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Hundreds of people from Sicily to Bolzano, from Turin to Friuli and Albania. Movements, associations, lawyers, simple interested citizens. A long and intense day of meetings and debates, of open assemblies and in-depth thematic discussions (surveillance and support practices; health; processes of irregularisation; externalisation and Albania: these were the 4 tables) that sanctioned the need to continue with strength along this path, forging new alliances and establishing complicity with all the subjectivities that want to stop the system of CPRs and administrative detention.
A system that the Meloni government is violently reinforcing by proposing new openings of the lagers of our time, in our territories as in Albania.
On the eve of the first deportations to the centres in Albania, we feel obliged to speak out publicly and call on the whole of society to oppose this agreement. We cannot be helpless in the face of yet another attack on freedom of movement and allow this to become a model to be copied throughout Europe, because, as we said in our appeal yesterday, we believe that Italy and Europe are a land of hope, where we can live a better life, where we can enjoy the freedoms that are the fruit of past and present struggles. Only in this way can we build a more just and equitable future for all.
We came out of this day with the need to continue to discuss, but above all to organise.
Two main proposals emerged, among many to be taken forward
- The conviction of the necessity of a permanent and widespread mobilisation with and in support of the territories struggling, in solidarity with the imprisoned, for the closure of the CPRs and against new openings, thinking also of a collective widespread day of protest;
- the construction of a trans-Adriatic mobilisation, to be built together with comrades from Albania and from all over Europe, in solidarity with the migrants who are fighting against the violence at the borders and who are opposing the outsourcing agreement in Albania, a crucial issue for a democratic Europe. A mobilisation that starts at the Italian embassy in Tirana and then goes to the facilities in Lezhe, which the Rama-Meloni agreement has turned into real detention colonies.
The process of opposition to the barbarity of the CPRs will continue to be broad, radical (there is no way they can be reformed for us) and, we are convinced, fundamental for a Europe and a world of bridges and not of barbed wire, against the drifts of this securitarian Europe and the growing nationalisms.
We will fight for freedom of movement for all3 and for the end of all forms of administrative detention inside and outside the European space, building alliances and complicity with all those who oppose the existence and birth of these places, symbols of an unreformable institutional racism.