Calais people to people solidarity: action from the UK
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Treacle Toes
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For those still not familiar with the situation in the Dunkirk Camp.
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skyscraper101
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How particularly fucked up is it that the British guy in that piece can't bring his wife and kid back home because he doesn't have/earn enough moneyaccording to our government.
Stupid stupid immigration rules in this country. I have to jump through the same hoops for my wife of four years now.
Stupid stupid immigration rules in this country. I have to jump through the same hoops for my wife of four years now.
Treacle Toes
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More on the swamp that is the camp in Dunkirk...
Heavy rains bring disease and disaster to France's forgotten refugee camp
Heavy rains bring disease and disaster to France's forgotten refugee camp
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
Glad it is starting to get some media coverage, though there is suppose to be a decision made tomorrow when the bellend decision maker has returned from his Christmas holidays.
Treacle Toes
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The plans to move the camp have been on the table for a while now...so many questions have been asked left unanswered...meanwhile swamp life continues...
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
Indeed. Good news though, my friend in the Calais camp has messaged me to let me know he is moving out of the camp soon
He has been hampered by Xmas.
Treacle Toes
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Great to see not only the camp in Dunkirk getting more coverage but also the imposed aid blockade...
Police have blocked aid to a French refugee camp 'far worse' than the Calais Jungle
...and a MSF one about why the new camp is needed.
France: New site required urgently for refugees in Grande-Synthe
Police have blocked aid to a French refugee camp 'far worse' than the Calais Jungle
...and a MSF one about why the new camp is needed.
France: New site required urgently for refugees in Grande-Synthe
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Treacle Toes
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....finally they come out with their intentions, their wish list...
L'auberge des migrants international
Treacle Toes
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sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I had asked about it in the convo, and was told its pretty normal.
If thats normal then its pretty fucking disgraceful.
Treacle Toes
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Tear gas being fired into the camp has become pretty normal, yes.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Do you know what the police are trying to achieve by doing that?
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
Yeah, just to stir them up and instigate unrest. Then the local politicians can point at them and paint them as animals. Handy tool if the media are around as well. Other times, just to kill the boredom.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
There were a LOT of empty tear gar canisters all over the place, by the fence on Chemin des Dunes when we went, BB1 now knows what one looks like
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Ok so with very little prompting (we first thought about doing it yesterday) my friend and I have filled her Landie with tents and blankets and rolls and rolls of bin bags and leave for GS on the 6am ferry (leave here 1am). This is as a spin off of the Aid Box convoy from Bristol .... except they seem a little chaotic and although they have amassed a mountain of tents and bedding they haven't quite sorted logistics, so we decided to do our original plan and meet up with others we know in France in the morning and convoy into camp.
Two urbanites have been very helpful with advice but I have to say I'm feeling quite unprepared. Have boots, high vis, gloves, hat, waterproofs etc, spare clothes, sunny disposition, many years of experience in standing about in soggy fields and shifting everything from boxes of ice cream cones to piles of actual shit in the pouring rain ... working on actual major incidents etc.
Still feel unprepared
Two urbanites have been very helpful with advice but I have to say I'm feeling quite unprepared. Have boots, high vis, gloves, hat, waterproofs etc, spare clothes, sunny disposition, many years of experience in standing about in soggy fields and shifting everything from boxes of ice cream cones to piles of actual shit in the pouring rain ... working on actual major incidents etc.
Still feel unprepared
Treacle Toes
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Yeah...another perspective...don't like it? Get involved!
Treacle Toes
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Ok so with very little prompting (we first thought about doing it yesterday) my friend and I have filled her Landie with tents and blankets and rolls and rolls of bin bags and leave for GS on the 6am ferry (leave here 1am). This is as a spin off of the Aid Box convoy from Bristol .... except they seem a little chaotic and although they have amassed a mountain of tents and bedding they haven't quite sorted logistics, so we decided to do our original plan and meet up with others we know in France in the morning and convoy into camp.
