From jo at xs4all.nl  Thu Dec 24 13:58:59 2009
From: jo at xs4all.nl (Jo van der Spek M2M)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:58:59 +0100
Subject: <m2m-eng> Call to support migrants in detention
Message-ID: <13C5E89AE3064FEBAED632188832F817@jom2m>

this a call to support the work of he Migrant to Migrant Foundation

Their names are Blaise, Mohamed, Ricky

Three among the thousands of migrants in detention in Holland. 
Blaise just spent 2 weeks in isolation. This was his punishment for fighting against his deportation.
Mohamed is now almost one year detained at Schiphol Oost. He will soon be out on the street without money or rights. He has to rely on friendship to survive.
Ricky is a traumatized victim of the Schiphol Fire, and once again detained to be deported. He has a criminal record, which weighs heavier than the responsibility of the state for the fire that caused his trauma.

These three migrants need to talk with friends, lawyers and doctors. 
Like anybody else they need to talk with their families around the world.
They call on M2M to ask for help, to find their way out of injustice.
For themselves and for their brothers on the block.
And they ask M2M to give them phone cards.
M2M is doing just that since March 2009.

We organized awareness and support for the detained migrants in Schiphol Oost, Alphen aan den Rijn and Zaandam. We recorded their calls, we visited them and received them when they were released. In return they acted in solidairity with Ahmed Issa during his trial. 
Sali, the young guy from Ghana, never gave up and kept the spirit high. He made a rap for Ahmed Issa which he performed in the Worldhouse, after his release, and on the phone to Ahmed Issa in Libya:

http://m2m.streamtime.org/uploads/2009/October/Sali_raps_4_Ahmed_Issa_edited.mp3

M2M is here to make connections, to communicate, as migrants to migrants. We do this without a penny of subsidy, as an independent founadation.

http://m2m.streamtime.org/index.php/about/

M2M received in the last years some 700 Euro from Dutch speakers to contribute to the costs of telephone calls.

Now we ask our English readers to make a similar contribution.  
Please donate 10 euro to M2M so we can continue to provide this human right to communicate.

Our bank account is on the contact page of M2M:

http://m2m.streamtime.org/index.php/contact/

thanks a lot!
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From zerner at paris7.jussieu.fr  Fri Dec 25 14:02:08 2009
From: zerner at paris7.jussieu.fr (Martin Zerner)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:02:08 +0100
Subject: <m2m-eng> (no subject)
Message-ID: <a06230905c75a67093df5@[88.175.64.10]>



BURN THE BORDERS

January 25th, 26th and 27th: trial of the revolt 
that set the detention centre of Vincennes on fire

The revolt, which led to the fire that destroyed 
the largest prison for foreigners in France, is a 
concrete and historical response to the existence 
of detention centres and to the whole of the 
policy of control of the migratory flows.

On January 25th, 26th and 27th, ten persons will 
be tried for this revolt by the Tribunal de 
Grande Instance of Paris (a court which tries 
misdemeanours).
Our solidarity has to be at the height of the 
stake: the acquittal of the accused and beyond 
that, freedom of movement and installation.

The largest detention centre in France burnt on June 22nd 2008.
>From June 2008 to June 2009, some ten former
detainees have been arrested and imprisoned - 
most of them for nearly one year - in preventive 
jail. They are charged with "damage", "voluntary 
destruction of the buildings of the Vincennes 
administrative detention centre", and/or 
"aggression in band against a police officer, 
without causing an incapacity of work for more 
than eight days".
Movements of protest of the locked up 
sans-papiers have taken place ceaselessly during 
the six months before the fire. Hunger strikes, 
beginnings of fires, refusing to be counted, and 
individual or collective oppositions followed 
each other during this period. Outside, 
demonstrations and actions exposed the very 
existence of these centres and support the 
revolts.
On June 21st 2008, Salem Souli died in his room 
after he had asked in vain for medical care.  The 
next day the detainees organized a march in his 
memory, which was violently repressed. A 
collective revolt followed and the detention 
centre was reduced to ashes.

