141/ How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network

Joey is joined by Anas & Elena from the Border Violence Monitoring Network to talk about the way in which the European Union is criminalizing solidarity with migrants and how the EU has turned the Mediterranean into a giant graveyard for people who look like me.

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Mentions and Book Recommendations:

• Tech Won't Save Us podcast
• Kerning Cultures podcast
• Sortiermaschinen: Die Neuerfindung der Grenze im 21. Jahrhundert by Steffen Mau
• Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova

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• Episode design: Joey Ayoub