Wie ihr vermutlich schon gehört habt wird am 08.06 eine Demonstration in Trier für globale Bewegungsfreiheit und Bleiberecht von Flüchtlingen stattfinden. Starten wird die Demo um 14 Uhr vor der „Aufnahmeeinrichtung für Asylbegehrende“ in der Dasbachstraße 19. Vom Hauptbahnhof empfehlen wir die Buslinie 85 oder 86 bis zur Haltestelle Nells-Park.
Unseren Aufruf zu der Demo findet ihr hier. Den gibt es nun auch in einer englischen Version, die im Folgenden dokumentiert wird.
The future is unwritten – afford global freedom of movement – get over capitalism
20 years ago, CDU/CSU and SPD resolved the asylum-compromise and with that the factual abolition of the right of asylum in Germany. This was a respond to the nationwide pogroms of Nazis and citizens which addressed to all asylum seekers during the revitalisation of ethnic community. One example for this might be Rostock-Liechtenhagen: For 4 days, Nazis rioted against asylum while local residents applauded and actively supported. Finally the Nazis set fire to the asylum – police did not intervene. Only coincidentally there were no dead people during this excess. An other example might be Solingen, where 5 people died and several got grievously injured during an arson attack on the house of family Genç in 1995. But instead of proceeding against racism in the so called middle/ mainstream of society a “spate of asylum seekers” got constructed as natural catastrophe in public discussion, which finally served as legitimation of the factual abolition of the right of asylum. In current discourse, not the German pack and its racism and nationalism but the asylum seekers were to be blamed for the pogroms and thus, they were intended to vanish. German inversion of committer and victim reloaded. Today, 20years later, nothing really improved. Europe’s borders are highly protected and thousands of asylum seekers lose their lives while trying to reach a better one. If they make it to Europe despite all haressments, they’ll get worn out by so called safe-third-country regulation , residential obligation , prohibition of labour , bureaucracy and police. Only in 1% of all cases, asylum requests get accepted as reasonable. In the best case, the majority expects a temporary suspension of deportation, in the worst case a life in illegality or deportation back in even bigger misery.

