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hi all,
below is a call to action for the gatwick no border
camp 2007 endorsed
by
the IUSW activist meeting (London). We are planning on
holding a workshop (with other feminist groups and sex
workers) about
gender
/ borders/ migration / resistance, at the camp in
sept. It is only two
months
away so there is plenty to organise. At present,
people are planning
for up
to 1000 people to attend the camp -- and it will be an
amazing
opportunity to
network and build alliances with groups and people
from across the
globe.Building solidarity and making alliances within
the no border
movement i
crucial in the 'trafficking' debate.
a while back it became obvious to many involved in sex
worker
rights that we certainly had not 'won' the debate
within the Left about
trafficking. many in the Left who support open borders
/ free movement
of people
still (re)produce the mainstream anti-trafficking
rhetoric about
victims /
traffickers, without any acknowledgment of women's
autonomous
migration,role of borders in creating shite conditions
in the sex
industry and that when governments say they are
targeting trafficking
-- really
they are increasing border security, raiding brothels
and deporting sex
workers.
stuff you can do to help
1) get in contact if you would like to attend the camp
and or attend
the
workshop on gender/borders/resistance
2) get your local organisation / group to sign on to
the call to action
3) spread the word generally amongst interested folk
also, some of us are planning a Migrating University.
The No Borders camp at Gatwick is an ideal opportunity
for the local
uni to
rouse itself from sleepy London and show its
solidarity with
Britain's new settlers, condemn the Governments asylum
and detention
practices, and expose the hypocrisy of having
unregulated capital flow
alongside racist fortress restrictions on people.
So, let's get Goldsmiths on the move.
- tent university, courses and workshops on race,
migration,
Muticulturilism, gender and sexuality, Media, culture,
literature,
music, activism and education etc.
- practical and theoretical programs, taught by
current Goldsmiths and
invited international(ist) professors, general staff,
gaduates and
students,all welcome.
- a non-elitist and democratic administrative
structure, not a teaching
factory governed by commodity servicing
- a fighting representative education union, open to
everyone
- for critical radical intellectual renewal drawing
upon the vast
creative
and expressive resources of people's movement(s)
Etc.
more to follow as the camp gets organised....
cheers
camille and rutvica
An Invitation To The Gatwick No Border Camp 2007
>From 19th to 24th September 07 we will gather at
Gatwick Airport
for the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will
be a chance to
work
togetherto try and stop the building of a new
detention centre, and to
gather
ideas for how to build up the fight against the system
of migration
controls.
Gatwick Aiport - The Border Point
Gatwick is a border in the middle of Britain. People
arrive here
everyday.People are forcibly deported from here
everyday. It is a
place where people are imprisoned for unlimited
lengths of time without
trial,
where people are forced to hide underground and be
invisible, where
people are
treated as criminals for the 'crime' of crossing the
border.
In Britain, the government has recently announced its
intention to
build a new detention centre, near Tinsley House,
another detention
centre at
Gatwick airport. This will be another in a long line
of barbarous
prisonsacross the world, imprisoning people who
migrate.
Unless we stop it from being built.
Not far from Gatwick there are other border
fortifications: the
immigrationreporting centre at Croydon, the airline
companies who
charter deportation flights and the ID Interview
centre in Crawley. And
a few
miles away are the border posts at Dover and
Folkstone, where fear of
detection
by the borderpolice forces people to risk their lives
hiding under
lorries, or in suffocating containers.
While the physical borders get fortified, governments
also tighten up
the
internal controls: from international databases to
video surveillance,
biometric ID cards to electronic tagging. Just
recently, the UK
governmenthas announced the introduction of the Sirene
System.
This will grant Britain access to the SIS (Schengen
Information
System), a EU wide police database for refugees and
migrants, planned
to be
extended to keep protesters from moving around.
A Tactics Laboratory
How does daily life, from the need to work for
survival to the welfare
system, reinforce these borders? How can we fight
against the common
acceptance of borders, the idea of an inside and
outside? How can
we claim freedom of movement as a basic right? How do
we assert our
ability
to decide whether to go or stay, according to our
needs and desires,
not the
needs of the state or the economy? How can we escape
control, and start
building a movement powerful enough to challenge the
divisions between
people?
We need to share knowledge with those who have broken
these
borders, the hackers who escape control, those who
survive without work
and
money, those who fight the detention system , those
who question
identities,
those who have learnt to organise themselves without
hierarchy or
divisions.
Camp(aign)ing Against Borders
This camp is continuing the tradition of the No Border
camps across
theworld since the late 1990s, and like the camps
taking place this
year in the Ukraine in August and on the US/Mexican
border in November.
It will
be a space to share information, skills, knowledge and
experiences. A
place to plan actions together against the system of
borders which
divides us.
We are aware that the struggles for "no borders" reach
far beyond
"openborders". Without borders the idea of states will
become
obsolete, without states the national economies will
be history. In a
world
without borders,nobody will ask for papers anymore.
The camp will also be a laboratory of political and
practical
self-organisation. The camp will consist only of
people's
contributions to this. We are aware of the borders,
which divide
ourselves from
each other,be it sex, class, race, nationality, or
whatever. The border
camps are experiments in how to overcome these
artificial and
separating
identities.
No Borders
No Borders is a network of groups struggling for the
freedom of
movement for all and an end to all migration controls.
We call for a
radical
movementagainst the system of control, dividing us
into citizens
and non-citizens.
We demand the end of the border regime for everyone,
including
ourselves, to enable us to live another way, without
fear, racism and
nationalism.
We move, we meet. We talk, we fight.
Come camp with us.
http://noborders.org.uk/
--
'Some differences are playful; some are poles of world
historical
systems of domination. Epistemology is about knowing
the difference'.
Donna Haraway
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