Ten Years Alarm PhoneIn October 2024, the Alarm Phone turns ten years old. For 3,650 days and nights, we have been on shift. During these shifts, we were alerted to over 8,000 boats from all corners of the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic region or the English Channel, directly by the people on the move or their relatives and friends.
For our tenth anniversary, we publish this book. In it, we share articles, analyses, interviews, and poems. We offer an account of how the Alarm Phone started and how it developed. We highlight the struggles against criminalization and the struggles for memory in the form of CommemorActions, alongside families and friends of the missing. We present sister projects of our network and show maps, graphics, and photos. Together, these fragments speak for our common perspective: We will continue with our solidarity on the routes and build and extend infrastructures for freedom of movement.
No border lasts forever. Solidarity will win!
Video message from Father Mussie Zerai
The creation of Alarm Phone in 2014 was significantly inspired by Father Mussie Zerai. The Eritrean-Italian priest had run a ‘one-man-hotline’ in support of people in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea already for several years. For the Alarm Phone’s 10th anniversary, we asked Father Zerai, who currently lives in Canada, to share his reflections on our common story. This is his video message to us…
