Monday, 4 of June – Action Day: Flight and Migration

Morning: actions in the City...

From 8 a.m.: siege of the alien department (“Ausländerbehörde”) in Rostock, Werftstraße 6 (S-Bahn station Holbeinplatz): The alien department is a place where refugees and migrants are being harassed and persecuted on a daily basis. It is here that decisions are made regarding what status people without an EU passport will be given, whether they are allowed to work, study or even stay in Germany or, as the case may be, the EU. This activity continues to work on the basis of inclusion vs. exclusion and we would like to at least succeed in rebuffing it for a few hours.

10 - 11.30 p.m.: “3 days in august … (and many years more)”. Rally in front of the Sunflowerhouse (Sonnenblumenhaus ) – S-Bahn station Rostock Lichtenhagen:
1992: Rostock-Lichtenhagen: With the approval of thousands of citizens neo-Nazis attacked the central refugee reception centre as well as a hostel for Vietnamese workers with stones and Molotov cocktails. The pogrom lasted several days. The police did not protect the inhabitants. Shortly afterwards the SPD (Social Democratic Party) gave up their resistance against changing Article 16 of the German Constitution (the right to asylum). By holding this rally we want to remember the incidents of 1992 and show how much worse the conditions for refugees in Germany have become because of this pogrom.

10 p.m.: protest action in front of a Lidl-supermarket – with the participation of activists from the Andalusian union of agricultural workers SOC: Lidl has not only become known because of its lousy working conditions. Lidl (together with other supermarket chains) also stands out due to its ruinous price dictates. As a result of this the prices for agricultural products have gone down dramatically. Often it is mainly migrants (without papers) who find themselves being forced to accept the lousy conditions for wage and work in agriculture - be it as day labourers in the plastic sea of Almeria or as someone cutting asparagus in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

10 am – 6. p.m: information stands, exhibitions, films and installations on camps and borders, on the working conditions of migrant (agricultural) workers, on the countries of origin of refugees and migrants and much more. Place: Universitätsplatz (Kröpeliner Straße)

Afternoon: demonstration for global freedom of movement and equal rights...

1-2 p.m.: (prelude) rally and start of the demonstration at the refugee camp Satowerstraße (tram station ‘Neuer Friedhof’, lines 3 and 6)
5- 8 p.m: final rally with cultural events in the Rostock city harbour (inner city). Musicians performing:

- “les refugiés” – African hip-hop from the Blankenburg reception and exit camp
- the kurdish female hip-hop-rapper “Dezz Deniz
- “microphone mafia”, turkish-italian-german rap from Cologne
- „Onejiru“ und Band, Dub/Elektro-Funk/R'n'B from Kenia/Wanne-Eikel

Evening: Discussion Event...

8 p.m.: big discussion event: global freedom of movement against global apartheid” with guests from four continents:

- Solange Koné, CADTM (alliance against indebtedness), Ivory Coast
- Maksym Butkevich, Noborder Kiev, Ukraine
- Valery Alzaga, global SEIU (services trade union), USA/Mexico
- Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, from Bagalore, Indien
- Sunny Omwenyeke, The Voice Africa Forum, Nigeria/Deutschland

Place: event centre “Am Strande” (“Art Goes Heiligendamm”), Am Strande 6 (Rostock city harbour), 18055 Rostock