Everyone Is An Expert

The temporary association Everyone is an Expert was created in response to the shift in the official immigration-policy in Germany (expressed in March of 2000 by the government's slogan: "we need experts") and recognising an increasing importance of the migrant labour forces for the economic development all over europe, our association started in 2001 as "everyone is an expert" with the focus to redefine and to reclaim the social dimensions of migration.

Coming from different cities and involved in various campaigns from "no one is illegal" and "No Border Camps" during the last years, we are convinced, that a contemporary resistance has to be organised as transnational as possible. We think, that the fights for freedom of movement and the potential of the autonomy of migration on one hand and the struggles for informational self-determination and universal access on the other hand should be seen as driving forces in the process of shaping an emancipative multitude. As freedom of movement and residence attack the differentials and the global hierarchies of the labour market, it undermines the system of borders, which are all borders of exploitation. the circulation of experiences and social struggles in the migrant networks can act as a catalyst for a globalisation from below. As freedom of information and communication attacks intellectual property, licenses and patents, it undermines the global hierarchies of knowledge and puts into question the whole logic of valuation and payment of work. The free associations of net-activism have the potential to break up constructed borders and identities and to cause a transnationalisation of struggles on a daily level. following these positions "borders, migration, work and new medias" have been the main cross-over-topics in our activities and projects during last years:

• During the make world-festival in october 2001, when a prototype of an expertbase-platform was set up. In an information tour through some cities in Germany (in november 2001) with two activists from us-workers center and justice for janitors campaign.
• In a forum about the relationship between migration and work in Hamburg in june 2002.
• In our involvement in the international nobordercamp in Strasbourg in july 2002.
• And last year (2003) in the freedom of movement tour, which included the mobilisations against the g-8-summit in Geneva, the nobordercamps in Romania (Timisoara) and Italy (Frassanito), conferences in Poland (Warsaw), the demonstrations against the eu-summit in Greece(Thessaloniki) and finally the "we seize"-wsis-activities in Geneva. now (2004) we are involved in the neuro - networking in europe - as follow up of the make-world festival.

Some of us participate in the organisation of a conference about precaroiusness in june 2004 in Dortmund, together with labournet/germany. it aims to lead together left wing unionists, antiracist activists and selforganised migrants. and our main project for 2004: we plan an eight-weeks noborder tour along the new eastern outerborders of so called enlarged europe. researching temporary as well as permanent working migration will be a central topic. http://www.expertbase.net/everyoneisanexpert/