Podcast appearances and mentions of aviva chomsky

The spectre of the EnlightenmentWhat the Enlightenment a net positive or a net negative? Or is that the wrong question, and should we look at it simply as a historical period?Join Professor of History Aviva Chomsky as she dissects one of the most important periods in modern history from the lens of a critical historian. The Enlightenment was not just a period that produced thoughts and ideas - it was an excuse and a reordering of world hierarchies. Do you agree with her conclusions? Email us at podcast@iai.tv with your thoughts or questions on the episode!To witness such topics discussed live buy tickets for our upcoming festival: https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/And visit our website for many more articles, videos, and podcasts like this one: https://iai.tv/You can find everything we referenced here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hoy en @cosapublica2 , con @rmartinmar y @jestradax 1. Trump: resistencias, T-MEC, migración 2. Aviva Chomsky, profesora de historia y coordinadora de Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad Estatal de Salem 3. Aviva Chomsky, profesora de historia y coordinadora de Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad Estatal de Salem 4. Globales Iniciamos en @cosapublica2, con @rmartinmar y @jestradax.Hoy: Aviva Chomsky, profesora de historia y coordinadora de Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad Estatal de Salem. Escúchanos en el 104.3 FM y https://t.co/hvSFWSM2k2 https://t.co/kOlEQRi1xR— Radio Universidad de Guadalajara (@RadioUdeG) February 6, 2025

Listen in as we discuss the story of US imperialism in central America and how it relates to today.   Aviva Chomsky is an American professor, historian, author, and activist. She is a professor of history and the Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts.

Episode 281 of RevolutionZ has Avi Chomsky as guest to discuss current  campus  and community activism, colonialism, nation states, immigration, borders,  lessons from Central America and the Global South, and the role of students, labor, and religious organizations in sustaining resistance. We consider the logical and emotional innards of dissent, where strategic pursuit of immediate relief intersects with a longer term quest for societal transformation.Support the Show.

This week on HRN we are examining how folks are changing the world of food and how food has always been a part of changing the world. We are traveling through space and time to bring stories of trailblazers and revolutionaries–those who are truly breaking bonds. First, we reflect on how the Persian diasporic community is connecting to cuisine in the context of the women-led revolution underway in Iran. We also hear about how a group of women banana workers in Latin America have transformed their unions. Next, we travel to Japan to hear how one sushi chef is carving out space for women in a male-dominated industry. Finally, we hear how a group of Black chefs in the Netherlands feed their community and beyond while raising awareness about the history of enslavement. If you are hungry for inspiration come and listen!Further Reading:You can find Dana Frank's book Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America here. You can find Naz Deravian's cookbook Bottom of the Pot here and read her blog hereLook to Aviva Chomsky's essay, Globalization, Labor, and Violence in Colombia's Banana Zone, for further reading.Check out this interview with Iris Munguia, the lead organizer for the Coordination of Banana Unions in Honduras (COSIBAH). You can learn more about Adela Torres, the General Secretary of Colombian agricultural workers union, here.Learn more about Keti Koti and Arya and Ira Kip's work here, and check out this video about the unresolved colonial history of the Dutch.Check out Yuki Chidui's Instagram here.Meat and Three is Powered by Simplecast.

Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about creating a labour movement for the 21st century. The triumph of Neoliberalism has meant that the state no longer works toward the welfare of its population but rather to improve corporations conditions to profit. She speaks of the changing face of the labour movement, the diversity of voices that are forging a wider and more inclusion vision of labour rights and responsibilities to social justice. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com

Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (April 2021). Photo by Phil Botha on Unsplash A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS

About Professor Aviva Chomsky: https://directory.salemstate.edu/profile/avi.chomskyCheck out Professor Chomsky's latest book, Central America's Forgotten History: https://www.amazon.com/Central-Americas-Forgotten-History-Revolution/dp/0807056480 Get full access to Unlicensed Philosophy with Chuong Nguyen at musicallyspeaking.substack.com/subscribe

00:08 Aviva Chomsky, professor of History and Latin American Studies at Salem State, on her new book Is Science Enough: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice The post Aviva Chomsky on Climate Justice, Reparations, and De-Growth appeared first on KPFA.

Politicians of both parties buy into American Exceptionalism. But what does it mean to the planet? On this show professor Aviva Chomsky sheds light on the aspects of exceptionalism we don't want to see. Instead of a good life just The post The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.

Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about the structured violence of empire. We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism. Millions displaced by hunger, military violence and ecological destruction that puts them in the eye of multiple storms. Aviva Chomsky's latest book: Central America's Forgotten History, answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and Indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression. Consider Supporting the show by becoming a Member of Latin Waves https://latinwavesmedia.com/

Solving the climate crisis is about more than just swapping out fossil fuels with renewables. Though renewable energy is required for a sustainable planet, understanding the political, social, and economic structures that have allowed for fossil fuels to be burned long after global warming reached dangerous levels is essential for attacking the root causes of the crisis. Professor Aviva Chomsky addresses these issues in her new book Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice. In this conversation, Professor Chomsky explains why social, racial, and economic justice is just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe. We also discuss the Green New Deal, the Degrowth movement, tension between unions and the environmental movement, and why climate change is a democracy problem.  Read Is Science Enough? Subscribe to our Substack newsletter "The Climate Weekly": https://theclimateweekly.substack.com/ As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group. Check out our updated website!  

Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about creating a labour movement for the 21st century. The triumph of Neoliberalism has meant that the state no longer works toward the welfare of its population but rather to improve corporations conditions to profit. She speaks of the changing face of the labour movement, the diversity of voices that are forging a wider and more inclusion vision of labour rights and responsibilities to social justice. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com

Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about the structured violence of empire. We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism. Millions displaced by hunger, military violence and ecological destruction that puts them in the eye of multiple storms. Aviva Chomsky's latest book: Central America's Forgotten History, answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and Indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression. Consider Supporting the show by becoming a Member of Latin Waves https://latinwavesmedia.com/

Prof. Aviva Chomsky teaches history and Latin American studies at Salem State University and has authored and edited numerous books including Central America's Forgotten History, A History of the Cuban Revolution, and Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.Her latest book Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice tries to answer, in a clear and accessible way, the questions about what we ought to do to deal with the climate catastrophe. Prof. Chomsky takes the position that conversations about The Science often overlook important issues of justice, and the political and economic changes that will be necessary to prevent the worst suffering from climate change. She goes through proposed policy responses to the situation and shows what it will actually take to respond effectively and prevent the problem from spiraling out of control. Is Science Enough? is a useful primer for anyone who wants to go beyond the facts of IPCC reports and think seriously about the choices we now face. It's a book grounded in a desire to give people the practical knowledge they will need to take action. (It also answers the question of whether driving a Prius does anyone any good.) Edited by Tim Gray.

Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about creating a labour movement for the 21st century. The triumph of Neoliberalism has meant that the state no longer works toward the welfare of its population but rather to improve corporations conditions to profit. She speaks of the changing face of the labour movement, the diversity of voices that are forging a wider and more inclusion vision of labour rights and responsibilities to social justice. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com

Do you buy into American Exceptionalism? Politicians of both parties do. But what does it mean to the planet? On this show professor Aviva Chomsky sheds light on the aspects of exceptionalism we don’t want to see. Technical tweaks alone The post The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.

This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents a critique of US Megacorp merger (Microsoft and Activision Blizzard), China vs US on inflation and economic growth, and the collapse of Boris Johnson (like Trump's lost election). In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews author Aviva Chomsky on problems and prospects of US labor and left social movements.    

Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture in April 2021, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio. The occasion was the release of her new book, which revisits Central American history, especially the wars of the 1980s and their ongoing consequences. This week's program presents excerpts from that event.     Notes:   This is a rebroadcast of a previously-aired Project Censored Show.   Aviva Chomsky, eldest daughter of Noam Chomsky, is professor of history at Salem State University in Massachusetts; her field is Latin American studies. She's written extensively about immigration, and also has been involved in Latin American solidarity work for over a quarter-century. Her book, Central America's Forgotten History, is published by Beacon Press.         Music-break information: 1) "Marwa Blues" by George Harrison 2) "Ride Across the River" by Dire Straits 3) "Phoenix" by Wishbone Ash 

Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about the structured violence of empire. We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism. Millions displaced by hunger, military violence and ecological destruction that puts them in the eye of multiple storms. Aviva Chomsky's latest book: Central America's Forgotten History, answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and Indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression. Consider Supporting the show by making a Donation https://latinwavesmedia.com/

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode Andrew is joined by Aviva Chomsky, the author of the forthcoming book Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice, to discuss why social, racial, and economic justice is just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe. Find more Keen On episodes and additional videos on Lit Hub's YouTube Channel!   ________________________ Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights movements for over 30 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about creating a labour movement for the 21st century. The triumph of Neoliberalism has meant that the state no longer works toward the welfare of its population but rather to improve corporations conditions to profit. She speaks of the changing face of the labour movement, the diversity of voices that are forging a wider and more inclusion vision of labour rights and responsibilities to social justice. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com

September 21, 2021--Join Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow talk with the historian, author and activist, Aviva Chomsky to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This is the first of 4 special programs in a series that will air Tuesdays at 3pm on KZYX through mid-October.

Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about the structured violence of empire. We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism. Millions displaced by hunger, military violence and ecological destruction that puts them in the eye of multiple storms. Aviva Chomsky's latest book: Central America's Forgotten History, answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and Indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. https://latinwavesmedia.com/

President Biden's plan to secure “security and prosperity” in Central America appears to be a continuation of the longstanding policy of US intervention in Latin America and economic exploitation of its people and resources. Experts not only doubt that the Biden administration's plan will do much to mitigate the political, economic, and climate-related issues driving migrants to leave their home countries for the United States, but fear that it will exacerbate said issues while leaving migrants in ever more precarious positions. In this week's episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc talks to professor Aviva Chomsky about the larger goals of Biden's Central America policy and the humanitarian havoc it could create. Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of the Latin American Studies program at Salem State University in Massachusetts; she is the author of many acclaimed books, including Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.Tune in for new episodes of The Marc Steiner Show every Tuesday on TRNN.

