Webinar June 17 – Walls Must Fall

Dear reader,

The next in our COVID Capitalism series of webinars, Walls Must Fall: Ending the deadly politics of border militarisation, is coming up on June 17 at 4pm CEST.

You can register here https://app.getresponse.com/click.html.

Figures like American President Donald Trump and Hungary’s Viktor Orban have blamed foreigners for the spread of COVID-19, exacerbating anti-migrant racism and stoking the politics of militarised borders. EU States have used the crisis to turn away more rescue ships, making the Mediterranean even deadlier for refugees. The ‘necropolitics’ of border militarization that justifies systemic crimes against humanity has become tragically hegemonic.Join a unique panel for an in-depth discussion of the globalization of border militarization, the history, ideologies and actors that have shaped it, and the policies underpinning the border industrial complex.The panel will also higlight the different forms of resistance by migrants, refugees and activists. Post-pandemic, how can we forge a different path that rejects inhumane border politics, welcomes refugees and migrants, provides full citizenship rights to the undocumented, and embraces the dignity of all human beings?17 June 2020 at 4pm CEST.Register(Spanish interpretation will be available)Panellists

• Harsha Walia, author of Border Imperialism
• Jille Belisario, Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe
• Todd Miller, author of Empire of Borders (2020), Storming the Wall (2019) and More than A Wall (2019)
• Kavita Krishnan, All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA)

This webinar is hosted by TNI (trans-national institute) and co-sponsored by Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), Focus on the Global South, Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF), Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe (TMP-E) and Statewatch