Updates from Calais

* Tuesday July 2009 (9:20 am) The night passed with activists hanging
around with migrants who were more visibly shaken than usual by the
deportation threats. Activists patrolled other jungles in cars in an
attempt to monitor the police. It has been a night of people arriving
from Netherlands Belgium UK France to show solidarity withy migrants in
Calais. Early in the morning CRS riot police shot tear gas into the Pastun
jungle and beat up and removed five people. Unfortunately this is nothing new in Calais these days

Call out for activists, legal observers, journalists

... and video activists to support migrants in Calais against imminent police attack and deportation!

The French immigration minister, Mr.Besson has officially announced
that plans for the destruction of the refugee camps in Calais and the
subsequent deportation of refugees will take place this week between
the 20th and 25th of July.

There is an urgent need for people to go to Calais to protest against
the clearances as well as to act as legal & human rights observers
as police begin destroying the camps and attempting to remove people.

Rumours of destruction of the jungle in Calais next week

Information from activists on the ground in Calais points to the police preparing to destroy some or many of the ‘jungles’ housing around 1,800 migrants in Calais, this Monday 20th July or Tuesday 21st July. These ‘jungles’ are where people who have travelled across Europe wait in makeshift shelters, with little food or medical assistance, for their nightly attempts to get onto lorries making the crossing to the UK. Many of the migrants will be unaware of this threat.

No Border Folk - acoustic fundraiser 05/08/09

Wednesday 5th August, 7.30pm-11pm

at The Dog House, 293 Kennington Road, Kennington, SE11 6BY

Featuring:
* Jessica Grace
* Mondesir
* Trent Miller & The Skeleton Jive
* Luke Rosier

Suggested donation: £4 waged, £3 unwaged

Noborder Camp Debrief Meeting in London

If you have been to the Noborder Camp in Calais and like to feedback positive or negative experience, you are welcome to come to our next London Noborders Meeting on Thursday July 9th, 7pm at LARC (London Action Resource Centre), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel )

We will dedicate the first hour of our meeting for a debrief of the camp.
If you cannot come to this meeting but feel like writing some feedback, please email London NoBorders.

Calais No Border camp statement

The following "Camp Statement" was agreed at a meeting of the camp on Sunday 28th June.

Camp Statement

Crossing the Channel: Noborder Camp in Calais 23-29th of June 2009

Initiatives from France, the UK and Belgium organised the transnational Noborder Camp in Calais, France, a week of convergence, discussions and protest, which took place from 23-29th of June 2009, including a transnational demonstration for Freedom of Movement on June 27th 2009.

Transnational Demonstration (Photos): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Articles on Indymedia UK: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Articles on Lille Indymedia (en): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15

Radio Interview (10min, en)
Daily Camp Newspaper: June 23rd | June 24th
Microblogging: on identi.ca | NoBorders South Wales on Twitter
See also: Camp Info Website | Directions to the camp | Callout [en]| Video call out | Transnational demo in Calais | Travel Info | First aid call out | Breaking the Law of the Jungle (background article) | Repression against Refugees and Supporters in Northern France (again) | more articles

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