One of this week's essays is The WatchTheMed Alarm Phone: A Disobedient Border-Intervention by Maurice Stierl. In this essay we are provided with an overview and explanation of the Alarm Phone which is an emergency phone line used for those who happen to be in distress out at sea. In 2014 various activists, volunteers, and human rights groups came together to form the Alarm Phone as a way to aid in the freedom of mobility for all. Stierl explains, “the activists regard the Alarm Phone as a political mobilization in solidarity with the political struggles enacted by people on the move throughout and beyond Eurorope.”(1) The Alarm phone was created in response to the “escalating conflicts in many regions of the world”(2), and more specifically