Post Calais info and film night.

We are having an info evening to share our experiences, with some photos and a new film about the situation in Calais, on Thu 2nd of Feb at Friends Meeting House, 7.30 pm. If you are in Cambridge, it would be great to see you there!

Thanks so much to everyone who gave financial, moral or [...]

Happy New Year from Calais

Another update from the Cambridge kitchen working with No Borders in [...]

Cambridge Kitchen Collective - Calais

As some of you may have heard, a group of Cambridge Action Network activists are in Calais this week, where at any one time around 200 migrants are living on the streets. With the help of Calais Migrant Solidarity and the No Borders movement here we are running a kitchen as a practical form of [...]

Calais New Year trip - fundraising appeal

HELP US RAISE FUNDS TO COOK WITH VULNERABLE HOMELESS PEOPLE IN CALAIS THIS WINTER!

Bank Transfers – Sort code 08-92-99    Account number:  65155550

This Winter in Calais, around 200 migrants including children and lone teens are living in disused buildings and tents, with no heating, poor or [...]

Calais Migrant Solidarity

Calais Migrant Solidarity film & info night
1 December · 19:30 – 21:00

The Bharat Bhavan (Old Library), Mill Road – big red brick building by
the bridge.

This Winter in Calais, around 200 migrants including children and lone
teens are living in disused buildings and tents, with no heating, and
limited access to food. International volunteers from Calais Migrant
Solidarity have [...]

'Just Do It.' – Review

Just Do It is the product of three years spent by producer, Emily James, embedded within environmental direct action movements Climate Camp and Plane Stupid. It follows the lives of a small number of activists, through the planning and execution of different direct actions and protests, and some of their lives in between. Produced [...]

Dale Farm eviction notice served

On Monday 4th July, some 90 families at Dale Farm, the UK’s largest Traveller community, were delivered final notices of eviction, giving families until midnight on August 31 to abandon their homes, or face their entire community being bulldozed. The central government and Basildon Council have set aside over £18m for the eviction battle that [...]

Chernobyl 25th anniversary at Sizewell

CAN kitchen at the camp

The Stop Nuclear Power Network staged a four-day anti-nuclear camp on the beach beside Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, eastern England from 22-25 April 2011. Campers marked the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the world’s worst ever nuclear accident, on 26 April 1986, and sent out a clear message: ‘No’ [...]

Yarl’s Wood Migrant Solidarity Noise Demo

On Sunday March 14th around 40 people gathered at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre to show solidarity with the hunger strikers. Drummers and trumpeters turned out in force to let the women inside know of the wide support for their struggle. The demonstrators also made clear their view that detention of migrants is wrong, and [...]

Welcome

Welcome to the Cambridge Action Network. The Cambridge Action Network is a local bunch of mutually-supporting groups, projects and individuals who get together to take action on local / global social justice issues, and share ideas, energy, info and resources. We organise by consensus, no-one is in charge, and we’re not affiliated with any political [...]