Kompass-newsletter No. 140 - 12/2025+01/2026
12–13 December in Frankfurt: Annual Conference – Still loving church asylum +++ 18 December 2025: Stop the Violence: Rise Up Against Frontex's Training for Border Brutality! +++ Pro Asyl and GFF: Karlsruhe stops unconstitutional practice: police need search warrant for deportation from bedroom +++ New campaign by civilian sea rescue organisations: Justice Fleet +++ We are here, and we will fight! - Echoes No. 19 +++ Mediterranea and SOS Humanity: arbitrary detentions by the Italian government continue +++ Alarm Phone: In memory of Maha, Haydar and Zayn +++ ECCHR and Refugees in Libya: Crimes against Humanity committed across Libya - First suspect surrendered to the International Criminal Court +++ front-Lex et al.: Website on those responsible for border crimes +++ New newspaper from Afrique Europe Interact +++ Recommended reading: About the uprisings in Morocco +++ Review: 5 November: Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York; 18 November in Frankfurt: Video recordings on municipalities as safe havens/city appeal: 'Migration as an opportunity'; Anti-fascist mobilisation against AfD youth in Giessen; transnational chain of action at trans-border.net +++ Outlook: 6 February 2026 transnational: CommemorActions; 6-8 March in Darmstadt: We'll Come United meeting; 12-14 June in Jena: „Entgrenzt" (debordered) - first migration law conference
Dear friends.
Despite and against the gloomy state of the world in general and the continuing racist shift to the right in particular, we remain committed to possibilism as we enter the new year. With this in mind, we have compiled a few introductory quotes that refer to events and publications from the past few weeks, all of which appear in this issue of Kompass.
The Kompass crew
„As a founding member of ARCOM, it was very moving for me to see that this small association, which we founded 20 years ago in a ghetto in a working-class neighbourhood of Rabat, has grown to such a size and has been able to bring together so many people from different countries."
(Emmanuel Mbolela in the new Afrique Europe Interact newspaper)
„New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight led by an immigrant."
(Zohran Mamdani on 5 November 2025 in his speech after being elected mayor of New York)
„Our goal: to act together, strengthen solidarity networks with people stranded in Libya, fend off political attacks and defend human rights."
(From the new Justice Fleet campaign launched in early November)
„Interestingly, studies on the culture of welcome in 2015 showed that many volunteers felt happy when helping others. ... Or in short: solidarity makes people happy."
(Manuela Bojadžijev on 26 November 2025 in Frankfurt at the medico event on the Summer of Migration)
„We need answers. And to take a stand. From all of us."
(RAV. e.V. in the invitation to its conference in June 2026)
„Together, we form an enduring network of defiance and care, a counter-force to the violence of the border regime and a living practice of transnational solidarity."
(From Echoes No. 19)
„So many people are now taking hope and courage into their everyday lives. Because anti-fascism and the fight for human rights take place every day." (
The 'widersetzen' network in its press statement after the successful mobilisation against the AfD in Giessen)
„The cross-border regional swimming actions and the nationwide youth revolt of ´Generation Z` (in Morocco) can be described as informal globalisation "from below" in light of the uprisings in Madagascar, Nepal and South Asia."
(Helmut Dietrich in „Sozialgeschichte online")