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Across the south, generations of Black farmers and business owners have faced losing not just their land, but their livelihoods - pushed out by discriminatory lending, land theft, and the consolidation of power. Yet from that struggle has grown something powerful: a movement rooted in cooperation, where farmers pool their resources, share their knowledge, and build wealth together instead of competing for survival.That spirit of collective power is what drives the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, where Terence Courtney works to support Black-owned farms and rural businesses through education, advocacy, and cooperative enterprise. The Federation's model flips the extractive script of traditional capitalism, proving that shared ownership and community investment are sound economic strategies.In this episode, we dive into: The long history of Black cooperative movements in the South. How cooperative models help farmers build wealth and autonomy in the face of systemic discrimination. Why collective economics is key to sustaining rural communities. The Federation's approach to balancing profitability with community values. How policy and history continue to shape access to land and opportunity. What true self-determination looks like in agriculture.More about Terence and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives:Terence Courtney began organizing with the Service Employees International Union to improve economic conditions for working people. He led union campaigns and later became the union's statewide representative in Georgia. He's co-founded and led coalitions such as Atlanta Jobs with Justice and a community group focused on the public sector called the Atlanta Public Sector Alliance.Expanding from a city to a regional focus, Terence organized US born and foreign born (immigrants) of African descent to educate and raise consciousness about immigrant rights and mass incarceration from a Black Diasporic perspective for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. He co-developed the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy and served as the Director of Organizing overseeing campaigns against school privatization, as well as its spin off project: Cooperative Atlanta. Currently Terence serves as the Director of Cooperative Development & Strategic Initiatives for theFFederation of Southern CooperativesAgrarian Futures is produced by Alexandre Miller, who also wrote our theme song. This episode was edited by Drew O'Doherty.

The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on I.C.E. this week, allowing agents to profile people for arrest based on things like speaking English with an accent, work location, and race/ethnicity. On this week’s SoloPod, host Angela Rye is joined by attorney and political correspondent at the Shade Room, A.B., and the executive director of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), Nana Gyamfi. Follow BAJI @instabaji Want to ask Angela a question? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to participate in the chat. Welcome home y’all! —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Attorney Nana Gyamfi received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and her Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law. She brings with her over three decades of service to the Movement for Black liberation. Nana is a human rights and criminal defense attorney, a professor in the Pan African Studies Department at the California State University Los Angeles, and radio personality who hosts 2 popular shows in Los Angeles, CA. She is the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.https://www.instagram.com/attorneynana/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

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Over 500,000 Haitian nationals currently have Temporary Protected Status in the United States, and the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement last week revoking their protections.  We'll speak with Nana Gyamfi who is the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration or BAJI. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/   The post What's Next for Black Immigrants with TPS w/ Nana Gyamfi from BAJI appeared first on KPFA.

This week hosts Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum discuss the ICE raids and unrest in Los Angeles with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. Tiffany Cross is out sick this week. We have all seen the sensational images from the protests and unrest in L.A. following last Friday’s ICE raids. The ICE raids targeted immigrants at their workplaces, including Home Depot and a clothing store. Since then, the National Guard has been called up by President Trump to quell what he’s calling an “insurrection.” The use of that word, “insurrection,” is highly intentional, as is the effort by Trump and rightwing media to paint L.A. as a chaotic, lawless place. Trump is ratcheting up his mass deportation plans and Mayor Bass says that Los Angeles is the testing ground. The unrest in L.A. dovetails into an ongoing conversation we’ve been having with you, our audience. We’ll be joined by executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Attorney Nana Gyamfi. BAJI advocates for the nearly 10 million Black immigrants, refugees, and families living in the U.S. As BAJI’s director, Nana will respond to some of YOUR comments critiquing our hosts’ support of migrant communities. Nana Gyamfi brings with her over three decades of service to the Movement for Black liberation, and over twenty years experience directing Black social justice organizations and networks. She is a human rights and criminal defense attorney, a professor in the Pan African Studies Department at the California State University Los Angeles, and a radio personality. Find out more about the Black Alliance for Just Immigration at https://baji.org/ and follow them on social media @instabaji and @bajitweet And of course we’ll hear from you! If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/ and send to @nativelandpod. We are 509 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media. Thank you to the Native Land Pod team: Angela Rye as host, executive producer and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; Loren Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media. Theme music created by Daniel Laurent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Airdate 6/10/25) Attorney Nana Gyamfi is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. On this podcast we look at what is going on the ground in Los Angeles, the role of Black people in the migrant protests, the erosion of our rights and what to do about it.https://www.instagram.com/instabaji/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

5.29.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Explosive Diddy Testimony, Trump Tariffs Paused, Musk Quits DOGE, Visa Crisis & RFK Vaccine Update Explosive testimony rocks the courtroom in the Diddy trial... His former assistant takes the stand, accusing the hip-hop mogul of repeated sexual assault. We've got the latest from inside the courtroom and what it could mean for the case. A federal appeals court granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower-court ruling that struck down most of Trump's tariffs. Elon Musk is out... The billionaire walks away from DOGE... So why the early exit and what does this mean for your tax dollars and so called "efficiency" in Washington. And Black international students are being caught in the crossfire of a changing visa system. We're talking delays, denials, and deep uncertainty. We'll break down what's happening and Nana Gyamfi from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration joins RMU to talk about the real impact on Black students and families. Plus, RFK drops COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy kids and pregnant women, and health experts warn another pandemic could be on the horizon. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Airdate 5/13/25) Nana Gyamfi received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and her Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law. She brings with her over three decades of service to the Movement for Black liberation, and over twenty years experience directing Black social justice organizations and networks. Nana is a human rights and criminal defense attorney, a professor in the Pan African Studies Department at the California State University Los Angeles, and Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.https://www.instagram.com/attorneynana/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/ https://www.instagram.com/instabaji/

