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  • Episode 67: Syria, Gaza, and European hostility to refugees

    Episode 67: Syria, Gaza, and European hostility to refugees
    2024/12/30
    In this episode, we speak with Michaël Neuman from Doctors' Without Borders (MSF). He tells us about the charity's work in Syria, and how the fall of Bashar Assad's regime could affect this. We also discuss MSF's work in Gaza, Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinians and the fact that, unlike most conflicts, the people there have no escape. Michaël also tells us why MSF decided it needed to help asylum seekers in the UK, and why European governments have been far too quick to pause asylum claims for Syrians. ---Get in touch--- Twitter: @FleetCivil Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social Instagram: thecivilfleet info@civilfleet.com civilfleet.com --- Show notes --- For more on MSF, visit: msf.org.uk Follow MSF UK on Twitter here: @MSF Check out MSF Crash's website here: msf-crash.org/en Michael refers to the cyclone which battered Mayotte in December. Read about MSF's work on teh Indian Ocean island here: https://msf.org.uk/article/cyclone-chido-how-msf-responding-mayotte-and-mozambique For more on MSF's rescue ship, the Geo Barents, see here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Geo-Barents AND, check out episode 14 of The Civil Fleet Podcast, with the ship's search-and-rescue team leader Riccardo Gatti and midwife Kira Smith. Listen to episode 21 also, with MSF UK advocacy officer Sophie McCann. This 2017 video by Vox is a fairly good summation of the differing sides in the Syrian Civil War: youtube.com/watch?v=JFpanWNgfQY&t=3s&ab_channel=Vox Here is an excellent speech by the late journalist Robert Fisk in 2016 on the Arab Spring, Egypt, Isis, Iraq and the West's role in the Middle East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gzq_uPzGfw&ab_channel=UCD-UniversityCollegeDublin Ben mentions a previous episode with Syrian refugee Hasan. Check out episode 25 of The Civil Fleet Podcast to hear that For more on MSF's work in Gaza, see here: https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-war Michael mentions an article in the Haaretz newspaper about Israeli soldiers killing any Palestinian person who crosses the Neztarim corridor. You can read that here: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-expose-arbitrary-killings-and-rampant-lawlessness-in-gazas-netzarim-corridor/00000193-da7f-de86-a9f3-fefff2e50000 That article is behind a paywall, unfortunately, BUT you can read about it here (for free!) on Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-indiscriminately-shot-dead-israeli-soldiers-gaza-kill-zone Michael mentions the siege of Mosul. For more on that, see here: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/video-life-aftermath-war-mosul For more on MSF's work in the UK, particularly at the Wethersfield migrant containment centre, see here: https://msf.org.uk/article/explainer-why-msf-treating-people-seeking-asylum-uk For more on the conditions inside Britain's migrant containment centres, check out episode 32 with journalist Bethany Rielly (then home affairs reporter at the Morning Star newspaper, now a co-editor at the New Internationalist) For more on Doctors of the World, see here: https://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk Ben mentions his exclusive articles revealing the number of deaths in UK Home Office Accommodation in 2022 and 2023. Read that here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/revealed
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  • Episode 66: We found a child floating alone in the dark

    Episode 66: We found a child floating alone in the dark
    2024/12/24
    In this episode, we speak with Katja and Matthias, co-founders of the refugee rescue group CompassCollective. They tell us how they operate their rescue ship, the Trotamar III, to document human rights violations and save lives in the central Mediterranean. They also tell us about the recent rescue of an 11-year-old-girl they found by chance floating alone at sea for 2 or 3 days. ---Get in touch--- Twitter: @FleetCivil Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social Instagram: thecivilfleet info@civilfleet.com civilfleet.com Support: ko-fi.com/civilfleet ---Show Notes--- For more on CompassCollective, see their website here: compass-collective.org/en/start Follow them on Twitter: @boat_spotting Mastodon: @boatspotting@digitalcourage.social Facebook: facebook.com/compasscollectiv Insta: compasscollective_boatspotting And YouTube: youtube.com/@Compass_Collective/videos For more on the Piantedosi Decree, see here: sosmediterranee.org/consequence-of-the-piantedosi-decree/ And/or check out episode 65 or The Civil Fleet Podcast For more on Sea-Watch and their reconnaissance planes, listen to episodes: 65, 43, 22, 7 and 1 For more on Alarm Phone, check out episodes 48, 5 and 3 For more on Maldusa, listen to episode 46
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  • Episode 65: ‘A pain in the ass to inhumane authorities’

