We are calling on everyone on the Global Day Against

We are calling on everyone on the Global Day Against Racism: We want to raise our
voices against racism, antiromaism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and against the
inhumane asylum policies of Germany and Europe. While German enterprises like
Heckler & Koch are exporting weapons to regions of crisis, people are dying in the
Mediterranean while attempting to flee armed conflicts and war. While European
governments are deciding on economic agreements outside of the EU that propel
exploitation and poverty, people are being denied immigration into Europe. The new
walls in and around Europe signify a continuation of European colonialism. Via racial
profiling, police, authorities and institutions are continuing within the EU what the border
patrol agency Frontex does at the external borders. The outrage over such inhumane
policies is what we want to bring collectively and loudly to the streets on 21. March 2015
for the Global Day Against Racism.
For more than two years now refugees and supporters in Berlin have been publicly and
visibly fighting against the institutional racism in Germany and Europe. We stand in
solidarity with the self-organized refugee protests in Berlin. The demands of the refugees
are the complete abolition of the Residenzpflicht and residence restrictions, an end to
placing people in Lagers as well as all deportations. The right of abode, education, work
possibilities, and the right to live where one desires belong to everyone! End the
politically supported social isolation of refugees!
The German government is now planning a massive intensification of the right of
residence with a law that would restructure the right of abode (Bleiberecht) and when the
right of residence terminates: Among other things, the amount of detention pending
deportation will be massively expanded, and the right of abode settlement will be thrown
out of the window with the instruments of suspending people’s rights of residence and
canceling return trips to Germany. This law will presumably be passed in Summer 2015.
Instead of tightening and intensifying these laws, we demand immediate amendments:
These include accommodation, places to live, the services of ALG and healthcare for all
refugees. We demand unrestricted access to the work market. Refugees, who, for
example, have found a room or bed in a WG or another place should have their
accommodation costs reimbursed to them by the national bureau of social health
(LaGeSo). Children and youth should be immediately allowed enrollment in
kindergartens and schools. The right to work without having to wait to see if any other
EU citizen can be substituted for the job must be implemented. LaGeSo must therefore
be responsible for providing refugees with BVG tickets in Berlin so that they can move
throughout the city. Racial profiling in public and particularly during local and regional
traveling by the national police, Berlin police, the Deutsche Bahn and BVG staff must
cease immediately.
My Right Is Your Right! is a campaign comprised of creative artists, activists, lawyers,
refugees, church officials, unionists, clubs, neighborhood initiatives, and individuals.
What connects us all is the wish for a stronger political intervention in Berliner refugee
policies, which is only possible with a union of various forces. Our campaign wants to
establish space for empowerment in order to heighten the visibility of the struggle
against various forms of discrimination because refugees are especially often subject to
manifold discrimination. We want to collectively initiate a political change. That is why we
are taking to the streets on March 21st!
Come to the demonstration on March 21st!
Your Right Is My Right! My Right Is Your Right!
Contact: [email protected]
www.myrightisyourright.de
www.facebook.com/MyRightIsYourRight
Signers:
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African Refugees Union
AfricAvenir International
afrique-europe-interact
AK "Marginalisierte-gestern und heute“
AK UniWatch
akademie der autodidakten
Aktionsbündnis gegen Dublin (Berlin)
Aktionsgruppe M-Straße
Allmende Berlin e.V. - Haus alternativer Migrationspolitik und Kultur
Antirassistische Initiative e.V.
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Barnimer Kampagne "Light me Amadeu", Eberswalde
BBZ – Beratungs- und Betreuungszentrum für MigrantInnen und Flüchtlinge
Berlin Postkolonial
Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag (BER)
Berliner VVN-BdA e.V.
Bewohner_innen der Ohlauer-Schule
Blockupy Plattform Berlin
borderline europe - Menschenrechte ohne Grenzen e.V.
Bündnis gegen Rassismus
Bündnis Neukölln – Miteinander für Demokratie, Respekt und Vielfalt
Corasol (Contre le Racisme Show Solidarity)
Dan Thy Nguyen (Freier Regisseur, Schauspieler und Sänger)
Deutsches Theater
FelS - Für eine linke Strömung (organisiert in der iL - Interventionistische Linke)
Flüchtlingsrat Berlin
Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht & Migration e.V.
Frauenkreise Berlin
GEW Berlin
GLADT e.V.
glokal e.V.
GRIPS Theater
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Initiativkreis Olympia Verhindern!
Interkulturelle Frauenzentrum S.U.S.I.
International Women Space
JugendtheaterBüro Berlin
Kampagne Zusammen handeln! Gegen rassistische Hetze und soziale Ausgrenzung!
KommMit – für Migranten und Flüchtlinge e.V.
korientation – Netzwerk für asiatisch-deutsche Perspektiven
KuB Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für Flüchtlinge und Migrant_innen e.V.
KuDePo e.V.
KulTür auf!
LaCasa (Hellersdorf)
Lesbenberatung Berlin
LesMigraS
Lucía Muriel (Diplompsychologin)
Maxim Gorki Theater
Medibüro Berlin
MEPa e.V. – Migration, Entwicklung und Partizipation
Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg
moveGLOBAL e.V.
NaturFreunde Berlin
Netzwerk gegen antimuslimischen Rassismus und Islamfeindlichkeit (NARI)
NIO – Nachbarschaftsinitiative Ohlauer
Noya Berlin
Radikale Linke Berlin
ReachOut
Refugee Club Impulse
Refugee Schulstreik Berlin
Refugee Strike Berlin
Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein e.V.
Salaam-Schalom Initiative
SAVVY Contemporary
Sharon Dodua Otoo (Mutter, Aktivistin, Autorin und Herausgeberin)
SissiFM – Feministisches Stadtmagazin
Studio Я
Suite42
Theater an der Parkaue
Theater Expedition Metropolis
Theater Strahl
Total Plural e.V.
ver.di, Bezirk Berlin
Verband für interkulturelle Arbeit (VIA), Regionalverband Berlin/Brandenburg e.V.
wildwasser selbsthilfe & beratung
Women in Exile
xart splitta e.V.
XENION e.V.