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April 2nd European
Day of Action - .
Call for a second European day of action
For freedom of movement and the Right to stay
Download
a PDF poster here.
Last year a European Day of Action against
detention centres and for the legalisation of migrants
without papers was launched during the European Social
Forum in Paris.
On the 31st of January 2004 demonstrations
and actions were held in more than forty European cities.
It was an important day in the development of networking
among migrants, struggles and activists on a European
level.
There is another day of action on the
April 2nd 2005. It is centred around the claim for freedom
of movement and the right to stay.
A European citizenship is being created.
We need to focus on the way the borders of this citizenship
are built and managed. Detention centres for migrants
have played and continue to play a key role in this
process.
These camps are even being set up outside
the borders of the EU – from the Balkans to Libya
and Morocco.These Camps are a dark symbol of migration
politics. Not just because they are the reality of racist
laws to keep people out, but also because they exist
so that richer countries can take advantage of cheap
migrant labour when they want it.
The creation of a European citizenship
effectively creates a hierarchy of legal and political
rights. This process is going to effect more than migrants.
It mirrors a new model of labour force management based
around casualisation and exploitation.
Migrants are the guinea pigs for new European
labour laws. We want to bring these interconnections
and demands inside the Euro-May Day process, so we are
calling for migration related groups to have a strong
participation on the 1st of May 2005.“Freedom
of movement” isn't just a slogan for us.
We believe that freedom of movement involves
different struggles taking place every day throughout
Europe : struggles for housing and legalization, struggles
against racism and camps, struggles in the workplace,
the struggles of women to free themselves from patriarchal
oppression.
On April the 2nd we will stress the importance
of these struggles. Let's provide a framework to support
their growth and their diversity. We invite all groups,
networks and social movements in Europe, not only the
ones working on migration-related issues, to join this
call and to mobilize for April 2nd 2005.
Demonstrations, actions and struggles
must take place everywhere in Europe on that day !
What's happening
in Manchester on 2nd of April
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