President Biden's plan to secure “security and prosperity” in Central America appears to be a continuation of the longstanding policy of US intervention in Latin America and economic exploitation of its people and resources. Experts not only doubt that the Biden administration's plan will do much to mitigate the political, economic, and climate-related issues driving migrants to leave their home countries for the United States, but fear that it will exacerbate said issues while leaving migrants in ever more precarious positions. In this week's episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc talks to professor Aviva Chomsky about the larger goals of Biden's Central America policy and the humanitarian havoc it could create. Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of the Latin American Studies program at Salem State University in Massachusetts; she is the author of many acclaimed books, including Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.Tune in for new episodes of The Marc Steiner Show every Tuesday on TRNN.

We sit down with Professor Aviva Chomsky to discuss the recent protests in Cuba, the history of Cuban racial unity and strife, and how the island nation is dealing Covid. Shownotes Episode #116: David, Goliath, and US-Cuban Relations with Aviva Chomsky The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, and Politics History of the Cuban Revolution OnCuba

It's impossible to look at today's crisis at the border without considering decades of interventionalist policy in Latin America. Aviva Chomsky, professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University, joins guest host John McCaa to talk about hundreds of years of colonization and displacement, and why stabilizing the region will take more than just economic aid. She's the author of “Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.”

Picking up where we left off last week, Aviva Chomsky leads us through the legacy of 20th-Century revolutionary movements in Central America and what it means for immigration policy today.

In Aviva Chomsky's latest book, “Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration” she speaks of collective memory by saying: “All memory is, in a sense, constructed. As individuals or as members of groups, we privilege some memories over others, and we create coherent and meaningful stories and understandings of our past and present out of fragments of memory. Forgetting is an inevitable part of memory. By highlighting-remembering certain details, events, or interpretations, we erase or forget others. We forget because our individual and collective histories overflow with detail that would form a chaotic blur if we did not form them into coherent narratives. But when we rely on one narrative, we may be suppressing others. “   Racist rhetoric regarding immigrants as well as draconian policy on immigration didn't start with Donald Trump, and it doesn't seem to be ending under the current Biden administration either. The United States intervention in Central American politics has been a long-standing affair with disastrous results for the people of the region. Weather it's the CIA backed coups in the name of U.S private industry, Drug War Policy, or suppressing Leftist uprisings, or assassinating democratically elected leaders, the United States has been a central part of the current wave of “migrant caravans”.   About Aviva Chomsky: Much of my scholarly work can be traced back to the year I spent working for the United Farm Workers union back in 1976-77. I credit that experience with sparking my interest in the Spanish language, in migrant workers and immigration, in labor history, in social movements and labor organizing, in multinationals and their workers, in how global economic forces affect individuals, and how people collectively organize for social change.   My recent work has been in three main areas: the Cuban revolution, northern Colombia's coal industry, and immigration and undocumentedness in the United States. Thematically, I incorporate the issues of colonialism, economic development, migration, race, labor, environment, and global inequality. My book Linked Labor Histories looks at globalization as a long historical process with labor history at its center. It examines how employers have used regional inequalities to gain access to cheaper workers through immigration, plant relocation, and by using the threat of these two tactics to discipline their workers. I focus on several interrelated case studies in New England and Colombia, including the textile industry, the banana industry, and the coal industry, to argue that local labor histories are best understood in a global context. I recently published a brief, analytical college-level text on the Cuban Revolution, two books on immigration: They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration, and Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal, and a book on Central America's Forgotten History. My current research weaves together labor and environmental histories, focusing on a region of Colombia where Indigenous and Afro-descended peoples have long evaded state control. Today they face an onslaught of extractivist projects and changing legal and social meanings of race and ethnicity in the context of continent-wide movements for plurinationalism and alternative visions of economic development.   Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

Activist and historian Aviva Chomsky takes us on a deep dive into the many factors that make foreign-aid-as-immigration-policy a contentious issue. Join host Chris Lyon as he and Chomsky discuss the 19th-century economic, social, and political mechanisms of U.S. interference in Central American countries in this week's episode.

In this episode, Honduras Program Co-Director, Allison Lira talks to historian and activist Aviva Chomsky about the settler-colonial legacy that shapes the U.S. migration debate and her new book Central America's Forgotten History: Revolutions, Violence, and the Roots of Migration. Aviva is a professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books and has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights issues for over twenty-five years. On Tuesday June 29 at 4:30 PT/6:30 CT/7:30 EST, the Solidarity Collective will be hosting a virtual event with Aviva Chomsky to continue the conversation. If you'd like to join in register for the discussion using the link below. https://zoom.us/.../tJcocOGrpz0pGtRSpR6shvtzsfmUhuiOOE5S Resources: -https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bruised-by-border-politics-some-biden-officials-cling-trump-restrictions-2021-06-10/ -https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-honduras-mexico-immigration-border-patrols-917c0fea87c0a807b371da207d34c8cc -https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/title-42-strict-border-enforcement-policies-put-migrants-in-harms-way-title-42-is-no-exception/ -https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/kamala-harris-central-america-guatemala-visit-us-imperialism?fbclid=IwAR1NjUJrqJz6L1pwBmhZbbWzcufXk3Yt2tTmn9vuggX0xjwzsALytPvN6gs

Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture on April 29, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio. The occasion was the release of her new book,…

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, former member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. She discusses why the two-state solution is dead, Israel’s responsibility for destroying it, the international community’s inaction over Israel’s illegal occupations, annexations, and airstrikes, the 11 days of aerial bombardment of Gaza which killed 248, including 66 children, and Israel’s justifications that its strikes targeted Hamas, the severe economic and human damage in Gaza following the bombardment, US-UK-EU arms sales to Israel and replenishment of arms after the 11 days of Israeli bombardment, Joe Biden’s US blocking action at the UN to pressure Israel, and much more! Finally, we speak to Prof. Aviva Chomsky, author of ‘Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration’, and the daughter of Noam Chomsky. She discusses the US’ support for right-wing governments in Latin America which followed Washington imposed neoliberalism and the foreign investment model of economic extractivism, how Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela provided a different path for Latin American nations to avoid neoliberalism imposed by the US, IMF, and World Bank, the US demand that Latin American policies must be favourable for US corporations, which in turn hurts the working classes of Latin America, the US government’s efforts to destroy left-wing politics within trade unions in the United States, Latin America, and around the world, the US-backed overthrow of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009, why Biden’s foreign policy in Latin America is not likely to diverge from past presidents, and much more!

Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (April 2021). Photo by Phil Botha on Unsplash Our next book club meeting will take place on June 15th. It will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet at 7pm EST and will be reading Wide Sargasso Sea. All are welcome!Sign up here! A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS

Join Avi Chomsky and Steve Stiffler as they discuss their new book, Organizing for Power, with Eric Loomis. Boston 's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class -- a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Organizing for Power explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously liberal, relatively wealthy, and increasingly difficult for working people (who service the city 's needs) to actually live in. Organizing for Power is the only comprehensive analysis of labor and popular mobilizing in Boston today, the volume contributes to a growing body of academic and popular literature that examines urban America, racial and economic inequality, labor and immigration, and the right-wing assault on working people. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Steve Striffler is the Director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston and author of Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights. Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of numerous books; and has been active in Latin America solidarity and immigrants' rights movements for several decades. Erik Loomis is associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. His latest book is A History of America in Ten Strikes, published by The New Press in 2018. ---------------------------------------------------- Order a copy of Organizing for Power: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1559-organizing-for-power ---------------------------------------------------- Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/hs6WMuzwmzA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Sam and Emma host historian Aviva Chomsky to discuss her latest book Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration on the history of extraction, exploitation, and the root causes behind migration from the Northern Triangle to the southern US border, as well as why the American empire bears much of the responsibility for the region's sustained destabilization. And in the Fun Half: how we talk about politicians and sex workers, the new mask discourse, Israel destroying the media infrastructure in Gaza is about punishment, Alan Dershowitz remains one of the worst living Americans, Dan Bongino uses facts and logic to the best of his ability, Ricky Schroeder know for playing a cop and little Lord Fauntleroy harasses Costco, plus your IMs! Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) The AM Quickie is now on YouTube Subscribe to the AM Quickie at https://fans.fm/amquickie Make the AMQ part of your Alexa Flash Briefing too! You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Check out today's sponsor: Stitch Fix is a personal styling company that makes getting the clothes you love effortless. To get started, go to StitchFix.com/MAJORITY to set up your profile and they’ll deliver great looks personalized just for you – in your colors, styles and budget. Get started today at StitchFix.com/MAJORITY and you’ll get 25% off when you keep everything in your Fix! Honey: add Honey to your computer for free and shop on lots of your favorite websites like normal. If Honey finds a coupon, it will automatically tell you, applying the correct codes and dropping the price in a flash. Try Honey today at JoinHoney.com/MAJORITY Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein’s podcast News from Nowhere, at https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel! Check out The Nomiki Show live at 3 pm ET on YouTube at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover, or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @BF1nn  

 Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about creating a labour movement for the 21st century. The triumph of Neoliberalism has meant that the state no longer works toward the welfare of its population but rather to improve corporations conditions to profit. She speaks of the changing face of the labour movement, the diversity of voices that are forging a wider and more inclusion vision of labour rights and responsibilities to social justice.Books By Aviva Chomsky atClick Here Support the Show atwww.latinwavesmedia.com

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Wang Huiyao, founder and president of the Centre for China and Globalisation and counselor on China’s State Council. He discusses the blockage of the Suez Canal by the ‘Ever Given’ ship, 400 US military bases surrounding China, alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, why accusations of two million Uighurs in re-education camps in Xinjiang are baseless, why the reports of forced labour in Xinjiang are not true, the Communist Party’s efforts towards poverty alleviation, social security expansion in China, and much more! Finally, we speak to Aviva Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University and daughter of Noam Chomsky. She discusses the US-Mexico border crisis, why the issue is much more complicated than ‘Biden locking up children at the border,’ how US immigration and foreign policy are behind thousands leaving their homes in Latin America and heading for the United States, why $4 billion for El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in disaster aid won’t end the migration crisis, how structural racism is one of the causes of the border crisis, the economic conditions causing people to flee their home countries, US interventions and regime change operations that have impoverished millions in Latin America, and more!