(Airdate 3/26/25) Nana Gyamfi received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and her Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law. She brings with her over three decades of service to the Movement for Black liberation, and over twenty years' experience directing Black social justice organizations and networks. Nana is a human rights and criminal defense attorney, a professor in the Pan African Studies Department at the California State University Los Angeles and is the Executive Director of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration). On this podcast we update Washington's latest moves on immigration and how they impact Black people worldwide. https://www.instagram.com/instabaji/ https://www.instagram.com/attorneynana/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

(Airdate 3/26/25) Nana Gyamfi received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and her Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law. She brings with her over three decades of service to the Movement for Black liberation, and over twenty years' experience directing Black social justice organizations and networks. Nana is a human rights and criminal defense attorney, a professor in the Pan African Studies Department at the California State University Los Angeles and is the Executive Director of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration). On this podcast we update Washington's latest moves on immigration and how they impact Black people worldwide. https://www.instagram.com/instabaji/https://www.instagram.com/attorneynana/https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

Just months after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria has been rocked by an eruption of violence. Coastal towns have turned into killing fields, with forces aligned with the government accused of massacring hundreds of civilians from religious minorities. The Syrian online space is also littered with misinformation - part of an information war that is inciting sectarian fear and deepening divisions, in a country still raw from years of civil war and decades under a brutal regime. Lead contributors: Zaina Erhaim – Journalist Ahmad Primo – Founder, Verify Syria Ola Suliman – Campaigns lead, The Syria Campaign Rim Turkmani – Syria research programme director, LSE On our radar: The Trump White House is waging an unprecedented crackdown on pro-Palestine activism on university campuses. Meenakshi Ravi reports on Mahmoud Khalil - a Columbia graduate and, in theory, permanent US resident, who now faces deportation. ICE's PR blitz: Immigration raids as entertainment In Trump's America, immigration enforcement isn't just policy - it's a spectacle. With ICE raids increasingly staged for the cameras, and journalists given front-row access to capture dramatic arrests, is it law and order or a made-for-TV performance? The Listening Post's Tariq Nafi explores the media's role in shaping the immigration debate. Featuring: Patrick Bet-David – Host, PBD podcast Michelle Garcia – Journalist and author Abraham Paulos – Deputy director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration

On today's show, we discuss the newly inaugurated President Trump's impact on immigration policy through the executive orders that have already been signed as well as his policy plans. Our first conversation from Wednesday, January 22nd is with Nana Gyamfi, Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), speaking about the implications of Trump's  immigration and deportation policies on Black immigrants living in the United States, as well BAJI's rejection of Congress' Laken Riley Act, which they call “a pipeline to mass detention and deportation.” Read more on BAJI's analysis of the Laken Riley Act: https://baji.org/the-laken-riley-act-is-anti-black-a-pipeline-to-mass-detention-and-deportation/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Executive Order Border Impact w/ the Black Alliance for Just Immigration appeared first on KPFA.

12.10.2024 ##RolandMartinUnfiltered: Hope Global Forums, FL Judicial Circuit SA battle, NJ prohibits, Fights to Haiti suspended Live from the Hope Global Forums in Atlanta! Monique Worrell, the Duly-Elected State Attorney of Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit, is here tonight to discuss her re-election and the man who was appointed in her place change of heart to assist in her transition. New Jersey is the latest state to prohibit bans on books in schools and public libraries. More U.S. flights to Haiti are indefinitely suspended after escalating violence and safety concerns in Haiti's capital. We'll talk to the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration about what's happening in the gang-infested country. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (link) and Risks (link) related to this offering before investing. Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

In this episode of "The Truth in This Art," host Rob Lee converses with Bronx-based artist and designer Walter Cruz. They explore Walter's artistic journey, focusing on how architecture and design intersect with the experiences of marginalized communities. Walter shares personal anecdotes that sparked his interest in architecture, emphasizing the psychological impact of spaces and the importance of historical context. This discussion highlights the influence of ancestors and collective knowledge on artistic vision. Walter also promotes his latest projects and upcoming exhibitions, reflecting his commitment to community engagement and the transformative power of art.Episode Highlights:Walter's Artistic Focus (00:01:05) Walter shares his interest in the built environment and its connection to Black and Brown communities.First Architectural Experience (00:02:17) Walter recalls his first visit to Times Square, igniting his passion for architecture and design.Intersection of Disciplines (00:04:44) Walter Cruz explores how art, design, and architecture intersect, particularly for marginalized communities.Researching Black Designers (00:07:36) Walter shares his journey of discovering Black architects and designers, challenging Eurocentric narratives.Empowerment through History (00:10:30) Walter finds empowerment in learning about historical figures in design and architecture.Present Influence on Work (00:15:54) He reflects on being present and observant in his surroundings, shaping his current artistic work.Experimenting with Concrete (00:22:26) Walter describes his exploration of using concrete as a medium to express his artistic ideas and heritage.Returning to Baltimore (00:28:15) Walter shares the story behind his upcoming show in Baltimore and his connection to the venue's renovation.Visual Design for Advocacy (00:43:25) Walter talks about his work with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and its significance.Key Takeaways:1. Design with Empathy: Always consider the emotional and psychological impact of spaces on the people who use them.2. Celebrate Diverse Contributions: Make an effort to learn about and highlight the achievements of marginalized communities in your field.3. Honor Collective Wisdom: Recognize that your creative work is part of a larger historical and cultural continuum.4. Embrace Everyday Materials: Use familiar, everyday materials in your art to create a deeper connection with your audience.Socials:Instagram: 2oceansLinkedIn: Walter CruzCheck out Walter's Show here:currencystudio.us/blogs/heather-grey-gallery/walter-cruz-carry-on-tradition-at-heather-grey-gallerywww.artscape.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Carry-On-Tradition-document

