Over the past week, the Trump Administration has upped it’s attack on American cities by mobilizing ICE and National Guard troops to Chicago where residents were awoken in the middle of the night over the weekend by ICE agents removing them from their beds and arresting them with zip-ties. The administration similarly launched an attack on Portland, Ore., where residents have been protesting ICE activities in a section of the city. Memphis, TN has also seen a military crackdown, mostly affecting black and brown communities.
In this episode, we speak with Damon Williams, movement builder, organizer, performing artist, educator, media creator and co-director of #LetUsBreathe Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of the Ferguson uprising in Chicago. On the scene in Memphis, we speak with Jose Salazar who is a community organizer with Indivisible Memphis and a lead with The Collective Good Immigrant Pantry. Jose coordinates mutual-aid support for immigrant families and documents how the federal “Safe Task Force” presence and National Guard actions have impacted day-to-day life in Memphis. Lastly, we go to Portland, where we speak with Ben Haile, Senior Counsel with the Oregon Justice Resource Center’s Civil Rights Project, specializing in litigation on police misconduct, denial of medical care in detention, and the rights of incarcerated people.
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