FRONTEX. A meeting with Amadou M’Bow, human rights activist from Mauretania. In Warsaw is the head quarters of Frontex, the European Agency that defends the borders of Europe and penetrates Africa. In Warsaw an international action took place on the 6th of June, see indymedia (Dutch and English) Amadou spoke to the press. How the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'IJburg'
From IJburg to Africa
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: africa · IJburg · migrant · Senegal
No to Soviet planning on IJburg
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Ana Sebastian, reads with Jo from her novel and meets Papa Sakho. Ana is a writer migrating between Buenos Aires and Amsterdam. She lived 15 years in Amsterdam, and then moved back to Buenos Aires 15 years ago. Home is where you are also not at home anymore.. E.g. in de Kinkerbuurt. (various languages) Free [...]
Tags: art · Blauwe Huis · IJburg · migrant · presentation · ruisriet · Senegal
NOVA TV report on detention centers
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
On Dutch TV the news program NOVA spoke with a guard who reveals the violence and humiliation of innocent detainees in Dutch detention centers for undocumented migrants. You can see it here. Mohamed Boumedine appears in front of the prison boat in Rotterdam, where he started his hungerstrike after the death of an inmate in [...]




