In this episode, Nicole (she/her) shares three powerful calls for herbal solidarity from around the world. She highlights an Indigenous-led street clinic offering care and resistance on the frontlines, an ebook fundraiser supporting food sovereignty efforts in Gaza and Sudan, and the new No Borders Herbals Project distributing herbal medicine to people on the move through the Balkans.

Links & resources from this episode

• Ebook Sale - Seeds of Solidarity Funding Drive for Sudanese & Palestinian Farmers - https://solidarityapothecary.org/ebook-sale-seeds-of-solidarity-funding-drive-for-sudanese-palestinian-farmers/
• Solidarity Apothecary Store (where to buy Ebooks and merch) - https://solidarityapothecary.org/store/
• Support the Giwaabamin Herbal Street Clinic - https://gofund.me/bd7645fa4
• No Borders Herbals - https://solidarityapothecary.org/nobordersherbals/
• Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course – https://solidarityapothecary.org/herbalismandptsdcourse/

Find them all at solidarityapothecary.org/podcast/

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Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast with your host, Nicole Rose, from the

Solidarity Apothecary.

This is your place for all things plants and

liberation.

Let's get started.

Hello. Welcome back to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

I'm so sorry to not get an episode out last week.

Needless to say, my baby boy was off nursery with another virus.

Everyone warned me that it would be virus after virus.

I think.

Yeah, I hadn't quite kind of predicted the toll it would take on, like, being able to do

things in terms of, like,

promoting the PTSD course, which, you know, sustains my livelihood and, like, funds nearly

everything with the Solidarity Apothecary.

So, yeah, it's been very tough.

It's been a lot of very late nights, like, trying to support him to sleep when he's got a

fever,

and then, you know, writing ****** Instagram captions and newsletters on my phone and

stuff.

So I apologize.

But, yeah, you know,

capitalism, there just isn't a village like that we need because, you know, all of that

kind of infrastructure has been eroded over time.

And I know we've got a big task ahead of us in terms of rebuilding anything similar that, you

know, parents actually need.

But that is a whole other rant for a whole other day.

But the Herbalism PTSD and Traumatic Stress course is still open for enrollment until

Monday.

I'm gonna put.

Probably be back with some, like, several

short episodes.

I'm just so nervous to say that I will just in case I jinx it.

But, yeah, I will be talking a little bit more about the course and I'll put the links in the

show notes to previous episodes so you can check it out.

You know, the most information is on the sales page.

Like, I've got shitloads of testimonials from people that have been working through it.

I've got detailed descriptions of, like, the modules and the different lessons involved

and, like, the format and things.

It's a ******* amazing offering that's completely sliding scale and will support you

to do loads of badass stuff and learn herbalism and, yeah, kind of befriend your

nervous system and understand it and also, like, you know, strengthen your political

understandings of kind of trauma in the world.

So, yeah, so please check that out.

But I just hopped on today to just kind of,

like, shout out, like, three different Solidarity initiatives that are happening at

the moment with the Solidarity Apothecary.

And, you know, just, like, in general in the herbal world.

Just FYI, like, please get in touch with me if I can share what you're doing like, especially

if it's herbal medicine related.

You know, I can put a post on Instagram, I can

put things in my newsletter, I can share them on my podcast.

So yeah, so let's dive in.

So you may have seen over the years I've done these kind of like ebook sales where all the

proceeds of my ebooks go towards like a certain fundraiser.

I've done several for Gaza.

I've done different ones for different like

anarchist black cross groups and bail funds and you know, all the things at the moment,

like it's obviously like hard to organize.

Like I've mentioned being like a single parent to a toddler right now,

but luckily I've sort of got this like infrastructure set up which can just receive

money.

Woohoo.

Like on my, on my store, like people can buy an ebook and you know, get an instant download

of that ebook or the PDF.

And yeah, it's like a fantastic way to kind of fundraise because I don't have to do much, if

that makes sense.

There's no like mithering people for raffle

prizes and things.

And you know, last time I think we raised like 1500 pounds for the Hatam family in Gaza, for

example.

So yeah, so I'm participating in a kind of larger one at the moment called Seeds of

Solidarity, which is a funding drive for Palestinian and Sudanese farmers.

And yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna read the, the call out because obviously the text

has been written to talk about the projects that are being fundraised for and the

political context.

