I just phoned to a person in calais, france. a place that some of you
might know from a no border camp last summer - unfortunatelly at the
moment i don't have the time and energy left to give an introduction why
calais is an special place concerning migration. for information see
 http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/

at the moment (mo, 14.6., 14:30) the french police is inside the squat
called afrika house and is trying to get out the people inside. the
policemen seem to try hard to find anyone inside, what is a difference
to most of the other attacks on the squat, when the police went in and
arrested all the people they can get, while some others were sometimes
able to hide. but the main difference to the other attacks seems to be,
that a chemical toilet for construktion worker is set up at the place as
well as a container and machines for construction or deconstruction of
buildings seem to drive towards the squat in this moment. so people
there fear, that this time the squat will not only be evicted - this
happens nearly once every week - but demolished direktly after the
eviction.

in the afrika house are living around 100 people - migrants, refugees,
people without papers, - mainly out of different reagions of afrika. the
squat has a big symbolic meaning as one activist from calais wrote in an
email:

"La maison africaine n'est pas seulement un squat.
C'est l'un des deux derniers squats du centre-ville, le plus connu
médiatiquement, celui qui rend visible les réfugiés.
Grâce à ce squat, nous voyons les réfugiés résister à la répression, aux
graves atteintes aux droits humains."

I would translate this in the following words:
"The afrika house is not simply a squat. its one of the two last squats
in the inner city [of calais], most known in the media, the one that
makes the refugies visible. thanks to this squat, we are able to see the
refugies resist the repression, the grave violations of their human rights."

If afrika house isn't there any more, one of the last big, long
existing, self organised spaces of the migrants in calais will be
destroyed. And the strategie of violently chasing away those without
papers out of the inner city is a huge bit more succesfull. to hell with it!

I don't know what could be done - if there were some solidarity actions
this would certainly be great.