Kompass-newsletter No. 128 - 10/2024

10 years Alarm Phone +++ 18-19 October in Berlin: From Tripoli to Berlin- Evacuation not Externalisation +++ 21-27 October: Abolish immigration authorities +++ 1-3 November in Hamburg: Welcome United meeting +++ 6 November in Valetta: El Hiblu 3 hearing +++ Echoes No. 14 +++ Tunisia is not a safe place - declaration by 62 human rights organisations +++ 15 years of the Welcome to Europe network

„We will continue with the Alarm Phone, because …

.… we have made a promise that is just as valid today as it was ten years ago: Every boat counts! (Alarm Phone Team Zürich)

… we will go on until everyone can cross the oceans by ferry. (Alarm Phone Team Calais)

… we are committed to the fight for freedom of movement for all, and we have made a promise not to forget our migrant brothers and sisters who have died or disappeared and are calling for justice to be done. (Alarm Phone Team Dakar)“  

Dear friends, 

We are dedicating the intro of this newsletter to the Alarm Phone, which will have been active for exactly 10 years in October 2024. To mark the anniversary a new Alarm Phone book has been published: from its final chapter we have selected the three quotes above... and from the introduction we have excerpted the following lines:  

„…For 3.650 days and nights, we have been on shift. During these shifts, we were alerted to over 8.000 boats from all corners of the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic region or the English Channel, directly by the travelers or their relatives and friends.(…) Over the past ten years, death at sea has become our companion. Many times, facing such cruelty by the murderous border regime, we feel helpless anger. At the same time, we realize again and again how we can often accompany boats and empower autonomous landings in Europe. (…) We have built a transnational and multilingual collective that is committed to stay at the side of people who enact their right to move..(…) Due to our relationships with members of communities on the move, we also learn from their lived experiences and struggles, as well as their tenacity to overcome violent borders in the search for a better life. (…) As Alarm Phone, we will move on in contested spaces and we will follow the tenacity of people on the move as a transnational nodal point of a network that undermines and overcomes a racist and exploitative system of global segregation. 

No border lasts forever. Solidarity will win.“

In this spirit with solidarity greetings,

The Kompass-Team