update: Ant is out! The final court decision will take place on next friday the 13th.
Please come friday 6 July to Ant’s court case, 9:00 – 12:00 Tingsrätten Solna, Sundbybergsvägen 5.
Lets hope that after 3 weeks he will finally be released!
No borders! No prisons!
Today, Monday 2 July the court sentenced Bee to 2 weeks, which means he will be released as he has been in for 16 days.
Great news, and we thank everyone who showed up today at court or showed his/her support in any other way.
Dont forget that Ant is still in prison and his court case will be coming Frida 6 July.
9:00-12:00 at Tingsrätten Solna, Sundbybergsvägen 5.
Hope to see you all there!
Solidarity group nobordercamp stockholm
ABC Stockholm
Over 700 people die each year trying to cross the European borders.
More than 32,000 people are imprisoned in 250 centers all over the EU without even a trial.
Solidarity with the three arrested comrades!
Come to the court cases on 2 and 6 July!
From 17 till 24 of June the No Border Camp in Stockholm brought together people from everywhere in the fight against the migration regime and the shared wish for a more humane world.
After the kickoff demonstration of the camp on Sunday the 17th “For a World Without Borders” where over 500 people marched together through he city of Stockholm, a solidarity demonstration with an earlier arrested comrade of 100 people outside the police station in Solna followed.
On the way back to the camp by metro however, a big group of these activists were stopped at the station of Nackrösen and surrounded by over sixty riot police who forcefully handcuffed all those deemed to be “no border activists”. People were photographed and asked for identification papers. Of No reasons for this temporary arrest were provided and people were forced to sit on the stone ground, with no access to toilet or water for over three hours. Other activists who traveled to the site to find out what happened were chased by police and dogs and beaten.
In the end three people were arrested and taken to a police station in the city. At least two, Bee and Ant are charged with “violence”, “vandalism” or “resiting arrest” and are currently still in jail. A third person, Spider has recently been released while awaiting his trial set somewhere in the coming weeks.
Bee’s court hearing will be held Monday the 2th of July at 13:00-16:00 at the court house (Tingsrätten) in Solna (Sundbybergsvägen 5) for charges of “assaulting a police officer” (våld mot tjänsteman) and violently resisting arrest (våldsamt motstånd). Ant’s court hearing will be held Friday the 6th of July at 9:00-12:00 also at the Tingsrätten in Solna for charges of “vandalism” (skadegörelse), “assaulting a police officer” (våld mot tjänsteman), “attempt at assaulting a police officer”(försök till våld mot tjänsteman) and violently resisting arrest (våldsamt motstånd).
While repression is a means the state uses to divert us from our real goals for a world without borders, capitalism or any other oppressing structures of domination, we will not forget our comrades. We ask people to come to the court hearings on Monday and Friday to show solidarity with the arrested activists.
Also we ask all participants of the no border camp to write their personal story of the police brutality many have witnessed during the week.
The witch hunt on people who refuse to remain silent against the onslaught of capitalism and nation-states and want a world not guided by capitalism and profit is nothing new or unexpected. For the Swedish state to start a criminal prosecution on vague charges of “resisting arrest” the focus is placed on the alleged criminality of these dangerous “radicals”, instead of on the systematic injustices and disregard for human lives which are part and parcel of the dominant political structure. Instead of questioning the thousands of people who die every year at the borders, the thousands more locked up in horrifying conditions all over Europe, or the deportation to so-called “safe” countries where people will be killed by bullets or starvation, the state chooses repression.
The harassment of participants of the no border camp, and the harassment of inhabitants of Akala who were stopped and searched in the center of Akala were a clear attempt by the state to crush any wider sympathy or connections with the people living in the area of the camp. They should be seen in the light of the wider fight against borders and against control. We can recall the Brussels No Border Camp of 2011 where similarly many people have been harassed and abused by overzealous cops, and where two people got suspended sentences of 1 year and 6 months for “rebellion against the police”. The repression following the recent No Border Camps in Brussel and Stockholm are just one expression of the wider repression and violence which lies at the core of the current political order, which manifests itself daily for migrants trying to cross the borders of fortress Europe in barbed-wire-fences, Frontex patrols, and prisons.
Let us respond to the arrests with solidarity and companionship. Where the state only shows terror, let us show that they can take our friends, but that we will support them in whatever way we can. But let us also not forget that the struggle continues against the migration regime. Only a few days ago, Tuesday 26th of June, asylum right activists from Sweden and the Netherlands successfully forced airline company KLM to stop the planned forced deportation of 28-year-old Jean-Pierre Nzeyimana to his home country Burundi where he would be facing certain death. That many more direct actions may flourish !