A TRIAL FOR THE EXAMPLE
To prevent this type of revolt from spreading, 
the State must strike hard, it has to find 
culprits. Ten persons were arrested to serve as 
examples. We do not care whether they are 
"culprit" or "innocent". By the punishment of 
these persons, the State wishes to make disappear 
revolts, denials of submission, and acts of 
resistance from the part of those who are, or 
will be in the future, between the walls of these 
centres.
The Vincennes revolt is not isolated. Wherever 
are detention centres, revolts will spring up, 
fires will start, flights, hunger strikes, 
mutinies, and destructions will take place. It 
has been so in France (centres were burnt in 
Nantes, Bordeaux, and Toulouse), and in many 
European countries (Italy, Belgium, the 
Netherlands, Great Britain) or in countries to 
which border control is outsourced such as Turkey 
and Libya.
The fire at the Vincennes detention centre is not 
only a symbol: as an immediate consequence of the 
disappearance of its capacity for 280 people, 
rounding up and deportations greatly decreased in 
the Paris region during the following period. 
Concretely, arrests were avoided by the 
thousands. This act of the detainees has put out 
of order for a while the deportation machine.

JAILS FOR FOREIGNERS: THEY LOCK UP, DEPORT, DISSUADE IMIGRATION
The detention centres are a step between the 
arrest and the deportation. They are used to lock 
up the passengers for the time necessary to 
gather what is needed for a deportation, namely a 
passport or a pass issued by a consulate, and a 
plane or ship reservation.
The more a State wants to deport, the more it 
builds detention centres.  Their numbers 
increases ceaselessly everywhere. In Europe, the 
trend is to make locking up longer, which not 
only allows deporting more people, but also 
dissuades immigration.
These locking up places are actually punishment 
places. As such, they are more and more built on 
a model of prison: monitoring by video, small 
units, isolation cells? For example, the largest 
detention centre in France now being built in 
France at Le Mesnil-Amelot (with capacity for 240 
persons) that will open in a few weeks is 
designed according to this model. In the 
Netherlands, where suicides and "unexplained" 
deaths are frequent in the centres, detention 
lasts 18 months and may start again immediately 
after freeing, in very small individual cells, 
sometimes in prison-boats, with scarce access to 
air.

THE UNDOCUMENTATED FOREIGNERS: BOTH A HIGHLY ADAPTABLE MANPOWER ?
Detention centres are a part of the "migratory 
flows management" policy, which in turn is 
elaborated according the criteria of the "chosen 
immigration" which means according to the needs 
of manpower in the European countries. That 
bosses of the rich countries use migrant workers 
to increase their profits is nothing new. Be it 
within a legal framework, such as interim jobs or 
the former "OMI contract" (which allowed to fit 
the right of presence in the country to the 
seasonal working time), or in illegal work, the 
foreigners most often find jobs in the toughest 
sectors (the building industry, restaurants, 
cleaning, seasonal works?) These sectors ask for 
a flexible manpower, one which adapts to the 
immediate needs of production.
On top of the absence of rights due to their 
status, for instance in case of an accident, the 
permanent threat of arrest and deportation 
obviously enables the bosses to underpay them, 
indeed not to pay them at all (it is not 
infrequent). This equalizing at the lowest level 
of salaries and working conditions enables the 
bourgeoisie to enhance the exploitation of all. 
The repeated strikes of sans-papiers show how 
much the French bosses and the State need this 
manpower, but they also show that the 
sans-papiers can check them and get 
regularizations when they organize collectively.

? AND AN IDEAL SCAPEGOAT
The migratory policy, of which the detention 
centres are a gear, is also used to stigmatize 
the undocumented foreigners. The State makes of 
them the scapegoat for the hardships of the 
population of France. The spectacular use of 
deportations by the State takes its part in 
showing how great a "danger" the irregular 
immigration would be for France and Europe, and 
at the same time the efficiency of a State, which 
protects its citizens from this danger.
The State uses artefacts such as the above 
mentioned "threat of underground immigration", 
"rascals in the suburbs", "veiled women", or such 
as the campaign for the national identity to wake 
up the worst chauvinist and racist feelings, and 
to try and create a consent for the power and the 
world it produces.

BORDERS EVERYWHERE
The detention centres are indispensable for the 
implementation of a European policy to control 
the migratory flows, which, while it claims to 
abolish the borders within the Schengen space, 
reinforces them outside, notably with Frontex.
And so the control is outsourced at the outer 
doors of Europe, in agreement with countries such 
as Libya, Mauritania, Turkey or Ukraine, to which 
funds are given to lock up foreigners who are 
deemed unwanted, even before they make it to 
Europe.
At the same time, within the Schengen territory, 
borders are scattered, become movable, and thus 
are everywhere: every identity check can lead to 
a deportation. For the border is not only a line 
limiting he territory, it is above all a point of 
checking, of pressure and, of sorting out. So the 
street, the communication lines, the 
administrative buildings, the banks, the interim 
work offices already function as borders.
The detention centres are pieces of the deadly 
borders of the Schengen Europe, as are all camps 
for migrants, They are places where one waits, 
locked up, sometimes without limit and without 
trial, where one dies for lack of care, where one 
kills oneself rather than be deported. Borders 
must be abolished!