    Episode 65: ‘A pain in the ass to inhumane authorities’
    2024/11/24
    In 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. ---Get in touch--- Twitter: @FleetCivil Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social Instagram: thecivilfleet info@civilfleet.com civilfleet.com Support: ko-fi.com/civilfleet ---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
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  • Episode 64: Pingpong pushbacks at the Poland-Belarus border

    Episode 64: Pingpong pushbacks at the Poland-Belarus border
    2024/11/15
    In this episode we speak with Ola, an activist from the Grupa Granica coalition in Poland about the situation for refugees, migrants and people-on-the-move at the country's border with Belarus. She tells us how border guards on both sides are mistreating people-on-the-move there, about the ping-pong pushbacks across the border, and how the country's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, plans to "temporarily" ban the human right to claim asylum. Ola also tells us about Grupa Granica's work supporting people-on-the-move with food, clothes and first aid, and how the authorities have treated the activists. ---Get in touch--- Twitter: @FleetCivil Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social Instagram: thecivilfleet info@civilfleet.com civilfleet.com Support: ko-fi.com/civilfleet ---Show Notes--- For more on Grupa Granica, see their Facebook page here: facebook.com/grupagranica See their Instagram account here: instagram.com/grupagranica For more on the Belarus border, see episode 33 with Dalia, an activist from the Lithuanian human rights and medical aid organisation, Sienos Grupe. Ola mention Alarm Phone. For more them, visit: alarmphone.org, and find them on Twitter on @alarm_phone. And check out The Civil Fleet's episodes 48, 5 and 3. Read this France 24 news article on African people fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine being mistreated by the Polish border guards: france24.com/en/europe/20220228-pushed-back-because-we-re-black-africans-stranded-at-ukraine-poland-border Read this FT article about the Afghans stuck at the Poland-Belarus border in 2021, here: https://archive.ph/RL4iK And this Amnesty International article here: amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/09/poland-belarus-border-crisis/ For more on the Ethiopian people who died at the Poland-Belarus border last year, see here: https://ecre.org/eu-eastern-borders-more-deaths-at-poland-belarus-border-as-reports-of-pushbacks-detention-and-crack-down-on-solidarity-continue-council-of-europe-concerned-over-pushbacks-and-criminalisation-in-lat/ Read this Al Jazeera news report on the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk plans to temporarily suspend the human right to claim asylum here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/12/poland-to-temporarily-suspend-asylum-rights-amid-belarus-border-tensions Read about Finland's government also blocking the human right to claim asylum here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/12/finland-passes-law-to-block-asylum-seekers-crossing-from-russia And this Amnesty International response to it: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/finland-emergency-law-block-people-seeking-asylum-should-never-have-passed Ben mentions people in Europe being dubbed smugglers for giving food, water, first aid, etc to people-on-the-move. More examples of that can be found in episodes: 59, 58, 51, 50, 47, 46, 41, 37, 35, 28, 24, 20, 16, 13, 7, 4 and 2 Ola uses the phrase "Dublinned" in the episode. This is a reference to the EU's Dublin Agreement — which is essentially supposed to keep asylum seekers away from northern Europe. Check out this explainer video by The Guardian newspaper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ooecJWPcAY&t=28s&ab_channel=TheGuardian
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  • Episode 63: ‘You feel like the most wanted criminal in the world’

    Episode 63: ‘You feel like the most wanted criminal in the world’
    2024/10/04

    In this episode, we speak with Denny, a young refugee from Kashmir who was forced to flee his homeland almost 9 years ago.

