Giornate contro Frontex dal 15 al 18 aprile 2016 a Catania - NoFrontex Days from April 15-18 in Sicily BASTA MORTI NEL MEDITERRANEO - STOP DEATHS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN!

Monday 25 April 2016

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contatto e anche con dei materiali da mettere sul blog per continuare un lavoro insieme!

We invite everyone to send us an email so we can create a network after the "NoFrontex days" in Catania! You can send us also information to put on the blog!

nofrontexcatania@gmail.com

Per piacere scrivete a quale workshop avete partecipato!
Please note in which workshop you participated! 


Report from the Workshop “Frontex, the Hotspot System and Actions against”

The workshop took place on the 16th of April, and in the beginning, an introduction was given – also for the second workshop about missing people - about the reason why we are in Catania now: the shipwreck on the 18th of April 2015, when more than 800 migrants died during the rescue of a boat between Libya and Sicily by a merchant vessel. Middle of April 2015 was the deadliest week with about 1200 deaths in the Central Mediterranean Sea. This was not a natural disaster, but the result of the EU policy and Frontex. Sabine summarized a report, just published by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, which you can find here: https://deathbyrescue.org/

Some sentences from a press release about it:

A new investigation accuses EU policymakers of “killing by neglect” after cutting rescue missions in the Mediterranean in full knowledge of the lethal consequences of their actions.

Meeting transcripts and documents unearthed in a report from Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of York show that the EU border agency Frontex’s own internal assessment of replacing Mare Nostrum with Triton predicted increased deaths at sea, but the policy was introduced anyway. 

Researchers found that a previously unreported 2014 Frontex internal assessment on “tackling migrant flows” stated:

It has to be stressed that the withdrawal of naval assets from the area, if not properly planned and announced well in advance, would likely result in a higher number of fatalities.”

The researchers from the ESRC-funded ‘Precarious Trajectories’ project argue that because the decision to retreat from state-led search and rescue operations was taken in full knowledge of the risk, EU policy makers and agencies carry a strong degree of responsibility for mass deaths at sea.

On 12 April, 400 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized due to its passengers’ excitement at the sight of approaching rescue tugboats. Six days later a similar incident killed 800, leading to the deadliest single shipwreck recorded in the Mediterranean. In 2015 there was a total of 3,700 documented deaths at sea.

The report ‘Death by Rescue: The lethal effects of the EU's policies of non-assistance at sea’ demonstrates that, with the ending of the Italy-led Mare Nostrum Operation and the launch of a limited Frontex-led Triton operation, agencies and policy makers enacted a policy of retreat from state-led search and rescue operations.

After this introduction, the two workshops took place in different rooms. The structure of the Frontex workshop was:
  1. What is Frontex?
  2. Hotspots and Deportations
  3. Actions and Campaigns against Frontex
  4. The “Ferries not Frontex” campaign
  5. Presentation of a guide “Welcome to Italy”
  6. The Watch the Med Alarmphone
  7. Discussion: What can we do?
1. A presentation about the history, the aims, tasks and operations of Frontex, “Mare Nostrum” and “Triton” and its deadly consequences was given: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4QSBxKDaNmTUm5pdXVVZzJ1d0E/view?pref=2&pli=1

In the discussion it was added that the zone of 30 nautic miles, in which Frontex wanted “Triton” to operate, does not exist anymore because of many deaths near the Libyan coast and political pressure by organizations of the civil society. The coastguard does no longer call merchant ships very often. The vessels of the military operation EUNAFVOR Med (later called “Sophia”), which started in the end of June 2015, are not visible on maps and do not rescue very often, but have the aim to “fight against smugglers”. Also Frontex has this aim and on every boat, at least two people are arrested as “traffickers”. The question was asked how the decision making of Frontex works and if there is a democratic control of its work? This can be denied – even EU parliamentarians do not know how decisions are taken like those to send Frontex to the Greek borders, even if the government does not want this.

