Hunger strike in Calais

PRESS RELEASE

EMBARGO 10AM FRENCH TIME, TUESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER

As of 9am French time today 11 migrants in Calais started a highly visible hunger strike. The migrants, from regions including Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Palestine, and Egypt, say they will continue the strike until Western countries co-operate to offer them asylum. They are also demanding that no migrant in Calais is readmitted to Greece, Italy or Malta.

Jump The Channel! 28th November

Transnational protest against the border regime! Whatever side of the channel you live on, join us on Saturday 28th November! Protest outside the 'Joint Centre for Intelligence' Bouverie House, (Folkstone police station) Bouverie Road West, Folkestone, at 3pm.

No Borders Group Occupy Chief Of Police Offices in Calais

Friday 25th September 2009, 1320h (BST)

Currently, twenty No Borders activists including some from the UK are
occupying the *sous-prefecture* in Calais, demanding an immediate end to the persecution of migrants and calling for freedom of movement for all.

For interviews/comments call: +33669567181
http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com
http://noborders.org.uk/

No Borders London calll for action in solidarity with migrants in Calais!

Join us in a demonstration at 5.30pm, on Tuesday 29th September 09, outside the French Embassy, 58 Kinghtsbridge, London SW1X 7JT.

On the morning of Tuesday 22nd September, French police bulldozed the area known as the 'jungle' in Calais where migrants were living, destroying their homes and possessions and detaining around 300 people, including 132 children. Other migrants left before they could be detained, and have been driven to sleep rough on the streets of Calais, Paris and elsewhere.

CALAIS - HOW YOU CAN HELP

CALAIS MIGRANT SOLIDARITY (http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com) are calling for

(1) DONATIONS
(2) SOLIDARITY DEMOS
(3) PEOPLE TO GO TO CALAIS IF THEY CAN

(1) DONATIONS

Destruction of the jungle underway in Calais

At around 7.30am this morning, police went into jungle and arrested the few hundred migrants that remained there. A few hours later, bulldozers were sent in and the jungle was razed.

See photos here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/438399.html

And a video here:
http://current.com/items/91014318_the-dignified-destruction-of-calais-re...

Besson announces destruction of the jungle next week

Eric Besson, French Immigration Minister, has announced that the jungles in Calais will be destroyed next week.

Over the last few weeks a number of squats have been raided.

Call out from Calais Migrant Solidarity:

Come to Calais to protest against the destruction of camps and squats of migrants!

International solidarity actions in front of all French embassies in Europe!

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