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This week on CounterSpin: We revisit the conversation we had in August 2017 in the wake of the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Writer and podcaster Adam Johnson had thoughts about the way so-called “mainstream” news media responded to a straight-up celebration of white supremacy. If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration. We talked about that in July 2018 with Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign organizer at Mijente. Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at some recent press about Chris Matthews's “morning after,” the New York Times‘ promoting white resentment, and Israel's assassination of journalists. The post Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017) / Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018) appeared first on KPFA.
“Tratar de copiar la política de Trump no es una buena estrategia”: Marisa Franco, de Mijente, analiza la intención de voto de la comunidad latina y las políticas migratorias de Trump y Harris
K.A. Owens interviews Jesus Ibanez about the Border Crisis, Immigration, ICE, Mijente. Original interview June 29, 2018, Friday 1:30PM. Repeat Friday December 29, 2023, 5:30 PM.
This week, we're bringing you with us on our trip to Tucson, Arizona, where we gathered with other members of Mijente - a Latinx political home for those who seek racial, economic, gender and climate justice. We can't remember a time where it didn't feel appropriate to say it's a politically rough moment, pero ajá. It's rough times. And because we believe we need joy to fuel our fight, we asked our compas to tell us - and you! - about the songs that have been fueling them. We hope they fuel you too. Featuring music by Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Bad Bunny, Young Miko, Zeta, Noel Nicola, Alejandra Guzman, Julio del Hoyo, Vladi, Elena Rose, Danny Ocean, Jerry Di, and Carin Leon. Show notes: https://bit.ly/3slEKfl Follow us: instagram.com/RadioMenea twitter.com/RadioMenea tinyletter.com/RadioMenea
This week, it's about you. You told us your favorite song by a Latine artist from this year - in person at Lánzate in Philly - Latinx organizing hub Mijente's conference - and via IG desde sus casitas. We can't say we are surprised that y'all have impeccable taste. Featuring music by Elsa y Elmar, Bad Bunny, Shakira, Ozuna, Silvana Estrada, Arca, Safety Trance, Esty, Bomba Estero, Kaina and Carla Morrison. Show notes: bit.ly/3uyAt5I Follow us: instagram.com/RadioMenea twitter.com/RadioMenea tinyletter.com/RadioMenea
How are mass surveillance, biometric data, and other high-tech border measures affecting refugees and migrants? In this episode of Fixing Aid, host Alae Ismail speaks to a Latinx community organiser and migration researchers on the use of border and surveillance technology aimed at stopping refugees and migrants from crossing European and American borders. She also hears from people on the move who share what it feels like to be watched and tracked at all times. Guests: Cinthya Rodriguez, national organiser at Mijente; Niamh Ni Bhriain, War and Pacification coordinator at the Transnational Institute; Petra Molnar, lawyer associated with the Migration and Technology Monitor and associate director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University.
Hello Interactors,This is the last week of winter. Next week I’ll start writing about cartography. Today’s post just may whet your appetite. All of the dislocation maps resulting from the war in Ukraine got me thinking about a pervasive human behavior; the ultimate interaction of people and place – migration.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…BOWLING FOR BALLERSI was on a walk last weekend and as I approached an Indian restaurant I noticed two families gathered a car in the parking lot. The parents were saying their goodbyes as the kids tussled about impatiently. Just then a perfectly spherical white ball of wadded up paper came rolling down the parking lot entrance and on to the sidewalk in front of me. Chasing behind was boy, maybe thirteen years old, with his shirt untucked, coat half on, and out of breath. He glanced at me, swopped up the ball, swiveled around, and threw it back toward his family like a skilled cricket bowler.A generation ago this would have been a rare sight. More likely it would have been a boy, probably White, winding up and pitching like his favorite pitcher on a baseball mound. I did a bit of pitching when I was that kid’s age. I was taller than most at that age and could throw pretty hard. So they put me on the mound. I threw hard alright, but batters trembled with fear. I had a control issues.Give me a glove today and I’ll spare you the fast ball, but I still throw a mean knuckle ball. I kept a couple gloves at Microsoft and would occasionally go out and play catch with anybody willing. It was fun introducing that sport to team members from other parts of the world. At some point we decided to introduce each other to our respective national sports. First up was India and cricket.Guess who volunteered to be the bowler – or pitcher in baseball terms. Me. The guy who pitched as a kid, but also hit a fair number of them too. We played on a patch of artificial turf on the Microsoft soccer field. That field has since been torn up to make way for more buildings and an on-campus cricket pitch. Cricket balls are quite hard and travel at great speeds so we decided a tennis ball would be best. I took to it pretty fast, according to my Indian teammate Deepak. The bowling motion is very different than a pitching motion, but he was a good coach. The arm is kept straight and is rotated around the shoulder joint. Much like Pete Townsend of The Who strumming his guitar.I loved it. Until the next day...and the next. Ok, for a full week my arm, shoulder, and back were wondering what the hell I was thinking. That was the last of cricket. The next international sport came from a Dutch teammate, Martijn. It’s called Fierljeppen (or far-leaping). It’s basically pole vaulting over a canal. We had a nearby canal designated, but a proper pole never materialized. Probably for the best. I was pushing it on the liability front. Somebody was sure to end up in the water.The would-be canal to be leapt was in Redmond, in the county’s biggest and oldest park, Marymoor Park. While Feirljeppen is unlikely to ever occur there, cricket soon will. Microsoft isn’t the only one building a cricket pitch in Redmond. Just a couple weeks ago the county approved a 20-acre Marymoor Cricket Community Park. Here’s what the King County Council Chair, Claudia Balducci, had to say,“As our region grows, we see more interest in cricket, which is one of the most popular sports in the world. I can’t think of a better place for a world-class cricket pitch than East King County and especially Marymoor Park.”When she says ‘world-class’ she means it. The city of Redmond and the county are partnering with Major League Cricket (MLC) to build the facility. Construction is expected to start in 2023 and may one day host professional cricket, the U.S. National Team, and maybe even the World Cup. If you didn’t know, the Cricket World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world. An estimated 2.2 billion people tuned in during the 2019 cup.The first international cricket match was actually between the U.S. and Canada in 1844 and was played in New York City. It was contested at the St. George’s Club Bloomingdale Park in front of 20,000 people. That site is now the NYU Medical Center. A decade later baseball began displacing cricket as one of America’s favorite sports.American football was hitting the scene then too. It eventually displaced rugby in popularity in the U.S. after the American’s won the first gold medals in Rugby in 1920 and 1924. But like cricket, that sport is also hugely popular outside of the U.S. But rugby is again gaining popularity in the United States. One survey claims participation grew 350% between 2004 and 2011. In 2018, over 100,000 fans showed up in San Francisco for the World Cup Sevens tournament. The United States is bidding to host the Rugby World Cup in 2027.Both rugby and cricket originated in England and spread throughout the world through colonization. Baseball also started in England and American football is a derivative of rugby. The forward pass was perfected and popularized by the Indigenous American Wa-Tho-Huk, or “Bright Path.” But he was named and baptized at birth as "Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe" – Jim Thorpe.His father was half Irish and half Sac and Fox (two Great Lake area tribes forced to settle in Oklahoma) and his mother was half French and half Potawatomi. They were both practicing Catholics and so was their son until the day he died. Jim Thorpe and his Carlisle Indian Industrial School teammates are largely responsible for the style of American football you see today. Thorpe was also the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal and was a professional baseball player.Baseball, cricket, and rugby – and it’s American Football derivative, originated in England but spread with White colonial settlers. Like a ball tossed from it’s origin to it’s destination. And now after generations of colonization, kids of parents born in those far away colonies – like the kid in that parking lot – will be tossing them to players with heritage as mixed as Jim Thorpe…on soil Bright Path’s Indigenous ancestors once called their own.Colonization really did toss people as if they were balls. It very much was an origin and destination game. Slaves and indentured workers were pulled from their homes to imperial origins while White administrators and ‘adventure’ seekers were tossed to colonial outposts to ‘settle’ land and people. And then before long, in a postcolonial world, people from those extended territories began migrating to colonial origins.It's what the Jamaican poet Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” referred to in her poem as, Colonization in Reverse. The first stanza reads:Wat a joyful news, Miss Mattie,I feel like me heart gwine bursJamaica people colonizinEnglan in ReverseHERE, THERE, EVERYWHEREMuch of social science has dwelled on this concept of migration being about people going from ‘here’ to ‘there’. This has drawn excessive attention to these locations and the effects of the movement of people from place to place. It leads some people to wonder what will happen to that place over ‘there’ when people leave? But even more people wonder what will become of this place ‘here’ as a result of them immigrating? Immigration is one of the most polarizing and thorny societal issues wrought with emotion and socio-political implications. People seem to be most concerned with the immediate situation and seek political near term solutions fearing their own lives and cultures may be threatened.But there’s a growing number of postcolonial thinkers and researchers challenging the ‘here’ and ‘there’ obsession and the impulse to seek near-term solutions. One group of diverse cultural geographers assembled by the American Association of Geographers settled on two major themes of interrogation of postcolonial migrations. They relate to time and place:Broaden the temporal lens. Before jumping to remedies aimed to cure local symptoms of migration, reach back to its colonization origins to better understand it’s roots.Reassess the ‘here’. What is ‘here’ today is a product of the relationships it formed with ‘there’. The people and the land of colonizers have been shaped by the people and lands of those distance territories.Within this framework, ‘here’ and ‘there’ no longer exist or have lost their distinction. Centuries of colonization and migration have created a multi-faceted tapestry of trans-territorialism and mix-ethnicities in a beautiful, albeit complex, cross-cultural milieu.This blurring and multiplicity is a very hard sell in a world that is becoming increasing polarized and nationalized. Nationalists would like a Hogwarts-style sorting hat from Harry Potter fame. They’d like to place this hat upon the head of every immigrant so they may be sorted into ‘here’ or ‘there’ categories. Many immigrants, if not most, feel the pressure to act, look, and speak in ways that reduce the chances of people wondering are they one of us or one of them? They’re forced to reduce their vibrant, complex heritage to fit a binary ‘here’ or ‘there’ dichotomy with questions of race intertwined.Meanwhile, those Western colonizers who were sent or ventured to faraway lands absorbed, stole, interpreted, and profited from those distant cultures and traditions. Their kids went to school there, made friends, and maybe even stayed, married a local, and raised their own mix-ethnicity family. And of these countless families, many returned to their colonial homeland but few are asked to place the sorting hat upon their head. They then wrote books, told stories, and painted pictures of people and places of faraway lands – and still do – while the people of those lands are often denied entry to their country.And what do we make of the effects of territories carved, fractured, and divvied up among Western imperialists? Susan P. Mains, a professor of Geography at Dundee University in Scotland, is the lead author on a 2013 paper Postcolonial Migrations. She quotes two historians writing on the partitioning of Indian and other South-Asian territories by the West. They write that,“’...18 million [Indian refugees who] struggled to resettle themselves and the energies of at least two generations were expended in rebuilding lives shattered by the violent uprooting caused by the partition’.” Mains continues, “Displacement and ongoing territorial conflicts are the legacy of this fracture.”In 1947 the British divided the subcontinent into two independent states, India and Pakistan. The partition was largely along Muslim and non-Muslim lines. Those religious tensions and divisions have been reignited recently as India’s Prime Minister, a Hindu, has increasingly been blending his politics with his religion. His critics accuse him of being Islamophobic and say he’s guilty of igniting hate crimes against Muslims. Human rights watchdogs are seeing more evidence of this and warn it may get worse – especially in impoverished neighborhoods. The sorting hat, a British import, seems to have followed a well trodden path to India.This current conflict will no doubt cause Muslims to migrate creating even more displacement and fracturing of family and friends. Again, the focus by most media and academics will be on where they are from and where they are going. Are those people over ‘there’ coming over ‘here’? But little attention will be given the diaspora within the sub-continent, the historic origins of conflict and violence by imperialists, and the impact on the individual human lives.For many, the fear of where these migrants will land outweighs their concern for their well-being. This fear strips them of the curiosity needed to assess how their own actions, and those of their ancestors, contribute to the plight of the disenchanted, disowned, and dislocated.GO WITH THE FLOWIn 1885, the Geographer and German immigrant to England, Ernst Georg Ravenstein published what he called “The Laws of Migration”. It was a paper that appeared in the Journal of Statistical Society. But, as my former Geography professor, Waldo Tobler, pointed out in 1995 (the 100 year anniversary of Ravenstein’s laws) Ravensein failed to provide a single mathematical equation to support his so-called laws.It seems, like his contemporizes in Economics, he was seduced by the mathematical certainty of Physics. He sought laws to describe the migration patterns he observed in 19th century England, but forgot the math. Or perhaps he knew, like many economists, that human behavior lacks the certainty of physics and these laws were more suggestive than