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Who Migrant Sex Workers Are And Why They Sell Sex Feb 03, 2025

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Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam join the podcast to discuss their new book "Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice." They discussed who migrant sex workers are and why they sell sex, how the carceral state attacks migrant sex workers even when it claims to help them, and how sex work provides an opportunity for migrant workers to obtain greater levels of autonomy and avoid worse exploitation.

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What The Global Folk Music Movement Can Teach Us Now Jan 27, 2025

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Ericka Verba, professor and director of Latin American Studies at Cal State LA, joins the podcast to discuss her new book "Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra." Verba shares Parra's central role in the creation of Chile's Nueva Cancion movement, breaks down the strength and resilience that allowed her to become an internationally recognized artist despite her humble class origins in Southern Chile, and draws parallels between Chile in the 1960's and the U.S. current authoritarian moment.

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No Son Nuevas Ideas Jan 21, 2025

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Profesora Aideé Tassinari se suma al podcast para explicar cómo la idea de "minería sostenible" es un discurso falso proporcionado por las compañías mineras, los efectos negativos que la minería trae a ecosistemas y acceso a agua limpia, y pone en contexto histórico la "fiebre de oro" del siglo 21 que ahora ha llegado a El Salvador.

Lean más sobre la ley rescindiendo la prohibición contra la minería en El Salvador aqui: https://www.lajornadamorelos.mx/opinion/solidaridad-con-el-salvador-firma-contra-el-intento-de-regreso-de-la-mineria-a-tajo-abierto/

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A Longstanding Tradition of Racial Violence Jan 13, 2025

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Cheryl Redhorse Bennett, former assistant professor in American Indian Studies and expert on hate crimes and violence against Native Americans, joins the podcast to discuss her book "Our Fight Has Just Begun: Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America." She shares about the hate crimes in Farmington, New Mexico that informed her research, how the Navajo Nation pursues justice when the white legal system fails them, and how violence in reservation border towns dates back to initial settler colonial violence that resulted in mass deaths and displacement of indigenous people.

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El Rol De Arte Y Cultura En El Trabajo Organizativo Jan 06, 2025

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Pablo Alvarado, director ejecutivo de La Red De Jornalero/as, se suma al podcast para hablar sobre su historia de inmigración, la historia de la red, y el rol de arte y cultura en el trabajo organizativo.

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How Schools Make Race Dec 30, 2024

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Laura Chávez-Moreno, award-winning researcher, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education, joins the podcast to discuss her new book How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America. Laura explains why she utilizes the term "Latinx," breaks down how racialized groups are created in educational settings, and shares insights into the process of racialization in bilingual education programs.

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Era Una Prisión Antes Nov 18, 2024

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Jose Ruben, activista espiritual con El Movimiento de Integridad Humana, viene al podcast para discutir sus experiencias de detención en Mesa Verde y el Golden State Annex y porque se sumó a las huelgas de hambre y labor con otra gente detenida. Jose comparte como COVID-19 se desarrolló en los centros de detención, como ICE los forzó a trabajar para mantener los centros limpios, y detalla las condiciones terribles que inspiraron las huelgas de hambre y labor.

Para aprender más sobre las huelgas de hambre y labor, visite: www.ccijustice.org

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Standing Up To Our Oppressors Nov 11, 2024

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Gustavo, a Salvadoran-American organizer and leader of the hunger and labor strikes occurring in the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex immigration detention facilities since 2022, joins the podcast to discuss the terrible conditions that led to these efforts. Gustavo shares the myriad ways ICE regularly violates its own detention standards, what gives him hope while detained, and what the strikers are demanding: that ICE terminate its contract with GSA and Mesa Verde.

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Dismantling Carceral Debt and Building Debtor Power Nov 04, 2024

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Tiera Rainey, Executive Director of the Tucson Bail Fund, joins Yvette Borja to discuss a resource document that the Bail Fund co-authored with the Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Community Justice Exchange, Free Hearts, and Montgomery Bail Out: Dismantling Carceral Debt: A Manifesto on Building Debtor Power. Rainey breaks down the devastating impact of carceral debt on formerly incarcerated people, shares how stigma and shame around debt and criminalization makes it difficult to organize around carceral debt, and explains how carceral debt funds critical government services.

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Read the Bail Fund's Manifesto here: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/resources-all/dismantling-carceral-debt-a-manifesto-on-building-debtor-power#:~:text=The%20resource%20covers%20six%20critical,and%20rejecting%20techno%2Dsolutionist%20reforms.

Don't Sell The Land Oct 28, 2024

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Brea Baker, freedom fighter and author, joins the podcast to discuss her new book "Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement For Black Land Ownership." Yvette and Brea discuss how the U.S. arrived at a place where only 1% of rural land is owned by Black people, how Brea and her family's legacy of land ownership inspired the writing of the book, and how heirs' laws have disproportionately impacted Black land owners.

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