Crete’s courts are convicting shipwrecked people on the move as “smugglers” in trials lasting minutes, with lawyers documenting minors registered as adults and sentences reaching hundreds of years.
In the early hours of October 5, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico Border, arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was re-established the next day.
The fog of war has not fully dissipated from the mountains and dense forests of Cambodia and Thailand’s borderlands, well over a year after the two nations became ensnared in deadly clashes. It is still unclear who fired the first shot, although both governments blame…
Villagers in Crete are fighting the government’s plan to convert a disused factory into a reception center for people on the move, escalating a monthslong standoff that pits xenophobic backlash against an increasingly securitized European border regime.
Cochise County, AZ — On Monday a set of arrests stemming from the ongoing U.S.-Mexico border wall blockade in southeastern Arizona saw three protesters jailed overnight. The arrests mark the first charges in the now months-long struggle against construction of a double border wall along…
Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rolling prairieland below. “Hi! Thanks for coming!”…
People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylum Pact.
