No Border 2016 Program schedule
Wednesday, July 13:
We start setting up the NoBorder Camp.
People can start camping from Thursday, July 14.
Friday, July 15:
Arrivals,
18:00 first plenary
21:00 concert
Saturday, July 16:
1st day of the Networking Meeting Balkan route
11:00: Women*Space (International women*groups and women* from the relocation centers)
During the day: Live mural painting by the NoBorder Graffiti
Crew
Evening: Disruptive Film Festival / Theater
Sunday, July 17:
Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
13:00: Migrants from the relocation centers address the NoBorder Camp in an open meeting
Midday/afternoon: 2nd day of the Networking Meeting Balkan route
Evening: Short Film Festival – Clips and Videos from external borders and from the Balkan Route
Monday, July 18:
Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
Afternoon: workshops
20:00 plenary «European‐Mediterranean networking»
Disruptive film festival / Short festival of Alban-speaking movies
Tuesday, July 19:
Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
Afternoon: workshops
20:00 plenary «Migrants self‐organizing»
Evening: Disruptive film festival / Short festival of Alban-speaking movies
Wednesday, July 20:
Morning to afternoon: protests at the detention centers at Paranesti (Drama) and Xanthi.
Evening: Concert: Baris Bal Trio (Istanbul/Thessaloniki) / Theater: Acts by Rhiad (Tunisia) and Dimitris Samir (Syria-Greece)
Thursday, July 21:
Morning: caravan to the “relocation centers” around Thessaloniki
Afternoon: “Migrants’ Pride” protest in the center of Thessaloniki
Evening: Concert
Friday, July 22:
Morning: workshops
12:00-15:00: open meeting / plenary on the struggle against the goldmines in Halkidiki
Afternoon: workshops
20:00 plenary «Networking of self‐organized structures»
Evening: Disruptive film festival / Short Iranian film festival
Saturday, July 23:
All day: protest at the Greek/Turkish border at the Evros fence
Evening: Disruptive film festival / Short Iranian film festival
Sunday, July 24:
Closing workshops day / Closing plenary
Networking Meeting Balkan route program
Saturday, 16th of July
11.00 – 13.00
Opening Plenary – Welcome, Introduction, Inputs, first Discussion
Input 1: “Everything is possible” – the amazing dynamics of 2015;
Input 2: After the EU-Turkey Deal – the new border regime in the Aegean;
Input 3: Back to the Underground railway – new/old challenges of support and solidarity;
Input 4: Between transit and common social struggles – how to connect the various aspirations and realities?
15.30 – 17.30
Workshop Slot I
Back to the Underground railway? Ongoing daily struggles and transnational perspectives on the Balkan route
Five parallel workshops:
1. The consequences after the EU-Turkey-deal;
2. Webguides: Welcome to Greece and Welcome to Italy;
3. Solidarity along the Balkan Route: from financial support to common actions against repression;
4. Live feed of w2eu as information tool – and Alarmphone Balkan as a new project?
5. Mapping and other ideas of support along the route.
(1.5 hours break)
19.00 – 21.00
Workshop Slot II
Solidarity and support: Self-organisation, mixed organisation, volunteers, transnationalisation
Four parallel workshops:
1. Experiences in social centers and squats;
2. Travelling groups/journeys (back) to the borders;
3. Multilingual newspapers and online magazine/platforms;
4. Between empathic support and unpaid crowd management; Ambivalences of the volunteers’ engagement.
Sunday, 17th of July
16.00 to 18.00
Workshop Slot III
Common social struggles, sensitivity versus criminalisation
Three parallel workshops:
