From de.indymedia.org
August 25, 2023

Around two years ago hundreds of us were trying to block a deportation flight in BER-Airport. It ended up with us watching as families were entering the plane and being forced back to Afghanistan. We were enough people to stop the flight, but we lacked the creativity, the anger and determination. How could we stand still in face of such racist cruelty?

Within the ongoing brutalization of the borders all over the world, the German state started to propagate the need for a particularly isolated deportation prison. This means an expansion of the existing one in Schönefeld with a capacity of 120 imprisoned people by 2025.

A budget of 315 million euros has been decided for 2023-24 to finance the planned deportation prison at BER Airport.
Under one roof,all the institutions will function accordingly to enable asylum procedures and deportations to be fast: whether in the airport asylum procedure, in transit detention or in exit detention, people are held and locked up in Schönefeld during the asylum processes or/and until been deported.

30.000 meters are needed for people to be isolated from the outside world, with no chance for communication and be treated as the pariahs and the human rests of society.

BER prison is the continuation of a plan initiated 500 years ago in Abya Yalla. BER prison is part of the same german colonial politics that send the weapons to Mexico that killed los 43 de Ayotzinapa. That expropriates territories in Paraguay for soy production, while creating concentration camps for indigenous people. That sent former Nazi soldiers to assure the creation of the apartheid state of Israel in occupied Palestine. That sells weapons to Turkey to attack the Kurdish autonomy. That promotes the war industry worldwide…

Avoiding a serious blockade that day at the airport, we have put ourselves on the side with a government, with a legal system, allowing it to continue and transport the colonial project.

Because with their laws, weapon exports, wars, agricultural industry, large-scale energy projects, oil and gas negotiations with dictatorships. they gain the power to murder, torture, rape, abuse, support and make wars, destroy livelihoods and territories of people, nuclear industry and bomb and their poison gas. Those governments take the right to confiscate and imprison; meanwhile the racist police violence kills people not only in the mainland but also at the so called borders on this planet.

The colonial war does not end here; based genocide, destruction of indigenous ways of life, occupation of territories and plundering of natural wealth with biological warfare, expropriation, execution, torture, enslavement and now followed by extractivist green capitalist-colonial projects. All these projects initiated by the governments have their roots in the colonial industry and result in property, child slavery, high child mortality, cancer, prison, low income, unemployment, and poverty in a global wealth gap.

An industry that puts a cover of fear upon us. Fear of being deported, fear of being isolated, fear of being abused, fear of being tortured.

An industry that includes prisons. Because at the end, prison are about this, showing what could happen to you if you do not remain quite and obey. And it is this obsession for obedience, that synthesizes the inspiration on the prison system by the slavery system.

Even if the 13th Amendment may have triggered the outlaw of slavery worldwide, but the penal system still continues to devise new ways to uphold the racist hierarchies that slavery was founded on and to restrict the freedom of the descendants of enslaved people.

The idea of appropriation of a person, of what it means to be one's own person, is also rooted in the system of slavery. While the notion of domination and subjugation through violence may be infinitely traceable throughout numerous historical records, slavery as a particularly designed system of violence consolidates a still key insight in our society: people do not submit to domination. Much less give up their passion for freedom by the mere fact of physical violence. In this way slavery pours over the bodies of those who have been chosen as the primary territory of conquest, a package of diverse and very intimately interwoven violence that meticulously aim at a particular objective -- the subjugation of the many for the good of the few - with a precise method - the disintegration of the collective being as a space of diverse struggle.

The identitarian and neoliberal way of struggling that we pursue in Berlin is part of the pacification strategy of the state. In a bourgeois society like the german, we have incorporated almost as natural the academic specialization system as part of our struggle, then we define ourself as antirep group, or antira or antifa, or, or…forgetting that actually is in the interdependence of all forms of violence and domination were this system lies upon. By isolating fights in specific areas, we create feelings of guilt and hate to each other. If we choose to only stay as supporters we distance ourselves from a reality, and turn timidly into puppets of integration politics that are just serving a reformist society in the so called german democracy. We then feel paralysed to the point we do not even know how to speak to each other anymore.

It's not by chance that deportation prisons are specific institutions inside the repression system, and that the state seeks with such intensity to keep them isolated in particular ways. They call it center instead of prison to cover the level of violence people are submitted to inside of it. A wording that even us will just accept and therefore play the game of fragmentation and separating each other. The constitution of the differences as a reason for exclusion among people, has been one of the mayor tools of colonialism. The idea that we should always stands together only with those that look alike us, deprive us from joint liberation.

When we tried and failed to ground the deportation flight to Afghanistan, it was not the police, but the borders and walls in our own minds that stopped us. The terror, the torture, the murder that produce the borders of Europe, each day they exist they kill something inside of us, as long as we are accomplices in passivity. The new BER prison is build next to us and it is a new prison built right here in our heads.

We are ready to fight together with all those who want to take power away from the system of exploitation. We do not seek the proximity of the rulers, we do not want to explain the world to ourselves in the words of those who label people as human capital in order to put them to use. Not a thought of building "connectable" demands in order to march in front of their palaces, which are guarded by cameras and cops. Talking to them brings nothing more than clarity about the arrogance of power and consequently the need to do things differently on our own.

BER prison plan for construction might be already reality, but BER prison destruction depend on us. Let us reclaim our hatred against this cruelty and take a collective risk. This is just starting and we have the power to stop it. We call on everybody to stop BER. From Lichtenberg to Plötzensee. From Steglitz to Spandau. From BER to Moabit, dyna dyna dynamit.

This text is our last political engagement of our beloved and lost comrade and we feel like dedicating it to her.
She is not here with us anymore but she spend her biggest part of her life in solidarity with all those who needed it, fighting against their laws, their racism, their rules, their prisons, their wars etc

Anyways we would like to say no more as for us, someone is not their saying but their actions.

A step backwards now would be a step backward in all our lives
Always in our minds, hearts and hands.

Anarchists

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