[noborder] 29 JANUARY DEMONSTRATION IN MILAN - LET?S CLOSE VIA CORE LLI

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>Hello,
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>In view of the January 29 national demos in Italy, we ask to all people
>willing to help to send this message together with the Italian flyer
>calling the demos to the Italian embassies/ consulates in your city or
>country.
>
>Please inform us about your supporting initiatives, so to report them in
>Italy.
>
>Here's the message:
>
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>
>STOP NOW THE MURDEROUS POLICY TOWARD MIGRANTS!
>
>Sirs,
>
>We have learnt from direct sources in Italy the Christmas results of the
>migration policy adopted by the Italian government in full agreement with
>the others EU countries enforcing the Schengen Agreement..
>
>9 documented deads from December 25 to January 7 (list attached), rumours
>about a ship with more than 50 migrants on board disappeared in the night
>between Dec. 30 and 31, the recent, strange death of mr. Baffa, the lawier
>defending the relatives of the Albanian victims of the ship "Kater I Rades"
>-- sunk in other uncleared circumstances by the Italian Army ship "Sibilla"
>on March 27, 1997 (86 casualties): concidences? We don't think so. The
>implementation of the current Italian policy on migration recalls more and
>more those "final solutions" so frequently adopted in history, with their
>long lists of deads and misteries.
>
>We consider all this as the result of a blindly repressive migration policy
>not aimed to integration or even tolerance for those who must be
>considered "Economical Refugees", but aimed to exclusion, fear, and
>ultimately violence against men, women and children whose only crime is to
>be born outside the precinct of rich countries.
>
>On top of this, there's the stated intention by the Italian Government to
>open up a huge prison camp for foreigners directly in Albania, thus moving
>a set of already undemocratic practices to a country where democratic
>day-to-day control -- already very difficult -- will be almost impossible.
>
>As human beings, we feel deeply outraged by all this.
>
>In expressing our support to the national demonstrations which will take
>place on January 29, Saturday, in Milan and Florence, we ask to Your
>Government a full review of the migration policy adopted to-date, the
>closure of all prison camps for migrants currently opened in Italy, the
>respect of the rights of free information for the public and of legal
>assistance for the emprisoned migrants, the issue of reliable data about
>the migration phenomena, i.e. the number of "hosts" currently emprisoned in
>the Italian camps, the number of deportations, etc, and the admittance by
>law of alternative monitoring organizations in the prison camps until their
>definitive closure.
>
>You get no greetings from us -- just the list of 9 deads by your policy and
>the text calling the Italian demonstrations on January 29.
>
>List of deads from December 25 to January 7:
>
>Dec. 25: Rome: Mohamed Ben Sahid, Tunesian, 39, married with an Italian
>woman, dead in the prison camp "Ponte Galeria" for lack of medical
>treatment after being illegally kept there for 14 days "to check his
>position".
>
>Dec. 26: Taranto: Tanzanian migrant (name unknown) frozen to death while
>swimming from the Cyprus ship "Poseidonia" to shore.
>
>Dec. 29 - Trapani: 3 deads (names unknown) after fire in the prison camp
>"Vulpitta". The doors where locked from outside "to prevent possible
>escape". The camp doesn't have running water for its 85 "hosts".
>
>January 1 - Sicily: dead of another migrant (name unknown) wounded in the
>fire of Dec. 29 in the prison camp "Vulpitta".
>
>Juanuary 2: dead of a young Chinese migrant (name unknown) by the Italian
>shore of the Straits of Otranto.
>
>January 5: dead of a young Kurdish migrant (name: Vedat Yuksel) by the
>Italian shore of the Straits of Otranto.
>
>January 7: Sicily: dead of another migrant (name unknown) wounded in the
>fire of Dec. 29 in the prison camp "Vulpitta".
>
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>
>January 1999, ten Milanese die in ten days:
>immigrants (falsely) accused
>
>December 1999, five migrants die in three days:
>our detention camps for migrants without documents are (truly) guilty
>
>29 JANUARY 2000,  LET?S TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE ITALIAN DETENTION CAMPS.
>CLOSE VIA CORELLI IN MILAN.
>
>The detention camps for migrants without documents are taking their toll of
>victims in our country.
>
>In the Europe of Schengen Italy, for years the home of ?sans papiers? from
>all over the world, is changing its role to that of an armed sentinel on the
>southern border of the ?civilised world?.
>Now those without papers do not leave our country, they try to reach it,
>drowning because of the ships that hunt them down, dying at work, exploited
>by small-time bosses, dying in our prison camps, that intern and then deport
>them.
>
>The list grows longer:  Jerry Masslo, the victims of Kater I Rades, Semira
>Adamu, Ben Said - these are only a few of the better-known names, the
>murders we know about, the tip of the iceberg of concealment and
>indifference.
>
>The possible alternatives to all this start with point-blank refusal of the
>propaganda regarding the endless emergencies (from the ?clandestines? to
>public security, to drugs old and new, to gangs, to political dissent)  and
>proceed with battles for universal guarantees: freedom of movement, a
>minimum citizen?s income, dignified and safe living and working conditions;
>with anti-prohibition, damage-limiting,  multiracial and anti-racist
>practices;  valuing those experiences of self-organisation that conduct
>these battles and practices and carry out just disobedience.
>
>But for months, on entering the prison camps for ?sans papiers?, we have met
>women and men awaiting expulsion orders, caged up like animals in a zoo,
>people who have lost all rights to assistance, respect and dignity,
>abandoned in a twilight-land of isolation, desperation, sickness and fear.
>
>And the machinery grinds on, despite criticism, protests, indignation.
>In Luxemburg they suspend the terms of the Schengen treaty for ?emergency
>traffic?, in Germany they arrest and search the companions who were with us
>in Albania, because they defended taxi-drivers accused of not checking the
>documents of passengers who were ?clearly foreign?, and in Italy they now
>even plan to export camps of 25,000 people over the border to Albania.
>
>Our reply to this routine indifference is a national day of action on 29
>January, with the meetings that the movement for the closure of the camps
>has established, each meeting  independent and with its own route, but
>sharing the main objective - to close the camps - on the same day that it
>will again be necessary to express firm opposition to neoliberism against
>the meeting at Davos of the World Economic Forum: in Italy as at Davos, in
>Italy as at Seattle.
>
>A day that must give answers:  in Milan with a demonstration against a
>prison camp that has already been open for a year, in Florence against new
>camps that are supposed to be opening, and in all the towns that decide to
>take part in this national day of action, joining the initiatives already
>planned and promoting new initiatives.
>
>On this day our opposition will break the routine of verbal criticism and
>dissent that never becomes civil disobedience, as we oppose bodily
>resistance to this unacceptable  imprisonment.
>
>To free the prisoners in Milan who are risking their lives in a prison camp .
>
>To free the women and men in the Via Corelli centre and close the prison
>camp in our city.
>
>29 JANUARY - LET?S CLOSE VIA CORELLI
>DEMONSTRATION IN MILAN
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