#migrantsatsea — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #migrantsatsea, aggregated by home.social.
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"[T]he nationalist right knows what it wants and is dragging mainstream opinion behind it. Today’s inhumane #migration policies are a warm-up act. ‘Stop the Small Boats’ is a slogan with which many nominally progressive politicians are at pains to agree. But behind the slogan is a wider agenda – to soften public attitudes for a crime against humanity."
Ever Harder Borders
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/june/ever-harder-borders
#Adriana #refugees #migrants #AsylumSeekers #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia
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"The two vessels were lost at sea four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the #Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the #media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the #Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten."
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/23/greece_migrant_shipwreck_media_coverage
#TitanicSub #refugees #AsylumSeekers #migrants #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia #racism #classism