2. A short presentation about the aims of the “hotspot approach” and the existing hotspots in Italy (at the moment: Lampedusa, Trapani, Pozzalo and Taranto) was given:

Lucia from borderline Sicily added that the selection of “economic migrants” now already takes place on the boats after rescue. During the first identification, questions are asked like: “Do you want to work in Italy?” and those who answer “yes” are declared as “economic migrants” who have no right to apply for asylum. They get a paper to leave Italy in 7 days and are thrown out on the street. Mostly deportation is not possible, because the people do not have passports. But only if they find a support group and a lawyer they can manage to file an asylum application and get access to accommodation. Lawyers who were present reported about such cases (one has about 30).

Most of the “hotspots” are overcrowded. In Pozzallo, about 400 people live on 120 places. Detention in a hotspot should officially last only three days, but sometimes it lasts one week or more. Men, women and children are put together, unaccompanied minors cannot go out, not even leave the building. After detention, the people are distributed to different places.

On Lampedusa, the first place to make experiments about hotspots, people are waiting 2-3 months to be moved to others parts of Italy and there are no criteria who is taken first. The 7-days-paper is issued on the boat to Sicily.

In Trapani people are detained 2-3 days and then moved to other centers. Many of them get the 7-days-paper. The deadline to apply for asylum with the help of a lawyer is 30 days.

A lawyer reported that she has some cases of minors, who were not recognized as under age. Frontex is also involved in age assessment, which is part of the screening, and about 50% of the minors are declared adults. On Lampedusa, several minors were arrested because they were considered to be smugglers.

The relationship between Frontex and local authorities is not clear. Officially, Frontex gives only “technical support” and is lead by Italian police, but the relationship is not regulated by any law.
There is no law for economic migrants, so they have to apply for asylum or become irregular.

The percentage of rejections of asylum applications is increasing: before it was about 1/3, now it is going to 2/3 (62% of rejections); many rejections are made by nationality (espacially African Subsaharian countries) and are affecting also several asylum seekers coming from countries where there are wars and/or ethnic/religious/political conflicts (see the table below)



3. A presentation with photos of actions against Frontex in Europe and on the other side of the Mediterranean (WSF Dakar and Tunis, Choucha camp) was shown:

4. The campaign “Ferries not Frontex” was presented – it is explained in a newspaper which was distributed in English, French and Italian and can be found here:

about the campaigns against Frontex it was mentioned also the “Frontexit “ campaign coordinated by Migreurop (http://www.frontexit.org/en/)

5. A new guide “Welcome to Italy” was presented in a printed form as a small booklet to be distributed to migrants.

You can find the short/print versions (in low resolution) here:

and the long/web versions here:

Versions in arabic and farsi to come soon, still looking for translators and layouters for a tigrinya version. The guide will be updated every 4-5 months and everybody can help to give new information and further contacts to add to the “useful contacts” chapter!

6. The Watch the Med Alarmphone was shortly presented by Judith. It was started in October 2014 by activist networks and civil society actors in Europe and Northern Africa. The project set up a self-organized hotline for refugees in distress in the Mediterranean Sea. It offers the affected boat-people a second option to make their SOS noticeable. The alarm phone documents and mobilizes in real-time. In this way, pressure to rescue is built-up, wherever possible and push-backs and other forms of human rights violations of refugees and migrants at sea can be opposed. The project aims to create a Mediterranean space of mutual solidarity, with open borders for all people. Thus, the Alarm Phone is not a rescue number, but an alarm number to support rescue operations. Find more here:
http://alarmphone.org/en/about/

7.Discussion about what we can do against Frontex, hotspots and deportations

One thing is our daily work, e.g. to spread information (like the guide to Italy) on a local level to migrants, the other thing is to plan actions, if possible, together, at least coordinated. After the break through on the Balkan route, the border regimes strikes back now and we have to think about ways to come into an offensive situation again.