"Illegality is the flip of inequality.  It serves to preserve the privileged spaces for those deemed citizens and justify their privilege by creating a legal apparatus to sustain it. Heightened panic about illegality coincides with growing global inequality and the dependence of the privileged on the labor of the excluded." -Aviva Chomsky, UNDOCUMENTED: How Immigration Became Illegal   “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute,” (Psalm 82:3). “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, and please the widow's cause,” (Isaiah 1:17)   In this episode we speak with Public Defense Attorney and friend, Raha Jorjani.  Raha reached out to me because she's dealing with a troubling case and she's looking to amplify the voice of her client.  Walter Cruz Zavala.  Walter came to this country from El Salvador when he was 14 fleeing the horrible conditions of his homeland.  Sexual abuse, gang violence, El Salvador was no longer a safe haven for Walter.  From the Alameda County Public Defender's Office:   "He came to the U.S. on his own and joined his father, who was already here. His mother, father, sister, and brother are all U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States. He has not returned to El Salvador. Cruz-Zavala was recruited into MS 13 as a teenager in the United States. A U.S. government informant convinced him to get two gang-related tattoos; prosecutors then used the tattoos as evidence against him in a federal criminal case. Cruz-Zavala was acquitted of all charges by a federal jury but the tattoos continue to endanger his life. “An individual acting on the government's behalf gave 18-year-old Walter the very tattoo that makes it likely he'll be tortured in El Salvador, and now that same government will stop at nothing to deport him there,” Jorjani said. Immigration authorities detained Cruz-Zavala in July 2017 and tried to deport him back to El Salvador after he was convicted of five DUIs and one charge of carrying a concealed firearm. However, in May 2018, an immigration judge decided the government could not send CruzZavala back to El Salvador because he likely would be tortured and/or killed."   In this episode we talk about Walter's case, and the many more like Walter that sit in immigration prisons called "civil custody" for undefined amounts of time.     To Send Messages of Support Send Them Here: Walter Cruz-Zavala ICE Detainee Mesa Verde Detention Facility 425 Golden State Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93301   Send a letter to the US Attorney's Office to Ask for Walter to Released While He Waits for his Day in Court: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/meet-us-attorney   Hedges v. Obama Case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama   Thank you all again for taking the time to check this out.  We truly appreciate you.  As you know, this show is totally listener funded, so if have the ability, please become a patron.  You'll get bonus content from some of the shows, as well as Patron only shows.  It's cheap (only $3!)  Become a Patron Now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Also, follow, like, share, and subscribe on the following platforms:   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/vengeance-has-no-foresight-837212d85a97        

Featuring a deep dive with 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (among many other books). We will also be joined by scholar and activist Aviva Chomsky, (author of Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!” and 20 Other Myths about Immigration). As the 2020 Election draws near, how do we understand the nature of Trumpism and its relationship to what has come before? How do we grasp the rise of Trump's Border Wall and the way it is re-shaping US political imagination? How has U.S. American history from the beginning been shaped by the way that the edges of the country have been imagined and constructed–often through racism and violence? How does grappling with the long and bloody American history of the “frontier” and the border change the way we see the present politics and future possibilities for the USA in the 21st century? How does studying the history of the border help us to see that ways that US “domestic” & “foreign” policy are deeply related? What will the “end” of the long-standing myth of perpetual American economic and geographic expansion mean for contemporary politics? What can be done to refuse a future defined by rising border walls and to instead reimagine global human liberation in this era of crisis?

Aviva Chomsky brilliantly explains the history of illegality in the United States in her book, "Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal" published in 2014.  She explains the racial and political context of the concept of illegal immigration as well as explaining how large agricultural companies use immigration laws to maintain a highly profitable slave wage work force that has no rights when exploited.     A little about Aviva Chomsky:   "Much of my scholarly work can be traced back to the year I spent working for the United Farm Workers union back in 1976-77. I credit that experience with sparking my interest in the Spanish language, in migrant workers and immigration, in labor history, in social movements and labor organizing, in multinationals and their workers, in how global economic forces affect individuals, and how people collectively organize for social change."   To purchase Aviva Chomsky's books, click the link below: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/205871/they-take-our-jobs-by-aviva-chomsky/   A great review of Undocumented:  https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2015/01/review-undocumented-how-immigration-became-illegal       Thank you for taking the time to check out the show.  We truly appreciate you.  If you enjoy what you're hearing and you'd like to support independent media like this, then BECOME A PATRON! You'll get the episodes early, you get all the bonus content as well as special merchandise! Become a patron now   Patreon https://www.patreon.com/BitterLakePresents   Please like, share, and subscribe on the following platforms as well:   YouTube   Facebook   Twitter   Instagram   Medium  

In our fifth episode of Shelter & Solidarity, we are scholar-activists Aviva Chomsky (author of Undocumented, ‘They Take Our Jobs!' and Twenty Other Myths about Immigration), Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki (co-authors of the book, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid), as well as veteran organizerAlma De Jesus (of AF3IRM) for an urgent but deep dive into the current crisis. How can we support immigrant communities, public health, and human rights in this COVID-19 pandemic moment?