But yeah, so basically throughout all of October, 100% of all income, and I'll talk

about my books in a minute, will be donated to this Seeds of Solidarity fundraising drive,

which will to these projects.

So about Seeds of Solidarity.

So as conditions continue to deteriorate in

Sudan and Gaza, it is our duty as workers of the land to stand in solidarity with those

experiencing the brunt of colonial violence.

Together, farmers from across the globe are launching the Seeds to Solidarity funding

drive.

As people who work the land, we know the

abundance that earth can provide.

We are asking communities of food growers,

land workers, medicine makers, artists and other food community members to join us in

fundraising towards two vital campaigns to support food sovereignty in the face of

genocide.

The We Must Plant campaign has been initiated by the Jazira and Manadil Farmers Alliance.

This campaign aims to reclaim their agricultural legacy and secure food

sovereignty,

an essential step in resisting the neocolonial and imperialist forces that continue to

exploit their land.

The initiative is also supported by organizations like the Sudan Solidarity

Collective and Sudanese Resistant Front.

And if you go to my website, I'll put the links to these different crews and collectives

and campaigns and alliances.

And yeah, all the links are on the website

post, if that makes sense.

So I'll put that in the show notes.

The other initiative that we must plan,

sorry that Caesar Solidarity is going towards is revive Gaza's farmland.

So this is a project by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature aiming to rehabilitate

Gaza's agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine and counter the

blockade.

So yeah, so please purchase a book in October and it will go towards Seeds of Solidarity.

I'm not going to talk loads about the books on this podcast, but yeah, the books available

are the Prisoner's Herbal, which contains like 10 detailed plant profiles of plants that I

found in prison with like a whole bunch of information on how to work with plants with

like very limited resources.

Overcoming Burnout, which I've talked about a bunch before.

But it, you know, explores like all the ******* challenges of grassroots organizing

such as, you know, classism and sexism and chronic illness and things.

The Medicinal Herb Colouring book is like 40 illustrations of beautiful plants and

descriptions of their medicinal properties that my friend Amani drew.

And finally, Herbalism and State Violence is like my more recent book which contains like

examples of like herbalism in practice around the world with, you know, a bunch of

contributions from different from people from herbal care for handcuff injuries to healing

from incarceration.

It just, yeah, explores all the thing and they're all three pounds apart from Herbalism

and State Violence is six pounds.

And yeah, you're welcome to put a comment in the donations box which is really, really

important.

So if you can put like seeds in, I'll know to ring fence the funds like for this Seeds of

Solidarity campaign.

It's challenging at the moment because this is at the same time as the PTSD course and lots

of people just use the donation funct for their course contribution.

So yeah, so if you don't put that, I won't know if that makes sense.

Okay. And yeah, I've shared the graphics on the old Instagram, so please reshare those if

you can.

And I've also got some graphics on my website

that I'll link to that you can share on your networks as well.

Thanks.

All right, and then the second call for Solidarity is for the Guabamin Herbal Street

Clinic.

So this is in so called Canada and it's like a super inspiring indigenous led grassroots

herbalism project.

And I'm going to read the text from the GoFundMe page, but just to kind of like

introduce it.

Like, I think if you listen to this podcast

and you're passionate about herbal medicine and you're really interested in like, how,

like, you know, how people can do this work in their communities, like, where they are with

people who are really ******* like ****** over by capitalism.

Like, this is a real deal, you know, like, this clinic is like so ******* inspiring to me

in terms of what Kathy achieves and everyone involved in the project achieves.

Um,

and yeah, I just, obviously it'll feel inspiring once I've read the Blur, but I'm

just saying, like, please, please, please, please, please donate.

I know what it's like to run a ******* grassroots project, you know, like the Mobile

Herbal Clinic Calais.

It's like very similar in terms of just like hustling for money when you just want to be

focusing on doing the ******* clinical work and doing the herbalism work.

But yeah, you have to just keep, you know, pushing and pushing and pushing.

And yeah, I'm not sure where they're at with their crowdfunder, but like most of us on

Instagram, like, things are just getting like so ******* buried.

Like anything indigenous led, anything kind of grassroots, like focused on harm reduction or

anything else is just getting like, so shut down.

So, yeah, please just like forward it in an email or just text your friends or put it in

signal groups and just, yeah, please, please, like share the crowdfunder.

Right, okay, I'm going to read the text.

Okay, so about Kathy Walker, a mother of three autistic boys of Mohawk and European descent,

co founded an indigenous led Outreach Toronto 11 years ago.