declarative. Either way, this lack of certainty and clarity doesn’t keep social scientists from continuing to borrow metaphors, research techniques, and language from physics.For example, Tobler says, “It is most curious that the literature on migration is replete with this kind of [fluid physics] terminology. We speak of "migration flows" and "migration streams" and "counter-currents", and refer to intellectual or cultural "backwaters", as if there were eddy currents. One can be "outside of the mainstream". And there are "waves of immigration", etc.”Tobler also found an 1885 map Ravenstein created for his paper that “seems to have been completely ignored by scholars, historians, and cartographers.” The map is titled, as expected, “Currents of Migration." Tobler was a pioneer in computer cartography, but even he admitted it would be “difficult to see how one could program a computer to produce this map using the kinds of statistics available [in 1995]. Certainly it would be a challenge.”Mapping migration continues to be a challenge for cartographers. As Putin seeks to reassemble a former Soviet Union partitioned into independent nation states in the early 1990s, he’s induced mass migration. Different media outlets use different ways to communicate these migrations with varying degrees of success. James Chesire is Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography at University College London and he took to Twitter a couple weeks ago critiquing the BBC’s crude interpretation of the crisis. He wrote, “It’s time to innovate the ways we show people fleeing war. 8 arrows for 874,026 human beings is not good enough.”He goes on to illustrate how arrows imply ‘flow’ in a particular direction from ‘here’ to ‘there’. As you can see, even today, we seem to be stuck using centuries old flawed physics metaphors while continuing to emphasize place based abstractions that imply binary flows from one place to another. Lost are the heartbreaking stories, the historicity that lead to mass movement of people, and cultural and ethnic complexities that define the region.One map he points to from 2016 is by the mapping company ESRI. It attempts to bridging the gap between stories, images, and cartography in communicating what they title, “The Uprooted: War, sectarian violence, and famine have forced more than 50 million people from their homes—the largest number of displaced people since World War II.”But somehow it still portrays the movement of people solely as a crisis. People indeed are suffering crisis, but migrations and movement of humans, of all animals, doesn’t have to be articulated as perpetual crisis. We don’t have to keep focusing on the spatiality, the borders, the nations, the states, and the cascade of political and social hierarchies they instill. Migration is an artifact of human existence – of animal existence – whose fate can be reduce to arrows.Arrows typically show movement in one direction. What about migrants that return? Where are their arrows? In the Handbook of culture and migration Dr. Julia Pauli, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Hamburg, writes,“In all regions of the world, state policies frame human migration by enabling, encouraging, restricting, punishing and hindering movement. Major events like the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’ have made this very visible…New policies and programs worldwide aim to encourage migrants to leave their host and destination countries and return to their original communities.”She cites other researchers who point out, “’there is a significant overlap between the latest surge of interest in return and efforts to remove unwanted immigrants from destination countries.’” And many countries are capitalizing on return migration. Citing Asia as an example, Pauli says “Countries like Vietnam perceive wealthy and well-educated migrants more and more as a resource that needs to be returned home.”You can bet the state policies Pauli cites will include government sponsored technologies to track, trace, and true these flows of humanity. Trump is as crude as the wall he wants built. Meanwhile, Biden is as stealth as the cameras, drones, and biometric AI technologies he’s funding on the southern border of the United States. A report titled The Deadly Digital Border Wall was jointly created and published between Mijente, Just Futures Law, and the No Border Wall Coalition. They write, “By exposing these technologies, this report aims to empower border activists, organizers, and residents to challenge the corporate tools used for border control and immigration enforcement by U.S. government agencies, and to more effectively advocate for a surveillance-free world.”It's striking that Ukraine had the second fastest declining population in the world in 2018. Russia’s birthrates climbed after the fall of the Soviet Union but they too have declining birthrates. Coupled with high mortality rates, especially among older men, from alcoholism, depression, accidents, homicides, and suicides most of the former Soviet Union states were barely holding on to citizens well before this war.Russia was offering families money to have two or more kids. Payments were not in cash, but in a ‘mother’s trust fund’. Women could draw from the fund at a later date to pay for a mortgage, education, and a small pension. Few found that offer attractive. Since 2014 Ukraine has been offering $1,500 cash over a 3-year period for every kid a woman births. Critics warned this may only lead to more orphaned kids as parents may prefer take the money and abandon the kids. Another potential dislocation migration story waiting to happen.China’s birthrate dropped for the fifth year in a row last year despite their lifting of the ‘one child policy’ in 2015. It’s their lowest rate since 1949 and the birth of Communist China. Rising living expenses is the number one reason parents give for not having more kids. Two centuries ago, women in the U.S., China, Russia, and India all would have had five kids or more, but now they’re all clumped together around two births per woman – just below the world average of 2.44.Meanwhile low income countries are declining but average 4.34 children per woman. Many of these countries will also be the first to suffer the effects of climate change, war, and increased risks of poverty.Nationalists around the world, including the more powerful U.S., China, Russia, and India, cling to a narrative that roots their feet in the ground of a given homeland, as if ordained by their God to take root. They then build border walls that restrict, repel, or release people based on their own delusions of righteousness. This grasping of false identity, yearning for elusive security, hungering for more land, money, and resources, and fretting over dwindling birthrates of their ‘chosen ones’ only makes them tighten their grip on faith, pump their inflated egos, and deepen their roots of nationalism.Meanwhile, for a myriad of simple and complex reasons, people move. We like to draw lines to form borders and arrows on maps. Draw attention to binary origins and destinations – ‘here’ and ‘there’. But Susan Mains and her colleagues believe arrows are forms of “intellectual violence” and remind us that “Lines do not determine boundedness of the communities from which folk came; or those to which folk are moving. Instead lines acknowledge that circulation, movement and cultural transfer have been integral to human populations, their cultures and society.”Cricket, rugby, baseball, and even Jim Thorpe’s American football are all demonstrations of circulation, movement, and cultural transfer. Even the passing glance between me, a middle-aged man of mixed European ethnicity and a boy likely of mixed sub-continental Indian ethnicity is an acknowledgement of cultural transfer. Our age difference broadens the temporal lens of our own colonial origins. Soon he’ll be playing on a cricket pitch in Redmond on colonized land shaped by the people of distance territories. This is a public episode. 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Join abolitionist organizers connecting the dots between surveillance capitalism, border imperialism, and neoliberal prison reforms. A dominant mode of our time, data analysis and prediction are part of a longstanding historical process of racial and national profiling, management and control in the US. In a new report, From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition, Community Justice Exchange examines the interlocked machineries of migrant surveillance and describes processes of “data criminalization:” the creation, archiving, theft, resale and analysis of datasets that mark some of us as threats and risks, based on data culled about us from state and commercial sources. How might we fight data criminalization on our terms? Rather than being drawn into arguments about privacy, accuracy, or the theatrics of consumer consent and regulatory oversight, we assert that these datasets are inherently illegitimate, and creation and use of them should be abolished. What if we organized our resistance based on that premise? Speakers: J. Khadijah Abdurahman is an abolitionist whose research focus is predictive analytics in the US child welfare system and the Horn of Africa. They are the founder of We Be Imagining, a public interest technology project at Columbia University's INCITE Center and The American Assembly's Democracy and Trust Program. WBI draws on the Black radical tradition to develop public technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations. Jacinta González is a senior campaign organizer with Mijente and leads their #NoTechforICE campaign. Previously, she worked at PODER in México, organizing the Río Sonora River Basin committees against water contamination by the mining industry. Jacinta was the lead organizer for the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Congress of Day Laborers (2007-2014). In Louisiana Gonzalez helped establish a base of day laborers and undocumented families dedicated to building worker power, advancing racial justice, and organizing against deportations in post-Katrina New Orleans. Sarah T. Hamid (she/her/no preference) is an abolitionist and organizer working in the Pacific Northwest. She leads the policing technology campaign at the Carceral Tech Resistance Network: an archiving and knowledge sharing network for organizers building community defense against the design, roll-out, and experimentation of carceral technologies. Sarah co-founded the inside/outside research collaboration, the Prison Tech Research Group, and helped create the #8toAbolition campaign—a police and prison abolition resource built during last summer's uprisings against state violence. Puck Lo (she/they) is the Research Director of Community Justice Exchange, an abolitionist organization that supports organizers to fight all forms of incarceration and social control. They spent the last year examining Department of Homeland Security's data regimes and other expanding systems of corporeal theft and predictive criminalization. Harsha Walia (moderator) is the author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism and an organizer rooted in migrant justice, abolitionist, antiracist, feminist, anti-imperialist, and anticapitalist movements for over two decades. This event is sponsored by Community Justice Exchange and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/FTg20fo3nyk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
How do you build a Latinx Tech bay area meet-up group into a global organization of 15,000 Latinx/a/o BIPOC/LGBTQ members in 3 years? Techqueria was born from the need to have safe conversations in tech, safe networking and leadership discussions that would hold technology companies accountable to their DEI policies and recruitment transparency. The tipping point of tech to hide behind the "pipeline issue" is over with social justice from Frances Coronel, now the Technology Director of Techqueria, and she is holding the line with a #NoTechForICE policy, along with MiJente who are brining our voices from community to the front lines in powerful movements of technology and politics. Follow us on IG, Twitter and LinkedIn to learn more about Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom and Latinasb2b.marketing for technology in small business. Special thanks to Robert Lopez, for sound engineering and co-production. NOTE: at the time of recording, Frances was holding Executive Director position. Gracias.
Paris Marx is joined by Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran to discuss Australia's robodebt scandal where automated decision-making was used against welfare recipients, and how exploitative AI implementations are being deployed by governments in social welfare and at the borders.Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran is a PhD candidate at Australian National University whose work focuses on digital identification systems and border policing regimes. Follow Dhakshayini on Twitter as @Dhakshayini_S.
Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer of 30 plus years, Cara Page, join us to talk cultural memory and healing justice. Cara is one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the US South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions of the Global South. She is co-founder and current leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She is also the former ED of The Audre Lorde Project, and former National Coordinator of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. You can learn more about her work at her, Changing Frequencies and Healing Histories on her webpage. Follow her on IG @changingfrequencies. Learn more about the Kindred Healing Collective on their webpage. La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this episode, we dig deep into the contemporary undocumented rights movement with UIC Professor Amalia Pallares and Mijente Political Director Tania Unzueta. The former mentor-mentee duo go through the timeline of Tania's involvement in the struggle, from her canceled appearance in front of Congress on September 11th, to the fight for DACA to be passed in the early 2010s, to her step into electoral politics over the last few years. Throughout the story, the love and appreciation between the old friends shines through, and the stories Tania shares illustrate what the future of this fight can look like. SHOW NOTES Mijente - https://mijente.net/ Coming out of the Shadows - https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/coming-out-of-the-shadows-undocumented-youth-art-and-activism-in-the-usa/ Radio Arte - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/radio-arte-national-museum-of-mexican-art/Content?oid=3905398 Immigrant youth justice league - https://mydocumentedlife.org/immigrant-youth-justice-league-coming-out-of-the-shadows/ Undocuqueer - https://creativeresistance.org/i-am-undocuqueer/ #Not1More - http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/ Secure Communities - https://www.ice.gov/secure-communities NOLA Congress of Day Laborers - https://www.nowcrj.org/ Marisa Franco of Mijente - https://twitter.com/marisa_franco?lang=en Chicago Community and Workers Rights - https://chicagoworkersrights.org/about/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091
Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities. In this episode, AFSC staff members Tori Bateman, Dov Baum, and Pedro Rios are joined by the Transnational Institute’s Nick Buxton to discuss a report released by AFSC, TNI, and Mijente explores the financial campaign contributions of the leading US border security contractors and how they have shaped a bipartisan approach in favor of border militarization for more than three decades. What does this industry influence means for the future of US immigration policy and the prospects for change under President Biden? To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.
