exchange, a
cooperation between groups, which have decided to go, should be possible.
Another chance for next year: if the friends in Spain "probably) decide for
bigger mobilisations, we should consider a more common participation.
Sevilla-countersummit-actions, probably in June, and Strasbourg-camp,
probably in July, could be close interconnected. It will be useful to figure
out, what is realistic and for common interest.

So far some first explanations and hopefully inspirations for our meeting,
best greetings, hagen
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