Vigil for Afghanistan – Germany must not play with our lives

📍 Location: Federal Foreign Office, Berlin – Staff Entrance
📆 Date: 20.08.–29.08.2025

We all share responsibility: people in need must be helped.
This vigil is directed at German politics. It concerns our families, friends, and colleagues who worked together with NATO in Afghanistan. Germany must not play with our lives!

Right now in Pakistan, Afghans are being forced out of safe shelters and GIZ guesthouses by the Pakistani police. Women, children, young and elderly people, parents – all are in danger. Many have been injured. Is this the gratitude of NATO and Germany? No – it is shameful.

Despite promises of resettlement, they face deportation to Afghanistan in just two weeks.
This must not happen✊🏽
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Vigile pour l’Afghanistan – L’Allemagne ne doit pas jouer avec nos vies

📍 Lieu : Ministère fédéral des Affaires étrangères, Berlin – Entrée du personnel

📆 Date : 20.08.–29.08.2025

Nous avons une responsabilité : il faut aider les personnes en détresse.
Cette vigile s’adresse à la politique allemande. Il s’agit de nos familles, ami·e·s et collègues qui ont travaillé aux côtés de l’OTAN en Afghanistan. L’Allemagne ne doit pas jouer avec nos vies !

Actuellement au Pakistan, des Afghan·e·s sont expulsé·e·s de refuges sûrs et des maisons d’hôtes de la GIZ par la police pakistanaise. Femmes, enfants, jeunes, personnes âgées, parents – toutes et tous sont en danger. Beaucoup ont été blessé·e·s. Est-ce cela la reconnaissance de l’OTAN et de l’Allemagne ? Non – c’est honteux✊🏽

Malgré les promesses d’accueil, une expulsion vers l’Afghanistan les menace dans deux semaines.
Cela ne doit pas arriver❣️

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOVw2lDCLp-/?igsh=eWR0NnJsejliYTl6

65 people saved, 3 children died, 1 person still missing. This is the toll from a rescue operation just some days ago, adding up to the 32,000 people that went missing in the Mediterranean sea since 2014.

To resist the current status quo and the world that is normalizing it, f.Lotta was founded earlier this year to occupy and repoliticize the central Mediterranean sea.

f.Lotta is part of a transnational chain of actions to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the summer of migration when in September 2015 people on the move showed us how to defy borders, how to turn freedom of movement from concept to practice.

Parallel to the main action south of Lampedusa, several decentralized protests will take place all over Europe and the world, as so in Berlin on the 13th of September.
Come by and join our protest from the waterside!
If you or your collective want to participate on boat or otherwise, please reach out to us in advance to [email protected].

Key facts about the action in Berlin:
⏳ When? Saturday, September 13th, 2025, starting at 4 pm
💦 Where? Starting at Lohmühlenplatz, first going to Oberbaumbrücke, then along the Landwehrkanal to Urbanhafen with several political pit-stops along the way
🎨 What? A boat protest with strong political messaging, accompanied by interventions on land (banners, art, rallies, etc.)
🏴‍☠️ Who? Different independent initiatives such as Free All Antifas, Abolish Frontex, FACQ, We Smell Gas, Chkoun, Klima4Palästina and de:criminalize united under the message for freedom of movement.

f.Lotta is an independent, horizontal and self-organized action. More information to be found here: https://flotta.noblogs.org/ or on IG: f.lotta_
f.Lotta stands for collective liberation, against all prisons, walls and fences, against racist borders, imperialist and colonial violence and for a free Palestine.

In solidarity! 🇵🇸🌬️🌊

Dear friends,
Protect solidarity in Europe! Write to your representative now.

No one leaves their home without good reason. With the new European Facilitation Directive, politicians want to punish you for helping people who have been forced to leave their homes.

This means that anyone who supports refugees could face arrest, court proceedings, fines, and prison sentences. Find out more about the European Facilitation Directive here.

What can you do?

Write to your EU representative now, before the vote at the end of September, to tell them that solidarity must be protected! Together with Sea-Watch, we have prepared an email full of good arguments for you. Enter your details in the form here – and all you have to do is click on “Send emails” on the next page.

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🚨 URGENT: Free Gayenjoro!
Our friend and comrade is in the deportation prison, we need to get him out!

Dear friends,

Yesterday, on September 30, 2025, our friend was taken into immigration detention and transferred to Dresden. He is scheduled to be deported to Gambia on October 15th via a charter flight from Frankfurt am Main airport. Departure 20:30 with Freebird Airlines.

This is not just an attack on him — it's an attack on all who fight for a life in dignity and safety. It is an attack on human rights.

For the past three years, our friend has been tirelessly fighting for his right to stay. He has been a strong, clear, and courageous voice within SoliMo — despite the many hardships he has faced himself. Through it all, he stood up for others: for those who were deported, for those who have no voice, and for those in need.

He didn’t fight only for himself — he fought for all of us. He gave us hope when everything felt hopeless, and courage when we were tired.

Now he needs our solidarity. It breaks our hearts to see him in this situation — but we will not remain silent. We stand together, and we will keep fighting.

We will do everything in our power to stop this deportation. We will organise a protest in from of the office responsible (Ausländerbehörde Haldensleben in Saxony-Anhal) next week tuesday (7.10.). Stay alert we need you there!

How you can help:

📸 Take solidarity photos – hold a sign, write a message, show your face. Send it to us : [email protected]
We will send them to him so he knows: he is not alone.

