Western governments observe the uprisings in the world Arabic with an attitude that oscillates between admiration and awe discomfort. The discomfort is inevitable, as the great powers and the rich countries have shown economic and political complacency in respect of those dictatorships. On migration, fortress Europe has built its outsourcing policy and border subcontracting confinement camps of exiled African-es-es on the regime of Libyan jails 1. The amazement comes precisely from the fact that this wall anti-migrants, effectively managed by the clan Kadafi, crumbling under the peoples' revolt. Europe, self-assertive style democracy ready to export, admires the democratic will of course, but hastens to add that it contains a threat that we must fear above all: the influx of the refugees are. The construction of fear has so quick to erase in the minds of people here the historical and political importance of these movements, and the right of freedom and protection of these peoples. According
old hackneyed rhetoric, the words just flowing in the media or in the mouth of a politician-es, the European Ministers of Interior, officials from the ODM or Mr. Philippe Leuba, Counsellor of State for the Department of the Interior (DINT) in the canton of Vaud, saying their great amazement: "invasion of foreign "" Influx of migrant Tunisians in Italy "," cantons fear an influx of refugees, "" fear of an exodus to Europe, "stream" young men in search of economic solutions "(read: bogus refugees ), etc., etc.. And newspapers offer polls on the risk of influx: what do you think of the influx? Agree, disagree, afraid, fear not, for or against? Why the media do not they ask: do you know that the said article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? He speaks of the right to leave any country including his own. Or do you know what guarantees in Article 25 of the Swiss Constitution? The right not to be repressed-e in a country where they risk persecution, torture or inhuman treatment. These fundamental rights, derived from a traumatic history that we hope never to repeat the horrors that we know, however, are buried deeper and deeper underground, like secret prisons Kadafi, in the neo-liberal Europe, racist and repressive 2010s.
Thus, at a time when we should be in awe of these struggles are ready to support and accommodate their activists at a time when people are being slaughtered in Libya, where es fleeing into exile hunger and terror, or simply because people want to go, be free, it strikes us once again fear. Europe and Switzerland have a priority to ensure the closure of their borders and the renewal of agreements of "migration cooperation" signed with dictatorships. In line with what is put in place for 30 years through the dismantling of the right of asylum, migrants Libyan-Tunisian no-s or-es, before you even set foot on Swiss territory, are first and foremost a threat, before being with rights. While the undocumented continue to work in Switzerland in the shadows, the complainant rejected asylum-es-es languishing in the centers and that the forcible return flow to maintain their contempt for human rights, it is already beginning to criminalize new people who are not even there yet.
Governments thus betray their great fear that this breath of freedom come not crack the fortress Europe. But this fear is not ours. We have nothing to fear, instead, we look forward to meet these people and hear their struggles, and the smallest things we can do is to demand the guarantee of their right to leave their country and come here or elsewhere. One day, the fortress Europe will become a house of cards since its foundation will inevitably undermined by the pursuit of liberty of individuals, which, like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, demanding to live in dignity and want too, like us, able to move when they want or need .
Right next to everyone!
Freedom of movement for all!
Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, the Middle East and the Middle East to fight!
1 March 2011
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