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For some time, there has been an ongoing debate in Arena Magazine around border policing, and specifically around the efficacy of a 'no border' politics as one of the responses to it. In the most lengthy and recent piece, Rob Sparrow (No. 66) purports to summarise the 'no border' position as a prelude to delivering an argument against it, all without offering one citation or much historical accuracy. The expression 'no borders" emerged in 1997 at the Hybrid Media Lounge at Documenta X in Germany. It refers to a network of groups and individuals that campaign against the heightening of border controls and the emergence of a fortified Europe-Australia-US. It is most closely associated with , which functions as a communications point, and 'border camps' such as Woomera 2002 and Strasbourg. It appeared locally in 2000 in the context of escalating protests inside the internment camps, and 'no borders' began widely circulating as part of a shared dialect in 'autonomist' networks in Melbourne around that time.
As Sengupta has noted elsewhere: The political cultures and traditions that the No Border Network embodies are as diverse as the 'multitudes' that inhabit it, but they visibly include anarchists, radical feminists, libertarian communists, greens, immigrant organizations, civil liberties groups, tactical media initiatives like some Indymedia groups as well as unaffiliated, even apolitical, individual dissidents. The network does not...
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