Welcome !

The passamontagna - is a sort of hat used to protect oneself from the cold

and is also used by those who wish to protect their identity


This website is meant to share

reflections, practices and experiences about the struggle

against the borders and the states that need them


If you wish to share a contribution, write to info@passamontagna.info

If you are willing and have time to translate the articles that are left for translation, in french and/ or english, please do, and write to the same e-mail !

RACIST BORDERS, ACCOMPLICE TOURISM

RACIST BORDERS, ACCOMPLICE TOURISM

The ski season begins. Updates from the border from fb Chez JesOulx Self-managed refuge The past saturday, after two years, the ski lifts of Montgenèvre have reopened. While ski slopes, bars and restaurants are filled with the usual rich tourists, free to enjoy their privileges, paf and gendarmerie continue to stop people considered “illegal” who…

By passamontagna 22 November 2021 Off

Meeting and podcast on the fight against Detention Centres in Europe

Meeting and podcast on the fight against Detention Centres in Europe

by https://actualitedesluttes.info/emission/lutte-contre-les-centres-de-retention-en-europe The system of borders, expulsions and detention of undocumented migrants is not simply a matter for individual states but is increasingly regulated at European level. The rise of Frontex, the financing of charter flights and new administrative detention centres (in France CRA) with European funds and the improvement of biometric registration tools for…

By passamontagna 22 November 2021 Off

On the other side of the European border, there are those who ask for a pass not to die

On the other side of the European border, there are those who ask for a pass not to die

Published on 12/11/2021 by hurriya Source: Comitato lavoratori delle campagne (Committee of Rural Workers) For forty days now, in front of the UNHCR offices in Tripoli, there have been around 4,000 people camped out in protest, demanding to be evacuated immediately from Libya to safe countries. Many arrived after a series of government attacks that…

By passamontagna 18 November 2021 Off

NEWS FROM THE MONTGENEVRE BORDER

NEWS FROM THE MONTGENEVRE BORDER

With the arrival of the first snow, the situation in the border is becoming more and more difficult and risky. But it is the repression and the border controls that make the journey a death threat for those trying to cross the mountains. Just a few weeks after the beginning of the tourist season and…

By passamontagna 13 November 2021 Off