no-racism.net

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no-racism.net is an internet project from Austria that emerged from the platform for a world without racism. According to the title of the web address ( no-racism , English for no racism ), this project sees itself primarily as anti-racist . According to his own presentation, the main topics are the documentation of racism as well as reporting on a corresponding policy and its consequences; both in Austria and Europe and in certain contexts also globally.

history

The internet portal, which can be reached today at no-racism.net , went online in 1999 as the project website for the No man is illegal campaign under the domain illegalisiert.at . After the violent death of the deportation prisoner Marcus Omofuma during his deportation , Operation Spring and the protest movement against the FPÖ / ÖVP government from February 2000, the project continued to develop until it was the official start of no-racism on March 1, 2000 . net came.

A short time later, no-racism.net received a lot of media attention when the then FPÖ - (later BZÖ -) MP Karl Schweitzer uttered serious accusations against the website during a meeting of the Austrian National Council on November 24, 2000 . In the parliamentary debate, Schweitzer claimed that police files had appeared on the Internet at the URL www.no-racism.net that had been illegally queried from police computers. In fact, the files were only the reports because of the Thursday demonstrations against the KPÖ functionary Kurt Wendt . As the accused, he himself had made his court files available and consented to their publication.

With the start of the globalization-critical project "Global" on no-racism.net , the focus is increasingly directed towards events outside of Austria. From 2001, special emphasis was placed on reporting on the armed conflict in Colombia and contributions on protests against the World Economic Forum in Davos and Salzburg , as well as on the events during the G8 meeting in Genoa .

Content orientation

On no-racism.net also voices have their say that otherwise hardly have the opportunity to articulate themselves in public. Articles by victims of racist attacks have repeatedly been published and critical reports have been made about the trials of Operation Spring and the legal proceedings following the deaths of Omofuma and Wagues .

In other ways, too, attempts are made to report from the perspective of socially marginalized people. Since journalistic objectivity is not the top priority, no-racism.net also has a place for subjective reports, comments or demands on politics. For example, one advocates the immediate abolition of detention pending deportation (in German usage ) and calls for unrestricted right to stay for all people who want to live in Austria. It calls for the simplification of migration through the opening of national borders and the legalization of the sans papiers (from the French: without papers - meaning for people without identity documents such as passports etc.). No-Racism claims, like other anti- fascist groups, an “institutionalized racist state terror” and a “racist consensus of the majority population in Austria and elsewhere”.

Calls for anti-racist, feminist , autonomous and anti-fascist demonstrations are published regularly .

Political classification

In addition to the editorially supervised main page, no-racism.net also offers a platform for several externally designed projects. The homepages of the media-independent news service (MUND), the EU project Open Up , the Volxtheater Favoriten and various project pages of the Volxtheaterkarawane should be mentioned here .

no-racism.net sees itself as an anti-fascist project that works independently of social institutions such as the state or political parties and, in particular, campaigns against the deportation of immigrants. Based on this self-image, it works with other Antifa groups and structures internationally, especially with media-independent initiatives such as the MUND newsletter service. The Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism describes MUND as one of the two "best known and most frequently used internet platforms of the left-wing extremist spectrum in Austria". The other project named by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is Indymedia Austria, with which no-racism also works.

Furthermore, no-racism.net cooperates with radical left initiatives such as Rosa Antifa Vienna , Kanalb , or the international Noborder network . Politically, the project is closely linked to refugee organizations such as the deserters and refugee advisory service in Vienna or the airport social service .

Technical aspects

Until April 2004, no-racism.net consisted exclusively of a complex HTML page structure, which made search queries more difficult and offered little flexibility in the visual page design. In April 2004 the content of the site was moved to a database and no-racism.net was reorganized into categories and topics. With the areas of racism, DeportatiNO (on the subject of resistance to deportations), migration, debate and activism, five focal points were set and further specified in more than 200 topic-specific rubrics. In over 100 topics, articles are also collected across categories - mostly on current occasions.

The domain no-racism.net is registered in the USA.

License

Articles published on no-racism.net may be used for non-commercial publication provided the source is acknowledged.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Stenographic Protocol - Parliamentary Materials
  2. ↑ no-racism.net on Schweitzer's statements
  3. ^ Constitutional protection reports of the Austrian BMI
  4. ↑ BMI Constitutional Protection Report 2005, p. 46