Calais people to people solidarity: action from the UK

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Here is a write up of our trip last weekend. editor feel free to lift it for Brixton Buzz.

Terrorism, mud and fire - A weekend in the Calais Jungle

Lovely article!

provide our names and addresses so the tired and cliched ‘if you have nothing to hide you will give your addresses’ was wheeled out.

You're right officer, what's your address?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Just got back, French police nosed around the boot, UK border people didn't, but the UK passport man asked where we had been in France. I replied "the refugee camp", he asks what we were doing there, Frau Bahn says "helping people in need.OK?" He blushes and waved us through.

Lovely to meet those of you we met, hope you all got back safely.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Bahnhoff junior worked so hard she was ace

 

[Treacle Toes]

Another weekend; many missions!!!!!! Great to meet the Bahnhof Strasse clan and iona for the first time and see others again. Great work all...every bit of it counts.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Threads. The Calais cartoon.

Seven hundred and fifty thousand people have fled for their lives to Europe this year. (At least three thousand four hundred and six people died in the Mediterranean sea.) Of that great mass of people, a few thousand have washed up Calais, France, trying to attempt the dangerous crossing to England. By the French and British governments, they’ve been hung out to dry.

Click the title to see/read more.

 

[ska invita]

Threads. The Calais cartoon.


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Click the title to see/read more.

brilliant and spot on

 

[Treacle Toes]

Welcome to The Jungle: Inside the Calais refugee camp
Welcome to The Jungle: Inside the Calais refugee camp

 

[ska invita]

As an aside, the woman who did that Threads strip - Kate Evans - has a new book out about the life of Rosa Luxemburg and it has been getting rave reviews - seems like a real talent

 

[Treacle Toes]

Shit news is shit.

Calais hotel raided for housing refugee families

 

[ska invita]

only one word for it - cunts

 

[Treacle Toes]

This calendar is another great way of supporting the residents of the Calais camp and raising awareness of the situation there. If you are going to buy anything today, can it be this please?

"The Jungle art calendar is now available to pre-order. 100% of profits will go directly back into the camp to help residents. Buy your calendar here.

This calendar was conceived to represent the vibrant aspect of the Calais camp. Amongst the dire conditions the strength of human spirit shines through"

art-in-the-jungle

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This calendar is another great way of supporting the residents of the Calais camp and raising awareness of the situation there. If you are going to buy anything today, can it be this please?



art-in-the-jungle

Perfect Xmas pressies, ta

 

[Treacle Toes]

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[Treacle Toes]

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Kin 'ell, not again

 

[ska invita]

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Kin 'ell, not again

link not working ruti

...another fire?

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Jason Wingard
8 mins
Please take a couple of minutes to watch our film currently in production. We feel that aid for the refugees is a short term solution. We must keep pressure on the government for long term solutions. If you can contribute and share, it will go a long way to helping us finish this film. The first half of the film was funded out of our own pocket and 50% of what we raise for completion will go directly to people working on the ground in Calais.

 

[brighid]

please have a read!!!!
Will be volunteering my Nursing Skills in Calais in January. Currently the camp are using 2 caravans as make shift medical units with a handful of volunteers running this. There are approximately 5000 Migrants/Refugees in the camp. Many with injuries sustained in their journey crossing the boarders.

I am joining forces with a few other Nurses and hope ro raise enough to take much needed First Aid supplies with me. Whatever we collect will be put together and if we have enough raised can bulid another medical unit there.

Please please donate.

Any one who know any chemist or pharmacists who can donate?

First Aid for Refugees

 

[Thimble Queen]

We're back off out to Calais/Dunkirk for the fourth time this weekend. We'll be tweeting from @dulwich2dunkirk please follow for updates and retweet if you feel to ❤

 

[Treacle Toes]

Terrible news...

Marine LE PEN
Liste du Front national

49,10 %

12 088 votes

Calais (62100) : résultats élections régionales 2015

 

[existentialist]

Terrible news...



Calais (62100) : résultats élections régionales 2015

First round, though. If this works the way I recall the last lot working, by the later rounds, all the loonies have usually been filtered out. The French seem to like to give their politicians a nasty fright before calming down and voting more pragmatically when it really counts.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Threads. The Calais cartoon.

Click the title to see/read more.

