Davey D taps Netfa Freeman of Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace to unpack what’s really happening in Washington, D.C. Freeman says the story isn’t a sudden “DC takeover” but an intensification of long-running policies: federal agents augmenting MPD, a crime narrative used to justify containment, and a local government—under Mayor … Continued
The United States has often been celebrated as a nation of immigrants. Yet over the last century, the U.S. government expelled more people than were allowed to stay permanently. Historian Adam Goodman describes the U.S. state’s “deportation machine,” motivated by a shifting combination of bureaucratic self-interest, capitalist gain, and racism, which Trump has now put … Continued
Today’s broadcast of The Final Straw Radio is preempted for hour 1 of the 2024 LSB (Local Station Board) Candidate Forum. Since 2003, the Pacifica Foundation has been committed to constituting its board of directors and governance from its listener-sponsors and staff members. It does this by holding local elections for listeners and staff members … Continued
Donald Trump infamously targeted immigrants — and many rejoiced when he left office. But, as historian Elliott Young points out, the criminalization of immigrants has been a bipartisan affair, going back 140 years. He discusses the intersection of mass incarceration and the detention of immigrants. Resources: Elliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made … Continued
On Tuesday, June 25th in Berkeley, California John Carlos Frey read from his book, “Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border” and discuss America’s immigration policies, the militarization of the border and American Racism. Today’s program will feature his talk and the film Harvest of Empire. John Carlos Frey “Sand and Blood … Continued
On Tuesday, June 25th in Berkeley, California John Carlos Frey read from his book, “Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border” and discuss America’s immigration policies, the militarization of the border and American Racism. Today’s program will feature his talk. John Carlos Frey “Sand and Blood America’s Stealth War on the Mexico … Continued
we discuss the ongoing crisis at the border and the treatment of humans…migrants, being held inside US Immigration detention centers. Later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor.
On today’s episode of the Talkies: Recent accounts of squalid and unhealthy conditions for migrant children at the US/Mexico border and the deaths of migrants attempting the perilous border crossing have created shock and concern. The Trump administration and Republican backers have pointed fingers at Congressional Democrats and vice-versa. But what effect have immigration enforcement … Continued
we speak with Reverend Ph.D, Miguel De La Torre about the arrest of activists for attempting to aid border migrants and we look at America’s ongoing war of disenfranchised populations.
The US-Mexico border is often in the news. But what’s usually missing is the cost of the border, both in human terms, and in terms of the political economy of the region itself — the deep entanglement of the livelihoods of people who live in places like Douglas, Arizona with the border industrial complex. Scholar … Continued
