There are around 500 jackets sitting in Thessaloniki. We need to bring them to Serbia, Bulgaria or Macedonia. Anyone driving this way in the next days?

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The last days we had heavy rain and storms on Lesvos Island.

On top last morning the teperaturs droppes down below 0°C with snow.

Nearly 5000 people living in Moria Refugee Camp, most of them in tents.

See more pictures on: https://www.facebook.com/jojo.schu.39?fref=ts

On the15th of December 90 people from Bangladesh got their results of the Asylumcase. 89 are rejected and are open for deportation after a long and dangerous journey.

They don´t want to accept this decission and made a demonstration for 2 days.
The police tried to end this demonstration in a violent way. Some people got hurt.

Last week we had a chapati Day in front of Moria camp. We could give food to 3000 people. We had sun music and a very good atmosphare.

Thanks to social kitchen Mytelini who cooked with us on the field, to Tresa who made the movie and to William who played the amazing music.

https://vimeo.com/197494575?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=28749

Today we get a huge fooddonation from our friend Ali! 🙂

Thank you very much!

Yesterday on 24.12.16 we made a big Chapati Holiday Dinner. Several tousand portions we cooked. We had a beautiful day with good food. We was dancing to music and we had a lot of fun with all visitors.

Thank you for all the Social Kitchen from Mytilini, wo also cooked with us and for Kali:Mera who gave us the plates for the food. And also a huge thank you to all people, who helped cooking and baking Chapati!
And for our warehouse for the water and the vegetable market for the free vegetables!
And a big thank you to Attika( Save Assist Outreach) for the food and everything- that you help all the time 😉

Here we have first impressions from the Dinner (more will follow soon!)

We were talking to one policeman at the controlling of our Social Center. We was talking about that he is from here, about olive oil and at the end about the refugees and our Social Center… We asked him, if we are a part of the problem?
He said, that we are not, But they don’t like us, because we tell the refugees, that they have to fight and we support them with burning down the camps..

So to all policemen who follow our sites…
I think you misunderstood something.

We are not here to burn any camp! that Mytilini have to built it up again and spend a lot of money they can use in another way. We are not here to tell refugees to fight or deal with drugs!

Simply we organize demonstrations, that the refugees become a voice. But as you saw in the last demonstration – it was relative quiet and without fights in the demonstration.
We are here to bring the people together, help them in their special needs. We give water and hot Coffee and Tea in cold days. In the summer we give cold Water to refresh them on their long way to the city.
We are cooking for more than 600 person each day that they are not hungry. We also give food to the living squats what built up time after time. But we don’t provide the living places for the people. If someone ask us if he can sleep in our Social Center we just tell them,which place is empty and we give them stuff to live inside Because now its better for them to have a roof over their heads that they don’t have to sleep on the streets.

We also give everyone who needs clothes, hygienic stuff, blankets, sleeping bags, or sometimes they just need a hug and a person who console them. We make contacts for free medical support and we try to organize support with lawyers, when something happened or if people need support in anything.

What we do else? We talk with the people and show them, that there are some people, who don’t care where they are come from. We are equal- we are all humans … this is what we tell them.

We make music with them – dance – that they forget the daily life for some minutes. In this time we all sit together at the evening around our fireplace to keep us warm, drink tea- sometimes beer, have nice conversations and harmony. We don’t have many problems with fights. You know why?
Because we are all the same. No one get threatened like an animal.. We take our time for them- with them.
They can do anything they want in our Center, they can paint the walls, cook, help with distribution of clothes or food, make sport, organize something great. We give them a chance to be something special, something important. Even if they have a difficult situation now.

Gegen um 8 kamen 6 Polizeiautos zum Social Center.
Es waren nur zwei Personen munter, welche gerade Kaffee zubereiteten.

Die Polizei (darunter Polizisten der Spezialeinheit OPKE) kam in das Center und ging durch jeden Raum. Sie verlangten die Ausweise/Papiere der darin schlafenden Personen und zählten sie.
Danach verließen sie das Social Center.

Sie kontrollierten ebenso die umliegenden Gebäude und fanden auch da schlafende Personen vor. Einige davon berichteten später, dass sie geschlagen wurden.

Es mussten circa 15 Personen mit auf die Wache (Personalienkontrolle)

–> aktuelle Infos folgen 🙂

Yesterday news:

One of the NBK- Crew want to go to the ferry. Just to say goodbye to a friend.

At the gate one policemen without uniform asked her for her passport. She gives him her ID-Card. But he told her to leave this place.

She asked why. She just want to go to the ferry. But he say again, She have to leave.

She said:” I’m from Germany, so let me going to the ferry, or give me a reason, why i can not go inside the port”

After this he pushed her beside and punched her. She screamed for help. But there was two more civil policemen coming and they punched her too. Then she was laying on the ground and they still kicked her. She try to defend herself. In the affect she say “Fuck you” to them. They answered “Fuck you Germany!” While this she lost one of her shoe. Then one of the police guys grabbed her hair and pulled her up. The other one took her shoe and hit her with this. Then they pushed her at the wall and shout to open her legs wide. They put handcuffs on her and told her to come. She tried to stay there and told them, She don’t go without purse and bag (She lost it while they threat her like this). One of the guys take it. This police men, who bring her to the car had one hand on her handcuffs and with the other hand he pushed her head violently down. Then he throw her in the police car and locked the door. After one minute the other guy come back and say “Come out of the car. “ She asked him for his ID-Card. He punched her again. Then he freed her from the handcuffs and say, she have to leave the port.

After sharing this story, some off us wanted to show solidarity and presents. the ferry left and also the police. there was only one military boat with people on and outside the boat. after simply asking who was in charge for the security check they told us to leave this military zone. what we did.
we were on the way OUT when a black unmarked car stopped and four cops went out of the car. one of them loaded an automatic gun while getting out.
they told us to stand against a wall. because they were in a unmarked car we asked them to show us an id card from the police. we were asking for an international right while they had a gun and sticks in their hands.
of course they resisted to show us any id card and started to push us around.
they tried to arrest one of our friend in a violent way, he took his chance and run away. followed by two cops and a friend. they put him on the ground and kicked him. his friend was put down by a guy who just stopped his car without wearing any uniform and saying who he is.
the police left with our friend. we couldn’t get any aces to the police station or we could not talk to him.

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Within 24 hours our friend had his trail this morning. Without having a chance of collecting evidences.
We got the information one hour before the trail, we tried to get the people together who witness the action last night.
Four of us made it to the court, but only one of us could speak as a witness. The judge didn’t want have a long trial.
One cop, one witness and the accused himself could speak.

We have no idea what the cop was saying, for the accused and the witness it was very difficult to give a statement. The translator cant speak good English and the judge interrupted the witness all the time. It was not possible to tell the full story.
After a trial of half an hour the sentence was 15 month (!!!!) on probation. (Insulting and pushing the police and resisting the arrest.)

In the end it was word against word…even tough 8-10 people could tell the truth. This is a fucking joke!