Recent Posts Tagged With 'calais'

• Jumble Sale: 21st November!

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 06:46 in books, fundraising, clothes, comment, cake, calais, bric-a-brac, jumble sale

  On 21st November from 1pm No Borders South Wales will be hosting a jumble sale at Trinity methodist church (map). The money we raise will be going towards ongoing projects in Calais, where the situation for migrants is getting increasingly more diff...

• Calais Update

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 11:20 in calais, no border camp, calais migrant solidarity

  A carload of activists from No Borders South Wales are in Calais with the group Calais Migrant Solidarity. The weather was awful at the beginning of the week, cold with heavy sudden rain showers; dangerous weather for people forced to live on the str...

• Picket in solidarity with migrants in Calais

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 17:15 in picket, calais, uk border agency, picket cardiff ukba

  12 activists picketed the Cardiff offices of the UK Border Agency for an hour between 4-5pm today, catching a lot of post-work traffic along a busy Newport Road. The picket was held in response to a call out for protests outside UKBA offices in solid...

• Jumble Sale: 5th September

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 16:17 in books, fundraising, clothes, cd, comment, cake, calais, bric-a-brac, jumble sale

  On Saturday 5th September at 2pm-5pm we will be hosting a Jumble Sale fund-raiser at the The Wyndham Street Centre in Riverside (map)‎. There will be clothes, books, CD’s, bric-a-brac, cakes and other goodies up for grabs. We might even get ...

• Calais: A journey in basic healthcare

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 04:51 in health, medic, migrants, calais, scabies, impetigo, no border camp, pass clinic, street medic

  This is the personal recollection of one of our group (a street medic) at the Calais No Border Camp. The port town of Calais in Northern France represents the final point of the journey in a migrants struggle to gain entry into the United Kingdom. Mu...

• An Application from The Jungle

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 02:56 in taliban, afganistan, migrants, calais, the jungle, iraqi kurdistan, no border camp, salam association

  This is the personal recollection of the Calais No Border Camp by one member of our group, others will follow soon. I am surrounded by faces, all beaming at me, eyes glittering with interest, with expectation. The floor is beautifully carpeted and a ...

• An overdue update

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 05:23 in marriage, NHS, patagonia, welsh, comment, Welsh Assembly, deportation, calais, ama sumani, uk border agency, no border camp, edwina hart

  We’ve been very quiet on the blogging front since the end of the No Border Camp in Calais. The events on the ground in the region have got more intense, with French Authorities attempting to remove all migrant camps, however activists have been...

• Reflecting on Calais No Border Camp 2009

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 20:43 in protest, twitter, March, s4c, calais, no border camp

  This year’s No Border Camp in Calais has now finished. It was a powerful and unique event. Bringing together activists from across Europe to share a camp alongside undocumented migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia as well as signific...

• Welcome in Calais?

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 07:23 in Film, myspace, video, social networking, facebook, twitter, welcome, dunkirk, calais, no border camp, philippe lioret

  You may notice on the top of our left column we have a new feature, our twitter feed!  To go along with our Facebook and Myspace accounts, we’ve signed up to the latest social networking craze and will be sending out ‘tweets’ for t...

• No Border Camp next week

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 17:46 in myspace, facebook, daily mail, tabloid, calais, peter allen, no border camp, natacha bouchart, rue normandie-nieme

  With the Calais No Border Camp less than a week away, to go along with the activist mobilisation, the mainstream media disinformation is in full swing. Whilst most of the scare stories have appeared in the French press, never one to miss a spot of se...

• Last day of the Calais exhibition in Chapter

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 03:45 in canton, chapter arts centre, calais, no border camp, julie rebouillat, oriel canfas gallery, la salon

  Today will be the last day of the “No Land’s Men: The Struggle for Calais” photo exhibition at the Oriel Canfas gallery of the Chapter Arts Centre. The exhibition features some truly moving and touching artistic works by Julie Rebo...

• Picket the UK Border Agency this Wednesday!

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 20:24 in protest, deportation, detention, picket, calais, uk border agency, destitution, no border camp, picket cardiff ukba

  At midday this Wednesday 27th May, we will be holding a picket outside the UK Borders Agency at 31-33 Newport Road, Cardiff (map) to protest against the systematic de-humanisation of migrants in the UK via enforced destitution, detention and deporta...

• Calais photo exhibition at Chapter Arts centre

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 19:01 in cardiff, canton, chapter arts centre, calais, photo exhibition, no border camp, julie rebouillat, le salon, oriel canfas gallery

  The photo exhibition “No Land’s Men: The Struggle for Calais” comes to Cardiff on Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th June. This exhibition by Julie Rebouillat has been travelling around the UK over the last few months and will conclude in ...

• To shew light at Calais

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 19:01 in Film, media, activism, migration, protest, stickers, glossary, no comment, calais, booklet, no border camp

  The public meeting last thursday night saw the start of our mobilisation for the No Border Camp in Calais. As part of the presentation on the situation in Calais we screened the documentary film “No Comment” which shows the reality of lif...

• Issue 27 of Gagged! out now

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 06:34 in media, protest, calais, no border camp, gagged!, south wales anarchists, cardiff abc, fitwatch, westside climate action, cardiff anarchist bookfair

  The new issue of Gagged! is a Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair special. As well as featuring the full programme of the bookfair, including our workshop at 1pm, there is an article on the upcoming No Border Camp in Calais, reports from our demos against de...

• Tension increases at the migration bottleneck

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 04:16 in socialism, iraq, afganistan, meeting, calais, class struggle, phil woolas, no border camp, british jobs for british workers, workers of the world unite, Éric besson

  The situation for migrants in Calais has become a major news story in recent months, with the humanitarian crisis now an unavoidable reality. UK Immigration minister Phil Woolas boasts that migrants “have been locked out by one of the toughest ...

• Calais No Border Camp: Music and Infotainment

  Posted on Saturday May 9th, 2009 at 08:12 in meeting, cosmo, red pepper, calais, leaflet, no border camp, tracey curtis, benefit event, julie rebouillat, o'neils

  As well as the No Border Camp info night on this Thursday we will once again be moving across town to O’Neils on Trinity Street on Thursday 4th June  at 7pm for a night to raise awareness about the No Border Camp. This time, rather than our...

• Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 09:50 in cardiff, meetings, anarchism, workshop, stall, calais, bookfair, no border camp, south wales anarchists, cardiff anarchist bookfair

  On Saturday 23rd May South Wales Anarchists will be hosting the first Anarchist Bookfair in Cardiff. We will be attendance with our stall in the main hall giving away free leaflets, newsletters and stickers as well as selling a small selection of boo...

• This June in Calais

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 17:31 in france, protest, cardiff, meeting, public meeting, calais, callout, film showing, no border camp, o'neils

  On 23-29 June 2009 there will be No Border Camp in Calais, Northern France. No Borders South Wales will be attending, and will be organising transport from Cardiff, please get in contact if you’d like to come along. As part of raising awareness...

• Benefit gig on 9th June

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 05:58 in newport, calais, video nasties, no border camp, benefit gigs, clay statues, meze lounge, the melophobes, the nukes, the vendettas, threat manifesto

  Thanks to them cool people at Video Nasties there will be a benefit gig for No Borders South Wales on Tuesday 9th June at the Meze Lounge, Newport. Local bands; Threat Manifesto, The Nukes, The Melophobes, The Vendettas and Clay Statues will be perfo...

• No Border Camp Calais

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 19:42 in iraq, palestine, sudan, protest, afghanistan, taliban, red cross, eritrea, lille, british army, calais, france24

  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 happ...