Kompass-newsletter No. 132 - 03/2025

15-16 March in Rome: transnational network meeting against detention +++ First call-out: We'll Come United caravan/march 2025 +++ Commemorative actions in and on the occasion of 5 years Hanau +++ Pro Asyl: bitter results by the „Ampel“ (old government coalition) +++ Text on the mass demonstrations in Germany (before the elections in Germany) +++ Refugee Council Lower Saxony: Sharp criticism of charter deportations to Iraq +++ Deportation figures 2024 +++ Echoes No. 16: CommemorActions and more +++ Alarm Phone: Half-year report Central Mediterranean +++ medico international on the failure of the Afghanistan admission programme +++ bordermonitoring.eu: On the situation of Ukrainian war refugees +++ Review: Hannover Meeting on AsylbLG/Bezahlkarte (Cashcard), CommemorActions on 6 February ++++ Outlook: 2 to 4 May in Berlin: We`ll Come United Meeting; 5 to 10 August 2025 - Transborder Summer Camp III; September 2025: transnational chain of actions

Dear friends,

Even if the election results (in Germany) in the capital city (Berlin) are somewhat consoling with a majority for the Die Linke party and its four direct mandates, 23 February 2025 brings with it a drastic shift towards racist agitation, deprivation of rights and exclusion. The largely black-blue map represents a brutalisation of the migration regime at all levels. We must brace ourselves...

... and yet continue to resist. The We'll Come United network met one day before the federal election and a few days later - undeterred - issued the first call to organise a protest caravan. This is planned to take place from 20 to 27 September 2025, in particular in front of and against the camps, against racist discrimination and against deportations. There are still a few months to prepare this one week-long mobilisation. The protest caravan echoes the call we had already shared in the last Kompass: for a transnational chain of actions to mark the 10th anniversary of the summer of migration.

Five years have passed since a perpetrator murdered nine people in Hanau for racist reasons. Around 19 February 2025, there were memorial events in dozens of cities, while the failure of the authorities and the police, as well as the lack of investigations and the failure of politicians to take responsibility, once again received germanwide media attention. A few days earlier, the 19 February initiative, together with relatives from Hanau and victims from other cities, as well as companions and supporters of the last five years, had organised an impressive, self-determined commemoration lasting over two hours. The video recording, which is well worth watching, can be found here: https://19feb-hanau.org/videos/

In solidarity, the Kompass-Crew