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Why we have to be closed in the camp for one week?

15. Oct 2010: Letter by refugees from several countries on the intended worsening of the laws for foreigners in Austria:

To the Ministry of Interior, Asylkoordination, UNHCR, Diakonie and several other organistaion.

Respected fellows,

Most respectfully we asylum seekers want to argue, what crime have we commited? What is our fault? Have we killed some one? Have we kidnapped some one? Have we terrored someone? If not, then what is our crime? That we have to be closed in the asylum seeker camp for 1 week.

Unfortunately we are asylum seekers, we are refugees, not any criminals, that we should be closed in the camp. If we can come out of the camp we can buy telephone cards to call our family, 2nd we have to smoke cigarettes so we have to buy cigarettes for us and other needs of us. Why does this law, why does this government want us to be closed in the camp? So we cannot know what is going on out side. We cannot contact Diakonie about our asylum procedure , we cannot get information about the asylum procedure.

Detention and deportation of undocumented migrants in Belgium

Since a migration stop has been announced in 1974, the gateway for foreign workers in Belgium has been shut almost completely.

Meanwhile almost nothing has been done to build up a modern migration policy. All political parties have however, been pushing to develop a new migration policy, mainly because it would be an opportunity to execute an effective deportation policy. Nowadays the frustration of politicians is growing over the inability of the government to deport the tens of thousands undocumented migrants out of the country. The latest campaign of regularisation was a prelude to a much bigger game: a new migration policy with clear criteria to designate who is not welcome and how to smoothly deport those unwelcome migrants out of our society .

Movement for the Human Rights Solidarity to the Refugees-Samos

(press release from http://no-racism.net )
For one more time on Thursday 1st of July 2010 50 refugees where transported for the detention center of Samos to be deported. They where transferred to the center of Aspropyrgos without having been informed that they will be transferred or the reasons without Lawyers and without translators. For one more time the police the coast guard and frontex coordinate their actions and transferred illegaly also a minor of 15 years with health problems.

More than 13800 Deaths - the Fatal Realities of 'Fortress Europe'

Every year on the International Refugee Day on 20th of June, UNITED presents a List of documented refugee deaths through 'Fortress Europe'. UNITED media release:

Demonstration after racist killing in Warsaw - solidarity begins

On Monday, May 24thin Warsaw a spontaneous anti-racist demonstration took place as a reaction to the brutal racist murder committed by the police on May 23rd of 2010.

Around 150 activists and migrants gathered during the protest initiated by Zwi?zek Syndykalistów Polskich (The Association of Polish Syndycalists). After a few short speeches delivered near the Stadium bus station the gathering changed into a demonstration, and everybody went along Grochowska street (briefly blocking it) to the police station on Grenadierów street, where - according to unclear police statements - the persons arrested after Sunday's killing where being held.

Anti-Frontex Conference in Warsaw

As a small act of resistance against an EU conference on border control and the "European Day of the Border Guard" a counter- conference and protest at the location of the EU conference will take place in Warshaw.

On May 24, 2010, corporations and EU bureaucrats will attend a conference and exhibition on "Surveillance Technology for Border Control" hosted by the EU migrant-hunting agency, Frontex. May 25, the "European Day of the Border Guard" and the 5th anniversary of Frontex, a conference to be attended by key European decision-makers entitled "The Future of Border Management in Europe including the Role of Frontex" will also take place. A small act of resistance - a counter-conference and protest at the location of the conference.

"In The Most Free State of the World"

This Leaflet was found in some streets of Paris in March 2010. It talks about solidarity with the accused of the fire in Vincennes and the repression of the state:

Since 1945, they want us to believe that the most serene freedom has arisen in our lifetime; now that housewives have access to all the best household appliances, now that almost everyone has the right to vote, now that "freedom" of speech is guaranteed by the democratic institutions, now that we are left with the listing of false choices- between exploiting or being exploited for nothing at all, and without trying to understand why, threatened to be quashed. Our anxiety and our thirst for liberty do not falter, though that is what it's all about when the State parrots out its ideas of freedom, democratic and industrial progress.

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