1. Shut down the deportation airport - 1.7.2000
2. 1st July 2000 airport-blockade at Berlin-Schoenefeld
No flights will take off from the deportation Berlin-Schoenefeld!
Thousands of actions will cause an airport blockade for a full day
But the point is not that all the actions will be planned ahead of time. Impromptu actions are also hoped for, original ideas to stop the air traffic or the drive to the airport are welcome! There will certainly be people who plan ahead but if you are attentive you will found new ideas!
Shut down the airport!
Even the trip to the airport as a registated car caravan should be part oof the airport obstruction. People, who come from far away, can add their busses and cars to the procession. People who take public transportation to Schoenefeld by bus and S-Bahns can start protesting on the way.
This event should be widely publicized, before the planned blockade of the airport starts. We want to spur discussion about our protest against the deportation machinery and we want to activate people to help in the blockade.
Due to these goals we have planned different actions in the week before the actual blockade including:
Preparing the Berlin travel offices, so that they don't sell tickets for the day of the blockade and decorating well situated construction work sites in Berlin and other cities with announcements.
On the 1st of July Schoenefeld airport will belong to us!
1st July 2000 airport-blockade at Berlin Schoenefeld!
This national racism is shown ever more frequently in mottos from parties on the Right and certain groups of the general populace. In front of a backdrop of relevant NS history (Walser debate, War in Kosovo), German nationalism has been normalized. In Germany hunting down people who don't look ,,German" has become an every day occurence. Our society is laced with institutional racism and is set up so that individual differences can be used in justifying everyday racism. This technique is also used by the ,,New Middle" to call Non-Germans who live here ,,welfare free loaders or ,,non-genuine refugee" and to defame violence and criminals etc. Such racist laws only work because people uphold them.
,,Economic refugees" have no voice in their deportation, but the reason for their poverty in the so called "third world" is never discussed. Even when the cause of suffering is the exploitation of southern nations by northern nations. Specific women issues, such as the threat of mutilation, are not ecxepted as reasons for asylum under the existing law. These examples show that those who use the logic of capitalist exploitation differentiate between ,,good" and ,,bad" immigrants, making it clear that "immigration politics" revolve around German economic interest. This is best seen in the "Green Card" debate.
We demand: No differentiation between ,,good" and ,,bad" asylum reasons for example ,,good" (usable) and ,,bad" (non-usable) people. Open boarders and asylum rights for all!
With the demonstration at Schoenefeld Airport we want to attack the point at which institutional racism meets the every day reality of deportation. Airports are a beginning and ending point for fee state isolation policy. Many arriving immigrants are taken into custody for deportation at the airport and therefore they are never even let into the Federal Republic of Germany.Schoenefeld is THE main deportation airport for Berlin and Brandenburg where people are deported even when through the deportation they will meet certain death. Schoenefeld airport is the final stop of racist harassment after refugee camps and deportation jails. This course of action is legitimized by the state laws reguarding asylum seekers rights.
The airport is a sensible point in the process of deportation. It offers many opportunities to bring attention to the institutional racism and it provides possibilities to demonstrate against this. If passengers show solidarity with the demonstration by standing up and preventing flights then the deportation of the refugees is not possible.