Two urbanites have been very helpful with advice but I have to say I'm feeling quite unprepared. Have boots, high vis, gloves, hat, waterproofs etc, spare clothes, sunny disposition, many years of experience in standing about in soggy fields and shifting everything from boxes of ice cream cones to piles of actual shit in the pouring rain ... working on actual major incidents etc.
Still feel unprepared
ABC are amazing, there is no dispute on that, nor the support that others offer to the camps in France... some of us non/and from urban support/local volunteers in and out of Dunkirk/Calais..let us know... no drama to hook you guys up...
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stethoscope
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Treacle Toes
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Still feel unprepared
You are not unprepared. Nothing can prepare for it ...it is the festival at the end at the world.. because in terms of fesitvals we have the choice to leave, there is music, the toilets eventually get emptied, and at least someone claims us?
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ska invita
back on the other side
Anyone know what happened in this?
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
There is an interview with him on This Morning tomorrow (ITV I think) and his court case is in Boulogne on Thursday.
Treacle Toes
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CrikeyHeard someone else possibly getting done for that too
Please don't post name here if you know, thanks
Treacle Toes
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Big day today....
The Worldwide Tribe added 3 new photos.
1 hr · Royal Tunbridge Wells ·
BREAKING NEWS
Today has been bad.
Just when you think a situation can’t get any worse, we’ve been inundated with heartbreaking news about the future of the Calais Jungle.
We’re just trying to make sense of it all now...
In short, the ‘official’ camp opened today, and with it comes a plan to clear a huge part of the Jungle.
This is what we know:
The new, Government built camp which opened today, will provide ultimately basic accommodation for up to 1500 refugees. The camp is made up of containers, stacked on top of one another, filled with bunk beds.
We haven’t been inside, but 15 people per container is the number we have heard. There is little natural light, and from a video we have seen, looks like less space than a prison cell. We don’t know of any other facilities to cook or wash. A source on the ground tells us people will only be allowed access at night, and refugees will not be able to store any of their belongings in the units.
As far as we understand, the containers are only for those seeking asylum in France and can only be entered by scanning your hand. We imagine they will be difficult to fill as not only do they seem more basic that what the refugees have been able to create for themselves, they take away any last scraps of freedom.
It seems the Government realise this too, so they have given organisations on the ground 3 days (including today, 11-01-2016) to move and relocate approximately 2,000 refugees, including over 300 women and 60 children from a large section of the camp due to be bulldozed on Thursday.
The size of the area of the Jungle to be bulldozed has turned out to be much larger than the 100m suggested and will tear down approximately 500 shelters built by volunteers over the last months.
The red line you see in these pictures marks out the area due to be bulldozed (right through the middle of lovingly built shelters, kitchens, homes.)
What was originally thought to be a slow process allowing NGOs to support the humane resettlement of people in the camp has turned into a three-day grace period before the tear gas and bulldozers are called into action.
It is estimated that now, given the ridiculously short timescale, organisations will only be able to support with the relocation of 1 in 10 of those people affected. That leaves 1,800 people, who may well be forced out of their ‘homes’ by bulldozers, with nothing. That means 450 shelters, funded by donations and built by volunteers, will be destroyed with complete disregard. Who knows how many personal belongings, family photographs, important documents will be lost along the way, like they were when bulldozers last took to the camp.
This has all happened the same day that the camp at Dunkirk, which houses around 3,000 people (over 150 children and around a dozen pregnant women) has been opened, for 24 hours only, to allow repairs and replacements to inadequate tents. It still seems police will not allow anything for expansion, or anything to build more suitable shelters, but all volunteers are, as you can imagine, frantic in attempts to get vital aid in whilst also dealing with the Calais updates.
None of us have known what to do, but we have some clear ways in which we can, in a calm and collected manner, help the situation in the camp.
