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International Caravane of Activists Marching to Tunis (Tunesia)

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Wed, 06/04/2011 - 20:49 — Mo

April 7-12th:

International Caravane to Tunis

The following was sent to the ISM mailing list:

We are a group of students based in Vienna interested in developing a position opposing and criticizing the narrative(s) of Europe, as to speak of a white, Christian, capitalist structure that enforces oppression of the “others” and has its clear continuities from Colonialism and fascism. The major cynical preoccupation for Europe is to push the establishment of "democratic" models for the modernization of African countries, continuing their capitalistic interests while prevent Africans to come to Europe and reinforcing border regime.

The aim of this travel and research is for us a way to learn what might be a new possibility of political struggle and to open up brighter exchange on the current situation of uprising in the Arab world and the possibilities to make alliances and to engage along international political and cultural groups.

Students from Wien

source: www.unicommon.org

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The wind of the south, Unicommon march to Tunisi [7- 14 april]

We are students, precarious, unemployed, a young generation that is too much skilled for a job... We are the 'generation without future' of a Europe in crisis that we don't like and we want to change. We are students of Rome and London who have taken the streets to reclaim a better future. 
In these months we have learned a lot from what is happened in Tunisia and Egypt, events that we have followed with attention, curiosity and apprehension. The struggles of Maghreb and Mashreq have inspired us because we have identified ourselves in the slogan of a young generation and its high expectations, that are too high for the future that corrupted regimes and government in crisis want to offer us. In these months we have learned that the struggle of Tunisi and Egypt are our struggles!
For this reason we want to go to Tunisi, to meet the protagonist of the revolt and build up together a new and different Europe, that is able to go into the other side of the Mediterranean Sea: a new space full of projects and common struggles. READ MORE

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