#streetart heute an nem Pfahl #nobordersnonations
#streetart heute an nem Pfahl #nobordersnonations
Over the past 3 days, I’ve gone to three different gatherings that all share 1 common theme: brutally unnecessary loss, which in turn is inseparable from brutal forms of theft.
On Friday, I walked up a steep hill in the middle of urban Montreal to a secluded grassy area surrounded by trees and filled with birdsong. It felt instantly sacred. And instantly ugly. The bodies of Indigenous children, victims of nonconsensual psychiatric experiments in the 1950s-60s, are likely buried in unmarked graves on these grounds—a former psychiatric hospital owned by McGill University. At a weekly vigil, people and orange ribbons cry out for the “TRUTH” of colonialism.
Yesterday, I listened to panelists talk about the 20th anniversary of a 7-day “Solidarity across Borders” walk from Montreal to Ottawa, with ethics like “status for all.” It took 6 months to organize, and brought together people compelled to move from all corners of the globe. Rad banners from demos over the years had been put up around the room, and someone noted an addition to the oft-used “No One Is Illegal” slogan: “Canada Is Illegal.” Yet various folks on the walk were later deported. And as the contrast between collective possibility 20 years and how much worse things are now filled the air, the banners started falling to the ground.
Today I went on a funeral march for DIY cultural and political spaces. A marching band accompanied us through the streets. We stopped outside now-bland, hipster-upscale businesses that had once housed lively evenings, or as one person put it, “places to fall in love with art, friends, communities, the city,” to speak to the ravages of capitalism. There were relatively few of us. Passersby seemed confused, for they had no idea what gentrification had erased.
Last night, at midnight, a friend in Vienna had just woken up and texted: “My body is in a state of shock. I hug you, because I don’t know what else to do at this moment.” I knew they meant because the US had begun bombing Iran. Minutes before, I’d read the news, wondering how I could go to sleep. How can any of us sleep at night—we, who are intertwined by brutally unnecessary losses and our broken, rebellious hearts?
Photos (continued in comments): “Destroy Power Not People” sticker seen in Stockholm, June 2018; “Land Back,” “ACAB,” and “Neither Quebec nor Canada” stickers seen in Montreal, August 2024; “No Human Is Illegal” sticker seen in mid-Michigan, December 2022; the word “TRUTH” spelled out in orange-fabric ribbons on a fence as seen in Montreal, June 2025; “No Borders, No Nations” spray painted on a wall, as spotted in Athens, March 2025; “Nationalists Not Welcome” sticker seen in Portland, OR, April 2018; “Capitalism Ruined My Life” sticker spotted in Montreal, June 2025; orange-fabric ribbons tied to a tree with glimpse of unmarked burial ground for stolen Indigenous children in the background.
#DestroyPowerNotPeople
#NoBordersNoNations
#AllStatesAreIllegal
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon
#alerte #sanspap #controleauxfrontieres #repression
Alerte répression contre les sanspap
Demain et jeudi grande opération policière dans toutes les gares de France pour arrêter le maximum de personnes sanspap
Faites tourner au maximum dans vos réseaux et si vous prenez le train soyez en vigilance et en solidarité
fascism, war, accounting
Godver!
NOS: *Minstens zeven opvarenden dood na kapseizen vluchtelingenboot voor kust El Hierro*
"Minimaal zeven mensen zijn om het leven gekomen toen een boot met vluchtelingen kapseisde vlak voor de kust van het Canarische eiland El Hierro. De boot sloeg op slechts vijf meter van de haven om. Dat gebeurde op het moment dat opvarenden zich naar één kant van de boot bewogen om over te stappen op een reddingsboot van de kustwacht.
De kustwacht had de boot met ruim honderd vluchtelingen op tien kilometer van het eiland al gezien en naar de kust van El Hierro gesleept.
Alle zeven slachtoffers zijn vrouwen, onder wie drie minderjarigen. Volgens de Spaanse nieuwszender RTVE zijn er waarschijnlijk nog meer slachtoffers en zaten er ook baby's op de boot. Twee kinderen zijn met een helikopter naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. …"
@marhei konsequent #IllegaleGrenzkontrollen umfahren & durchbrettern!
