direct action
Baxter 2003
Read the Call to Action and related material on the
baxter2003 page
Freedom to move: Freedom to Stay:
Move against racism
::WTO Call to Action 13-15 Nov 2002
Photos of the march - here and on Sydney Indymedia
The World Trade Organisation is a great producer of 'economic
migration', enabling corporations to travel the world, in search of
the best conditions for profits - lower wages, reduced environmental
standards and the denial of human rights.
Yet people who flee poverty, war and the enclosure of communal lands
throughout the world are made illegal - locked in camps and deprived
of their freedom to move.
We are gathering to express our resistance to an economic system that
creates unwilling migrants forced to leave everything behind in the
hope of a new life.
- In Afghanistan more people are dying today through poverty or US bombs than died at the hands of the Taliban.
- In Pakistan and Iran millions live permanently in desperate conditions in refugee camps.
- Throughout the world Nike pays as little as $2 a day.
- Over ten million people have been displaced by World Bank funded dam projects.
In the face of injustices like these, people worldwide have expressed
their determination to build a future that values people over profits
and to create meaningful futures for themselves and their communities
beyond bare existence and a desire for dignity. The global movement
of people reasserts this autonomy and challenges the control of
capital and the nation state. However governments and the WTO have
continued to promote a system that privileges the movement of capital
over the sustainability of communities and the environment.
“Border protection” forces people to stay and work for whatever
capital is offering. The construction of the “nation” as under
assault from “illegals” intensifies the racism against all migrants.
The removal of their rights to work, social security, and education,
is the concrete manifestation of the ordering of the “white nation».
The “mini-ministerial” of WTO trade ministers to be held in Sydney in
November will be a further means of promoting the corporate agenda.
We will not stand by while the racism and xenophobia unleashed by
governments divides communities and weakens our resistance to
policies like those promoted by the WTO.
We call on everyone to participate in a carnival of resistance in the
lead up to the Ministerial. On Wednesday evening, before we converge
on the WTO Ministerial, help us to express our creative resistance to
capital's globalisation, and our desires for a world where everyone
is free to move and free to stay. Bring drums, streamers,
instruments, yourselves and your friends to reclaim the streets of
Sydney in a manifestation of our own visions of globalisation. This
action will be one of many on Wednesday night. We encourage others to
issue calls to action and participate in their own way.
Freedom to move : Freedom to stay : move against racism
5 pm Sydney Town Hall
Wednesday November 13 2002
Contact:
No One Is Illegal: nooneisillegal@netscape.net
no borders(Sydney): no_borders@graffiti.net
::Maribyrnong 2002
28/29 June 2002
A 2-day protest festival against mandatory detention at Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre.
For more information, visit:
maribyrnong2002
::Disobedience at Woomera
Easter 2002
With our bodies against the camps
A call for civil disobedience at Woomera
this Easter.
They
have moved. They have crossed mountains, rivers and oceans. Risking
their lives they have come. Asking for nothing except a place to exist,
for dignity.
On arrival they are interned in prison camps, stigmatised as “illegals”;
without rights, non-persons. How can someone be illegal? They can break
the law, commit illegal acts, but they are not illegal.
In making them illegals, governments deny their humanity, their existence.
They are made invisible. In defiance of their internment in the desert
prison camps of Woomera, the people inside resist with the only thing
they have left: their bodies. With hunger strikes, sewing their lips
together, acts of self-harm, they are fighting their invisibility.
It is time to say enough! We propose to join their struggle with our bodies. In Easter we will travel to Woomera, to take action in solidarity with our brothers and sisters inside the camps.
On the afternoon of Saturday 30 March we will initiate a mass act of civil disobedience and enter the prohibited zone around the camp. Join with us!
Wear orange: the colour of alarm, danger and emergency.(Two workshops are happening to organise props and protecto gear.)
Our action will be one of many actions that are planned for the Woomera 2002 Protest and Festival of Freedoms this Easter. Direct Actions, vigils, workshops, music and much much more. For more information, visit the woomera2002 archive...
We are citizens of the coming global society. We will stand in solidarity for the dignity of humanity, against neoliberalism and all its borders and cages.
No One Is Illegal
::Freedom Banner goes to Woomera
Thousands of people turned out in Melbourne for the Justice for Refugees Palm Sunday Rally. Hundreds signed a Freedom Banner written in Arabic, Farsi and English which No One Is Illegal will carry to Woomera detention centre this Easter.
::Crazee Puppets and Props
Looking good & well protected @ Woomera2002
Workshop 1:
3pm Saturday, March 23rd
Victorian Trades Hall Council Car Park
cnr Lygon & Victoria sts
Carlton (enter through Victoria Sts
entrance)
Workshop 2:
Afternoon, Friday March 29
@ Woomera 2002 Campsite
No One Is Illegal is organising two workshops to construct colourful imaginative props and stylish and effective personal protection for the upcoming woomera 2002 protest, and in particular Saturday's civil disobedience action.
The props will include a large mock boat, and giant boltcutters, crowbars and files. The colorful protective gear will draw on the theme of orange (color of alarm, hazard and danger) and involve the construction of hats/helemets and protection for the arms and legs etc. We will also be making flags, banners etc. using the orange theme. We will provide materials, but if you can bring your own (tape, foam, wire, material esp. orange, glue, paint etc) that would be great. Everyone is welcome to assist or if you have your own ideas bring materials along and join in.
::Assembly of the invisible
Monday, October 15, 2001
for more information, visit assembly... website