Saad on Samos
Samos Chronicles: Two poems and the testimony of a Syrian stranded on Samos for nearly a year
No One Is Illegal
After the Storm at the Border
We have failed in our initial attempts at political intervention. The situation of migrants has continued to deteriorate since summer 2015, and has gotten progressively more insulated from public scrutiny.
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Helping Refugees Means Fighting the State. And Vice-Versa.
We want people to participate, to share their experiences, to share their hearts, to take care of one another, and to build communities that can fight capitalism and fight the state. This is the first step.
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Refugees Seeking Freedom Get the Opposite
The plan of the Serbian government to evict the squats and move people to remote areas is happening in line with overall EU practices pushing people out of sight and detaining them in isolation with no possibility to organize.
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Life and Death, Love and Rage in the “Beautiful Prison”
We expect evictions of the remaining squats in the next weeks and months, and that the arrests, imprisonments, and deportations will keep going. But we are not ready to give up. We will stay here, we will keep fighting.
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“I tell you: fight with me against the camp system”
Ajour Magazin spoke to one of thirteen illegalized refugees who decided that to get out and be part of society is more important than complying with the state; they moved into a derelict house in central Zurich.
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Isolation and Exposure in Iraq and Germany
A documentary team from the International Women’s Space (Berlin) met with an Iraqi refugee who has been forcibly separated from her family, both by her husband and by the German state.
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Greece: Renewed State Attacks on Squats, Renewed Movement Defiance
In Athens alone, an estimated four thousand refugees live in squatted, self-organized structures.
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“Go Home!”
“Injustice must be resisted.” A day in the life of refugees in the heart of Fortress Europe
Refugee Testimony in Northern Serbia
“Nobody asked if we were okay, if we had been beaten. All our clothes were ripped, and we slept outside. The next day we walked back to Subotica.”
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