Although Trump's rhetoric on immigration is shocking, suggesting border patrol should shoot border crossing immigrants in the legs, his policies are an intensification of policies that began under Obama, not a dramatic departure, says Aviva Chomsky.

Dr Aviva Chomsky is a professor and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She has previously been a professor at Bates College and a faculty research associate at Harvard University, specializing in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. The eldest daughter of linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, she has a longstanding interest in Latin American cultures and histories which she traces to the year she spent working for the United Farm Workers union in 1976-77. Her six books and many articles explore, among other questions, the history of immigration, labor, globalization, and social mobilization in Latin America and in the United States. She speaks to us about her “Her latest book They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, she dismantles common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like I’m not against immigration, only illegal immigration

Dr Aviva Chomsky is a professor and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She has previously been a professor at Bates College and a faculty research associate at Harvard University, specializing in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. The eldest daughter of linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, she has a longstanding interest in Latin American cultures and histories which she traces to the year she spent working for the United Farm Workers union in 1976-77. Her six books and many articles explore, among other questions, the history of immigration, labor, globalization, and social mobilization in Latin America and in the United States. She speaks to us about her “Her latest book They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, she dismantles common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like I’m not against immigration, only illegal immigration

Air Date: 7/10/2019 Today we take a look at the history, legality, conditions and consequences of US concentrations camps erected to house asylum seekers fleeing from unspeakable violence only to land in the hands of Trump's intentionally torturous immigration detention system Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991   Episode Sponsors: Babbel.com | Simplehabit.com/LEFT Amazon USA| Amazon CA| Amazon UK| Clean Choice Energy Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content: Support our show on Patreon! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Are Immigration Detention Centers Concentration Camps? - The Real News - Air Date 6-23-19 Aviva Chomsky discusses the reality of refugees coming to the U.S in light of the controversial statement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that refugees are kept in concentration camps Ch. 2: Concentration Camps in the U.S. Andrea Pitzer Decries Tent Cities for Detaining Kids Without Trial - Democracy Now - Air Date 7-5-19 Andrea Pitzer writes, “I defined concentration camps as the mass detention of civilians without trial, usually on the basis of race, religion, national origin, citizenship, or political party, rather than anything a given individual has done." Ch. 3: U.S. ‘concentration camps’ still on Part 1 - The BradCast - Air Date 6-21-19 The Trump Administration's Dept. of Justice was in court stunning judges by arguing that a long-standing legal settlement requiring migrant children be held in "safe and sanitary" conditions, doesn't mean they have to have either soap or toothbrushes. Ch. 4: There Are Concentration Camps for Kids at the Border. Is Any of This Legal? Part 1 - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-27-19 Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain the legal framework meant to protect these children and how the Trump administration intends to dismantle it. Ch. 5: DHS Whistleblower Who Spoke Out Against Obama-Era Immigration Jails Condemns Conditions on Border - Democracy Now - Air Date 6-26-19 We speak with government whistleblower Dr. Scott Allen, who was hired in 2014 to inspect facilities where immigrant families are incarcerated, who says degrading conditions for jailed migrants date back to Obama’s presidency. Ch. 6: U.S. ‘concentration camps’ still on Part 2 - The BradCast - Air Date 6-21-19 One attorney who represents detained children said: "In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention, I have never heard of this level of inhumanity". Ch. 7: “Somebody Is Going to Die” Lawyer Describes Chaos, Illness & Danger at Migrant Child Jail in Texas - Democracy Now - Air Date 6-24-19 A shocking Associated Press report published late last week revealing that at least 250 migrant infants, children and teenagers have been locked up for nearly a month without adequate food, water or sanitation at a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. Ch. 8: Immigrant detention centers are concentration camps - Light Treason News - Air Date 6-15-19 Concentration camps aren't just about locking people away, they're about turning them into the sick, huddled masses you claim they are Ch. 9: Six Children Have Died While in ICE Custody. Why? - The Real News - Air Date 5-29-19 Undocumented immigrants seeking asylum are being separated from their children and detained in prison camps as more restrictive racist policies are being imposed by Trump. We discuss the policy with ACLU attorney Astrid Dominguez Ch. 10: A History of Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer - Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes - Air Date 7-1-19 The danger about concentration camps is just beginning, with climate refugees on the rise, countries around the world will look to the US handling of migrants as justification for them to do the same. Ch. 11: Peter Schey On Migrant Children & Humanitarian Crisis - Sojourner Truth - Air Date 6-26-19 Peter Schey On Migrant Children & Humanitarian Crisis and what you can do Ch. 12: There Are Concentration Camps for Kids at the Border. Is Any of This Legal? Part 2 - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-27-19 If the courts aren't going to save us, what can we do directly? Ch. 13: Demand an End to US Concentration Camps #DontLookAway #EndUSConcentrationCamps #Lights4Liberty - Best of the Left Activism Take action! Click the title and/or scroll down for quick links and resources from this segment. Ch. 14: CNN giving time to those desperate for bliss in ignorance - CounterSpin - Air Date 6-27-19 Outrage without action is something we can't afford right now. FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 15: Final comments on more things you can do to combat concentration camps and help those being victimized by them TAKE ACTION:  Demand your members of Congress visit the camps & bear witness with public testimonials Demand your members of Congress withhold further funding unless strict humanitarian safeguards and guardrails are attached Read Together & Free's guide to how you can help   Attend a Lights for Liberty vigilnear you on Friday, July 12th EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE: Reminder: Trump doesn’t need to keep migrants in detention camps(Vox) Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes(ProPublica) House Approves Border Aid, Seeking to Curb Trump’s Crackdown(NY Times) Rep. Joaquin Castro posts videos purportedly of Texas migrant detention centers(ABC News) AOC Put a Spotlight on Migrant Detention Conditions. Conservative Media Focused on Her Manners.(NY Magazine) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Claims CBP Officers Told Women to Drink Out of Toilets in Detention Facility(Newsweek) ‘Don’t Talk to Her’: We Toured the Troubled Border Station Housing Migrant Children(NY Times) Five Takeaways From the Border Aid Vote(NY Times) AOC Goes to Border, Shares the "Systemic Cruelty" of Migrant Detention Centers(Vanity Fair) Democrats folded on border bill — now they must demand to see detention centers(Salon) What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing?(Huffington Post) Researched & written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Chilvat - Lillehammer Weathervane - CloudCover The Envelope - Aeronaut Inessential - Bayou Birds The Cast and Favor - Bayou Birds Moon Bicycle Theme - American Moon Bicycle Away Game - Blue Dot Sessions Great is the Contessa - The Contessa Surly Bonds - Aeronaut Vengeful - Warmbody Headlights/Mountain Road - The Contessa Vibrant Canopy - Origami This fickle world - Theo Bard Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! 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This month, we're focusing on Cuba and we have the honor of having Professor Aviva Chomsky on the show. Professor Chomsky is a professor of history and the Coordinator of Latin American, Latino, and Carribean Studies at Salem University. In the show, we discuss the history of US-Cuban relations, specifically the embargo and the role Cuba has played historically and presently in Latin America. Please note that this was recorded on April 19 as there some of the discussion refers to events that happened that same week.

