December 14th, a call to fight borders and police repression
Wanneer: 07/12/2015 - 12:37
In recent months, from Ventimiglia to Calais, state violence has increased against those who travel without papers. We see this in the re-introduction of border controls in various states in the Schengen zone that (among other things) resulted in new jungles in places like Ventimiglia, to the subsequent violent destruction of that jungle on the 30th of September, to the vast increase in French and British police in Calais, (plus the army at times), not counting the proliferation of measures that deny people access to European travel papers in the first place.
Those who stand in solidarity with them have faced increased levels of repression too. On December 14th, 2 people connected to the No Border Network will stand trial in Nice and Boulogne, France. One of them was arrested simply for being present in front of the border police station of Menton (on the French side of the border with Italy, close to Ventimiglia) during one of the many deportations of people from France to Italy. The other is accused of having organised riots in the Calais jungle, which is ridiculous, as those living in the jungle are perfectly capable of taking political action on their own intitiative.
These two trials show the willpower of the french and british state to break up the No Border Network, which has struggled for many years for the freedom of movement for all, without which those humanitarian emergency situations that create exiles will never be solved.
Now the french state is trying to muzzle any expression that stands against its goals by establishing a state of emergency, within a Fortress Europe that again reinforces an inside and an outside. We have to, now more than ever, affirm our determination and our unity against the repressive strategies of the state.
Let’s fight back and make December 14th a day of action against state repression, but above all against borders, against deportations and against all nation states.
https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
* Op 14 december moeten in Nederland vijf mensen voorkomen wegens het interrumperen van de raadsvergadering in de gemeente Zeist tijdens de actiedag op 6 oktober (http://aagu.nl/2015/verstoren-gemeenteraad-6.10.15.html). Ze deden dat om te eisen dat de gemeenteraad de bouwvergunning voor de gezinsgevangenis voor vluchtelingen op Kamp Zeist zou intrekken.
14.10 uur, rechtbank Utrecht, Vrouwe Justitiaplein 1 Utrecht.
Voor een van hen wordt ook een andere zaak tegelijk behandeld en tweemaal een vordering ten uitvoerlegging van een eerdere voorwaardelijke straf van twee maanden gevorderd.
Op 10 december is er een digitale actiedag tegen de bouw(er) van deze gezinsgevangenis: http://aagu.nl/2015/online-actie-gezinsgevangenis-kampzeist.html
* In the Netherlands, on december 14 five people have to stand trial for interrupting the Town Council meeting in Zeist during the action day on October 6 (http://aagu.nl/2015/verstoren-gemeenteraad-6.10.15.html#eng) . They did this to demand that the Town Council would withdraw the building permit for the family prison for refugees at Kamp Zeist.
2.10 PM, court Utrecht, Vrouwe Justitiaplein 1 Utrecht.
In the case of one of them another case has been added and there is also a demand of the public prosecuter to execute a previous suspended sentence of two months.
On December 10 there is a digital action day against the construction (company) of this familyprison: http://aagu.nl/2015/online-actie-gezinsgevangenis-kampzeist.html#eng