Submitted 2 days ago * by MichaelBrocenos – announcement
I volunteered with the Help Refugees NGO at the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France for one month, July 10 to August 10, AMA
The Calais “Jungle” is the nickname given to a refugee and migrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France. Many living in this camp attempt to illegally enter the United Kingdom via the Port of Calais or the Eurotunnel by stowing away on lorries, ferries, cars, or trains traveling to the UK. The camp gained global attention during the European refugee and migrant crisis when the population of the camp grew and French authorities carried out evictions. The French government plans to evacuate 6,400 migrants from the encampment in 170 buses, starting on October 24, 2016 with the intent of resettling the migrants in different regions of France.
From wikipedia. It’s wrong though, there’s over 10,000 refugees.
The camp of ten thousand refugees is getting demolished today and the process will last one week, although I suspect it will take much longer.
France buses 1,600 migrants out of notorious ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais | The Washington Post
one thing this article gets wrong is the idea that it’s easier to get asylum in France than the UK. At least before Brexit it was easier to get into the UK. Now however it’s more complicated because of politics
Follow Help Refugees facebook page
Also Refugee Info Bus facebook page Continue reading “Calais Refugees evicted, burned out.. resistance Continues”
Armed police in car outside Ecuadorean Embassy, London (18 October 2016)
On 21 October 2016, major sites across the internet were disabled as a result of a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack by unknown actors. By the end of the day, some extraordinary statements appeared on Twitter. They claimed the attack was in retaliation to events surrounding the fate of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. But the attack could have gone on for much longer if WikiLeaks hadn’t made it clear that Assange was not in danger, and asked for an end to the DDoS attack. And unless Assange’s safety is proven, a similar attack could well be on the cards.
For more on this, click here.
The US is happy to spend over $15 million EVERY DAY bombing and droning its enemies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc, but can’t spare the change, offering a ridiculous $13 million so far to help desperate Hurricane Matthew victims in Haiti, where it has a clear historic and moral responsibility. As of 6 October 2016 only $1.3 million has been specifically reported for the Hurricane Matthew response in Haiti.
by michaellee2009 ‘I pay my taxes, I contribute like everyone else… I don’t understand what is happening. It makes me angry because it makes me question our humanity.’
JEREMIE, Haiti – Rickety structures made of sheet metal and scrap wood are clustered along the road to the Haitian city of Jeremie, which still hasn’t seen any aid nearly 3 weeks after Hurricane Matthew.
In a scene that is eerily similar to the devastation in Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake, when hundreds of thousands of survivors had to cram into every available space, families are living in makeshift camps. Continue reading “Refusal of aid to Haiti shows real level of US humanitarian concern”
This three part piece by Cindy Crabb appears in the current issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory(N.29), and is available from AK Press.
Continue reading “Feminism … Anarchism … Anarchafeminism… by Cindy Crabb”
time-to-truck-garbage…city-takes-away polemical dictator’s statue
Today this city reawakens its antifascista memory, stronger than ever, sending another statue to its place: the dustbin of history!
Twitter hosted a lot of laughs on Friday on account of the beheading, painting, smashing, overturning and trashing of the mass murdering dictator Francisco Franco. Anti fascists, gays and feminists competed to attack the statue day and night.
The controversial statue, which was erected as part of an ‘exhibition’ the Born cultural center in the city of Barcelona was retired last night by the rubbish department. , Daubed with of red paint, yellow and white, rotten eggs, with Catalan nationalist stickers and the LGBT flags rainbow flag, with ‘dedications’ scrawled on the hindquarters of the horse.
[Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bho8Q6H2DRA?rel=0%5D
The twitter storm goes under Under the label of social network #samataopaco (they killed Franky!)
The Turkish air force attacked 26 times in an attempt to massacre Syrian Democratic Forces, in territory they have recently won back from Islamic State terrorists.. The grinning dictator Erdogan then boasted that he had murdered 200 anti- ISIS volunteers, The SDF are the only rebel force which has defeated IS, and are a multi/ethnic, multi/religion, anti sexist and anti/authoritarian coalition. Erdogan wants to wipe them out because they are 50% Kurdish as part of his national fascist campaign of genocide against Kurdish minorities.
AL BAB (KDN) – Turkish jets carried out 26 air strikes on US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, in northern Syria, killing 10 civilians, Kurdish sources on the ground said on October 20.
SDF: 19 people were killed as well as 39 wounded by “the barbaric Turkish bombing”
Turkish terror state desperately sought to join the liberation campaign of Mosul but it was excluded by the US-led International Coalition.
The Turkish air strikes could only be carried out with permission of Russia, under the latest cynical deal which includes a new gas pìpeline to Europe. They would also need the green light from the US forces (‘coalition’) who even more cynically overlook Erdogan’s mega purges and anti Kurdish fascism, perhaps in the hope of ‘wooing him back from Russia’.
see also.. ROJAVA REVOLUTION GETS SUPPORT: MASS DESERTIONS TO JOIN SDF
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais, France is being demolished from Links, live stream, articles inside
The Free 