We start today’s show exploring Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s contracts with private charter airlines used for deportations. We speak with McKenzie Funk, a journalist with ProPublica who focuses on the business of immigration enforcement. His latest piece is titled ‘Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time.”’
Read that piece here: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights
Then, police around the country have been using the panic around inflamed and artificial shoplifting fears to buy new equipment. We’re joined by Joey Scott, an LA-based investigative journalist and documentary photographer covering policing, surveillance, protests, prisons, and inequality, whose latest article on The Appeal is titled “Cops Used the Shoplifting Panic to Buy Tons of New Equipment.”
Read his article here: https://theappeal.org/shoplifting-panic-police-military-gear-license-plate-readers-facial-recognition/
Then, a new exhibit at the Angel Island Immigration Station encourages visitors to consider the past and present of US border policy and border technology. The exhibit was curated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We speak with Dave Maass, the Director of Investigations at the EFF.
You can plan your visit to the exhibit here: https://www.aiisf.org/planyourvisit
Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is queer, disabled Australian actor, writer and creative producer Ben Noble.
Ben Noble’s play MEMBER, will be running during the San Francisco International Arts Festival from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 11.
More information can be found here: https://www.sfiaf.org/fairly_lucid_productions_press_release
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