1. Housing, health-service, education: perspectives of common social struggles for a social infrastructure;
2. Working, exploitation, rights: how to resist the racist hierarchies in the labour market?
3. Denouncement, criminalisation, sensitivity: How to break the fear and repression in the border areas?
19.00 to 21.00
Final plenary: Brief conclusions from the workshops, Discussion on Perspectives
Sunday later Evening (22.00…)
Short Film Festival – Clips and Videos from the external borders and from the Balkan Route
July 18, 19, 22 workshops program
Typical workshops’ day schedule:
8.00-9.30 breakfast
9.30-13.30 caravan to relocation centers
13.30-15.00 rest, snack
15.00-19.00 sessions
19.00-20.00 dinner
20.00-22.00 plenary
Monday, July 18:
Four parallel sessions (15.00-19.00)
A1. State and Hyperstate governmental policies for moving populations (Room 1)
a) Book presentation: Vogelfrei. Three texts on migration, deportation, capital and its state – Antithesis
b) The new state totalitarianism towards migrants and refugees – Antiauthoritarian Movement (AK)
c) The role of charity and of the army in managing migrant populations – Fabrika Yfanet squat / Thessaloniki
d) The latest deal between the EU and Turkey – Migrant Solidarity Network / Ankara
B. Strategies and practices for survival, solidarity and fighting for freedom (Room 2)
a) Pinknoise (Netherlands) – online privacy and safe communication
b) Hackborders project: Presentation of a tool for family members to find each other – http://hackborders.net/.
c) WatchThe Med Alarm Phone – experiences of the hotline for refugees and migrants in distress on sea, organized by activists of Alarm Phone
d) Silent University Athens Assembly – platform for knowledge sharing between refugees, mıgrants and locals.
C1. Solidarity, networking, communication, mutual aid and commoning of the moving populations (Room 3)
a) Adverse Humanitarianisms: institutional necropolitics and the urge to tame grass‐roots solidarity in transnational migration governance – Sonia Vlachou
b) Your struggle is also mine? Limits and options of fighting together – NoBorder activists
c) Migrants politicization in the radical movement – Genti Guri – Clandestina network
d) Fighting for freedom and living with migrants in Ljubljana – Anti-racist Front without Borders from Ljubljana, Slovenija
e) Interlinking Housing and Migration Struggles – The European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City
D. Sensing the Borders: affective migrant subjectivities and strategies of (self) representation
Plenary: «European-Mediterranean networking» (Room 1)
Tuesday, July 19:
Three parallel sessions (15.00-19.00)
A2. State and Hyperstate governmental policies for moving populations (Room 1)
a) The role of the university in managing migrants populations – Fabrika Yfanet squat / Thessaloniki
b) Antifascism as an inseparable part of the struggle for social emancipation – Collective for Social Anarchism Black & Red / Thessaloniki
c) A Social Movement for the Re-opening the Balkan routes. Legimitacy and Public Standing for the Refugee Movement – Joerg Finkenberger, Lisa Thomas
d) Solidarity economy and the refugee crisis: exploring bridges and expanding spaces of social solidarity – Freedom Coop
E. Gender aspects of immigration (women, lgbtq populations, sexism, gender violence, pregnancy) – Age aspects of immigration (Room 2)
a) Atelier Without Borders – Atelier Without Borders (Istanbul) children and activism
b) Book presentation: “In Our Own Words – Refugee Women in Germany tell their stories”, edited by IWSPACE (International Women Space)
c) Living in the shadow – Eliana Kanavelis, “Babylonia” journal
C2. Solidarity, networking, communication, mutual aid and commoning of the moving populations (Room 3)
a) The current situation of migrants in Morocco in combination with EU border politics – No Borders Morocco
b) The consequences of the EU migration regime in North Africa – Noborder Tunisia and Relatives of the disappeared
c) For a Collective Memory on Migrant Struggles – the idea of a multilingual online platform – activists from WatchTheMed Alarm Phone and Moving Europe
