MV Louise Michel<p>We went to court, and we won.</p><p>We are holding the media accountable for their role in spreading lies about us, Pia Klemp, and most importantly, people on the move.</p><p>2 Years after the MV Louise Michel was detained, the Project and Pia Klemp are taking legal actions across courts in Italy against 15 publications. Today the first trial was scheduled in Bologna. The defendants withdrew their opposition which proves we were right. This is a first win. But it is only the beginning.</p><p>We are stepping into the courtrooms to end these smear campaigns. Not because our feelings were hurt, but as resolute defenders of our rights, of accurate information and justice. As feminism teaches us, we want to start from ourselves, our privilege and means to sustain these fights that so often affect people on the move, who rarely have the capacity to squash defamatory articles and narratives.</p><p>We demand accountability from a system that thrives on sensationalized, distorted facts and prejudice, a system that distracts us from the real victims: people on the move who die at sea, unnamed and misrepresented. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LouiseMichelCase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LouiseMichelCase</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TruthMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TruthMatters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForAllOrNoJusticeAtAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForAllOrNoJusticeAtAll</span></a></p>