Saturday, October 22nd 2005For the immediate closure of third millennium’s lagers

“ A chain of temporary jails surrounds our space, and this simply is a matter of fact. Against whom are those jails built?...
We reached a point of non understanding, we in fact do not understand how innocent people share the desire of a free life and of free labour. The fact that the most of our politicians obstacle this desire makes me shiver… What’s even worse is that they do not even think of people’s desires.”
(Alessandro Dal Lago)

Detention centres are closed places, where citizens cannot enter. They are protected by concrete walls and barbed wire. They are outside our cities, they are invisible to many. Inside detention centres abuse, torture, restriction and control are normal everyday life. Someone wrote that detention centres cage the excess of globalisation, the excess of humanity.
They simply are third millennium’s lagers, concentration camps.
They are the detention centres where migrants without permits are jailed.

In Italy detention centres were born in 1998 thanks to a leftist government law, which the following government confirmed in 2002 with the enforcement of Bossi-Fini law. Today many members of Unione (Italian left wing coalition) believe that detention centres are necessary.

Saturday, October 22nd many of us will be outside the two newly built detention centres: in Gradisca d’Isonzo and in Bari S.Paolo.

The two demonstrations are being called by a new national network that reclaims the immediate closure of all detention centres. This network was born in Bari past July when thirteen regional governors stood up against detention centres.
This network is new but still it holds memory of past initiatives and campaigns and it reclaims amnesty to all “crimes” linked to illegal immigration and to “crimes” linked to movements struggles for the closure of all detention centres.
Saturday we shall be in Gradisca and in Bari because human beings have the right to freely move and because globalisation’s walls must go down!

*** Melting Pot editorial staff will broadcast live the two events. The radio transmission will also offer correspondences with France, Spain, Morocco, United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia.
The coverage of October 22nd event will be broadcasted by:
GlobalRadio’s satellite system, Sherwood Radio and Kairos Radio’s fm frequencies.
Streaming audio: see here