Podcasts about occupy ice

This week, Dezeray sits down with Pearson and Mel to talk about refugee solidarity networks. But first, in lieu of a current events section, Pearson and Mel chat about the French term "apellism" and give a preview of what's to come in Episode 50 of Coffee with Comrades. After a brief discussion of local struggles in FL, the dialogue zooms outward, building toward regional issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border before evolving into a conversation about international stories from time Dez spent in Palestine and France! We talk a bit about Dez's graphic novel and offer some ideas of how YOU can get involved in popular struggles to provide sanctuary and asylum to those fleeing the violence and destabilization so often engendered by capitalism, climate change, and U.S. imperialism. Dez has been on Coffee with Comrades in the past (albeit, briefly) when Pearson drove down to Tampa, FL to visit the Occupy ICE encampment at a detention facility. You can check out that interview at the beginning of Episode 5 of Coffee with Comrades. Stick around 'till the very end of the episode for a brief, out-of-context blooper in which we all wax poetic about the efficacy of the word "fuck." Follow Love Has No Borders on Facebook and check out their website. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is a grateful part of the Rev Left Radio Podcast Federation. Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art. Music: Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World Anymore” by Woody Guthrie Interlude: "Prayer of the Refugee" by Rise Against Outro: "Refuge" by In Hearts Wake

No Borders Media News Roundup Podcast #2 featuring three anarchists: Kim Kelly (writer and organizer from New York City), Andrew from It's Going Down, & Jaggi Singh from No Borders Media. -> Listen to the podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/nobordersmedia/newsroundup091818 On this latest (September 18, 2018) No Borders Media News Roundup Podcast, we feature a conversation between three anarchist media-makers: Kim Kelly (writer and organizer from New York City), Andrew from It's Going Down, and Jaggi Singh from No Borders Media. We discuss Autonomous Disaster Relief in the context of Hurricane Florence, with reference to Hurricane Sandy (2012) and Maria (2017), and a breakdown of the colonial-capitalist exploitation of Puerto Rico. We explore a core topic of these news round-ups: Trump Resistance. We criticize the ruling class appropriation of resistance, and take a critical but open-minded look at the growth of social-democracy on the left in USA, with detailed reference to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the candidates they've supported, like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in New York City. We highlight ongoing examples of autonomous, grassroots resistance, including the Prison Strike, anti-fascist organizing, Occupy ICE actions, various teachers strikes, Indigenous Resistance to pipelines, and more. We get an update about an Occupy ICE comrade from San Antonio, Mapache, who stood up to neo-Nazi violence, as well as to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but was recently deported to Mexico after a months long detention. We muse about the continued relevance of, and increasing interest in, anarchist ideas and practice. This includes the inside scoop on the recent Teen Vogue article on anarchism (written by our guest Kim Kelly). We finish up with a discussion about the necessity and importance of left-wing anarchist media in this current political moment. This news roundup was recorded late on September 18, 2018, for No Borders Media. -> Share the podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/nobordersmedia/newsroundup091818 [Listen to the previous No Borders Media News Roundup Podcast #1, with El Jones (Halifax), Jaggi Singh (Montreal), Syed Hussan (Toronto) and Harjap Grewal (Vancouver): https://soundcloud.com/nobordersmedia/newsroundup090918] ----- NO BORDERS MEDIA No Borders Media, based in Toronto and Montreal, is an autonomous left-wing media network. We share and create content that supports the struggles of communities in resistance, with a focus on the self-determination struggles of Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees and working class people of colour in the context of opposition to capitalism and colonialism. Some current focuses include: migrant justice, resistance to borders, anti-fascism and anarchism. We are in the early stages our independent media project. To stay in touch send us an e-mail at nobordersmedianetwork@gmail.com or look for No Borders Media on facebook and soundcloud. Much more to come in the coming weeks and months. No Borders Media (Toronto/Montreal) fb: www.facebook.com/NoBordersMediaNetwork soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/NoBordersMedia twitter: twitter.com/NoBordersMedia contact: NoBordersMediaNetwork@gmail.com

