[spectre] Fwd: No border No nation

ventsislav zankov vzankov at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 21 05:05:50 CEST 2003


--- Vlado Handjiev <grandsmile at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:38:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Vlado Handjiev <grandsmile at yahoo.com>
> Subject: No border No nation 
> To: ventsislav zankov <vzankov at yahoo.com>
> 
> No border No nation 
> 
> These days strange things happen at the border of
> Dimitrovgrad. A group of 20 people from different
> nations want to cross the border to Bulgaria with
> their bikes and trucks. Our first effort went two
> days ago and went like this: Instead of asking for
> our passports the boarder police ignored us and
> brought a lot of armed and aggressive policemen who
> played with their sticks. The chief of this police
> unit (Mr. Soholov) offered to let us through if we
> “show” him 1000.- Euro. As we didn’t agree to this
> he spat at one of us, said we were dirty trash and
> told us lies about their laws (e.g. “visitors must
> have in cash 300 Euro/day” and “must show an
> invitation letter”). Instead of showing us these
> laws he pretended that he has the right to make
> regulations like these by himself. They then
> collected our passports and put a deportation stamp
> in our passports although we never had put a step
> into Bulgaria. Our bulgarien friends who are
> awaiting us in Sofia reported to us, the ministery
> for
>  internal affairs spreads the rumour, that we’re
> criminals. Our embassies are already investigating
> on this, but the bulgarien ministeries refuse any
> cooperation. The international community gets no
> background information about this strange behaviour
> of the bulgarien state. 
> 
> Even if the stupid behaviour of the border police
> against us seems to be suspicious, it is the normal
> function of border regimes: Borders are given to
> divide peoples, to control people and in our case to
> avoid, that resistance against exploitation of
> balcan countries by EU-integration can gather during
> the EU-summit in Thessaloniki/Greece.
> EU-integration, together with the treaty of Schengen
> gives the regimes more effect to control migration,
> to divide people into poor and rich classes. It is
> obvious that (now and in the future) borders like
> this in Dimitrovgrad will be used in case of workers
> and social protest, to stop people who have to work
> under bad conditions to move from into another
> country. 
> 
> Therefore it is necessary to abolish all borders and
> all nations. 
> 
> We invite all people to come with us to the border
> today (6th of June) at 16:00 to protest against the
> bulgarien-serbien border regime and to support our
> caravan to cross the border. In case that we can’t
> cross the border, we gather at 20:00 in the centre
> of Dimitrovgrad
> 
> ventsislav zankov <vzankov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Poradi golemia interes
> Na 21.06. 2003 ot 19.00 shte se provede na DVD vtora
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> Evropa po proekt na 
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> Co- curators: Benjam Fleig, Dr. Martin Mueler 
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> i
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> 
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> e-mail: iridaart at einet.bg
> 
> 
> 
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http://www.nbu.bg/theatre/videoart/index.html
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home phone [00359 2] 56 96 82
mobile:  00359 87 51 97 94
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