Jahsun Fakolade Edmonds joins us to share about the spiritual roots of Capoeira and the martial art's connection to Black rebellion and liberation. Fakokade is a Capoeira practitioner of 20 years. He is also a Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills and a Babalawo, IFA Priest. You can learn more about Fakolade on FB under Jahsun Edmonds and on IG under @oluwo_fakolade. Learn more about his IFA Temple, Idin Ka at idinkaaifatemple.com. La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Rocio Navarro joins us for a beautiful conversation about the power of water as an element and tool for healing and rebirthing ourselves. Rocio is a healing artist that works intimately and creatively, with water. She is Vaginal Steam Hydrotherapist, Ceremonialist, Spiritual Counselor, Energy and Sound Healer with a Sociology degree/background. You can learn more about Rocio Navarro by going to her website rocionavarro.org and you can follow her on IG @water_healing. La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Para nuestro segundo episodio de la temporada en español, nos acompaña Luis Colunga, persona no binaria, antirracista, terapeuta psicocorporal, psicólogo y sexólogo educador. Nos ilumina sobre como la sanación somática y emocional combinado con una perspectiva antirracista y social puede crear espacios de contención y acompañamiento, espacios para poder sentirlo todo. La Cura Podcast es un proyecto de Mijente. ¡SUSCRÍBETE, CALIFICA y escríbenos una reseña! ¡Comparte este episodio con otros! Síganos en IG en @lacurapodcast y @conmijente. Puede enviarnos un correo electrónico a lacurapodcast@gmail.com, ¡queremos saber de usted!
Episodio en español Julia Laporte, practicante del Reiki por mas de 25 anos nos acompaña para iluminarnos sobre las raíces, filosofía y practica de esta modalidad de sanación que hoy es tan popular y muchas veces explotada. Puedes seguir a Julia en las redes sociales bajo Julie Laporte. La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
On this episode we discuss how this podcast has helped us grow so far. We started the podcast with the intention that it would help us with some of the mental problems we have with our own lives. Margaret has learned to have some confidence and Martha has figured out how to let go a little. We both have many other things we want to work on with his podcast and we're not ending, because we're having an amazing time. If you would like to donate to any of the following causes for Martha's birthday here are some suggestions: The American Civil Liberties Union, United We Dream, Mijente, Immigrant Justice Corps, and Causa Oregon. Follow us on instagram and our friend Reva @_reva.thereal.g_ Let us know if you have any episode suggestions by emailing us at wineamilikethis@gmail.com or you can DM us @wineamilikethis on instagram. Our intro music was created by @oswaldex on instagram, if you have any music you want created he is very easy to work with and amazing!
Kiani Conley-Wilson, is a grower, activist, and organizer based in Troy, NY. and Assistant Program Manager of the Soul Fire Farm join us. Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. They raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of the ancestors, they work to reclaim their collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. Learn more about the Soul Fire Farm at soulfirefarm.org and follow them on IG at @soulfirefarm La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Speaker, teacher trainer, Yoga culture advocate, and best-selling author Susanna Barkataki shares the roots of yoga and its tradition of social justice and liberation. In the West, Yoga has been commodified, exploited and stripped from its earth based framework and practice. Susanna grounds us in the Yoga earth based philosophical essence and reminds us yoga is for all bodies to restore balance and connection to the elements. Deepen your understanding and buy Susana Barkataki's book, Embrace Yoga's Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Practice. Learn more about Susanna Barkataki at SusannaBarkataki.com Learn more about Susanna's Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute. La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Gloria Lucas, Founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride joins us to talk about how the power of healing disorders can be found in deepening our understanding of the intersections of history, capitalism, oppression and trauma. Her work has been featured in NPR, Teen Vogue, MTV, Huffpost, Los Angeles Times, and Bitch Magazine. You can learn more about Gloria and Nalgona Positivity Pride by visiting their platforms. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nalgonapositivitypride/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NalgonaPositiveShop Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nalgonapositivepride Twitter: https://twitter.com/NalgonaPride Reach out at npppride@gmail.comw La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us. Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. Our guest is Minneapolis-based D.A. Bullock, an award-winning filmmaker and social practice artist in the field of story-based community organizing. He is also involved with Reclaim the Block, a coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Also, amid the sea of disturbing news at the border on the treatment of migrant children by the Biden administration, some good news from the immigrant rights movement. Our guest is Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican activist, organizer, immigrant, and mother in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. She is also a community organizer with La Resistencia. Maru has lived in the United States for more than 25 years, and has spent most of that time as a community organizer. In 2014, Maru came out as undocumented. She is a member of the Latino Advocacy organization and Mijente. For our weekly Earth Watch, we focus on the campaign to protect Indonesian rainforests. We speak with Sergio Baffoni, an Italian native living in Germany who coordinates the campaign to protect Indonesian rain-forests, run by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) together with around 150 national and international organizations. He also coordinates EPN global efforts in monitoring and mapping of new pulp capacity developments, in order to identify and prevent and minimize future adverse impacts on forests by engaging financial institutions involved in the respective projects.
Mark-Anthony Johnson Kicks off Season 3 of La Cura Podcast! As a licensed acupuncturist and experienced organizer, Mark-Anthony joins us to discuss what is health and who benefits from us being well enough. He invites us to look through a liberatory lens of wellness and names key elements in building a society that truly centers wellbeing. Mark-Anthony Johnson is the Founder and Director of the Frontline Wellness Network, a network of health workers working to end the public health crisis of criminalization and incarceration. You can learn more about Mark-Anthony at resilientstrategies.org. Follow him on twitter @FrntWellNetwork and on IG @frontlinewellnessnetwork La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Follow us on Twitter and IG @conmijente. Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast or @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Jacinta González, an organizer with Mijente, a non-profit which leads campaigns to educate and organize around issues concerning immigration, detentions and deportations. Jacinta explains how ICE and other law enforcement agencies are using surveillance technologies to target immigrant communities and other communities of color, and gives us her take on what the new administration in Washington must do about it. This interview was conducted by Emnet Almedom, a policy analyst here at OBI. For a transcript of this interview visit https://belonging.berkeley.edu/whobelongs/ice-tech
We kick off our 2021 winter season with a reflection on the presidential election, inauguration, and Latina/o/x political power. We talk with Latina Theory co-founder, Arianna Genis, about her recent accomplishments as well as celebrate Latina Theory's birthday (5 years!). Arianna Genis (https://twitter.com/ariannagenis?lang=en) is a xicana organizer, political campaigner, digital strategist, and storyteller. She’s led and won local candidate campaigns in Minnesota. In 2020, she dedicated her time to building the political power of the Latinxs with Mijente, leading efforts in the battleground state of North Carolina as part of a Fuera Trump, a successful nationwide campaign dedicated to mobilizing the Latinx vote to get Trump out, and most recently, jumped into the Georgia runoff election to help win back the Senate. ** We do not own the rights to this music, but have permission from artists **
2020 was rough...to say the least. Babs and Favy bring you the last episode del año with laughs, tears and alien conspiracy theories. Listen in as we read your letters about family and acceptance as they bid farewell to the year. As always, send your questions to AskLWLpod@gmail.com and we may read them on a future episode. #podsincolor #supportbrownpodcasts #supportlatinxpodcasts #lwlpod #latinx Show Notes: UNLV MFA APPLICATION (https://www.unlv.edu/news-story/mfa-art-call-applications) Planned Parenthood Telehealth (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-care/get-care-online?utm_campaign=podcast&utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=lunch) Mijente (https://mijente.net/) Selena Watchalong episodes on our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/latinoswholunch/posts) Juana Molina - ANRMAL (https://juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/anrmal) My Momma Told Me - Podcast (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-my-momma-told-me-with-lan-69919303/) Call now and leave a voicemail: (512) 333-0471 Thank you to all of our supporters on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/latinoswholunch) and Paypal (http://www.latinoswholunch.com/donate) Buy the ABCs of Latinidad Coloring book (https://thewritersblock.org/?q=h.tviewer&qsb=keyword&qse=ZzjQjUtIw2ckZaqLBU_Zqg&using_sb=status)
This week on the TransLash Podcast, we go back and bring you the best segments from our first year with this lookback. As always, we start with a moment of trans joy, hearing Tyler Rodriguez’s palpable glee that comes from helping other trans people feel more comfortable in their bodies through a binder exchange program. Then, Debi Jackson, a former conservative Southern Baptist turned trans rights advocate, joins Imara to take a peek into the mentality of the Christian Right to learn how we might get them in our side. Plus, we hear from, Isa Noyola, deputy Director of an organization centering Latinx people in social justice movements called Mijente to discuss her work around abolishing systems that oppress trans immigrant communities of color. You can connect with us on social media!Follow TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@imarajones) and Instagram (@imara_jones_)Follow our guests on social media!Point of Pride: @pointofprideorg (Instagram) @pointofpride (Twitter)Debi Jackson: @the.debi.jackson (Instagram) @the_debijackson (Twitter)Isa Noyola: @muxerisa (Instagram) @muxerisa (Twitter)Be sure to head to TransLash.org on the 23rd to see our Holiday Zine!TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media by Futuro Studios. Translash Team: Imara Jones, Ruby Fludzinski, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. The Futuro Studios team: Nicole Rothwell, Jess Alvarenga, Stephanie Lebow, Julia Caruso, Leah Shaw, Elisheba Ittoop, and Gabriela Baez. Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano with support from Agency of Joy. Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Isa Noyola is a well known and respected translatina activist and trans leader in the US. She talks about her work to end ICE detention of trans migrants, what it's like to come out as trans when you're a first generation Mexican American pastor's kid and how none of us is free until all of us are free. Betsy & Isa talk about being free to express the feminine in a patriarchal world, the strong values and community organising experience their religious backgrounds gave them both and reasons to be optimistic, even in (and especially in) difficult times. You can find out more about Isa's organisation, Mijente, here: https://mijente.com You can support me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/TheDiscomfortPractice Follow me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/thebetsyreed
Marisa Franco helps Latinx people build political power through Mijente, the national action hub she founded in 2015. Drawing on her work in many diverse communities, she’s here to demystify organizing with simple steps anyone can take. (Hint: Start by pretending you’re throwing a party.) She also explains why everyone should be concerned about tech companies’ increasingly terrifying role in public life—and why regulation is needed to hold them accountable. Plus: The latest election intel from Arizona, finding inspiration in the desert, and joining the “secret club” of parents who’ve unlocked a new level of fearlessness.You can find Marisa on Twitter: @marisa_franco and more about Mijente at mijente.netText SUNSTORM to 97779 for updates on how you can take action Head to sunstormpod.com to learn, read and find out how you can get involved! Sunstorm is a project of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, in collaboration with Participant. Sunstorm provides a platform for a diversity of viewpoints on policies and current events that are important to the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and its members. Guests on Sunstorm do not represent or speak on behalf of NDWA.
Hola hola! We are kicking off a new season of Se Ve Se Escucha with José A. Romero! In this episode we talk about language and sex, the Dennis deLeon Language Justice Institute and how José has brought together interpreting, organizing, community mobilization, education, and healthcare programming. José is an HIV+ abolitionist and healthcare organizer and strategist based out of Durham NC. They currently work at the Latino Commission on AIDS, and is blessed to include #DurhamBeyondPolicing, SONG, Mijente, and the Gran Varones, as their political home. José can be reached at joseromero2010@gmail.com or @pupusapapi_27 Hope you enjoy! Transcript available at www.seveseescucha.com/episodes Follow SVSE on: Instagram.com/seveseescucha Facebook.com/svsepodcast Twitter.com/svsepodcast
Today's guest is Alejandra Pablos from the #keepalefree campaign! This longstanding freedom fighter speaks on her time in an ICE prison, criminal justice reform, reproductive justice, and what we all can do to help change the narrative around immigrants from Mexico!
