In this episode we speak with Seb, a 26-year-old bus driver cycling from Amsterdam to Japan, raising money for No Name Kitchen and MiGrate, and raising awareness of brutalities of the global border regime.

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For more from Seb, see his website here: sebbiebikes.org

And follow him on Instagram: sebbiebikes

For more on No Name Kitchen, see: nonamekitchen.org

And check out episodes 87, 63, 59, 58, 51, 41, and 6 of The Civil Fleet Podcast

For more on MiGreat, check out migreat.org/en

Seb and Ben mention a bunch of books in the episode. Here they are:
The Divide by Jason Hickle
Humanitarian borders by Polly Pallister-Wilkins
Whites, Jews and Us by Houria Bouteldja
After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honoured Guests by Ted Rall
Base Nation by David Vine
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevans
Border and Rule by Harsha Walia

[Please don't buy them from Amazon. Jeff Bezos has enough money already. He can fuck off to Mars]

See here for more on Dutch war crimes during the Battle of Chora in Afganistan, see here: https://www.courthousenews.com/dutch-court-finds-2007-bombing-of-afghan-village-unlawful/

Here's the video Ben mentioned of Afghanis clinging to a US plane retreating from the country in 2021 as the Taliban returned to power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUkObNlWjsI

Core Countries – what is Ben talking about? If you want to know more about World Systems Analysis, then check out this great introduction on the theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtOm0N_NVM&t=209s

For more on the arms firm Lockheed Martin, see his article by Campaign Against the Arms Trade: https://caat.org.uk/data/companies/lockheed-martin/

Read The Lancet's study on the number of people killed by economic sanctions since the 1970s here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltext