The fourth ESF from 4th to 6th of May 2006 in Athens gives a strong place to the migrations struggles, analyses and demands and shows the strength of European movement who refuse to support public policies leading to more discriminations and exclusion.
More or less every day we can find all over Europe: protests and campaigns for the right to stay and equality, carried by self-organisations of refugees and migrants or by various migration-related initiatives.
These struggles fight again the so-called migration management, “which is not simply aimed at keeping refugees and migrants out of Europe, but rather at promoting a process of selective inclusion, also through illegalization, of the migrants. Our discussing underlined the process that build precariousness from the poorest to the all society ; from the without paper to the all labour market, from the specific rights to all our rights ...
Our organizations, coming from many European and African countries:
Action, AlterInter, Antiracist initiative of Thessaloniki, Anti-Trafficking Centre, AEDH, ANAFE, APDHA, ARCI, ASCER, ASGI, Association of Refugees from Sudan, Association of Migrants Women from Africa, ATMF, Caritas, CCFD, CGIL, CGT, Coatnet, Cobas, CRID, Droits Devant!, Espace Marx, Forum pour un autre Mali, EDOTH, Frassanito, FORIM, Forum social d’Aubervilliers, Genoa 2001, Greek Migrants Forum, Group of soudanese refugees in Egypt, Hellenic League of Human Right, ICS, International Free women's foundation, IPAM, , International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, Justice for Janitors/SEIU-Global Project, Karaula MiR, LDH, Migreurop, Network for political and social rights, Network for social support to immigrants and refugees, NextGENDERation network, No Vox, Odysseas - Initiative for teaching Greek language at migrants and refugees, Rete Antirazzista siciliana, Rete dei Forum Toscani, Réseau Education sans frontière, Réseau Migrations et citoyenneté, Russian confederation of labor, Sincobas, Secours Catholique, Sos Racismo, Sunday School for Immigrant, Transform, Tapri Mediterranean Studies Project, Youth against racism in Europe, 9eme Colle
This is an invitation to join the Seminars, the "Assembly on Migrations" and actions against detention and exclusion. Equal rights for migrants and refugees!
More Information:
:: Agenda (pdf)
:: Call for an Assembly on Migrations (pdf)
:: collected information @ fluechtlingsrat-hamburg.de
:: athens.fse-esf.org