Refugees

Nuit Debout Occupies In Revolutionary Call For Change

April 10, 2016 Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com Resist! Democracy, France, Nuit Debout, Occupy, Refugees, Worker Rights

By Angelique Chrisafis for the Guardian. Nuit debout, which loosely means “rise up at night”, the protest movement is increasingly being likened to the Occupy initiative that mobilised hundreds of thousands of people in 2011 or Spain’s Indignados. Cherifa, a French student at Paris’ Louis-le-Grand high school, who is taking part in the night-time protests. Cherifa, a French student at Paris’ Louis-le-Grand high school, who is taking part in the night-time protests. Photograph: Elliott Verdier/AFP/Getty Images Despite France’s long history of youth protest movements – from May 1968 to vast rallies against pension changes – Nuit debout, which has spread to cities such as Toulouse, Lyon and Nantes and even over the border to Brussels, is seen as a new phenomenon. It began on 31 March with a night-time sit-in in Paris after the latest street demonstrations by students and unions critical of President François Hollande’s proposed changes to labour laws. But the movement and its radical nocturnal action had been dreamed up months earlier at a Paris meeting of leftwing activists.

Interview: The Syrian Refugee Crisis In Their Own Words

April 8, 2016 Sallie Latch and Mitchel Cohen, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Greece, Refugees, Syria, US Empire

By Sallie Latch and Mitchel Cohen for WBAI. Samos, Greece - Sallie Latch is an 83-year-old artist born in Cleveland and who grew up in Northern California. She left her current home in Mexico to go to the island of Samos in Greece, to voluntarily work with refugees fleeing bombings and warfare in Syria and Iraq. She arrived there just as the European Union decided to turn away newly arriving refugees and send them back to Turkey, which parallels the United States and other countries turning away boatloads of Jews fleeing the Nazis during World War 2. The Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, contributed to Sallie's efforts and helped make her trip possible.

Global Refugee Crisis Calls For A Culture Of Sharing

April 4, 2016 Rajesh Makwana, www.sharing.org Create! Europe, Nationalism, Refugees

By Rajesh Makwana for Share The World's Resources - The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead. Razor-wire fences, detention centres, xenophobic rhetoric and political disarray; nothing illustrates the tendency of governments to aggressively pursue nationalistic interests more starkly than their inhumane response to refugees fleeing conflict and war.

Will The US Own Up To Its Role In Europe’s Refugee Crisis?

March 29, 2016 Ryan Harvey, www.truth-out.org Educate! Europe, Refugees, United States

By Ryan Harvey for Truthout - A small, crowded boat arrives at an isolated beach on a small Greek island. Inside, 49 people prepare to unload their few possessions. On the beach, lit only by a half-moon and a few headlamps, volunteers from around the world wait to assess if there are any medical emergencies. Soon after landing, vans and cars line up to begin transporting the group of mostly young people from Afghanistan to a support facility established by local villagers and international volunteers, where tea has been prepared and dry clothes have been made ready for distribution.

Where Refugee Solidarity & Alternative Economy Converge

March 10, 2016 Staff, www.undercoverinfo.wordpress.com Create! Creative Economy, Greece, Refugees

By Staff of Undercover Info - The centre known as Notara26 is located on 26 Notara Street in Athens and offers solidarity to refugees to cover their immediate needs (shelter, food, medical assistance). The centre provides temporary accommodation, basic medical treatment, clothing and information for up to 130 refugees each day. More than 1,700 refugees and migrants stopped over in Notara between September 25 and December 1 last year alone. The centre continues to act as a focal point for refugees who arrive in Athens and need somewhere to stay for a while.

A Nation Too Stupid To Transform Itself With Its Immigrants?

February 29, 2016 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Educate! Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Refugees, United States

By David Swanson for Let's Try Democracy - The millions of people in the United States who are denied equal rights because they are immigrants have vast stockpiles of wisdom and rich culture to share; they engage in more strategic and courageous activism than do non-immigrants; and without any doubt they would vote better than do the "legal" people of South Carolina if only they were permitted to vote. The mistreatment of these people shortchanges every U.S. enterprise and reduces civil rights, paychecks, public safety, sense of community, and basic levels of morality for everyone.

Thousands Threatened As Bulldozers Poised To Raze Calais Camp

February 26, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Educate! Displacement, France, Refugees

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - In a decision that promises to displace thousands of refugees, including hundreds of unaccompanied children, a French judge on Thursday upheld a regional official's approval for a plan to bulldoze the southern portion of the sprawling refugee camp in Calais, France. The judge's decision rejected an emergency appeal filed by a group of charities which sought to have the plan overturned. The Guardian reported that the groups "filed an urgent appeal to a tribunal asking it to suspend the planned evacuation and demolition...