The debate about immigration and the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border has taken center stage in the 2024 elections. But the terms of that “debate” have been set by Donald Trump and the MAGA right, who are calling for “mass deportation” and continue to demonize and scapegoat immigrants as the root cause of America's economic and political decline. With Democrats adopting much of the right's framing of the “immigration debate” and the “border crisis,” how should the left respond? In the face of the MAGA right's neofascist anti-immigrant campaign, what can working people do—during this election season and beyond—to build a truly multiracial resistance that defends the rights of all?Juan González, co-host of ‪Democracy Now‬!, hosts a timely and critical panel for The Real News on immigration, democracy, and the 2024 elections. Panelists include: José Luis Granados Ceja of Venezuelanalysis and Mexico Solidarity Media; Nana Gyamfi, executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration; and Emily Lee, executive Director of Seed the Vote. This panel is cosponsored by Liberation Road.Read the transcript of this panel here. Pre-Production: Bill Gallegos, Maximillian Alvarez, Kayla RivaraStudio Production: David Hebden, Cameron GranadinoPost-Production: Adam ColeyHelp us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Welcome to ST as the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and increasing attacks on Palestinians on the West Bank, an on-line event was held on March 10th 2024. The program uplifted the stories and voices of women living in Palestine, they participated in an event that marked IWD entitled “we stand with Palestinian women, children, and their families against the Israel/US genocide including bombing and starvation”. The program also included the voice of a Palestinian American woman on the impact of the on-going genocide in Gaza on Palestinian children and families living in the US. The event was called by the Global Women's Strike and Women of Color/GWS. We were joined by a wide-ranging planning group that brought women and men across movements standing in solidarity with and offering practical support via the Middle East Children's Alliance to women, children and their families in Palestine. We worked directly with the Middle East Children's Alliance in organizing the event. In addition to the planning group sponsoring organizations included: Alexandria House; Rev. Annie Chambers; Black Alliance for Just Immigration; Black Lives Matter/LA; Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; Haiti Action Committee; Indigenous Environmental Network; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Katea Stitt Program Director of Pacifica Radio's WPFW, La Resistencia, Long Beach Area Peace Network; Los Angeles Baby Cooperative; Military Families Speak Out; Movement for Family Power; Orange County Peace Coalition; Payday men's network; Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW!; Pete White, Founder of LA CAN; Robin D. G. Kelley; San Pedro Neighbors for Peace & Justice; Social Welfare Action Alliance; Social Workers Ending Poverty Together; US PROStitutes Collective; Veterans for Peace Chapter 110; Veterans for Peace LA; We Stand Up for All; Welfare Warriors; Women's March Foundation Los AngelesThe voices of Palestinian women are rarely heard, so we are glad to bring you their voices on today's program.

Welcome to ST as the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and increasing attacks on Palestinians on the West Bank, an on-line event was held on March 10th 2024. The program uplifted the stories and voices of women living in Palestine, they participated in an event that marked IWD entitled “we stand with Palestinian women, children, and their families against the Israel/US genocide including bombing and starvation”. The program also included the voice of a Palestinian American woman on the impact of the on-going genocide in Gaza on Palestinian children and families living in the US. The event was called by the Global Women's Strike and Women of Color/GWS. We were joined by a wide-ranging planning group that brought women and men across movements standing in solidarity with and offering practical support via the Middle East Children's Alliance to women, children and their families in Palestine. We worked directly with the Middle East Children's Alliance in organizing the event. In addition to the planning group sponsoring organizations included: Alexandria House; Rev. Annie Chambers; Black Alliance for Just Immigration; Black Lives Matter/LA; Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; Haiti Action Committee; Indigenous Environmental Network; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Katea Stitt Program Director of Pacifica Radio's WPFW, La Resistencia, Long Beach Area Peace Network; Los Angeles Baby Cooperative; Military Families Speak Out; Movement for Family Power; Orange County Peace Coalition; Payday men's network; Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW!; Pete White, Founder of LA CAN; Robin D. G. Kelley; San Pedro Neighbors for Peace & Justice; Social Welfare Action Alliance; Social Workers Ending Poverty Together; US PROStitutes Collective; Veterans for Peace Chapter 110; Veterans for Peace LA; We Stand Up for All; Welfare Warriors; Women's March Foundation Los AngelesThe voices of Palestinian women are rarely heard, so we are glad to bring you their voices on today's program.

Charles Taylor is a board member of the WABE Foundation and the principal owner of H.T. West End LLC, the ownership group of The Mall West End. He joins “Closer Look” to provide an update about the future of the shopping mall. Plus, Emily Creighton, the legal director at the American Immigration Council, and Tsion Gurmu, legal director at Black Alliance for Just Immigration, discuss new open records documents that show how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had a direct role in policing racial justice protests in summer 2020.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(Airdate 7/14/23) This season of Supreme Court decisions has really rolled back decades of progressive policy work. Attorney Nana Gyamfi guides us through the fights for justice for Black elected officials, victims of anti-Black policing, immigration, and the myth of rooting out corruption in government. Nana Gyamfi has been a human and civil rights attorney with a specialty in criminal defense since 1994. Nana graduated from Cornell University and earned her law degree from UCLA's School of Law. She is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. https://baji.org/ Twitter: @bajitweets

(Airdate 6/14/23) Nana Gyamfi has been a human and civil rights attorney with a specialty in criminal defense since 1994. Nana graduated from Cornell University and earned her law degree from UCLA's School of Law. She is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. https://baji.org/

(Airdate 3/28/23) Nana Gyamfi has been a human and civil rights attorney with a specialty in criminal defense since 1994. Nana graduated from Cornell University and earned her law degree from UCLA's School of Law. She is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. This podcast covers everything from Irvo Otieno to Cop City…Kamala in Africa to 39 Migrants dying in custody…The International Criminal Court to Landlord protections and tenants rights. www.BAJI.org Twitter: @BAJITweet @AttorneyNana

The criminalization of people of color and the prevalence of anti-Blackness in this country have deep roots. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a report called “Criminalizing Blackness: An analysis of the impacts of the 1994 Crime Bill and 1996 Immigration Bill on Black people and Policy Recommendations to Address the Harms Caused” produced by the Movement for Black Lives alongside UndocuBlack, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and Law for Black Lives. This report explores how these laws have impacted the criminal punishment and immigration systems in this country, and what we can do to confront and dismantle their harms in our continued work for social justice and collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Website, Leave us a voice message, Merch store

