FROM Nidzara nidzara.ah@gmail.com
Dear all,
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new communications hub on
Instagram: @WeKeep_UsSafe
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As the EU gets closer to adopting the regressive and unlawful Deportation
Regulation
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we’re sending a clear message: no mass detention, no mass deportations, no
Deportation Regulation. The aim is to get this law rejected.
*We need you to get involved to build the campaign.
Could you follow and share the page widely in your communities?
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Inspired by anti-ICE and Palestine activist aggregator pages,
We Keep UsSafe will be a central account to amplify our campaign message
to reject
the deportation regime by naming and shaming politicians pushing for this
law, whilst reposting and resharing all actions happening against
deportations across Europe.
We’re hoping the page will be decentralised. You can further help the
campaign by:
- Collaborating or tagging WeKeep_UsSafe in any of your posts about
deportations
- Sending us any content or post we should feature or repost
If you’d like to further help us out with the page, reply to this email and
get in touch.
In solidarity,
Equinox, GSCC, Migrant Justice Community of Practice
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We must reorient policies to centre care, protection, and safety for every
human being. To do that, we have to get organised. That?s why Equinox
Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and International
Women* Space are building a Migrant Justice Community of Practice (MJCOP).
MJCOP are migrant or racialised-led organisations that take an abolitionist
and feminist approach to migrant justice work.
*If that sounds like your organisation, get in touch and join us
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In solidarity,
for Equinox team
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Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and
International Women* Space are building a Migrant Justice Community of
Practice: a coalition of migrant-led organisations working to shift
European migration approaches away from punishment, violence and control
toward community, care and social provision.
Building a Migrant Justice Community of Practice
Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and
International Women* Space are building a Migrant Justice Community of
Practice: a coalition of migrant-led organisations working to shift
European migration approaches away from punishment, violence and control
toward community, care and social provision. In a climate of growing
far-right, anti-migrant political power across Europe, migrant and
racialised communities are increasingly vilified, criminalised and
scapegoated for a range of social problems. We are seeing the hardening of
punitive, criminalising and discriminatory migration laws and policies, as
well as an increase in legislation, resources and infrastructure that
militarises borders and European migration policy. We want to see
resources, legislation and policy used to protect people’s lives rather
than support systems of punishment, containment and control. We need an
alternative force that centres the needs, goals and approaches of
grassroots migrant activism.
Building beyond punitive migration strategy
We are building a translocal coalition of grassroots groups working
collectively to shift power in European migration approaches. The coalition
seeks to bring together organisations working to redistribute resources and
power away from punitive institutions and toward social provision and
community care. We focus on building power amongst migrant and
racialised-led justice organisations who are commonly under-funded and
excluded from decision-making processes.
The coalition includes:
- Migrant Justice Community of Practice: a space for migrant and
racialised people-led organisations to meet, build power and discuss
strategies for building beyond punitive migration control. The Migrant
Justice COP will meet on a monthly basis.
- Migration solidarity group: a group of organisations working to open
up strategic spaces and corridors of power to the Community of Practice, so
that political agendas and strategies to combat criminalisation can be
collectively shaped. The solidarity group will support and work in
solidarity with migrant-led organisations, more effectively coordinating
and using resources to achieve structural change.
Our goals
- Shift power in political activism toward migrant led and racialised
organisations
- Work toward an alternative migration system based on care and
protection
- Change how EU resources, laws and policies engage with the topic of
criminalisation, surveillance, punishment and control
Who we are
The Community of Practice is coordinated by Equinox Initiative for Racial
Justice, the Greek Forum of Migrants, and International Women* Space.
Jennifer Kamau
Jennifer Kamau is a Berlin-based activist and researcher. She is one of the
initiators of the International Women* Space, a feminist, anti-racist
political group in Berlin with refugee and migrant women* and non-migrant
women* as members. This network emerged from the “famous” occupation of the
Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg some years ago, as a feminist response to
the predominantly male concerns of the insurgent refugees.
Adla Shashati
Adla Shashati originates both from Sudan and Greece. She is a journalist
with a degree in Media and Cultural Studies and an M.A. in New Media
Technologies. She is a member of the Sudanese Community in Greece and the
director of the Greek Forum of Migrants.
Sarah Chander
Sarah Chander is Director and co-founder of Equinox Initiative for Racial
Justice. In the past, she has organised European grassroots movements on
racial justice, digital, migration, feminism and LGBT rights.
Get involved
Migrant or racialised-led organisations with abolitionist and feminist
approaches to migrant justice work are welcome to join our Migrant Justice
Community of Practice. In particular we are centering those working at the
intersection of various forms of oppression (including womens’ rights, sex
workers, queer and trans issues, persons with disabilities);
Mainstream migration policy organisations working on EU or national
migration policies are welcome to join the migration solidarity group.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Community of Practice
or supporting our work, please contact migrantjusticecop@protonmail.com
Background
The Migrant Justice COP stems from an initial project between Equinox and
the Greek Forum of Migrants, supported by the European Philanthropic
Initiative for Migration, gathering organisations working at the
intersection of structural racism and migration. That project conducted an
initial scoping review of organisations and collectives working to build
beyond punitive migration policy and toward other methods. Since, Equinox,
the Greek Forum of Migrants and International Women* Space Berlin came
together to build the migrant justice community of practice, supported by
the Allianz Foundation.
