No border network

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No-border activists demonstrate in front of the Frontex building for general freedom of travel, 2008

No-Border-Netzwerk (also: No Border Network) is a European network of politically active people, the aim of which is to remove existing borders and enable freedom of establishment beyond the European Union. The followers of the network consider themselves mostly anarchists . The no-border network was founded in 1999. It has had a website and local groups across Europe since 2000, including eleven in the UK, where it is called the No Borders Network .

Structure of the network

There are therefore no bodies such as general assemblies or boards. No Border works, typical for networks of autonomous people , with a reference group system . Any person or group that shares the principles of the movement is authorized to use the name No Border .

Networked are The VOICE Refugee Forum, Young People Without Borders, Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, Women in Exile, NoLager Network, Refugee Struggle for Freedom, Refugee Tent Aktion, Refugee Strike Berlin, Lampedusa in Hamburg , Freedom not Frontex, Pro asylum , refugee councils , No one is illegal , Afrique-europe Interact, borderline-europe .

The local group Hanau of kmii is explicitly mentioned by the Left Party in the European Parliament as a contact for the no-border network in Germany.

history

The idea of ​​a world without borders with a right to freedom of movement as a human right is old. It is a central component of cosmopolitanism . It was exemplified by John Lennon's song “ Imagine ” in 1971 , a hymn of the peace movement (“Imagine there's no countries […] | You may say I'm a dreamer | But I'm not the only one | I hope someday you'll join us | And the world will be as one "). The idea of ​​a world without borders, in which nobody is refused entry into a country or work on the grounds that they are a foreigner and in which nobody is deported as “ illegals ” , arose at documenta IX in Kassel in 1997. This was subject to the motto: Nobody is illegal . This motto became the name of a movement with a focus in Germany and later in other countries.

The transnational network started its work in December 1999 with a meeting in Amsterdam . A national branch of the movement has been active in Great Britain under the name No Borders Network since 2005 .

aims

According to a presentation by the left in the European Parliament, the aim of the network is "to organize resistance against the background of an emancipatory and anti-capitalist perspective and to create a platform for the exchange of information and experiences between the various groups and individuals". Actions are carried out together with those affected and with self-organized groups of migrants.

Inscription on the welcome column at a refugee hostel in Bremen-Osterholz : "People are authorized to live wherever they want"

Actions

Transnational no-border demonstration at the “ Calais Jungle ”, June 2009. The front transparency bears the motto “No Border” and the demand for freedom of movement and residence

Important activities are the “No border camp”, the International Day of Action always around October 15th, the campaign against the IOM and, in general, the fight against deportation and detention. Groups of the No-Border-Network have been organizing protest camps called “No Border Camps” or “Border Camps” since 2002. The locations for this were Strasbourg , France (2002), Frassanito, Italy (2003), Cologne (2003, 2012), Gatwick Airport (2007), United Kingdom, Patras , Greece, Dikili , Turkey (2008), Calais , France (2009 , 2015), Lesvos , Greece (2009), Brussels , Belgium (2010), Siva Reka , Bulgaria (2011), Stockholm , Sweden (2012), Rotterdam , Netherlands (2013), Ventimiglia , Italy (2015) and Thessaloniki 2016. In Thessaloniki, 4,500 people took to the streets during a demonstration that took place during the camp.

“Anarcho-Punks” operated “NoBorderKitchens” in Greece at the beginning of 2016 , according to Spiegel . With these kitchens you closed a supply gap in that it For example, in the " hotspot " Samos , a former internment camp for political prisoners, EURODAC devices for registering refugees and coast guard boats were not available, but no kitchens. Nobody except the NoBorder activists (not only on Samos) had created an infrastructure to feed people on the move. Other “no-border kitchens” had already become active on inner-European borders.

criticism

In March 2016, activists of the no-border network were accused by French authorities and the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve of “irresponsible” and “cynical” ways of inciting refugees against state power and using them for media-effective actions. For example, migrants from Iran were made to sew their mouths shut with string and thus appear in front of the press cameras.

There is also criticism of the practices of the no-border movement within the political left . So said Vassilis Tsianos , co-founder of Kanak Attak , 2012: "It was since 2003 always about behavior on the No Border Camps Must drunk, may be smoked hashish? When does a man stop flirting and sexually harass a woman? This argument was very important, but even then it smacked of a certain political culture of disciplining the subject through moral invocation. And that had nothing to do with migrant culture. This is as strange as this emerged practice of self-positioning. [...] "I am a non-oppressed born, student receiving, womanized white and my knowledge is based on the knowledge of PoCs" is what they say, it is a kind of neo-Protestant sect formation. This self-accusation is always a strategy of a reform-oriented section of the educated bourgeoisie: morality and moral panic in the name of discourse hygiene. "

The Heinrich Böll Foundation also criticizes the fact that it is often not clear who is actually meant by the “we” that activists speak of. Many have internalized the metaphor of Fortress Europe in the form that those whose situation should be improved belonged to "the others" linguistically. It would have to be about overcoming the binary structure "we and the others" in speaking, thinking and acting.

There is also criticism of the way migrants are represented exclusively as heroes and not also as victims. Migration is presented per se as something positive and thus transfigured.