From that work, she created the Allen Gardens food and clothing drive, now in its ninth

year.

Seeing the gaps in healthcare, Cathy started Guabamin, a free herbal clinic that brings

trauma informed harm reduction care to encampments, shelters and community programs.

What began in Kathy's small apartment has grown into a dedicated space in the Bloor west

community.

Now in the fourth year,

now in our fourth year at our commercial space, Cowabimin focuses on both acute and

chronic conditions,

offering one on one consultations.

We also provide wound care, foot care and aftercare for those discharged from hospitals

or released from prison.

We provide herbal medicine for an insurmountable array of illnesses linked to

houselessness, environmental exposure and poverty.

We meet people where they are physically and emotionally reducing anxiety and making care

more accessible.

Guabamin remains 100% grassroots and does not receive government funding.

Donations cover essentials like rent jars, oil, oil, oils, honey, vegetable glycerin,

alcohol for tinctures and plant materials we cannot harvest ourselves.

Last year we added a children's clinic and expanded support for frontline workers.

This year we've extended herbal outreach to Bill 5 encampments and working on a monthly

pop up with other grassroots body workers to provide herbal medicine, acupuncture, foot

care and massage.

Your support ensures cowabimin continues to grow while staying true to its roots, serving

those most often left behind by the healthcare.

Please consider making a donation and circulating around your social media

platforms.

Thank you.

All right, so I'll put the GoFundMe in the show notes and yeah, just please, please,

please keep sharing.

Okay.

All right.

And the final kind of solidarity call out

announcement is no Borders Herbals.

So yeah, this is like secretly very exciting to me because I' involved in making it happen

in terms of just like offering a bit of support and infrastructure, like, you know,

like offering up the website and my online store infrastructure to help with fundraising

and stuff and just you know,

like giving a little bit support in terms of advice on things.

Yeah, the people involved are like awesome.

And what I am like so secretly happy about is

one of the key people involved in the project has kind of like just developed their

herbalism journey through like enrolling in the herbalism PTSD and traumatic stress

course.

And just like hearing how that's been like really foundational for them to kind of build

their herbal knowledge slowly and to like work through that and to feel like ready and

empowered to do this kind of work.

It's just like, it just makes me so happy because that's like what I want to achieve in

the courses for people to feel confident that they can start medicine making, start

distributing medicine, understand herbal safety, like understand foraging, like.

Yeah. So anyway, I mean, the person's also, you know, got involved in a bunch of stuff

with Calais and everything else.

So yeah, it's been amazing working with them.

And they want to be anonymous, so I can't say their name, but I just love them to death.

And they've come to my place regularly and just done absolute magical things in my herb

shed, which I've really appreciated because yeah, it's very socially isolating having a

baby.

So when someone makes an effort to come and

see you and do like a bunch of practical things, you know,

like helping put things together for the care packages, for example, or making loads of

cough syrup for France, like it's just.

Yeah, it's so strengthening to me.

So a little shout out to them.

Anyway, I'm going to talk about noble determinables and I know it doesn't come

across the best in terms of audio when you read from a page, but I think it's the best

way because you know, like the collective have like confirmed the text together.

So I feel like it's more reflective of the project if that makes sense.

So I'm just going to go for it and I'll put a link to this page in the show Notes so

nobody's Herbals is a self organized project of grassroots herbalists and organizers

distributing herbal medicine packs to people on the move across the so called Balkan route.

Rooted in mutual aid and solidarity, the project supports people experiencing border

violence and denied access to health care who are no borders herbals, noborders Herbals is a

self organized project that stems from the need to create autonomous health care networks

in our regions and across borders.

The project, made up of international radical herbalists, anarchists, organizers and plant

lovers, aims to start a self production of herbal medicine for first aid and acute

conditions to distribute on the migration route across the Balkans,

working as closely as possible with local groups and people already active on the

ground.

Some of us are clinically trained, others are

self learners with hands on medicine making experience.

Some are long term community organizers.

The project doesn't want to replicate the elitist society herbalist sector, not excluded

we are surrounded by.

Instead it's a clear statement that says learning basic first aid knowledge and taking

care of each other's health while rediscovering plant kinship can be down to us

as individuals and resisting communities by breaking down the walls of information

hierarchy.

The project is an attempt to partly fill the gap that people on the move, migrants and

other communities in marginalized and precarious conditions face to access

healthcare in southeastern Europe.

