earlier IMC coordinated coverage

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hypotheses about why coverage failed

Despite efforts by a few people to try to collect together reports on the many and diverse 2004 No Border actions, so far (as of 18 Aug 2004), they seem to have more or less failed. Here are some hypotheses why:

People going on the actions underestimate the usefulness of sending text and/or photo reports for motivating others, showing how practical anti-racist actions are happening.
Or, maybe people on the actions are filing reports, but do underestimate the importance of collecting these together.
Or, maybe people are publishing reports on actions and want to collect them together, but the contact between them and their local IMCs and the imc-europe mailing list failed to show them one very participative, non-hierarchical, transparent method (this wiki page).
security - maybe the people on the actions are worried about their security - after all, racism (keeping out the "orientals" and the "dark fellas") is a fundamental building block of the European Union and the authorities get scared shitless by most anti-border actions
priority on local interactions - maybe it's just a lack of time, the activists are focussing on getting to know the locals, listening to them, explaining, learning, and so just haven't got around to the global side of global-local activism...

no border actions - coordinating IMC coverage

There seem to be a lot of no border actions happening this summer (last few summers too), and in previous summers, it seems that many reports were not collected together. If we can collect the info together, we may discover that the amplitude of no border actions is bigger than any of the individual affinity groups realised...

So please add URLS, add other useful info, rewrite and reorganise this page after it starts becoming really messy - please tidy it up (without losing useful info)!

tour starting Belgrade early August 2004

A bicycle no-border tour from about 1-10 August 2004 will start from Belgrade going north along the Berlin wall, whoops, the official name is "the EU border".

For those who want to camp and bike politically: After the last Chaoscaravans(Praga 2000)(Genua 2001)(Thessaloniki 2003) there is now another tour again-less prepared, more wicked starting-point should be after the PGA-congress in Belgrad, ca.30 of july, aim is L`Viv,Ucraine ca. 30th of august.

Contact info

http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/07/7817.shtml
http://nobordercamp2004.prv.pl/
http://go-openup.tk
hagen@keinSTOPSPAM.org - English or German, latobezgranic@wpSTOPSPAM.pl – po polsku.

Fri 30 July

Sat 31 July

Sun 1 - Sat 7 Aug

Sun 8 Aug - Sat 15 Aug

http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/08/8384.shtml - noborder caravan arrives in Warsaw - antygranicznie w Warszawie - Poniżej informacja o spotkaniach antygranicznych, które odbyły się w tym tygodniu w Warszawie. Spotkania były częścią projektu border04, który rozpoczął się na przełomie lipca i sierpnia tego roku i polegał na przemierzeniu sporego odcinka nowej wschodniej granicy Unii Eurpoejskiej.

Sun 16 Aug - Sat 22 Aug

Sun 23 Aug - Sat 29 Aug

Summaries

germany: anti-lager-action-tour 20 August – 5 September 2004

For Freedom of Movement - Anti-Lager action tour against deportation and exclusion 20 August – 5 September 2004