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Protest against the Closure of the Sangatte Camp and the sealing off of Britain

Kent CDAS | 05.12.2002 17:45

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


This is a 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 .


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


This is a 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 .

Tom McGowan, KentCDAS


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.


////////////////////////////////////////////

Sangatte-Calais: manif le 15 décembre, contre la fermeture
de Sangatte,
contre la fin du droit d'asile

Une délégation de groupes venus d'Angleterre rejoindra des
manifestants
français à 3 heures devant la Mairie de Calais, le dimanche
15 décembre.

Sangatte ferme ses portes définitivement le 30 décembre.

Blunkett et Sarkozy n'hésitent pas à affirmer avoir réglé
le problème
avec humanité.

En fait, les réfugiés bénéficient d'un permis de travail de
quatre ans, et
non d'un statut de réfugiés. Qu'en est-il de la Convention
de Genève, dont
la France et l'Angleterre sont pourtant signataires ?

Ce processus manqué de transparence, et est empreint de
discrimination:
qui choisit qui va où, et dans quelles conditions ce choix
s'effectue-t-il ?
Seuls les migrants ayant reçu un badge bénéficient de ce
dispositif; qu'en
est-il des autres, n'y ont-ils pas autant droit ?

Des centaines de migrants continuent à arriver dans le nord
de la France
où ils sont dispersés et chassés par la police. Le
dispositif selon lequel
ils auraient droit de demander l'asile en France est confus
et extrêmement
difficile: ainsi, de nombreux réfugiés arrêtés à Calais
continuent-ils à
recevoir des APRF.

Cette soit-disant solution ne fait que masquer la réalité
de ces
réfugiés auxquels on retire l'accès à l'asile en France et
en Angleterre;les
réfugiés, économiques ou autres, contribuent pourtant au
développement de
nos économies, nos sociétés et à notre diversité culturelle.

Rejoignez-nous à Calais le dimanche 15 décembre pour exiger


- que tous les gouvernements européens mènent une politique
d'harmonisation par le haut, respectant les droits et la
dignité de tous
les réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, aux conditions les plus
favorables

- que les réfugiés aient le droit de s'installer où ils le
désirent et
que soit instituée une voie légale pour accéder à
l'Angleterre

- que les gouvernements français et britanniques
respectent les
dispositions de la Convention de Genève dont ils sont
signataires

- que soient donnés un toit et des moyens décents pour
vivre à ceux qui
continuent d'arriver à Sangatte et Calais, et en attendant
que soit
maintenu ouvert le centre de Sangatte.

A l'appel du Kent Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers,

Avec le soutien de: 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.

Kent CDAS
- e-mail: goldfish1967@hotmail.com

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