Sunday, 3 of june: Transnational network meeting on flight & migration

Time and place: 2 – 10 p.m. Ehm-Welk-School, Knud-Rasmussen-Str. 8; Rostock (tram station „Thomas Morus Str.“, lines 1, 4 and 5)

The plan for the network meeting is mainly to offer space for “horizontal debates” (only with short inputs) and will hopefully be made up of groups of participants that are as transnational as possible. The aim is to exchange information and to also make further progress by developing transnational campaigns and concrete interventions. For example, we could make plans to work against specific repatriation programs or in favour of migrant workers’ rights. This meeting is a continuation of the migration related assemblies which took place in the last two years during the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum. It is also related to the conference in Rabat in July 2006 as well as the transnational Action day on the 7th of October 2006, both of which had global freedom of movement as central points.

2-3 p.m.: opening plenary
3-7 p.m.: Working groups: the following topics represent some of the possible themes of these meetings: legalization and the right to stay, racist police brutality, border regime and deportation politics, “precariousness” or instability in your living situation and migrant labour, camps, deportation prisons and many more
8-10 p.m.: final plenary

Apart from this on Sunday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. a crossover-event is taking place in the Nikolai-Kirche (Bei der Nikolaikirche 1, Rostock): “About perspectives in and beyond Europe” with activists from various social movements. Lucille Daumas from attac/Morocco is going to talk about activities against the EU-migration politics in Northern Africa.