9.9.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Migrant Emergency, Black GA Man Convicted On Added Charge During Trial, Jeff Bezos take on Uju Anya  Thousands of migrants are being bussed to major cities, like New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.  D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a state of emergency.  We'll talk to an immigration lawyer and the policy director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration to discuss options for the migrants and the cities flooded with migrants with no money and nowhere to go.  A Georgia jury rejects a black man's stand-your-ground defense in the murder of a white teen, convicting him of a charge that was added during the jury instructions.  We'll talk to James Woodall from the Southern Center for Human Rights and discuss how that was even possible. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos decided he wanted all the smoke Thursday when he went after Carnegie Mellon University's professor Uju Anya for what she said about Queen Elizabeth the Second.  Well, Twitter let the e-commerce billionaire have it. Brigham Young University says it found no evidence of anyone yelling racial slurs at a black Duke volleyball player.  I'll tell you what they said about their investigation.  National Coalition on Black Civic Participation's Black Youth Vote launched its national "Black Collegiate & Community Challenge." I'll talk to the campaign manager about how they plan to motivate Black collegiate and community youth to vote in the 2022 Midterm elections.   And tonight's Education Matters segment, two businessmen are trying to educate HBCU students on how to get in on gaming.    Support RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

In this episode of All Things Co-op, Cinar, Larry, and Kevin talk with Terence Courtney, the Director of Cooperative Development & Strategic Initiatives at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, an organization focused on land retention, cooperative development, and advocacy for small black-owned farms in the Southern United States. Terence and the ATC guys discuss the unique history of black farming in the south, institutional and ideological barriers to growth, and what cooperative associations can mean for historically marginalized communities. About our guest: Terence Courtney began organizing with the Service Employees International Union to improve economic conditions for working people. He led union campaigns and later became the union's State-wide Representative in Georgia. He's co-founded and led coalitions such as Atlanta Jobs with Justice and the Atlanta Public Sector Alliance, a community group focused on the public sector. While working with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Terence organized both US-born and immigrants of African descent to educate and raise consciousness about immigrant rights and mass incarceration from a Black Diasporic perspective. He co-developed the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy and served as the Director of Organizing overseeing campaigns against school privatization, as well as its spin off project: Cooperative Atlanta. Terence currently serves as the Director of Cooperative Development & Strategic Initiatives for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives.

Christina M. Greer, PhD is an Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus). She was the 2018 Fellow for the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University Silver School of Social Work, and co-host of the "What's in it for Us" podcast. Her primary research and teaching interests are racial and ethnic politics, American urban centers, presidential politics, and campaigns and elections. Her additional research interests also include transportation, mayors and public policy in urban centers. Her previous work has compared criminal activity and political responses in Boston and Baltimore as well as Baltimore and St. Louis. Prof. Greer's book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013 ) investigates the increasingly ethnically diverse black populations in the US from Africa and the Caribbean and was the recipient of the WEB du Bois Best Book Award in 2014 given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Professor Greer is currently working on a manuscript detailing the political contributions of Barbara Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Stacey Abrams. She recently co-edited Black Politics in Transition, which explores gentrification, suburbanization, and immigration of Blacks in America. She is a member of the board of The Tenement Museum in NYC, the Center for Community Change, and serves on the Advisory Board at Tufts University.  She is also an ardent supporter of FIERCE in NYC and Project South in Atlanta, GA, and a former board member of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), the Riders Alliance of New York, and the Human Services Council. She is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC, WNYC, and NY1, and is often quoted in media outlets such as the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, and the AP. She is the co-host of the New York centered podcast FAQ-NYC and co-host of the Black centered podcast What's In It For Us podcast, is the politics editor at thegrio.com, is the producer and host of The Aftermath and The Contender on Ozy.com as well as their editor-at-large, is a frequent author and narrator for the TedEd educational series, and also writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, one of the oldest black newspapers in the U.S. Greer received her B. A. from Tufts University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Dr. Janus Adams is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, historian, entrepreneur, bestselling author of eleven books, and host of public radio's “The Janus Adams Show” and podcast.  A frequent on-air guest, she has appeared on ABC, BET, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC's The Today Show, and NPR's All Things Considered.  With more than 500 articles, essays and columns to her credit, her work has been featured in Essence and Ms. Magazines, The New York Times, Newsday, USA Today, and The Washington Post.  Her syndicated column ran in the Hearst Newspapers for sixteen years.  Her commentary has been broadcast on CBS and NPR, and published in the Huffington Post. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.  

During Donald Trump's presidency, the US government enacted Title 42, a public health authority that allows Border Patrol and ICE to immediately expel or deport migrants over supposed public health concerns. The law has been criticized for allowing racist and abusive treatment of Haitian asylum seekers at the border, highlighting the disparate treatment Black migrants have long faced. A study by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic reports that Black migrants face a higher rate of deportation than any other race. Under Title 42, thousands of Haitian asylum seekers who were fleeing chaos, violence, and natural disaster have been expelled at the border and forced to remain in Mexico or deported to Haiti through repatriation flights.  In September 2021, the issue came to a head when images and videos of Border Patrol's mistreatment of Haitian migrants surfaced, and the Biden administration vowed to hold those agents accountable. However, after the Trump administration used the Covid-19 pandemic as a justification to immediately turn away and expel Haitian asylum seekers, the Biden administration continues to enforce it. According to the International Organization for Migration statistics, 17,313 Haitians were returned to Haiti by the United States and four other nations between September 19 and January 8, 2022.  Of those repatriated by the United States during that period, the U.S. Coast Guard returned 406 Haitians interdicted at sea, and ICE returned, on 128 separate flights, 13,690 Haitians. (These IOM statistics do not include the 25 additional expulsion flights from the United States to Haiti since January 10.)  Today nearly 20,000 Haitian immigrants have been expelled or deported back to Haiti.  A Border Patrol agent chasing Haitian migrant Mirard Joseph in Del Rio, Texas, in September. (Paul Ratje/Agence France-Presse /Getty Images) 11 Haitian migrants, represented by groups like the Haitian Bridge Alliance, are suing the Biden administration over the racist and abusive treatment they faced at the border in hopes of receiving justice and halting the cruel enforcement of Title 42.  Guerline Jozef, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance and recipient of the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award joined us after returning from the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss the situation Haitian asylum seekers are facing and the disparate treatment of Black migrants.

