In this episode, we speak with Peter from The Channel Monitoring Project. 

 

He tells how the new project plans to monitor people crossing over from France to England, how the group hopes to counter the toxicity around this in Britain, and how anyone can get involved. 

 

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For more on The Channel Monitoring Project, see their website here:  
channelmonitoringproject.com

 

Find their social media profiles here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566003603488

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/channelmonitoring.bsky.social

And Discord: discord.com/invite/ZnpQCMCjtc

 

For more on Channel Rescue, see episode 11

 

Read about the UK Border Force training to push people back to France, here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/uk-border-force-may-have-begun-attempts-to-push-refugees-back-across-the-channel-already-evidence-suggests

 

For more on The Channel, the Illegal Immigration Act, the Nationality and Borders Act, the Rwanda Scheme, the Bibby Stockholm and more on the UK, see episodes 73, 62, 61, 57, 49, 44, 42, 39, 38, 32, 25, 21 and 17

 

For more on the Pylos Shipwreck, see episodes 60 and 52

 

For more on the Anduril's AI system at the border, see this report from Migrant Rights Network: https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/the-digital-hostile-environment/ai-borders-anduril-autonomous-surveillance-towers/

 

For more on Refugees in Libya, see episodes: 79 and 29