Am 27.4.2013 werden Break Isolation Refugee Strike, Associazione Culturale Askavusa, Lampedusa und borderline-europe das 5. LampedusaInFestival in Berlin vorstellen!
5. Lampedusa In Festival – Aufruf zum Filmfestival der Migrationen
Vorstellung des diesjährigen Filmfestivals zur Migration auf Lamepdusa: LampedusaInFestival (19.-23.7.) in Anwesenheit der Lampedusaner GIACOMO SFERLAZZO (Musiker) und MAURO SEMINARA (Regisseur)
http://qn.quotidiano.net/cronaca/2013/04/11/872138-immigrazione-sos-sbarchi-469-soccorsi-in-24-ore.shtml
11 et 12 avril 2013. Cinq opérations ont été menées ces deux derniers jours dans le Canal de Sicile par les garde côtes italiens. 469 personnes ont été sauvées, la plupart ont été portées sur l’île de Lampedusa (seule les personnes d’une de ces cinq opérations auraient été directement amenées en Sicile). Une opération est encore en cours au large de Lampedusa.
Entretiens réalisés le 11 avril 2013 sur l’île de Lampedusa par une chaîne locale en ligne, Libera Espressione, (traduction et résumé des entretiens en français à la fin du mail):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://palermo.repubblica.it/
Boom di sbarchi sulle coste siciliane
soccorsi 469 migranti, altri 150 in arrivo
Immigrati a bordo di un barcone
Il barcone è stato avvistato e bloccato al largo di Lampedusa. Intervento all’alba a Capo Passero, dove le motovedette hanno tratto in salvo 84 persone su un’altra imbarcazione
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Die Innenminister Libyens, Tunesiens, Algeriens, Marokkos, Mauretaniens, Maltas, Italiens, Frankreichs Spaniens und Portugals treffen sich am 09.04.2013 in Algier und am 20.04.2013 in Rabat. Es handelt sich um die 15. Konferenz der 5+5-Gruppe, die jetzt auch unter CIMO firmiert (les ministres de l’Intérieur de la Méditerranée occidentale). Diese Konferenzreihe wurde von der IOM (International Organisation for Migration) ins Leben gerufen und hat sich im Laufe der Jahre auch zu einer politisch-militärischen Institution im westlichen Mittelmeer entwickelt.
Les ministres de l’Intérieur des 5+5 à Alger : Une rencontre de routine dans un contexte sahélien troublé
par Salem Ferdi
http://www.lequotidien-oran.com/index.php?news=5181391
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Coordinamento Migranti statement after the general demonstration of Migrants held in Bologna on March 23.
I also attach some links to videos and pictures of the demo.
Best
Paola
More than 3000 people, the vast majority of whom were migrants, demonstrated in Bologna on March 23rd. Under continuous rain, the anger of migrants was evident in the compactness of the march: “better that it rains – some said – so that they see that we are strong”. Anger and strength that was very visible and forceful. A migrant worker who had participated to the previous days strike of logistics workers said: “Today celebration must have its conclusion. Yesterday we started our celebration. And today we conclude it here”. This is the truth of the general demonstration of March 23rd 2013 in Bologna.
It was a new and different kind of demonstration, strengthened by the worker and migrant insubordination that the day before produced the strike of logistics workers. This is true first of all because many of the same migrants who organized the strike organized the demonstration. The political centrality conquered by these migrant workers opened a space of action such that in Bologna thousands of other migrants from various Italian cities demanded the abolition of the connection between residency papers and work contract, the closing of all detention centres, a citizenship law that does not ignore their children, the recognition of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. It was a truly transnational space, that united, not only ideally, Bologna with other European cities like Amsterdam and Berlin, and with the rest of the world: from Senegal to Pakistan, from Bangladesh to Morocco, from France to Albania, where through social networks the voices, photos and videos of the Bologna March are already circulating.
The demonstration thus assumed a general political significance. March 22nd and 23rd migrants raised their heads and showed the way forward to other workers. From the many nodes of logistics, from the peripheries and the warehouses they seized the centre of the city bringing into the streets their force, their anger, their lives and their unconditional demand for a future. This demand is that of the migrant women who participated in the march to say that they are not only here to serve. It is the demand of migrant youth who do not want to be educated only to add greater numbers to a work force willing to work at any condition. And the demand of those who live under the sign of precarity and who see, in the struggle and determination of migrants, the force and the possibility of raising their own heads. There were italian workers from a few local factories who for years have supported the struggles of migrants. But there were not that many Italians present, because when migrants move as migrants, when they call to struggle, perhaps its easier to adhere to the march formally, than do something else. But the political liberation from the condition imposed on migrants and the struggle against exploitation are two things that can no longer be kept separate.