Actions against the hotspot system are important, because they separate the migrants in “good” and “bad” ones (with the rethoric of “real” and “fake” refugees very widespread in the public opinion), which takes place all over Europe now. The “hotspot approach” - with a direct involvement of Frontex - is being implemented both in Italy and Greece (particularly in Sicily and in the Greek islands) with many similarities so we need to exchange information and to carry out common proposals to face these common situation and these policies that are, in fact, killing the right of asylum as universal and individual right.

We have to inform migrants about it and mobilize together against Frontex, detention, selection and deportation. Hotspots and also the new Frontex headquarter in Catania, which will open soon, could be places to act. We have to destroy the image which Frontex tries to spread that it is a rescue organization. We have to show how human rights are violated in the hotspots and also why we are against them in general.

The churches have started a project for humanitarian corridors for 1000 people, who can come by plane from transit countries – we should support this (but also demand open borders for all).
We have to learn from Greece, because the EU wants to have it as a training camp for selection and deportation. We have to connect the struggles against external and internal (Dublin) borders.

In Italy, coordinated actions started because of missing people in Milano and then went on every week in different cities. Later topics like the EU/Turkey deal and racism were added and a new network was created. Actions at the same time strengthen each other and it is important to do them together with migrants. It is also important to work together with people on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea against the collaboration between EU and African countries (see the summit of Valetta and consequences).

The Balkan route shows that a network of people from different countries is possible. There will be a No Border camp in Thessaloniki from 15th to 24th July to strengthen this network and also people from the Central Med should take part. And there will be “Defencing Days” at the Croatian-Slovenian border (Kumrovec/Bistrita towns) from 24th to 26th of June. Actions at the border between Italy and Austria took already place and others are planned.

Maybe we can also think about a common action in Italy in the next months?



Another proposals that came out were 1) the creation of a “European Day Against Frontex” that could take place every year (on the 18th April?) in different European cities and 2) the writing and distribution of clear and simple materials (as flyers, brochures, etc...) about Frontex to inform people about EU policies and Frontex role inside them (using also materials already written and distributed by associations and campaigns against Frontex

Friday 22 April 2016

Le accese giornate di Catania a causa di Frontex, migranti, guerre, dispersi/e

Di Anna Di Salvo (La Città Felice) e Alfonso Di Stefano (Rete Antirazzista Catanese)

Nei giorni 16 e 17 di questo infuocato aprile 2016, Catania è stata teatro di avvenimenti dal forte significato politico grazie alla mobilitazione euromediterranea indetta dalla Rete antirazzista catanese, La Città Felice, Catania bene comune, COBAS, Comitato NoMuos/NoSigonella e altre realtà cittadine che per l’occasione hanno voluto sottolineare la sgradita presenza della sede Frontex a Catania, insieme alle “Carovane Migranti” e alle “Madres del Movimiento Mesoamericano” che cercano i loro figli e figlie, scomparsi/e a causa delle migrazioni dall’Africa e dai Paesi d’Oriente verso l’Occidente, così come lungo i confini che dividono i paesi dell’America latina da quelli dell’America del capitalismo e delle banche.

Terre des Hommes accanto al Labanof per dare un nome alle vittime del mare

Terre des Hommes will help the Labanof Institute in Milan to identify the victims of the  18th April 2015 and the 3rd and 11th October 2015.

Comunicato stampa
Terre des Hommes accanto al Labanof per dare un nome alle vittime del mare

Nei prossimi giorni verrà recuperato il relitto dell'imbarcazione naufragata il 18 aprile 2015 dove sono incastrati circa 400 corpi. Dare un nome a questi morti è importante, non solo da un punto di vista etico, ma anche per facilitare il ricongiungimento dei bambini sopravvissuti con i parenti ancora in vita.

