Situation in Calais escalating. Solidarity needed now!
No Borders | 17.09.2009 18:01 | Anti-racism | Migration | South Coast
Call out to monitor and prevent mass eviction of Calais squats and jungles! Numbers on the ground are thin. Immigration Minister Besson has announced to Make this a migrant free zone by the end of next week.
Information here:
http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
NEW INFO LINES If you are coming to Calais to show solidarity and want information call (from UK) 00 33 6 34 81 07 10 from France 06 34 81 07 10.
Bring bikes if you can. Also we need O2 sim cards (lots of them) and tents, because lots of people might be homeless by next week.
Information here:
http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/ NEW INFO LINES If you are coming to Calais to show solidarity and want information call (from UK) 00 33 6 34 81 07 10 from France 06 34 81 07 10.
Bring bikes if you can. Also we need O2 sim cards (lots of them) and tents, because lots of people might be homeless by next week.
*Latest news
Police have begun clearing the Ethiopian squat (i.e. throwing stuff out of the building, using a military-style truck). All inhabitants have gone - no one knows where. Police have gone to all other squat to find out how many people live in each. Police have several military-style trucks on stand-by apparently preparing mass evictions.
*Thursday 17th September
We are receiving news that the CRS have been showing a heavy presence at the Pashtun ‘jungle’, arresting groups of migrants. Also bulldozers have appeared at this ‘jungle’. This seems so far to be an escalation of the initimidation rather than a wholesale clearance, but immigration minister Besson has claimed he wants rid of the ‘jungles’ by the end of next week. More on the ground presence required to keep track of what is going on, and frustrate these actions.
Police have begun clearing the Ethiopian squat (i.e. throwing stuff out of the building, using a military-style truck). All inhabitants have gone - no one knows where. Police have gone to all other squat to find out how many people live in each. Police have several military-style trucks on stand-by apparently preparing mass evictions.
*Thursday 17th September
We are receiving news that the CRS have been showing a heavy presence at the Pashtun ‘jungle’, arresting groups of migrants. Also bulldozers have appeared at this ‘jungle’. This seems so far to be an escalation of the initimidation rather than a wholesale clearance, but immigration minister Besson has claimed he wants rid of the ‘jungles’ by the end of next week. More on the ground presence required to keep track of what is going on, and frustrate these actions.
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With any luck...
18.09.2009 09:03
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People make a difference
18.09.2009 11:16
These aren't anonymous numbers as anyone who's been there will testify. These are individual people like you and me, including a large number of young, unaccompanied children being ghettoised and cleansed.
Listening to the news today about Lady Scotland having her cleaner investigated by the immigration office made me think that if you substitute 'illegal' immigrant with 'jew' we are back in the days of the Weimar Republic. Wake up people and see what's happening! This is Europe's new shame.
anon