Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Church occupid by migrants in Zurich

Bleiberecht-Kollektiv Zürich/ repost | 20.12.2008 16:23 | Anti-racism | Migration | World

Today, Friday the 19th of December 2008, around 150 Sans-Papiers (immigrants and refugees without residence authorisation) and Swiss activists occupied the Prediger Church in Zurich. Exactly one year ago we occupied symbolically the cathedral Grossmünster to protest against the tightening of the law of asylum and the aliens legislation (Asyl- und Ausländergesetz). One year later we are outraged that the agency for migration in Zurich still keeps its inhuman and unreasonable migration policies.



Political declaration of the occupation of the Prediger church in Zurich, Switzerland
 http://www.bleiberecht.ch/

We are no longer willing to accept this enforcement of the authorities. We - Sans-Papiers and Swiss activists - decided to occupy the Prediger church in order to call attention to our intolerable condition of living and to fight for our rights. In every other Swiss canton the majority of us would already have got the right to stay!
Obviously the canton of Zurich continous to disregard Swiss federal legislation obstinately refusing to realise hardship case control. We, the refugees, are forced by the authorities to commit illegal actions. For example, we are legally obliged to go the migration office once a week from our emergency accomodations. Being forbidden to take up any employment and our emergency assistence being nothing but supermarket vouchers. We cannot raise any money to buytickets for public transport. These are neither distributed nor refunded which forces us to ride without tickets.
The existing law regarding cases of hardship were an appropriate instrument to change the present dehumanising practice . All could benefit: The society as a whole, than people who have lived in Switzerland for years would be allowed to integrate and get legal employment as well as an appropriate and condigned livelihood. The employers would no longer have to employ us illegally, which submits us to disastrous conditions of exploitation and repression. After years of escape and request for asylum we would finally get the security, rest and respect that we need to live in and which we deserve to be granted as human beings, and if nothing else, in a country that deems itself to be a constitional state furnished with humanitarian tradition.
We, the 6-Campers, 7-Day-ers and the Zürcher Bleiberecht-Kollektiv decided to fight for our rights. We no longer accept the treatment we received so far. We are not what the "black sheep politicians" want us to be. We are human beings and we claim our rights. We are tired of the inhuman conditions. The time to stand up has come. We are here and are here to stay.
We call for:
1. Human and unbureaucratic implementation of the legislation on hardship cases
2. Documents for all! Drop the criminalization and imprisonment of Sans-Papiers.
3. Abolishment of the ban on legal employment



Contact de Presse :
Tel.: 004177 465 16 67
Bleiberecht-Kollektiv Zürich
Postfach 11328026 Zürich
E-Mail:  alle@bleiberecht.chHomepage: www.bleiberecht.ch
E-Mail:  alle@bleiberecht.ch
Homepage:  http://www.bleiberecht.ch/

Bleiberecht-Kollektiv Zürich/ repost

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech