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Organizacizón, Educación, y Movilización Jul 22, 2024

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Yvette Borja entrevista a Pacheco, un organizador y educador popular Salvadoreño que ha dedicado su vida al trabajo de justicia social en El Salvador y los Estados Unidos. Hablaron sobre la importancia de la formación de comités de base/barrio/colonia y su historia en El Salvador durante la guerra civil, como el y la organización NDLON transmitieron el modelo organizativo de comité en Arizona durante la epoca de Joe Arpaio, y la necesidad de sostener grupos organizativos a largo plazo.

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The Power of Being Organized As Day Laborers Jul 08, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews Mala and Diosa of Locatora Radio about their experiences at NDLON's 9th asamblea popular: Sómos Más in Union, New Jersey. They discuss the importance of Latinx and migrant-led independent media, the necessity of including sex workers in day laborers' rights conversations, and the beauty of putting art at the forefront of social change.

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Las Fronteras No Estan Abiertas Jul 01, 2024

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Yvette Borja entrevista a Nicole Ramos, directora del proyecto de derechos fronterizos para la organización sin fines de lucro Al Otro Lado, sobre la situación actual en la frontera entre EEUU y Mexico en San Diego/Tijuana, como los migrantes extranjeros buscando asilo y esperando en México sufren por falta de cuidado de salud, y como el crimen organizado toma ventaja de las políticas anti-migrantes de EEUU.

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Pro All People Liberated Jun 13, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews reproductive justice and abolitionist organizer Ale Pablos about the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the call from Democratic Senators for Biden to phase out private detention centers and close four of the most problematic ones, and Biden's recent proposed rules that would make it harder for asylum seekers to gain protection.

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To clarify, Alma Hernandez is a Dem AZ State House Rep repping the 20th district part of which includes Pima County. She is a self-proclaimed Zionist. Anna Hernandez is a Dem AZ State Senator repping the 24th district which includes Maricopa County.

*UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* What Is Urban Renewal? Jun 03, 2024

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On this #litreview, Yvette Borja and Ronnie, a Tucson mutual aid organizer, discuss "La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City" by Lydia Otero. They discuss how urban renewal is a euphemism for gentrification, break down how Tucson elites attempted to whiten the city's history, and emphasize the deep history of racial segregation of the city.

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*UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Theft Is Property! May 27, 2024

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Yvette Borja and guest Meghna Sridhar discuss Theft is Property! by Robert Nichols. They discuss how and why land can't be neatly divided as US property law suggests, the usefulness of understanding racism as long-standing patterns of group-differentiated vulnerability, and the links between the Black radical tradition and indigenous relationships with/stewardship of their lands.

Read Robert Nichols' article prelude to Theft is Property! here: https://criticaltheory.northwestern.edu/mellon-project/critical-theory-in-the-global-south/sub_projects/theft-is-property,-nichols.pdf

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*UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Reveling in Marginality May 13, 2024

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Yvette Borja discusses "Black and Blur" by Fred Moten with art history PhD student Jasmine Magaña. They break down Fred Moten's focus on Blackness as "fugitivity," track the humanities' shift from a postcolonial to a decolonial framework, and share the importance of sitting with the "not in between."

Read "The Undercommons" by Fred Moten here: https://www.akpress.org/the-undercommons.html

Read "Stolen Life" by Fred Moten here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/stolen-life

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We Are Here Because You Were There Apr 23, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews Tucson mutual aid organizer Ronnie about Laura Gomez's book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. They discuss the malleability of Latinx identity and the privileges that has afforded them in the U.S., share what the Latinx community can learn about the limitations of citizenship from the Black community, and break down the myth of mestizaje.

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*Unlocked Lit Review* Abolishing The Family In Its Current Capitalist Formation Apr 16, 2024

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Yvette Borja discusses "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" by M.E. O'Brien author, scholar, and preacher Dr. Courtney Bryant. They work through the connections between prison and police abolition and the capitalist nuclear family unit, note how communities of color have always operated outside of this nuclear family unit ideal, and imagine how familial and loving relationships would look different without coercion embedded within them.

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*UNLOCKED Lit Review* Holding War Criminals To Account Apr 08, 2024

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Yvette Borja and Adriana Obols, PhD student of modern art in Latin America, discuss the book "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship" by Kirsten Weld. They discuss how archival practices were central to post-war Guatemalan civil society's attempts to hold war criminals to account while also being indispensable to the nation-state's targeting and surveillance of leftists in the capital.

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