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Calais Migrant Solidarity

  Practical support for migrant communities. Networking to fight all aspects of the border regime.  

  There are currently around 400 ‘sans-papiers’ in Calais at any one time, sleeping in the streets, and constantly subjected to police chases, arrests and beatings. Since the destruction of the Pashto jungle in September 2009, clearances have been regular events in Calais, and along the channel.

Work we are doing in Calais:

- Monitoring police activity, and directly intervening in the daily raids, evictions and arrests.

- Working with the migrants to hold public protests and take direct action .

- Doing outreach with the local community to try to get more Calaisiens to resist and show solidarity.

- Giving out advice, such as legal information on the situation for migrants in France and in the UK,
and holding English classes

- Doing humanitarian work, such as first aid, providing emotional support - especially to children,
distributing equipment to the squats etc.

- Building shelters and squatting buildings for migrants.

- Visiting people in “immigration prisons” and supporting them in detention.

 
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Added : 2010/06/19
Updated 2010/07/17
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