Tuesday 19 April 2016

DEATH BY (FAILURE TO) RESCUE - new report about the 18th of April 2015

DEATH BY (FAILURE TO) RESCUE The following report, produced by Forensic Oceanography – a research team based within the Forensic Architecture agency at Goldsmiths (University of London) that specialises in the use of forensic techniques and cartography to reconstruct cases of deaths at sea – in collaboration with WatchTheMed and in the framework of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-supported “Precarious Trajectories” research project, seeks to understand the conditions that made these events possible. It relies on new findings generated through extensive interviews with state officials and migrants, newly accessed operational documents, statistical data and technical evidence such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel tracking data. This material has been analysed in collaboration with experts in the relevant fields of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), oceanography, EU policy, international law and migration studies. read more/continua

Foreword by Barbara Spinelli, Member of the European Parliament (European United Left/Nordic Green Left Parliamentary Group)2016 will be remembered as the year in which the European Union definitively broke the civilisation pact on which it was founded after the Second World War. For years, after the great Lampedusa shipwreck on 3 October 2013, the EU has tacitly allowed the deaths at sea of thousands of refugees fleeing towards the European coasts, having been unable to guarantee safe and legal access routes to the Union. This year, in 2016, The EU has taken a further step towards barbarity: not only has it closed its internal borders by dismantling the Schengen area, but it has consciously decided to send refugees back to the war zones from which they had previously fled, and from which they are still escaping. The agreement with Turkey signed on 20 March 2016, which enables the mass deportation of refugees who manage to reach Greece, cannot be interpreted in any other way. Thousands of these returnees are sent back by the Erdogan regime to the Syrian war zones from which they had initially escaped: a deportation that violates national, European and international laws. The dirty work is entrusted to its Turkish ally, but it is Europe itself that takes the responsibility for this collective refoulement, bringing about the deadly triangulation of forced returns. read more/continua...

DEATH BY RESCUE
THE LETHAL EFFECTS OF THE EU’S POLICIES OF NON-ASSISTANCE
The week commencing 12 April 2015 saw what is believed to be the largest loss of life at sea in the recent history of the Mediterranean. On 12 April, 400 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized due to its passengers’ excitement at the sight of platform supply vessels approaching to rescue them. Less than a week later, on 18 April, a similar incident took an even greater toll in human lives, leading the deadliest single shipwreck recorded by the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Mediterranean.   Over 800 people are believed to have died when a migrants’ vessel sank after a mis-manoeuvre led it to collide with a cargo ship that had approached to rescue its passengers. More than 1,200 lives were thus lost in a single week. As Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) commented at the time, these figures eerily resemble those of a war zone.  read more/continua...

Thursday 10 March 2016

Strage del 18 aprile 2015: recupero della nave - Navy will get back the ship's wreck

18th April 2015: Now the Italian Navy plans to get back the whole ship's wreck, with the remaining bodies. These bodies are those that were in the hold. They should be around 300/400. DNA tests will be made in order to identify the corps and  return them to their relatives. The operation is foreseen for end of April, beginning of May, and will be done "at any costs, using remote control system". said admiral De Giorgi. See here/vedi qui: Strage del 18 aprile. "Recupereremo la nave con tutti i corpi"

«In mare niente muri, salviamo vite. E diamo un nome a ogni disperso»
Corriere della sera  - Il capo di stato maggiore della Marina Militare: «Il 18 aprile 2015 un peschereccio è affondato nel Canale di Sicilia con 3-400 migranti nella stiva. Il premier Renzi ci ha chiesto di recuperare il relitto e noi lo faremo»
 
