digitalTSC – english

digital Transborder Summer Camp: Transborder! Freedom of movement and equal rights in (post) Corona times

Invitation to the digital Transborder Summer Camp from 15.07-18.07.2020 – Call for registration (deadline 10.07.2020)

One year ago, we met at the ZAD near Nantes for the Transborder Summer Camp: more than 500 activists came together for amazing exchange and mutual inspiration. Now, we want to invite you for a digitalTSC from the 15-18.07.2020.

With the digitalTSC we want to provide a space to re-discuss strategies and challenges in (post) Corona times: we want to continue the discussions and networking debates that took place at the TSC, to understand where we are now 1 year later. And importantly, we want to propose a transnational decentralized mobilization for the beginning of September: on the 5th anniversary of the “March of Hope” – and the historic breakthrough against the border regime in 2015 during the long summer of migration along the Balkan route.

The digitalTSC will take place in different online meetings. Below you find a first program. Of course, everybody is welcomed to join as many sessions as they want, however, considering how exhausting online meetings are for many, we hope that people might join the two (bigger) plenary sessions and one or two (smaller) workshops. The digitalTSC will take place in English and French with translations.

We ask everyone who wants to join to register with a short email to our contact address (tsc2019@protonmail.com). You only need a stable internet connection! Please include the language(s) you need/can speak (English and/or French) and please also list in which panels or workshops you will participate. In order to prepare the online infrastructure for all the meetings and to organize translation, we need this information latest until 10.07.2020.

On 12th of July we will send to out the final program as well as the technical information and links to join the digitalTSC. Please refer to our website for short term updates.

p.s. If you want to read up on the Trans Border Summer Camp last year, you can find a brochure online: trans-border.net/index.php/broshure/.

Contact: tsc2019@protonmail.com
Website: trans-border.net

Definitive Program Program:

Wednesday, 15th of July

Opening panel from 19.00 to 21.00 – Public event
Freedom of movement and equal rights in (post) Corona times
Introduction and Moderation: Activists from trans-border.net
Inputs from: 

  • Isabella Consolati, Bologna/Transnational Social Strike: migrant labour and the struggle for a European residence permit
  • Aigul Hakimova, Ljubljana/Balkanroute networking: Fighting the border violence
  • Hassan Numan, Osnabrück/We`ll Come United: Anti-Deportation struggles
  • Moctar Dan Yaye, Niamey/Alarm Phone Sahara: Externalization of borders
  • Maurice Stierl, Berlin/WatchTheMed Alarm Phone: From Sea to Cities for corridors of solidarity

Thursday, 16th of July

Two Workshop sessions:

Workshop slot 1 from 17.00 to 19.00 (two simultaneous workshops)

  • Antideportation networking
  • Infrastructure for freedom of movement and equal rights

Workshop slot 2 from 20.00 to 22.00 (two simultaneous workshops)

  • Migrant Labour Struggles
  • CommemorAction: transnational commemoration for the victims of the border regime

Friday, 17th of July 

Three Workshop sessions:

Workshop slot 1 from 14.00 to 16.00

  • Migration control – externalization of the border regime

Workshop slot 2 from 17.00 to 19.00

  • From the sea to the city: from civil MRCC to welcoming cities – building the corridors of solidarity

Workshop slot 2 from 20.00 to 22.00 (two simultaneous workshops)

  • Balkanroute networking: updates, challenges and new projects
  • Campaigning against Criminalisation of Migration

Saturday, 18th of July 

One workshop slot and final public session

Workshop slot from 12.00 to 15.00 (2 or 3 parallel workshops on the same topic)

  • Transnational mobilisation for days of action from 2nd  to 5th of September 2020

Final session from 16.00 to 18.00 – public event: Transborder!

  • Networking – Brief conclusions from the workshops
  • Calls and ideas for the action days from 2nd to 5th of September 2020
  • Use the platform: trans-border.net