    He is going to tell us about life in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, his journey through Europe, how he was mistreated by the authorities and supported by activists.

    We also talk about his time living in a squat in Bosnia, and how looking after a dog helped his mental state.

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    ---Show Notes---

    For more on the oppression in India-occupied Kashmir, see this 2019 Al Jazeera article: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/8/15/kashmirs-struggle-did-not-start-in-1947-and-will-not-end-today

    For more on Britain's partition of India, see this Ted Ed video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrcCTgwbsjc&ab_channel=TED-Ed

    For more on Britain's awful colonial rule of India, check out this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzQxNZfGM4&ab_channel=OddCompass

    Read this BBC news story about the Indian army killing of Kashmiri activists in May: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n11j4wewxo

    Ben mentions Klara in this interview. She was an activist with No Name Kitchen in Bosnia. Check out episodes 58 and 59 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Bosnia and No Name Kitchen

    Ben mentions Bihac, but doesn't explain where that is. Whoops. It's a small town in northwest Bosnia on the border with Croatia. Episodes 58 and 59 are there.

    Denny mentions Kurdistan. More more on them, check out this episode of Revolution and Ideology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rH-6ojrXv0&ab_channel=RevolutionandIdeology

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  • Epsode 62: The UK's mistreatment of Albanian asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking

    Epsode 62: The UK's mistreatment of Albanian asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking
    2024/09/20

    In this episode, we speak with Lauren Starkey, a campaigner and independent social worker who works with Albanian victims of human trafficking.

    Lauren is going to tell us how the British government decided that Albanian men shouldn't be granted asylum in the UK, even if they are victims of human trafficking.

    She tells us how this approach punishes victims of human trafficking, forces them to live in destitution, and threatens to send them back to an environment they were trafficked from.

    And we also have an addendum at the end of the episode, in which we talk about Labour's reported plans to end asylum seekers to Albania.


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    ---Show Notes---


    You can follow Lauren Starkey on Twitter here: @LaurenHStarkey


    Lauren mentions the defunct (in the UK) charity Love 146. You can check out their US website here: https://love146.org/


    For more on the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), see here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-trafficking-victims-referral-and-assessment-forms/guidance-on-the-national-referral-mechanism-for-potential-adult-victims-of-modern-slavery-england-and-wales


    Ben mentions a journalist trying to interview people as they cross the Channel. You can watch that here: bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-53722861


    For more on the UK, see episodes 61, 57, 49, 44, 42, 40, 39, 38, 32, 25, 21, 17 and 11 of The Civil Fleet Podcast.

    Check out Amnesty International's assessment on the Nationality and Borders' Act 2022, see here: amnesty.org.uk/nationality-borders-bill-truth-behind-claims


    See here for more on the UK government's legal battle with former Albanian president Berisha: reuters.com/world/europe/albanias-former-pm-berisha-loses-appeal-against-ban-uk-2024-06-17/


    Read this Guardian report on the children who went missing from Britain's migrant hotels: theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/17/children-missing-from-home-office-hotels-likely-to-have-been-trafficked-report-finds


    You can read about the British PM visit Italy's far-right PM Giorgia Meloni here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-italy-asylum-offhore-meloni-b2613670.html


    For more on Israel's Rwanda scheme, see here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/israel-deportation-of-african-asylum-seekers-is-a-cruel-and-misguided-abandonment-of-responsibility
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  • Episode 61: Labour, immigration raids, and far-right riots

    Episode 61: Labour, immigration raids, and far-right riots
    2024/08/10

    In this episode, we speak with Dan Sohege, director of the human rights advocacy organisation Stand For All.

    We've a new government here in the UK. So I thought it'd be a good idea to ask Dan to give us his analysis of the Labour's plans for asylum seekers.

