Hi there: Several different groups from
Glasgow are planning to take things to Calais in the week starting
Monday 12th October so we are having one last push to collect
donations to take. WE NO LONGER NEED ANY MORE CLOTHES -
thank you to everyone who has donated clothes but we have been
overwhelmed and have more than enough. The clothes are being sorted
and some will be donated to charities in Glasgow, others will be sold
on to raise funds to help pay for taking things to Calais. A lot of
the clothes are going to be sent by container to refugee camps in the
Lebanon and elsewhere.
CAN YOU HELP PREPARE THE CAMP IN
CALAIS FOR THE COMING WINTER BY
DONATING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING?
-
saws,
- hammers,
- screwdrivers,
- crow-bars,
-
boltcutters,
- spades
- pickaxes,
- work gloves
-
nails and screws,
- wood burners
- camping gas
cookers
- cooking pots [not crockery or cutlery please]
-
water containers,
- candles,
- tents,
-
tarpaulins
- plastic sheeting
- sleeping bags
-
blankets.
- Push bikes
Donations can be dropped
off at the St Pauls Building opposite Strathclyde Student Union, 90
John Street G1 1JH MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS from 4pm -
7pm.
PLEASE HELP FUND US
We're also looking to raise
money to cover the cost of an extra van from Glasgow. If you can help
support us please make a donation to the Calais Solidarity
Mission https://www.indiegogo.com/…/solidarity-mission-to-calais-ca…
The migrants at Calais are getting a lot of publicity from our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, but never is that publicity the human face of ordinary people. We are exposed to pictures of primitive conditions in "the jungle", shadowy figures scurrying about in the dark, trying to get a free ride on a truck, or breaking through fences. No attempt is made to show them as ordinary people like you and I, they "swarm", according to Bullingdon boy Cameron, they are an inconvenience to our businesses, they cause delays to our travel. Never are they people fleeing deprivation, war and brutality, trying get a decent life for themselves and their families. Never are they ordinary people fleeing the cauldron of chaos and savagery spawned by the foreign policy of Western imperialism in their home region. Heaven forbid that they should ever be seen as desperate human beings in need of help.
One more death last night (28/29 July) at the border. Another
killed, a Sudanese man, run over by a truck. Now 11 lives taken since
1st June. The English press complains about these
“accidents” causing traffic jams in Kent. Words fail. Below we repost
two new articles from Calais Migrant Solidarity on the current situation at the border.
But first, because even amidst so much death there is also life, here
are links to some videos made in the last weeks of people playing music.
One is from the Syrian camp in the town centre on 18 July, the other
two of Sudanese musicians singing with the “SOAS Arabic Music Band” at a
concert held in Le Channel, the main Calais music venue, on 30 May.
That was a couple of days before the riot police evicted the Fort Galloo
squat then mainly occupied by Sudanese people. Thanks to the Syrian
and Sudanese musicians, and the Calais-visiting musical and artistic
people from SOAS.
