Kompass-newsletter Nr. 139 - 11/2025

Sudan: Stop the Massacre in El Fasher - Info-Sammlung von Migration-Control +++ 14.11. in Berlin: Veranstaltung - Vom Krieg ins Gefängnis: Die Kriminalisierung sudanesischer Geflüchteter in Griechenland +++ 18.11. in Frankfurt: Tageskonferenz zu Kommunen als Sichere Häfen +++ 26.11. in Frankfurt: Medico-Veranstaltung zu 10 Jahre Sommer der Migration +++ Alarm Phone und Mediterranea: Stop the shootings at sea! +++ Monitor-TV-Bericht vom 30.10. zur Komplizenschaft von EU und Libyen +++ Sea Watch Bericht: 60 libysche Angriffe auf See, während Bundesregierung plant, libysche Küstenwache zu trainieren +++ Tunesien: Aktivitäten der Menschenrechtsorganisation FTDES von Regierung „suspendiert“ +++ Interview von Pro Asyl mit FTDES: „Tunesien ist ein Freiluftgefängnis für Schutzsuchende“ +++ Rückblicke: Transnationale Aktionskette: Konferenz in Rabat; Stop MoU Aktionstage in Rom; Prozessbeginn gegen Mediterranea in Ragusa; Konferenz gegen ICMPD in Wien; Proteste gegen Haftlager in Albanien +++ Ausblick: 18.12.2025: Stop the Violence: Rise Up Against Frontex’s Training for Border Brutality!

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,

am 18. Oktober 2025 hat Refugees in Libya im Zentrum von Rom eine Bühne aufgebaut, auf der etwa 50 Männer, Frauen und Kinder kollektiv Zeugnis ablegten: von ihrem Leid und ihren Kämpfen in Libyen und bis heute hier in Europa. Mit starken Stimmen und in einer gelungenen Mischung aus Performance und persönlichen Berichten haben sie ihre Anklagen und Forderungen vorgetragen. Einige auf Video festgehaltene  Impressionen finden sich auf der transborder-Webseite: https://trans-border.net/index.php/chain-of-action-2025/videos-pictures/. Eingeleitet wurde diese beeindruckende Kundgebung mit einem „Rage Poem“ - einem Gedicht des Zorns, das wir hier dokumentieren wollen.

RAGE POEM

„Even under the sun — our world is dark. Our world is chaotic. Our world is nightmarish. Our world is betrayal. Our world is shame.
Rage against Tripoli — against its prisons, its militias, its torture camps, its crimes.
Rage against Italy — against her ministers, her signatures, her complicity, rage against her hate. 

Rage against Brussels — against the architects of border death and denial.
Rage against Geneva — against the white papers that bury the truth in reports.
We have rebelled against Tripoli. We have rebelled against Italy. We have rebelled against Brussels. We have rebelled against Geneva. We have rebelled against the silence of the world. We have rebelled — all the more so, that we may not be erased. Rebellion has been our voice — our lifeline. 

We know. Knowing is a burden, for we know our pain and its inflictors.
We know. Knowing is a wound that does not close — unless justice is served. Although we know — we are still here.
We are the remnants of the forgotten sea, the faces Europe pretends not to see. We were not born to drown on high seas in search of safety. We were not born to kneel in submission to slavery, torture, and rape. We were not born to be counted by surveillance drones of Frontex and more. 

We are not statistics. We are not shadows. We are the evidence — walking. Our breath — is rebellion. Our steps — rebellion. Even our silence — rebellion. Even our pain has learned to rise and walk.
Europe calls it migration — We experienced it as refuge. Europe calls it border control — we experienced it as deliberate murders. What Europe calls cooperation — we experienced it as slavery. 

Our name, our body, our women, our face, our humanity, are not MoUs replicated in Libya, Khartoum, Rabat, Tunis, Egypt, Turkey, Niamey and more. 

Our lives are not their signatures. Our children are not their votes. We will not be footnotes in their democracy. Even under the sun — our world is dark. But we — we are the ones who will bring the light.“

Mit solidarischen Grüßen,

die Kompass-Crew