> Deutschsprachige Version vom 3.1. unter http://no-racism.net/article/4351
Refugee protests in Vienna. We will rise!: https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/ > > ### > ### The nightmare of the leading order. The outsiders already won! > ### > > "We don’t fight for warm beds. We want our future. We want to do > something for our live. We request from the government to give us a > chance and to hear and answer to our demands." > > By Ljubomir Bratic > > People who set their camp in Sigmund-Freud-Park, to demonstrate their > need for rights and equality and who sought shelter in Votiv-Church > during the weeks before christmas and went into hunger strike, belong to > the outsiders in our, the Austrian, society. They don’t not belong their > because of lack of ownership but because society doesn’t want them to be > a part of itself. > So as being people who don’t belong, per definition they could not be a > zoon politicon – an individual betting on equality beyond equals. The > fact that people who don’t belong here ARE here, for the administration > in the first place (because they have to deal with the fact that those > nameless people took a public place, the Sigmund-Freud-Park) and the > NGOs in the second place (because with the choice of a church as shelter > it diminishes their ability to help and organize the help), this > situation is incomprehensible so that they wish to turn it back and make > it forgotten as fast as possible. Just for their concern, you can say > that this nightmare is going to last a little while longer. In the > following, the question is asked, how such a thing could happen in Vienna! > > The administration > > Who are those Do-not-belongs in the eyes of the administration? As > known, this administration is left-wing-liberal. It contains the > powerful Socialdemocrats (SPÖ) who over the years managed to oust racist > positions from their midst (one of them is Johann Hatzl who worked under > minister Franz Löschnak and interestingly became head of SPÖ-close > aid-organisation “Volkshilfe”) and the green party (die Grünen), whose > head once made a public appearance to bring the “voice of migrants” into > parliament and who has given up her demand to go pragmatically ways > leading to personal success instead. The decision to give up such > demands made the green party a suitable partner for coalition. > Together they eliminated the conference of integration in Vienna. They > found a middle way in which one side could handle the public brutality > of the hardliners and the other side, who claimed more participation of > the migrants in society, had to give up that demand. A positive null sum > game so to speak. But now in this ongoing story a subject appears which > nobody noticed before, in other words, which only was noticed as an > object in need, of tolerance or of repression. Now this subject acts and > has demands everybody understand. It is those, who appeared in none of > the controllsystems (not even those of the police), people who were > tolerated as a non-participating part of society, refugees, who have to > live in insecurity and who now claim to enlarge the sense of collective > in society. > > What happens, while reading these words? Those people talk, they express > their demands and more: they claim that no one besides them can speak > for themselves. This unveils every apparent authority of representation > as well as those powerful controllsystems and it appeared so, that the > authority has not enough arguments against this weak, sick and hungry > human being, which is not participating in structural force. It also > appears that this subject speaks the same language of political demand > like everybody else in society. But giving in to these demands would > lead to relativization of their manorial positions. > The only thing left for administration is a desperate act of > selfprotection: the removal of the outsiders from the position of a > public effective army of delegitimation. In consequence, all objects of > utility must be removed: tents, clothes, tables, benches, … in the > middle the night, on 28th of December at 04.00 a.m. Sigmund-Freud-Park > has been “cleaned” from the people and their belongings. If this > happened in awareness of all people who have found a seat in city > government is not important. The tents of the demonstrating people were > removed and destroyed. Instead of giving those people a cold and meager > possibility to spend the night their things were thrown in some magazine > of the city by bulldozers. > > While at the same time on that lawn no one is allowed to build up his > tent anymore. So the city government did their chores. The tents were > never returned and the action took place in a way that’s final. To the > government’s regret it’s not like the protest and the voice of the > outsiders has silenced just by removing their personal things. > > The church > > And who are the outsiders in the eyes of the helpers. In the system of > the national state racism there are several divisions of labor. One of > them: The responsibility for the administration of that tolerated form > of being lies with those who dedicated themselves to aid: the aid > organizations including Social work and operative entities like for > instance “Volkshilfe” or “Caritas”. So what are the outsiders doing > while their voice of participation is shouting their demands? They > refuse the help of those aid organizations – from the beginning none of > those organizations was involved – and more, they challenge them by > focusing their protest on them: They own a church. This place is of > different nature as the one of the park controlled by the > administration. This is a place dedicated to mercifulness and its > history is includes a strong history of sanctuary. > > Furthermore it includes something that is of immediate relevance in the > actual situation of the church: Caritas is a legitimate part of the > church. It manages refugeeshelters, has helpdesks for such and helpdesks > for people who want do return to their countries. Those organizations > get a great deal of the money which is to organize the tolerance of the > outsiders. With their act and their positioning on the sorted territory > called Vienna, the outsiders have chosen what concerns them the most: > the one organization which now is confronted with the question of nature > of their help. How can this rationality be questioned at all? That’s the > very question the administration and her entities (political parties, > lobbies, public media, etc.) are asking. What to do when someone who is > not part of the political order proving their rationality by suddenly > speaking a definite political language and not only speaking that > language but also acting in a way that makes this language heard. > > Lost fight > > In effect for the mentioned parts of administration this is a lost > fight. No matter what they do and how they do it, a new rational talking > political subject has appeared. We all have to learn to deal with it but > they can not make it disappear anymore. That is the greatest achievement > of these people in Sigmund-Freud-Park and Votiv-Church. To fulfill the > requirements of these people who have organized themselves as a > political subject, to make them politically equal conversational > partners and to accept them as lonesome speakers for their situation > would be good advice for the government. There is nothing else to do. > The outsiders have fought for a situation in which they are a political > subject. Now the ones are talking for whom others used to speak and they > are not only talking in public but also on the territory of an > organization which is managing the help on the same spot, where they > were degraded to objects. > > That is the enormity of these protests. That is what makes it so hard to > understand and hardly acceptable for the defenders of the leading order. > > P.S.: Weren’t those protesting refugees banished from Sigmund-Freud-Park > just like Sigmund Freud himself from Vienna in 1938? Is there a more > serious adverse event for the collective memory than that – different, > but still – repeating of injustice? refugeesprotests in Vienna: https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/ > > -- > German version published on: http://no-racism.net/article/4351 > > _______________________________________________ Safari - Die Mailingliste fuer Kunst und Wien http://listen.esel.at/mailman/listinfo/safari MAILS SENDEN: mailto:[email protected] Anmelden: mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe Abmelden: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe Termin RECHTZEITIG für eSeL Mehl & kalender.esel.at eintragen: http://esel.at/fuettern >:e)
