Calais No Border Camp 23–29 June

The Calais No Bor­der camp is an excit­ing joint ven­ture between French activists and migrant sup­port groups and the UK No Bor­ders Net­work.

The Calais No Bor­der camp is an excit­ing joint ven­ture between French activists and migrant sup­port groups and the UK No Bor­ders Net­work.

It aims to high­light the real­i­ties of the sit­u­a­tion in Calais and North­ern France; to build links with the migrant com­mu­ni­ties; to help build links between migrants sup­port groups; and last­ly, but not least, to chal­lenge the author­i­ties on the ground, to protest against increased repres­sion of migrants and local activists alike.

Why Calais?
For cen­turies Euro­pean impe­r­i­al pow­ers have exploit­ed the land, resources and peo­ple of the major­i­ty world to become wealthy and pow­er­ful, leav­ing war, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and mas­sive inequal­i­ty in their wake. Those who attempt the jour­ney to the UK are chal­leng­ing this injus­tice by their move­ment.

At the end of this jour­ney they face anoth­er human­i­tar­i­an cri­sis — caused by the increas­ing­ly repres­sive British and EU immi­gra­tion poli­cies. This makes the Calais bor­der an impor­tant focal point for the strug­gle between those who would see an end to all migra­tion into the EU and those try­ing to break down the bar­ri­ers between peo­ples and the bor­ders that pre­vent the free­dom of move­ment for all all but the priv­i­leged few.

Build­ing a move­ment against bor­ders:
This camp is not just about Calais: we are call­ing for the free­dom of move­ment for all, an end to bor­ders and to all migra­tion con­trols. We need to build a rad­i­cal transna­tion­al move­ment to chal­lenge these repres­sive poli­cies that serve to divide us into cit­i­zens and non-cit­i­zens, into the doc­u­ment­ed and the undoc­u­ment­ed.

The Calais camp is a place to strength­en this move­ment and we need your help to make it hap­pen. We call on all groups and indi­vid­u­als that want to show transna­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty to join us in Calais. If you want to get involved in help­ing to organ­ise the camp, sup­port us with fundrais­ing and pub­lic­i­ty, host an event on Calais and No Bor­ders or offer prac­ti­cal
skills and sup­port please get in touch (details below).

No one is ille­gal! Free­dom of Move­ment for all!

For more infor­ma­tion and to get involved see:
http://london.noborders.org.uk/calais2009
http://noborders.org.uk
or con­tact calais@riseup.net
More info com­ing soon!