Plenary: «Migrants’ self-organizing» (Room 1)
Friday, July 22:
Morning – 2 parallel sessions (9.00-12.00)
F. Three hour training in direct action skills (9.00-12.00) (concert site)
Action Training for Direct Action – Openborder
G1. Connection between the struggles of the locals and the immigrants (10.00-12.00) (Room 2)
a) Working the border: Pioneer farmers and migrant farmworkers on the Israeli frontier
b) Action logistics and organizing long-term camps and actions – Max Mustermann
12:00-15:00
Open meeting / plenary on the struggle against goldmines in Ηalkidiki (Room 1)
“The State and capital write the history of pillaging life and nature, the movements write the history of resistance and freedom” – Beyond Europe: Halkidiki – The Comeback
Afternoon – 3 parallel sessions (15.00-19.00)
G2. Connection between the struggles of the locals and the immigrants (Room 1)
a) Participation and integration of refugees in the Initiative for a Self-organised School of Integral Cooperation / Freedom Coop as a tool for refugees and the No Border movement – Freedom Coop
b) Solidarity economies as an alternative for the labor exploitation – Istanbul migrant solidarity kitchen
c) The Paradigm Shift in Political Participation and Debates about the self‐organization of Migrants from Syria in Turkey – Hamisch – Istanbul Syrian cultural association
d) Solidarity and self-organizing against the new totalitarianism – Collective for Social Anarchism Black & Red / Thessaloniki
H. Living together and struggling together (Room 2)
a) Solidarity and self-organization against the french border in Ventimiglia (Italy): perspectives and strategies for future struggles – No Borders Italy
b) Living together and struggling together – Calais Migrant Solidarity
c) Towards a Transnational Social Strike – Workshop about Labour, Precarity and Migration – PrekärLab / Frankfurt
d) Presentation of the squat for migrants Dervenion 56 (Athens)
I. Solidarity structures, squats-social struggle centers (Room 3)
a) Perspectives on antiracist self-organization and squatting – A Beyond Europe discussion with activists from Athens, Milano, Frankfurt and other places.
b) Perspective and Organising in Izmir – Kapılar community center / Izmir
c) #Overthefortress / Agire nella crisi / Globalproject – Meltingpot
Plenary: «Networking of self-organized structures» (Room 1)
Artistic program
Friday, July 15:
Documentary “People without faces”
Concert:
Unshaped Ahead (loops &violin-based storytelling)
Lostre (ska punk)
Electro Vampires (atmospheric goth & glamor rock)
Turi Beri (jazz punk)
Guts Pie Earshot (deep cello trip hop)
Saturday, July 16:
Disruptive Film Festival (Sherry Millner & Εrnest Larsen, N.Y., USA)
Theater Performance by ΤΟ ΣΠΙΡΤΟ (The wooden match – Athens): Coriolanus, William Shakespeare
Sunday, July 17:
Short Film Festival – Clips and Videos from the external borders and from the Balkan Route
Film projection: “Detention Without Walls” (Bridget Holtom, “We Will Rise” – UK)
Monday, July 18:
Disruptive film festival
Short festival of Alban-speaking movies: (1) Kukumi (Isa Qosja, 2005)
Tuesday, July 19:
Disruptive film festival
Short festival of Alban-speaking movies: (2) Time of the Comet (Fatmir Koçi, 2008) (3) Tirana Year Zero (Fatmir Koçi, 2001)
Wednesday, July 20:
Two one-act plays, Arab poetry recitation, Kurdish songs – a compilation by Dimitris Samir, playwright (Syria-Greece)
Theater performance by Rhiad (Tunisia): “Huuriya Means Freedom”
Concert:
Baris Bal Trio (Istanbul/Thessaloniki) (traditional oriental & Ottoman court music),
Interrail (ethnic & Balkan tunes)
Thursday, July 21:
Concert: Λ.Ο.Σ., Dysfunctional narrations (rap), Katachnia (deep art crust), BMW Rockers 57 (speed ’n’ roll)
Friday, July 22:
Disruptive film festival
Short Iranian film festival: Morteza Jafari (a) Dreaming of Life, 2016 (b) Dreaming of Democracy, 2013
Saturday, July 23:
Disruptive film festival
Short Iranian film festival: Morteza Jafari (a) Dreaming of Life, 2016 (b) Dreaming of Democracy, 2013
* All days: Photo exhibition by Morteza Jafari (Iran)