di Elisabetta Rosaspina
ROMA «Non esistono muri in mare, per chi chiede aiuto». L’Europa può decidere di sbriciolarsi, barricarsi, disseminare i suoi confini terrestri di filo spinato, per cercare di fermare i profughi, ma in mare vige un’altra legge. Un imperativo morale: «Io non lascio indietro nessuno, neppure un cane» assicura il Capo di Stato Maggiore della Marina Militare italiana, ammiraglio Giuseppe De Giorgi. Che parla fuori di metafora, perché, quando diresse per 72 ore consecutive, alla fine del 2014, le operazioni di salvataggio dei 400 passeggeri del traghetto Norman Atlantic, in fiamme nel canale di Sicilia, mantenne gli elicotteri in verticale sulla nave, nonostante il fumo e le fiamme, finché non furono evacuati dal ponte anche gli ultimi esseri viventi: tre cani. E proprio a uno di loro, il più grosso, l’ammiraglio e la coautrice Daniela Morelli hanno dato voce nel loro libro «S.O.S Uomo in mare» (Giunti Editore) per descrivere quelle notti e quei giorni di paura a bordo del traghetto sempre più rovente, sempre più inclinato, nel mare grosso. La figura peggiore è quella degli umani che litigano per accaparrarsi i primi giubbotti di salvataggio.
«Quando c’è pericolo, molti perdono i freni inibitori. Per questo ordinai subito di calare a bordo un team di soccorritori che ristabilisse l’ordine. C’erano giubbotti per tutti. Pure per i cani». (...)

Abbiamo già recuperato 169 salme dal fondo del mare, altre 52 le avevamo ritrovate nell’immediato. Ora ci prepariamo a riportarle in superficie tutte. Per tutte è previsto l’analisi del Dna, a tutte deve essere data la possibilità di essere identificate e restituite alle famiglie.

Dopo più di un anno in mare?
«A 375 metri di profondità, il buio, il freddo, la pressione dell’acqua e la scarsità di fauna contribuiscono alla conservazione dei corpi. Il presidente del Consiglio, Renzi, ci ha dato l’incarico di recuperarli tutti. E lo faremo, a qualunque costo, con robot e sistemi pilotati a distanza». continua/read more...

16 e 17 aprile 2016 - Appello per una mobilitazione euromediterranea per il primo anniversario del naufragio del 18 aprile 2015

Contro la Fortezza Europa per la smilitarizzazione della Sicilia !
No a Frontex, No alla Guerra, No al razzismo !

SABATO 16 APRILE MANIFESTAZIONE EUROMEDITERRANEA A CATANIA  

Le attività dell’agenzia Frontex sono sempre più visibili non solo in mare, ma in gran parte del territorio siciliano. La scelta di aprire 5 hotspot (a Catania se ne prepara uno “mobile”) nella nostra isola ed ancor di più le decisioni assunte a Malta a novembre 2015, perseguono l’orrore di dividere i migranti “economici” dai richiedenti asilo politico. Contrattando con i peggiori regimi liberticidi e corrotti in Africa e Medio Oriente i governi europei vorrebbero rimpatriare 400.000 “irregolari”. E intanto l’UE impone al governo italiano l’uso della forza per prendere le impronte digitali ai/lle migranti, applicando ottusamente l’odioso regolamento di Dublino.

Thursday 3 March 2016

16 et 17 Avril 2016 - Appel à une mobilisation euro-méditerranéenne pour le premier anniversaire du naufrage du 18 Avril 2015!


Contre la forteresse Europe et pour la démilitarisation de la Sicile!
Non à Frontex, non à la guerre, non au racisme!

Les activités de Frontex sont de plus en plus visibles non seulement en mer, mais en Sicile aussi. Le choix d'ouvrir dans notre île cinq “hot spot” (Lampedusa, Pozzallo, Porto Empedocle, Augusta et Trapani) et, plus encore, les décisions prises à Malte en Novembre 2015 visent à faire l'horrible distinction entre migrants « économiques » et demandeurs d'asile. En négociant avec des régimes liberticides et corrompus d’Afrique et du Moyen-Orient, les gouvernements européens voudraient rapatrier 400.000 «irréguliers». Au même temps, l’Union Européenne impose au gouvernement italien l'usage de la force pour le relevé des empreintes digitales des migrants, en ligne avec le règlement de Dublin.

Friday 26 February 2016

16th and 17th April 2016 - Call for a EuroMediterranean mobilization on the first anniversary of the sinking of 18th April 2015


EuroMediterranean mobilization on the first anniversary of the sinking
of April 18th, 2015

Against Fortress Europe for the demilitarization of Sicily!
No Frontex, No to War, No to racism!

