We’re launching a three-part podcast about freedom of movement, militarisation and intersectiong struggles – from Lampedusa to Gaza – recorded during the first F.Lotta occupation of the central Mediterranean in September 2025.

The voices and stories of activists of rivers and seas from Sardinia to Tunisia, from Calais to Cyprus, from the Niger Delta to Palestine come together to reclaim our waters as a place for collective liberation.

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Part of the exhibition “From Awareness to Action: Echoes of Resistance” that denounces the ongoing violence and dehumanization of Black people on the move in the North of Africa, caused by Europe’s border policies and divisive colonial legacies. It highlights the criminalization of migration and of solidarity and amplifies the voices of Black migrants and Tunisian activists imprisoned for resisting racism and injustice. More than an artistic expression, it is a call to collective action, transforming the exhibition space into a site of dialogue, solidarity, and resistance for dignity and freedom of movement for all.

Broadcasted on Radio Flouka on 21st Oct, 28th Oct and 4th Nov. 2025 at 2PM CET.

Launched on Radio Alhara on the 1st October 2025.

Shared on the f.Lotta Telegram Channel during the action.

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Episode 1: Sailing on the Path of All Those Who Resist

In this first episode, we dive into the movements that are reclaiming the sea as a place of liberation and freedom, with voices from Refugees in Libya, the Freedom Flotilla, Global Sumud and, of course, F.Lotta!

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With the voices of:

Refugees in Libya – campaign video part of F.Lotta

Rima Hassan – Instagram

Global Sumud Flotilla, Tunis – Instagram, additional recording on-site in September 2025.

Bisan Owda – Instagram (1, 2)

WeSmellGas – F.Lotta press conference, September 2025

Flottina Berlin – interviews on-site in September 2025

Synergy f.Lotta (Palestine Campaign) – recorded during the F.Lotta action in September 2025

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Music:

1:50 Lampedusa – Labess

10:29 Part 1 – Nicolas Jaar

16:38 Beyan – Serhado

20:19 Al Shaate Al-Akhar – Kamilya Jubran

25:25 Palestina – Labess

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Interview translations:

Flottina Berlin (Germany)

[19:08, Catalan] A protest took place here in Berli in coordination with the protests that are taking place in Lampedusa to manifest against the inhuman migration policies [...]

[19:35, Spanish] Whoever has been following the news lately sees that the European borders have transformed a sea that many of intertwined cultures share, to one of the biggest cemeteries of the world. It is a sad and revolting situation that violates all human rights. At the end of the day it's a question that people don't want to speak about. It's a question of institutionalised racism.

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Episode 2: Movement, Land and Life

In this second episode we ask: who and what is allowed to move freely, and what is contained? We talk anti-Black racism in North Africa, European borders, sacrifice zones, and pollution – from Gabes (Tunisia) to the Niger Delta. We grieve for those we lost at sea and at the hands of those protecting capital. And we keep on sailing.

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With the voices of:

Chkoun? Collektive – F.Lotta Press conference

Report from Gabes – Instagram

Amina Adebisi Odofin – speaking at WeSmellGas Dayschool in London, May 2025

Filippo Taglieri (ReCommon) – interview by WeSmellGas in during the Convocatoria Ecologista di Taranto in Summer 2023

F.Lotta Minute of Silence – recorded by WeSmellGas in September 2025.

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Music & Poetry:

0:00 Ya Mesafeer Wahdak – Najat Al Saghira

8:56 Dima Dima – Yasser Jradi

12:46 Part 2 – Nicolas Jaar

20:58 Mural – Mahmoud Darwish (Extract)

25:31 العائد – Oumeima El Khalil, Marcel Khalife,

30:53 La Exilada Sur – Inti Illimani

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Interview translations:

Chkoun? Collective

[08:40, French] Borders, prisons and racist policies kill – sometimes fast, sometimes slow. But the wounds are the same everywhere. Racism is a crime, solidarity is not. Justice for all migrants. Freedom for Saadia. Freedom for Abdallah. Freedom for Sonia. Freedom for Cherifa. Free them all.

