(Deutsch)
We call everybody to join us on Saturday, December 5, for two demonstrations in Solingen and Düsseldorf and at our regular w2wtal-evening at Café Stilbruch afterwards.
After tightening the law for asylum only eight weeks ago, there are new plans to make the conditions for refugees even harsher. As refugees and their friends we call everybody to act against these plans. The planned new tightening of the asylum law will not solve the problems of the German and European governments – but it will lead the society to further division and isolation.
With the new law the German government ie. plans, that Syrian refugees will have to leave their families two unbearably long years within the cruel war before they can bring them to safety. That’s a horrible thought for us. The worries about the women, men and children who have to remain in Syria, prevent a normal life in Germany, and if they make their dangerous journey across the sea and the Balkan the fear for their lifes eats souls.
That is why we want secure escape routes from the disaster. The right to family reunification in Germany is currently the last remaining hope for a safe journey to Europe. It should be clear to anybody that no law will prevent anyone from bringing his or her family to safety or to seek a life perspective. It only will make the way even more dangerous.
Also deportations should be facilitated. Even seriously ill and traumatized people can be deported in the future. We know seriously ill people. Some of us were on the flight together with them. They got help to survive the risks on the dangerous journey. Instead of helping them, the German government now wants to throw them out of the country to do a favor to the right and racist people. This is totally unacceptable. This country is a rich country. To send sick people out, is undignified and lacking in solidarity.
Moreover, everybody who had to enter the country without papers, will be send to huge camps with an „accelerated asylum procedure“ in future. Why should those who have lost their documents during the flight, now live in camps? A decision about their asylum applications should be made there within just three weeks. Those of us who are waiting their requests to be processed for months, can’t imagine how this would work without either violating the right to a fair trial or to extend «normal» processes even more.
To send many people in such special camps, to deprive them of their rights and to isolate them even more from society by a stricter so called «Residenzpflicht» (residental duty) is a further step, to divide refugees in people with different values. To deport people to get room for «new» refugees is unbearable for us. We stand together. You make differences in reasons for searching refuge, not us!
We are very grateful to the very many people who have helped the refugees in the last few months. We hope that your solidarity can be returned in the future. But now we have an urgent request again: We know you spend a lot of time and energy with the projects that support the refugees – but you must take time now to prevent this new law together with us!
We want to live in a society which has a place for all of us. Everybody is willing to cooperate in such a society, and wants to look for solutions to the problems. As friends and refugees in this country we offer this willingness for an integration. But therefore everybody has to be informed about planned changes in laws and conditions. If there is no real information, experiences and knowledges can’t be contributed to the solving of problems.
Everybody has to be involved in the discussions. The people are here now. We call on you to live and to decide together how we want to live in future!
Come and join us!
We want to demonstrate in Solingen at 11 am and in Düsseldorf at 3 pm. There’s a meetingpoint for a joint travel at «Schwebebahn» Döppersberg at 9:50 am.
The regular w2wtal-evening afterwards starts at 7 pm at Café Stil-Bruch. There will be some selfprepared food, tea and other drinks, talks and music and a nice chill-out after the demonstrations. (Adress: Otto-Böhne Platz, Ölberg in Wuppertal-Elberfeld; you can directly go there by busline 643, direction «Nordstadt/Lutherstift». Leave the bus at «Otto-Böhne Platz»)