Finally, let us remember the No Border Camp as a place where many wonderful people have come together, and have made important alliances in the fight for a more humane world, not only by the state repression.
- Solidarity with all imprisoned no border activists !
- We demand the immediate release of Bee and Ant, and the dropping of all charges and investigations against all participants of the No Border Camp !
- We demand an end to the border regime which criminalizes those who, searching for a better life, or even the possibility of a life at all, cross the borders of Europe !
Bee: Monday 2 July, 13:00-16:00, Tingsrätten Solna, Sundbybergsvägen 5
Ant: Friday 6 July, 9:00-12:00, Tingsrätten Solna, Sundbybergsvägen 5
Solidaritygroup nobordercamp stockholm
ABC Stockholm
http://www.noborderstockholm.org
tisdag 26 juni kl 17.10 Stockholm Arlanda avgår ett flyg med destination Burundi. på det planet vill Migrationsverket skicka en person som riskerar att avrättas i Burundi. det är ett reguljärflyg med flygbolaget KLM. det innebär att vi har en stor chans att stoppa det. vi ses på Arlanda terminal 5 kl 15. sprid!
update: deportation was canceled because of pressure
On Sunday 17.6. the opening act for the camp was a demonstration “For a World Without Borders“. It started at Kungsträdgarden with around 300 people attending. Speeches were held and music was played along the way.
The call out for the demo stated:
Close all detention centers!
Stop all deportations!
Against all racism!
For a world without problems!
After the march through the city the demonstration ended in Vitabergsparken where an Asylum musical took place.
After the announced demo there was a spontaneous solidarity demonstration organized for a person who was detained on Saturday by security guards and the police. After the solidarity demonstration dozens of people were chased off by the police and held for hours in a metro station after being followed there.
Also, those who went to show solidarity to those held in the Neckrösen metro station were run after, and some caught and apprehended, by snatch police units.
A more detailed description of the solidarity demonstration and the after math is below this text.
Monday 18th
On Monday a solidarity demonstration, organized by Action Against Deportation Stockholm, took place at a detention center in Märsta. The idea of the demo was to get visual and audio contact with the detained people and show solidarity by making noise for those locked in detention centers in and around Stockholm, and everywhere. People inside the detention center held speeches through the telephone while some people in the demonstration tried to tear down the fences between them and the detention building. Of course the functions and interests of the detention center – not the people actually locked in – were guarded by the police who tried to push people back. Some pushing and shoving occurred but in the end everybody got away without being detained – except for those in the detention center.
Tuesday 19th
On Tuesday action against G4S was organized by the International Solidarity Movement. The action took place at the Kungsholmen office where around 100 persons participated, shared hundreds of leaflets and blocked the office garage, so that people working at the office couldn´t get out. The action was organized in order to protest against the companies´ involvement in the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories, running prisons in the US and border controls in several countries.
After the action against G4S the protesters joined a solidemo at the police station in Solna Centrum for the people who had been arrested during the two action days.
Wednesday 20th
A “Queer Rrriot in solidarity with Pussy Riot“ took place at Medborgarplatsen in the center of Stockholm. The demonstration/march addressed the imprisonment of three members of the Russian, feminist punk-collective Pussy Riot who are now facing 7 years of prison for ´hooliganism´ after their performance Punk Prayer in the Temple of Christ the Saviour, Moscow. Speeches and testemonies were held to emphasize the connection between macho/state/border violence and to break the general public´s ignorance of violence made in name of nation states. A visible, colorful, masked, noisy crowd marched on our streets of Stockholm screaming ´Free Pussy Riot! No borders, no nations, stop deportations! Say it loud say it clear (queer) Refugees are welcome here! Den som flyr har inget val, ingen människa är illegal! Polisen gråter när ingen ser, dom vill också vara queer!´
Bystanders cheered on at various places, the marched stopped to take the space/stage to hold more speeches and wake up people from illusions and erase racist pollution.
The police were present but kept their distance, during the march they did no attempt of catching anyone. However, reports have been given that demonstraters leaving the march were followed by civil cops. The march ended with a surprising run towards the police cars; then the demontraters ran down to the square Plattan were the Riot samba played and people danced around.
Thursday 21st
Shoot the Shooters demonstration at SAAB Security and Defence Solutions in Järfalla was set for Thursday. The demo was organized by Allt at alla Stockholm (Everything for Everyone). The idea of the demo was to go to the Saab Security and Defence Solutions headquarters which is protected by the Swedish protection law which means that people are not allowed to fotograph, film, illustrate, measure or even describe the area. These things were what people were doing at the demo – people went to the area with cameras, painting equipment, writing pads, etc. The police offered to let one of the protesters to enter the office to tell the personnel the message of the demo, but since it was not allowed to film inside, the offer was rejected. Although it was prohibited to film in the area people anyway started to take pictures outside the building and two people were apprehended by the police and taken into a train station 20 kilometres away Stockholm.
