Ten Years Alarm Phone

In 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!

Material

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⁨🆘 from 5 people on #Rhodos, #Greece!

They report that they have been stuck on the island for 2 days, so far no help arrived. 1 person among them is in a severe medical emergency situation & needs medical assistance NOW!
@HellenicPolice & @HellenicCoastGuard are informed.⁩⁩

⚫ Shipwreck off #Libya

On 15 November, Alarm Phone was alerted to 30 people in severe distress when fleeing from Libya. We lost contact to the boat & had to learn later that they shipwrecked. According to the so-called Libyan coastguard, 17 people survived while 13 are missing.

⚫️ Another shipwreck off #Tunisia: A survivor told us they departed #Sfax on the evening of 8.11. with 51 other people in an 8-meter-long boat. After struggling with engine problems, the boat capsized on Friday noon due to harsh weather conditions. 1/3

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