– United Kingdom
In the UK a number of different local and networked groups have begun working on iniatives ranging from decentralised protests outside detention centres (NCADC), to actions based in local communities (Hackney), to large traditional marches ( a coalition of groups in Manchester). For up to date practical information about the events in the uk see
www.april2.org.uk
London
In London a demonstration-cum-carnival is being organised for April 2nd. This already has the support of a range of migrant organizations, activist networks and migrant support groups. The demo will start in Clerkenwell Green WC1 (nearest tube: Farringdon) at 12.00 and will end in London Fields in Hackney E9.
Manchester
In Manchester the demonstration on April 2nd starts at 12.30 at Whitworth Park
Canterbury
Detained, Deported, Disappeared – Hands of Our Mates
A Vigil to Support and remember those who have been stolen from us by an unjust immigration system, organised by Kent Campaign to Defend Asylum seekers on Sunday the 3rd of April at 1200h at the Canterbury Cathedral Entrance on Butter Market in Canterbury.
The Vigil was agreed at the successful “Coming of Age” Conference as a follow up action to continue to highlight the situation of young asylum seekers facing deportation. Bring stories and visual images of loved ones currently detained or wrenched away by the process of deportation.
Nottingham
Noise Protest
A Noise Protest in wil take place on Saturday 2nd April 2005 on Market Square in Nottingham from 1200 – 1400h. Bring banners and all manner of musical instruments – everything from trombones to dustbin lids.
Glasgow
Saturday, 2nd April,there will be a demonstration called by the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees at the Immigration Offices at 200 Brand Street, (Govan), Glasgow at 11am. The nearest underground is Cessnock.
– Greece
Athens
A demonstration of migrants in the centre of Athens. For this demostration Diktio (network for social support to immigrants and refugees) is collaborating with the greek social forum and the migrants forum (that is a forum that brings together more than 30 migrant comunities in Greece).
Also on Friday the 9th of april, the no border group is planning to go to a refugee camp near Athens were only women and children are held under bad circumnstances.
Thessaloniki
Wednesday 23 march: info-evening with films and material about refugee camps, immigrants, previous actions etc. 2000h at Immigrants’ Place (Filippou 51)
Wednesday 30 march: Discussion “Greek Immigration Policy and the new legislation – Freedom of Movement and right to stay” with the participation of immigrants’ associations and groups of lawyers 1930h at the Municipal Library
Saturday 2 April: Demonstration at 1200h on aristotelous Square – Statue of Venizelos. Starting from the city centre, we will walk “upwards” to the neighbourhoods where the immigrants live. We will fill the streets of the city with voices and music, distribute leaflets in all the languages of the people of this city, continuing our struggle for real legalisation, for asylum, for equal rights.
After the demo, videos and party at the Immigrants’ Place (Filippou 51)
Wednesday 6 April: Discussion “The city and the migrants: social equality and the right to vote” with the participation of regional groups (participating in the local municical and prefectural elections – 1930h at the Municipal Library
These events are organized by the antiracist Initiative of Thessaloniki
– Germany
Lindau
In Lindau there will be a NoBorder-info-evening with films and speeches about NoBorder, NoBorder-Camps, Fortress EUrope, Lager system and the repression against the online-demo against Lufthansa and their deportation business an April 6 at 2000h in Club Vaudeville, Lindau.
Berlin
On tuesday 29 march at 1900h there will be a discussion/talk with representatives of plataforma für migrantInnen und flüchtlinge berlin, flüchtlingsinitiative Brandenburg, kanak attak/gesellschaft für legalisierung hamburg. The event takes place in at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Veranstaltungsraum, VH, 1. OG), Oranienstr. 25
2nd European day of action for freedom of movement and the right to stay May 1st, 2005: EuroMayday on Precarity and Right to Rights in Hamburg
The two european-wide days of action reject the tendencies of institutionalized precarity and the deprivation of rights which go along with the consolidation of a „new Europe” and claim freedom of movement and the right to stay. From the beginning of the European constitutional process migrants have been confronted with deportation, detention camps and illegalization. Keeping refugees and migrants out of Europe is not the only aim of the homogenisation of European migration politics, but rather promoting a process of selective inclusion and the production of a hierarchy of rights for those who don t have a European citizenship. The cutback of social welfare and employment rights, increasing flexibility of labour and postulated mobility extend the process of precarization, which migrants have been the first to experience, partly on the living conditions of EU citizens.
Activists of different Groups involved in the organisation of both days of action (plataforma für migrantInnen und flüchtlinge berlin, flüchtlingsinitiative brandenburg, kanak attak/gesellschaft für legalisierung hamburg) will give information on actions and discussions from their different perspectives.
Brandenburg
On Saturday April 2 a Mini-Anti-Lager-Tour against inhuman asylum camps will go to Brandenburg. This action will be linked to the nation-wide mobilisation for Euromayday in Hamburg on May 1 st.
We are planning to go to the detention centre in Barnsdorf in the state of Brandenburg in eastern germany. Public awareness shall be created. In addition we want to make (among other activities) a demonstration (after we have gathered at the detention camp in Barnsdorf) together with the inmates of the detention camps to Senftenberg where the office of the authorities for migrants/refugees (“ausländerbehörde”) is placed.
At the 1st of april the refugee initiative of Brandenburg (self organized refugee group) is organizing a one-day-information-seminar in berlin for refugees who are living in the state of Brandenburg. This seminar is supposed to mobilize refugees also for the 2nd of april.
