Last few hours been spent educating staff at the Brighton UK Border Agency Identity and Passport Service office (snappy title eh!)
A small but vocal group of people have spent the afternoon showing their solidarity with the migrants in Calais, Dunkerque and along the French Channel coast who are suffering from the police operations against them.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson's 'delight' at the operation is mirrored by our disgust at the overwhelmingly force used against people who have been rounded up for a PR stunt, feeding the right wing press, and then dumped back on the streets of Calais already, some with any money and belongings taken off them by the police.
French Immigration Minister Besson's statement that the operation is for the migrants 'own good' sickens us - as a former doctor he should have some understanding of what is the proper dignified response to malnourished people without access to basic healthcare and sanitation.
To our friends in Calais, activists and migrants, we are thinking of you!
To the UK Border Agency recently opened here in Brighton we say you are not welcome.
Open the borders, Calais migrants are welcome in Brighton.
...responses on the street were 50/50 for and against. Anyway, it was good to be on the streets, and to give a nod to the Labour Party conference about to start here.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson's 'delight' at the operation is mirrored by our disgust at the overwhelmingly force used against people who have been rounded up for a PR stunt, feeding the right wing press, and then dumped back on the streets of Calais already, some with any money and belongings taken off them by the police.
French Immigration Minister Besson's statement that the operation is for the migrants 'own good' sickens us - as a former doctor he should have some understanding of what is the proper dignified response to malnourished people without access to basic healthcare and sanitation.
To our friends in Calais, activists and migrants, we are thinking of you!
To the UK Border Agency recently opened here in Brighton we say you are not welcome.
Open the borders, Calais migrants are welcome in Brighton.
...responses on the street were 50/50 for and against. Anyway, it was good to be on the streets, and to give a nod to the Labour Party conference about to start here.
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Well done Brighton
23.09.2009 13:47
anon
solidarity protests
23.09.2009 15:18
calais migrant solidarity
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23.09.2009 16:42
Would-be participant
I get in and out without a pasport
23.09.2009 19:40
'problem is when you get in you don't have access to government services, but if you can live without them and work illegally, well, no one can call you a scrounger then.
The truth is that british benefits, health care and stuff is very generous compared to most of the world, even if britain has in history and still dose have the biggest hand if fucking up other parts of the world.
And the truth is that little britain can't afford to continue this level of service to its current residents.
Still, every one's welcome in by me:)
Especially if they've come from Afghanistan, Iraq or any other places criminally destroyed by "our brave forces" recently.
Twiggs
getting in
24.09.2009 06:15
subvertor