SATURDAY 16TH APRIL : NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION "NO FRONTEX" IN CATANIA

DEPARTURE FROM THE SEAPORT OF CATANIA (3 pm)

Agency Frontex’s activities are becoming more and more visible not only at sea but also in Sicily. The decision to open 5 so-called "hotspots" (with a "mobile" one in Catania) in our island together with the decisions taken in Malta in November 2015 pursue the horrible aim of dividing 'economic migrants' from asylum seekers. Negotiating with the worst and the most corrupted regimes in Africa and in the Middle East, European governments would like to repatriate 400,000 "irregular migrants." At the same time the EU orders the Italian Government to use force to take migrants’ fingerprints , obtusely applying the odious Dublin Regulation.

Saturday 13 February 2016

Invito per il primo anniversario del naufragio del 18 aprile 2015 - Giornate NoFrontex - Per una mobilitazione nel Mediterraneo!

Invito Forum Antirazzista Palermo - programma in definizione
“Come può stupirsi l’Europa delle tragedie in mare se le ambasciate rifiutano i visti al nostro popolo e costringono i paesi del Maghreb ad inseguirci? La nostra unica possibilità è il mare e i “trafficanti” diventano la nostra speranza se dobbiamo fuggire in altri paesi” (rifugiato maliano). Sono stati 184 i maliani tra le più di 800 persone che sono annegate nella notte tra il 18 ed il 19 APRILE 2015 nel loro viaggio dalla Libia verso l'Italia.

Call out for the first anniversary of the capsizing of 18 April 2015

NoFrontex” days of action
For a Mediterranean mobilization!
Call out from the Palermo Antiracist Forum

“How can Europe be shocked at the tragedy at sea, when embassies refuse our people visas and force the countries of North Africa to chase us down? Our only possibility is the sea and the “traffickers” become our only hope for fleeing to other countries.” (Malian refugee). There were 184 Malians among more than 800 people who drowned on the night between the 18th and 19th of April 2015 in their journey from Libya to Italy.

There were at least 3,771 deaths at sea in 2015 alone. Faced with this recurring tragedy, the EU grants ever more power and money to Frontex and projects like Triton. But Frontex is an agency for border control, built on the militarization of Europe's internal and external borders. Its mandate is to protect these borders, not to save human life.

Appel à une mobilisation méditerranéenne pour le premier anniversaire du naufrage du 18 Avril 2015 !


Invitation du Forum Antiraciste de Palerme


Comment l’Europe peut s’étonner des tragédies en Mer si ses ambassades rejettent les visas à notre peuple et forcent aux pays du Maghreb à nous poursuivre. La mer demeure notre seule possibilité et les ‘trafiquants’ deviennent notre seul espoir quand on est forcé à quitter nos pays

 (Refugié malien)

Parmi les 800 personnes qui ont péri noyées le soir du 18 au 19 avril 2015 pendant leur voyage de la Libye à l’Italie, 184 étaient maliens. On compte en 2015 au moins 3.771 migrants ayant perdu leurs vies dans la Méditerranée. Malgré ces tragédies, l’Union Européenne continue à donner de plus en plus de pouvoir à l’agence FRONTEX et aux missions comme TRITON. Mais Frontex est surtout une agence de contrôle frontalier basé sur la militarisation des frontières internes et externes de l’Europe dont le principal but est la défense du territoire et non la sauvegarde des vies humaines.

Friday 12 February 2016

Newspaper: Ferries for All

For the Freedom of Movement and Equal Rights for All!
Campaign Newspaper from the transnational Project Alarmphone
The slogan “Ferries not Frontex”1 emerged in the days following the 18th of April 2015. More than 800 men, women and children drowned that day in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Only one week earlier, about 400 people had lost their lives in a similar ‘tragedy’. A tragedy? No! It could have been anticipated. The mass dying was a direct and foreseeable consequence of the EU border regime. And the dying continues. This border regime has a clear symbol: Frontex, the EU’s border agency. read more/continua...