Nürnberg
In Nuremberg there will be an Action on April 1st: We will make a manifestation in front of the foreigers office, together with lots of refugees from Ethiopia and Eritrea, Nepal and Butan, who have to face the fact that the foreigners office cut their working permissions although they had been working partly for years. Reason is a new immigration law, which chaged responsibilities for working pemissions from Arbeitsamt (Working office) to Ausländeramt (foreigners office) It will tak place on the first of April, because the office will be closed on Saturday and because a lot of antifacist people will go to the Antinazi Action to Munich on April 2nd.
München
In Munich there will be a protest action against the very bad living conditions of the refugees in the camps. The camps are not closed detention camps, but the refugees live in these camps under very oppressive conditions. In Bavaria the refugees get only food packages instead of money, they have to live in the camps even if they have the permission to work and could afford an own flat and they are permanently controlled by police or security.
The action is organised by a coalition composed of the Munich caravan group, the Bavarian refugee council and the human rights organisation res publica. It will take place on Friday, april, 1st, in front of the “Regierung von Oberabayern”, the authority, which is responsible for the running of the camps.
On April, 2nd the mentioned groups will take part in the mobilisation against a fascist manifestation, which is annonced by a neo-nazi group for the same day.
More information can be found at:
www.carava.net
Hanau/Frankfurt
in hanau/frankfurt an exhibition against detention will take place in the two weeks before the 2nd of april, with films, an information event and a migrants assembly. moreover we think for protests against deportations.
Düsseldorf
On Saturday 2 April there will be a demonstration in Düsseldorf for free movement and the right to stay and against a decree of the government of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia concerning the new German law on immigration (refusing refugees who have a so called “tolerance” (Duldung) the possibility to get a residence permit). The demonstration will start at Düsseldorf main station at 1300h. More information can be found at: thecaravan.org and also the call for the demonstration can be downloaded from there. There will also be an information evening in Dortmund at 31 March giving information on the new law on immigration and for mobilisation to the demonstration.
Münster
In Münster there will be an information evening with film screening on wednesday april 6th. we hope to show fotos and videos from the action day as well. people from here and from THE VOICE will introduce and discuss.
here might be also action on 2nd april, but if there is, rather spontanously, not fixed yet.
– The Netherlands
Rotterdam – Close the Prison Ships!
In Rotterdam there will be an enormous protest against the detention of Sans-Papier’s close to two prisonships that are moored in the Merwe Port since 6 months. The demonstration will start at 1200h on the 2nd of april in Marconi Straat 123, Merwe Haven in Rotterdam. There are buses leaving for the demo from Amsterdam and Nijmegen
Moored in the Merwe Port Rotterdam since 6 months are two prisonships for asylumseekers at end of procedure and for people without permission to stay. In these huge square floating boxes of three floors high, 760 people are being detained under inhumane conditions whilst awaiting their likely removal.
They are allowed out of their cells only five hours per day. They are held four per cell. There are no recreational activities, there is neither a library nor a shop. Minister Roemer praises the low cost of these prison vessels; the cost per day is two-thirds that of a regular prison stay.
We demand the immediate closure of this form of humiliating detention which breaches Human Rights. We are strongly against this political strategy of intimidation which is creating many victims. We stand for a society which is open/receptive to migration and to the world around us.
In MerweHaven we want to show our manifest solidarity with the people imprisoned inside with noise and colour. Participants , among others: Samba Band Rhythms of Resistance, Fanfare of Lovenight (probably), rap, street theatre… for more information write
[email protected].
– Italy
Gorizia
Friuli, the region in which the wire netting which signs the border dividing the city of Gorizia is everyday crossed by hundreds migrants. In the near of Gorizia, in the city of Gradisca d’Isonzo, is going to be open one of the bigger Italian detention centres.
Crotone
Saturday 2nd of April, 10.30 am
Demonstration in front of Sant’Anna detention center in Crotone, South of Italy
Sicily, sustaining the initiatives promoted by the Sicily Antiracist Network, which will take place in city of Ragusa. In the detention centre of this city, everyday are closed those who survive to the Mediterranean passage.
Radio Broadcast
Together with GlobalRadio, Melting Pot Europa is going to broadcast on saturday the 2nd of April a special radio program completely dedicated to European initiatives held during or around the 2nd of april. We’ll be on air all day long with correspondencies from all countries in action. We ask to give us a mobile phone in order to call you during your initiative. As we already did during last 1st of may, we’d like to portray a real EU map of rebellion against repressive and racist laws which approve the exclusion, the detention and the deportation of men en women (mass deportations are going on in south of Italy right now).
You can listen to Global Radio via streaming web from www.globalproject.info
See Global Project English website Global Project English website
– Spain
For the latest information form Spain check out www.moviments.net
On April the first events are planned in Huelva (demonstartion) and Sevilla.
On Saturday the 2nd of April demonstrations will take place in Barcelona, Malaga Jean, Almeria (tbc) and Madrid.
Madrid
Manifestación por la regularización sin condiciones
Sabado 2 de abril, 18h, Atocha-Legazpi.
– Austria
Vienna
In Vienna there weill be a demonstration against detention and deportation on the 2nd april 2005 at 1400h: the meeting point is in front of the deportation prison (hernalser guertel 8-10, 1080 vienna) it should be noisy demonstration. More details are available form no-racism.net
On the 7th of april a of the video “no lager! nowhere!” will take place in vienna. hopefully there will also be first pics from the actionday. More details and the location will be available form no-racism.net
– Finland
Helsinki
On the 2nd of April the finnish No Border-network is organizing a demonstration for freedom of movement and the right to choose the place to live in, starting at Kiasma at 3pm.
Sweden
There are ongoing campaigns in Sweden about the right to asylum and refugees in general. The campaign will involve activities on the Day of Action, 2nd of April, in at least the three largest cities of Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo).
