3rd day of Migration-Related Actions: 7 oct 2006

all over Europe and beyond ...

19.Jun.06 - [this call is also available in french, spanish, german, italian and greek]

The European migration regime makes migrants 'illegal'. One of the main measures of the European Union authorities against the movements and struggles of migration is currently the establishment of camps and other instruments of migration control outside Europe, in African and east European countries (their 'externalisation').

When thousands of migrants and refugees collectively stormed the border fences of the Spanish enclaves in Ceuta and Melilla in October last year, the crucial demands for freedom of movement and for equal rights were clearly brought to public attention, at least for the moment. The inhuman, barbaric reactions, the fatal shootings and mass deportations to the desert, mirrored the escalating level of conflict and the crisis of the European migration regime.

But there is an ongoing process undermining this migration regime, not only from 'outside' the borders, but also from the inside. All over Europe, almost every day, there are social and political struggles, protests and campaigns against camps and deportations, for asylum rights for women and men, for legalisation, for European citizenship rights based on residence rather than nationality and against the exploitation of migrant labour. These struggles go far beyond any narrow understanding of European identity.

Our new joint call for a Day of Action follows the mobilisations on 31 January 2004 and on 2 April 2005, when we held the first and second days of action on migration in more than 50 cities across Europe. At the European Social Forum in Athens in May 2006, the issue of migration for the first time had its own thematic 'axis'. A growing network of migration-related initiatives decided in the final assembly to take another step and coordinate actions around 7 October.

Taking into account specific regional and national conditions and the circumstances of various struggles, our Day of Action aims for resistance at European and even transcontinental levels. Our mobilisation will make the first moves towards Europe-wide central activities in order to develop the idea of a common demonstration in 2007, either in Brussels or at another place of public interest. Our aim is to address Europe as a whole and not only national governments.

In addition the chosen date in October is a reminder of the events in Ceuta and Melilla in 2005. We will make a particular effort to build cooperation with initiatives in Africa. A simultaneous day of actions in European and African cities in October would help to promote an axis on migration in the next World Social Forum, which will take place in Nairobi (Kenya) in January 2007. This corresponds with the Bamako Call which we have already quoted from: 'In the period from the Bamako Forum to the one in Nairobi, we propose a year long international mobilisation in defense of the right of all people to circulate freely around the world and to determine their own destiny... Finally we call for an international day of mobilisation that could take place in the sites/symbols of the frontiers (airports, detention centers, embassies, etc.)'.

Above all, we are determined to stress the global dimension of migrant struggles today. Thus, we intend to connect our Day of Action with the initiatives and ongoing mass mobilisations of the American migrants movement in the next future.

The 3rd Day of Action will be directed against the denial of rights, against the criminalisation of migrants and against all immigration controls, articulating clear demands within the framework of freedom of movement and the right to stay:

- For a European unconditional legalisation and equal rights for all migrants
- For the closure of all detention centers in Europe and everywhere
- For an end to all deportations and of the externalisation process
- For the uncoupling of the residence permit from the labour contract and against 'precarity'.

Signatories as of 20th of september 2006:

a continously updated list of signatures can be found on the pajol website as well

Austria:
no-racism.net | euromayday Vienna | revolte | Infoladen Salzburg | osterreichische HochscholerInnenschaft (Bundesvertretung) | Infomaden | Deserteurs- und Fluchtlingsberatung | KOMAK MigrantInnen | IG Bildende Kunst | ATIGF | YDG - Neue Demokratische Jugend | Grundrisse | LEF - Counselling, Education and Support for Migrant Women | eipcp vienna | GAJ Wien | Anatolische Federation osterreich | Rosa Antifa Wien (RAW) | FZ-Autonomes feministische FrauenLesbenMadchen-Zentrum | Ehe ohne Grenzen

Belgium:
Organisation des Exiles Politiques Ivoiriens (OEPI) | Coordination pour la Regularisation (CRER)

Benin:
Association Interfricaine pour la Promotion et la Defense des Droits des Refugies et Demandeurs d'Asile (AIPDRDA) | Le Conseil Africain des Actions Concerties (CAFAC) | Le Roseau des Alternatives Dette et Developpement (RECADD)

Cameroon:
Association des Amis des Familles et Victimes des Migrations Clandestines (AFVMC), Doula

Canada:
Action Canada pour la Population et le Developpement | Coalition d'Appui aux Travailleurs et Travailleuses Agricoles migrants

Congo (RD):
Groupe des reflexions et d' appui pour la promotion rurale (GRAPR); Nouvelles alternatives pour le developpement (NAD)

Cote D'Ivoire:
Mouvement Ivorien des Droits de la Jeunesse (MIDJ) | Reseau Ouest Africain pour le Developpement(ROAD), Abidjan | Association de Soutien a l'Auto Promotion Sanitaire Urbaine(ASAPSU), Abidjan | Marche Mondiale des Femmes section Cote D'Ivoire(MMF-CI)

France:
Ave Basta, Corse | Association des travailleurs maghrebins de France (ATMF) | Roseau IPAM | Parti Communiste Francais et son roseau "Migrations et citoyennet | Association des Marocains en France (AMF) | GISTI (groupe d'information et de soutien des immigres) | Collectif de soutien aux sans papiers (MILLAU 12) | Droits Devant !! | MRAP (Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitie entre les peuples) | Alternative Libertaire | Les Verts | teachers union SUD-Education | RESF (Roseau Education sans Frontieres) | Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire | ACORT (Assemblee Citoyenne des originaires de Turquie ) | RACORT (Rassemblement des Associations Citoyennes des Originaires de Turquie) | CSSP49 (Collectif de Soutien aux Sans-Papiers du Maine-et -Loire | Act Up-Paris | Femmes de la Terre | Association Khamsa | Reseaux NoVox | Roseau Feministe "Ruptures" | teachers union SUD-Education

