if for nothing else

The knowing should love the innocent
The strong care for the vulnerable
If for nothing else
  because no one can ever be sure who's in which end
so fuck pity - fuck charity
we need humbleness and anarchy


kAss

who's getting the message?

We got the message, that the planned mass deportation on 13th Nov  of
mainly Roma  to Belgrad, Serbia has been done earlier and is already
finished!
It had been done on the 8th Nov 12!! 90 people got deported to Belgrad!
We are sad, we are angry!
*
**Protest - Now more than ever!*
*Come on Thues 13th Nov  at 10 a.m. to the Airport Düsseldorf, Terminal B*
(the 8 a.m. protest at Gate F does not take place)

Come selfresponsible, come selforganised. keep in mind, the airport is
big, there are many entrances, escalators and terraces where people can
protest. bring your banners, be creative be angry!

*we are appalled, sad and angry!*
*And we will go and demonstrate in the Airport Düsseldorf!*
And we will not forget, that there is another *mass deportation flight
on 15th  Nov from Stuttgart to Kosovo!*

One supporter of alle-bleiben (http://alle-bleiben.info/info-news.htm)
in Belgrad could verify that there had been a massdeportation on 8th
Nov.2012
A deportation one day before the commemoration of the progrom night ,
which was the start of procecution of millions of jews aswell as of
Sinti and Roma! Deportation shortly after the inauguration of the
memorial  in memory of the deaths! It cannot be more cynical!

What ever reason there was for this earlier deportation flight. It does
show the force in which the deportation take place. It does show how
strongly racist the discussions are lead at the moment and that
deportations might become a topic during election in Germany next year.

The application of asylum are treated very rapidly - and negativly of
course. The people hardly get the possibilities to bring in their
reasons and do not come to exlpain their situation. Irrespective (Even
though) of the european wide procecution of Roma, in Serbia, Mazedonia,
Kosovo and in many other european countries.

Instead of a political solution, instead of a permant residency and the
right to stay, the politicians continue to count on persecution and
deportation.
We say no!
No deportations!
Stop all deportations now!
For the right to move and stay!
Resistance is necessary!

berlin,13.10.2012

berlin,13.10.2012

... It was one of the biggest demonstrations for refugees rights in germany in the last years, when about 6000 people participated last saturday (13.10) in berlin in the final  station of the refugees march. The abolition of the residence law and of the campsystem and the stop of all deportations have been the central demands and find impressive pictures of the demo on the website:
http://refugeetentaction.net/

.Today, 15th of october, a group of selforganised refugees continued the struggle with an occupation of the nigerian embassy  in Berlin against deportation-collaboration. Find their statement attached and refugee-activist are still arrested after police eviction, while a solidarity demonstration with 400 people took place this evening...

best,
/.../


Press Information:

Counter Offensive to the Nigerian Government Role in  the brutal
deportation of African Refugees, Nigerian and Non Nigerian Activists have
taken to Occupy the Nigerian Embassy Berlin to demand the cancellation of
all deportation agreement with the German State.

Deportation is only possible if a state is ready to „take back“ the person
concerned and for this purpose, the German authorities would do anything
to obtain traveling certificates to deport Refugees to any Country
wherever they could be accepted.

Refugees are constantly summoned to forced deportation hearings where they
are interviewed by Embassy Officials who would have to confirm their
origin and identity through Physical appearance to aid the  issuance of
traveling certificates as a legitimation for their deportation.

These forced deportation hearing are randomly conducted in different
German City on a monthly basis in an atmosphere of massive Police presence
and abuses - From Halberstadt to Koln, Bielefeld to Karlsruhe, Dortmund to
 Munich, Ludwigsburg to Dusseldorf.
Enough is Enough as we have reached an Offensive threshold to say No to
deportation threats and abuses because deportation is Colonial Heritage
and Persecution. We are therefore provoked to unlash appropriate action
against such acts that continues to traumatize and destroy Migrants and
Refugees in Germany

Refugee and non-Refugee Activist have for many years condemned this
routine deportation collaboration between the Nigerian Government and the
German European Government through the enforcement  of militarized Frontex
- "Frontex being the boarder Watch dog of the European union with extended
artificial Borders up to Refugee Home Countries is mandated with the
responsibility of chartered deportation operations from Europe"

The January 2012 agreement between the Nigerian Government (Nigerian
Immigration Boss - Mrs. Rose Uzoma)and Frontex stands as a renewed
legitimation to the brutal deportation practices thus causing many deaths
and Trauma for Refugees thus requiring an immediate cancellation  because
the same European Government who has made us refugees must be ready to
take the responsibility of their act.