During Donald Trump's presidency, the US government enacted Title 42, a public health authority that allows Border Patrol and ICE to immediately expel or deport migrants over supposed public health concerns. The law has been criticized for allowing racist and abusive treatment of Haitian asylum seekers at the border, highlighting the disparate treatment Black migrants have long faced. A study by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic reports that Black migrants face a higher rate of deportation than any other race. Under Title 42, thousands of Haitian asylum seekers who were fleeing chaos, violence, and natural disaster have been expelled at the border and forced to remain in Mexico or deported to Haiti through repatriation flights.  In September 2021, the issue came to a head when images and videos of Border Patrol's mistreatment of Haitian migrants surfaced, and the Biden administration vowed to hold those agents accountable. However, after the Trump administration used the Covid-19 pandemic as a justification to immediately turn away and expel Haitian asylum seekers under Title 42, the Biden administration continues to enforce it. According to the International Organization for Migration statistics, 17,313 Haitians were returned to Haiti by the United States and four other nations between September 19 and January 8, 2022.  Of those repatriated by the United States during that period, the U.S. Coast Guard returned 406 Haitians interdicted at sea, and ICE returned, on 128 separate flights, 13,690 Haitians. (These IOM statistics do not include the 25 additional expulsion flights from the United States to Haiti since January 10.)  Today nearly 20,000 Haitian immigrants have been expelled or deported back to Haiti.  A Border Patrol agent chasing Haitian migrant Mirard Joseph in Del Rio, Texas, in September. (Paul Ratje/Agence France-Presse /Getty Images) 11 Haitian migrants, represented by groups like the Haitian Bridge Alliance, are suing the Biden administration over the racist and abusive treatment they faced at the border in hopes of receiving justice and halting the cruel enforcement of Title 42.  Guerline Jozef, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance and recipient of the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award joined us after returning from the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss the situation Haitian asylum seekers are facing and the disparate treatment of Black migrants.

Christina Greer, Abbi Crutchfield, and Zainab Johnson visit Friends and discuss democrats message issue, New York's new Mayor and more with host Marina Franklin Abbi Crutchfield is the host of Up Early Tonight on Hulu and co-host of the podcast “Flameout” on Spotify. She's been on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS, Broad City on Comedy Central, and she hosted You Can Do Better on TruTV. Her jokes on Twitter are consistently featured on best-of lists by publications such as Paste Magazine and The Huffington Post, who named her one of the 18 comedians you must follow on Twitter. She has trained at the renowned Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre, taught at the People's Improv Theater, and she tours nationally with her stand-up. Christina M. Greer, PhD is an Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus). She was the 2018 Fellow for the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University Silver School of Social Work, and co-host of the "What's in it for Us" podcast. Her primary research and teaching interests are racial and ethnic politics, American urban centers, presidential politics, and campaigns and elections. Her additional research interests also include transportation, mayors and public policy in urban centers. Her previous work has compared criminal activity and political responses in Boston and Baltimore as well as Baltimore and St. Louis. Prof. Greer's book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013 ) investigates the increasingly ethnically diverse black populations in the US from Africa and the Caribbean and was the recipient of the WEB du Bois Best Book Award in 2014 given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Professor Greer is currently working on a manuscript detailing the political contributions of Barbara Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Stacey Abrams. She recently co-edited Black Politics in Transition, which explores gentrification, suburbanization, and immigration of Blacks in America. She is a member of the board of The Tenement Museum in NYC, the Center for Community Change, and serves on the Advisory Board at Tufts University.  She is also an ardent supporter of FIERCE in NYC and Project South in Atlanta, GA, and a former board member of BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), the Riders Alliance of New York, and the Human Services Council.She is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC, WNYC, and NY1, and is often quoted in media outlets such as the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, and the AP. She is the co-host of the New York centered podcast FAQ-NYC and co-host of the Black centered podcast What's In It For Us podcast, is the politics editor at thegrio.com, is the producer and host of The Aftermath and The Contender on Ozy.com as well as their editor-at-large, is a frequent author and narrator for the TedEd educational series, and also writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, one of the oldest black newspapers in the U.S.Greer received her B. A. from Tufts University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.  Zainab Johnson, a stand-up comedian, actress, and writer is quickly being propelled as one of the most unique and engaging performers on stage and screen. In 2019, Zainab was named one of Variety's Top 10 Comics To Watch. Recently, she was one of the hosts for Netflix's new show "100 Humans". You can also catch her as Aleesha on the new comedy series "Upload" on Amazon Prime. Zainab made her first late night stand up appearance on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers, and has also had appearances on HBO's All Def Comedy (2017), NBC's Last Comic Standing (2014), Arsenio (2014), BET's Comic View (2014), AXSTV's Gotham Comedy Live! She also just recently starred in a new web series titled Avant-Guardians. Zainab is a regular at the Improv Comedy Club in LA and the Comedy Cellar in NY, and has performed in the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival as one of the 2014 New Faces of Comedy and returned numerous times since. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.

Our host Vanessa Gonzalez is joined by Lia Parada, Director of Legislative Advocacy at The Immigration Hub, and Abraham Paulos, Deputy Director at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, to discuss asylum, temporary protected status, and the state of immigration in the United States.