💸 Collect donations – to cover legal support and everything else that will be needed in the coming days.
https://www.goodcrowd.org/no-one-fights-alone-stop-deportations-to-gambia

📝 Write speeches, attend vigils, share his story. Make visible what is usually kept hidden.

✈️ Contact the Freebird airlines – tell them they are part of an inhumane practice. We will give you more infos about how to do it soon. Stay alert. Every protest counts.

📣 Organize protests in front of the detention center in Dresden. Our voices must not be silenced. We are loud — and we are many!

Solidarity is more than a word.
It means standing together when one of us is under attack.
Let’s show him now that he is not alone — not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

SoliMo - Solidarity Movement

#StopDeportation #RightToStayForAll #FreeGayenjoro

✒💌 please sign https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-deportation-of-yerro-gaye

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**Rally**
🗓️13 October 2025
⏰12:00-15:30
🗺️Magdeburg Administrative Court, Breiter Weg 203, 39104

We want freedom and security for our friend Yerro Gaye at last. On Monday, the court can stop his deportation with a positive decision.
That is why we will be there on that day to make it clear that Yerro is not alone. We will hand over the petition with over 2,000 signatures. Many people, whether family, friends or politicians, have taken an interest in his story over the past week and are very concerned about his possible deportation and separation from his fiancée.
Come along and show how important Yerro has become to you! Let's make it clear together in court that we need certainty now. Yerro must stay!

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Rassemblement
🗓️13 octobre 2025
⏰12h00-15h30
🗺️Tribunal administratif de Magdebourg, Breiter Weg 203, 39104

Nous voulons enfin la liberté et la sécurité pour notre ami Yerro Gaye. Lundi, le tribunal peut mettre fin à son expulsion en rendant une décision positive.
C'est pourquoi nous serons présents ce jour-là pour montrer clairement que Yerro n'est pas seul. Nous remettrons la pétition qui a recueilli plus de 2 000 signatures. De nombreuses personnes, qu'il s'agisse de membres de sa famille, d'amis ou de politiciens, se sont intéressées à son histoire au cours de la semaine dernière et sont très préoccupées par son éventuelle expulsion et sa séparation d'avec sa fiancée.
Venez nombreux et montrez à quel point Yerro est devenu important pour vous ! Ensemble, faisons clairement comprendre au tribunal que nous avons besoin de certitudes dès maintenant. Yerro doit rester !

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**Kundgebung**
🗓️13.10.2025
⏰12:00-15:30
🗺️Verwaltungsgericht Magdeburg, Breiter Weg 203, 39104

Wir wollen endlich Freiheit und Sicherheit für unseren Freund Yerro Gaye. Das Gericht kann am Montag mit einer positiven Entscheidung seine Abschiebung stoppen.
Deshalb sind wir an diesem Tag vor Ort um deutlich zu machen, dass Yerro nicht allein ist. Wir werden die Petition mit über 2000 Unterschriften übergeben. Viele Menschen, ob aus der Familie, dem Freund:innenkreis oder der Politik, haben in der letzten Woche Anteil an seiner Geschichte genommen und machen sich große Sorgen über die mögliche Abschiebung und somit Trennung von seiner Verlobten.
Kommt vorbei und zeigt wie wichtig euch Yerro geworden ist! Lasst uns gemeinsam vor Gericht klarstellen, dass wir jetzt Gewissheit brauchen. Yerro muss bleiben!

//ENG//
JOINED TRAVEL FROM BERLIN BY TRAIN:

Meeting Point: Berlin Ostkreuz, Platform 2, 13.10 at 8:40am. People will be recognisable by a sign saying “FREE YERRO”.

We’ll take this connection:

Berlin Ostkreuz → Magdeburg Hbf
13.10.2025

RE 7 (3715)
Nach Dessau Hbf
Ab 8:57 Berlin Ostkreuz, Gleis 2
An 10:47 Roßlau(Elbe), Gleis 2

RE 13 (16110)
Nach Magdeburg Hbf
Ab 11:05 Roßlau(Elbe), Gleis 1
An 11:53 Magdeburg Hbf, Gleis 7

Welcome to join <33

//FR//

VOYAGE EN COMMUN DEPUIS BERLIN EN TRAIN

Point de rendez-vous : Berlin Ostkreuz, Voie 2, 13.10 à 8:40h. Les camarades vont être reconnaissable par un signe disant “FREE YERRO”.

On va prendre cette connection:

Berlin Ostkreuz → Magdeburg Hbf
13.10.2025

RE 7 (3715)
Nach Dessau Hbf
Ab 8:57 Berlin Ostkreuz, Gleis 2
An 10:47 Roßlau(Elbe), Gleis 2

RE 13 (16110)
Nach Magdeburg Hbf
Ab 11:05 Roßlau(Elbe), Gleis 1
An 11:53 Magdeburg Hbf, Gleis 7

Bienvenue de nous rejoindre <33

//GER// Gemeinsame Anreise aus Berlin mit Zug

Treffpunkt: Berlin Ostkreuz, Gleis 2, 13.10 um 8:40 Uhr. Menschen werden erkennbar sein an einem Schild mit der Aufschrift “FREE YERRO”.

Wir nehmen diese Verbindung:

Berlin Ostkreuz → Magdeburg Hbf
13.10.2025

RE 7 (3715)
Nach Dessau Hbf
Ab 8:57 Berlin Ostkreuz, Gleis 2
An 10:47 Roßlau(Elbe), Gleis 2

RE 13 (16110)
Nach Magdeburg Hbf
Ab 11:05 Roßlau(Elbe), Gleis 1
An 11:53 Magdeburg Hbf, Gleis 7

Schließt euch gerne an <33