Louisiana Tribe Now Officially Community Of Climate Refugees

February 14, 2016 Chris DAngelo, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Climate Change, Gulf of Mexico, Indigenous Rights, Refugees

By Chris DAngelo for Huffington Post. Isle de Jean Charles, LA - Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, lies the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny swath of land that's all but vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Over the last half-century or so, the island has fallen victim to irresponsible oil and gas extraction practices and the effects of climate change. Many of its residents -- members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans -- have been forced to flee. "What you see of the island now is just a skeleton of what it used to be," Chris Brunet, a tribal council member and lifelong island resident, told The New York Times in a mini-documentary called Vanishing Island in 2014.

US Refugee Crisis Raises Grave Human Rights Concerns

February 13, 2016 Angela Wolfe and Simon Schatzberg, www.cipamericas.org Educate! Human Rights, Refugees, United States

By Angela Wolfe and Simon Schatzberg for CIP Americas - In the spring and summer of 2014, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children, mostly from Central America’s Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras), crossed the United States’ southwest border and sparked a political and humanitarian crisis. Between March and June, 36,075 unaccompanied children were apprehended or turned themselves into US Border Patrol, making up more than half of the unaccompanied children (UAC) apprehended in all of fiscal year 2014.

Europe’s Colonial Amnesia & Repercussions

February 5, 2016 Henriette Johansen, www.middleeastmonitor.com Educate! Colonialism, Europe, Migrants, Refugees

By Henriette Johansen for MEMO - The daily updates I receive from volunteers working in Calais and on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Chios are heart-breaking. As I sat to write this, a volunteer nurse from Denmark described her night shift to me, driving up and down the coast of Chios, turning off all lights with the other volunteers in order to be able to see the refugee boats come in. They stand outside, listening for the smallest sounds over the beating of the merciless winter waves. Another volunteer from Lesbos told me that they sometimes receive as many as 800 to 1,000 people on the Greek island during such night shifts.

Denmark Passes Law Allowing Confiscation Of Refugees’ Valuables

January 27, 2016 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Denmark, Immigration, Refugees

By Staff of Reuters - COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's parliament passed measures on Tuesday aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum, including confiscating valuables to pay for their stay, despite protests from international human rights organizations. The measures, which also include extending family reunification among refugees from one year to three years, are the latest sign that the Nordic welcome for refugees is waning as large numbers flee war in Africa and Middle East for a better life in Europe.

Refugee Crisis Leaves Deepest, Cruelest, Mark On 2015

January 3, 2016 Bill Boyarsky, www.truthdig.com Educate! Climate Change, Human Rights, Refugees, Wars and Militarism

By Bill Boyarsky for TruthDig. So what was the most significant event of 2015? It wasn’t a single event. Rather, it was a worsening of something that started several years before. It was the fast-increasing, huge migration of immigrants—many running for fear of their lives—making their dangerous and often fatal way by land and across the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the oceans of Asia. It is the greatest forced mass movement of refugees since World War II, caused by the confluence of civil war, brutal regimes, sectarian and ethnic hatred, and climate change all coming together in a world too weak and preoccupied to deal with such powerful forces. It is not a made-for-television disaster. It doesn’t have the immediacy of a video-cam shot of a police killing or saturation coverage of the aftermath of a white racist or Islamist terror murderous assault—all compelling fare for the cable news channels.

Views Not Represented: The Invisible Jungle Of Calais

December 27, 2015 Cherri Foytlin, www.bridgethegulfproject.org Educate! Climate Change, Refugees, Wars and Militarism

By Cherri Foytlin for Bridge the Gulf. Over 7,000 people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia and Eritrea, live in the now 15-year-old encampment. The asylum seekers usually stay for several months while trying to relocate to a new home somewhere in the world. In The Jungle, most are trying desperately to reach England, where it is rumored that applications are processed faster and work is more easily available. Calais is the closest point to that destination. Many are killed along the way. I submit to you below my testimony as a witness to what I learned during my visit. Many of the residents of the Jungle had promising careers in their homelands. Walking around the camp, we spoke with a dentist, a physicist, two attorneys, a professor, a nutritionist, and an artist, among other professionals. Mehti, who we met while helping in the kitchen, had been a music producer in Iraq. When we began to talk, he started by apologizing for his English, which was actually quite good. The soft-spoken and handsome 25-year-old told us of his enjoyment of music and of his hope to join his brother soon. He expressed his appreciation of reading, and how doing so helped him with his English. Unfortunately, he had no books, so a friend of ours – the artist - gave him the one she had carried with her to the camp.

Vietnamese Boat People Raise Money To Help Syrian Refugees

December 7, 2015 Staff, www.cbc.ca Create! Refugees, Syria, Vietnam

By Staff of CBC News - Calgary's Vietnamese community is coming together to help welcome and support the wave of refugees coming from war-torn Syria. Organizers put on a fundraising dinner at a local Vietnamese restaurant and held a silent auction Thursday night. Their goal was to raise $10,000 to help settle the refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people fled or were expelled from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, with approximately 60,000 eventually reaching Canada. Those who came by boat became known as the Boat People.

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