No Camp

We have received a report from residents of a camp near Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, which we would like to share here. The residents report about the ignorance with which the needs of refugees with handicap are not taken into account. They have therefore written an open letter to the responsible authorities. They also report on other problems, lack of transparency and disrespectful treatment. The report is in line with what we hear again and again from other refugee camps.

The ADD is the “Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion” of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which is responsible for the accommodation and the transfer of refugees.

„This morning I went with my roommate, his name is M*, to ADD (ADD is the responsible for management and transfer department  in the camp). M* and me decided to make a Hunger-strike. Here is the story of what happened:

My roommate has special needs, he has a sickness and he will be blind, he already can see only 20% and he has a hope that he can find a treatment in Germany, this is why he decided to apply for asylum in Germany.

A few months ago, he has been transferred out of the camp to a village at the border, and the ADD never considered he has special needs. M* found himself alone in the village, so his abilities to survive by himself all alone was very little.
M* have decided to come back to the camp again, where he can find some help for Cookinseln food, and familiar people and environment.

So, he came back to the camp, and he knew that he needs someone that he trusts from the camp, to go with him on transfer, which would fix the problem. M* prepared a list of 3 or 4 names. Some people that he know from the camp he trusts. Then, he asked ADD if that was possible to accept, one of the 3 or 4 names to go with him on transfer and they said it is possible.

A few weeks later, M* has got a date for transfer, on the 15th of June, but he didn’t recognize anyone from the name he recommended to go with him.

So, he and me went again to the ADD asking, why they didn’t choose anyone from names to go with him on transfer. Then one of the ADD’s employees met us and he said „we can not give you one of the names that you
recommended”.
The Employees of the ADD are the most racists humans that you can ever meet in Germany, beside the employees of the foreigners office. The ADD’s employee is very famous in the camp being rude and racist, i don’t remember his name.

He stressed many many times in the conversations, that WE ARE GERMANS and YOU ARE EGYPTIAN, people have to be in the camp up to 18 months, and it seems like we are in a jail. I asked him very politely, can you be clear with us and stop giving us the painkiller saying ” we don’t have information about the decision of transfer, on what it is based?????” This what i asked; make it clear about the procedures of the transfer, then we will stop complain and bother you asking questions regarding transfer.
He said: Non of the list you gave us has a positive decision, so they can not be transferred. And he stressed in case of rejection of the asylum application, especially Egyptians have to be in the camp up to 18
months, although it´s a big lie, because 1000 of Egyptian and none Egyptian people got transferred from  the camp and the have negative decision regarding the asylum application.

Some facts:
Every wednesday, the ADD is open from 10 am til 11:30 am, for questions regarding transfer. This is a strategy what i call  “PAINKILLER”, they have prepared answers
1- we don’t know
2- the law is saying you can not complain, because you are her up to 18 months
3- if you have a positive decision, then its possible to go on transfer.

Me and M* are going to continue our Hunger-Strike until we find a clear answer regarding my question
“The decision of transfer on the camp is based on what?????”

If you can help us to get our voice to the German media, this will be so much appreciated.“

S* & M*

Social work zw. institutional constraints & political aspirations

It will continue to be deported. Despite the corona pandemic, collective deportations to Afghanistan, Albania, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Serbia and Tunisia, among others, have been announced for June 2021. Regardless of the political, economic and health situation in the countries of origin, the Federal Republic continues to force people back into persecution, poverty and discrimination.
When people are threatened by this sad reality, social professionals and volunteers in particular seem to have their hands tied. When accompanying refugees, they repeatedly experience a contradiction between their own (professional) ethos and state constraints: on the one hand, they want to support people and help them to a self-determined perspective, on the other hand, they have to follow legal and official requirements. In some cases, they are urged by employers to act against their own convictions and, for example, to cooperate in the execution of deportations or similar. How can employees behave in this field of tension? What should be done if, for example.B, the rejection notice or the request to leave the country has been received? What can professionals do during a deportation from the property to protect the rights of residents? What is the police allowed to do, what are they not allowed to do?
The critical social scientist and social worker Sebastian Muy advises refugees in Berlin and will give technical input on these questions. During the event there will be the opportunity to ask questions and discuss together.
The event is aimed in particular at people who accompany refugees for work or on a voluntary basis.

When: Tuesday, 22.06.2021, 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
The event will take place via Zoom. Registrations until 21.06.2021 by e-mail at rechtaufasyl@gmx.de [nicht über facebook] . The access link will be sent by e-mail shortly before the event.