In this episode, Imara has important conversations about the intersection of immigration and trans experiences. Maria Hinojosa, founder of The Futuro Media Group and co-host of In The Thick, discusses her new book, the importance of diverse voices in journalism, and how the arrest of an undocumented trans woman highlighted some of the earliest abuses of power from the Trump administration. Transform: Isa Noyola, deputy Director of an organization centering Latinx people in social justice movements called Mijente, discusses her work around abolishing systems that oppress trans immigrant communities of color. This segment contains details of the death of Roxana Hernandez in ICE custody. Trans Joy: Dagoberto Bailon of Trans Queer Pueblo, a collective of trans and queer migrants of color, discusses the mutual aid efforts of the organization since the start of COVID. Subscribe to our podcast at translash.org/podcastYou can follow the TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@imarajones) and Instagram (@imara_jones_)Follow our guests on social media!Maria Hinojosa: @maria-la-hinojosa (Instagram) @Maria_Hinojosa (Twitter)Isa Noyola: @muxerisa (Instagram) @muxerisa (Twitter)Dagoberto Bailon: @dagoduagin (Instagram) @dagobertobailon (Twitter)The TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones is produced by TransLash Media by Futuro Studios.TransLash team: Imara Jones, Ruby Fludzinski, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko.Futuro Studios team: Nicole Rothwell, Jess Alvarenga, Stephanie Lebow, and Leah Shaw.Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano, with support from Agency of Joy.Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Since 2018 Rebecca has invited many tech giants to explain if & how they are collecting & selling personal data to govt & other entities to profile & target subsets of populations while making huge profits. For example, one tech company reportedly made over $1.6 billion from the US federal government from 2017 – 2019. No tech company has accepted the invitations. However, Mijente, which has performed significant research into tech surveillance activities, agreed to answer questions such as: • How widespread is the collection of everyone's personal data? • What companies are providing personal data to the tech organizations? • Why don't the data sources notify the general population about all the entities to whom everyone's data is being shared & used? • How is tech being used to surveil & monitor specific populations? • How have people been harmed by resulting actions from surveillance of personal data? Hear Rebecca discuss these questions and more with Jacinta González from Mijente.
Since 2018 Rebecca has invited many tech giants to explain if & how they are collecting & selling personal data to govt & other entities to profile & target subsets of populations while making huge profits. For example, one tech company reportedly made over $1.6 billion from the US federal government from 2017 – 2019. No tech company has accepted the invitations. However, Mijente, which has performed significant research into tech surveillance activities, agreed to answer questions such as: • How widespread is the collection of everyone’s personal data? • What companies are providing personal data to the tech organizations? • Why don’t the data sources notify the general population about all the entities to whom everyone’s data is being shared & used? • How is tech being used to surveil & monitor specific populations? • How have people been harmed by resulting actions from surveillance of personal data? Hear Rebecca discuss these questions and more with Jacinta González from Mijente.
Our host, Luis Avila has a candid conversation with Marisa Franco, co-founder and Director of Mijente, an online organizing tool for Latinx and Chicanx activists. Marisa is a Latinx rights advocate and community organizer who went from growing up in the small town of Guadalupe, AZ, to running national campaigns. In this episode she talks about what pushed her to become a leader and how she created an organization that manages to always make its supporters feel like they are a part of something much larger than themselves. Support this podcast
How can progressive movements bring Biden to the Bernie side? Marisa Franco of Mijente joins Francesca with some insights into how the joint policy task force on immigration went down, and the push needed to hold Biden accountable in the first 100 days of office. If we even get there. Plus, comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh joins to sing bits from her forthcoming musical on the decline of American civilization. And introducing a new new segment “Extreme Postal Makeover” about how to make the USPS irresistible in the face of authoritarian meddling. Featuring:Zahra Noorbakhsh (@ZahraComedy, Good Muslim Bad Muslim)Marisa Franco (@National director, Mijente) Thanks to producer Becca Rufer Support the show by tipping: @TBR-LIVE on Venmo & @TBRLIVE on Cash App. Donating a portion to a different dope grassroots org each week. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
How can progressive movements bring Biden to the Bernie side? Marisa Franco of Mijente joins Francesca with some insights into how the joint policy task force on immigration went down, and the push needed to hold Biden accountable in the first 100 days of office. If we even get there. Plus, comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh joins to sing bits from her forthcoming musical on the decline of American civilization. And introducing a new new segment “Extreme Postal Makeover” about how to make the USPS irresistible in the face of authoritarian meddling. Featuring: Zahra Noorbakhsh (@ZahraComedy, Good Muslim Bad Muslim) Marisa Franco (@National director, Mijente) Thanks to producer Becca Rufer Support the show by tipping: @TBR-LIVE on Venmo & @TBRLIVE on Cash App. Donating a portion to a different dope grassroots org each week.
Birx said Sunday that "the US is in a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, saying that the deadly virus is more widespread than when it first took hold in the US earlier this year," CNN reported. How concerned should we be about what Birx is saying and that US President Donald Trump is taking issue with her saying it? "Talks between congressional Democrats and the administration over a fifth coronavirus package are entering their second week with no signs of a quick deal," The Hill reported Monday. NBC News reported on July 4, "The crippling economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could force a wave of evictions across the United States as a federal ban and a patchwork of state moratoriums quickly expire, fair housing advocates and legal experts warned." How serious of a problem is this? "In a Monday morning tweet attacking Nevada's proposed expansion of mail-in voting as 'an illegal late night coup,' President Donald Trump once again openly admitted that increasing access to the ballot amid the COVID-19 pandemic poses a dire threat to the Republican Party's ability to win elections," Common Dreams reported Monday. What are we to make of this?"Microsoft Corp. said it will move forward with plans to buy the US operations of the hit video-sharing app TikTok, capping weeks of covert dealmaking that were almost upended by an 11th-hour intervention from President Trump," the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Is there more to this than meets the eye? "The US and Poland have agreed to a defense deal that will lead to more American troops deployed in the central European nation, a top US diplomat said Friday," Stars & Stripes reported that same day. "The two countries have completed negotiations on a new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which 'will implement the joint vision of our two presidents to enhance the US military presence in Poland,' Washington's ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher wrote in a Twitter post." What is this joint vision that was mentioned in the statement, and how will that vision be perceived in other parts of the world? "When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli government responded with the usual rhetoric, accusing the international community of bias and insisting on Israel's 'right to defend itself,'" Palestine Chronicle Editor Ramzy Baroud wrote in a July 29 op-ed. He argued that beneath the rather dismissive posture of those in the Israeli government and their US backers could be grave concern. What could happen?"Given what's going on, Trump's reelection strategy has changed at a time when dire economic conditions have given presumptive [Democratic] nominee [Joe] Biden a commanding lead in national polls, some giving him a double-digit advantage," Stephen Lendman wrote in a Monday post on his website. "In an attempt to reinvigorate his flagging campaign, Trump and others surrounding him changed the subject." How so?"COVID-19 is escalating in ICE [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detention centers as states hit highest daily records - and ICE deportation flights into Northern Triangle continue," said the headline of a Monday news release from the International Rescue Committee. Is the US deporting COVID-19 to Mexico and Central and South America? For insight into this, we turn to Maru Mora-Villalpando, a nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.GUESTS:Dr. Yolandra Hancock - Board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialistDr. Linwood Tauheed - Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas CityGreg Palast - Investigative reporterCaleb Maupin - Journalist and political analystAlexander Mercouris - Editor-in-chief of The DuranDan Cohen - Filmmaker and writer for The GrayzoneStephen Lendman - Author and geopolitical analystMaru Mora-Villalpando - Immigrant rights activist and organizer
We are becoming an America we've never been. Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, talks with George about organizing infrastructure to support progressive leadership in the immigrant rights and broader Latinx and Chicanx community. This brutal moment of recovering, unlearning, and remembering is teaching us that we are only as safe and healthy as the most vulnerable among us -- and that through inclusive collectivity, we can move from respectability politics to strong, multiracial alliances and people power.Marisa Franco is the Phoenix-based Director and Co-founder of Mijente, a hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing and movement-building. You can find her on Twitter @marisa_franco.You can learn more at peoplesaction.org/nextmove.People's Action is a national network of 40 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this Episode of La Cura, long time friends Marisa Franco, Director of Mijente and Francisca Porchas Coronado La Cura Podcast host and producer have a spiritual and political conversation about the impact of colonization, the role of shame, how pride plays out from a non-Black Latinx perspective, empathy as an antidote, and where to begin in building pro-Blackness. Follow Marisa Franco on Twitter and Mijente on Twitter and IG Follow La Cura Podcast on IG Follow Francisca Porchas Coronado on Twitter Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Host: Diane Gil Co Host: Antonio Moore Episode Introduction: In this episode of the ‘Now What’, Diane and her co-host Antonio Moore continue to talk about the continuing anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd leading to a demand to defund police departments across the nation. Episode Summary: The podcast episode is a continued discussion of George Floyd in episodes 14 and 15. Our co-host Antonio shares the history of police dominance rooted back to American slavery and legalized segregation. There is also discussion about the legislation that allows for the continued racial profiling and the authority for police to be an active particpant in system racism without fear of consequences. Key Concepts: (1) Reforms: These talk about ways a "positive change" can be incorporated in the police conduct. Likely to increase police funding for technology and training. (2) Defunding: Is the reallocation and re-distribution of the police budgets which are heavily shielded by Police Unions. (3) Abolish: A complete elimination of the police as a means to an end. Abolitionist theory is to create a world and society where police are not needed at all. Main Takeaways: Historically police were set up as slave patrols, which evolved in enforcing legalised segregation, and continued racial profiling and to maintain the oppression of black communities. If you research the pattern, you will realise the system racism was built from the beginning. Get informed on your local city and state elected officials. District Attorneys have significant discretion on whether police are charged with crimes. Demand answers to your state laws and funding of police. It’s okay if you don’t understand, keep asking questions. Join organised movements such as Mijente, Black Lives Matter and Equal Justice Initiative to donate monetarily or with volunteering. Participate in early voting happening now! Early voting determines your local officials who have the authority of decisions that directly impact police funding, the use of choke-holds, and so many important topics discussed in today’s episode. Important Resources: Mijente: https://mijente.net/ Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ State Elections: vote.org Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org/ Defund the Police Petition: https://www.change.org/p/donald-j-trump-defund-police Listen to other episodes: https:// podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/now-what/ id1439125172 Rate and leave a review on iTunes, it helps more people discover us and stay connected with things that matter. Tell us what you want to hear, every suggestion matters! REACH US: Contact: connect@cultivatewithcourage.com Website: www.dianegil.com Instagram/Twitter: @dianegil_cwc Join us at: www.facebook.com/groups/cultivatewithcourage This episode was produced by LG Media Episode show notes by: Tanishka Kherajani
Alicia Garza is joined this week by Marisa Franco, the Director and Co-Founder of Mijente, a digital and grassroots organizing hub for Latinx and Chicanx people. Garza and Franco discuss the origins of Mijente, challenges facing the Latinx community right now, and whether or not we can “message test” our way to freedom. Plus, Garza’s weekly roundup of all things great and awful known as Lady Don’t Take No!Marisa Franco on Twitter and at InstagramLady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook. This pod is supported by the Black Futures LabProduction by Phil SurkisTheme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by LatyrxAlicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published in October 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.
Host and KYW Newsradio Community Affairs reporter Cherri Gregg asks the burning questions about institutionalized racism. Rev Mark Kelly Tyler, pastor of Mother Bethel AME Church and co-chair of the Board of POWER joins Dr. Charles Gallagher, chair of the sociology and criminology departments at La Salle University, Stacey Hawkins, a professor at Rutgers Law School and an expert in diversity law and Erika Almiron, social justice advocate with Mijente. The Patriot Homecare Changemaker of the week is Detective Lamont Hudson, private security agent who helped guard businesses in Port Richmond save merchandise from looters.
This week we pause to reckon with the national call for justice that followed the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and countless Black Americans in what's become an epidemic of sanctioned violence. Alicia talks to veteran community organizer Rosa Clemente and Marisa Franco, co-founder of Mijente, an action hub for social justice, about anti-blackness in Latino cultures, the colonization of identity, and what we must each do right now to make lasting change possible.
Veralucia Mendoza, Mijente member, Queer Afro-Indigenous migrant from the deserts of Peru and one of the main organizers and founders of the amazing Mutual Aid efforts in Toledo, Ohio. She joins us to talk about the history of mutual aid, its current invaluable practice during Covid times and centers a decolonizing frame and practice of it. Veralucia is committed to practicing Ancestral Futurism-imagining and creating better futures based on ancestral power, including our ancestors in the movement. This practice calls her to community organizing and disrupting culture. You can follow Veralucia Mendoza on IG at @cala_verita, check out her TadX Toledo Toledo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSmjxqRh0b8. Follow and support Mutual Aid in Toledo on FB at Mutual Aid Toledo/Apoyo Mutuo Toledo. Please share this practice with others! This episode is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally. Follow us at @lacurapodcast or email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!
Listen to this special episode on the Mijente and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement's new report "The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.". We're dying disproportionately and bearing the brunt of this crisis. It is critical we tell our stories! Listen to how we are organizing for the SOLUTIONS that we need. Sign up here to see the report: mijente.net/covid19pc Follow @LCLAA and @conmijente on twitter and IG. Please rate La Cura Podcast, subscribe and share with others!
"A second wave of job loss is hitting those who thought they were safe," the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. "Businesses that set up employees to work from home are laying them off as sales plummet. Corporate lawyers are seeing jobs dry up. Government workers are being furloughed as state and city budgets are squeezed. And health care workers not involved in fighting the pandemic are suffering."In a Monday MintPress News article titled "Bodies in the Streets: IMF Imposed Measures Have Left Ecuador Unable to Cope with Coronavirus," Alan MacLeod writes, "Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF [International Monetary Fund]." What's going on in Ecuador and with President Moreno?"With much of the world focused on the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump Administration has begun a major military buildup in the Caribbean, sending US warships and aircraft to the region while planning for the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro," Edward Hunt wrote Monday in The Progressive. “'We're deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircraft, and helicopters; Coast Guard cutters; and Air Force surveillance aircraft, doubling our capabilities in the region,' President Trump announced in a press briefing at the White House on April 1." What are we to make of all of this?"Pressure is growing on ICE [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to quickly release as many detainees as possible, as migrants stage protests and a flurry of legal actions bear down on the agency," Felipe De La Hoz reported Monday in The Intercept. "Yet ICE remains recalcitrant, opaque, and unpredictable in its decision-making. One side effect of the coronavirus outbreak may be a growing awareness of just how many people in ICE detention simply don't have to be there."GUESTS:Dr. Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Alan MacLeod — Academic and journalist. He is a staff writer at MintPress News and a contributor to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), as well as the author of "Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting."Teri Mattson — Code Pink Latin America coordinator and founder and coordinator for the Campaign to End US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela. Nino Pagliccia — Activist and freelance writer based in Vancouver. A retired researcher from the University of British Columbia, Canada, Pagliccia is a Venezuelan-Canadian who follows and writes about international relations with a focus on the Americas, and is also the editor of the book “Cuba Solidarity in Canada – Five Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations.” Maru Mora-Villalpando - Nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and a community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.
Listen to the Resilient Strategies team--Mark-Anthony Jonhnson, Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado, host of La Cura Podcast on Politicized Healing and what it can offer us in this moment of Covid19 and beyond to heal and build power in the way that we need to. Resilient Strategies is healing justice project transforming the impact of state violence on our bodies, our behaviors and the organizations we build as a critical part of liberation. To learn more about Prentis Hemphill you can visit their website at prentishemphill.com and you can follow them on IG @prentis.h and you can follow Mark-Anthony Johnson on twitter @FlyEgret. Follow La Cura Podcast on IG @lacurapodcast and Mijente @conmijente. Please rate, subscribe and share our pod!
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday "warned of a 'very painful' fight and projected 100,000 to 240,000 US deaths, even with mitigation efforts," the Washington Post reported Wednesday. "United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said the outbreak that has sickened hundreds of thousands of people around the world and devastated the global economy is the 'most challenging crisis we have faced' since World War II." Where are with this, and can we trust the latest comments by the president?"US Republican lawmakers signaled caution on Tuesday over Democratic plans to prepare another large spending bill to battle the coronavirus crisis, even as President Donald Trump called for $2 trillion in spending, this time on infrastructure," Reuters reported. We discussed this on Tuesday. That same day, the president tweeted, “With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country! Phase 4.”"Today, La Resistencia, Tsuru for Solidarity, and Never Again Seattle drove to the Northwest Detention Center for a caravan rally calling for the immediate release of everyone detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, operated by GEO Group," La Resistencia wrote in a Monday Facebook post. "Over the weekend news broke of a hunger strike inside the facility where over 300 people are refusing all food amidst coronavirus exposure fears." What's going on?"President Donald Trump and administration officials had recently said they were considering relaunching HealthCare.gov," Politico reported Tuesday. But the administration "has decided against reopening Obamacare enrollment to uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, defying calls from health insurers and Democrats to create a special sign-up window amid the health crisis," the outlet said. What's the motivation behind this?GUESTS:Dr. Margaret Flowers - Physician and co-editor of Popular Resistance.Dr. Linwood Tauheed - Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Maru Mora-Villalpando - Nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and a community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.Teresa M. Lundy - Government affairs and public relations specialist and principal of TML Communications, LLC.
GUESTSFernanda Castellanos is a community organizer with Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD). She started organizing when her mom Genoveva got stopped by police and then transferred to ICE. Her passion is to work with the undocumented folks and communities of color to fight deportations and criminalization. She leads the Community Asambleas for OCAD.Brandon Lee is leading communications with the 2020 Census team at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). He’s a lifelong Uptown resident who previously worked with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago. His first job out of college was doing community outreach for the Census in 2010.OVERVIEWBrownTown dives into this year's U.S. Census and all the reasons everyone (yes, everyone) should do it. Fernanda and Brandon inform about their work with OCAD and ICIRR as well as what census outreach looks like for immigrant, undocumented, and non-English speaking communities. They continue to explain why trust and relationship-building is crucial to grassroots organizing, especially in direct-service work. What if Trump's citizenship question was not struck down by the Supreme Court? Fernanda and Brandon explain the ramifications of this scary alternate reality as well as the differences (and similarities) between his administration and Obama's regarding deportations and immigrant's rights. With a state-wide and local scope, BrownTown and guests also talk funding and logistics within census outreach, the Chicago gang database, "sanctuary cities" and their loopholes, the paradoxical nature of Illinois politics, and personal experiences with all of the above.-- This episode is part of a multimedia project commissioned by Chicago Reader's Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA). More to come!Follow Fernanda on Instagram and OCAD on their site, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Follow Brandon on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and ICIRR on their site, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.GET COUNTED FOR THE CENSUS AT my2020census.gov.--CREDITS: Intro song Contejo by Don Omar. Outro song Mijente by Bad Bunny. Audio engineering by Genta Tamashiro. Recording session photos by Andrew Merz.--Bourbon ’n BrownTownSite | Become a Patron on Patreon!SoapBox Productions and Organizing, 501(c)3Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Support
"President Trump on Wednesday signed into law a multibillion-dollaremergency aid package aimed at helping Americans impacted by thecoronavirus," The Hill reported Wednesday. It will go into effect in15 days. The measure, which was previously approved by the House ofRepresentatives, passed the Senate Wednesday in a 90-8 vote. It"includes provisions offering paid leave benefits for Americans,bolstered unemployment benefits and free diagnostic testing for thevirus," The Hill noted. What does this mean for the US economy duringthis coronavirus outbreak?On Tuesday, "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportedthirty-three people from the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) toMexico and possibly other countries," the Yakima Immigrant ResponseNetwork wrote in a Thursday Facebook post. The network "reported theon-boarding at Yakima Airport of thirty men and three women, all fromthe NWDC in Tacoma, [Washington], a facility located in greaterSeattle, a region with the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths.Despite Governor Jay Inslee's recommendation to limit as much aspossible large gatherings under fifty people, to practice socialdistancing at all times, and the Center for Disease Control's (CDC)recommendation to cancel all non-essential plane travel, especiallyinternational travel, ICE continues its unnecessary forcedtransportation of immigrants and migrants across the country andbeyond the US border, endangering the lives of detained people andpotentially further spreading the Coronavirus from the hardest-hitmetropolitan area in North America. These deportations reveal anagency failing to respect the United States government's efforts tocontain the novel COVID-19 pandemic. As ICE continues its assault onimmigrants and migrants, behaving as if this is a time for business asusual — detaining, deporting, and denying entry to asylum seekers —its actions now far exceed the domain of immigration enforcement."What's going on here?"Brazilians on Wednesday held what was described as the largestprotest against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to date, but thedemonstration did not take place in the streets," Common Dreamsreported Thursday. What's going on in Brazil? "Instead, voluntarilyconfined to their homes to prevent the spread of the novelcoronavirus, millions of people in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro tookto their balconies and windows to demand Bolsonaro's ouster over hishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak, which the president continues todownplay even after more than a dozen members of his inner circletested positive for the disease." What's the difference between what'shappening in Brazil and what's happening in Spain and Italy?A Tuesday headline in The Grayzone reads: "US ramps up sanctionsdevastating Venezuela's health sector as coronavirus spreads." Thearticle says, "Promising to 'smash' Venezuela's government during a'maximum pressure March,' Trump has imposed crushing sanctions thatforce Venezuela to spend three times as much as non-sanctionedcountries on coronavirus testing kits." What has happened to diplomacyand soft power? Could this be considered virtual germ warfare?GUESTS:Joia Jefferson Nuri — Political strategist and CEO of In The PublicEye Communications.Ray Baker — Political analyst and host of the podcast Public Agenda.Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist,co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizerwith Northwest Detention Center Resistance.Dr. Gerald Horne — Professor of history at the University of Houstonand author of many books, including "Blows Against the Empire: USImperialism in Crisis."Teri Mattson — Code Pink Latin America coordinator and founder andcoordinator for the Campaign to End US and Canada Sanctions AgainstVenezuela.
On Today's Show: Laura Barron-Lopez, national political reporter at Politico covering the 2020 election, and Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente a grass-roots organization that mobilizes Latinx and Chicanx voters, takes calls, talks about how the Democratic Socialist has attracted Latino voters, and what the nation's largest ethnic minority is looking for in a candidate.
The Democratic White House hopefuls locked horns in the latest of the party's 10th presidential debate, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) coming under a fierce volley of attacks ahead of Saturday's primary in South Carolina.What are the takeaways from last night's scrum? This is still a crowded field and will Super Tuesday cull the herd?There are two conflicting portraits of Julian Assange that are being presented at his extradition hearing. The US who want to try Assange on espionage charges, say that he's an "ordinary" criminal whose publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military documents a decade ago put many people at risk of torture and death. Assange's lawyer countered that the WikiLeaks publisher was being victimized by a "lawless" US government that wanted to make an example of him.Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court barred a lawsuit against a Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa, for fatally shooting a 15-year-old Mexican boy, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca in the face in 2010. Guereca was on Mexican soil from across the border in Texas, refusing to open the door for foreign nationals to pursue civil rights cases in American courts in such incidents. The court ruled 5-4 to uphold a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit against the agentWhat does this mean for immigrants going forward?GUESTS:Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression." He also writes at jackrasmus.com.Richard Lachmann — American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology and professor at the State University of New York at Albany. Lachmann is best known as the author of the book "Capitalists in Spite of Themselves," which has been awarded several prizes, including the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. Walter Smolarek — Producer for Loud & Clear on Sputnik News Radio.Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.Carlos Casteneda — Attorney with The Law Offices of Perez & Malik, who specialize in immigration law.
