Tunisia: International Call for Soildarity from Choucha Refugee Camp
In Choucha the situation for refugees is increasingly getting worse…
New Year’s Messages of Refugees in Hunger Strike to General Public / Neujahrsbotschaften der hungerstreikenden Refugees an Öffentlichkeit!
The refugees wrote New Year’s messages to the public and their beloved.
Georg Bürstmayr: Fearing the pursuit of happiness
“They get accomodation, food and health care, but the Refugees in the viennese Votiv Church are still protesting. This is comprehensible, since they are being deprived of the most important thing: the pursuit of happiness is not conceded to them.”
Video: okto-Polylog: Refugee Protests Vienna
Polylog is a talk show broadcast on community TV station Okto.
A recent show focuses an the refugee protests in Vienna.
Video: Refugee-AktivistInnen-Statements Demo 2. Jänner 2013 / Statements by refugee protesters, demo January 2nd, 2013 / Déclarations des réfugiés, manifestation 2.1.2013
Many statements by refugees in english, german and french. Highly recommended!
Sylvester in der Votivkirche: Neujahrsgrüsse der hungerstreikenden Refugees!
Neujahrsgrüße aus der Votivkirche
2. Jänner, 16 Uhr, Demo: You cannot silence us! Die Refugee-Proteste gehen weiter!
Die Proteste gehen weiter!
Abiding cynical and cruel attitude towards refugee protests by Austrian politicians – Hunger strike continues / Zynische und grausame Haltung der Politik gegenüber dem Protest der Flüchtlinge – Hungerstreik geht weiter
Neither President Fischer nor President of the National Council Prammer, Mayor Häupl, Vice Mayor Vassilakou, State Secretary Ostermayer, State Secretary Kurz, or ombudswoman Stoisits have given any sign of taking the refugees, who persevere in the church at minus three degrees Celsius, serious as human beings with concrete requests.
Letter to the Public from one of the Protesters on Hunger strike on the situation of war in the Kurram Agency
“I came from Pakistan, i lived in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in the Kurram Agency K.A.(Parachinar is the headquarter). (…) But from 2007 till now this war continus betwenn Shias against Taliban, AlQuada and Lashkar-e-Taiba are also involved.”
Video: Solidarity with Vienna’s Refugee Protestcamp from Oranienplatz Berlin
A solidarity message from Berlin to the Sisters and Brothers resisting in Vienna after the eviction of the Refugee Protestcamp of Sigmund-Freud-Park.
Video: Refugee Protest Wien, 29.12.2012 / Refugee protest Vienna, 29th of Dec 2012
Demonstration einen Tag nach der Räumung des Camps
Demonstration one day after eviction of the protest camp
International Statement of Solidarity
“The protest camp set up by asylumseekers in Vienna has been brutally evicted last night. It is part of a growing European movement of migrant struggles, that has recently seen similar protests in Berlin, Amsterdam and Calais, as well as Lesvos, Budapest and other places.”
Audio: radio widerhall: Solidaritätsbekundungen für Refugee Protestcamp Vienna
Live recordings and statements from the demo of December 29th (bad quality) and of the eviction on December 28th, 2012 as well as cited (solidary) statements.
We will rise! Forderungen der Flüchtlinge weiterhin unerfüllt! Samstag, 29.12., Kundgebungen in ganz Österreich!
Aus Anlass der Räumung des Protestcamps und der Verhaftung von zwei Refugeeaktivisten: Demonstration am 29.12.2012
Video: Police Eviction of the RefugeeProtestCamp Vienna Today at 4am / Polizeiliche Räumung des RefugeeProtestCamp in Wien heute um 4 Uhr
On 28 December at 4 a.m. an estimated number of 200 police_wo_men surrounded the protest camp in the Sigmund-Freud-Park in Vienna. Coming from every direction, they announced that the camp had to be cleared within 5 minutes. About 3.5 hours later the eviction of the camp was completed.
