New resource: 3D-printed stamps against Fortress Europe

Fortress Europe is intercontinental. The EU uses its economic power to exploit impoverished countries, forcing people onto deadly and dangerous journeys. It also pays third countries to intercept and detain people on the move before they can reach EU borders, leading to massive human rights violations. Private companies of the border-industrial-complex are profiting from these actions, often through Frontex as a driving force of border militarisation. While the EU’s border regime is making it harder and harder for people to move, money can cross international borders without any issues.

Below you find blueprints for stamps that call out the racist double standards of the EU and their usage of money as a form of power. Use a 3D-printer and spread the word!

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[FR/NL/EN/AR] LES 20 ANS DE FRONTEX, ÇA NE SE CÉLÈBRE PAS ! // FRONTEX IS 20 JAAR OUD EN ER VALT NIETS TE VIEREN

[FR] LES 20 ANS DE FRONTEX, ÇA NE SE CÉLÈBRE PAS !

REJOIGNEZ-NOUS POUR UNE ANTI-FÊTE D’ANNIVERSAIRE LE 3 OCTOBRE À BRUXELLES

Il y a 20 ans, une nouvelle agence de l’Union européenne était créée dans le but de coordonner le travail des garde-côtes et garde-frontières des États membres. En deux décennies, Frontex a réussi l’exploit de devenir l’agence disposant du plus gros budget (859 millions d’euros en 2024) et la seule institution de l’UE nantie de personnel armé. Son mandat ne cesse de s’étendre sur le plan géographique et juridique, hors de tout réel contrôle démocratique.

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28 September: demo ‘Zwischen uns keine Grenzen!’ / ‘Entre nous, pas de frontières!’

[En Français ci-dessous]

Unter diesem Motto ruft Solidarité sans frontières am 28. September 2024 zu einer Gross-Demo nach Bern.

Geflüchtete und Migrierte, Sans-Papiers und Illegalisierte, vorläufig Aufgenommene und Abgewiesene, Prekarisierte und Ausgebeutete, Second@s und Eingebürgerte, solidarische Menschen, Basisgruppen und Organisationen: wir alle werden von sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Grenzen getrennt, wir können sie aber gemeinsam überwinden.

Am 28. September setzen wir in Bern ein starkes Zeichen: wir alle sind Teil einer offenen und vielfältigen (post-)migrantischen Gesellschaft. Wir lassen uns nicht spalten und wir wollen zwischen uns keine Grenzen! «Zwischen uns keine Grenzen – für eine offene Gesellschaft der Vielen!» Continue reading “28 September: demo ‘Zwischen uns keine Grenzen!’ / ‘Entre nous, pas de frontières!’”

[EN/FR/DE] Join us to call on Frontex to stop counting candles and start counting lives!

Call for an international week of actions from 30 September – 6 October

26 October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the EU border guard agency Frontex. For these 20 long years this institution has spread death and insecurity. We count and mourn more than 60,620 deaths caused by the EU border regime since 1993. Frontex is a key actor in the war against people on the move and a symbol for its certain failure.
Abolish Frontex is calling for an international week of actions from 30 September – 6 October. We invite you and your local groups to organise an action against Frontex and the EU’s murderous border regime. 

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[En/Fr/De] Join our action week to tell Frontex to stop counting candles and start counting lives!

[Fr/De]

Call for an international week of actions from 30 September – 6 October

26 October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the EU border guard agency Frontex. For these 20 long years this institution has spread death and insecurity. We count and mourn more than 60,620 deaths caused by the EU border regime since 1993. Frontex is a key actor in the war against people on the move and a symbol for its certain failure.
Abolish Frontex is calling for an international week of actions from 30 September – 6 October. We invite you and your local groups to organise an action against Frontex and the EU’s murderous border regime. 

Continue reading “[En/Fr/De] Join our action week to tell Frontex to stop counting candles and start counting lives!”

[EN/FR/IT] 20 years Frontex – Stop counting candles, start counting lives: Abolish Frontex!

[French and Italian below]

October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the EU border guard agency Frontex. For these 20 long years it has spread death and insecurity. We count and mourn more than 60,620 deaths caused by the EU border regime since 1993. Frontex is a key actor in the war against people on the move and a symbol for its certain failure.

Abolish Frontex wishes for the quick dismantling of Frontex, 20 years of destruction has been enough: stop counting candles, start counting lives!

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Pylos, El Hiblu, Homayoun and thousands of innocents accused of being smugglers

6 June 2024 – On 14 June 2023, the Adriana, a boat leaving from Libya for Italy with hundreds of migrants on board, sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the Mediterranean Sea. This would become the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. Over 600 people died with a clear responsibility of the Hellenic Coast Guard and Frontex for a lack of clear procedures in cases of distress, as the investigation of the European Ombudsman stated.

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Statement by the defense lawyers of the nine survivors of the Pylos shipwreck who were acquitted

Our clients, nine survivors of the shipwreck off the coast of Pylos, were unjustly detained for eleven months in prisons, accused of serious crimes and stigmatized by the mainstream media, which, from the very first moment, not only failed to respect the presumption of innocence, but also published photos of them even from inside the hospital, with the aim of disorienting public opinion and covering up the real reasons for the deadly shipwreck. Furthermore, the objective was to serve the narrative of the suppression of the people responsible for illegal immigration and the shipwrecks that occur in the Greek SAR.

It seems that the acquittal of our clients by the Three-Member Criminal Court of Appeal does not serve the above-mentioned objectives. For this reason, the Greek state, instead of making amends for the unjust lengthy deprivation of their freedom, by providing psychological support and all the necessary means for their smooth return to a life of freedom and their integration into society, insists on treating them with cruelty and inhumanity. Instead of being released, they are administratively detained! For eleven months, we have been watching how victims of this shipwreck, like the 9 who are now administratively detained, are constantly re-victimized, either by their unjust pre-trial detention or by their unfair, and vindictive administrative detention.

Read the whole press release on the website of the Free Pylos 9 campaign

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