Naomi Klein for Mediterranea 2020 ENG CC
Channel: Saving Humans USA
Date: 2020-02-27

Naomi Klein supports Mediterranea - Saving Humans USA in its efforts to save refugees and migrants from the illegitimate detention hell of Libya and what is an inevitable death at sea if all possible rescue efforts aren't made. 
Naomi Klein, New York Times best-selling author, is author of seven critically acclaimed books published in over 30 languages; senior correspondent at The Intercept and Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University.
SCRIPT: Hello, I am Naomi Klein. The Mare Jonio, the Mediterranean monitoring and rescue ship, has finally been released after having been impounded for months by Italian authorities. The ship can now go back to sailing the Central Mediterranean, which has become the most dangerous border in the world: a harrowing graveyard in which tens of thousands have drowned trying to reach safety Italy and Europe. And we have to remember that the numbers we hear about every day forty people, twelve people, two hundred people, are human beings, women, men, and so many children. These are the people that in dozens of missions at sea since Oct. 2018 the Mare Jonio has been rescuing. They have done this despite the Italian government’s efforts to criminalize rescue at sea, which in fact is required under international law and the long traditions of seafarers. To launch the ship again, everyone’s help is needed. It’s time for us to all contribute, whatever we can, to show that to us life is precious and we will not allow these deaths on our watch. Let’s get the rescue ship back to sea. Thank you. (Naomi Klein, February 2020)
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