While states worldwide are pumping billions of public money into warfare, megaprisons and

large ecocidal construction projects, national healthcare systems are fast collapsing under

the pressure of funding cuts and privatization.

In the meantime, the western medical industrial complex, with interests tightly

intertwined with the big Pharma and companies who pursue cruel practices such as animal

torture, intends to gatekeep the medical profession by making it accessible only for

the members of civil society who have access to formal education,

often in a class manner, and reserves treatment only to those with the right papers,

conforming bodies and wealthy enough to pay for or just unlucky to run into debt.

Unlucky in air quotes.

This project, together with others across past and present like Ukraine, Herbal Solidarity

and the Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais is rooted in the practice of herbalism as mutual aid and

as a tool for radical solidarity against border violence.

Border violence in the Balkans Border violence is an everyday reality for people on the move

crossing borders worldwide and in the Balkans, it shows one of the most inhumane and violent

sides causing brutality and even deaths in what is one of the least publicly known

geopolitical contexts in Fortress Europe.

We suggest reading the reports like Border Violence Monitoring Network and others have

filed in regards to incidents of systemic oppression on people on the move, which happen

on a daily basis in the region,

as well as many cases of,

excuse me, criminalization of solidarity.

For this reason, this project also takes the opportunity to shed a light on what happens on

the Balkan route.

And then, yeah, there's like links.

I'll put a link obviously in the show notes

to, you know, like several,

several reports basically from the Balkans.

So one of them is ****** Borders, an archive of border violence testimonies gathered by no

Name Kitchen Field Teams.

The Bulgarian Trap. A report again by no Name Kitchen Frozen Lives.

An investigation into how Bulgarian authorities put the lives of people on the

move at risk of death by no Name Kitchen and Collectivo Roti Balconici.

Okay, so like the Balkan Root Collective.

****** hell.

Sorry.

Border Violence Monitoring Network,

who've, you know, been doing this work for years of documenting really horrible.

That's my ad lib there.

Illegal pushbacks and Border violence reports,

which again is by the Border Violence Monitoring Network.

So yeah, like the page here doesn't go into depth of like explicit kind of vivid examples,

but I really recommend checking out those reports so that you can get a really intense

understanding of like what is happening on that particular route.

Yeah, what I'm hoping is to do like another episode about noborders herbals and interview

some people from the project.

And maybe I could even interview someone from

like one of the Border violence monitoring crews, for example, that can like really shed

a light on what's happening there and like why this,

you know, why this project started.

Okay. Healthcare.

Healthcare neglect and violence.

People on the move face severe barriers to healthcare.

In many countries, people without papers are denied access altogether.

Elsewhere, visiting a hospital can trigger detention and deportation.

Even when healthcare is technically available, it is often obstructed by racist

discrimination, language barriers and other systemic obstacles.

Nobody's Herbals works from a principle of harm reduction.

The project provides preventative medicine, self care support and first aid materials to

reduce the risks of untreated illness and injury.

For example, herbal remedies can support the immune system and help prevent a cold or flu

from escalating into a serious chest infection.

Herbal wound sprays can provide antimicrobial protection, reducing the chance of minor

injury becoming dangerous infections.

Volunteers with the Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais have shared that many of the worst

wounds they encounter come from refugees who've crossed the Balkans without access to

even basic wound care.

And with our herbal pact, our aim is to equip people with tools to care for themselves as

best they can while surviving border violence and neglect on their journeys.

And yeah, like, I guess I am just ending up to ad lib on this, but yeah, like, having worked

in Calais for four years, four or five years before I got pregnant,

obviously this, the team is still going out and I'm, you know, I'm still supporting the

project the best I can at the moment.

But yeah, like, I could almost tell as soon as I saw a wound if that person had come through

the Balkans because we were seeing like very established, like secondary infections, you

know, like someone could have been bitten, for example, by mosquitoes like all up their leg

and then that's just become like infected and not,

you know, like, not obviously.

I have seen like necrotic,

necrotic wounds where I've had to refer someone to hospital like, you know,

immediately.

But most of them are like quite serious kind

of microbial infections, which herbal medicine is fantastic at treating.

But yeah, I could almost predict that people, I would say, oh, did you come through, you

know, Bulgaria or Serbia? And they would just like be like, yeah,

because, you know, like, I don't know if it's like a particular microbial got microbiology

in like the forest there or the cold conditions or just like the stress of not

having access to like,

you know, many kind of like much support.

