Women in Exile & Friends

Our first day of travelling together in our 2018 Women* Breaking Borders II was fun despite of the heat. In Magdeburg we connected with a group of five women and four children from Hamburg who joined the tour.

Our kick off action at the Alte Market in Magdeburg was succesful with women singing and shouting slogans on top of their voices because the microphone had some technical failure. Women made spotaneous short speeches and it was very interesting to see one of women who joined the Bus Tour with her children because she wants her children to experience a different atmosphere ask for a chance to say something, one of the things she said is, „the government should stop deportations especially to Afganstani“. She said it felt good to speak her thoughts in public and later asked if it is possible to be participating in our events in the future.
Continue reading 23.7 – Women* breaking borders Bus Tour Kicks-off: first stop Magdeburg

For our national wide Bus Tour which takes off from Potsdam on Monday the 23.07 at 10°°am,, we are facing last minute obstacles.

This is due to the number of women and children who want to join the bus tour. At the beginning the tour was meant for the politically active women and their children in the group. For this we had calculated with two mini buses from Berlin/Brandenburg. In the last couple of weeks, we have had requests from women who desperately want to join the tour with their children. Most of these women just want, to quote just but a few:

• to escape the monotony of everyday life in the lager,
• to get in contact and share their experiences with other women,
• to free their heads of the daily stress,
• to have their children experience a different atmosphere during the long
  summer holidays.

From these heartfelt explanations from refugee women in Berlin and Brandenburg, for women in Exile and the host cities means extra financial and organizational strain. To enable our bus tour to succeed, we urgently need financial and solidarity support for the following:

• to hire another mini bus, this of course, will not be enough and some women will have to use other means of transport such trains .
• money for food and for organizing cheap alternative sleeping places
• a few sleeping bags from those living in Berlin/Brandenburg
• solidarity drivers (especially from Munich the 31 of July)

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We from Women in Exile and Friends, want to continue with the topic of “”Women* Breaking Borders” this summer.

We want to visit with you in solidarity the cities in the south especially Bavaria and condemn Seeholfer now minister for Interior and Heimat, and during years responsible of creating more restrictive asylum laws and refugee camps. His “Anker” (Ankufts-und Rückführungszentren”/ Arrival and deportation centers ) role model system, will keep refugees totally isolated from independent German help and society: no legal counselling, no visits, no German course, no work, no school for children. This way it will be easier to deport them – without resistance, without security only full of despair.

Seeholfer wants to export this role model of detention camp idea German wide, it is bad enough with the ones existing in our areas without integrating the radical ideas from the AfD.
Our aim is and has always been to enable refugees who identifying themselves as women* to stand up for our rights as women* living in this society.

Continue reading National Wide Summer Tour „Women* Breaking Borders II“ 23.7.-05.08. 2018 “Two Weeks of Travelling & Having Fun Against Racism”