An event of the AG Bleiben
in cooperation with DBSH (Deutscher Berufsverband für Soziale Arbeit e.V.)

The organizers reserve the right to deny persons who belong to extreme right-wing parties or organizations, are assigned to the extreme right-wing scene or have already appeared or have already appeared through racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic, sexist, anti-lgbtiq*-class, ableist or other inhumane statements to access or exclude them from the Zoom event."

The dying in the Mediterranean does not stop. In the first four months of this year alone, 599 people drowned.

As last year, we want to remember these people, not forget them. To pay them the respect that Fortress Europe so deadly denies.
Join and come to Kennedyplatz on 20.06. between 13 and 18 o'clock. Let us together remember for a moment in silence the victims of the European policy of isolation. Let's come together and show: We haven't forgotten you. We will give your names. We will remember you.

No camps for refugees! nowhere!

There is no way around the fact that accommodation policy for refugees, also here in Germany, is becoming
housing policy!

Camps for refugees everywhere serve an effective organized policy of disenfranchisation, isolation,
exclusion and deportation.
This is precisely why they are a central building block in global, politically organised migration management.
This approach has a plausibility for society as a whole:
the migration issue is "managed" by politics and business in an inhumane way, without a public and society-wide debate about it arising!

People are dying and the world is looking the other way!

We, numerous Aachen groups and organizations, will break the silence with creative contributions about the self-evident disenfranchisation and isolation of refugees!

Join in and join us!
19.6.2021 from 3 pm at the market in Aachen

We demand:

• dhe closure and evacuation of all refugee camps outside and inside the EU!
  The Federal Government must act immediately accordingly and must not use financial
  support, e.g.buy Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Libya in the name of all of us from any responsibility!
• stopping violent and illegal pushbacks at sea and at the EU's external borders!
  Stop the murderous manhunt by Frontex, the Croatian border police and other executors of the global border regimes, which are co-financed by the EU.
• sichere and legal migration routes / escape routes!
  The right of access to a fair asylum procedure in conjunction with physical integrity must be valid and feasible for ALL people!
• the closure of all collective accommodation for refugees in Germany!
  Decentralised accommodation and social equality without racist special laws, such as the so-called Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act.

The Action Alliance Aachen "No camps for refugees! Nowhere!"

Signatories:
Seebrücke Aachen, Aktion Bürger*innenasyl Aachen, Zusammenleben Willkommen / Regionalgruppe Ac,
Pfarrer Helmut Aston – Ökumenische Euregionale Flüchtlingsplattform, Förderkreis Asyl Würselen e.V.,
AKS – Arbeitskreis Kritische Soziale Arbeit Aachen, Antikriegsbündnis Aachen, Arbeitskreis International / Katho
Aachen

"The forced isolation in the camps must be broken"

Press release #2
June 18, 2021

Tomorrow, Saturday, June 19, the No-Lager Action Days will start in several NRW
cities: Around the World Day of Refugees (June 20),
there will be numerous demos, actions, exhibitions and discussion rounds around the reception of refugees in general and especially in NRW until June 27.

The Antira-Vernetzung NRW calls for a
humane reception of refugees, decentralised accommodation
and the closure of all large collection camps.On Friday, June 25, there will be
a NRW-wide demonstration in Düsseldorf.
"Public attention in recent months has
focused, for good reason, on the inhumane conditions in camps such as
Moria on the EU's external borders.But the isolation and the locking away
also takes place here in NRW.There is political calculation behind
this: it is easier to deport people who do not yet
have work colleagues, neighbours and classmates here.
We want to break through this politically forced isolation," says Franka
Schmidt from the Antiracist Network NRW.

