Tampere: EU-summit in Finland on immigration - demo

                          
Information about the Tampere counter-summit

>From the beginning of July to the end of December, Finland will serve as 
president of the European Union. One central aim on this period is re-
definition of EU's immigrant policies. For this reason there will be held a
special European Council meeting (so called EU summit) on immigrant policies
and internal security in Tampere, 15th-16th of October. The finnish movement
will organize as reaction against EU policies on immigration items an
European counter-summit.

We hope that Tampere will be a part of a larger campaign against borders and
in support of the sans-papiers all around Europe. We propose to start the
campaign with an European demo in Belgium in the Semira Adamu memorial day
(26.9). The demo will be very important as a moment of rupture against the
eurofortress. We propose also the continuation of the campaign during the
following weeks with for example a European action day (15.10) and in final
the Tampere demonstration (16.10). At the moment we have received clear
expression of interest in participating in the Tampere demo from the
european movement, in particular from Italy and Germany.

In the organization of the counter-summit are involved at the moment the 
Finnish Anarchist League (SAL), the syndacalist organization Solidaarisuus, the 
Finnish revolutionary socialist organization Sosialistiliitto. Also autonomists 
are involved (at the moment not in a official way – but in a few days the 
participation will be officialized). The contact with European movements and 
organizations will be carried out by single organization through own 
international networks. Also contacts with refugee and immigrate organization 
are in progress. The Finnish Communist Party (SKP) have also published in the 
newspaper Tiedonantaja information regarding the countersummit. The home-page 
of Tampere event function at the site www.ecn.org/finlandia/tampere . Regarding 
the site we need urgently materials,documents, expressions of solidarity and in 
particular help for the french pages (translation of english and italian texts 
in french).

Regarding the campaign in general and regarding Tampere in particular our point 
of view is that the eurofortress have to pay an high price for some events of 
the last year as the murder of Semira Adamu, as the closing of the French 
border in occasion of the demo of Paris in March, as the aggressive  policy of 
German Police against the antifa block in the demo of Köln, as the way to act 
against demonstrations in Bruxelles and so. All this event have a political 
price and now is time for fortress europe to pay. 

Regarding the technical aspect of the Tampere event the situation is under 
control and information regarding all the detail will be avalaible at the end 
of August.

For further information contact us finlandia@ecn.org .

finlandia@ecn.org