Season’s Greetings
Dear friends and comrades!
As this memorable year - which tested us all - comes to an end, we hope this holiday finds you healthy and safe and also – even if temporarily and partly - free from the capitalist mode of production, so that you can enjoy your surroundings and loved ones.
You might take the time to look at the new online learning platform Ku przestrodze - Watch Out launched by our network’s member organisation Naprzód from Poland and practice your English skills, while refreshing your knowledge on World War II history here. Naprzód's Piotr Lewandowski also designed the graphics of our season's greetings.
The COVID19 pandemic accelerated and magnified all that is wrong with our current world (see Colours of a Journey online exhibition project), but solidarity (see the relaunched site Change4All with a map of solidarity initiatives) remains our strongest weapon in this multiple crisis we are facing.
We have brought together some initiatives for you that are working in support of refugees and migrants and which you might want to support with donations:
- STAND BY ME LESVOS, founded by locals 2017, is still active on the island with various projects that support the self-organisation of refugees on the island , in and outside the camps.
You can read more about them here and follow their daily work here
BANK ACCOUNT
Piraeus Bank
Account No. 5709086466501
IBAN GR4201727090005709086466501
SWIFT-BIC PIRBGRAABank address: P. Kountourioti 17,
81100, Mytilene, Lesvos- STEPS, is active in Athens with street-connected people – refugees and migrants or locals alike. They organise mobile washing units, medical teams and monitoring teams. You can read more about their work here and follow their daily work here
EUROBANK
IBAN: GR9002604550000000200297176
STEPS NON PROFIT
SWIFT: ERBKGRAAeither via Paypal and in detail here
- SOS Balkanroute , is an Austrian initiative bringing basic-need goods like clothing and food to migrants and refugees trapped in the western Balkans. You can read more about their work in German here and follow their work here
IBAN: AT20 2011 1842 8097 8400
BIC: GIBAATWWXXX
SOS Balkanroute- WATCH THE MED – ALARMOPHONE, was initiated in October 2014 by activist networks and civil society actors in Europe and Northern Africa. The project established a self-organised hotline for refugees in distress in the Mediterranean Sea. Alarmophone’s main objective is to offer boat people in distress an additional option to make their SOS more visible. The Alarm Phone documents the situation, informs the coastguards, and, when necessary, mobilises additional rescue support in real time. In this way, the organisation can, at least to a certain extent, put pressure on the responsible rescue entities to avert push-backs and other forms of human-rights violations against refugees and migrants at sea.
You can read more about the work of Alarmophone here and follow their daily work here.
EU Account
Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht & Migration, Sparkasse der Stadt Berlin
IBAN: DE68 10050000 0610024264
BIC: BELADEBEXXX
Donation Reference: Watchthemed Alarm Phone
For donation receipts, please contact us at: wtm-alarm-phone@antira.infoSwiss Account
Verein Watch The Med Alarmphone Schweiz
PC: 61-172503-0
IBAN: CH21 0900 0000 6117 2503 0
When donating from a swiss account you will automatically receive a receipt. If you have any problems, please contact us at: info@alarmphone.ch- SEA WATCH has since 2015 has been organising search and rescue missions at sea – mainly when national authorities seem reluctant to obey maritime law. They have saved hundreds of lives, despite efforts to criminalise their humanitarian mission. You can read more about Sea Watch here and follow their daily work here
IBAN: DE77 1002 0500 0002 0222 88
BIC: BFSWDE33BER
Bank: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Berlin- MEDITERRANEA – saving humans, has, since 2016, been doing Search and Rescue missions at the sea, despite criminalisation and violence on the Libyan coasts. Mediterranea is a ship funded by the Italian civic society. You can read more about them here and follow their daily work here
Donations here
We look forward to the challenges of 2021, strengthening our collaborative work in transform! and wish you all the best!
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.― Bertolt Brecht