In this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson sit down for a conversation with Syd and Austin, two community-organizers from Tampa who participated in Occupy ICE TPA. But first, some headlines:   John McCain is dead, baby! Chapel Hill radicals tear down Silent Sam monument The August 21 Prison Strike has kicked off and the support has been widespread Virginia’s first anti-protest law arrests targeted oil pipeline demonstrators Rest in power, Donna Castleberry. Defend sex workers! Manafort & Cohen = Bread & Circus The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year. Syd and Austin offer a bit of advice on how to start your own Occupy ICE encampment (just do it!) and walk us through the strategic and symbolic significance of the occupation. Then, the former occupiers explain their motivations for taking direct action against ICE and the DHS. We close with a discussion of the future: where our new battles begin to burn as we fight for a future of abolition. Follow Occupy ICE TPA on Twitter and Facebook and support the defendants in their struggles ahead! Take direct action and tell Chuck Prather to terminate his lease with the DHS. Call (727)896-1080. Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Outro: “FVCK I.C.E.” by Rebel Diaz  

Journalists Jennah Booth and Luis Gael Jimenez set out to talk with folks organizing the occupation outside downtown Sacramento's ICE headquarters in a specially produced segment. Plus, sex educator supreme and incredible human being Kenna Cook returns to teach us how to slide into those DMs without being a jerk about it. As usual, host Anthony Siino just gets in the way. Music provided by the incomparable Sparks Across Darkness, who recently released a new album, Obscura, from which all tunes shared on this episode derive. Check out his work at https://soundcloud.com/sparksacrossdarkness and keep your eyes peeled for updates on shows and new music at www.facebook.com/sparksacrossdarkness. (Don't forget to support local artists – time, money, sharing their stuff on social media – anything and everything makes a difference.)Keep up with Occupy ICE at: www.facebook.com/OccupyICESacto; https://twitter.com/OccupyICEsacto Find previous episodes of the podcast as well as Kenna's column and breaking news, opinion and more at voicesrivercity.com.Yell at Anthony on Twitter at @AnthonySiino.

This episode's all about folks taking what they have and providing for their neighbors, making spaces, creating opportunities and fighting to build something together. We start with Rachel Freund and Buddy Hale, co-founders of Musiclandria, talking about how it came to be that they're now three years deep into operating a community music library, providing not only instruments and accessories but also recording devices, access to recording and practice spaces and even workshops on how to start making music of your own. They're extremely charming folks -- so charming, in fact, that you'll forgive Anthony's boneheaded questions. PLUS: V:RC founder and editor Dave Kempa joins in to talk about the Occupy ICE camp that's taking direct action straight to ICE's local headquarters. Dave shares his observations on the cooperation between Sacramento police and ICE agents, including some details that other local media hasn't quite gotten around to yet. And we've got even more: Separate Spines, an incredible local band that just happens to include Buddy and Rachel, shares their music with us! Not just straight tracks, though. They made the intro and transition tunes specifically for this episode, which is incredible and amazingly generous, if you ask Anthony. They also end the episode with a previously unreleased song aptly named for current events: Ashes. Check out Musiclandria here so you can start that trap/swing revival project you've been thinking about: http://musiclandria.com/ Go listen to (and purchase!) Separate Spines' music here: https://separatespines.bandcamp.com/ ---- A note from your host: This podcast is produced sporadically and completely out of order, in pieces wherever I can jam interviews into my poorly planned schedule. Certain pieces of this episode might seem uncertain in relation to things that are pretty obvious in other parts of the episode. Apologies for any layers of confusion this may add as you listen. Thank you for your patience and your support, and enjoy the episode!

Occupy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#OccupyICE) actions are taking place across the USA, demanding the abolition of ICE (#AbolishICE). For context and frontline views, we speak with grassroots organizers participating in the actions. In this interview, we speak with Mapache in San Antonio, Texas (#OccupyICEsatx). On the morning Saturday (July 28, 2018) the Occupy ICE San Antonio camp was attacked by a dozen masked racists from the neo-fascist, white supremacist Patriot Front. Mapache was present, defended the camp, and speaks about what happened in this interview. (Interview recorded and produced on August 2, 2018 by Jaggi Singh)

This week, Jazmin and Robert speak with Nima Kulkarni, the Democratic candidate for the 40th House district in Louisville.  Ms. Kulkarni spoke about winning against an 11 term incumbent, her vision for immigration reform on the state level, and how she intends to improve the connection between the people in the 40th District and their government. Before speaking with her, Jazmin and Robert talked about the Budget Review Subcommittee meeting about the AOC audit, Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis' offer of a settlement to JCPS, the arrest of nine Occupy ICE protestors at the Heyburn Building in Louisville, and the Supreme Court's docket (which includes three cases related to topics discussed at length on MOKP).

This months main topics: Ark Encounter Protest and about how Ark Encounter is buying up properties for out-of-town volunteers and evicting Williamstown residents from their homes.  Occupy ICE protests in Louisville, and the reasons for, experiences and stories from the protest.   Matt Bevin's (continued) hostile takeover of Jefferson County Public Schools. The other Ark Encounter Protest interviews and presentations will be made available soon as a bonus episode, rather than being attached to the end of this one, as stated in the episode. We want to get the podcast out as soon as we can and not delay due to the need for further mixing. Thanks all! -Mikel       

  Happy Friday! On July 27, 2018, FrontPage Magazine published my article:  LIES OF THE SOROS-BACKED IMMIGRATION LOBBY:  Why Americans should worry about their dishonest agenda. My article was predicated on an article authored by the senior policy advisor of the American Immigration Council who railed against the Trump administration’s policy to seek the deportation of illegal aliens whose applications for immigration benefits are denied.  Frequently immigration benefits are denied when an alien commit immigration fraud by lying about material facts in his application for immigration benefits such as poliical asylum, the confering of lawful immigrant status or acquiring U.S. Citizenshp via naturalization. In essence he called for the non enforcement of immigration laws.  He is not naive, in point of fact, he is an immigration attorney. This position parallels that of the Occupy ICE movement.  We will consider how important the Trump administration’s policies are and why they must be supported. Please read my articles and, if you like them, post the links on FaceBook along with a link to my radio show.  Be a part of my “Bucket Brigade of Truth” and tell your friends and neighbors about my program- and mywebsite, remember Democracy is not a “Spectator Sport!”  

This week's show includes a conversation between Jazmin, Robert, and Kelsey Hayes Coots, a middle school teacher who also works with Kentucky 120 United and #OurJCPS, groups that oppose the state takeover of Jefferson County Public Schools.  They talked about the takeover and the case against it. Before that, Jazmin and Robert talk through new updates on Gov. Bevin's house, the restoration of dental and vision benefits for Medicaid Expansion beneficiaries, more shenanegans between Gov. Bevin and the state's boards, and the end of Camp Compasion, which the Occupy ICE movement maintained for 17 days.

Around the country, as the demand to abolish ICE spreads, occupations of its offices are springing up. In many of the cities where such occupations exist, they have heightened contradictions between the proclamations of "sanctuary" by elected officials wanting to look progressive, and those officials' actual policies of repressing protest. George Ciccariello-Maher, an activist and academic, has taken part in the Occupy ICE encampment in Philadelphia and joins me to discuss the evolution of the tactic and demand, the relationship of movements to self-proclaimed progressive mayors, and more. I think we are used to abolitionist language seeming really extreme or long-term or pie in the sky, and yet, we have seen this claim take root and spread. Partly because of the real brutality of what ICE is doing and the transparency of what is going on. I think it is also really important to remember that one of the first things I think we should do as analysts, but also as movement organizers is to historicize, to think about the fact that ICE is not that old. ICE is a new institution. ICE has not been around very long. Abolishing it really should not be that difficult. That points both towards the potential and the possibility of this claim to actually come about. I think that is why you see many Democrats, or some Democrats at least, talking about the abolition of ICE, but it also points toward the dangers because we are in a strange situation where you are talking about abolishing something, but it is really just an intermediate demand because the last thing we want is to see ICE simply replaced by INS, by Border Patrol doing the same exact work or going back to an old status quo which is not good enough for us. I think we need to be very careful to tether the demand to abolish ICE to the demand to not replace it. This is actually what a lot of Democrats have been insisting on, “We will find a better replacement.” No. We don’t want any replacement for this. We want to roll back the powers that have been granted even to Border Patrol in recent decades and the dramatic expansion of that agency and the dramatic expansion of its budget and expansion of its ground force on the border. We want a radical transformation, ultimately, that points toward border abolition by the end. Interviews for Resistance is a syndicated series of interviews with organizers, agitators and troublemakers, available twice weekly as text and podcast. You can now subscribe on iTunes! Previous interviews here

