ITALY STILL COMPLICIT IN THE ABUSE OF MIGRANTS IN LIBYA

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abuse, border control, borders, detention centres, EU, featured, human rights, human trafficking, irregular migration, Italy, Libya, Matteo Salvini, migrant rights, migrants, migration, refugees, UN.

by Alessandra Arpaia

CW: abuse, sexual assault, drowning, death.

Last month Italian Prime Minister and former European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, took his first trip abroad since he assumed office. He chose to visit Libya, and met with Libyan president Abdel Hamid Mohamed Dbeibeh to discuss the countries’ economic ties and cooperation on tackling irregular immigration. During his visit, Draghi congratulated the Libyan government on their work over recent years in stemming the movement of migrants who leave Libya’s coast in hope of finding refuge in Europe.

The truth is, and as many investigations have shown, Libya’s ‘rescue missions’ out at sea often result in the transportation of people to Libyan detention camps notorious for their human rights violations.

REVIEW: TWO LITTLE DUCKS EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged anti-establishment, bbc, Birds of Hell, border control, Brexit, Calais, child abuse, Edinburgh Fringe, environment, EU referendum, future generations, government, guilt, history, individualism, internationalism, Leave Campaign, Lewis Buxton, Matt Abbott, Michelle Fisher, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, nostalgia, older people, performance, performance poetry, Pete Murdoch, poetry, politics, Radio 1xtra, refugee crisis, refugees, review, spoken word, The Roundhouse, tradition, TS Eliot, Two Little Ducks, violence, volunteering, Words First.

by Laura Potts

CW: Mentions violence against children

More than any other art form, spoken word performance art allows an audience to directly interact with the thoughts of the artist. This kind of interaction can often change minds more effectively than argument or statistic, making spoken word art a very progressive medium. As a spoken word enthusiast and an artist on a student budget, I was therefore excited to attend Matt Abbott’s pay-what-you-can preview of his Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Two Little Ducks’ at the Norwich Arts Centre recently. And my excitement was certainly justified – Two Little Ducks is a powerfully thought-provoking, politically driven work.

THE TRUTH OF THE JUNGLE EVICTION: SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anarchists, border control, border regime, bulldoze, bulldozer, Calais, camp, charity check, child protection, DBS, Doctors without Borders, eviction, facebook, fact, fiction, fire, France, french authorities, french government, Grand-Synthe, humanitarian, humanitarian crisis, jungle, jungle eviction, jungle school, mass media, media, medical care, Medicines Sans Frontiers, migrant, migrant crisis, migrants, MSF, news, no borders, police, refugee, refugee camp, refugee centre, refugee crisis, right wing militia, riot police, Syria, syrian crisis, teargas, USA, volunteers.

by Robyn Banks

On Monday, French authorities moved in to begin a mass eviction of the Calais refugee camp known as the Jungle, resulting in ‘clashes’ between the police and activists alongside refugees. Unfortunately, that seems to be about as much as anyone really knows. As my house is currently full with donations for the camp, I was pretty invested in finding out exactly what was going on. Which charities should I contact now? What do they need? Where will all the refugees go and how many of them will remain?

As I scrolled through page after page of pictures of tents on fire and riot police, every headline seemed to be ‘Clashes between police and…’ and even those that were helpful were contradictory. It seems that misinformation is rife, whether deliberate or due to the incompetency of authorities on the ground, and even long term and well informed activists in the camp have been confused.Continue Reading

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ITALY STILL COMPLICIT IN THE ABUSE OF MIGRANTS IN LIBYA

REVIEW: TWO LITTLE DUCKS EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW

THE TRUTH OF THE JUNGLE EVICTION: SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION

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