This week, our host Joi Chaney sits down with Nana Gyamfi, Executive Director for BAJI, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. They discuss the Haitian migrant crisis, American asylum policy, and what the Biden-Harris Administration's must to protect black immigrants. For updates on BAJI's initiatives, visit their website at www.baji.org As always, for updates on the policy priorities of the National Urban League, visit our website at www.nul.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @NULpolicy

On September 19th, photographers captured a harrowing scene at the US Mexico border: Border Patrol agents, on horseback, chasing and intimidating a large group of Haitian migrants as they tried to cross into Texas.The images sparked outrage, and President Joe Biden eventually condemned the actions of the agents. But since that day, the Department of Homeland Security has expelled nearly 4,000 Haitian migrants on 37 flights to Haiti — without giving them a chance to claim asylum — under a Trump-era public health rule designed to protect the US from incoming disease. Nana Gyamfi, the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, says that the administration is hiding behind policy, rather than standing up for migrants. And for people like Garry Pierre-Pierre, a Hatian-American journalist who founded the Haitian Times news site, it's been hard to feel like he's stuck between his adoptive country and his homeland. For a transcript, please visit https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica. Thoughts? Feedback? Story ideas? Write to us at intoamerica@nbcuni.com.Further Reading and Listening: Top U.S. diplomat in Haiti resigns over 'inhumane' treatment of migrantsTreatment of Haitians at the border in Texas exposes double standard toward refugeesInto America: Protecting Florida Farmworkers

Allison Wolf explains how feminism, and its focus on oppression, can shed light on the problem of justice and immigration ethics. The post Just Immigration with Allison Wolf appeared first on Prindle Institute.

Allison Wolf explains how feminism, and its focus on oppression, can shed light on the problem of justice and immigration ethics. The post Just Immigration with Allison Wolf appeared first on Prindle Institute.

Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying and resisting global oppression in immigration structures, policies, practices, and norms. In contrast to most philosophical work on immigration (which begins with abstract ideas and philosophical debates and then makes claims based on them), this book begins with concrete cases and immigration policies from throughout the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Colombia to assess the nature of immigration injustice and set us up to address it. Every chapter of the book begins with specific immigration policies, practices or sets of immigrant experiences in the U.S. and Latin America and then explores them through the lens of global oppression to better identify what makes it unjust and to put us in a better position to respond to that injustice and improve immigrants' lives. It is one of the first sustained studies of immigration justice that focuses on Central and South America in addition to the U.S. and Mexico. Ethan Besser Fredrick is a graduate student in Modern Latin American history seeking his PhD at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on the Transatlantic Catholic movements in Mexico and Spain during the early 20th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying and resisting global oppression in immigration structures, policies, practices, and norms. In contrast to most philosophical work on immigration (which begins with abstract ideas and philosophical debates and then makes claims based on them), this book begins with concrete cases and immigration policies from throughout the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Colombia to assess the nature of immigration injustice and set us up to address it. Every chapter of the book begins with specific immigration policies, practices or sets of immigrant experiences in the U.S. and Latin America and then explores them through the lens of global oppression to better identify what makes it unjust and to put us in a better position to respond to that injustice and improve immigrants' lives. It is one of the first sustained studies of immigration justice that focuses on Central and South America in addition to the U.S. and Mexico. Ethan Besser Fredrick is a graduate student in Modern Latin American history seeking his PhD at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on the Transatlantic Catholic movements in Mexico and Spain during the early 20th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on Sojourner Truth is Biden in trouble over his immigration policies? His administration is being criticized from both the right and the left. What's going on? In particular we take a look at the plight and treatment of Black immigrants with Nana Gyamfi Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. And activists prepare for a kickoff rally for the THRIVE Act. What is it and what is the connection with the Green New Deal. What is in the THRIVE Act, what is left out? Why are Indigenous Nations supporting the Act? We speak with Ashley Nicole with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Oglala Lakota Nation. Also as Jeff Bezos turns down Senator Bernie Sanders invitation to the Senate to discuss income inequality, we take a look at how Amazon policies are crushing labor unions and how workers are fighting back. Our guest is Mike Elk senior reporter at Payday Report.

Today on Sojourner Truth is Biden in trouble over his immigration policies? His administration is being criticized from both the right and the left. What's going on? In particular we take a look at the plight and treatment of Black immigrants with Nana Gyamfi Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration.

In Part 1 of a 2-part episode, Henock & David sit down to discuss what it means to be Black & Immigrant within the USA, and the tensions, misconceptions, and experiences that come with that intersection. They also dialogue on what must be done to continue to build understanding and solidarity within the Black American community and amongst the African Diaspora. They are joined by first generation Haitian-American and Development Professional, Joel Malebranche. Episode links:Ousman Darboe could be deported any day. His story is a common one for black immigrants: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20875821/black-immigrants-school-prison-deportation-pipelineWhat Does it Mean to Be a Black Immigrant in the United States?:https://www.ilctr.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-black-immigrant-united-states/ Black Immigrant Lives Are Under Attack:https://www.raicestexas.org/2020/07/22/black-immigrant-lives-are-under-attack/ Ice flies African asylum seekers to Nairobi in last-minute deportation push: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/ice-african-deportation-flight-asylum-seekers-nairobi Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/ ACLU & Immigration: https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights UndocuBlack Network: https://undocublack.org/

At the heart of both Abolish ICE and Defund the Police is a conversation about who is incarcerated and criminalized. The movements share the belief that regardless of the badge, bad law enforcement practices and policies affect the safety and well-being of people across the United States. This discussion focuses on the increasingly intersecting coalitions between the movements and their impact in reframing the conversation around criminal justice reform with Tsion Gurmu, Legal Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration and Founder of the Queer Black Immigration Project; Rinku Sen, former Executive Director of Race Forward; and Sejal Zota, Legal Director and Co-Founder of Just Future Laws. View transcript: https://law.duke.edu/transcripts/Transcript-The-Convergence-of-Movements-to-Abolish-ICE-and-Defund-the-Police.pdf

In part two, host Sarah Hamilton-Jiang continues discussions on anti-Blackness in immigration law with Nana Gyamfi of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and Professor Alina Das. The episode explores the challenges Black immigrants face in the era of Trump, and how to address some of those challenges within the immigrant rights movement.