The 22nd and 23rd of March migrants forcefully showed that this is the moment! From Bologna, from this anger and force expressed in the streets, from all the situations that supported us and from all the cities in Italy that observed the march from a distance, a strong and clear political message was sent: it is time to abolish the Bossi-Fini law. It is time to end the institutional racism that imposes hierarchies between workers, in Italy and in Europe. It is time to end work conditions of exploitation that from migrant labor have expanded to become the condition of all labor. It is time to end the precarization of labor and life. It is time for organization and struggle.
They said we were a danger to the public interest and we dance, they painted us as victims and we struggle. It is time for the struggle that liberates and that thus is a celebration. It is time, period.
Coordinamento Migranti Bologna
http://coordinamentomigranti.org/2013/03/29/ora-e-il-momento-nuovo-video-facciamo-partire-una-nuova-stagione-per-dire-bastya-sfruttamento-bastabossifini/
http://coordinamentomigranti.org/2013/03/24/23-marzo-bastabossifini-migliaia-in-corteo-a-bologna-video-foto/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coordinamentomigranti/tags/bastabossifini/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coordinamentomigranti/tags/lucia/show/
Die „European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)“ veröffentlicht einen umfassenden Bericht zu den Grundrechten an der EU-Südgrenze.
A new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents the results of in-depth research in four EU Member States with southern EU sea borders.
It describes the hazardous journey and deaths at sea, discusses current maritime surveillance mechanisms and cooperation with third countries, and details the treatment of migrants when they arrive on shore. A final chapter is devoted to sea operations coordinated by the EU’s border control agency (Frontex), and to EU solidarity mechanisms.
Die Sofortabschiebungen von Boat-people in den letzten 2 Tagen aus Süditalien gingen nach Ägypten. Die Flüchtlinge, die in Syrakus ankamen, wurden in informellen Ad-Hoc-Abschiebezentren (wie Stadien) festgehalten, völlig von der Außenwelt abgeschirmt und verhört. In den Medien erschien zunächst keine Meldung. Dann wurden sie nach dem Rückübernahmeabkommen, das die italienische Regierung mit Mubarak 2007 abgeschlossen hat, nach Ägypten abgeschoben.
Detailliert wird in folgendem Artikel beschrieben, wie die Boat-people erfolgreich über Satellitentelefone SOS gemeldet haben, wie diverse Schiffe die Flüchtlinge zunächst an Bord genommen und später an die italienische Küstenwache übergeben haben.
Unterdessen sind 2 Boat-people an Unterkühlung gestorben (s.u.)
Immigrazione, riprendono gli sbarchi a Lampedusa: soccorse 500 persone
Con la primavera riprendono i ‚viaggi della speranza‘ verso le coste italiane di migranti extracomunitari
Roma, 29 marzo 2013 – Con l’arrivo della primavera e il conseguente miglioramento delle condizioni meteorologiche, riprendono i ‚viaggi della speranza‘ verso le coste italiane di migranti extracomunitari. Negli ultimi due giorni sono state 475 le persone soccorse in mare, quasi tutte già arrivate a Lampedusa o in Sicilia.
Weiterlesen »In den vergangenen 48 Stunden sind über 470 Boat-people in Lampedusa und auf Sizilien angekommen, unter ihnen viele Kinder, auch Frauen mit Babys. Die Ankommenden werden anscheinend sofort abgeschoben, ohne jegliche individuelle Prüfung – Kollektivabschiebungen dieser Art sind international geächtet. Wohin wurden sie abgeschoben? Als erste Organisation protestiert Save the Children gegen diese Praxis, ihnen wurde wie allen anderen der Zugang zu den Boat-people verweigert.
http://com.unita.it/mondo/2013/03/29/sbarchi-e-nuovi-respingimenti/
Die Boat-people waren größtenteils 2 Tage unterwegs. Unter ihnen waren nicht nur subsaharische Flüchtlinge, sondern auch Pakistanis, Bangladeshis und MarokkanerInnen (1 Boot).
90 weitere Boat-people sind zeitgleich in Malta angekommen.
http://www.andalucianoticias.es/los-guardacostas-intecerptan-al-sur-de-italia-ocho-pateras-con-470-inmigrantes-a-bordo-310955/
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65 immigrés clandestins de différentes nationalités sauvés au large de Médenine
Les gardes côtes de Médenine ont réussi, ce jeudi 28 mars 2013 à sauver 65 prétendants à l’immigration clandestine de différentes nationalités, partis de Libye en direction des côtes siciliennes.