For all these reasons, and because there is no 
"good" management of the migratory flows, because 
everybody must be able to decide where he wants 
to live, we are in solidarity with the accused of 
the revolt and the arson of the Vincennes 
detention centre!


ACQUIT ALL THE ACCUSED
FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND INSTALLATION
CLOSE THE DETENTION CENTRES
NO PAPERS AT ALL

ACTION WEEK JANUARY 16TH TO 24TH 2010


Collectif de solidarit? avec les inculp?s de Vicennes
libert?-sans-retenue at riseup.net


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From zerner at paris7.jussieu.fr  Wed Dec 30 14:16:09 2009
From: zerner at paris7.jussieu.fr (Martin Zerner)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:16:09 +0100
Subject: <m2m-eng> Trial for a revolt in the Vincennes detention centre
Message-ID: <a06230925c760fa3e440f@[88.175.64.10]>

English summary

On January 25th, 26th and 27th, ten former 
detainees of the Vincennes detention centre will 
be tried for a revolt.

During the first semester of 2008, revolts 
repeatedly occured in the Vincennes detention 
centre, a place where undocumented foreigners are 
locked up pending their deportation. On June 
21st, a detainee died for lack of care. The next 
day, the centre was burnt during a revolt. Later, 
a number of detainees were arrested and accused 
of arson and aggression against police officers. 
Most of hem have been in preventiive jail for 
eight to twelve years.

A solidarity week will be organized from January 
16th to 24th. For the time being,two events are 
decided to open and close the week.

January 16th at 7pm: solidarity evening with 
projections, informations and discussions (CICP 
21 ter rue Voltaire Paris 11)

January 24th at 3pm meeting with exchange of 
informations about the struggles against 
detention centres and, beyond them, the migratory 
policies in Europe.(CIP 14 quai de Charente Paris 
19) It would be good if some of you can attend,in 
continuity with the preceding meetings in Paris 
and Barcelona. And still better if you can stay 
for the trial.

Collectif de solidarit? avec les inculp?s de Vincennes 

liberte-sans-retenue at riseup.net

Salut ? vous.
Les 25, 26 et 27 janvier 2010 les dix inculp?s de 
la r?volte de Vincennes passeront en proc?s au 
Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, ? 13h30, 
16e Chambre, m?tro Cit?.
Le 22 juin 2008 le centre de r?tention de 
Vincennes avait ?t? br?l? par les sans-papiers 
prisonniers ? l'int?rieur, apr?s six mois de 
r?voltes presque continues et suite au d?c?s de 
l'un deux pour manque de soins le 21 juin. Au fil 
des mois qui ont suivi, des sans-papiers alors 
pr?sents ont ?t? accus?s par l'Etat fran?ais de 
"destruction de biens publics par l'effet 
d'incendie" et "violence ? agents de la force 
publique". La plupart ont ?t? en d?tention 
pr?ventive, pendant huit, dix et parfois douze 
mois.
Une semaine de solidarit? sera organis?e du 16 au 
24 janvier pour entre autres exiger leur relaxe, 
en esp?rant que le maximum de personnes, o? 
qu'elles soient, s'approprient cette histoire et 
ce proc?s et y fassent ?cho, tant cela r?sonne 
avec les r?voltes dans les centres de r?tention 
partout en Europe et ailleurs. 
A Paris, deux moments sont pour l'instant fix?s 
pour ouvrir et clore cette semaine :
- le 16 janvier : ? 19h, soir?e de soutien avec 
projection, informations, discussions au CICP, 21 
ter rue Voltaire, Paris 11e.
- le 24 janvier : ? 15h, rencontre et ?changes 
sur les luttes contre les centres de r?tention et 
plus largement les politiques migratoires dans 
les diff?rents pays europ?ens, ? la CIP, 14 quai 
de Charente, Paris 19e. Ce moment de la semaine 
sera important, ? la veille du premier jour du 
proc?s. Si certains de vous pouvaient ?tre 
pr?sents, dans la continuit? des rencontres ? 
Paris en mai dernier, puis ? Barcelone en 
octobre. Le logement et la bouffe seront bien s?r 
assur?s. Et si vous pouviez rester pour le proc?s 
ce serait encore mieux !
Nous vous enverrons d?s que possible plus de 
d?tails sur le d?roulement de la semaine de 
solidarit?.
En attendant de vos nouvelles, nous vous 
souhaitons courage et d?termination dans vos 
luttes, ? bient?t !


Collectif de solidarit? avec les inculp?s de Vincennes 

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