But yeah, we would see like really, really, really infected wounds basically.

And that's why I recommended like doing like a real like potent kind of wound care pack so

that when people are like on their journeys, they can like just kind of DIY clean their

wounds up, cover them, dress them to kind of prevent that like more serious infection

because,

you know, it's a whole other episode.

But like,

you know, once something becomes like systemic, it is like really ******* dangerous

basically to the body, you know, can lead to other like, major complications and just

dramatically take a toll on someone's immune system if they have like several kind of

infections like across wound sites of their body.

Anyway, sorry, that was a real extra.

Okay, I'm going to keep going.

Okay, so distribution goals due to their sensitivity of the context and criminalization

of solidarity in the region.

We are currently unsure we will be able to

share regular updates about the distribution.

However, we are aiming to publish any major news whenever we can.

And just a side note on that, like, lots of people doing solidarity stuff have been, you

know, getting arrested and experiencing criminalization, which is why it can't be like

a snap.

Happy Instagram post of, like, hey, we distributed these packs at this site because,

you know, there's like, a lot of, like, risks of repression from the state, if that makes

sense.

Anyway, sorry, I'm just, just going for it with adding the extras in.

Right.

Our plan is to distribute 50 health packs a

week with seasonal picks to best suit the changing weather.

A couple of special care kits will also be dispensed upon request, and each pack will

come with an ingredients list and instructions for use translated into multiple languages.

The ingredients and the recipes are subject to change to prioritize any available stock

coming from local, ideally independent suppliers who we are looking to link up with

with.

So the winter packs will contain an immune

tonic.

I've talked about this recipe, like, several times, but this is, like, slightly tweaked.

We decided that it would be quite hard to do the cough syrups the way we do them with,

like, the marshmallow gloop.

And it's kind of better to sort of do like a hybrid cough support and immune system support

blend as a kind of like,

you know, preventative.

So, yeah, so this will be like a glycerite blend of immune supporting and antimicrobial

herbs such as elderberry, thyme, ginger, turmeric, fennel and cinnamon.

And again, we're having to,

you know, like, really think about what's available in the region as well.

A bruise ointment,

so like a muscle rub that brings pain relief to muscle pain, bruises, sprains and strains.

And lavender oil, which is an infused oil that helps aid sleep, skin inflammation, burns and

other issues.

And I talk about, I've talked about some of these on the Herbal Care Packages episode.

If you're, like, curious about those recipes.

The summer pack will contain the immune tonic as well as well as, like, an anti itch spray.

So this is a blend of herbal vinegars, aromatic waters and essential oils that is

incredibly effective at reducing the itchiness of insect bites.

And this is really important because it prevents, like, further inflammation and,

like, further potential infection and allows, like, some respite from itching so that people

can sleep.

A herbal cream with, like, infused oils such as chamomile and calendula, which is, like,

really fantastic for, like, Skin inflammation.

And finally a wound care kit with like a witch hazel spray for wound cleaning and debridement

and a wound spray for disinfection and treatment that contains water and tinctures of

myrrh and calendula as well as, you know, like the basic kind of dressings, gauze, bandages

and yeah, hopefully we're going to do a tooth care kit because this is something that was

like really emerged from the field.

And also we've seen it in calla loads as well like this, you know, people struggling with

really severe toothache and like inability to access a dentist.

So yeah, like herbal mouthwash which supports the dental pain as well as helping prevent

upper respiratory infections.

All right.

And so yeah, the current stage we're in at the

moment,

so we've been in this kind of like planning stage for a few months like developing this

web text and people over in the region have been building relationships and networking and

trying to decide who to work with and where to distribute and what's feasible.

But the focus now is, yeah, we'll.

I'll read this.

We will finally run our first small scale test production and distribution this autumn from

Serbia, thanks to the help of local active groups and people who will share some of their

resources with us.

Familiarizing with the local context is a constant work in progress, not likely to end

soon, both in terms of figuring out the scale of impact of the project as well as finding

connections with locals and other logistical practicalities related to the herbal supply

chain.

In the long term, we would like this project to thrive thanks to the connections between

local communities, medicine makers and distribution folks, as well as thanks to the

establishment of solidarity economy links with regional autonomous herbal suppliers.