Belia Mayeno Saavedra returns for the second part of our conversation on Conflict and Transformation. She takes us deeper into the intersection between conflict, vulnerability, shame and accountability. She answers questions by Mijente members on setting boundaries with family, moving past toxic chapters in our lives and building self-awareness. Please subscribe, rate our podcast and leave a comment on your favorite episodes!
Who is Stephen Miller? One of three Senior Advisors to the President--along with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump--Miller is arguably the person who has had the greatest impact on the most people. Policy that Miller has devised, and, thanks to a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, by in large been able to enact, has changed how immigration works in the United States. But that's not all: as one of President Trump's favorite speechwriters, Miller has crafted much of the language that brings "Make America Great Again" to life. On this episode of Who Is, Sean Morrow explores how a Jewish kid from liberal Santa Monica became an immigration hardliner, and dives deep into the history of immigration--and immigration control--in the United States. Airs 02/04/2020. Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, a political, digital, and grassroots hub for Latinx organizing and movement building Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA, and the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol Nick Miroff, immigration enforcement and Department of Homeland Security reporter at the Washington Post Laurie Winer, co-founder and editor of the LA Review of Books Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Northern Lights/The Golden Compass - Chapters 10-12 New members join Lyra's party: an aeronaut, an armored bear, and soon - however fleeting - a severed child. PART TWO: BOLVANGAR CHAPTERS 13, 14, 15 THIRTEEN Fencing FOURTEEN Bolvangar Lights FIFTEEN The Dæmon Cages Interested in making a difference in children affected by tra.fficking? Many immigrants are not informed of their legal and civil rights as they pursue asylum or face deportation. Several nonprofits are providing free legal representation and other services for immigrants and the families of those detained. United We Dream, the American Civil Liberties Union, Mijente, Immigrant Families Together, Save the Children and the Immigrant Justice Corps are coordinating advocacy and services at a national level. Local organizations providing legal aid include the New Sanctuary Coalition in New York, Las Americas in El Paso and Raices in Texas, Americans for Immigrant Justice in Florida and the Denver Immigrant Legal Services Fund in Colorado. Most charities say the best way to help is through financial donations, not product donations. Well-vetted groups that provide humanitarian aid to migrants include Pueblo Sin Fronteras, an organization with two shelters along the border of the Sonoran Desert, and Border Angels, a volunteer coalition that provides water, free legal help, and emergency services. You can also donate to Immigrant Families Together, a group started by women in New York, working to raise bond money for parents who were separated from their children at the border. They also work to arrange long-term housing and pro bono attorneys for immigrants while they await trial. (In one instance, Kristen Bell helped the organization reach the $30,000 bond goal for a mother named Delmi.) Organizations United We Dream, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Mijente are also helping coordinate advocacy and services for families. Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/ Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor Chloe's blog: www.liesandarborgold.com
Two business associates of Rudy Giuliani are under arrest. They were reportedly taken into custody for conspiracy and campaign finance violations, and an unnamed congressman is also referenced in the federal indictment. The case is said to be linked to US President Donald Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden. Giuliani is Trump's personal lawyer, as well as the former mayor of New York City. What are the connections, and will this amount to anything?Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey's air and ground offensive in Syria has killed over 100 "terrorists." The advance of Turkish forces into northeastern Syria is now in its second day. It's unclear whether those killed in the operation were fighting with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The Turkish invasion began Wednesday after President Trump pulled US troops back from the area, clearing the way for Turkish forces, a move that drew condemnation from both parties as an abandonment of US allies. The UN Security Council will meet Thursday in an emergency session to discuss Turkey's military actions against the Kurds in northern Syria. Thousands have already fled in the face of ground and air attacks.Shopping malls in Hong Kong are closing early Thursday in anticipation of protests. For the past four months, pro-democracy demonstrators have been staging protests in a variety of areas. During these demonstrations, shops have been vandalized, and protesters have used malls as locations for sit-ins. As a result, Hong Kong, one of the world's top shopping cities, is seeing a decline in revenue, and the Asian financial hub is looking at its first recession in 10 years. The day after dozens of groups from around Washington State gathered at Tacoma City Hall to launch a new campaign calling on the Tacoma City Council to shut down the infamous Northwest Detention Center (NWDC aka Northwest ICE Processing Center), new reports from people detained there describe a new low for the GEO Group, the company that operates the center: a screw was found in the food during lunch. A relative of a person detained was able to take screenshots of the incident during a video call. La Resistencia, a grassroots group that supports the leadership of those detained at NWDC and calls for an end to detention and deportations in Washington state, received the pictures and report from the relative earlier Thursday. During Wednesday's campaign launch, La Resistencia presented a letter from people detained to the Tacoma City Council detailing the conditions, which included finding of blood on a plate and multiple instances of finding hair and maggots in the food. The letter is signed by nearly 40 people who are detained at the facility who have witnessed or experienced these incidents themselves. They explained that a complaint hadn't been filed because they didn't know whether they were allowed to do so, and because many times guards have ignored their complaints. The letter ends with a report that kitchen workers saw rats in the kitchen.GUESTS:Lee Stranahan — Co-host of Fault Lines on Sputnik News Radio. Daniel Lazare — Journalist and author of three books: "The Frozen Republic," "The Velvet Coup" and "America's Undeclared War." Dr. Gerald Horne — Professor of history at the University of Houston and author of many books, including "Blows Against the Empire: US Imperialism in Crisis." Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California.
US President Donald Trump is defending his decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria as Turkey prepares to move into the region. Trump has faced backlash from both sides of the political aisle since making the announcement, with critics warning the move puts America's Kurdish allies at risk, since Turkey sees them as an enemy. Trump tweeted Tuesday that many people conveniently forget that Turkey is a big US trading partner, has helped him save lives in Syria and returned an imprisoned pastor at his request. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is growing "very concerned" about the impact to the state's economy from the United Auto Workers union strike against General Motors, now in its fourth week. Whitmer visited striking workers at the Delta Township GM plant in suburban Lansing on Monday, marking her second trip to a picket line since the strike started. There has not been anything released by the state budget office as of yet on the possible hit to the state's government and economy. What will be the economic fallout of the strike? "Dozens of groups from around Washington State will gather at Tacoma City Hall to launch a new campaign calling on Tacoma City Council to shut down the now infamous Northwest Detention Center (aka Northwest ICE Processing Center)," according to a Facebook page for a Tuesday event hosted by La Resistencia. "La Resistencia, a grassroots group that supports the leadership of those detained at NWDC and calls for an end to detention and deportations in our state is coordinating a statewide coalition of grassroots, legal, service and faith organizations, all of whom declare that detention has no place in Washington State."In a recent MintPress News article titled "Rage Against the War Machine: An Interview with Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan," writer Mnar Muhawesh does a deep dive into the activism, strategy and outlook of Sheehan. We'll cover how liberals learned to love her, her clash with the Women's March and more.GUESTS:Dr. Gerald Horne — Professor of history at the University of Houston and author of many books, including "Blows Against the Empire: US Imperialism in Crisis." Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cindy Sheehan — Anti-war activist and journalist whose son Casey was killed during the Iraq War.
A phone call between President Trump and a foreign leader is prompting a whistleblower complaint. The Washington Post says an official in the intelligence community was troubled by a "promise" that Trump made to a foreign leader. The Trump administration refused to forward the complaint to Congress, setting up a stand-off between the acting Director of National Intelligence and the House Intelligence Committee.A House Appropriations subcommittee is addressing the mental health needs of children in U.S. custody at the southern border. Democratic Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro said this administration has created "a mental health crisis." Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and the office of the Inspector General testified before the committee yesterday. Republican Representative Tom Cole says the Trump Administration's zero-tolerance policy was "clearly a mistake" and there are many consequences because of it. HHS officials say safety and the well-being of children in U.S. custody is their top priority.A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of parts of new South Dakota laws that aim to prevent disruptive demonstrations against the Keystone XL pipeline. A lawsuit spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union against Gov. Kristi Noem and others alleges that the legislation chills protected speech. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction halting several provisions of the law.GUESTS:John Kiriakou — Former CIA agent and co-host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik News Radio.Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance Ed Fallon - Talk Show Host from The Fallon Forum, and director of Bold Iowa and former lawmaker.
On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Bob Schlehuber, producer for By Any Means Necessary and Sputnik news analyst. Embattled Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello vowed not to step down, even as the streets of San Juan were choked with demonstrators calling for his ouster following the release of profane chats with aides that disparaged political opponents and ordinary Puerto Ricans. Rossello on Monday told reporters he “respects the right to demonstrate” by protesters calling for his resignation and “has asked for their forgiveness.” Rossello's comments came after many lawmakers from his own New Progressive Party, which favors Puerto Rico becoming a US state, joined the opposition Popular Democratic Party, which favors continuing Puerto Rico's current commonwealth status, in calling on him to step down. Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of San Juan's colonial quarter once again, chanting, banging drums and blowing whistles and vowing to bring down the commonwealth's chief executive, depicted as a prisoner, mobster or goat on demonstrators' placards. Are the leaked messages the straw that's breaking the camels back? Are people so disgusted with the failure to return to normality after Hurricane Maria?Former US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died Tuesday at the age of 99. He was a very important and pivotal figure on the court. He was not a blind ideologue, a jurist who came to the court with a world view and an approach to jurisprudence that could not be swayed by the facts and a changing world. He was a registered Republican when appointed, but here's the thing: he was considered to be on the liberal side of the court at the time of his retirement, and he disliked being referred to as such, but he was found to be a very reasonable voice on issues regarding civil liberties, the death penalty, government action and intellectual property. In cases involving presidents of the United States, he found for the court that they were to be held accountable under American law. Imagine that: a Supreme Court holding that presidents of the US are accountable to the law while in office. Was he perfect? No, no human is, but he did demonstrate how a person can become better if they live long enough, listen more, talk less and think as deeply as they can. The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to table an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, effectively killing the measure for now but not burying the issue that has divided Democrats. The resolution's sponsor, Rep. Al Green (D-TX), was seeking to capitalize on growing criticism of Trump after the president's recent attacks on minority congresswomen. The House voted 332 to 95 to set aside the measure. The House also passed a resolution condemning Trump's attacks on four minority Democrats: Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib. On Sunday, Trump said on Twitter that the lawmakers should go back to their own countries. The Democratic women are all American citizens, with only one having been born outside the US. Trump has since doubled down, accusing the women of hating the US and saying they should leave if they're so unhappy. With Amazon's Prime Day sales event underway, the company's workers, as well as labor groups and other activists, are calling out the e-commerce giant on issues including work conditions, climate change and its ties to US government moves to deport immigrants. Demonstrators in Seattle delivered a petition with over 270,000 signatures to Amazon headquarters demanding it stop exploiting workers and cooperating with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Prime Day is estimated to make $5.8 billion in sales. Recently, Amazon has been marketing and soliciting to federal agencies, like ICE, the use of their Rekognition — spelled with a "k" — technology. This technology, which is used to identify people's faces, is absolutely concerning to us. It is absolutely dangerous to immigrant communities and communities of color. It has higher error rates on women, non-gender-conforming individuals and people of color.GUESTS:Bob Schlehuber — Producer for By Any Means Necessary and Sputnik news analyst. Jackie Luqman — Co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation and the co-host of the Facebook Livestream "Coffee, Current Events & Politics." Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.
It's a virtual tie between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, there's a two-percent difference in support from voters, with Biden having 22-percent support and Harris with 20-percent. That's a double-digit jump for Harris since last month's poll and after her widely praised performance during last week's Democratic debate. Women held in rooms without running water, sleeping bags set up on concrete and children left apart from their families, that was what Democratic lawmakers said they heard about on Monday as they toured two Texas border facilities. Let's talk about the realities here and the impact of the detention center that has turned into mini jails.OPEC is extending its deal to cut production for another nine months in bid to keep oil prices from sagging as the oil cartel faces a weakening outlook for global demand. The decision among the members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries came during a meeting Monday at the cartel's headquarters in Vienna. What does this mean going forward?GUESTS:Dr. Clarence Lusane — African-American author, activist, lecturer and chair of the political science department at Howard University. Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance. Carlos Castaneda — Attorney at Garcia & Garcia. Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression."
The acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner is resigning amid a surge of immigrants at the southern border. John Sanders' resignation is set for July 5, and he didn't provide a reason for stepping down. The resignation comes as CBP deals with accusations of poor living conditions at US border facilities. House Democrats are battling over a $4.5 billion emergency aid bill for the southern border. Liberals are outraged over the treatment of migrant children and are pushing for more protections in the bill. They want tougher standards for facilities that house migrant families. In the meantime, the White House is threatening a presidential veto, as it seeks more funding for ICE detention. House leaders want to get the bill passed before next week's July 4 recess. In an open letter, 18 individuals from 11 wealthy families detailed the sweeping benefits of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans. What signal is this sending to the broader American electorate? “We are writing to call on all candidates for president, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, support a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest 1/10 of the richest 1% of Americans — on us. The next dollar of new tax revenue should come from the most financially fortunate, not from middle-income and lower-income Americans.” How much revenue could realistically be generated from a tax of this nature?US President Donald Trump said in a Tuesday tweet, “Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.” He called Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's comments “ignorant and insulting.” Rouhani said earlier Tuesday that the White House was "afflicted by mental retardation" and vowed that Tehran would not be intimidated by American sanctions. “Imposing useless sanctions on Iran's Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and the commander of Iran's diplomacy [Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif] is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Twitter. What does this mean going forward?A recent New York Times piece, "Guantánamo Case to Test Whether Torture Can Be Put on the Docket," details abuse Majid Khan suffered while in CIA prisons. "Mr. Khan, a confessed Qaeda courier, was held in almost total darkness for a year, fearing he would be drowned in an icy tub and isolated in a cell with bugs that bit him until he bled. In 2004, his second year of CIA detention, the agency 'infused' a purée of pasta, sauce, nuts, raisins and hummus up Mr. Khan's rectum when he went on a hunger strike, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report. Now Mr. Khan and his legal team are pursuing a strategy in an effort to force the United States government to acknowledge what was done to him in a way it never has for any of the detainees who were subjected to torture — and to give him a measure of compensation for it." The government is fighting the case, so what will happen next?GUESTS:Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance. Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression."Jefferson Morley — Journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over 30 years, 15 of which were spent as an editor and reporter at The Washington Post. The author of "The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton" and "Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA," Morley has written about intelligence, the military and politics for Salon, The Atlantic and The Intercept, among others. Jim Kavanagh — Political analyst and commentator and editor of The Polemicist.Dr. Ajamu Baraka — American political activist and former Green Party nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2016 election.
US President Donald Trump's arms deals benefiting Saudi Arabia will face their first test in Congress, world leaders seem to be trying to facilitate talks between the US and Iran, and is National Security Advisor John Bolton expected to resign? The House Foreign Affairs Committee split along partisan lines Wednesday over how sharply to criticize the State Department for finalizing 22 arms sales despite congressional objections, as Democrats accused the Trump administration of creating a “phony” emergency to funnel weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.A federal court jury can't reach a verdict in the case of an Arizona aid worker accused of human smuggling. The judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after jurors in Tucson said they were deadlocked, with four voting to convict and eight voting to acquit Scott Warren of the charges of harboring undocumented immigrants and conspiracy to transport them. Warren, 36, is an instructor at Arizona State University and volunteers with the Arizona-based humanitarian aid group No More Deaths. He was arrested and charged after US Border Patrol agents saw him giving directions to two undocumented immigrants who'd taken refuge at a No More Deaths shelter in January of last year. He was charged with harboring the Central American men at the shelter. The bill to permanently extend funding for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund is moving forward in Congress. The House Judiciary Committee unanimously voted Wednesday on the measure. The bill will need to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office before it can get a full vote in the House, but it is expected to pass. The Senate is working on a similar measure. Wednesday's vote comes a day after comedian and advocate Jon Stewart blasted some members of a Judiciary subcommittee for not being present for testimony from 9/11 first responders. Trump is thinking about sending 2,000 US troops to Poland. During a meeting with the president of Poland at the White House Wednesday, Trump said the US forces would likely be pulled from Germany. He declined to say whether the US would be keeping a permanent military presence in Poland, which has long hoped for a US military base as a deterrent against Russian adventurism. Meantime, Poland has agreed to buy more than 30 US F-35 fighter jets. GUESTS: John Kiriakou — Co-host of Loud and Clear on Radio Sputnik. Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance. André Vltchek — USSR-born American political analyst, investigative journalist and filmmaker. Mark Sleboda — International affairs and security analyst. John Feal — President and founder of The Feal Good Foundation.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard is meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, as Mexico and the US try to reach an agreement over immigration and tariffs. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his government negotiators are trying to delicately negotiate their way out of looming US tariffs. But many fear that talks with the Trump administration could break down, leading to a backlash here and long-term damage to the bilateral relationship. We have a bipartisan group of senators, led by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump ally and once a staunch defender of Riyadh, trying to force nearly two dozen votes rebuking the Trump administration's decision to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and sell billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. What does this say to you?The US announced major new restrictions on US citizens traveling to Cuba late Tuesday, blocking the most common way Americans are able to visit the island - through organized tour groups that license US citizens to travel automatically - and banning US cruise ships from stopping in the country. American tourism is not explicitly permitted in Cuba. However, Americans could travel to Cuba if their visits were covered under specific categories, which included organized group travel, known as group people-to-people travel, until Tuesday. Commercial flights from the US will continue to be permitted, as they "broadly support family travel and other lawful forms of travel," according to a spokesperson. Is President Donald Trump taking us through "Groundhog Day?"After ignoring shouts of "build the wall" from a Republican congressman and defeating amendments designed to kill the legislation, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed the "Dream and Promise Act" on Tuesday, with the goal of providing a pathway to citizenship for millions of young undocumented immigrants who are facing the threat of deportation under the Trump administration. The bill, H.R. 6, passed by a vote of 237 to 187, with just seven Republicans voting in its favor. How significant is this? Cosmetics retailer Sephora will temporarily close all stores for diversity training after singer SZA tweets about racial profiling. Sephora says it will close all of its stores for an hour on Wednesday so employees across the country can undergo diversity training. The move comes after singer SZA said she was profiled at a Sephora in Calabasas, California. Does diversity training really work, and is this the solution to this systemic problem?GUESTS: Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression." Mac Hamilton — Executive manager at STAND: The Student-led Movement to End Mass Atrocities. Joe Lombardo — Co-coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition. Oscar Chacon — Co‐founder and executive director of Alianza Americas, dedicated to improving the quality of life of Latino immigrant communities in the US, as well as of peoples throughout the Americas. Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance. Torin Ellis — SiriusXM host of Career Mix, human capital strategist focused on the art of recruiting diverse talent using various creative methods and author of "Rip the Resume: Job Search & Interview Power Prep." Dr. Shantella Sherman — Historical researcher, technical writer, author of "In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935" and publisher of Acumen Magazine.
Introducing La Cura Podcast by Mijente in collaboration with Resilient Strategies. Hosted by Francisca Porchas Coronado. La Cura will take you on a journey that centers Latinx healing and wellbeing. We will explore what healing is, the possibilities for for it, and engage in conversation with thought leaders, historians, spiritual sages, trauma informed healers, traditional and western medicine practitioners and many more.
Playing for Team Human today: immigrant rights activists Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog.Jacinta and Amy will be showing us why the people living in Queens, New York may not want to welcome Amazon’s HQ2 with open arms. With Amazon poised to deliver on lucrative government contracts for surveillance and immigration enforcement technologies, Jacinta and Amy make it clear that the stakes are higher than just rising rents and gentrification.On today’s episode we’ll take a hard look at Amazon’s “cloud industrial complex.” We’ll look at how surveillance technologies like Amazon’s Rekognition are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to programs that antagonize vulnerable communities. Jacinta and Amy give Team Human listeners a critical and concrete look at the multiple intersections between our technology giants, police-state enforcement policies, and the long history of corporate profiteering on the backs of marginalized peoples. Jacinta Gonzalez is field director for Mijente, a group organizing Latinx communities around issues of immigration, detention, and deportation. Mijente has a wealth of resources and information. To learn more about the Cloud Industrial Complex, check out Mijente’s report Who’s Behind Ice and link back to Mijente.net for links to more actions, petitions, and ways to get involved. https://ice.tech.blog/ is also a tremendous hub of information about the growing relationship between big tech and lucrative government contracts to equip ICE.Amy Herzog is a media historian whose research spans a broad range of interdisciplinary subjects. She is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College and a faculty member in the Departments of Theatre and Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as the programs in Film Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. She has also taught as Visiting Associate Professor at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is a co-founder of @NoAmazonAmazons. In the News:Tech firms make millions from Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, report finds:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/silicon-valley-tech-firms-making-money-trump-anti-immigrant-agenda-reportAmazon is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown:https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612335/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/Facial Recognition and Voice Recognition via the Intercept:https://theintercept.com/2018/11/15/amazon-echo-voice-recognition-accents-alexa/https://theintercept.com/2018/07/30/amazon-facial-recognition-police-military/Douglas opens the show asking if we are taking the wrong approach in our communication about climate change? Can we move people away from feeling powerless to effect change and shape the future? What if we said, “Climate change is about to be defeated! Now is the time to go all in. Don’t miss the opportunity!” instead?Check out Douglas’s regular column on Medium for essay versions of this and other show monologues.Team Human happens each week thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support makes the hours of labor that go into each show possible. You can also help by reviewing the show on iTunes.On this episode you heard Fugazi’s “Foreman’s Dog” in the intro thanks to the kindness of the band and Dischord Records. Mid show was Throbbing Gristle’s “Walkabout” See Team Human Episode 67 with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Our outro features the Mike Watt ’s beak-holding-letter-man.Order Team Human the book and manifesto, now available everywhere! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The year is wrapping up, pero there's still so much good music! We have a couple of new songs, and one that didn't make the cut for last episode pero still deserved a lil shine. Plus, Vero takes a dip into #TeamFeelings Things we mentioned in the episode: - The playlist Vero made for Mijente's Lánzate: https://spoti.fi/2G7S7a0 - Check out Mijente! https://mijente.net/ Show notes: www.radiomenea.com/blog/2018/12/07/meneito-28-brown-just-glows Follow us: instagram.com/RadioMenea twitter.com/RadioMenea facebook.com/RadioMenea
General Motors announced today that it plans to idle five factories in North America and cut more than 14,000 blue-collar and salaried jobs in a bid to trim costs. The action follows similar job-cutting moves by Ford Motor Company in the face of slowing sales and a shift in consumer tastes, driven in part by low gasoline prices. And it drew fire from President Donald Trump, who vowed early in his term to increase auto-making jobs and brought pressure on the industry not to shift work to Mexico and overseas. Does this indicate anything about the US economy that President Trump has been heralding as the greatest of all time? The five GM plants will halt production next year, resulting in the layoffs of 3,300 production workers in the United States and about 3,000 in Canada. The company also aims to trim its salaried staff by 8,000. Does the 8K white-collar staff layoff indicate something in addition to the blue-collar layoffs?Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith brings the baggage of Mississippi and America into tomorrow's run-off election. President Trump is hosting two rallies for her today. They want to be sure that this one goes their way. Hyde-Smith, in paying homage to a supporter, is on record as having said if he invited her to a public hanging, she would be in the "front row." She also said laws that make it "just a little more difficult" for attendees of some of the state's universities to vote are a "great idea" in a video posted Thursday. “And then they remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea," Hyde-Smith said. She also has issues about her relationship with Mississippi's Confederate and Jim Crow past. What signals does this send to you based on your research and experience?In the wake of some of the most powerful hurricanes on record and historic wildfires in California, the Trump administration's strategy on climate has been to try to bury its own scientific report on global warming. The Trump White House, which has defined itself by a willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts, on Friday issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own climate change policies. What's going here? The 1,656-page National Climate Assessment, which is required by Congress, is the most comprehensive scientific study to date detailing the effects of global warming on the United States economy, public health, coastlines and infrastructure. It describes in precise detail how the warming planet will wreak hundreds of billions of dollars of damage in coming decades. President Trump has often questioned or mocked the basic science of human-caused climate change and is now working aggressively to encourage the burning of coal and the increase of greenhouse gas pollution. Your thoughts first of all on the science behind the discussion of climate change or global warming.Mexico is planning to deport up to 500 migrants who stormed the US southern border yesterday. In a statement, the Mexican Interior Ministry said the group was rounded up after trying to cross the border "violently" and "illegally." Dozens of people, including women and children, were seen racing toward the border fence that separates the US and Mexico, even crossing through a sewage-filled river to get there. US border officers used tear gas against the group, which then retreated back away from the fence. The ministry said Sunday's actions did anything but help the migrants' objectives and could have led to a serious incident. Meanwhile, thousands of migrants remain in Tijuana with their hopes set on seeking asylum in the US. GUESTS:Dr. William Spriggs - Professor in, and former chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University who also serves as chief economist to the AFL-CIO. In his role with the AFL-CIO, he chairs the Economic Policy Working Group for the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and serves on the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research.Dr. Joseph Graves - American scientist who serves as associate dean for research and a professor of biological studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro. He has also written two books that address myths and theories of race in American society. Graves has made appearances in six documentary films on these general topics. He has been a principal investigator on grants from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation and the Arizona Disease Research Commission. He was named by US Black Engineer Magazine and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Council of Deans as one of the 2017 “Innovators of the Year.”Corey Wiggins - Executive Director of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, working to tackle poverty as well as advance racial justice and economic opportunity throughout the state. Manuel Garcia Jr. - Former physicist who writes out his analyses of physical or societal problems or interactions.Maru Mora-Villalpando - Nationally known immigrant-rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and a community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.
