{"id":3451,"date":"2025-08-28T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flotta.noblogs.org\/?page_id=3451"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:58:58","slug":"no-pipelines-no-borders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flotta.noblogs.org\/ar\/no-pipelines-no-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"No Pipelines, No Borders – The Sea belongs to All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No Pipelines, No Borders – The Sea belongs to All<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We Smell Gas<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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WeSmellGas proudly joins f.Lotta\u2019s mass occupation of the central Mediterranean, bringing climate and energy justice into the fight for a sea free of violence and exploitation, for a world where health, self-determination, ecology and free movement belong to everyone.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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In the Mediterranean Sea, environmental catastrophy and border violence are two sides of the same coin. European imperialism keeps resources flowing into the imperial center, while the people are robbed of their land, water and energy resources, and kept from moving freely. The same guns and walls that protect pipelines, ships, and banks kill those forced to search for dignity and liveable futures. This is why freedom of movement and energy justice go hand in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Mediterranean Sea as a zone of sacrifice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Mediterranean Sea, an important source of life, has been turned into a zone of sacrifice. The capitalist system we live in requires this brutal sacrifice of places, peoples, and nature to keep profits flowing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Extracted energy resources move freely leaving behind destroyed lands, polluted ecosystems, precarious livelihoods, and stolen homes and dreams, all while people on the move are met with murderous borders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The energy industry devastates land and life alike, impacting millions, only to enrich a powerful few. And it is through borders that the system contains the consequences of this destruction, keeping the suffering out of sight and under control. Not only do energy profiteers rely on national borders, they go even further and inflict new walls and fences on communities in grabbed lands, so-called “conservation” parks and internal zones of extraction, to hide and greenwash the violence at the heart of their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, the EU border regime is a profitable industry of its own, one that uses weapons, surveillance, and policing to protect borders drawn by colonial histories. It upholds nationalism in Europe and deepens the instability and dependence of peoples in Africa, Asia and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Connecting the dots<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Across the world, energy companies fuel wars and forced displacement. They steal Palestinian fossil gas during a live-streamed genocide and fuel the Zionist entity\u2019s jets. They profit from the genocide in Darfur\/Sudan, while pipelines cut through war-torn and starved lands. They drill into ancestral lands and sacred deserts in Namibia, chasing fossil fuels at the expense of ecosystems. They continue to make rich land and rivers unliveable and polluted in the Congo Basin, Mozambique, and Niger. While they try to hide the harm they cause, they try to trick us into believing that they are working towards a \u2018greener\u2019 and \u2018safer\u2019 world. But safer for whom? For big capital, European politicians and their elites – not for the Global Majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even within Europe, the marginalized and underrepresented periphery of Europe, the many racialized populations as well as regions in the South and East, are sacrificed for the profit of the few. While millions struggle to make ends meet with rising energy bills and costs of living, fossil fuel companies make record profits. Rather than investing in care, health, and a fairer economy, European governments spend billions on fossil fuels, weapons, and borders, and scapegoat \u2018foreigners\u2019 to wip up nationalist sentiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, our collective ability to resist, act, and move freely in the world is being attacked. Although different in racialized and classed ways, the oppression of migrants and people on the move, poor people, land defenders and organizers increasingly resemble each other. \u201cCounter-terrorism\u201d measures and police states want to suppress people’s resistance, and political awareness and action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Mediterranean is a zone of collective resistance!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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But wherever there is an extractive pipeline, wherever there is a violent border, there is also resistance. While companies, banks and governments try to uphold their unjust and unsustainable systems, social movements everywhere are fighting for real \u200band radical solutions for everyone. People around the world expose the harm \u2013 from genocide to ecocide \u2013 and show how their own experience is inseparable from wider patterns of imperialism and capitalism. With more clarity than ever, \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bwe see that none of us is free until we are all free: to breathe, live and move.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From energy justice to migrant solidarity, people do not only engage in oppositional action; they also build alternative relations and systems as they go. We see the beauty of this everywhere \u2013 from harbor workers refusing to deliver goods and weapons that fuel Israel’s genocide, to people sailing to break the siege on Gaza, to local fishers and sea rescue workers that defy borders. The people have turned the Mediterranean into a space of struggle to defend life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We join millions of people, who demand a world that rejects domination and hierarchy, and fosters justice, freedom and dignity for all. The only solution to the system based on death is to dismantle it. We must sail together towards reimagined futures of collective liberation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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