Kompass-newsletter No. 129 - 11/2024
A short review of the Welcome United meeting in Hamburg +++ Against the Italy-Albania deal – press conference in Tirana on 6 November, protest actions planned for 1-2 December +++ 10 years Alarm Phone in Frankfurt on 14 November +++ 30 years The Voice Refugee Forum in Berlin on 15-16 November +++ El Hiblu 3: new website and impressive videos of the Coalition for EH3 +++ trans-border.net: talk on transnational organising +++ Review: From Tripoli to Berlin event in October; w2eu.info meeting in Barcelona at the beginning of November +++ Outlook: 22 January 2025: important court decision in Valetta regarding El Hiblu 3
DEAR FRIENDS.
The political situation is and remains a disaster. The fact that the racist super-asshole can now triumph again in the USA will incite all racists in the world to even more agitation and exclusion. We must fear that the spiral of deprivation of rights and assaults will continue to turn violently... and now - after the failure of the „Ampel“ coalition in Germany - will also play a role in the early federal elections.
At the same time, there is no alternative to continue to work on the structures of solidarity, not to let up, and thus not least to keep doors open for coming, hopefully better times. In this spirit, there have been three remarkable gatherings in the last ten days.
At the beginning of November, We`ll Come United met in Hamburg with up to 400 activists to discuss practical resistance against camps, deportations and payment cards, as well as the perspectives for mobilisation for 2025. At the same time, the Welcome to Europe network met in Barcelona to expand the multilingual webguide w2eu.info for solidarity on the routes and to exchange content proposals for next year's transnational summer camp. Finally, on 6 November, a meeting organised by Albanian and Italian groups was held, along with a press conference in Tirana, to announce protests against the anniversary of the Meloni-Rama deal and the Italian government's first attempts to implement it.
We would like to end this preface with two quotations from a text of a conversation about experiences and perspectives of transnational organising, which was recently published on trans-border.net. We recommend it for further discussion: „[...] We imagine the improvement and consolidation of an organisation that enables us to be prepared for rapid changes and to transform them into opportunities, as well as to strengthen the subversive power of social movements [...]’ ‘...The dynamics of social movements can challenge and change a seemingly ‘stable’ repressive situation within a few weeks or months…“
With best regards, the Kompass crew