The team behind the new imprint has some really exciting collabs in the pipeline along with a backlog of lockdown-induced music. After a brief period of time away as the music scene came to terms with the COVID 19 pandemic, he returns with Archway Records. The London-based producer has been a club and festival mainstay for the last 4 years. The label is looking to break new ground within the scene, through an added focus on incorporating elements of genres of left-field bass music. She then pledged to take up the issue with the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe.įaced with this "political impasse," Doctors of the World is calling for more "social innovation," such as the use of leases, which protect squatters in the short term, or the requisitioning of empty housing, of which the city of Bordeaux Metropole has 22,473, according to The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.Archway Records has been set up by Reprezent Radio and Rinse FM regular Cardinal Sound. Saldana-Cazenave, with the support of regional and departmental councils and the town hall of Bordeaux, tried in vain to persuade the prefecture to open a gymnasium, without result. "Squats and slums are being created because of the lack of emergency accommodation and housing for students and the working poor," she said.Ī Mission Squat is to be set up in September by Bordeaux officials. The latter says the State is not fulfilling its legal obligations and that there is a shortfall of more than 2,500 places of accommodation for asylum seekers in New Aquitaine. "Seventy percent were asylum seekers and almost all were eligible for accommodation by the French Office for Immigration and Integration or under ordinary law," insists Aude Saldana-Cazenave, regional coordinator of Doctors of the World. While the prefecture ensures that the surrounding areas are assessed prior to these operations and that emergency accommodation solutions are offered to all eligible people (asylum seekers, refugees, families with young children etc.) groups supporting the homeless say the opposite is true.Īfter the occupation of the labor exchange by more than 60 people driven out of the squats, they obtained a review of their situation by the Samu Social. Since the beginning of the summer, Buccio has therefore increased the number of expulsions in disputed circumstances.
"I wanted to act to avoid the situations in Toulouse and Nantes, where things were overflowing into the streets," she told reporters on July 17 in self-defense, citing cases of "trafficking in human beings" in the migration channels. Infamous for overseeing the evacuation of thousands of migrants out of the "Jungle of Calais" migrant camp, the new Gironde prefect said she was "surprised" by the number of squats she found on arrival in Bordeaux - 150 squats housing 1,500 people, mainly in the city's port area. The archdiocese has joined forces with such associations as Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World,) the Arev Fund, Ovale Citoyen (Oval Citizens) and local authorities against the firm line held by Fabienne Buccio, prefect of the Gironde. With him we sound the alarm bell that warns us of the moral decline that lies ahead if we continue to concede ground to the culture of rejection." 'Land, a roof and work are sacred rights,' Pope Francis tells us. "Public authorities and associations must do everything possible to address this question," said the cardinal. Some 115 emergency accommodation sites have cited a lack of available space for refusing to accommodate a constant stream of families with children under 3 years of age, according to Médecins du Monde.
All these people cannot be left on the street, especially in the heat of summer." "The question of relocation must be addressed.
"Families, pregnant women and young children have been expelled," Cardinal Ricard said on July 29. This distressing situation has caused Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux to react. Half a dozen squats have been cleared in a month.
About 300 people are living without a roof over their heads in the city of Bordeaux, after a series of squat evictions carried out in recent weeks by the Gironde prefecture.