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Make Donation for the Refugee Community in the lagers/camps in Germnay! – Break the Isolation! Close all lagers!
Datum: Mittwoch, 17. November 2010 10:30
DEUTSCH: Aufruf zur Spende für die Flüchtlingscommunitys in den Lagern:
Brecht die Isolation! Alle Lager schließen!
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1850
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Make Donation for the Refugee Community in the lagers/camps in Germnay! –
Break the Isolation! Close all lagers!
We are breaking the silence against the isolation of refugees.
In Solidarity with the refugees our struggles continues – and so does our
work!
Dear friends and supporters,
We want to thank you once more for the various support you gave to our
Caravan-Festival in Jena, which was a great inspiration for many refugees.
It was an important result of the festival that we could intensify our
struggle against the system of isolation camps in Germany.
We intensively support the fight of the refugees in Gerstungen,
Breitenworbis, Gangloffsömmern, Zella-Mehlis in Thuüringen against isolation
and deportation. Many interviews and films with people from the camp as well
as reports and press articles were the result of many visits by activists
and journalists. Also in other regions The VOICE activists are active
against the conditions in refugee camps. Especially in Sachsen-Anhalt
(Möhlau) and Baden-Württemberg (Biberach) refugees fight against social
exclusion and isolation in camps. We have been informing you about our
activities in various publications during the last months.
These activities demand a great investment of time and financial ressources.
To be able to continue our struggle we continuously need your support.
Networking
Regular contact with the refugees in the camps and of the refugees within
themselves is a very important aspect of our struggle. In the recent time,
The VOICE activists, journalists and other interested persons and activists
have regularly visited the isolation camp in Gerstungen. These visits to
refugee camps are to be intensified in the near future. Especially
networking of the refugees from different camps has an important meaning. We
are planning delegations between different refugee camps for mutual support
and documentation.
Documentation
To reach sustainable political impact we are working on a large
documentation on the situation in the refugee camps in Thüringen
(Gerstungen, Breitenworbis, Gangloffsömmern, Zella-Mehlis). Therefore we are
planning press and online-reports as well as exhibitions in and about the
camps and arts projects.
Especially we want to use the medium of video documentation which we find
very appropriate for public relation. In the long run we will need technical
equipment of good quality to realise effective, fast and money saving work.
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An update of our brochure on „residenzpflicht“ which includes recent
campaigns and developments will also be part of our documentation project.
Banga from Gerstungen
A main topic of the „Lager-Campaign“ turned out to be the support of Banga
from Gerstungen who became blind in Germany as a result of police brutality
and social exclusion. The videos and reports about him have raised a high
level of public awareness. Nevertheless more support will be needed. We want
to make sure that he gets the necessary legal defence and security by the
help of a lawyer as well as basic medical and humanitarian support. Video by
Bing Banga >> http://www.youtube.com/thevoicejena
Deportation from Gerstungen
Part of the fight against isolation and lagersystem are the documentation
and the prostest against deportations which are aimed at intimidating
refugees and breaking their solidarity. Reza Memar Bashee, activist of the
refugee community, and his wife and his two children were deported from
Gerstungen by the police – at 3.30h in the night from 25th to 26th October
2010.. They were only informed at that very moment that they were about to
be taken to Holland. Neither a lawyer, nor relatives or other supporters
could be informed. The fight and the public protest against deportations
have always been a main aim of The VOICE.
For a long time activist of The VOICE in Möhlau has been protesting the
situation in the refugee camp in Möhlau. Now the authorities are planning
the closure of the camp. We see this as the success of the struggle of the
refugees.
Möhlau http://refugeeinitiativewittenberg.blogspot.com
For months the activists of The VOICE Baden-Württemberg have been organizing
prostest agains food packages and the living conditions of refugees. The
public work and the networking of the refugee camps in Baden-Württemberg
afford a high level of mobility of our activists. Baden-Württemberg
http://fluechtlingsbc.wordpress.com
Mobility
To realize our projects we depend on a good functioning infrastructure. Our
organisation was donated two cars which are very important for our regular
visits to remote refugee camps in Thüringen. For the maintainance of the
cars we need regular and reliable income. In other regions, our activists
still depend on public transport. For our main activists having
a „Bahncard“ is therefore very important to make transport cheaper.
Office and infrastructure
At the moment, apart from the office of the „Förderverein“ in Göttingen (no
costs), The VOICE Refugee Forum needs offices in Jena and in Berlin, which
are to a great part financed by solidarity contributions but which cause
nevertheless small costs for maintainance. It is also necessary to support
our activists in Berlin, Jena, Möhlau and Baden-Württemberg with the payment
of telephone and internet use. Communication via telephone and internet is
fundamental for our work.
To continue our work effectively, it is very important that these basic
structures are taken care of.
We therefore ask you to continue or start your support of our intensive
activities – in order to make long term planning possible.
The system of slow destruction – a decade of Duldung in Gerstungen
http://www.thevoiceforum.org/node/1834
Video Channel – The VOICE Refugee Network
http://www.youtube.com/thevoicejena
We are also grateful for donation of materials as e.g. good computer or film
equipment or surf sticks for refugee camps.
Our account:
Förderverein The VOICE e.V.
Sparkasse Göttingen
Kontonummer 127829
BLZ: 260 500 01
Kennwort: (according to choice)
Documentation – Banga – Baden-Württemberg – Möhlau – Mobility –
Infrastructure
„Unite against colonial injustice – close all lagers!“
In solidarity
Förderverein The VOICE e.V.,
Geismar Landstr. 19, 37083 Göttingen
Tel.: +49 (0)551/2712898
Handy:+49 (0)170/8788124
E-mail: Foerderverein_The_VOICE@web.de, THE_VOICE_goettingen@gmx.de
Info: www.thevoiceforum.org
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