It is based on this Position that we are calling on President Goodluck
Jonathan to take immediate step to cancel all deportation agreements and
collaboration between Frontex with the German State.

The obvious habit of ignoring the call for human rights can no longer be
tolerated hence the decision of Nigerian Refugees occupation of  the
Nigerian Embassy in Berlin as a signal to more offensive counter action
against their deportation collaboratory role.

As first step to cooperation, We demand  a Stop to the routine practices
of Forced-Mobile deportation Hearing with immediate effect (i.e.) 16.10.12
to 19.10.12  deportation hearing planned to take place at the State Police
Premises, Alte Weingartner Str. 49, 76227 Karlsruhe-Durlach.

Furthermore, we are undertaken an investigation in connection with
suspicion of free access for the German Immigration Service to access
Biometric Data of Nigerian Passport Holders - a development from the
current act of  criminalization of Nigerian migrants with a direct  call
for President Goodluck Jonathan to withdraw in case there is  any of such.

We denounce every form of deportation collaboration because  deportation
itself  is a form of  racial persecution and elimination and exists on
basic distinction of Europe being the progressive and developed while
Africa is defined as backward.
We say No to all forms of deportation collaboration
Stop Deportation

Email: thevoice_bdw@yahoo.de
The VOICE Refugee Forum

thoughts after a PW** reading circle some two years ago

When something has become a commodity it can no longer be shared; only sold and bought - or speculated upon, stolen (but then it Can lose this status..)

*
if everything is absorbed, sucked up into the (semio-)capitalist circling - maybe we can still measure (or something else more anti-capitalistic..) how long it takes. It seems as if some activities are absorbed even before execution - while some resist quite while. And these activities - because of the fact that they create something liveable (a gap or so) - are still worthy of our effort and attention****. And if we are lucky, one can hope, that they may also create some kind of commonality separated from the general flow***** - even if very temporary, ephemeral, and even how much it still is on an inside - keeping alive the idea that an outside potentially could be producable.

/kaSS

*thoughts after a PW** reading circle some two years ago.***
** psychicwarfare.se
*** with osme editing .,  updating my language, it seems,  but not taking away all I would not write now.
****in short: it's worth the while
*****into: Le Bourse!

Asylsökande placeras på anstalt

Ytterligare sammanblandning av migration och kriminalitet, ytterligare bestraffning av de som lider av imperial nationalpolitik. 
Ja, människor är alldeles för komplicerade för att kunna reduceras till stats-objekt; att vara utåtagerande med den desperation som de kränkningar det innebär att vara i migrationsverkets procedurer - för att sedan få 'nej': få sin existens kriminaliserad. 

Kass,
 

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/vastnytt/asylsokande-placeras-pa-anstalt

Nödvändig åtgärd Desperata asylsökande som väntar på utvisning placeras på en särskild avdelning som öppnats på Skogomeanstalten i Göteborg.

- De vi tar emot är de som Migrationsverket bedömer att de inte kan ta hand om, för att de är för komplicerade, utåtagerande eller desperata, säger Christer Isaksson, säkerhetschef på Kriminalvården, till P4 Göteborg i Sveriges Radio.
Avdelningen kommer att ha plats för upp till sju personer.
Migrationsverket menar att åtgärden är nödvändig för att garantera säkerheten på sina egna anläggningar

this is what EU is spreading:

(from a festival call out)

In the recent years, Serbia has turned from a country of transit for undocumented migrants into a country where migrants are stuck for increasingly longer periods of time. Under the pressure of approaching the EU membership, Serbia has developed its independent asylum system and reinforced border controls and deportation mechanism on the border with Macedonia. It has also obediently cooperated with the EU's efforts to keep migrants out of EU -- it has signed the readmission agreement with the EU and developed the cooperation with Frontex, the EU agency for the management and operational cooperation on the external borders of the EU. The result of this is the increased repression of migrants in Serbia.


