Episode 65: ‘A pain in the ass to inhumane authorities’
Release Date: 11/24/2024
Episode 93: Biking Against Borders
The Civil Fleet Podcast
In this episode we speak with Seb, a 26-year-old bus driver cycling from Amsterdam to Japan, raising money for No Name Kitchen and MiGrate, and raising awareness of brutalities of the global border regime. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: YouTube: [email protected] ---Show notes--- For more from Seb, see his website here: And follow him on Instagram: For more on No Name Kitchen, see: And check out episodes 87, 63, 59, 58, 51, 41, and 6 of The Civil Fleet Podcast For more on MiGreat, check out ...
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Episode 92: Humanity blocked
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In this episode, Barbara from SOS Humanity tells us about the rescue organisation's new ship, the Humanity 2, how its crew saved over 70 lives on its first mission in the Mediterranean, and how the Italian authorities then seized it. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: YouTube: [email protected] ---Show notes--- For more on SOS Humanity, check out their website, here: You can donate to them here: Follow SOS Humanity Bluesky: And Instagram: Check out episode 55 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more...
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Episode 91: Titanic profits from Britain's performative cruelty
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In this episode we speak with Toni from Corporate Watch about Titan Airways, a charter airline company making millions from Britain's deportation regime. She tells us how the firm is generating wealth by tearing families apart, making a killing from every juncture in the cycle of war, and using sport to wash its image. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: YouTube: [email protected] ---Show notes--- Check out Corporate Watch here: Follow Corporate Watch on BlueSky: And on Instagram: Read...
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Episode 90: Saving lives under fire
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In this episode we speak with Sea-Watch spokesperson Julia Winkler about the so-called Libyan Coastguard's shooting of the Sea-Watch 5 rescue ship in May. She tells us how, following the horrific attack, the Italian authorities absurdly put the ship's captain under investigation. Julia also tells us how the rescuers hope to put legal pressure on the German government to protect Sea-Watch's activists from the Libyan gunmen in the future. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: YouTube: ...
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Episode 89: Intercepted by the Israeli Navy
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In this episode, we speak with Esmé, an activist and chef with the Global Sumud Flotilla. She tells us about the activist group's humanitarian mission to Gaza, and what she saw during the Israeli navy's raid on the flotilla in international waters off Greece. She also speaks on the kidnapping of her fellow activists and the beatings they were subjected on an Israeli ship. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: YouTube: ...
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Episode 88: Fighting and beating Frontex in Court
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In this episode we speak with Iftach Cohen, co-founder of Front-LEX, a nonprofit legal organisation challenging EU border violence in court. Iftach is going to tell us about the Alaa Hamoudi case, a Syrian man who was pushed back from Greece to Turkey by the Greek Coastguards in 2020, right under the eyes of the European Border and Coastguard agency, Frontex. He tell us how Front-LEX won this case for Hamoudi at the EU's top court in January, and explains why this landmark legal victory should "benefit all future victims of Frontex’s activities, and bring to...
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Episode 87: Border violence in Bulgaria
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In this episode we speak with Ame, Alegro, Mirka and Ruben about No Name Kitchen's solidarity activism with people on the move in Bulgaria. They tell us about the abuses people on the move face inside the country, the terrible conditions of its migrant detention centres, and how the border guards allowed three Egyptian boys to freeze to death in December 2024. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: [email protected] ---Show notes--- For more on No Name...
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Episode 86: What is the Libyan Coastguard?
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In this episode, we speak with Frey Lindsay, a journalist with the transparency and civil liberties organisation Statewatch. He tells us how the so-called Libyan Coastguard is far from a unified organisation but is, in fact, an amalgamation of groups with different structures and vying allegiances. Frey also tells us about a leaked EU document, obtained by Statewatch recently, that proposes the bloc outsource its SAR operations in the Mediterranean to non-European countries and have them take the rescued to non-EU ports. ---Support The Civil Fleet Podcast---...
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Episode 85: Greece's criminalisation of Sudanese refugees
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In this episode, we speak with Mustafa, Bairbre and Louise about the treatment of Sudanese refugees in Greece. Mustafa tells us about the revolution and ongoing proxy war in Sudan. He'll also tell us why he had to flee the country, and the Kafkaesque situation he found himself in after seeking asylum in Greece. Louise and Bairbre tell us more about the situation for people on the move in Greece, how refugees (including children) are being criminalised and sentenced to decades (and sometimes hundreds of years!) in prison for allegedly captaining a boat across the sea...
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Episode 84: Doctors Without Borders returns to the Mediterranean
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In this episode, we speak with Juan Matias Gil, a search-and-rescue representative for Doctors Without Borders (MSF). He tells us how the Italian government made it impossible for the medical charity to use its Geo Barents rescue ship, and about the Oyvon — MSF's new, smaller, faster rescue vessel. He also tells us about the first rescue mission aboard the Oyvon. ---Support--- ---Get in touch--- Twitter: Mastodon: Bluesky: Instagram: [email protected] ---Show notes--- For more on MSF,...
info_outlineIn this episode, we speak with Paul Wagner, the media officer for Sea-Watch's airborne operations.
He tells us about the rescue organisation's reconnaissance missions over the central Mediterranean, the push and pullbacks they have witnessed at sea, and how the EU has refugee blood on its hands.
He also tell us about the various ways the Italian government has tried to stop them from carrying out their human rights monitoring missions.
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---Show Notes---
For more on Sea-Watch, visit: sea-watch.org/en
For more on the Seabirds 1 & 2, see here: sea-watch.org/mission/airborne/
Follow Sea-Watch on Twitter on @seawatch_intl
Bluesky: @en.sea-watch.org
Instagram: seawatchcrew
Also, check out episodes 43, 22, 7 and 1 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Sea-Watch.
Read more about Carola Rackete here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/italys-highest-court-confirms-ngo-captain-should-not-have-been-arrested-for-saving-refugee-lives/
For more on SOS Humanity, see episodes 55 and 31
Read The Civil Fleet's coverage of Sea-Watch here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Sea-Watch
For more on the Matteo Salvini kidnapping trial. see: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/15/italian-deputy-pm-matteo-salvini-faces-possible-six-years-in-prison-over-migrants-case
It was SOS Humanity who rescued one person at sea in late October. They were then forced to sail to the distant port of Salerno, 870km, away from where the rescue took place. Read more about that here: twitter.com/soshumanity_en/status/1850235169568891033
You can read Ben's interbiew with Sea-Watch's Tamino Bohm, here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/the-libyan-coastguards-interceptions-of-refugees-couldnt-happen-without-europes-planes
For more on the sip captain Paul metions who was arrested for handing people over to the Libya, see here: euronews.com/2021/10/14/italy-ship-captain-convicted-after-sending-101-migrants-to-libya-in-2018
The merchant shop Ben talks about was the Maersk Etienne. You can read about that saga here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/forty-day-nightmare-finally-over-as-the-mare-jonio-brings-the-etienne-27-to-land
For more on the Maersk Etienne case, check out episodes 18 and 47
Read about Malta's treatment of the civilian rescuers here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Malta
For more on the Pylos shipwreck, see Episodes 60 and 52
Paul mention's a testimony by Ibrahim Hsian, the son of Mohammed Hsian who drowned in the shipwreck of 2nd September 2024. You can read that here: sea-watch.org/en/my-father-was-a-unique-irreplaceable-person