[fse-esf] migration network esf berlin

[Nikolaos Nikisianis]

Dear friends,
after Istanbul EPA a call about Migration Network has been appealed  
through this list. We send it now again, just to help everyone who can  
distribute it.
As we have also desided, we sent this call to all organizations that  
had made proposals for activities in this thematic area in 4th ESF.

We had also desided to publish on ESF site some reports about all the  
work that we have done until now. Till now we still try to concentrate  
them (so please if anybody has to add anything let contact with us).

Finally, we would like to get in contact with all the organizations  
that will be in Berlin's meeting, in order to prepare the discussion.

In solidarity,
Nikos Nikisianis,
antiracist initiative of thessaloniki,
Greece


Appeal for the Migration Network

In the 4th ESF (Athens 2006) more than 40 migrant’s and antiracists  
groups and networks from al around Europe have taken part in Migration  
Network. Through all the preparation process, we have agreed to common  
agenda and common priorities. We all have appealed for a 3rd  
European-wide day of action struggling for "a European unconditional  
legalization and equal rights to all migrants; for the closure of all  
detention centers in Europe, for
the stop to externalization, for the stop to deportations; against the  
precariousness and for the uncoupling of the link between resident  
permit and the labor contact, for a residence citizenship"  
(Declaration of Social Movements Assembly, Athens 2006).
We all consider that this European-wide cooperation has widened our  
experience and our point of view and has strengthened the visibility  
of our struggles against dominant European border and migration  
policies. New conditions, like the implementation of Dublin Treaty and  
generally the harmonization of European policies against asylum right,  
force us to continue and enlarge this process.
We call migrants and antiracist groups, organizations and networks to  
join Migration Network. Until the next EPA, in Berlin 22-24 February  
2008, we will start the consultation about our priorities for the  
agenda of next ESF in Malmo 2008 and also about common actions and  
campaigns.

Istanbul EPA
31-11-2007