And again, just a side note, like I so strongly advise this crew about,

I mean this was like their political intentions to have this like sold out economy

and but like say with Ukraine herbal Solidarity, for example, like it was too easy

to just like bring medicine from the uk.

That that meant that like relationships like in Poland and Ukraine, well not in Ukraine but

in Poland were like not developed enough to like make medicine there at the scale we

needed.

Does that make sense? Which made it all very like lopsided.

And when my friend killed himself in prison and I had to step back,

it just, yeah, made things not very resilient.

So I love how nobody's Herbals is like taking

a completely different approach of just like starting from ground zero of like how can we

build these relationships to make sure there's like loads of medicine making skills like

within different projects and like Clear recipes and clear,

you know, like online training for people and you know, like face to face training too.

Yeah, I just like that.

It just feels like much more like strategic

and long term.

Okay, so support needed and how to get involved.

So as the infrastructure of the project solidifies, it will become clearer how people

can get involved both at the local and international level.

In the meantime, we need more hands on deck to figure some more stuff out.

So if you can help with any of these requests, please get in touch@nobordersherbalsroton me.

And yeah, the following questions apply to like the any of the Balkan countries,

especially Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, but not limited to them.

So this is a kind of like what we're looking for, if that makes sense.

So do you know of any herb growers,

like herb grower networks or individuals in the region?

We're especially interested in small independent growers to start developing plans

for a solidary economy circle.

Do you know of anyone who has access to land in the region?

Do you know of any local suppliers in the region who sell either online or at high

street level or independently?

Things like dried herbs or tinctures or infused oils or essential oils,

especially food grade palm oil, free glycerin if possible.

Do you have access to a space for medicine making or storage such as, you know, like a

commercial or collective kitchen?

Are you in the region and interested in medicine making?

For the project,

we really want to organize some DIY trainings and oh my God, I would love to like go over

with the baby and maybe a grandma to look after the baby and do some like face to face,

hands on, like several days of medicine making to just get people like solid,

you know.

But if you've already got experience in

medicine making,

that would be amazing.

Like please get in touch with us.

Okay. And then there's also like a plan wish list.

I'm sorry, this is a very long introduction to nobody's herbals, but better to be thorough.

So yeah, there's a note here.

We are aware of how problematic it is to use

the Latin name of plants due to its history of colonization and oppression.

We're using this terminology for exclusively practical reasons.

Regional names are wholesome and nuanced, but it's often hard to communicate with precision

which plant we're talking about.

So do you have access to any of these herbal

supplies?

So some of the herbs we're looking for are elderberries, thyme, cinnamon sticks, fennel

seeds, ginger, turmeric, lavender, St. John's wort, comfrey, daisy,

sunflower oil, Extra virgin olive oil and yeah, packaging.

If you know of any hot, affordable packaging suppliers, that would be amazing.

As well as, you know, any first aid suppliers.

Okay, so that all sounds amazing, doesn't it? That project, like people getting packs, like

consistently being distributed, you know, at the same time where, you know, food and

clothes is potentially being distributed and people being able to have medicine to, you

know, like take care of their own wounds and prevent,

you know, a simple ******* cough or cold, like turning into pneumonia, for example.

I'm not making that claim as a herbalist, but I'm just saying, like, that's the goal with

any, like self care.

And herbalism is preventative medicine, right? Is to prevent things from getting worse.

So there is a fundraiser happening as we speak, which I maybe should have started with,

with.

I need to update the website page because it has been launched now.

So we've got a amazing T shirt that's being sold at a sliding scale from 20 quid to 40

quid.

And the design is of a Bulgarian police car being destroyed and covered in plants.

And the text says, your walls and your borders, plants won't follow your law and

order.

And it's been drawn by Minty Mori, the artist, and is going to be screen printed by Carry On

Screening, who've done all this amazing stuff for Calais, as well as a crew in Italy called

Split Image Screen Printing.

So folks in Italy will be posting T shirts out to people in Europe and I'll be sending them

out to people who've ordered them anywhere else in the UK or the US for example.

But I will obviously put a link in the show notes,

yeah,

to how to get one of those T shirts.

And the deadline I think is the 27th of

October to buy one.

So please support the project, Please buy a T

shirt and if you are living in one of those Balkans countries and you want to get

involved, please hit us up on the email.

That would be amazing.

Be aware it's going to take a little bit of

time to reply to emails,

but yeah, thank you so much for your interest and solidarity.

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