MV Louise Michel

At least 12 dead in the #AegeanSea
The Greek and Turkish coastguards share the responsibility.

On Monday morning, first the Turkish, later the Greek coastguard spotted a speedboat carrying people on the move and chased it. The speedboat capsized. Six people died.

Later, a second boat was found and chased by the Greek coastguard. It collided with the coastguard vessel. Another six people, including a baby, died.

This is not the first time the coastguard has escalated the situation and caused deaths. In February this year, there was already a collision in which 15 people died and 24 were injured, some seriously.

We demand an immediate investigation into the circumstances of the accident!
The #EU, #Greece and #Turkey must admit their responsibility.

We need safe escape routes immediately!

We know €20 a month is a real commitment, and we’re grateful to everyone who makes it.

500 people giving €20 a month makes €120,000 a year. That’s close to the cost of a full rotation: three weeks of MV Louise Michel at sea, on a search and rescue rotation.

Europe has built a system we oppose. Your solidarity is how we keep sailing.

Donation link in bio.

October 12 marks one month since police raids and mass arrests targeted the LGBTQI+ community and movement in #Turkey.

Between September 12 and 14, police raided seven LGBTQI+ rights groups and two groups supporting people living with HIV, along with bars and nightclubs, in five Turkish cities. At least 112 people were arrested. 

One month later, most of them remain behind bars, while the pressure on LGBTQI+ communities, on our civil society, continues. There are serious concerns that authorities will move to close down organisations and violate the human rights of our queer comrades in prison.

Criminalising LGBTQI+ people and the groups that defend them is an attack on freedom of expression and association, and it puts all of us at risk. Being yourself should never be a crime.

We are joining the call for international solidarity today.
Spread the word!

#HerYerdeyizAşkım #Özgürlükİstiyoruz

Germany’s racist and inhumane policy of deterrence, tolerated by the EU, is an attack on human rights.
It mocks the right to asylum and the Geneva Refugee Convention, which were established in response to Nazi Germany’s dictatorship, the Second World War, and the refugee movements connected to it.

This clearly disproportionate violation of the principle of freedom of movement is deeply cynical.

We demand the immediate end of Germany’s border controls.
Freedom of movement for everyone, now!