Africa

The news agency Reuters reports about attempts "to dissuade migrants from Cameroon and Nigeria with a bleak new television advert that depicts the life of freshly-arrived migrants in Europe as one fraught with problems and dangers." The hard-hitting advert is part of a campaign by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Migration and the European Commission.

A.A.: "Defensor del Pueblo "

Estamos ya en fechas frías, de familia, de recogimiento, de fiestas, pero yo
no puedo dejar de pensar en unas personas que sin haber hecho nada más que salir a
buscar el pan muy lejos, se encuentran encerradas hoy en unos centros militares que
parecen cárceles de otro tiempo, me refiero entre otros al Centro de Internamiento
de Extranjeros de Las Raíces, en Tenerife, del que he tenido conocimiento, por lo que
viene saliendo en los medios de comunicación y sobre todo por la especial vinculación
que tengo con las causas humanitarias, que están allí recluidos en muy malas
condiciones, en un viejo cuartel militar ubicado en una zona fría y muy lluviosa
en esta época del año, donde los migrantes duermen en tiendas de campaña a la

Take Action to Support Striking South African Cleaners!

Hold Multinational Corporations Accountable for Cleaners’ Poverty Wages!

On September 13th, cleaners and supporters in New York, London, Hamburg, Sao Paolo, the Hague, Sydney, Chicago, Boston and other cities will take action to support South African office cleaners who have been on strike for more than one month.

Cleaners will conduct a “Day of Global Action” aimed at convincing wealthy multinational corporations like Bayer, J.P. Morgan and KPMG to take immediate steps to improve the wages of South African janitors who clean their facilities.

We expect our support actions to continue and to grow in more cities until South African cleaners win their struggle. So please pass on the word and help us organize more global support.

Activists from Andalucia in the south of spain have released this call for a joint european action day on October 29th, 2005. It refers to the numerous deaths of migrants and refugees when trying to enter the spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla in north of Morocco over the past few weeks.

Here comes a text by José Pérez de Lama, aka osfa, member of Indymedia Estrecho, that tries to summarize the events of the last few weeks in and around Ceuta and Melilla. It is written in Spanish and supposed to appear in the next issue of Greenpepper magazin http://www.greenpeppermagazine.org that is entirely devoted on the topic of "emergency".

Migreurop is a "network of activists and scholars aimed at spreading knowledge about the generalization of retention for undocumented foreigners as well as the increasing number of camps, the latter being at the centre of EU migration policy". The group has published a text in the French newspaper "Liberation" that blames the EU to start a war against migrants and refugees: http://www.migreurop.org/article864.html

For those who understand French there was a great intervention by Claire Rodier (Gisti) on Radio France on Tuesday 11. The audio file is available at: http://www.tv-radio.com/ondemand/france_culture/MATINS/MATINS20051011.RA...

In a press release "Spain/Morocco: Migrant rights between two fires" Amnesty International is "gravely concerned by reports of excessive use of force by the law enforcement of both countries that allegedly led to the deaths" of at least five migrants.

Since September 30th the news have been continuously reporting about a "storm on fortress europe". Hundreds of illegalized immigrants have been trying to cross the fences around the spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta, situated on moroccan territory. In this book we tried to collect articles, eyewhitness reports and political analysis about what is going on the north of morroco.

In a press release from Thursday, October 13, 2005, IOM, the so called "International Organization for migration" claims: "Malian Migrants Return Home". After a week of terrifying news the strategy of scandalization of the border brings forth to its expected result: postgovernmental organizations like the IOM take over control. Read yourself!