An antinational border action will take place at the Brenner on the 1st of March, the Transnational Migrant Strike Day. This border crossing point, which has big importance for migration routes, is in the focus of trinational police patrols and marked by constant Dublin- deportations. Together with noborder- activists from different groups in Germany, Italy and Austria, we want to show a sign of solidarity against the border control regime and the racist defence policy!
1st
OF MARCH TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANT STRIKE 2015
Brennero aperto – Free passage across Brenner
An antinational border action will take place at the Brenner on the 1st of
March, the Transnational Migrant Strike Day. This border crossing point, which
has big importance for migration routes, is in the focus of trinational police
patrols and marked by constant Dublin- deportations. Together with
noborder-activists from different groups in Germany, Italy and Austria, we want
to show a sign of solidarity against the border control regime and the racist
defence policy! You can find the call from Plattform Bleiberecht as well as
more information further below.
There is the possibility to go to Innsbruck on Saturday already. The fastest
and cheapest possibility is to go by ride sharing. At the moment there are
still some Sparschiene (ÖBB)- tickets available. The Fernbus takes nearly 9
hours from Vienna and costs 28,50€.
We meet on the 28th of February at 18:30 in front of the Main train station in
Innsbruck and continue together from this place.
For everyone who wants to arrive on Saturday, there is the possibility to
arrange sleeping places in Innsbruck. Please write a mail to
brenneroaperto[at]riseup.net! You can also contact us there for further
questions!
The call from Plattform Bleiberecht Innsbruck:
*Brennero aperto – Free passage across Brenner*
Sunday, 1st of march – Transnational Migrant Strike
9:30 a.m. Trainstation Innsbruck (Plattform 41)*
Demonstration from the Brennero Train Station, crossing the border
No Border Action at the Border between Austria and
Italy, Bundesstraße, Round-about*
3 p.m. Theatre and Information at Bäckerei,
Dreiheiligenstraße 21*
* according to the impact racist laws have on refugees, taking the train is
only possible for people with valid documents for Italy and Austria. There will
be cars driving from Innsbruck to the Austrian side of the border.
Nearly 6 000 Refugees have been stopped last year by the Tyrolean police on
their way north and have been pushed back to Italy. Since November 2014 the
German, Austrian and Italian police patrol trains on Italian territory together
in trinational controls, expelling refugees from the train before they even
enter Austria. This caused the decrease of official push-backs, rendering the
„problem“ for Tyrolean
politics less visible.
*Make independent legal advice possible!*
A recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (EctHR) declared
push-backs illegal that affect families and people with impairments if they had
not been carefully considered as individual cases.
That the police is informing people who escaped about their legal possibilities
during the asylum application or is concerned about the legality of the
push-backs, is to be doubted. If so, why would the police authorities reject
accessibility to independent legal aid for the detention center in Plon, where
refugees are imprisoned in order to be transferred to the Italian police?
*Abolish the Dublin-Regulation!*
The Dublin-Regulation, declaring EU-member states to be in charge of the asylum
procedures as soon as the police records persons on their territory, leads to a
massive imbalance between the different member
states of the EU. While (rich) countries of the north - especially Germany,
Austria, France – massively reject a new regulation of European refugee
policies, the humanitarian and legal support structures for
refugees are collapsing in southern countries, which are currently deeply
affected by the capitalist crisis.
Since 2011 deportations to Greece are declared illegal, as the living
conditions for migrants are unbearably
catastrophic even according to EU-Criteria.
For the 1st of March, Plattform Bleiberecht, together with activists from
Vienna, Bavaria and South Tyrol, will be on strike at the „invisible“ border at
Brenner(o) to make visible the politics of refugee warding
carried out by Austrian and German (police) authorities.
Join us!
*Why 1st of March?*
The 1st of March is the Transnational Migrant Strike day. We want to make the
„invisible“ border at Brenner(o) visible again to many people. This day is
chosen by migrants, refugees and people in solidarity to call attention to the
refugees' and migrants' condition of unequal treatment, missing social and
political rights and repression.
It is taking place for the fifth time in Innsbruck/Tyrol as a sign of struggle
in solidarity for equal rights for every human being.
*WE DEMAND*
* Abolish Dublin-Regulation. Free Choice for Refugees to choose their country
of destination!
* Independent legal aid at the detention center in Plon!
* Free Movement everywhere!
* Same rights for every human!
*No border! No nation!
Stop deportation!*