/.../

Hundreds of undocumented migrants living in make-shift jungles close to the Schengen border with Hungary (especially in Subotica) are daily persecuted by the police and fear violence, arrest, detention and deportation. Unfortunately there is a complete lack of migrant solidarity mobilisations, and a relative lack of a discourse, critical of the repressive EU policies and their externalisation in Serbia. That's why one of the focuses of the ZAF – the Zrenjanin Antifascist Festival – this year will be the resistance against the border system in the Serbian context and the critique of the EU migration politics.
If you are interested in attending the festival, or participating in the program, especially if you need accommodation in Zrenjanin, please let us know that you are coming in advance. Please note that accomodation places are very limited, so providing your own sleeping arangements would be great. Please get in touch with the organizers to consult the options of accomodation. If you come by car, it would be great if you could bring blankets, sleeping bags and other warm stuff that the undocumented migrants, stuck in Subotica on their way towards the EU, will be in need of, as the colder months approach! http://zaf.anarhija.org/

Dears!

 

Dear ...,

I am writing to draw your attention to the crisis of cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and would like to invite you to join the platform CULTURESHUTDOWN.NET, initiated by a group of international academics, artists, librarians and cultural activists seeking solutions for this crisis. Seven of the main national cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- most notably, the National Museum, the National and University Library, and the National Art Gallery in Sarajevo, symbols of the still disputed state of Bosnia-Herzegovina -- are about to be closed down due to a lack of funds. The underlying cause for this crisis is the unresolved ethnic conflict after the 1990s war, and the local government's failure to ensure operations through the clarification of these institutions' legal status and the design of adequate funding mechanisms.  Notwithstanding that the functioning and programing these institutions need to be analyzed/revised/developed, the painful result of their current status is that now the most important cultural artifacts from Bosnia-Herzegovina’s past and present  are not only to become invisible to locals and visitors alike, but are severely threatened by decay and looting. 

The platform CULTURESHUTDOWN.NET connects artists, museologists, librarians, historians, and activists living in Bosnia and across the globe interested in researching, analyzing and intervening in this crisis.  Operating on a voluntary basis, CULTURESHUTDOWN.NET is unconnected to a government or political party. Our aim is  to raise worldwide awareness about the problem though a variety of instruments and media, ranging from the provision of real-time information online to collaborative art projects and the drafting of cultural policy recommendations. 

What we have done so far

• We set up a website that serves as a platform for exchange of news, ideas and reports
• We completed a survey of the status quo, conducting interviews with representatives of the respective institutions; you can read the summary of institutions' problems here 
• We contacted over 80 cultural producers in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including all ethnic groups and all spheres of public life/institutions that are related to this concern, asking for their critical reflections, which we are currently posting online, as they come in
• We have been translating all relevant news and material from BHS into English, and vice versa, to enable a better communication among people interested in this concern worldwide

What we plan to do next

• Publicize the crisis and our platform internationally, though both academic networks/publications and mass media
• Issue a public call "Ideas for Solutions", creating a collective document that would summarize results of the call
• Try to impose pressure on Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly to take on this concern into their agenda (so far, the local politics' strategy was to completely ignore this problem, or provide temporary funding solutions that helped them survive for a few months), though political channels of EU and USA 
• Fundraise and commission experts' reports: 1. A legal analysis of the Bosnian Constitution and the Dayton Peace Accord in regard to the cultural policy in BH; 2. A comparative study/analysis of funding structures of national museums, galleries, archives and libraries worldwide; 3. International trends in programing of national institutions, such as museums, galleries, archives
• Start drafting policy recommendations that can be useful for Bosnian politicians in resolving the crisis

How you can help 

• Write a text that we can post online, reacting either on the situation of these institutions in Bosnia with a site-specific critical reflection, or a more general text highlighting the role and importance of culture and cultural institutions more broadly
• Send us your ideas on how this crisis could be revolved
• Send us tips about fundraising, if you know any sources that could help us cover the operational costs of our platform (translations, website admin, commissioned reports, etc.) and short-term funding sources that could help remedy the crisis
• Connect us / recommend us to your eventual links in the political circles of the EU and the USA
• If you have/know of a project / a class / an article related that can be helpful for finding solutions to this crisis, please share it with us
• Join our list of supporters, by sending us your portrait that we can post on the list of supporters and contributors  
• Help us raise awareness about this concern, by forwarding this email to your colleagues and academic networks

We would be very grateful for your help with any of the above stated points, and of course,  for any other form of contribution that you can make!

I attach our Press Release at the end of this email, which will give you more information about the problem and its background.

Best regards, KAASSSSSSS* 

 

*KineticAllmänArtSurrealSituationistSocialSoSoSocialist(not)Same