Volunteers:
If you have already volunteered in the camp before (theres no time for the normal necessary inductions and training) and can go to Calais in the next week for three days or more, please email Eamonn at: eamonnmaguire.calais@gmail.com
Physical Donations:
You can buy large tents, sleeping bags and blankets (the three most needed items) and get them delivered directly to the Calais warehouse here:
Leisure Fayre - E-Commerce Web Store…/86100/1/help_refugees
If you have sleeping bags, large tents (even marquees) or blankets to give, please email calaisdonations@gmail.com
Financial Donations:
These are needed now more than ever. If you can, please donate to the shelter building fund here:
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/shelter-building-calais
These actions are ruthless, inhumane and in total disregard to our fellow human beings.
Imagine the only place you call home being bulldozed to the ground, when you have already left your beloved home behind.
From one unsafe home to another.
The Worldwide Tribe added 3 new photos.
1 hr · Royal Tunbridge Wells ·
BREAKING NEWS
Today has been bad.
Just when you think a situation can’t get any worse, we’ve been inundated with heartbreaking news about the future of the Calais Jungle.
We’re just trying to make sense of it all now...
In short, the ‘official’ camp opened today, and with it comes a plan to clear a huge part of the Jungle.
This is what we know:
The new, Government built camp which opened today, will provide ultimately basic accommodation for up to 1500 refugees. The camp is made up of containers, stacked on top of one another, filled with bunk beds.
We haven’t been inside, but 15 people per container is the number we have heard. There is little natural light, and from a video we have seen, looks like less space than a prison cell. We don’t know of any other facilities to cook or wash. A source on the ground tells us people will only be allowed access at night, and refugees will not be able to store any of their belongings in the units.
As far as we understand, the containers are only for those seeking asylum in France and can only be entered by scanning your hand. We imagine they will be difficult to fill as not only do they seem more basic that what the refugees have been able to create for themselves, they take away any last scraps of freedom.
It seems the Government realise this too, so they have given organisations on the ground 3 days (including today, 11-01-2016) to move and relocate approximately 2,000 refugees, including over 300 women and 60 children from a large section of the camp due to be bulldozed on Thursday.
The size of the area of the Jungle to be bulldozed has turned out to be much larger than the 100m suggested and will tear down approximately 500 shelters built by volunteers over the last months.
The red line you see in these pictures marks out the area due to be bulldozed (right through the middle of lovingly built shelters, kitchens, homes.)
What was originally thought to be a slow process allowing NGOs to support the humane resettlement of people in the camp has turned into a three-day grace period before the tear gas and bulldozers are called into action.
It is estimated that now, given the ridiculously short timescale, organisations will only be able to support with the relocation of 1 in 10 of those people affected. That leaves 1,800 people, who may well be forced out of their ‘homes’ by bulldozers, with nothing. That means 450 shelters, funded by donations and built by volunteers, will be destroyed with complete disregard. Who knows how many personal belongings, family photographs, important documents will be lost along the way, like they were when bulldozers last took to the camp.
This has all happened the same day that the camp at Dunkirk, which houses around 3,000 people (over 150 children and around a dozen pregnant women) has been opened, for 24 hours only, to allow repairs and replacements to inadequate tents. It still seems police will not allow anything for expansion, or anything to build more suitable shelters, but all volunteers are, as you can imagine, frantic in attempts to get vital aid in whilst also dealing with the Calais updates.
None of us have known what to do, but we have some clear ways in which we can, in a calm and collected manner, help the situation in the camp.
Volunteers:
If you have already volunteered in the camp before (theres no time for the normal necessary inductions and training) and can go to Calais in the next week for three days or more, please email Eamonn at: eamonnmaguire.calais@gmail.com
Physical Donations:
You can buy large tents, sleeping bags and blankets (the three most needed items) and get them delivered directly to the Calais warehouse here:
Leisure Fayre - E-Commerce Web Store…/86100/1/help_refugees
If you have sleeping bags, large tents (even marquees) or blankets to give, please email calaisdonations@gmail.com
Financial Donations:
These are needed now more than ever. If you can, please donate to the shelter building fund here:
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/shelter-building-calais
These actions are ruthless, inhumane and in total disregard to our fellow human beings.
Imagine the only place you call home being bulldozed to the ground, when you have already left your beloved home behind.
From one unsafe home to another.
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