19th of May: Caravan tour starts in Neuburg!

TO ABOLISH ALL REFUGEE CAMPS - AGAINST DEPORTATIONS TO AREAS OF CONFLICT OF THE WORLD !

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19th of May till 4th of June: Anti-G8-Caravan from Neuburg to Rostock: "We are
here because you destroy our countries"

Tourstart in Neuburg, Action-camp at Brandl-lawn: 19th-21st of May

>From 19th of May up to 4th of June 2007, the Caravan for the rights of refugees
and migrants is travelling from Bavaria via Thuringen, Hessen,
Nordrhein-Westfalia, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), and Berlin towards Rostock
in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Over there, in the seaside resort Heiligendamm at
the Baltic Sea representatives of the richest and most powerful nations in the
world, the so-called G8 countries, will meet. Caravan is going to show the
connection between the destruction in countries of origin of the refugees
because of reckless exploitation and war through the politics of the G8-nations
on the one hand and on the other hand the worldwide flight and migration
movement. "We are here because you destroy our countries" is the central slogan
of Caravan. The nationwide Caravan starts the tour the 19th of May 2007 in
Neuburg/Danube.

Since two years refugees in Neuburg are defending themselves against the inhuman
Housing in the "lager", against malnutrition by receiving only food packages,
against prohibition to work and criminalisation, as well as against the
everyday harassments by the social authorities and immigration office. With the
start of the Caravan Tour in Neuburg we like to pick up the thread of this
impressive protest of the refugees.

Action-camp in Neuburg/Danube: 19th-21st of May, at Brandl-lawn, close to the
river Danube (Donau)

Saturday, 19th of May:

Demonstration:
Rally: at 1 o´clock p.m. in front of the refugee camp Neuburg,
Donauwörtherstraße 82b

from 2 o´clock p.m.: demonstration through Neuburg, the final rally at
Schrannenplatz

from 3.30 p.m.: public hearing about the situation of the refugees in Neuburg at
Schrannenplatz

Train from Munich to Neuburg: Meeting point Sat, 19th of May, 10.30 am, Central
Station/big Information Board

Sunday, 20th of May:

Action Sunday against the deprivation of rights and deportations of the Iraqian
refugees

>From 3 o´clock p.m. till the evening:
barbecues, music, football and volleyball games with the women and men and
children of the refugee camp Neuburg at the Brandl lawn close to the river
Danube (Donau).

Monday, 21st of May:

Rally for the right to stay
>From 10.30 a.m. Rally in front of "Landratsamt" Forchheim, Am Streckerplatz 3

Monday, 4th of June: International Demo in Rostock for Global Freedom of
Movement and equal Rights

Close down refugee camps !
The government of Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern) is not going to alter its principle
about the forced housing of refugees in the lager in Neuburg. There are people
who are being drawn away from their social environment and sent to Neuburg
because as a consequence of the proceedings of revocation they lost their flat
or house because of prohibition to work. Besides the prohibition to work the
Neuburger authorities are putting further pressure on refugees by denying the
40 Euro pocket money per month to make the lives of the refugees as unpleasant
as possible. Many families in Neuburg are complaining that they and
particularly their children are starving, because the food packages do not
contain sufficient food.

However, on the other hand there are also signs of concrete success because of
the protests of refugees in Neuburg: As it happens, the Landkreis is opposing
generally against the housing of any tolerated refugee in camps. Furthermore,
there was an approval to arrange a discussion between the head of magistrate
and representatives of the refugees, to liberate the "Residenzpflicht" (the
law, not to leave the Landkreis without permission). This affirmation is
certainly far from the demand to abolish the racist law of "Residenzpflicht"
completely, however, even those little improvements would never have happened
without the protests of the refugees. And it is a great success that since two
years the topic of the living conditions in the "lager" are now and again in
the view of the public.

Also in Forchheim refugees are protesting. There, the inmates of this camp is a
right to stay according to the Interior Ministers conference from November 2006
is systematically.