Saturday 6 February 2016

Appel à une mobilisation méditerranéenne pour le premier anniversaire du naufrage du 18 Avril 2015 !



Invitation du Forum Antiracist du Palerme

Comment l’Europe peut s’étonner des tragédies en Mer si ses ambassades rejettent les visas à notre peuple et forcent aux pays du Maghreb à nous poursuivre. La mer demeure notre seule possibilité et les ‘trafiquants’ deviennent notre seul espoir quand on est forcé à quitter nos pays
 (Refugié malien)
Parmi les 800 personnes qui ont péri noyées le soir du 18 au 19 avril 2015 pendant leur voyage de la Libye à l’Italie, 184 étaient maliens. On compte en 2015 au moins 3.771 migrants ayant perdu leurs vies dans la Méditerranée. Malgré ces tragédies, l’Union Européenne continue à donner de plus en plus de pouvoir à l’agence FRONTEX et aux missions comme TRITON. Mais Frontex est surtout une agence de contrôle frontalier basé sur la militarisation des frontières internes et externes de l’Europe dont le principal but est la défense du territoire et non la sauvegarde des vies humaines.

Tuesday 19 January 2016

A Catania le associazioni si confrontano con la Questura e con Frontex

Comunicato stampa
Giovedì 14 gennaio si è svolto a Catania, presso la sala stampa della Questura, un incontro tra le associazioni, i rappresentanti della stessa Questura, con la dott.ssa Paglialunga, e il dott. Nicolao, responsabile regionale di Frontex. Al confronto hanno partecipato rappresentanti della Rete Antirazzista catanese, ed invitate da quest’ultima, dell’associazione Catania Bene Comune, della Campagna LasciateCientrare, dell’Associazione Borderline Sicilia, dell’Associazione ADIF (Diritti e frontiere). read more/continua

Friday 15 January 2016

GUIDA “WELCOME TO ITALY” - "WELCOME TO ITALY" GUIDE

GUIDA “WELCOME TO ITALY” 
La guida “Welcome to Italy” è realizzata dalla rete euro-africana “Welcome to Europe” formata da centinaia di attivisti/e ed associazioni che dal 2009 in utta Europa e in Africa del Nord offrono supporto diretto a migranti e rifugiati/e, promuovono la libertà di movimento, l'uguaglianza dei diritti per tutti/e e lottano contro i confini, le discriminazioni e le politiche militari e repressive dell'Unione Europea, dei singoli Stati europei ed i loro alleati in altre parti del mondo. Questa guida è indirizzata a tutti/e i/le migranti che arrivano in Italia e che intendono restarci o andare in un altro Paese europeo.   clicca qui per scaricare la guida

"WELCOME TO ITALY" GUIDE
The guide "Welcome to Italy" is written by the Euro-African network "Welcome to
Europe", which was formed by hundreds of activists and organisations in 2009. They offer direct support to migrants and refugees throughout Europe and North Africa; they promote freedom of movement and equal rights for all who are struggling to move between borders, and they support those who are subject to discrimination and military and repressive policies of the European Union, of individual European States and their allies elsewhere in the world.
This guide is addressed to all the migrants who arrive in Italy with the intention of staying here or going to another European country.    click here to download the guide

GUIDE "WELCOME TO ITALY"
Le guide "Welcome to Italy" a été écrit par le réseau européen "Welcome to Europe", créé en 2009 par des centaines d’activistes et d’organisations qui apportent un soutien direct aux migrants et aux réfugiés en Europe et en Afrique du Nord. Les membres du réseau défendent la liberté de circulation et l’égalité des droits pour toutes celles et tous ceux qui luttent pour franchir les frontières, et soutiennent celles et ceux qui sont victimes de discriminations et subissent les politiques militaires et répressives de l’Union Européenne et de ses alliés dans le monde. Ce guide s’adresse à tou.te.s les migrant.e.s qui arrivent en Italie, que ce soit pour y rester ou pour aller dans un autre pays de l’UE. cliquez ici pour télécharger le guide