Germany:
Refugee Councils from Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen | Action-Alliance against Deportations, Rhine-Main | no one is illegal, Hanau | Cafe Exil Hamburg | AGIS Darmstadt | Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants, Munich | NoLager Bremen | Kooperative Fluchlingssolidaritat Hannover | The Voice Refugee Forum Jena | Initiative against the chipcard system, Berlin | Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants, Hamburg | Kolner Appell gegen Rassismus e.V. | Local group of the "Society for Threatened Peoples", Hamburg | Antirassismusplenum Gottingen | Aktion Bleiberecht Freiburg/Sudbaden | Bundnis gegen Lager Berlin/Brandenburg

Greece:
Network for Social Support to Immigrants and Refugees | Network for Political and Social Rights | Antiracist Initiative of Thessaloniki Turkish Minority Moovement for Human and Minority Rights | Greek Migrants Forum

Italy:
Tavolo Migranti | ARCI | Associazione Todo Cambia, Milano | Coordinamento Immigrati Bergamo | SINCOBAS | Colletivo No Border, Napoli | COBAS | IWW-Invisible Workers of the World/Rete europea dei migranti e dei precari | Razzismo Stop - Veneto | Coordinamento migranti - Verona | Movimento antagonista toscano | Senza Confine - Roma | Federazione RdB-CUB | TPO - Bologna| AQ16 - Reggio Emilia | Laboratorio Paz - Rimini

Mali:
CAD | Association des Initiatives de Developpement (AIDE), Bamako | Indymedia Mali | Foram (Forum pour un autre Mali) | Retour, travail et dignite

Marocco:
La confederation des eleves etudiants et stagiaires africains au Maroc | Pateras de Vida | Association des Sans papiers et des Demandeurs d'Asile au Maroc (ASDAM) | refugies sans frontiere | alter forum | Attac Maroc | Chabaka Tanger | Association Africa Maghreb pour le developpement Maroc, Nador| Collectif des refugies au Maroc | Roseau des associations de quartier du grand Casablanca | Conseil des Migrants Subahariens au Maroc | AMDH | Association national outre les frontieres (ANOF) | Africa Maghreb pour le developpement

Mauretania:
Association Mauretanienne de Droits de l'Homme (AMDH)

Netherlands:
"All included" | La plateForme Intercontinentale des MRE, Amsterdam

Niger:
Le Roseau National Dette et Developpement (RNDD)

Poland:
Free Caucasus committee

Senegal:
Agence Internationale pour le Developpement du Senegal (AIDE)

Spain:
Coordinadora de Inmigrantes de Malaga (CIM) | Casa Argentina de Malaga | Federacion de Inmigrantes de Marbella | Centro Social-Casa de Iniciativas, Malaga | Colectivo Entransito, Malaga | Red Precari@s en Movimiento | Oficina de Derechos Sociales, Sevilla | Caravana Ninguna Persona es Ilegal, Sevilla | Indymedia Estrecho | Asociacion Cultural La Dinamo, Madrid | Ateneu Candela, Terrassa | Col.lectiu Intercultural de Terrassa | Colectivo Desequilibris | Casa de Nicaragua de Terrassa | El Frijol Rebelde (Soli Guatemala) | Tejedoras de Redes | Federacion Centro de las Culturas | Partido Humanista | CGT-Andalucia | Colectivo Zapatista de Granada | Espai per a la Desobediencia a les Fronteres (area metropolitana de Barcelona) | Asociacion Humanista Bakau | Plataforma de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes, Malaga | Asamblea por la Regularizacion sin Condiciones, Barcelona | Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (SOC), Almeria | Federacion Estatal de Asociaciones de Inmigrantes y Refugiados a FERINE | Colectivo de Colombianos Refugiados en Espana a COLREFE | Comite Madrile o por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia - COMADEHCO (Madrid) | Asociacion de Chilenos en Espana a ACHES (Madrid) | Asociacion TANGRA (Madrid) | Derechos para Tod Read the <link href="http://www.noborder.org/item.php?id=372">callout</link>

os y Todas (Madrid) | Asociacion Cultural INKARRI (Madrid) | Asociacion ESPACIO DE SOLIDARIDAD (Madrid) | Asociacion de Inmigrantes y Refugiados en el Estado Espanol a ENTREIGUALES (Madrid) | Centro Internacional para la Promocion y la Investigacion los Derechos Humanos a CINPROINDH | Asociacion Hispano Americana a ASOHMA (Madrid) | Comision Espanola de Ayuda a Refugiados a CEAR | SOS Racismo - Madrid | Asamblea Social de Rivas (Madrid) | Foro Alternativo de la Inmigracion (Valencia) | Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (Andalucia) | Izquierda Unida (Malaga) | Associacio Papers i Drets per a Tothom (Barcelona) | Asamblea Social Universitaria (Barcelona)

Sweden:
ingen manniska or illegal(no one is illegal network)

Ukraine:
noborder Kiev

United Kingdom:
The Campaign to Close Campsfield | Barbed Wire Britain | Noborders London | no one is illegal | No Borders Glasgow | Stop Deporting Children | Birmingham NoBorders | Latin American Workers Association, London | Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organization (IRMO), London | Todas las Voces Todas radio show, London | Justice for Cleaners | Zimbabwe Action Group | The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) | Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) | Latin American Community Association Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq | Bolivia Solidarity Campaign | Hackney Refugee and Migrant Support Group | Day-Mer Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre

European Organisation and Networks:
Frassanito-Network | Europeisches BurgerInnenforum/Forum Civique Europeen; Next Genderation