Producer Chris steps out from behind the 1s and 2s and talks to Jordan, an activist with Portland's Occupy ICE movement, about their goals, strategies, and how the occupation is functioning on a day-to-day basis. Occupy ICE Portland on twitter: https://twitter.com/occupyicepdx?lang=en small followup: DHS attempted to raid the camp again on Monday: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/07/09/21187719/federal-police-attempt-to-enter-occupy-ice-camp

On this week's show, Jazmin and Robert speak with Rachel Roberts, the Democratic candidate for the 24th Senate district in Northern Kentucky (Campbell, Bracken, and Pendleton counties).  She's a business owner whose won awards for entrepreneurship.  We talked to her about why she's running, how Northern Kentucky is changing, and what she's been able to apply from her business experience to her political career. Before speaking to her, Jazmin and Robert talked about the Occupy ICE protests that have been ongoing in Louisville since July 3rd, and the start of the 2019 gubernatorial race: Andy Beshear has officially announced, and an article about Attica Scott thinking about running was published this week.

Episode 3: “Kylo Ren was a School Shooter” - A Leftist Analysis of Star Wars, Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi On today's show, Bree and Pearson take you to a galaxy far, far away for a leftist analysis of the most controversial Star Wars film to date—Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi. But, before digging into the day's discussion, our hosts explore some current events: - The Occupy ICE movement continues to grow - The rest of the J20 Defendants had their charges dropped - All prisoners are political prisoners - A heat-wave has lead to global high temperatures - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins, the Right loses its collective shit After discussing legitimate criticisms of the film, Bree and Pearson spend the majority of the episode exploring The Last Jedi by studying some of the movie's overarching themes: militarism, fascism, feminism, animal liberation, materialism vs. idealism, class, anti-statism, the "great man of history" myth, egoism, and why we fight the empire. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy! May the Force be with you, comrades.

In this episode, host Brandon Starr visits the Occupy ICE camp in Portland, Oregon, where protesters are staying 24/7 and have been for over two weeks.

We as a society are witnessing the greatest domestic conflict in a generation, divided along political party lines and more importantly ideology.  The democrats are pushing communist & socialist ideas wanting to destroy America, the constitution, the rule of law and specifically every last Christian conservative regardless of ethnicity.  The republican establishment is not much better but President Trump is trying to change that.  I interview Peter Chowka to dicuss these issues and more in great detail!   Support theshow here 

We missed last week, but we're back in force! We've got a minisode with four nuggets of wisdom focused on current events. I'm not going to lie: things are kind of shit right now. These topics are hard. But we're here to get you through them. Are you ready to have some feelings? CN: suicide, racial violence Topics: Whiteness (link) Police abuse of power (link) Suicide vs. mental illness (link, link, and link) Occupy ICE (link, link, link, link, link, and link)

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We’re back! Lucia has returned from Berlin! This episode we talk with the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) and others spontaneously gathered at the ICE processing center/Immigration Center on 201 Varick Street to protest our country’s on-going abuse of migrants, refugees, and undocumented people. For up-to-date news follow MACC at https://twitter.com/macc_nyc or check the hashtag #occupyICENYC. … Continue reading "DISPATCH – #OCCUPYICENYC with the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC)"