Program

Wednesday, July 13

• We start setting up the NoBorder Camp.
• People can start camping from Thursday, July 14.

Friday, July 15

• Arrivals,
• 18:00 first plenary
• 21:00 concert

Saturday, July 16

• 1st day of the Balkan network meeting
• 11:00: Women*Space (International women*groups and women* from the relocation centers)
• During the day: Live mural painting by NoBorder Graffiti
Crew
• Evening: Disruptive Film Festival / Theater

Sunday, July 17

• Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
• 13:00: Migrants from the relocation centers address NoBorder Camp in an open meeting
• Midday/afternoon: 2nd day of the Balkan network meeting
• Evening: Short Film Festival – Clips and Videos from external borders and from the Balkan Route / Theatrical performance

Monday, July 18

• Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
• Afternoon: workshops
• 20:00 plenary «European‐Mediterranean networking»
• Disruptive film festival / Short festival of Alban-speaking movies

Tuesday, July 19

• Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
• Afternoon: workshops
• 20:00 plenary «Migrants self‐organizing»
• Evening: Disruptive film festival / Short festival of Alban-speaking movies

Wednesday, July 20

• Morning to afternoon: protests at the detention centers at Paranesti (Drama) and Xanthi.
• Evening: Concert: Baris Bal Trio (Istanbul/Thessaloniki) / Theater: Acts by Rhiad (Tunisia) and Dimitris Samir (Syria-Greece)

Thursday, July 21


• Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
• Afternoon: “Migrants’ Pride” protest in the center of Thessaloniki
• Evening: Concert

Friday, July 22

• Morning: workshops
• 12:00-15:00: open meeting / plenary on the struggle against the goldmines in Halkidiki
• Afternoon: workshops
• 20:00 plenary «Networking of self­‐organized structures»
• Evening: Disruptive film festival / Short Iranian film festival

Saturday, July 23

• All day: protest at the Greek/Turkish border at the Evros fence
• Evening: Disruptive film festival / Short Iranian film festival

Sunday, July 24

• Closing workshops day / Closing plenary

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Balkan network meeting program

Saturday, 16^th of July

11.00 – 13.00

• Opening Plenary – Welcome, Introduction, Inputs, first Discussion
• Input 1: „Everything is possible“ – the amazing dynamics of 2015;
• Input 2: After the EU-Turkey Deal – the new border regime in the Aegean;
• Input 3: Back to the Underground railway – new/old challenges of support and solidarity;
• Input 4: Between transit and common social struggles – how to connect the various aspirations and realities?

15.30 – 17.30

Workshop Slot I

Back to the Underground railway? Ongoing daily struggles and transnational perspectives on the Balkanroute

Five parallel workshops:

1. The consequences after the EU-Turkey-deal;
2. Webguides: Welcome to Greece and Welcome to Italy;
3. Solidarity along the Balkan Route: from financial support to common actions against repression;
4. Livefeed of w2eu as information tool – and Alarmphone Balkan as a new project?
5. Mapping and other ideas of support along the route.

(1.5 hours break)

19.00 – 21.00

Workshop Slot II

Solidarity and support: Self-organisation, mixed organisation, volunteers, transnationalisation

Four parallel workshops:

1. Experiences in social centers and squats;
2. Travelling groups/journeys (back) to the borders;
3. Multilingual newspapers and online magazine/platforms;
4. Between empathic support and unpaid crowd management; Ambivalences of the volunteers’ engagement.

Sunday, 17^th of July

16.00 to 18.00

Workshop Slot III

Common social struggles, sensitivity versus criminalisation

Three parallel workshops:

1. Housing, health-service, education: perspectives of common social struggles for a social infrastructure;
2. Working, exploitation, rights: how to resist the racist hierarchies in the labour market?
3. Denouncement, criminalisation, sensitivity: How to break the fear and repression in the border areas?

