I’m working on a new project and if you have the means to help support me with this I’d be very grateful.
Fajr /فجر (Arabic): day break, beginning [etymology: to create an outlet or passage (for water), to let pour forth, to cleave, to split, to explode, to burst forth.]
FJR /فجر is about the people here on the frontlines in the war against migration.
The people directly affected by fascist border policies in Europe.
And the people working to resist them – who organise, who create community networks – also many of whom you never hear from in the corporate media.
And because I’m a musician and a writer as well as a journalist, I’ll be sharing some of the songs and writings that I’m creating along the way because creating art from all this injustice and pain is also a form of resistance.
There are over 2,500 refugees in prison in Greece on bullshit smuggling charges.
Everyone knows they’re not the smugglers, but they get 10, 25 year sentences after 5 minute trials with no lawyers, sometimes no interpretation, always with extreme bias.
Since last September I’ve gone to some of the trials and seen firsthand what goes on there as Greece implements racist, fascist EU policies.
And I’ve gotten to know some of the young men from Sudan who managed to get acquitted and come to Athens – and this is something else we’ll hear about in this podcast – along with storytelling, music, poetry and rap from Sudanese artists and hearing why the revolution in Sudan was so powerful and why it was thwarted (colonial interests yet again). We’ll also meet Sudanese artists in Ireland and share as much as we can about bilad al nour 
If you can support HERE please do, every bit helps.
If you can’t, that’s fine, this will all be public for everyone. But if you can at all help to make this I promise it’ll be something you can be proud of being a part of.
See you in the first episode.
Ma salama! Slainte!
Bairbre xx