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City: London
State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 4/27/2007
October 28, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: News and Politics

Behind Bars XVI
31 October 09
"All-Hallows-Eve-Dress-The-Fuck-Up-Masquerade-Ball"

22hr - 6hr
'Lift & Hoist Company' - 1 Queen's Row - camberwell, London SE17
Supporting: 
56a
 The 56a Infoshop is a volunteer-run, 100% unfunded DIY-run social centre in Walworth, South London. 'We are a resource for local people, campaign groups and projects as well as selling books, zines, music and t-shirts. We have an extensive radical archive of international info with hundreds if not thousands of publications that we have saved over the last 16 years of being open. We are part of a larger Social Centres Network in London and part of a global network of Infoshops, autonomous spaces, projects & people dreaming and working for a better world. We share the space with Fareshares whole foods co-op and a free DIY bicycle repair space. Stop by for a read, to fix your bike, buy some veg, to check the squatters' bulletin board or just for a cuppa. 56 CRAMPTON ST LONDON SE17 3AE UK Wednesday 3-7pm • Thursday 2-8pm • Friday 3-7pm • Saturdays 2-6pm
Calais Migrants
 A farcical curtain of steel descended on Calais, and the massive campaign of demonisation of the camp by the local authorities continued in the press. The camp gradually grew to around 1000 people from all over Europe. Many local people visited the site, a group of around 100 mostly Kurdish and Afghani migrants participated at a daily basis and a lot of local kids and young adults hanged out in the Camp. It run alongside the main motorway from the port out of town and it was just a few minutes from the "Jungle", the makeshift camps where migrants are living. Migrants report that currently the controls at the border are very tight and that no one has been getting through for few weeks, consequently the number of migrants in Calais are at their highest in several years. On Sunday 21st of July, people from the camp went to the festival in the town centre of Calais, with a sound system, to give out leaflets that explain the aim and nature of the camp, in an attempt to communicate directly with the locals beyond the media lies. After the prohibition to distribute any kind of literature that was issued the following Monday, giving out leaflets became an action in itself where people got arrested. Issues of the daily produced newspaper, "Nomad" were also confiscated. Assisting the migrants seems to be a criminal offence, which granted an arrest on Wednesday 24th June, but people have been thinking about some practical ideas you can do this summer to help the hundreds of migrants stranded in Calais.


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