Update of manifold migrationrelated Anti-G8-activities (May 2007): only english!

Following an update of the manifold migrationrelated activities in the
frame of coming anti-g8-mobilisation. as mentioned earlier we want to
organise it as transnational as possible! and so we hope, that much
more
people and groups from this list (and beyond) will join our
mobilisation.
More details of our program will follow coming week.

Migrationrelated Activities in the frame of Anti-G8-mobilisation in
Germany

1. Activities in the forefront/within next weeks before the G8;
2. An overview about the general anti-G8-choreography in the week of
June
and the migrationrelated focal points;
3. The migrationrelated networking-meeting and "cross-over"-events on
3rd
of June and our participation in the alternative summit;
4. The migrationrelated actionday on 4th of June and the big evening
event
at the same day.

1. Activities in the forefront - within next weeks before the G8

Particular importance will be given to the caravan/NoLager-tour,
which will start at 19th of May in Neuburg/Bavaria and which will stop
in
various cities ( for example in Freienbessingen, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf,
Bielefeld, Bramsche, Blankenburg/Oldenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Horst,
Schwerin, Berlin), before it arrives in Rostock for the big
demonstration
on 2nd of June. Find more detailled informations at
http://thecaravan.org/node/1175

Additionally should be mentioned, that this caravan/NoLager-tour will
"unite" with the western part of Euromarch on 28th of May in
Oldenburg. These marches against precariousness will take place between
26th of May and 2nd of June, and they move from 3 directions to Rostock
in
order to join the big demonstration too. Find more informations and the
call also in english, french, russian at
http://euromarsch2007.labournet.de/.

2. An overview about the general anti-G8-choreography in the week of
June
and the migrationrelated topics

On several websites (go to http://nolager.de/blog/node/567#attachments)
you can find a graphical choreography, which offers a better overview
about the whole actionweek in June.
The actionweek will start with a hopefully huge demonstration on 2nd of
June in Rostock. You will find the call for this demonstration at
http://www.heiligendamm2007.de/Demo_en/index_demo_en.html
(in english), and it includes also some of our main migrationrelated
demands.
At 3rd of June a demonstration and a rallye will happen about "global
agriculture", moreover -as on the evening before- a concert and more
cultural events are under preparation.
Beside this the 3rd of June (sunday) should be used for
networking-meetings and further discussion-events (find more below at
item
3).
Concerning 4th of June, the migrationrelated actionday, find more at
item
4. At 5th of June - with a main reference against militarisation and
war-
the blockades will start around the small airport in Rostock-Laage,
which
is also used as military base. At this airport the arrival of the
presidents is exspected in the afternoon of this tuesday!
At the same evening the alternative summit will start and continues
until
7th of June.
Mass-blockades as well as flexible, decentralized blockades can be
exspected in the early morning of 6th of June around Heiligendamm (the
place of the summit). And on 7th of June the blockades will be combined
with demonstrations, which should lead to the fences of the red zone.
So
far a rough overview and you can find more detailled informations
mainly
on 2 websites (also in english):
http://www.heiligendamm2007.de/
http://gipfelsoli.org/

3. The migrationrelated networking-meeting and "cross-over"-events on
3rd
of June and our participation in the alternative summit

Opening event
The sunday (3rd of June) will start with a big opening event from 10
a.m.
to 1 p.m. It will be organised as a debate "about perspectives in and
beyond Europe". A first input will be presented by a german unionist,
followed by critical comments and remarks from other social movements
(anti-war-network, precarity-network ...). And Lucille Daumas from
attac
in Marocco and very much involved in the activities against the
externalisation of EU-migration-control to North-Africa, will represent
the migrationrelated networks on this podium.
The debate should work as a "cross-over" event, leading together the
various social movements, and in the same time it should introduce into
the respective networking meetings and forums, which will follow at
sunday
afternoon.

Migrationrelated networking meeting
The migrationrelated networking meeting will start at 2 p.m., probably
in
a school in rostock, which is already now used as convergence center.
We want to start with a very brief plenary (maximum for one hour until
3
p.m.), where we want to present the respective workshops and the aims
and
expsectations of this networking meeting.
Our main interest is to meet in really "horizontal discussions" with
very
brief inputs (and not long presentations!), with a main focus on common
discussions in a hopefully transnational composition.
Until now about 10 migrationrelated workshops are under preparation,
for
example: legalisation; racist police violence; "lager" and
borderregime;
deportations and readmission programs; precariousness and migration;
remittances and development ... Various groups or persons took the
responsibilities to coordinate and prepare the respective topics.
The main intention at least in some of the workshops is to overcome a
mere
information-exchange, rather to discuss about transnational campaigns
and
concrete interventions. Of course more time is needed in such a
perspective, so these workshops will be organised as double slots until
the evening.
And we just think for a final common plenary about transnational
campaigns
and communication in the evening of the sunday, where we want to bring
together the concrete results of some of the workshops.
We want to stress again, that we see this meeting in the continuation
of
transnational gatherings during last two years in the frame of european
and world social forums, the conference in Rabat and the actionday at
7th
of October 2006. So the workshops should offer first of all the
opportunity to strengthen and to deepen the networking processes by
identifying focal campaigns on a transnational level.

Alternative summit
Additionally the option is given to continue a few workshops in the
frame
of the alternative summit. This counter-conference will start on the
evening of 5th of June, and Madjiguene Cisse, a famous former sans
papier activist in France and engaged in womens-projects in Senegal
now,
will be a main speaker in the opening plenary.
Moreover a socalled "middle-podium" (8 bigger events about various
topics
during wednesday, 6th of June, are planned) is under preparation, which
will focus to the structural background of flight and migration in
Africa
and East-Europe. Some guests from various african and east-european
countries will take part on it.

4. The migrationrelated actionday on 4th of June and the big evening
event
at the same day

For 4th of June, day of migration, we plan decentralized activities in
the
morning, first of all a siege or blocakde of the local foreign office
in
Rostock (where just in moment - as an example- a lot of deportations to
Togo are organized). Secondly a remembrance-action will take place in
Lichtenhagen, a quarter of Rostock, where 15 years ago one of the most
significant racist pogrom took place. And simultanously at the main
public
place in the inner city of Rostock we want to be present with
exhibitions,
information-stands, street-theater and installations (of borderfences
and
walls for example).

At 1 p.m. we want to start our main demonstration! Starting point will
be
the local refugee-camp in Rostock, and then we will march with as much
people and as loud and colourful as possible to the inner city. The
demonstration will end in a manifestation with a concert on another
public
place.

For the evening a big discussion-event is proposed, under the title:
freedom of movement against global apartheid! Migrationrelated
activists
from different continents should be brought into a common talk.

The call for the 4th of June is already published, you will find in at
least three languages very soon on our websites.