    Dan tells us how Labour's plans to increase immigration raids will only make things worse for victims of trafficking.

    We also discuss the recent far-right riots happening across Britain and Northern Ireland, and how our media and politicians bear much of the blame for the violence.

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    ---Show Notes---


    Follow Dan Sohege on Twitter: @stand_for_all


    For more on Stand for All, visit: standforall.co.uk

    Ben mentions a website where you can see a decade's worth of headlines on immigration. You can see that here: stuartleech.com/canto/dehumanising-headlines


    Check out episode 44 of The Civil Fleet Podcast with Reclaim the Sea for more on the Bibby Stockholm


    Ben mentions episode 49 with Paul O'Connor from the Public and Commerical Services (PCS) union in this episode. Check that out.


    For more episodes focused on the UK, see episodes 57, 49, 44, 42, 40, 39, 38, 32, 25, 21, 17 and 11.


    Check out this story on the UK Border Force carrying out push back training: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/uk-border-force-may-have-begun-attempts-to-push-refugees-back-across-the-channel-already-evidence-suggests/


    Read more about UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's comments on Bangladeshi asylum seekers here: middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labours-keir-starmer-caused-diplomatic-row-over-bangladesh-comments

    Corporate Watch have a story here on the state of the hotels housing asylum seekers in the UK: https://corporatewatch.org/refugees-are-being-housed-in-an-infested-hotel-while-the-home-offices-slum-landlords-are-raking-it-in/

    For more on the Southport murders and the far-right conspiracies that set off the riots in Britain, see here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/31/how-false-online-claims-about-southport-knife-attack-spread-so-rapidly


    Dan mentions a far right protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Knowsley last year. Read about that here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/refugee-hate-and-rabble-rousing-who-are-patriotic-alternative

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  • Episode 60: Pylos Shipwreck – The Greek coastguards watched them drown

    Episode 60: Pylos Shipwreck – The Greek coastguards watched them drown
    2024/07/26

    In today's episode, we speak with Spyros, from the Free Pylos 9 campaign.

    He's going to tell us more about the Pylos Shipwreck, how the authorities refused to help the 750 people on the small fishing boat, and how it sank on June 14, 2023, when the Greek coastguards tried to tow it. Only 104 of the 750 people survived.

    Spyros also tells us about the nine survivors who were used as scapegoats for the disaster and jailed, about the campaign to free them, and how they were treated once they were acquitted.

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    ---Show Notes---

    For more on Free Pylos 9, see their website here: freepylos9.info

    Follow the Free Pylos 9 campaign on Twitter here: @FreePylos9

    Find them on Instagram: freepylos9

    For more background on the Pylos shipwreck and the 9 criminalised survivors, read this article by the Human Rights Legal Project: humanrightslp.eu/post/the-lack-of-jurisdiction-in-the-pylos-9-trial-and-the-incoherent-interpretation-of-international-cri

    Spyros mentions the Captain Support Network. Check them out here: captainsupport.net

    He also mentioned the Justice for Pylos campaign. Check out their website (in Greek) here: justice4pylos.org

    For more on The Civil Fleet's coverage of the Pylos Shipwreck, see here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Greece


    Check out episodes 3, 4, 9, 16, 25, 26, 28, 35, 52, 53, and 56 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Greece

    Ben mention Lighthouse Reports and their investigation into the Pylos Shipwreck. You can read that here: lighthousereports.com/investigation/drowning-in-lies/

    Check out Solomon's coverage of the shipwreck here: wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-area/migration/how-the-pylos-tragedy-could-have-been-avoided

    For more on Alarm Phone visit: alarmphone.org, and find them on Twitter on @alarm_phone.

    You can read Alarm Phone's timeline of the shipwreck here: alarmphone.org/en/2023/06/14/europes-shield/

    Oh, and by the way, Hellas is Greece in Greek, and therefore the Greek coastguard are also called the Hellenic Coastguard.

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