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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

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Lifeboat - A Film About the Asylum Seeker Crisis

Lifeboat seeks to showcase the asylum seeker crisis in the Mediterranean when it was at its height in 2016. Hundreds of asylum seekers often drowning in these flimsy crafts that were pushed off from the shores of Libya because the EU wasn't doing its duty to patrol those waters for humanitarian reasons. The film follows a small NGO called Sea Watch which cobbled together a coalition of volunteers, bought a research vessel and motored down off the coast of Libya to start pulling people out of the water.

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