You don't stop at an illegal border control because you don't want cops to search your vehicle.
I don't stop at an illegal border control because it's illegal and a violation of my civil rights as a EU citizen!
@sixtus Also ich werd' nicht bei ner #illegalenGrenzkontrolle anhalten sondern weiterfahren!
Bin mir sicher TVöD-Bund zahlt nicht genug für die Folgerisiken einer Mitwirkung an #IllegaleGrenzkontrollen, und keine Rechtschutzversicherung wird #Vorsatz (weil jene #Grenzkontrollen offensichtlch #illegal sind!) mittragen.
Sich auf Befehle zu berufen war schon vor #Eichmann und #DDR-#Mauerschützen falsch!
@rstub @mina ich werd' jedenfalls nicht bei ner #illegalenGrenzkontrolle anhalten!
Ik heb hier eerder over de reis van Seb gepost (https://todon.nl/@joenepraat/112893538162765383) en ik denk dat hij nu op de veerpont naar Libanon zit (of er al vanaf is). Brandpunt+ heeft de volgende rapportage online gezet. Vanaf Libanon wordt het pas echt spannend, als ik zo naar de kaart kijk op https://www.sebbiebikes.org/blog. Zet hem op Seb!
Update sebbiebikes. ️ Incl. murder by border guards in Bulgaria
@doomofthedesert Haha, yeah, fancy indeed. I'm always unsure why it things have to „national“ instead of international, world, universal or just #IllustrationDay but since I almost never know which nation we are talking about (mostly US, probably, but it's UK in the case?) it doesn't really matter. #NoBordersNoNations
Thanks for being here and doing amazing art!
You want Freedom of Movement because you hate border controls.
I want Freedom of Movement because it is a fundamental Human Right (not only as per EU law)!
@Franky_Tegeler IMHO hilft da nur konsequent sich dieser aktiv zu verweigern - mit allen notwendigen Mitteln!
@braid +9001%
I'll reject borders actively and gladly help others do the same!
@CGdoppelpunkt @susannelilith ja, das
ist ja auch politisch so gewollt, egal ob #Rassismus (#Grenzkontrollen) #Faschismus (#WaffG) oder #Polizeistaat ("#Sicherheitspaket" / "#Antiterrorpaket") oder #Überwachungsstaat ("#Waffenverbotszonen" aka. #GrundrechtsfreieRäume)!
sebbiebikes: *Biking borders; fighting borders*
Sponsor Seb per 100 km: https://www.sebbiebikes.org/donate#donate (the money goes to MiGreat)
"hi! you’ve made your way to my website, welcome! starting august 2024, i (seb, 24 years old) will cycle from Amsterdam to India. an adventure that crosses around 20 “borders”. do those “borders” also seem so unnatural and arbitrary to you, too? it’s only with sheer luck that i have a Dutch passport that allows me to cross them: a privilege only granted to few.
so, come along with me and explore why borders suck. browse my website, read some books, share the fundraiser. by biking, i’ll bring you along in my own learning process about why borders exist, how they function and why they’re so unjust."
Das ist Bosque, ein belgischer Schäferhund mit riesigem Kopf und beachtlichem Kiefer und Człowiek Lasu (der Waldmann). Dieser Hund wird gerade professionell ausgebildet, Menschen im Wald zu finden. Er ist nun ein Jahr alt und hat dieses Jahr seit April bereits zwölf Menschen finden können.
Mariusz, so heißt der Waldmann richtig, hat in den letzten drei Jahren drei bis viertausend geflüchteten Menschen helfen können. Er arbeitet mit Mati im Wald zusammen. Durch ihre gemeinsame humanitäre Arbeit sind die beiden Freunde geworden.
Mit einem benzo und der white noise maschine auf Maximum kann ich es überleben, wenn die schweizer national
mannschaft spielt.
Wieso ich mich wegbomben müsste, damit ihr laut euren nationalistischen
"Spass" haben könnt, würde ich schon gerne diskutieren. But fuck it.