Calais people to people solidarity: action from the UK
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Bahnhof Strasse
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Fucking cunts.
SpookyFrank
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Just last week the authorities were saying that these evictions would be done gradually over a period of weeks and without using force.
Treacle Toes
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"Our humanitarian team will take care of you"
Thimble Queen
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Follow #shameonyoufrance and #CalaisJungle on twitter for updates
ska invita
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Does anyone have any more news, or a summary? Where did people spend the night? Did anyone take the bus to the far side? Other stories etc? Considering how the eyes of big media were on this their reporting has been really superficial...
Treacle Toes
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Reports of fires and teargas over night. 2nd day of eviction underway with more police than yesterday and residents being roughed up.
Ruptly Verified account @Ruptly Police manhandle refugees as '#JungleCalais' camp clearance resumes FULL VIDEO: http://ow.ly/YV6qx
Ruptly Verified account @Ruptly Police manhandle refugees as '#JungleCalais' camp clearance resumes FULL VIDEO: http://ow.ly/YV6qx
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Saw it on the news this morning, as they were sending in the squad again to resume the clearance violence.
SpookyFrank
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The Big Lie is spreading fast as usual. Anarchists and people traffickers (actually mortal enemies in Calais if anyone was paying attention) are teaming up to attack the police, while migrants burn down their own homes because...because...wait why would anyone burn down their own home on purpose? If someone is trying to demolish your home, why would you do their job for them in protest?
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who is saying that? ...sounds like twitter....
Treacle Toes
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Some of the news channels have had interviews with a police chief who has been saying exactly this. The same lies were being spread by the mayor and council recently too.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Any news on the caravans on the site? Are they being moved to safety or wrecked with everything else?
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i saw a photo of the new arrivals/tents caravan burned..not sure about others
Bahnhof Strasse
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SpookyFrank
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Yeah it's clearly a pre-planned PR operation. But the powers that be in Calais have been waging propaganda war on groups like no borders for years now, and presenting them as being in league with people traffickers and gangsters is an old trick. In reality the police have always been more happy to negotiate with the gangs than activists have. The former Afghan jungle near the site of the present jungle was overtly run by gangsters by arrangement with the police and local authorities.
quimcunx
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There was someone on fb yesterday who commented on one of the fire pics that she'd been speaking to some people from Iraq who'd been bombed then moved to Syria where the same so they would set fire to their shelter here rather than let the French do it. Not sure how much store I'd put by it though.
Even if it's right it doesn't excuse the prefecture and police actions.
SpookyFrank
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The evictions started yesterday morning and seemed to take everyone by surprise. I doubt there's any way to organise moving the caravans to new locations, nor any locations to move them to, even if the CRS would let people or vehicles into the site.
SpookyFrank
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Today's torygraph has a picture of a burning home with the caption 'migrants set jungle ablaze'.
One of the two people in the picture is clearly carrying a fire extinguisher.
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Bahnhof Strasse
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SpookyFrank
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It's the classic 'neutrality for the spineless' you get all the time, especially with Israeli attacks on Palestinians.
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Mr.Bishie
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fb post from a friend documenting today; "Today I filmed an Iranian refugee slashing her wrists as police removed her and her partner from the roof of their home in the #CalaisJungle. I already know those scenes have scarred me. I was in tears editing it."
No human being is illegal!!
No human being is illegal!!
All this shit is outrageous. I want to go back.
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