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Experience Ceremonial Community Art:
radiom2m - 26.10.2008 18:37
WE ARE HERE
 http://m2m.streamtime.org
Join the protest at Schiphol and tune into M2M Radio, the Migrant-to-
Migrant web radio station of the survivors of the fire.
The Schiphol fire that happened in the night of the 26th of October
2005 will be commemorated again three years later, at the same place
and at the same time. At the memorial for the eleven dead migrants
that stands at the fence of the detention centre at Schiphol Airport.
Survivors and relatives of the dead are working together to create the
commemoration and to be there. The united survivors initiated the
event in collaboration with M2M Radio and The Blue House.
commemoration
On Saturday October 25 2008 the third commemoration of the Schiphol
fire will start in the Blue House when the survivors and relatives of
the deceased will be together in private session. The next day, Sunday
26th, we will move towards the Schiphol airport detention centre to
honour the dead. We will show the world that
WE ARE HERE
TO MAKE A LIFE AGAIN
TOGETHER AS ONE
We have engaged eleven international artists to join the process of
creating a “Gesamtkunstwerk”, a ceremonial community art work at the
fence of this prison where the temporary monument is located: 11
wooden pillars with the names of the 9 men and 2 women who died in the
fire.
Special Live Web Radio Station
You can find us already on Friday evening October 24, 2008 in the Blue
House from 19-23 hours where we kick off live with a web radio program
called M2M, Migrant to Migration. ( http://m2m.streamtime.org).
Since February 2007 the Blue House/Het Blauwe Huis (IJburg, Amsterdam)
hosts the M2M web radio station that is dedicated to the human
practice of migration, not excluding birds, seeds and other works of
art and nature. Every Friday evening we are broadcasting on the
Internet. M2M practices the art of subliminal networking, e.g.
resulting in the fast growing ring of migrating Senegalese artists and
other humans who are participating in M2M Radio Teranga.
M2M is a meeting point for intimate and public expression and a test
laboratory for developers of open source software, an ideal
environment for testing usability, connectivity and compatibility to
satisfy the needs of artists, activists and other moving minds like
you and me. M2M also broadcasts live on the web on Saturday, starting
1 p.m. (CET). On Sunday October 26, 2008 M2M will report (semi)live
from Schiphol East where the public commemoration will be held,
starting at 2 p.m. till midnight (it is then Wintertime!).
Background
In October 2005 eleven people died in the calamitous fire at Schiphol
Airport detention centre. Their deaths are the immediate and tragic
result of exceedingly restrictive Dutch immigration laws. Laws to
exclude, hunt down, lock up and deport innocent people.
About 298 people were being held at the Schiphol detention centre when
the fire broke out: each and everyone a of them a victim of this
terrible catastrophe. We call for solidarity with all of the victims.
We demand that detention of aliens with the sole objective of
expelling them from our country be ended forthwith. Migrants are world
citizens like you and me!
The survivors fight for their recovery and for their future.
TO MAKE A LIFE AGAIN
They live dispersed throughout the Netherlands and try to stay afoot
in the jungle of poverty, paper work and abandonment. Some of them are
living out on the street, still facing deportation or collapse. Some
are lost in the dark. All the people and all politicians must be aware
of the facts:
- the politically responsible persons have not been held accountable
in front of a judge or in parliament.
- Ahmed Isa is still the only one prosecuted for the fire.
- Politicians turn away from the fire, from the causes and the
consequences.
- The Dutch government continues to detain people that are “not
supposed to be here”
- The Dutch authorities turn a deaf ear to critical reports of Amnesty
International, The Council of Europe and the State Council on the
Implementation of Criminal Law and Justice.
The surviving victims and the relatives of the dead are still coping
without adequate care. They are also kept waiting for compensation.
The commemoration demonstrates that the survivors are still here and
together struggle for their future.
TOGETHER AS ONE
The Commemoration Group is now formed by the United Survivors, M2M
Radio and The Blue House, in collaboration with PRIME. It calls on all
people to join the survivors in this commemoration, as a gesture of
solidarity and respect. And as a protest against the politics on
migration and the detention of migrants in particular.
Spread the word. . Get connected. . Call us or mail:
 m2m@streamtime.org Tel. ++31 6 24148872
News and updates on M2M Radio: http://m2m.streamtime.org
General campaign website: http://www.vertrokkengezichten.net
Hosting partner http://www.blauwehuis.org
For more news subscribe to the electronic mailinglist here:
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(english)
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Financial contributors: the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Stichting
Doen, X-Y Solidarity Fund, Maria Strootfonds.
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