The following events will take place in the next few days:

Sat. 19.6.- Aachen, from 3 p.m., On the market
rally
For the evacuation and closure of all refugee camps; for
safe and legal escape routes _ _

Sat.19.6. to Sun.20.06.- Wuppertal, from 12 to 12 o'clock, Utopia
Stadt/Mirker Bahnhof
Reading and rally
24-hours against forgetting
_ _
Sun.20.6.- Münster, from 2 p.m., Münster confesses color meadow
vigil in memory of all victims of the racist
migration system on the occasion of the World Day of Refugees _ _

Mo.21.6.- Siegen, downtown
info booth _ _

Mo.21.6. to 27.6.- Düsseldorf, Kiefernstr.4 (K4)
Exhibition "Leben in der ZUE" (Opening 21.6. at 6 pm)
Installation of a multi-bed room from a ZUE (Central
Accommodation Facility) _ _

Tue.22.6.- Online (ZOOM), 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Webinar Deportation from accommodation – Social work between institutional

coercion and political entitlement"
Registration at: rechtaufasyl@gmx.de
_ _
Wed.23.6.- Münster, from 12 noon – Münster confesses color meadow
tent installation with information walk to the camps at the external borders and the accommodation facilities in NRW
and in Münster.
Rallies between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
_ _
Fri.25.6.- Düsseldorf, start 17:00 – DGB Haus (near the main station)
Central demonstration of the NoLager action week with speeches by
activists & refugees and the
"Mediterranean monologues"
_ _
So.27.06.- Cologne, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., start at the Heumarkt
inforundgang and course
_ _
Sun.27.06.- Münster, beginning 2 pm, Aaseekugeln
bicycle demo followed by a rally in front of the ZUE Münster

Views and further information on all events and activities
can be found on our website: https://no-lager.eu/

Contact and interview requests:
Mail: info@no-lager.eu

Close camp, accommodate refugees decentrally!

Press release #1
June 13, 2021

In numerous cities in NRW such as Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Münster, Siegen and Wuppertal, there will be a variety of protest actions from 19 to 27 June 2021 against the accommodation of bred people in camps. The "No Lager-Aktionswoche" is being called for by the Antiracist Network NRW, in which anti-racist actors from NRW have joined forces. The action week is directed against the isolation and systematic unequal treatment and disenfranchisement of refugees by camps at the EU's external borders and in NRW.
In addition to the decentralized customer meetings, art actions, lectures, etc., there will be a central NRW-wide demonstration entitled "Close the camps – break isolation!" in Düsseldorf on Friday, 25 June 2021 to draw attention to the situation in the collective accommodations.

The call of the action week states: "Massive tightening of the law makes it possible for the people in the camps to be systematically denied fundamental rights to privacy, schooling, regular medical care or job opportunities, among other things.
Many people are exposed to the cycle of tightness, permanent controls, monotony, fear of deportation and violence for up to 2 years. In the remote camps, contact with the rest of the population is made virtually impossible for them, and political and social networking with other refugees is made more difficult.
Their isolation is politically desired. It is intended to enable the deportations, which mainly take place from NRW state accommodation, to run smoothly and at the same time to prevent the public debate about the camps that are isolated from society.
This self-evident disenfranchisation and isolation of refugees must be broken. There must finally be a social debate on the subject of the reception and humane decentralised accommodation of refugees."
With the "No Lager Action Week", the Antiracist Network NRW wants to publicly address the disenfranchousing of refugees, network anti-racist actors and send a solidarity signal to the people in the camps.

Information on the "No Lager Action Week" from 19 to 27 June 2021 and the planned activities can be found online at: https://no-lager.eu/
Twitter: @AntiraNRW

Contact and interview requests:
Mail: info@no-lager.eu

On 20.06., 2 p.m., the exact location will be announced.

On World Refugee Day, a vigil of the Sea-Eye local group will take place in Münster to commemorate all the people who drowned in the Mediterranean and all the victims of the racist migration system.

There are also camps in Münster – there is also resistance in Münster

23.06., from 12 o'clock, Münster confesses color meadow.

There are also camps in Münster – there is also resistance in Münster.
With the protest camp on the Münster, Farbe-Wiese confesses that the NoLager network in Münster brings the occupation with camps, which are otherwise so often moved to outlying districts or to the external borders, to the center of the city. Throughout the day, tents are pitched on the meadow. Along the tents there will be an information walkway, which addresses the disenfrancfrancion of people in camps at the external borders, but also in the accommodation facilities in NRW and Münster.
Rallies will take place at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Bicycle demo followed by a rally in front of the ZUE

Start on 27.06. at 14 o'clock at the Aaseekugeln.
Rally at the ZUE (Albersloher Weg 450).

For a decentralized, humane accommodation.
For an anti-racist and solidary society – with everyone and for all.

Since February, a bicycle demonstration has been held every month followed by a rally at the ZUE in Münster to oppose the isolation and disenfranchisation of refugees. Also on the 27th we will bring our protest against the nationalist system to the streets.