In part one, host Sarah Hamilton-Jiang meets with immigration Professor Alina Das, co-director of NYU School of Law's Immigrant Rights Clinic; Nana Gyamfi, Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration; and Historian and Associate Professor Carl Lindskoog of Raritan Valley Community College to consider the history of anti-Blackness and criminalization in immigration law. Through this recounting of history, the episode explores the role of anti-Blackness in the development of our modern-day immigration carceral system.

Today on Sojourner Truth, Part 2 of our International Women's Strike Los Angeles 2020 event. The event was held to mark International Women's Day. If you missed Part 1 of our special, you can find it by going to SoundCloud.com and searching for Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod. On Saturday, March 7, hundreds of people converged in South Los Angeles to take part in the International Women's Strike Los Angeles. The event was held in solidarity with events happening around the world for International Women's Day. It included a rally, a feminism for the 99 percent dance party, an interactive performance piece, street art, music, healing and action areas. Women and girls in countries across the world " from Thailand to Poland, Kenya and Argentina " held events. The strike demanded action for our rights, living wages (including for mothers and other caregivers), an end to violence, murder and the forced disappearance of women, an end to war, and respect for the rights of Mother Earth. The Los Angeles International Women's Day events began in 2000. They were followed by a call from women in Ireland for a one-day strike. They approached the Wages for Housework Campaign, who agreed to take the events globally. Thus, the birth of the Global Women's Strike. Then in 2017, women in Argentina followed by women in Poland and other countries around the world, called for an International Women's Strike on International Women's Day. Since then, women in Los Angeles and in at least 50 countries have participated. In Los Angeles, the strike was planned by a cross-movement multiracial team of women representing diverse grassroots organizations and networks. Today, as Part 2 of our special, you will hear more speeches and performances from the International Women's Strike held in South Los Angeles. First, you will hear from Dolores Huerta, a civil rights icon who presented this years Women Warrior honor to Susan Burton and Lawana Panther Mancina. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life, which provides housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. Lawana Panther Mancina is the family member of one of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Lawana's son spoke on her behalf. Last year, in 2019, Dolores Huerta was the recipient of the Women Warrior honor. Afterwards, you will hear a statement delivered by Trudy Goodwin on behalf of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, known as BAJI. BAJI fights for immigrant rights and racial justice with African-Americans and Black immigrants across the U.S. Following that, you will hear statements delivered by Kenia Alcocer, Co-Chair of the California Poor People's Campaign, and La Mikia Castillo with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Following our Station Break and our weekly Earth Minute, you will hear more statements from Marwa Rifahie, a Civil Rights attorney speaking about the rights of Palestinian people, and Pat Alviso with Military Families Speak Out. That is followed by a touching poem delivered by Sabreen Adeeba. Finally, to close off, you will hear rare historic audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives featuring Audre Lorde, Coretta Scott King and Selma James.

Today on Sojourner Truth, Part 2 of our International Women's Strike Los Angeles 2020 event. The event was held to mark International Women's Day. If you missed Part 1 of our special, you can find it by going to SoundCloud.com and searching for Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod. On Saturday, March 7, hundreds of people converged in South Los Angeles to take part in the International Women's Strike Los Angeles. The event was held in solidarity with events happening around the world for International Women's Day. It included a rally, a feminism for the 99 percent dance party, an interactive performance piece, street art, music, healing and action areas. Women and girls in countries across the world " from Thailand to Poland, Kenya and Argentina " held events. The strike demanded action for our rights, living wages (including for mothers and other caregivers), an end to violence, murder and the forced disappearance of women, an end to war, and respect for the rights of Mother Earth. The Los Angeles International Women's Day events began in 2000. They were followed by a call from women in Ireland for a one-day strike. They approached the Wages for Housework Campaign, who agreed to take the events globally. Thus, the birth of the Global Women's Strike. Then in 2017, women in Argentina followed by women in Poland and other countries around the world, called for an International Women's Strike on International Women's Day. Since then, women in Los Angeles and in at least 50 countries have participated. In Los Angeles, the strike was planned by a cross-movement multiracial team of women representing diverse grassroots organizations and networks. Today, as Part 2 of our special, you will hear more speeches and performances from the International Women's Strike held in South Los Angeles. First, you will hear from Dolores Huerta, a civil rights icon who presented this years Women Warrior honor to Susan Burton and Lawana Panther Mancina. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life, which provides housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. Lawana Panther Mancina is the family member of one of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Lawana's son spoke on her behalf. Last year, in 2019, Dolores Huerta was the recipient of the Women Warrior honor. Afterwards, you will hear a statement delivered by Trudy Goodwin on behalf of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, known as BAJI. BAJI fights for immigrant rights and racial justice with African-Americans and Black immigrants across the U.S. Following that, you will hear statements delivered by Kenia Alcocer, Co-Chair of the California Poor People's Campaign, and La Mikia Castillo with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Following our Station Break and our weekly Earth Minute, you will hear more statements from Marwa Rifahie, a Civil Rights attorney speaking about the rights of Palestinian people, and Pat Alviso with Military Families Speak Out. That is followed by a touching poem delivered by Sabreen Adeeba. Finally, to close off, you will hear rare historic audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives featuring Audre Lorde, Coretta Scott King and Selma James.

