Episode 41: Solidarity along the Balkan route

In today's episode we speak with Barbara from No Name Kitchen about the organisation's work supporting people on the move along the Balkan route into Europe.    She tells us how the EU has externalised its borders in Bosnia and Serbia, how the authorities have effectively made it illegal to help people on the move there, and how this has forced people on the move are to survive underground.  ---Get in touch--- Twitter: @FleetCivil Mastodon: @[email protected] Instagram: thecivilfleet [email protected] civilfleet.com   Support:  ko-fi.com/civilfleet ---Show Notes--- For more on No Name Kitchen, see their website here: nonamekitchen.org    Follow them on Twitter: @NoNameKitchen1   And find them on Instagram here: no_name_kitchen    To volunteer with No Name Kitchen, see here: nonamekitchen.org/volunteer   Check out No Name Kitchen's merch here: nonamekitchen.org/shop Check out episode 6 with No Name Kitchen's Irina on the Spanish military brutally forcing hundreds of people back across the border at Ceuta.   Ben and Barbara mention the criminalisation of solidarity in Greece. For more on the situation there, check out episode 28, with Alice and Hamid from Borderline Lesvos, episode 26, with Samos 2 lawyers Alexandros Georgoulis and Dimitris Choulis, and episode 16, with criminalised activists Madi Williamson and Sean Binder. Don't know what the Dublin Protocal is? Check out this video explanation from the Guardian here: tinyurl.com/2ps3a6em