The right to stay instead of deportations!
Beside the inhuman living conditions, for the refugees the main emphasis lies in
the topic of threatening deportation. Since three years, the German authorities
try to prepare deportations to the Iraq, not considering the deaths day after
day, the war, the occupation and terror. Even to asylum granted refugees their
refugee status had been withdrawn; permissions to stay in Germany had been
rejected or not been extended. Of the 300 refugees who are living presently in
the camp in Neuburg, about 60 are from the Iraq. Many of them have been sent to
the camp after they received only Duldung (toleration status) , after their
refugee status had been rejected. Since the 17th of April refugees from North
Iraq are being prepared for deportation. For the sake of the public´s opinion
there is the legitimation that for the time being only criminal convicts should
be deported. A convict in this case is already one who has been convicted to
more than 50 days rate. A refugee can easily get such a punishment (fine) if he
travels twice to Ingolstadt without permission, that means, in this case he can
be deported. These plans for deportation are only the beginning; on the long
run , all Iraqis, who have no safe status, are being threatened.

Also against Ethiopian refugees the German authorities try in cooperation with
the authorities of the dictatorial and war forcing regime Ethiopia to force
deportations. The Ethiopian regime keeps going a bloody war as deputy of the
USA in Somalia, while at the same time the Ethiopian population suffers from
poverty and hunger, and all oppositional forces are being suppressed brutally.
Since the 11th of September 2001 Germany is cultivating a close political
relationship with Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a base of possibilities for military
interventions in a part of the world which consists mostly of muslims. In the
view of these relations there is a way of playing down crimes of the
dictatorial regime and their demand for extradition of the members of the
opposition parties by way of deportation.

Nigerian asylum seekers have almost no chances of approval. In this huge country
like Nigeria it is possible for anybody to find anywhere a safe little place,
according to the Bundesamt. Not considered is that everywhere in Nigeria for
the majority of the population the living conditions in the past 30 years have
been unbearable, while a corrupt rich elite together with transnational
companies like Siemens, Berger-Bilfinger, Shell and Agip exploit the land,
destroy the environment and suppress any resistance of the people with military
forces.

Iraq, Ethiopia and Nigeria are three acute examples for how Germany terrorises
refugees by deportation and at the same time makes war worldwide, supports
dictatorships, and profits from corruption and poverty. Deportations and
deprivation of human rights are also inflicted on all the other refugees who
are coming to Germany in search for security and a human dignified life.
Therefore, on the 19th and 20th of May and afterwards, during the Caravan-Tour
and in Rostock and Heiligendamm we all together want to step forward and oppose
against the inhuman German refugee policies and against the exploiting
globalisation of the G8 with our protest and resistance.

In this sense we demand:
a worldwide right for a dignified human existance!
a world without exploitation, oppression and wars!

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QueerFestival against the G8, on the 19th of mai

Dear people, soon we start the summer with political actions against patriarchy,
neo-liberalism and corpurate greed up in Heiligendamm. Its gonna be an effektive
and stressfull time for all of us.
Thats why we call on everybody to join us for a afternoon and an evening of
workshops, cultural events, and great party till the morning at the Köpi,
Köpenikerstr. 137, on the 19th of mai, for solidarity with the queerbarrio.

the program is as follows:

17:00 o clock:
In peliculoso (the cinema space): Final evening of the Entzubert, uncomercial
queer D.I.Y. filmfestival with films running through the party. The
filmfestival starts at the wagonplace Schwarzer Kanal, Michaelkirchstr. 20, few
days before, on the 16th of mai.

18:00 o clock:
Workshops including the topicks: "What is the G8 and why are we against it" and
"what is queer resistance." There will be some coffee and cakes for the
workshoppers, still if u got to much cookies and so at home bring it with also.
Also feel free to bring your own workshoptopicks that u think would fit.

22:00 o clock:
Grand performancegala, goes on during the whole festival
Queeromatik, open end discotek in the basement
Anaeroba, live crust punk from Slovenia, plays in KomaF
Videos
Exebition
Installations
Sexy chill out space

Pleace come and join us for loads of unbelivable great fun..

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