Since the night between 14 and 15 February, almost a week ago, the arrivals on Lampedusa have started again. After a week's stop, the Favaloro pier is once again bustling with people rescued by the Coast Guard and the Guardia di Finanza near the island.
At the end of September 2022, the arrival in power in Italy of a post-fascist party
has reinforced a discourse of hatred, promoting racism and closed borders. As more
pronounced attacks against civil sea rescue NGOs already begin to take place, it is
clear that civil society will feature as one of the targets of the new government....
Eight years ago, on 11 October 2014, we launched the Alarm Phone, a hotline for people in distress at sea. Since then, our shift teams are available 24/7 and have assisted about 5.000 boats in distress along the different maritime routes to Europe - the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic to the Canary Islands, and since 2022 also across the Channel,...
CommemorAction - a verbal combination of mourning and anger - developed by
relatives, survivors and supporters as an outcry to the ongoing racist murder at
the borders. In reference to the transnational days of CommemorAction in the
beginning of September in Zarzis/Tunisia, we dedicate this 2nd issue of Echoes to
the people missing and drowned...