Friday 22nd
On Friday afternoon, because of people still being locked up after the weeks actions and after receiving information about one of the detainees being in a wheel chair because of hunger strike people spontaneously gathered together and organized a solidarity protest in front of the Sollentuna prison house.
Around 80 people attended and walked around the prison building shouting slogans and the samba band making noise in order to send a clear message: our people or any prisoners should not be forgotten. The demonstration also received local support as it appears a school was demolished in order to built this oppresive institution. Even though the No Border camp is ending we will not forget those locked up in the prison system. Free all prisoners!
Saturday 23rd
On Saturday evening No Border Stockholm and El Registro organized an action in front of the Berns night club that is known for using cheap labor of paperless migrants who have been forced to work even 22 hours per day. Some of the migrant workers of the club have tried to organize to force their employers to better their working conditions. However when this has happened Berns has terminated the cleaning contract with the subcontracted company and signed a deal with a new subcontactor keeping the same workers on but reversing the progress made regarding their conditions.
The club has been campaigned against for several years. Around a hundred persons showed up and talked to people entering the club trying to convince them not to support the club. Many people did hear what the protesters said and decided not to enter the club.
People were shouting slogans and standing with signs when the police attacked the demonstrators. People were beaten with battons, chased off, pepper sprayed and finally kettled by the police. The cops were especially aggressive towards people who were trying to help the injured and even tried to stop an ambulance from coming to the location to help a person who had been hit in the head by the police. Eventually their friends intervened and managed to take them to the hospital where they got treated for a concussion.
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What happened on Sunday 17th solidarity demo, witness report
Between 40 and 60 people were detained at the Näckrosen metro station in Stockholm after a solidarity demonstration took place in front of Solna police station. The group was held in the station for hours and harrassed by the officers who refused to provide water or medical assistance to people in need. Phyisical force was constantly used on people to keep the ‘order’. After the situation got local attention and criticisme towards police tactics the authorities sealed off the metro station. The whole group was constantly filmed on camera. At one moment officers started to drag off individuals in order to be checked for ID, frisked and taken pictures of. Some went peacefully while others resisted. There were several cases of police brutallity which built-up the tension even more. By the end of the identification process only six people were left out of the big group and it was announced that they would probably be set free but would use another transport. The rest of the activists were forcefully dragged into a wagon and escorted by the police directly to Akalla metro station from where they returned to the camp.
Between 40–60 people went to show solidarity at the Solna police station where anti-riot police forces were standing guard. At that point there was no violence or physical confrontations of any type. Pressure was building up through the police line as they were few in number and seemed to excpect more offensive tactics from the group. Under slogans like ”Freedom for all prisoners”, ”We are here, and we will fight, freedom of movement is everybody’s right” and ”Nobody is illegal” the group formed a live chain in front of the police line. An officer was filming the action and demanding for people to take off their masks. After a quick consensus the group decided not to escalate the situation further and took off to the direction of the nearest metro station. At that moment police vans and riot cops started to follow the group on the way. The ones at the back of the activists’ group were pushed and shoved by the cops on a partiucular staircase accompanied by comments like ”Common, fall!” or ”Move it!” In result of that one of the group members tripped over and slightly damaged a parked vehicule which mainstream media translated as destroying public and private property and throwing rocks and police officers.
The demonstrators were followed by the police to the metro station and afterwards came down to the trains themselves. With all the group members in one wagon the cops ordered for the train not to depart and surrounded the exits of the wagon. After some discussions whether it is better for the group to stay inside or try to go out it was decided it would be too hazardous for individual group members to get detained thus everybody waited for about 15 minutes until about 5 cops got into the wagon and the train departed. At the next station (name of station) more police officers were waiting. After a while an officer asked the group to get out of the wagon so that they can have a ‘talk’. After countless refusals individuals were forcefully dragged out of the train after which a consensus within the group was reached for everyone to leave the wagon. Officers then ordered the people to sit on the ground in lines. They also tried to divide the group in female and male-bodied persons which was unsuccessful. Many people refused to follow orders so they were forced on the ground. In a result of all the hustle and stress a person had a psychological reaction. Although medical help was requested a number of times the police refused to take action.
