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For the global right to migrate! Solidarity without borders Against racism, social exclusion and the surveillance state
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of migration. Whether they were called, had to flee or simply came, migrants have been living here for years. 1993 the Constitutional Law of the Federal Republic of Germany was changed and the so called "Third Country Regulation" and the concept of ‘secure countries’ was installed. Now, migrants, who have to travel through other countries to come here, which are declared as `safe ` have to plea for asylum there; and some countries are supposed to be safe in general so the seeking of asylum is not possible at all. With that, one of the most central lessons of German fascism -- the right of political asylum - was abolished!
The change of the constitutional law and the special laws for asylum seekers (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz) were the product of a campaign against an imagined flood of asylum seekers, enforced by politics and the media. This strategy found its terrible climax in pogrom-like excesses against refugees and deadly attacks on migrants who had already been living in the Federal Republic of Germany for a long time.
Against this corruption of constitutional und human rights and the threat on the streets to life and physical inviolability, hundreds of thousands of refugees, radical left winged, liberals, members of the green party, unionists and human rights-activists, migrant organisations and individuals and many, many others protested! These open attacks are continued in the batch-wise reduction of human, civil and political rights on many levels. It’s high time to offer united resistance against this development! Europe seals itself off!
The factual abolition of the constitutional right of asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany became a corner stone in today’s existing EU border-regime. In the development and enforcement of the rigid closing of the borders of the EU, which was a reaction to the opening of the “iron curtain” in the beginning of the 1990ties, the Federal Republic of Germany was significantly involved. The dead, drowning in the Oder and Neiße were displaced by the washed up corpses on the beaches in the Mediterranean and the shot near the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla. If refugees, against all odds, should actually manage to get to German territory, they are kept in a position without rights (living in camps, Residenzpflicht, no right to work etc.) are and mostly, in the end, deported.
At the same time, globalised capitalism on its path to victory cuts through the world, leaving a trail of destruction: throughout the world, natural life resources are destroyed, so that more and more people are exposed to poverty and hunger. And also the ecological consequences have to be coped with particularly by the countries of the South. Aridity and floodings force as many people to flee as fuelled conflicts about the exploitation of reduced resources. For a global right of Migration! Close down all camps and deportation prisons! Migrants: stripped of rights, exploited and socially excluded!
Even though the EU is for many a deadly fortress and many are stuck in the camps at the outposts, each year thousands come to Europe. Migrants are well established in the economy of the capitalistic centres and their metropolises; especially in the labour-intensive sectors (agriculture, construction) and the badly paid service sector (home care, childcare and prostitution). And yet the daily life of illegalised persons in the Federal Republic of Germany is determined by their exclusion from rights: they live without primary health care, papers, protection of labour and safety at work, the right to education for them or their children.
They are in constant danger of police controls, detention and deportation. Migration is not only the attempted escape from destruction, torture and massacres, it is also the departure in the search for a new and better life and a voting with ones feet against oppressive global circumstances.
Migrants without papers cross through the sealed-off borders and they have the potential to challenge the conditions of this world. Even if their struggles and fights are often as unseen as they themselves are, they do happen: against deportations, the forced living in the camps, the Residenzpflicht, non-cash benefits, racist harassment in everyday life and government agencies.
The same rights for all of us! Abolish racist laws! Surveillance is expanded!
Especially since the 11th of September 2001 the reduction of human and civil rights has increased. Exchangeable threatening scenarios of ‘international terrorism’ or dangers through a flooding of migrants are used as a basis for an increase of control- and surveillance methods. Within Europe a remodelling of the inner security policy is taking place, while the European outside borders are closed up. Racism, particularly against Islamic communities is used as a justification of military operations from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa as well as for the enforcement of an authoritarian system of inner security apparatus. Stockpiling data laws, electronically readable passports with digital fingerprints and an automatic facial recognition are the new qualitative advanced stages of the surveillance state.
The techniques of control are being enhanced; they are screening and selecting unseen and automatically. Those technologies, which were developed in the quasi-militarised EU - Border-control system, are now being used to hollow out the human and civil rights within the state. Many of those techniques for the collection of data and their electronically cross-linking are tried out on migrants: they are surveyed completely!
Against Surveillance and for a self-determined and uncontrolled life! Demonstration
Because of all this, the 15th anniversary of the change of the constitutional law is our reason to take our demands to the streets. We are living in the heart of Fortress Europe and it’s not enough anymore to claim back the right of asylum. Everybody must have the possibility to flee from persecution and poverty. Everybody must have the chance to live where and how they want to. With all the rights that go with it!
For a global right of Migration – for freedom of movement and de*fencing the nations!
Demonstration on Saturday, 5th July 2008 - at 2 o'clock pm - Schlossplatz (Berlin Mitte)