In this interview Aviva Chomsky spoke about the Cuban Revolution, education and the military industrial complex, anarchism, settler colonialism and immigration, how democrats have largely been let off the hook in the narrative around immigration and mass incarceration, US foreign policy in central America, the coup in Venezuela and her work in Colombia with coal mining and climate change. Aviva Chomsky's Books Aviva Chomsky's Articles Music by AwareNess, follow him on Instagram, Spotify or Soundcloud.  For more content, follow me on Instagram Please support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timetalks

A caravan of migrants heading to the US-Mexico border has sparked more debate around immigration. Manuela Saragosa speaks to Reihan Salam, executive editor of the conservative magazine National Review, who argues that America's immigration policy has to move with the times. Aviva Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University in Massachusetts, says the narrative of the American Dream has never been quite what it seems. (Photo: Honduran migrants heading to the US border, Credit: Getty Images)

Air Date: 8/10/2018 Today we take a look at some of the historical context that sheds light on our current immigration debate by showing that there is essentially nothing new about it, only the details are fresh. We'll also explore the evolution of criminalizing immigration, the abuse of separated children and the GOP need to build a demographic control machine. Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Episode Sponsors: Clean Choice Energy | Bolt | Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK  Support Best of the Left on Patreon!   SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Aviva Chomsky on the historical context of immigration in America - Who What Why - Air Date 6-21-18 Aviva Chomsky, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, places the current debate about immigration in America in a broader historical context. Ch. 2: The criminalization of immigration - Latino Rebels - Air Date 7-8-18 Marisa Franco of Mijente on the criminalization of immigration. Ch. 3: The history of using dehumanizing language to stoke fear and hatred of outsiders - Code Switch - Air Date 6-26-18 Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise but, in many ways, this is history repeating itself. And the history of using dehumanizing language against outside groups goes back a very long way. Ch. 4: A Neuroscientist's Warning of Family Separation - In the Thick - Air Date 7-13-18 Dr. Gina Poe on understanding the science behind family separation and the neurological long-term impact of trauma. Ch. 5: Looking at who is allowed to frame the immigration debate - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 7-20-18 Janine Jackson takes a quick look at what sources the press had been highlighting to inform the public about immigration detention. Ch. 6: Immigration & the Meaning of America From the Muslim Ban to Family Separation & the Rhetoric of Hatred - @speakouttimwise ‏ - Air Date 6-27-18 Tim Wise's commentary on how the rhetoric of hatred is being used increase our tolerance for cruelty. Ch. 7: Robert L. Tsai on the right's anti-immigrant, demographic control machine - @thisishellradio - Air Date 6-30-18 Law professor Robert L. Tsai examines the right's anti-immigrant, demographic control machine. Robert wrote the Boston Review article "Trumpism Before Trump" with Calvin TerBeek.   VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Thoughts on 3D printers and guns - Tim from Spokane, WA Ch. 9: Egalitarian, Communitarian, Utilitarian - Craig from Ohio Ch. 10: A criticism, a compliment and a correction - Jeff from New York   Ch. 11: Final comments on the debated definition of Democratic Socialism   MUSIC: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Waterbourne - Algea Fields (Blue Dot Sessions) Streamer - Arc and Crecent (Blue Dot Sessions) A Burst of Light - Delray (Blue Dot Sessions) Insatiable Toad - Origami (Blue Dot Sessions) The Envelope - Aeronaut (Blue Dot Sessions) Parade Shoes - Arc and Crecent (Blue Dot Sessions) Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher| Spotify| Alexa Devices| +more Check out the BotL iOS/AndroidApp in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunesand Stitcher!

