Collective Remembrance, collective grief, collective outrage

One week ago, 10 years after the Tarajal massacre more than a thousand people gathered in over 50 different locations to commemorate those who were killed by the EUropean border regime on February 6th, 2014. We gathered to share the sadness about the pointless and seemingly endless dying that happens at the borders every single day and unite in our anger at the violence that is continuing undisturbed.

Will this ever end? Or will we have a thousand more February 6th’s, but still zero answers? Every year we add more dates like this one to our calendar of commemoration. And indeed, we could have commemorActions every single day, for as long as borders exist. Looking at the reality, one can easily lose hope. So many people disappeared, so many families left in shambles. These people can never be replaced.

Regardless, we continue to fight for the end of all this pointless suffering, for justice, for lifting each other up instead of cementing the artificial walls between us.
We don’t fight, because we think we will win against this machinery.
We fight because it’s the only thing that makes sense.

For freedom of movement.
Because none of us are free, until all of us are free.