At one point people understood that a group of about 30 people had arrived at the station in order to support the apprehended group. Anti-terrorist vans were called upon and the group was chased, separated which resulted in a couple of arrests. After some more conflicts, shoutings and tension a police officer announced that each of the groups members will be taken aside in order to verify ID, be frisked and taken a picture of. Not knowing that the majority of people did not cary papers with them for solidarity reasons it was also stated that anyone with ID will be released and those without would be apprehended which fortunately did not occur. Obviously this was not acceptable so police officers had to forcefully drag, pull and shove people out of the ‘common’ space. Some of them resisted more than others and on one occasion an oficer was slisghtely bruised on the hand which resulted again in huge media outbursts about cops being assaulted. No media reported any police violence or brutality which was present at all times during the incident. A couple of more hours passed by until almost everyone was ‘checked’. Unfortunately around six people hadn’t joined the group and upon demanding an explanation the officers replied that they would not be arrested but only transported by bus or another metro line. For good reasons nobody beleived that and police once again had to use force – this time to drag everyone on the train in order to ‘free’ them. Upon returning to the camp it became clear the 3 of the six people that were left behind had been arrested and transported to a police station in the city.
Just doing your job? The unavoidablity of the border system
8:00 – 10:00
Breakfast
11:00 – 13:00
General Assembly
13:00 – 15:00
Evaluation: What did we learn at the No Border Camp Stockholm?
13:00 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00+
Action: Don’t go to work! Suggestions on how we can interupt the daily routine of the border regime.
Where: Through out the city, suggestions will be available at the camp.
Organized by: Black Cat Block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKU-daOR4o
15:00 – 17:00
Panel: Integration, Segregation, Assimiliation
17:00 – 19:00
Dinner
20:00
Movie
Please send any reports, evaluations or pictures of the Actions or the Camp in general to: info@noborderstockholm.org
22/06
Racism and Anti-fascist struggle
8.00-9.30
Breakfast
9.30-10.30
General Assembly
11’00-13’00
workshop: Tent2 Roma solidarity in social centre Satama (Helsinki)
13’30
Solidarity Demo in Sollentuna with arrested people.
18’30-19’30
Tent2 Live link from Gibraltar
17’00-19’00
Tent1 (Nation-)STATE of WHITENESS – an interactive seminar on Sweden’s racialized borders and power structures by Ellen Belmore.
19’00
Dinner
19’30-20’00
Tent2 Follow up from after math of Noborder Camp Brussels. Endurance of Solidarity
20’00-21’30
Tent2 No Border Camp 2012 Cologne/ Düsseldorf. “The situation in Germany” and info about the camp in Cologne/Düsseldorf
20’00
Tent1 Yoga and Acrobatics Skillsharing
21’30-22’00
Film screening
| Manifestation och blockad mot G4S i Stockholm
19 juni 2012
Protesten riktades mot att G4S deltar i att upprätthålla ockupationen av Palestina och mot att företaget aktivt arbetar för deportation av människor som av politiker anses vara oönskade. En internationell kampanj mot G4S har startats, men för att särskilt uppmärksamma deras agerande valde vi att genomföra en protest under No Border Stockholm. G4S är ett världsledande multinationellt företag inriktat på bevakning och penningtransaktioner. G4S vaktar palestinska fångar som, i strid med internationell rätt, hålls frihetsberövade i fängelser i Israel. Företaget har även säkerhetsvakter i affärer och banker i illegala israeliska bosättningar, samt säljer övervakningssystem till privata hem, fängelser, polisen och checkpoints på Västbanken. Företagsledningen meddelade år 2002 att de planerade att dra sig ur kontrakt som inte är förenliga med företagets policy. Tio år senare understödjer de fortfarande folkrättsbrott i Palestina. Företaget driver fängelser i USA, bevakning och militära uppgifter i Irak, gränskontroller i flera länder och privata asylboenden bland annat i Storbritannien. Kritik rasar om brott mot mänskliga rättigheter, med övergrepp och trakasserier i förvar och under transporter. Ingen har ställts till svars för dödsmisshandeln av Jimmy Mubenga som skedde under en deportation 2010. G4S anlitas även för att verkställa deportationer i till exempel Storbritannien och Holland. En internationell kampanj med svenska förgreningar har dragits igång för att förhindra att G4S ska belönas med offentliga bevakningsuppdrag. Kampanjen har redan börjat bära frukt. Europaparlamentet valde till exempel att inte förnya sitt kontrakt med G4S, efter krav från 28 parlamentsledamöter. Några ställen i Stockholm som bevakas av G4S är Riksdagshuset, Stockholms läns sjukhus och snart Friends arena. I Malmö har den rödgröna majoriteten beslutat att skriva till företaget och ifrågasätta deras verksamhet på ockuperat palestinskt område. ISM |
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http://www.ism-sweden.org/
Queer and feminism - perspectives and practical applicability
General Assembly
