Kompass-Newsletter No. 90 - 10/2020
Moria burned down and „New Pact on Migration and Asylum“ +++ 9.10.2020- one year after the attack in Halle - Resilience festival and commemoration in Berlin +++ 17.10. in many places: Action day of the platform of the transnational social strike (TSS) +++ 24.10. in Wiesbaden: Demo against right-wing and racist structures in police and authorities +++ 29.10. Online event from Sea to City: Corridors of Solidarity +++ Anti-Racism-exhibition in Frankfurt - on the death of Matiullah J. +++ Updates Sea Rescue: Alarm Phone and Sea Watch +++ Dublin and Church Asylum: no extension to 18 months! +++ Solidarity with Serif - last round against deportation authorities +++ New film: Health is a human right. The anonymous health insurance certificate +++ Updates Initiative 19 February Hanau +++ Review: Transnational decentralised days of action 5 years after the March of Hope
Dear friends!
Moria is burnt down and all those who do not close their eyes intentionally or who demand exclusion at any price anyway, have once again experienced in the days after 8 September how brutal, inhumane and murderous EU asylum and migration policy is. A good two weeks later, Von der Leyen & Co presented their plans for a "New Pact on Migration and Asylum", a draft for the next round of tightening up: Asylum procedures directly at the borders, even more detention and even more deportations. "Man cannot eat as much as man wants to puke" - full stop!
For the further introduction of the new Kompass, we take over the short and so apt speech that a friend from Athens wrote a few days after the fire:
„The tragic thing is not that Moria burned down. What is tragic is that it existed. They write in various texts or comments that refugees are now ´homeless` and lost their few belongings. Moria wasn't a ´home`, it was a prison and Moria's inmates are not ´homeless` now. They've been homeless all these years. They go on the channels and accuse refugees of setting the fires. If they set the fire they had every right to do it. All the right in the world.
They present the burning of Moria as a health bomb as it might lead to the spread of covid. A health bomb, however, was its existence as tens of thousands of people were stacked in miserable conditions without elementary healthcare, without even access to water and soap. After all, rich foreigners, tourists, walking around bars, restaurants, cafes are not a health bomb. Poor foreigners - those who are the untouchables for a large part of society - will be accused of spreading. As accused of all problems.
No matter who has the responsibility for burning. We have to fight the ones who was responsible for the existence of Moria.
Let the burning be a reason - in an extremely difficult political and social correlation - for common struggles that claim the self-evident. The right to freedom of movement and to decent housing and life.“
In this spirit and with anti-racist greetings,
the Kompass crew