Breaking Residenzpflicht,
Lager & Deportation
“Regarding the right to freedom of movement, the defendant is not a German and therefore does not have this basic right.” (German Judge in a trial about Residenzpflicht, February 2013) The Resistance against racist and nationalist laws that hold “German rights” above the human rights of refugees has reached the oneyear mark. In March 2012 refugee, protest camps began spreading throughout Germany, actions in direct opposition to La- gerpflicht. Shortly thereafter, refusing to accept the unjust practice of Residenzpflicht, refugees organized a 600 kilometre march from Würzburg to Berlin, supported in solidarity by a bus tour crossing western and northern Germany. Arrival in Berlin quickly became the founding of the protest camp on Oranienplatz. 6,000 people joi- ned our demo to the German parliament. We occupied the Nigerian embassy, protesting Nigeria’s collaboration with both the German State and Frontex, the corporation responsible for arranging deportations. Some of us began a hunger strike at the Brandenburger Gate on the 24th of October. We have occupied an abandoned school building to create a safe space for refugees and political infrastructure for our movement. Yet, faced with our movement and our demands, politicians not only continue to look the other way; they shamelessly attempt to manipulate public debate. Their claims about “asylum abuse” victimize our cause and stigmatize our intentions. They don’t get it. We will stay in the streets. We will continue to resist. We will not be silenced until our demands our met!

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