19.00 to 21.00

• Final plenary: Brief conclusions from the workshops, Discussion on Perspectives

Sunday later Evening (22.00…)

• Short Film Festival – Clips and Videos from the external borders and from the Balkan Route

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July 18, 19, 22 workshops program

Typical workshops’ day schedule:

• 8.00-9.30 breakfast
• 9.30-13.30 caravan to relocation centers
• 13.30-15.00 rest, snack
• 15.00-19.00 sessions
• 19.00-20.00 dinner
• 20.00-22.00 plenary

Monday, July 18

Three parallel sessions (15.00-19.00)

A1. State and Hyperstate governmental policies for moving populations (Room 1)

Book presentation: Vogelfrei. Three texts on migration, deportation, capital and its state – Antithesis

The new state totalitarianism towards migrants and refugees – Antiauthoritarian Movement (AK)

The role of charity and the army in managing migrant populations – Fabrika Yfanet squat / Thessaloniki

The latest deal between the EU and Turkey – Migrant Solidarity Network / Ankara

B. Strategies and practices for survival, solidarity and fighting for freedom (Room 2)

Pinknoise (Netherlands) – online privacy and safe communication

Hackborders project: Presentation of a tool for families’ members to find each other – http://hackborders.net/‬.

WatchThe Med Alarm Phone – experiences of the hotline for refugees and migrants in distress on sea, organized by activists of Alarm Phone

Silent University Athens Assembly – platform for knowledge sharing between refugees, mıgrants and locals.

C1. Solidarity, networking, communication, mutual aid and commoning of the moving populations (Room 3)

Adverse Humanitarianisms: institutional necropolitics and the urge to tame grass‐roots solidarity in transnational migration governance – Sonia Vlachou

Your struggle is also mine? Limits and options of fighting together – NoBorder activists

Migrants politicization in the radical movement – Genti Guri – Clandestina network

Fighting for freedom and living with migrants in Ljubljana – Anti-racist Front without Borders from Ljubljana, Slovenija

Plenary: «European-Mediterranean networking» (Room 1)

 

Tuesday, July 19

Three parallel sessions (15.00-19.00)

A2. State and Hyperstate governmental policies for moving populations (Room 1)

The role of the university in managing migrants populations – Fabrika Yfanet squat / Thessaloniki

Antifascism as inseparable part of the struggle for social emancipation – Collective for Social Anarchism Black & Red / Thessaloniki

A Social Movement for the Re-opening the Balkan routes. Legimitacy and Public Standing for the Refugee Movement – Joerg Finkenberger, Lisa Thomas

Solidarity economy and the refugee crisis: exploring bridges and expanding spaces of social solidarity – Freedom Coop

D. Gender aspects of immigration (women, lgbtq populations, sexism, gender violence, pregnancy) – Age aspects of immigration (Room 2)

Atelier Without Borders – Atelier Without Borders (Istanbul) children and activism

Book presentation: “In Our Own Words – Refugee Women in Germany tell their stories”, edited by IWSPACE (International Women Space)

Living in shadow – Eliana Kanavelis, “Babylonia” journal

C2. Solidarity, networking, communication, mutual aid and commoning of the moving populations (Room 3)

The current situation of migrants in Morocco in combination with EU border politics – No Borders Morocco

The consequences of the EU migration regime in North Africa – Noborder Tunisia and Relatives of the disappeared

For a Collective Memory on Migrant Struggles – the idea of a multilingual online platform – activists from WatchTheMed Alarm Phone and Moving Europe

Plenary: «Migrants’ self-organizing» (Room 1)

 

Friday, July 22

Morning – 3 parallel sessions (9.00-12.00)

E. Three hour training in direct action skills (9.00-12.00) (concert site)

Action Training for Direct Action – Openborder

F. Sensing the Borders: affective migrant subjectivities and strategies of (self) representation (10.00-12.00) (Room 1)

G1. Connection between the struggles of the locals and the immigrants (10.00-12.00) (Room 2)

Working the border: Pioneer farmers and migrant farmworkers on the Israeli frontier

