LINZ. Last Saturday and Sunday the 12th weekend for Moria was held in Linz. More than 20 people stayed in tents to show their solidarity with refugees. This time the camp was designed by the KPÖ Linz.
The protest and solidarity camp weekend for Moria continues. Since January, people have been sleeping in tents at different places in the city to show their solidarity with refugees in Austria and the EU. Last weekend there were more than 20 people who stayed in 13 tents on Martin-Luther-Platz. Among them was the Linz KPÖ councilor Gerlinde Grünn. This time your party designed the camp, which is organized by the Platform Solidarity Upper Austria and Seebrücke Linz and the surrounding area together with other cooperation partners.
Rally and poetry slam posts
On Saturday evening, April 10th, a rally was on the program, at which the “inhuman policies of the EU and Austria by the ÖVP and the Greens” were condemned. The author and director Kurt Palm, who spoke about “deliberate crimes to deter people fleeing from migration”, and Katerina Anastasiou had their say. The Austrian and employee of the European think tank transform! Europe posed the question of who benefits when borders are sealed off and refugees are kept in the camps with all their might. The life of the population in Europe and Austria will be neither safer nor better.
Further items on the program last weekend were poetry slam contributions by LiRow and Elena Marja, who called for people from camps to be accepted, as well as political texts by the Linz rapper Snessia. In addition, a letter of protest to the Federal and Vice Chancellor and a light projection were carried out. With collected donations, the aid organizations SOS Balkanroute and Stand by me Lesvos can be supported with 500 euros each.
Association Zu-Flucht is organizing the coming weekend
The 13th weekend for Moria is organized by the Linz association Zu-Flucht. Refugee Aid Linz designed and carried out on Domplatz. On Saturday, April 17th, the politician Joe Weidenholzer, statements from refugees and music from Zahra Almadfai on the flute and Fadi Alrahil are expected. After the vigil there is the opportunity to talk to people who have fled. At 9 p.m. there will be a live connection to other protest camps. On Sunday, April 18, from 10.30 a.m., there will be a second vigil, including contributions by cabaret artist Günther Lainer and author Kurt Mitterndorfer.
If you want to spend the night on Domplatz, you need your own equipment such as a tent with a sleeping mat and sleeping bag as well as an FFP2 mask and a negative corona test, which must not be older than 48 hours.
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