Their stories show one by one how the asylum systems fails, is inaccurate, or follows a logic that in no way can be called logical. Time and time again I am astonished by the labyrinth where people have to find there way, where there seems no exit possible and you are send from pillar to post. I walk with them, from pillar to post – and back, searching for an entrance to come to a solution. We hope that this press conference has clarified our situation in this neighborhood, in this country and in this world.Savannah explains that the verdict from the court explicitly stated September 30. We are a group of refugees who asked for asylum in the Netherlands, but got rejected. We went through a lot in our countries of origin and in our travel to a safe Europe. We told our stories but they are not believed. In order to get asylum we have to come with new proof of our stories, which is either impossible to get or would put our lives even more in danger. Contact Us Almere Woningontruiming Email: [email protected] Phone: +31363690431 Mandelaplein 1 Almere, Flevoland, NL 1314 CG Last September 5 at the celebration of 5 years We Are Here, I spoke and summarized Pim’s speech. It was not published because it contains some of the strategy he would be using in his coming cases. Now, with Pim’s approval, my very simplistic look at 2 branches of the Dutch legal system that the refugees are coming into contact with as an aid to the coming lecture. 7 july 2018, Amsterdam – Refugee collective we are here, who previously stayed in a squat in Amstelveen, took the unoccupied building on the Entrada 600 in Amsterdam-Duivendrecht.The Mayor says he is not responsible for the return of the refugees, and that he can only be asked to take care of a humane situation. Therefore, it ends here for the city of Amsterdam, as they have helped to create a more humane situation for the refugees, and they take the vulnerable people from the group and offer them shelter. However, they cannot offer a residence permit. There is some good news in Teeven’s offer , and the urges them to take this.Around 2 times a year, Pim Fischer gives a lecture to bring everyone up to date on his work for the refugees on the street in the battle for unconditional, humane shelter. On April 17 he is giving another lecture as a follow-up of the one on September 1, 2017. The international No-Border Camp started in Rotterdam and on August 3 a group of nine refugees from Wij Zijn Hier joined the camp. Ontruimingsdiensten in the Vluchtflat have started to pack.The flat must be empty and clean on Tuesday.This is how we end up on the streets, again, and again. What we need is permission to stay in the Netherlands. We will demonstrate on Friday the 2nd of September in a march from the Vluchtgemeente to the World Garden of the Protestant Diaconie, where it all started. The group has a court hearing on the 7 of September, which is about evicting from our Residence place (Pieter Calandlaan 1) which is the municipality’s building.I am going to skip a lot of steps, hiccups, and downright defeats along the way except to say that the person fighting for this in the courts is Pim Fischer. Pim Fischer is a lawyer in public administration law. Public administration law is for governments – local, regional, provincial, and national – which has rules for how they act towards people. There are 2 kinds of legal systems in Holland. One which deals with criminal law (and private law – but I won’t go into that) and one which deals with public administration – bureaucracy. There are 2 different courts, different means of appeal, and different high courts.But you do not accept when we find a better place to live. We did not come to the Netherlands or to this neighborhood to cause problems for people. We came here to find a safe life for ourselves.Therefore we go to the Court with a proposal to sit around the table with all parties concerned to find a way out. We have asked the municipality many times to help us with sattisfying our basic needs, such as a simple proper shelter for day and night, but nothing has happened so far. Therefore we have to continue to squat buildings. This morning tuesday 16 may we got the news that the IND (Immigration and Naturalisation Services) will take the time to look at the renewed asylum procedure and the deportation was therefore cancelled. Now we attempt to explain the inhuman conditions that the Dutch government forced on us for the past 17 years, and we want to change the public opinion on the whole situation in general. But also address the negative media attention which feeds this public opinion and therefore our inhuman treatment.