May 2025
The so-called “Miskar case”, the extraordinary rescue of 32 people from a gas platform in the overlapping Tunisian and Maltese Search and Rescue (SAR) zones to Lampedusa in March 2025, contains a deeper meaning for us in these terrible times: never give up even in desperate situations. Who could imagine that the tenacity of the people on the move, together with the chain of solidarity structures in the Central Mediterranean, could lead to such an amazing outcome?
Breaking normalization! This slogan was and still is at the center of our narrative to express the need to defy more offensively the unbearable conditions at sea. How to combine daily solidarity with elements of civil disobedience? How to use the coming months and mainly September – with the transnational chain of actions in reference to the 10th anniversary of the summer of migration – to re-politicise maritime space? With Echoes, we will try to accompany the different steps of this struggle…