On the day the EU Migration Pact enters fully into force, we remind ourselves that people cross this way because every other way has been shut down. Almost every legal route, every door closed. EU governments and the EU Commission focus on building up borders, making safe migration impossible.
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The result of all of these policies is an estimate between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in the last 10 years.
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We want a world where no one has to survive deadly borders to reach safety. Where the closest port is always the right port. Where movement needs no justification. Where safety is not rationed by passport or by skin.
Freedom of movement for all!
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Fascism decides whose lives matter and whose do not.
It criminalises difference and teaches exclusion.
Since years we have witnessed growing attacks on people on the move, refugees and those who show solidarity.
We fight for a world where nobody has to risk their life at sea. A world where everyone has the freedom to move — and the freedom to stay in peace.
For almost six years, Louise Michel has demonstrated why independent rescue matters.
On 15 June, we begin the next chapter.
Stay with us.