Awards

The local group Hanau of the sister network no man is illegal was awarded the Georg Bernard plaque in 2012 by IG Metall in Berlin's Mitte district . According to IG Metall, this plaque is given to individuals and institutions “for the struggle to maintain democracy”. In the justification, the union expressly rated deportations as “threatening”, and kmii was praised for its work on behalf of refugees.

Police measures and intelligence assessments

In 2012, through a small request from the left, it became known that Europol was conferring on a larger scale via the network and that the BKA and LKA carried out infiltration and disruption actions against the camps. In response to a further small question, the federal government announced on May 10, 2013 that "knowledge on the PWGT way is exchanged on occasion and event-related via no-border activists, provided that the phenomena of politically motivated crime are affected."

The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg assessed the No-Border-Camp in Brussels in its “ Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010” as a protest by “ anti-racists from various European countries against the migration policy of the European Union”. The initiator of these camps is "a European network and a loose association of autonomous groups and non-extremist refugee initiatives."

In its “Verfassungsschutz Report 2012”, the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism generally rates “the ideological level of the autonomous anarchist activists as rather low […]. In some cases there is no political goal behind their militant actions 'but pure experience-orientation' ”. The “manageable number” of mostly young activists is “increasingly driven by a largely experience-oriented motivation that provokes and promotes confrontation with opposing political groups and with the state power. The danger of such a development is that, without ideological brackets, purely militant aggression can lead to excessive use of force. ”Among the international connections, the“ participation of Austrian activists in a no-border camp in Bulgaria ”is listed.

Web links

Commons : No Border  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La-Croix.com: Qui sont les "No Borders" de Calais? In: la-croix.com. Retrieved March 10, 2016 (French).
  2. ^ European Citizenship and the Place of Migrants' Struggles in a New Radical Europe. An interview with Sandro Mezzadra. | Lefteast. In: www.criticatac.ro. Retrieved August 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / noborders.org.uk
  4. ↑ About No Borders . noborders.org.uk
  5. ↑ Networks . www.no-border.info
  6. ↑ European Left: Migreurop and No Border ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europa-links.eu
  7. ↑ a b Peter Allen: Police arrest 47 anarchists threatening to lead swarms of illegal migrants through Channel tunnel to Britain . In: Daily Mail , June 28, 2009. 
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / noborder.org
  9. ↑ Shuddhabrata Sengupta: No Border Camp Strasbourg: A Report, 29 Jul 2002 . Archived from the original on March 13, 2004.
  10. ^ Protest camp starts near Gatwick . In: BBC News , September 20, 2007. Retrieved April 7, 2010. 
  11. ^ Protesters blame police over camp . In: BBC News , September 18, 2007. Retrieved April 7, 2010. 
  12. ↑ No Border Patras 2008 . Archived from the original on September 15, 2008.
  13. ^ Turkey, Dikili, No Border Camp . September 13, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  14. ^ Noborder Lesvos '09 welcomes you . Welcome to Europe (formerly lesvos09.antira.info). August 25, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  15. ↑ No Border Camp in Bulgaria: 25th to 29th of August 2011 . Welcome to Europe. June 28, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  16. ^ Some news from No Border Camp Bulgaria . September 5, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  17. ↑ Website Rotterdam No Border Camp ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nobordercamp.nl
  18. ↑ Fights on fences and borders. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Alexander Smoltczyk / Maurice Weiss: Z for back . In: Der Spiegel . Edition 10/2016. March 5, 2016, p. 23
  20. ↑ No Border Kitchen: Greece - Macedonia: We keep cooking! . civic-forum.org . February 9, 2016
  21. ↑ No-Border-Kitchen. In: frieden-hannover.de. January 18, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Refugee Kitchen On An Old Train At Greece-Macedonia Border. In: wmfd.com. Retrieved March 13, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Jochen Buchsteiner / Michaela Wiegel: Refugees in Calais - White roses against bulldozers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) , March 11, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2016
  24. ↑ Christian Jakob: Vassilis Tsianos in conversation about the debate about critical whiteness and left-wing racism . jungle-world.com . August 9, 2012
  25. ^ Juliane Karakayali / Serhat Karakayali: Liminal People . Local lore. Migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
  26. ↑ Daphne Sivetidis: The Anti-Capitalist Movement and the migrant. In: Sussex Migration Working Paper no.39.University of Sussex, accessed August 20, 2016 .
  27. ↑ IG Metall Mitte: Georg Bernard plaque awarded to Kein Mensch ist Illegal . June 28, 2012
  28. ↑ Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Andrej Hunko, Annette Groth, Inge Höger, other MPs and the parliamentary group DIE LINKE. - Printed matter 17/9446 - (PDF file) dated May 23, 2012, accessed on March 9, 2016
  29. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MPs Andrej Hunko, Annette Groth, Ulla Jelpke, other MPs and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group. - Printed matter 17/13440 - p. 7 (PDF file) of May 10, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2016
  30. ^ Ministry of the Interior and Sport Hamburg: Verfassungsschutz Report 2010 . P. 128 (37)
  31. ↑ Republic of Austria / Federal Ministry of the Interior / Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2012 p. 21
  32. ^ Republic of Austria / Federal Ministry of the Interior / Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2012 . P. 24