Radio Cachimbona

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Prejuicios contra nacientes naciones Feb 28, 2024

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Yvette Borja entrevista al profesor Miguel Angel Diaz Perera sobre la historia de Máximo y Bartola, dos niños Centroamericanos quienes fueron traficados para participar en las exhibiciones de "freak show de Barnum and Bailey" en el siglo 19. Discutan cómo el racismo científico contribuyó a la opresión de Máximo y Bartola, como las percepciones de las nacientes naciones de Mexico y Centroamerica en ese tiempo siguien relevante hoy, y el fenomeno del "espectaculo" y el show de circo también creo estructura para la victimización de Máximo y Bartola.

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How San Francisco Failed Sito Feb 20, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews professor and author Laurence Ralph about his upcoming book "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him." They discuss how the juvenile justice system traumatizes youth, lament the criminal legal system's failure to provide healing for victim's family members, and envision accountability without punishment.

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Unafraid And With Dreams Feb 12, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews Belén Sisa, creator and host of the Pretty Serious Podcast and former National Latino Press Secretary for Senator Sanders' presidential campaign. They discuss the history of the DACA movement and Belén's participation in it, the importance of voting in local elections, and why it's important to vote Kyrsten Sinema out of office in 2024.

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In Defense Of The Criminal Alien Feb 09, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews professor and author Cesar Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about his upcoming book Welcome The Wretched: In Defense of the Criminal Alien. They discuss how migration is an example of decolonial resistance, the importance of celebrating the "ordinariness" of migrants, and why Hernandéz wants the privileges that a US passport brings for a much wider group of people.

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*UNLOCKED #LitReview* Trying and Trying Again, Never Stopping Jan 29, 2024

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On this #litreview, Yvette Borja brings back Salvi lawyer Yessenia Medrano to discuss Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. They share what leftist movements can use the hopeful spark that Davis inspires, why global solidarity is necessary for liberation, and why freeing Palestine needs to be on every United Statesian leftist's agenda.

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*UNLOCKED #LitReview* To Rise In Darkness Jan 22, 2024

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On this *UNLOCKED* #litreview, Yvette and friend of the podcast Yessenia Medrano discuss the first three chapters of To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory 1920-1932. They discussed the Salvadoran elite’s complete disconnect from the material realities of the majority of the working class at the turn of the 20th century, the government’s fear-mongering over Communism as justification for indigenous ethnocide in Western El Salvador, and how the mestizaje discourse was employed by the Salvadoran government to erase the presence of indigenous and afro-descendent people in the country.

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*UNLOCKED* The Courts Won't Save You Jan 16, 2024

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On this *unlocked* Patreon episode, Yvette Borja interviews deportation defense lawyer and friend of the podcast Jehan Laner Romero to discuss the SCOTUS ruling in Sineneng v. Smith. They disagree with SCOTUS' characterization of 9th circuit "out-of-bounds" behavior, express gratitude that SCOTUS punted on the First Amendment analysis, and criticize the majority opinion's addendum as highlighting the very behavior SCOTUS was criticizing the 9th circuit for engaging in.

*Yvette misspoke when stating the date of the decision. It was decided on May 7, 2020.

To best understand this episode, listen to the first two segments here first:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5l2TMYHxKzh8FmasvLsgvS?si=JTVaXORXRvW--6kXxsIfLA

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Fq6FFswuTPPHTZgwV7hdV

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Immigrant Solidarity and Strong Networks Jan 08, 2024

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Yvette Borja interviews Jasmine Rangel, policy expert, about how and why housing security is important, how the undocumented community is often overlooked in housing policy, and the results of a case study analyzing Boston and Houston-area eviction rates in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.

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This Is Your Home Dec 21, 2023

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Yvette Borja interviews Carlos Sauceda about his campaign to return home, the deplorable conditions in ICE detention centers that cause people to self deport, and how the deportation of one person affects families and communities. The discussion is grounded in the #litreview pick Deported Americans by Beth Caldwell.

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Writing About Culture As Both the Researcher and the Data Point Dec 12, 2023

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Yvette Borja interviews Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo about how his lived experience of incarceration informs his graduate research on the production and maintenance carceral landscapes of Arizona. They discuss the pandemic of deaths in the Pima County jail and Enrique shares how he became involved in the campaign to stop the creation of a new and expanded Pima County jail.

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