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Un-policing the borders!

  • March 22, 2010 11:02 am

Noise
demo outside the “Policing the Borders” conference at the Cavendish
Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT (nearest tube: Oxford Circus) on Tuesday 23rd March at 2.30pm.

This Tuesday representatives of the European Border Agency FRONTEX,
various UK police forces and the Identity and Passport Service are
gathering in central London for a conference under the title “Policing
the Border”.

The conference, which claims to secure the border against “illegal
immigration” and terrorism, will also be attended by representatives of
many security companies and feature an exhibition about border security
and surveillance.
Together these companies and agencies create a Fortress Europe where
every year thousands of people in the desert, in the Mediterranean Sea
and in the Atlantic Ocean die try to enter. Furthermore their policies
and actions deny basic rights to millions of “undocumented migrants”
within Europe, and help to create
an atmosphere of suspicion where everyone is under surveillance for unnamed “crimes”.

Some news from Romania

  • March 12, 2010 11:48 am

See invitation for the meeting

The excessive security aspect has become a problem in our lives ever since we integrated into NATO, and then in the EU, then we managed to face with brio the "tests" these organizations have arranged for us. Perhaps the pride of the Romanians was not to be inferior to those great "powers" of Western economic, or show our fear of poverty and how useless we are as a state to the European political and economical discussion, when we carry only a function of pion, many times of sacrifice, in their game of chess.

It was also mentioned in political or economical circles, restricted or wide (at local and regional organizations, or meetings of the Future Group, when discussing future directions for the EU) about how much it is needed to control "breaches" in the new holy war of capitalism: the struggle against a "terrorism" who in fact is non-existent, but that includes everything that opposes them, so a war against us, against the people who have the courage to say "Why?" and "Until when?".