Interview with Alix, Australian media activist, about the experience of tearing down fences at Australia's Woomera Detention Centre, and her observations of Europe's "No One Is Illegal" campaigns.
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Alix is a media activist, who is currently in Amsterdam and formerly based in Melbourne, Australia.
Audrey Huntley spoke with her about her media work in Australia, particularly in relation to the Woomera Detention Centre. Thousands of refugees, mainly from Afghanistan and Iraqi, have been held in this Centre, which is located 8 hours north of Adelaide in the Australian desert. Conditions of health care, food, and hygiene are so terrible that suicides are common. Women, men and children have resorted to drinking detergent, going on hunger strike, and literally sewing their mouths shut, in attempts to get some kind of attention from media and authority figures.
Alix describes the electrifying events of March 2002, when 2000 activists travelled to the site and established a camp near the Centre. As people gathered to protest, eduation themselves and physically show their solidarity through the fences, refugees on the inside organized themselves to break out.
The events are captured in an excellent film called "Holiday Camp", which is available through Melbourne Indymedia. Audrey and Alix refer to the film several times, and discuss Alix's experience of touring with the film among immigration solidarity projects in Europe over the past several months.
In Amsterdam, Alix is contributing to a magazine called Green Pepper, a social justice and environmental quarterly. A recent issue focused on Borders and Migration. Check it out at http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper.htm.
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