{"id":2315,"date":"2007-08-28T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2007-08-28T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:23:48","slug":"ukraine-no-border-camp-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine – No Border Camp – 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The gate to the European Union (looking towards Slovakia)<\/em><\/a>*<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

*From the gallery<\/a> of Israeli activist Ronen Eidelman<\/a>, editor of the art & culture magazine, Ma’arav<\/em><\/a>, and a founding member of Anarchists Against The Wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About 300 people<\/a> gathered recently in Ukraine, in the Transcarpathia region<\/a>, for a No Border-2007 camp. Food was provided by the anarchist “franchise” – Food Not Bombs<\/a> – a “loose-knit group of independent collectives<\/a>” with roots in the U.S. anti-nuclear protests of the 1980s. According to the group<\/a>, “There is an explosion of Food Not Bombs activities in Eastern Europe. In Russia alone there are about 50 groups that are regularly doing actions.”<\/p>\n

Why the Ukraine<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The camp has provided an important, and rare, space for people working on migration issues from both inside and outside the EU to meet and discuss. We have been learning about the effects of EU migration policies, in particular how the EU is forcing non-EU countries to comply with its own harsh border regime. The Ukraine is particularly interesting in this context: since so many migrants die trying to cross the Mediterranean, the Ukraine has become a bottle-neck for migrants seeking an alternative route to the EU. Consequently, the EU is ploughing money, resources and technologies into the country, pressuring the state to enforce ever stricter border controls and punishments, so that migrants find it even more difficult even to enter the EU, let alone stay there. Three new immigration prisons have been funded by the EU in the region of the No Border camp. The EU is making the Ukraine, along with other countries with borders with the EU, into a buffer-zone, and forcing them to do their dirty work. This is in violation, not just of the higher principles of freedom of movement which we aspire to, but of the EU’s own commitments to the Geneva Convention which grant people the right to apply for asylum in EU member states. This camp, we hope, will be a space where we can join our forces from both sides of Fortress Europe against this brutal system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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