Episode 44: Reclaim the Sea

In this episode we speak with Tigs Louis-Puttick, the founder of Reclaim the Sea, a UK-based organisation helping refugee women reclaim the seaside as a place of joy.   Tigs tells us about teaching refugees to swim and surf, about the UK government placing asylum seekers on a floating barge – the Bibby Stockholm – and the company which owns the barge's links to the trans-atlantic slave trade.   She also tells us how she was arrested in July 2023 during a protest outside the UK Home Office against the Illegal Migration Bill.     ---Get in touch--- Twitter: @FleetCivil Mastodon: @[email protected] Instagram: thecivilfleet [email protected] civilfleet.com   Support:  ko-fi.com/civilfleet    ---Show Notes--- Follow Reclaim the Sea on Twitter: @Reclaim_The_Sea You can read Reclaim the Sea's report on the financial and moral cost of the Bibby Stockholm here: reclaimthesea.org.uk/atwhatcost    Read Reclaim the Sea's open letter to UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman here: bit.ly/3DTusoT    Two days before this podcast was released, the people who were being held on the Bibby Stockholm were taken off the prison barge because legionella was found in its water supply. Read about that here: bit.ly/45r3wss    For more on the Bibby Stockholm's links to the transatlantic slave trade, see this article by Corporate Watch: bit.ly/3KDwQnI    For more on Corporate Watch, check out episode 40 of The Civil Fleet Podcast   This short article on the Liverpool Museum's website also looks at Bibby Marine's links to the slave trade: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/bibby-line-shipowners   For more on Sea-Watch and Sea-Eye, see episodes 1, 7, 10, 22, 23 and 40 of The Civil Fleet Podcast.   Check out this trailer for The Swimmers, a film Ben mentions in the podcast: bit.ly/4578xqd    For more on the UK's Police Crime and Sentencing Act, see this explanation by the human rights organisation Liberty: bit.ly/3KzJgwL    For more on the UK's Illegal Migration Bill, see episodes 38, 39 and 42 of The Civil Fleet Podcast.