Kompass-Newsletter No. 97 - 09/2021

 

Air-bridge Kabul +++ September 4 in Berlin: AntiRa-Powerblock on Unteilbar-Demonstration +++ September 15-19: Palermo & Dakar Convergences +++ Zapatistas on European Tour +++ October 9 in many cities: No Lager nowhere +++ Alarm Phone: New Reports for Western Med and Central Med +++ Medico: Return-Watch +++ new issue Trossenstek: Migration-Climate Justice-Internationalism +++ Reviews: We`ll Come United summer meeting in Brandenburg, Alarm Phone receives Human Rights Award from Pro Asylum

Dear friends

The last weeks in and around Afghanistan prove that and how state racism and failure of authorities are intertwined and can still be increased. Seehofer and Co. still wanted to forcefully enforce deportations when the Taliban had long since been on the advance. Now, civil society evacuation efforts are being sabotaged by the German Foreign Office, as documented in recent days by the impressive "Kabul Air-bridge" initiative.

We have known it for years from the Mediterranean: the border regime lets die and organizes illegal pushbacks, while civilian rescue actors are blocked or even criminalized. Deterrence is everything, because "A new 2015 must be prevented." This appears to be the mantra not only of the openly agitating racists but also of the mainstream parties, even if their disaster in Afghanistan could not be covered up.

"Our autumn of solidarity began six years ago in the 'summer of migration 2015`, when the wall of Fortress European was torn down from refugees at the EU external borders!" Thus, on the other hand, begins the call of a broad anti-racist alliance to the Indivisible demonstration next Saturday in Berlin. A few weeks before the federal elections, it is once again important to give the progressive pole as much visibility as possible and to put pressure on all levels: "Unnegotiable" for human rights and freedom of movement. The broad welcome in 2015 was one of the few moments in which openness prevailed. Despite and against all roll-back and all repression against the flight and migration movements in recent years: the society of the many will not be stopped.

The Turkish government has been building a wall on the Iranian border for months, targeting Afghan refugees in particular. The Greek government with its ongoing bordercrimes at the Evros and in the Aegean Sea serves as a "European shield" (Van der Leyen!). We should use the mobilizations of the coming days and weeks to denounce again and again this mendacity and to denounce the crimes that cause so much suffering and death in addition to the war in Afghanistan.

Last Saturday, when the Alarm Phone received the Human Rights Award from Pro Asyl, the last sentences of an activist were as follows: "We end every commemoration (of the dead in the Mediterranean) with a promise: to move on after a moment of pause, to tear down the borders and build another, a Europe of welcome."

In this spirit,

the Kompass team