Action logistics and organizing long-term camps and actions – Max Mustermann

12:00-15:00

Open meeting / plenary on the struggle against goldmines in Ηalkidiki (Room 1)

State and the capital write the history of the life’s and nature’s looting, the movements write the history of resistance and freedom” – Beyond Europe: Halkidiki – The Comeback

Afternoon – 3 parallel sessions (15.00-19.00)

G2. Connection between the struggles of the locals and the immigrants (Room 1)

Participation and integration of refugees in the Initiative for a Self-organised School of Integral Cooperation / Freedom Coop as a tool for refugees and the No Border movement – Freedom Coop

Solidarity economies as an alternative for the labor exploitation – Istanbul migrant solidarity kitchen

The Paradigm Shift on Political Participation and Debates about the self‐organization of Migrants from Syria in Turkey – Hamisch – Istanbul Syrian cultural association

Solidarity and self-organizing against the new totalitarianism – Collective for Social Anarchism Black & Red / Thessaloniki

H. Living together and struggling together (Room 2)

Solidarity and self-organization against the french border in Ventimiglia (Italy): perspectives and strategies for future struggles – No Borders Italy

Living together and struggling together – Calais Migrant Solidarity

Towards a Transnational Social Strike – Workshop about Labour, Precarity and Migration – PrekärLab / Frankfurt

Presentation of the squat for migrants Dervenion 56 (Athens)

I. Solidarity structures, squats-social struggle centers (Room 3)

Perspectives on antiracist self-organization and squatting – A Beyond Europe discussion with activists from Athens, Milano, Frankfurt and other places.

Turkey Perspective and Organising in Izmir – Kapılar community center / Izmir

#Overthefortress / Agire nella crisi / Globalproject – Meltingpot

Plenary: «Networking of self-organized structures» (Room 1)

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Artistic program

Friday, July 15

• Documentary „People without faces“
• Concert:
• Unshaped Ahead (loops &violin-based storytelling)
• Lostre (ska punk)
• Electro Vampires (atmospheric goth & glamor rock)
• Turi Beri (jazz punk)
• Guts Pie Earshot (deep cello trip hop)

Saturday, July 16

• Disruptive Film Festival (Sherry Millner & Εrnest Larsen, N.Y., USA)
• Theater Performance by ΤΟ ΣΠΙΡΤΟ (The wooden match – Athens)

Sunday, July 17

• Short Film Festival – Clips and Videos from the external borders and from the Balkan Route
• Film projection: “Detention Without Walls” (Bridget Holtom, “We Will Rise” – UK)
• Performance: ‚Nationality: Color of the wind‘, M. Vizniek (by Facta Non Verba)

Monday, July 18

• Disruptive film festival / Short festival of Alban-speaking movies: (1) Kukumi (Isa Qosja, 2005)

Tuesday, July 19

• Disruptive film festival / Short festival of Alban-speaking movies: (2) Time of the Comet (Fatmir Koçi, 2008) (3) Tirana Year Zero (Fatmir Koçi, 2001)

Wednesday, July 20

• Two one-act plays, Arab poetry recitation, Kurdish songs – a compilation by Dimitris Samir, playwright (Syria-Greece)
• Theater performance by Rhiad (Tunisia): “Huuriya Means Freedom”
• Concert:
• Baris Bal Trio (Istanbul/Thessaloniki) (traditional oriental & Ottoman court music),
• Interrail (ethnic & Balkan tunes)

Thursday, July 21

• Concert: Hip-hop bands (Λ.Ο.Σ., “Reversed smile”, “Another one”), Katachnia, BMW Rockers 57

Friday, July 22

• Disruptive film festival
• Short Iranian film festival: Morteza Jafari (a) Dreaming of Life, 2016 (b) Dreaming of Democracy, 2013

Saturday, July 23

• Disruptive film festival
• Short Iranian film festival: Morteza Jafari (a) Dreaming of Life, 2016 (b) Dreaming of Democracy, 2013

* All days: Photo exhibition by Morteza Jafari (Iran)