Protest against the Closure of the Sangatte Camp and the sealing off of Britain for refugees!!

meet at the Calais Town Hall 3p.m Sunday 15th December


Call for a protest against the "sealing off of Britain" as David Blunkett tells us, on Sunday 15th December outside the town hall in Calais .
The protest has been agreed to be supported by many groups
in France and Europe .


Sangatte definitely closes on December 30th.

Blunkett and Sarkozy have carried out a massive deceit
pretending they
have dealt with the problem in a humane way.

The reality is that the refugees who are being offered a 4
years work
permit should actually be entitled to refugee status under
the Geneva
Convention that Britain and France are signatories to, yet
making a
mockery of.

There is a lack of transparency in the process, and massive
discrimination within it, who chooses who can claim where,
and under what
conditions? Only those badged as part of the scheme can
apply, what of the
others, are they any less worthy?

Hundreds of migrants are still arriving in the north of
France and are
there forcibly dispersed and chased by the police. The
method by which they
are apparently able to claim asylum in France is confused
and alarmingly
difficult. For example many refugees picked up in Calais by
CRS are still
issued with a 48 hour removal notice.

This "solution" is just about hiding the reality that
refugees are being
denied access to a just asylum system in either Britain or
France, without
recognising the contribution that refugees and economic
migrants have made
to the benefit of our economies, our societies and
cultural diversity.

Join us in Calais on December 15th, to demand

- that all governments in Europe harmonise laws which
honour the rights
and dignity of all refugees and asylum seekers at the
highest level
- that refugees be allow to settle where they choose and
that there is a
safe legal route to Britain for them

- that the British and French Government live up to the
letter and
spirit of the Geneva Convention that they are signatories to

- proper accommodation and living conditions for those who
are still
coming to Sangatte and Calais and until that is provided,
that Sangatte Red
Cross camp remains open

Called by the Kent Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers,

Supported by Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, Barbed
Wire Britain,
Campaign to Close Campsfield , Campaign Against Arbitrary
Detentions at
Yarls Wood, National Coalition Anti-Deportation Campaigns,
Tony Benn and
Jeremy Corbyn MP.