'The problem is not going to go away': Kate Evans on 'Threads' and the refugee crisis - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources

 

[Gramsci]

Received this from CalAid.

CalAid needs your help to package aid for destitute refugees across Europe. A few hours of your time will save lives.

Help needed at Calaid warehouse:
Fullers Logistics
470 Malton Ave
Slough SL1 4QU

Weekend 12th Dec
Weekend 19th Dec
Weekend 29th Dec
Weekend 2nd Jan

Reply to this email letting us know which weekends you can do, your name, DOB, and phone number.

Help provide sleeping bags, warm clothes, tents and blankets to freezing men, women and children.

Thank you!

JoinCalaidVolunteers@gmail.com

I will try to do at least one day. From what Ive seen of CalAid if you decide to go at last moment they always need people.

There new storage in Slough is much bigger than in Dalston. Its however a bit of a pain to get to so less volunteers turn up. Its easy to get to Slough from Paddington but the storage place is a bus ride/ taxi ride from station. And buses unlike London are about once an hour.

CalAid have extended there operation to get clothing etc further into Europe were a lot of people are trying to make there way to Germany.

 

[Treacle Toes]

First round, though. If this works the way I recall the last lot working, by the later rounds, all the loonies have usually been filtered out. The French seem to like to give their politicians a nasty fright before calming down and voting more pragmatically when it really counts.

You were right existentialist, thank fuck.

Le Parisien newspaper confirms the score: seven regions for the centre-right Les Républicains and their allies; five for the Socialists on the left; none for the Front National. It also has the provisional share of the vote for each of the three camps

Follow
Elections Régionales @leParisien_pol
#Electionsrégionales : 7 régions pour la droite, 5 pour la gauche, 0 pour le FN http://l.leparisien.fr/s3GV-nNQL

9:14 PM - 13 Dec 2015

 

[Gramsci]

You were right existentialist, thank fuck.

Le Parisien newspaper confirms the score: seven regions for the centre-right Les Républicains and their allies; five for the Socialists on the left; none for the Front National. It also has the provisional share of the vote for each of the three camps

Follow
Elections Régionales @leParisien_pol
#Electionsrégionales : 7 régions pour la droite, 5 pour la gauche, 0 pour le FN http://l.leparisien.fr/s3GV-nNQL

9:14 PM - 13 Dec 2015

Only happened as the socialists stood down in certain regions ( not btw something that the right in France would reciprocate if it was the other way) and told there supporters to vote for the equivalent of the Tories here. Hardly a great result. Nor a victory for democratic debate.

The National Front mix left wing policies on economic front with some social liberalism ( ie they are not homophobic) with an anti immigration message.

They aren’t going to go away soon.

 

[Gramsci]

And how the "respectable" right in France view immigration. Like UKIP here the influence of racist parties is on how the centre ground political opportunists try to outflank the hard right:

Sarkozy is a typical example.

Old quote but shows how a hard right party can influence the debate.

We have too many foreigners on our territory," Sarkozy said during an interview broadcast nationally earlier in the week, in an attempt to explain how his country's immigration system had failed.

"[New arrivals] are not welcome if they're only coming to receive welfare benefits," Sarkozy, head of France's center-right UMP party, said, in a week in which immigration policy seemed to take center stage in the French presidential race.

 

[panpete]

My facebook feed is jam-packed with people loading up vans, offering to go and volunteer, putting up fundraising pages and filling their targets within hours.

I can't quite believe my eyes. This time last year there were maybe a dozen people in the whole country doing this sort of stuff for the people in Calais.

there's convoys going off in ourarea they don't have room to store all the stuff

 

[panpete]

Let me know too- I have a pile of towels, I am happy to buy some of the stuff they have on their wishlist too- though obv won't in advance as imagine it changes quite quickly

where is the wishlist pls

 

[Manter]

where is the wishlist pls

All here: http://www.calaidipedia.co.uk- needs, collections, fundraisers, articles....

 

[Treacle Toes]

Don't know who this is but...

Jazz singer who jams with Jagger and brings hope to the Calais Jungle

Posted on December 12, 2015

A piece about the jazz singer Ian Shaw, and the work he is doing in the Jungle refugee camp in Calais. As it says he launches a charity single on Wednesday.

http://www.jayrayner.co.uk/news/jaz...-jagger-and-brings-hope-to-the-calais-jungle/