We always hear that the US is “a nation of immigrants.” But, according to immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky, this hides the real truth about America's immigration history. In this week's WhoWhatWhy podcast, Chomsky, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, places the current debate about immigration in America in a broader historical context.   Chomsky outlines the 20th century policies that changed traditional patterns of migration and labor, and replaced them with prejudicial and, she argues, often arbitrary quotas and restrictions that favored Europeans over Mexicans and Central Americans. She explains how the idea of an “illegal immigrant” is a fairly recent one, and that the racialization of illegal immigration is what someone once described as the new Jim Crow. Chomsky tells Jeff Schechtman how laws in the United States restricted citizenship to white people until the Civil War. Afterwards, thanks to the 14th Amendment, citizenship was extended to people of African descent. Indeed, the whole concept of citizenship by birth was essentially created by the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment in 1868. New arrivals to the US who were not white were not even considered immigrants, a designation applied only to people from Europe.   Chomsky says that in the early to mid-20th century, people crossing the Mexican border faced no restrictions because Mexican laborers were so desperately needed in the Southwest. Since Mexicans were considered workers and not immigrants, depriving them the opportunity to become citizens was perfectly legal. The cumulative effect, Chomsky argues, is today's inefficient immigration system, which ensnares so many victims, including thousands of young children.

Dr. Aviva Chomsky discusses U.S. imperialism in Latin America and Immigration. Hosts Kelly Juno and Nina Kunimoto add to the conversation with creative resistance against capitalism in Latin America.

September 7, 2017 - Avi Chomsky - For our latest podcast we interviewed Avivia Chomsky, Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. We discussed the history of DACA and the effect that rescinding this policy will have on 800,000 DACA holders, and 10 million undocumented immigrants.

​​​​​Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speak with immigrant rights activist Dr. Aviva Chomsky about her latest book Undocumented How Immigration Became Illegal. Dr. Chomsky speaks of how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, She makes visible the legal, social, economic, and historical context and injustice that it perpetuates. Music, Sweet Little Lies’ by Michael Franti

A conversation about the 2014 US border crisis, with professor Aviva Chomsky. Professor Chomsky helps us understand the influx of Central American youths, by looking at the complicated and often misunderstood history of the region. The post Episode #80: Understanding The US Border Crisis with Prof. Aviva Chomsky appeared first on Inside the Journey.

Immigration has once again become the issue of the day.  Children are pouring across the border. Misinformation is rampant and our national attitude has become mean spirited.  We say we are a nation of immigrants, yet what we really mean by that seems very different than the current reality.  We have a system that has grown inefficient, prejudicial and disconnected from the very human concerns of people seeking a better life. Aviva Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues for over twenty-five years.  She examines where we are today in  Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.My conversation with Aviva Chomsky: 

Unemployment among formerly incarcerated individuals is a major issue across the United States. On tonight's episode, Devan Brettkelly sits down with Crossroads transitional home director Jackie White to put the issue in a local context. Next, a humorous look at the mother-child relationship in a fictional performance by Ian Dangla and Anna Shepard entitled “The Phone Call From Hell.” Later in the show, the Interchange revisits an interview with Aviva Chomsky by Sergio Rodriguez. Finally, we end the show with the short humorous essay “Young and Dumb” by friend of the show, Ellie McElvain.Listen here.

Ann Kirkpatrick investigates Google Glass and interviews Media Studies Professor Tom Connelly at Pomona College. Sergio Rodriguez discusses activism and undocumented students with Aviva Chomsky.Listen here.

An Interview with Aviva Chomsky author of "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration. Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm not against immigration, only illegal immigration" and challenges the misinformation in clear, straightforward prose. In exposing the myths that underlie today's debate, Chomsky illustrates how the parameters and presumptions of the debate distort how we think-and have been thinking-about immigration. She observes that race, ethnicity, and gender were historically used as reasons to exclude portions of the population from access to rights. Today, Chomsky argues, the dividing line is citizenship. Although resentment against immigrants and attempts to further marginalize them are still apparent today, the notion that noncitizens, too, are created equal is virtually absent from the public sphere. Engaging and fresh, this book will challenge common assumptions about immigrants, immigration, and U.S. history. The daughter of Noam Chomsky, Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. The author of several books, Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights issues for over twenty-five years.