Gabes (Tunisia) Resident

[13:10, Arabic] This is a picture of the toxic gas leaks in Gabes. It's been two days since people have been suffering. We've actually been suffering our whole lives. For 60 years, we’ve been suffering, and for 60 years, nobody has looked at Gabes or cared to find solutions to stop the pollution, to stop the dumping of Phosphogips into the water, or the poisons in the air. People are sick and suffering a lot. Each and every family has a sick member, either with cancer or bone fragility disease. Nobody is amplifying our voice or our cause. Only we are speaking about our issues and trying to make our own voices heard, while officials and institutions don't respond. For the past two days, there have been several cases of suffocation in Ghannouche, Bouchema, and Chatt Salam, which are the closest areas to the chemical group, and really all of Gabes. Nowadays, we are dying a slow death, and nobody is talking about us or about Gabes. With all due respect to those with large platforms, like influencers and so on, no one is paying attention...

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Episode 3: Let Us Protect Each Other

In this final episode, we dive into the militarisation of our seas and shores – from Sardinia and Sicily via Calais to Cyprus. What does it mean for people on the move, for those communities facing structural abandonment, and societies at large? With some fiery music and insights by local residents from Lampedusa, we dive into how we can resist patriarchal militarism together.

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With the voices of:

F.Lottine (Elba) – direct report September 2025

Aforas (Sardinia) – recorded by WeSmellGas during the Aforas camp in summer 2023

Trinacria (Sicily) – recorded by WeSmellGas during the Aforas camp in summer 2023

Myrto (Cyprus) – direct report September 2025

Flore (Calais) – direct report during F.Lotta action in Lampedusa

Aatma (Lebanon) – Instagram

Malmö Hurya Camp – recording by WeSmellGas, September 2025

Paola (Lampedusa) – recording by WeSmellGas in Lampedusa, September 2025

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Music:

00:30 Figlia d’ ‘a Tempesta– NIÑA

06:30 Ya No Duele – Sombra Alor

08:37 Part 3 – Nicolas Jaar

15:57 River – Ibeyi

21:43 La Rage – Kenya Arkana

28:31 Bingyol – Zulal

31:37 Loud, loud, loud – Aphrodite’s child

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Interview translations:

Flottina Elba (Italy)

[00:03, Italian] Hello comrades, we are speaking directly from the island of Elba, I'm on board of one of the twenty ships gathering outside Porto Feraillo. The weather allowed us to get out and to protest against the migration policies that endanger the safe passage of people on sea and land, and of course in solidarity with the Palestinian people besieged and separated in the Gaza strip as well as in the West Bank. We're sending you hug and a good Flottina to you as well.

Aforas (Sardinia)

[03:59, Italian] I'm Alessandra, I'm part of Aforas, the assembly against the military occupation of Sardinia. [...] In the Sardinian territory, 35.000 hectars of land are occupied by military. There's the largest military base in Europe, in Capo Frasca. There are military areas that are not accessible to the public, such as training and testing grounds used by the Italian and NATO armies. [...] This leads to many problems in our region. Very importantly those of public health and education. All money used for war – military expenditure – is money that is not going to civil society.

Trinacria (Sicily)

[05:50, Italian] I'm Giovanni, I'm from Aggrigento and I'm part of Trinacia, a movement for the liberation of Sicily. We're a regional organisation that is fighting against the military occupation and the condition of colonisation that we are subjected to. [...] Sardinia as well as Sicily are living in a state of colonisation. Sicily, with it's position at the centre of the Mediterranean, has been a strategic point for military control for centuries. [...] We demand better working conditions. In Sicily, we have some of the lowest employment rates in Europe, especially for women. The social-economic situation is degraded and degrading. This is due to the Italian state's refusal to invest in Sicily, forcing us to emigrate from our soil.

Utopia 56 (France)

[13:57, French] For the Calais strait you need to know that since mid-November 2022 there's about 620 million Euros that have been poured by the UK into France to – in big quotation marks – "manage the migratory flows". This means construction of administrative detention centres. Of these 620 million Euros there's about 1% spent on search and rescue capacity. We're speaking about roughly 800 police on duty every day along the coast to keep people from crossing the channel, for controls, for evictions. This leads to a situation where people depart from further and further south, leading to longer trajectories to the UK. We're seeing people leaving from Diep, so we go from 33km to 135km with currents and winds. So today the people die of crossing by boat, they die in trucks, they die in the cities, they die of violence. I'm wondering when is this going to stop? When will it stop? Where is the moment we manage to say "stop!", to reverse course and change the whole paradigm?