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 are back from our week-long break, and we wanted to have a more contextual conversation about the nation's current immigration debate Marisa Franco of [Mijente](https://mijente.net/) breaks it down with us, and no, this conversation won't be as simplistic as what you are hearing on cable news.
On this episode of The Critical Hour with Dr. Wilmer Leon we discuss the“Made in China 2025 Initiative” and where it will leave the US? Also, an immigrant-rights activist and faced her second deportation hearing at Seattle Immigration Court while fighting for the rights of other migrants against I.C.E. hear her truth and struggle for justice.Guest:Caleb Maupin - Journalist and political analyst who focuses his coverage on US foreign policy and the global system of monopoly capitalism and imperialism. He has appeared on Russia Today, PressTV, Telesur, and other major networks.Maru Mora-Villalpando - Nationally known immigrant-rights activist and co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and a community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance.
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Kani Xulam, founder of the American-Kurdish Information Network, and Sputnik News analyst Walter Smolarek.Since the end of March, the Turkish military has quietly been building outposts inside Iraqi territory to attack the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in the nearby Qandil Mountains. The move is, of course, a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. And it points to Turkey’s obsession with fighting Kurds no matter where they are. The weekly series “Criminal Injustice” continues, where the hosts discuss the most egregious conduct of our courts and prosecutors and how justice is denied to so many people in this country, including the systematic abuse of prisoners across the system. Kevin Gosztola, a writer for Shadowproof.com and co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure, and Paul Wright, the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center and editor of Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News, join the show. In March, Loud & Clear reported about the case of Alejandra Pablos, a prominent local reproductive health activist. Alejandra is a permanent resident of the United States. But when she went to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Arizona for a routine check-in, she was arrested and held incommunicado. She has been released, but is now facing deportation. Brian and John speak with Alejandra Pablos, an organizer with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, a member of the immigrant rights organization Mijente, and a delegate to the People’s Congress of Resistance held last year in Washington, D.C. French President Emmanuel Macron said last night that he did not believe he changed President Trump’s mind on the Iran nuclear deal and that he expects the US to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action next month. He added that doing so would be bad for everyone--Iran, the European Union, and the United States. Catherine Shakdam, a political commentator and analyst focusing on the Middle East, and the author of “A Tale Of Grand Resistance: Yemen, The Wahhabi And The House Of Saud,” joins the show. Teachers in Arizona walked out today in nearly 100 school districts across the state. The teachers are striking to reestablish education funding to the level where it was years ago (it has dropped 14% just since 2008 in Arizona, measured per student) and to stop passing tax cuts on the backs of public education. Nathalie Hrizi, a teacher and librarian and a teachers union organizer, joins Brian and John. The CIA is actively tweeting its support for deputy director Gina Haspel’s elevation to lead the Agency. It routinely retweets articles supporting or endorsing Haspel, while ignoring those that don’t. This would seem to be an ethical violation. Isn’t any federal agency supposed to be neutral on who may or may not lead it? Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst under seven presidents who was also the personal morning briefer for President George H. W. Bush, joins the show.President Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends this morning that CIA Director Michael Pompeo was not supposed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when he traveled to North Korea over the Easter weekend. But Kim walked into the room and the two spoke for more than an hour. Pompeo later said that Kim was very smart, a revelation for US policymakers. Why does the US really know nothing about the North Korean leader?
In this practice, you’ll experience a daily gratitude prayer with Francisca Porchas Coronado in English. It can be listened to from a quiet and still place, or on the go - wherever you can dedicate your heart and attention. You can find a version of this prayer along with other practices in the Resistencia Ancestral / Ancestral Spiritual Resistance Zine you can download for free from Mijente: https://mijente.net/2017/11/02/ancestral-spiritual-resistance-zine/ * Se puede escuchar este rezo en español por el próximo episodio / Download the next episode to hear this prayer in Spanish * You can also download the corresponding conversation with Francisca (episode 21). We talk about: her spiritual path in IFA, how she was politicized and got her start in organizing, healing traditions in immigrant Latinx & Chicanx communities, the resilience of undocumented folks in the face of loss and grief, tending to pain politically and personally, community ritual, bridging healing and organizing and some specific challenging asks for organizers and healers to help build that bridge. -- ABOUT OUR GUEST: FRANCISCA PORCHAS CORONADO Francisca Porchas Coronado is a Mexican immigrant, Chicana, Latinx, feminist, and anti-racist organizer with over 15 years of organizing experience. As former Organizing Director of Puente Human Rights Movement in Phoenix, she has been one of the leading voices against deportations and immigrant detention in the country. As a 2017 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, Francisca founded Healing In Resistance, a wellness project centering the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of immigrant communities in the fight against criminalization. She has been initiated into the ancient, indigenous Yoruba tradition of IFA for over a decade and is currently a priestess in training. -- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice Please leave us a positive rating & review in whatever podcast app you’re listening - it all helps! THANK YOU: Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning
Esta semana, Francisca nos guia en un rezo diario de gratitud en español. Se puede escucharlo y participar de cualquier lugar - solo, o en comunidad… sentado, caminando, o donde sea. Esta práctica viene de un zine que ella hizo con otros compañeros que se llama “Resistencia Ancestral,” que se puede grabar del sitio de web de Mijente aquí (es gratis!): https://mijente.net/2017/11/02/ancestral-spiritual-resistance-zine/* Download the previous episode to hear this prayer in English / Se puede escuchar este rezo en ingles por el episodio previo * También se puede escuchar el episodio conversacional con Francisca en ingles (episodio 21) donde hablamos de tradiciones de sanarse en comunidades inmigrantes Latinx y Chicanx, la fuerza de gente indocumentada aunque se enfrenten mucho sufrimiento, rituales comunales, y como podemos combinar mas el sanamiento con la lucha política. -- FRANCISCA PORCHAS CORONADO Francisca Porchas Coronado es una inmigrante mexicana, chicana, latinx, feminista, y anti-racista con más de quince años de experiencia organizando en la comunidad. Trabajando con Puente Human Rights Movement en Phoenix AZ, ella ha sido una las voces más fuertes contra deportaciones y detención de inmigrantes en este país. El año pasado como una Nathan Cummings Foundation fellow, ella fundó “Sanamiento en Resistencia”, un proyecto de salud que impacta el bienestar espiritual y emocional de las comunidades inmigrantes que están en la lucha contra la criminalización. Ella ha sido iniciada en la tradición Yoruba de IFA, que es antigua y indígena, por más que una década y está en entrenamiento para hacerse una sacerdotisa.-- ÚNETE A LA COMUNIDAD HEALING JUSTICE: Se puede juntar a nuestra lista de correo electrónico en www.healingjustice.org Estamos en Instagram, Facebook, y Twitter como Healing Justice Podcast Si Ud quiere donar algo para apoyar a este proyecto, visita a www.patreon.com/healingjustice GRACIAS:Revisión de audio por Zach Meyer del COALROOMMúsica por Danny O’Brien y Zach MeyerDiseño gráfico por Josiah Werning
This week we’re talking with Francisca Porchas Coronado. We talk about healing traditions in immigrant Latinx communities, the resilience of undocumented folks in the face of loss and grief, tending to pain politically and personally, community ritual, and her spiritual path in IFA. She’s got some specific challenging asks for organizers and healers, too, so listen in! You can download the corresponding practices (Daily Gratitude Prayer in English / Rezo Diario de Gratitud in Spanish) to experience a simple and powerful prayer with Francisca. RESOURCES: Resistencia Ancestral / Ancestral Spiritual Resistance Zine you can download for free from Mijente: https://mijente.net/2017/11/02/ancestral-spiritual-resistance-zine/ Referred to in this episode: Puente AZ, Mijente, Favianna Rodriguez, Melanie Cervantes, Culture/Strike, poet Mayda de Valle ---- AFFIRMATIONS Each week we feature community voices uplifting people, organizations, and communities that embody the values of healing justice. Submit your own personal shout-out to spread love on the airwaves here: https://healingjustice.typeform.com/to/YjvuU2 This week’s AFFIRMATION comes from Sarah Nuñez, sharing her love and respect for Mijente and Mijente Louisville! ---- ABOUT OUR GUEST: FRANCISCA PORCHAS CORONADO Francisca Porchas Coronado is a Mexican immigrant, Chicana, Latinx, feminist, and anti-racist organizer with over 15 years of organizing experience. As former Organizing Director of Puente Human Rights Movement in Phoenix, she has been one of the leading voices against deportations and immigrant detention in the country. As a 2017 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, Francisca founded Healing In Resistance, a wellness project centering the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of immigrant communities in the fight against criminalization. She has been initiated into the ancient, indigenous Yoruba tradition of IFA for over a decade and is currently a priestess in training.-- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice , and please leave a positive rating & review in whatever app you are listening. Every bit helps. THANK YOU:Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning
The worst hurricane in almost a century leaves Puerto Rico devastated. A series of earthquakes hits Mexico City. A new travel ban, and an NFL protest. Plus, an in depth discussion on the future of Latino activism with Janet Murguia, President of UnidosUS, and Marisa Franco Director of Mijente and the Not1More Deportation Campaign. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
When we think of Mexican communities, we think of Pilsen, Little Village, and in recent years, Albany Park. But who talks about the neighborhood of South Chicago? Monica and Page chat with powerful Mijente member, immigrants rights activist, baseball mom, and vital member of our Chicago organizing community, Corina Pedraza Palominos! Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago from 1915-1940 by Michael Innis-Jiménez is a beautiful documentation Mexican migration, arguing that the Mexican immigrants who came to South Chicago created physical and imagined community not only to defend against the ever-present social, political, and economic harassment and discrimination, but to grow in a foreign, polluted environment.
Originally from the Maryland suburbs of D.C., B. Loewe was recruited into social justice work by his older sister, and was a key organizer of the 2010 Detroit-based U.S. Social Forum, and currently Mijente's Communications Director. Page chats with B about Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything by Becky Bond and Zach Exley, recently published in November of 2016.
We welcome back Maricopa County Democratic Party chairman Steven Slugocki. He will give us an update on what has happened since the March 22 voting disaster, where people waited up to five hours to vote. Before the Arizona primary, protesters shut down a highway right before a Donald Trump rally. Three protesters were arrested. Jacinta Gonzalez, Field Director for Mijente, was one of those arrested. Jacinta was turned over to ICE even though she is an American citizen.
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