0:08 – To kick off Black History Month, Nunu Kidane, founder and director of Priority Africa Network, and Gerald Lenoir, founding executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, discuss the African Diaspora Dialogues – workshops aimed at building and strengthening ties between new Black immigrants and existing African American communities. 0:34 – We continue our conversation about African Diaspora Dialogues with Nunu Kidane and Gerald Lenoir. The post African Diaspora Dialogues: A discussion about African American and African immigrant relations appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes 3 friendly and inspiring activist leaders from the Oakland Peace Center.  [ oaklandpeacecenter.org ] They share their insightful definitions of Peace, and how they came to their inspiring work.  This episode contains inspiring history and stories about people just like you creating compassion in action, and empowering themselves and whole groups to meet their needs for dignity, safety, inclusion, and connection.  Tune in if you want a tune-up of hope for these times. Guests for this episode: Executive Director, Sandhya Jha  [ oaklandpeacecenter.org ] Leader in The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, Anirvan Chatterjee [ asata.org ] Leader at Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Nakia Woods  [ baji.org ] The post The Oakland Peace Center: What We Are Doing and How You Can Do It Too appeared first on KPFA.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!  On today's episode, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by guest-host extraordinaire Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture on twitter) for an amazing conversation with organizer Opal Tometi, a community organizer and writer who is one of co-founders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. Opal also serves as the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). We learn about how Opal got involved in community organizing and specifically how she came to work at the intersection of immigrant justice and black liberation. Opal explains that one in five immigrants facing deportation is black and black immigrants are more likely to face criminal deportation than any other group. We discuss similarities and differences in the fight for immigrant justice under both Obama and Trump, and the additional difficulties African immigrants face under Trump's travel and refugee bans. We also explore how US imperialism, particularly in Africa, impacts black lives here and abroad. In addition to discussing Opal's work with BAJI, we also learn about her role in building the Black Lives Matter movement and the Global Network that formed in the wake of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of 2014. Opal also shares what makes her hopeful, and discusses next steps for the world-wide fight for black liberation. You can follow Opal on Twitter at @opalayo. Follow BAJI at @BAJItweet. Also, check out freedomcities.org, an organizing project building off successes of the sanctuary movement to restructure local communities to protect all marginalized people. A transcript for this episode is forthcoming. Please send an email to deleteuracct @ gmail to get a copy sent to you when it is completed.

Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Tonight we bring you powerful words from Kearny Street Workshop's talented teachers and students of this year's Interdisciplinary Writers Lab. IWL is a three month, multi-genre class for local writers, challenged to expand their practice by working in a variety of genres and formats. Tune in to hear the fruits of their labor. A stellar lineup of instructors included: Chinaka Hodge (writing for performance), Nayomi Munaweera (fiction), Brynn Saito (poetry). The IWL 2015 cohort was made up of Celeste Chan, Vida Kuang, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez, Joshua Merchant, Janine Mogannam, Shelley Wong, Phuong Vuong, Helida Silva, Audrey Esquivel, Stephen Tsai, Tanea Lunsford, Irene Tu, Diego Basdeo, Hope Casareno, Paula Junn Tonight's show was edited by Justine Lee and produced by Nonogirl. Community Calendar A Place of Her Own, an exhibition that asks Asian American women, “if you had a place of your own, what would it be,” opens Thursday at SOMArts Cultural Center. Curated by Cynthia Tom, see the dreams of women brought to life through soul-inspiring sound sculpture, a forest of giant intuitive paintings, and an enormous landscape of hand-built chairs and ladders. The exhibition will be up until December 11. Saturday at East Side Cultural Center, check out the next in the Spirit of Bandung Series: Black Liberation and Third World Solidarity, presented by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Haiti Action Committee, Black Alliance for Just Immigration. With U.S. imperialism as a backdrop, the organizations will explore anti- Black violence and movements for resistance, liberation, and self-determination. On Saturday at UC Berkeley's Herbst Field Annex Room, check out the Conference on Third World`Multiracial Solidarity and Community Engagement from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. This conference, free and open to the public, will engage activists and scholars involved with the late 1960s Third World Liberation Front Strikes of San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley in issues and concerns facing younger generations. Also on Saturday there's the 8th Annual Bike Expo! Whether you are just starting to ride or have been cycling your whole life, the SF Bike Expo is the perfect venue to support those who share the same interest and passion for cycling with booths featuring vendors from fashion and apparel to backyard bicycle fabrications. It's at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, with a free Bike Valet; $10 parking for cars. The post Kearny Street Workshop's Literary Reading appeared first on KPFA.

Rebroadcast from July 23, 2014. We open with an excerpt of a conversation with Professor KC Williams about a Hate Crime she experienced at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, North Carolina. To support: www.gofundme.com/Fight-the-Hate-in-NC  Gerald Lenoir is the founding Executive Director and currently the Co-director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration founded in Oakland in 2006 to support fair and just immigration reform and to bring African Americans together with immigrant communities to fight for social and economic justice.   He is a founding steering committee member of the national Black Immigration Network, a co-founder of the Priority Africa Network in Oakland and a board member of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. www.blackalliance.org Martha R. Bireda, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of the Blanchard House Museum of African American History and Culture of Charlotte County (FL). She is Director of the Museum's Maroon Study Center, and the New Image Project, a project dedicated to positive identity development of youth of color. She is the author of six books including the recent:  Obi: Seminole Maroon Freedom Fighter. Dr. Bireda is also an Alternate Commissioner for the Gullah-Geechee Historical Corridor. Visit http://www.maroonconsciousness.com/

We open with an excerpt of a conversation with Professor KC Williams about a Hate Crime she experienced at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, North Carolina. To support: www.gofundme.com/Fight-the-Hate-in-NC  Gerald Lenoir is the founding Executive Director and currently the Co-director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration founded in Oakland in 2006 to support fair and just immigration reform and to bring African Americans together with immigrant communities to fight for social and economic justice.   He is a founding steering committee member of the national Black Immigration Network, a co-founder of the Priority Africa Network in Oakland and a board member of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. www.blackalliance.org Martha R. Bireda, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of the Blanchard House Museum of African American History and Culture of Charlotte County (FL). She is Director of the Museum's Maroon Study Center, and the New Image Project, a project dedicated to positive identity development of youth of color. She is the author of six books including the recent:  Obi: Seminole Maroon Freedom Fighter. Dr. Bireda is also an Alternate Commissioner for the Gullah-Geechee Historical Corridor. Visit http://www.maroonconsciousness.com/