Last updated 5. March 2025 | PFUI

LECTURE
Mare Liberum, Seebrücke Lüneburg and PENG! invite you to a lecture on the topic of civil sea rescue: Wed, 20.02 at 19:00 in HS5
https://www.facebook.com/events/463293127537056/

DEMONSTRATION
In line with this, there will be a demonstration on Saturday to have Lüneburg declared a safe haven: Sat, 23.02 at 14:00 in Clamart Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/267698004148351/

INFOS ON THE TOPIC (flyer by Seebrücke Lüneburg)
Europe is closing down.
Borders are being closed, migrants are dying trying to get to Europe or are being returned to Libyan camps in violation of international law and financed by the EU. There are no safe entry routes. Those who make it anyway are housed in inhumane conditions. People who try to help are criminalized. Deterrence is the goal.

Countless migrants are stopped at the EU border every day. This denies them the right to apply for asylum in Europe. Frontex, coast guards from various countries and NATO operate largely in secret. Push-backs, pull-backs and fatal accidents are the order of the day.

Mare Liberum acts as a civilian observer in the Aegean Sea and does not leave the field to the state actors alone. With our ship, we document their search and rescue operations, physical assaults, pushbacks and pullbacks: because we want to see what they are trying to hide from us.

The rescue ship IUVENTA has been impounded in Sicily since August 2017. Prior to this, it was deployed in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya to rescue refugees at sea. The crews of the Iuventa rescued over 14,000 people in distress at sea. They are now under investigation. The charge: aiding and abetting illegal immigration! The sentence is up to twenty years in prison.

We want to inform you about the current developments at the EU’s external borders. Using the example of the Iuventa crew, we will show how humanitarian aid workers in Europe are currently being criminalized and what role fascist structures play in this.

-Mare Liberum in cooperation with Seebrücke Lüneburg and the PENG!_ department of the AStA