"Police Scotland are drafting lists" Despite not taking part in demonstrations, at least three people have been wrongly visited by Police Scotland officers hunting for campaigners who allegedly breached terrorism laws www.thenational.scot/news/2549898...

After the armed attack by a Libyan militia with survivors on board, we rescued another boat in distress. With 124 survivors now on board our Sea-Watch 5, we ended the last night together with a dinner. We're nearing Napoli to bring everyone safely ashore.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

…amidst all the nonsense about “mass migration” (another dodgy framing that has long featured in institutional settings), i recently read that nine million italians emigrated to all continents (mainly the americas and northern europe) between the 1880s and 1918…

🚨🎧 NEW EPISODE 🚨🎧 Activists from Grupa Granica and Szpila tell The Civil Fleet Podcast how solidarity with refugees was put on trial in Poland. They tell us about the awful situation people-on-the-move face at the Poland-Belarus border, and how the government is only making it worse

…as dishonest & unpatriotic as they come, true to form for regress…

🎧🚨 We've got a flurry of new episodes coming your way! So keep an eye on your podcast feeds! In the meantime, be sure to check out episode 77, and all 75 episodes before that. 🎧🚨

A month ago, the EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard opened fire without warning on rescue ship Ocean Viking, operated by @sosmediterranee.org in international waters. Today, we tell @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu: Time to defund violence at sea! 👉 www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/eu-comm...

drones against the flotilla as an attack on solidarity and information in a genocidal context… www.a-dif.org/2025/09/24/d...

We publish today our analysis of the official statistics on #return, #deportation and #immigration #detention in #Greece in the first half of 2025, supplied by the Greek authorities in reply to parliamentary questions. 👉 rsaegean.org/en/detention... (1/8)

live from the global sumud flotilla… vm.tiktok.com/ZNHWNSh35jtS...

The latest example of Trump’s relentless assault on free speech. He's rewriting visa rules to make it harder for foreign reporters to cover his presidency - so he can just kick them out if they write stories he doesn't like.

.. very important decision against an attempt at eu-wide persecution of antifascists engineered by hungary using eaws & the wide remit for the criminalisation of activists adopted by the eu after 9/11… it would be good if the plenary confirms this…

state kidnappings & banishment to distant lands… eu member states & fx will view the attack by the usa on its people enabled by migration policy as an example to follow… in pursuit of “effectiveness”

…doesn’t seem right for channel four news to have fromage present his umpteenth sickening policy proposal as if he was a minister… it seems to happen every few days

on the remarkable italian strike in solidarity with gaza blogs.mediapart.fr/salvatore-pa...

general strike for palestine across italy called by usb union… live coverage from a movement radio (radio onda d’urto) here www.radiondadurto.org

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

…the free speech crew against free speech, chapter 7861100678…

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

il governo italiano contro la sopravvivenza delle persone migranti che naufragano in mare…

…a malevolent bored man-boy billionaire decided wealth should be usefully deployed to harm as many people & businesses as possible whilst undoing human progress & debate, whilst forcing violent idiocy onto people, including xenophobia, misogyny & a desperately bad president for the u s of a…

#Elbit Systems verkauft Waffensysteme und Cybertechnologie weltweit – auch an die Bundeswehr. Er ist Israels größter Rüstungskonzern und profitiert von der weltweiten Aufrüstung – und vom #Gazakrieg: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

»Elbit Systems ermöglicht den Genozid in Gaza« Mein Interview zum Camp gegen Israels größten Rüstungskonzern an dessen deutschen Sitz in Ulm: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

hear hear… and then alter the agendas of council meetings accordingly, because they are structured around a new genre, “migration policy fiction”…

@tomkemp.bsky.social: "There is a tension in border abolition: a desire to start with and attend to violence and injustice, and an understanding of border violence as a product and continuation of social, economic forces that are not (solely) located at the border" #BorderCrim2025

@jillalpes.bsky.social on theorising transformative knowledge encounters: "If we want to understand political processes, we need to understand the role of knowledge in political processes" #BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Just starting on our last panel of the conference on Detention and Deportation, Wing Yin Anna Tsui discusses the case of detainee resistance in Hong Kong: "Symbolic victories over everyday requests mattered a lot, perhaps even more than principled demand for undeportability" #BorderCrim2025

…in afghanistan like the u s of a, book bans are a symptom of a bigotry-driven systemic regression that is underway…

Der spanische Aktivist Jorge Jiménez recherchiert seit Jahren zu verdeckten Ermittler*innen in sozialen Bewegungen. Nun wird gegen ihn ermittelt – unter anderem wegen Geheimnisverrats.

a combination of dim & malevolent is doing the proscribing…

“What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media — a historical pattern as dangerous as it is shameful — and tragic.”

UK govt's press release on first removal under the UK/France deal www.gov.uk/government/n...

…there was no red line when 21st century slave markets & systematic torture inc. hands hammered during calls to relatives were discovered, so it’s unlikely the eu’s cooperation with torturers & traffickers posing as authorities in a 3rd country (aka migration policy externalisation) will cease…

sea as a site of struggle: the f.Lotta in the central med for freedom of movement flotta.noblogs.org

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The majority, specifically more than 2/3 of people applying for asylum, are #refugees and are indeed granted international #protection at first instance in #Greece, according to the analysis of the #asylum process for the first half of 2025. 👉 rsaegean.org/en/asylum-st... (1/8)

huge shout out to the bristol cable for their latest issue on migration and standing up to racists, which looks brilliant and i’m just getting my teeth into…

Don't forget to sign up to the book launch of Hannah Pool's The Game, happening next week! 👇

Several barriers impact solidarity work on migration in Malta, including the geography of the islands, socio-political environment and maritime imaginaries. But activism is still very much alive. From @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @cettamainwaring.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

First deportations under UK/France migration deal expected next week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

My weekend essay for @financialtimes.com on grandmothers from lost worlds, dignity and surveillance (then and now)…

🥳 Yesterday, four individuals from Sudan were acquitted of all smuggling charges by the court of Heraklion, Crete. The lawyers of the first case from an NGO successfully argued that he is a refugee fleeing war and must not be criminalized for taking on tasks during his own journey. 1/7

HSI/ICE and sheriffs raided our office building in NY today. They broke the door down to another business and scared the shit out of everyone else in the building in the process. I tried to video the incident, but I was yelled at to get back in my office for my own safety. This is our country now.

It's also possible that the DUP want to remove the UK from the ECHR to reverse the very reason why the Good Friday Agreement requires ECHR participation in the first place - because the European Court of Human Rights had found the UK govt accountable for human rights breaches in Northern Ireland

Nice ”partners” we work with to stop #migration in the Mediterranean. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 @jfcrisp.bsky.social tells The Civil Fleet Podcast about United Against Inhumanity's new manifesto, demanding European government treat refugees, asylum-seekers and people-on-the-move with dignity. Find The Civil Fleet on YouTube & all podcast services!

www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025... civilian rescue vessel blocked for upholding the law of the sea, contravening orders on distant disembarkation…