From: "rcam" <rcollins-AT-netlink.com.au> Subject: AUT: FW: [noborder] inivitation to Munich Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:54:12 +1100 -----Original Message----- 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 _______________________________________________ noborder mailing list noborder-AT-kein.org http://www.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/noborder --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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