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At the end of January, two No Borders activists from South Wales joined with others from Bristol, Brighton, London, Leeds and Newcastle to visit Calais and Lille in north-east France to begin organising for the No Border camp that is planned to happen in the region of Calais in late June this year.
Why Calais?
In 2002 an agreement between UK and French governments meant that the Red Cross running Sangatte centre in Calais was shut down. Sangatte had provided shelter for up to 2000 people and since its closure the situation for migrants in the Calais region has reached crisis point. Migrants including large groups from Read the rest of this entry »
There isn’t a No Border Camp planned in the UK this year, as there was last year near Gatwick. There are however three camps planned this August and September across mainland Europe. No Border Camps act as a focal point of resistance to border regimes, and are also an opportunity for communication between different section of the free migration movement through debate and cultural events.
Antira Summer Camp will be happening in Hamburg, the largest port city in Germany on 16th – 24th August in conjunction with a Climate Action Camp. There will be workshops, talks, film showing, concerts and direct action against a number of targets, not least Hamburg’s charter deportation airport. A demo is planned at Hamburg airport on the 21th August. Coincidentally, on the very same day, an ‘Ethnic Charter flight’ to Nigeria will be leaving the UK. Flight PVT640 (one of numerous charter flights that forcibly deport people back to places they have risked everything to escape) will carry families and individuals and is due to leave the UK at 10.00. In Austria it will connect with Flight PVT641, presumably to pick up more Nigerian refugees who have been denied sanctuary there. It is due to leave Austria at 15.20 and arrive in Lagos at 22.30.
No Border Camp – Patras will take place on 29th – 31st in the Greek port city that has a shantytown which is home to thousands of refugees. There will be discussions, parties, solidarity actions and demos.
Dikili No Border Camp will take place on 3rd – 7th September at Alder Beach, Dikili-Izmir, Turkey from where huge numbers of migrants leave to attempt to enter the EU.
No Borders is a transnational network, these camps are no less part of our network because they do not take place on this island, reports from all these camps will appear on this blog in due course.
Between 19-24th September over 300 people gathered near Balcombe, East Sussex, for the first UK No Border Camp, which formed part of a wider campaign against the building of a new detention prison at Gatwick airport. The centre will be the biggest in the UK, able to hold 426 people & if built will increase the capacity in the UK to nearly 3,000. Those imprisoned in these inhumane places are held without trial, their only crime being to have come in search of a new life, to escape persecution, poverty and war.
A variety of actions took place during the camp. Demonstrations outside integral parts of the UK’s racist immigration system, the Border & Immigration Agencies Lunar House & Electric House in Croydon. Lunar House is one of Read the rest of this entry »
On 19th-24th September will be the UK’s first “No Border Camp”, continuing the tradition of No Border protest camps across the world since the late 1990s. The government has recently announced its plans to build a new detention centre near Gatwick airport. This will be another in a long list of such places around the world.
Places where people are locked up indefinitely & without trial, & from where they can be forcibly deported. Such detention prisons are an integral part of a systematic, Read the rest of this entry »
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