book talk: #RaidingTheHeartland

"Author #WilliamLopez documented the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) raids on small and rural towns -- and the fallout for families and local economies. The book is based on his own field work in communities and workplaces."

https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/raiding-the-heartland/666302

#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEdetentions #immigrantRights #immigrantWorkers #stateRepression #familySeparation #racializedCommunities #racializedPolicing #books @bookstodon

#RedNationPodcast welcomes historian #KellyLytleHernández and Diné cartographer #MariahTso to talk about Mapping #Deportations, their project which seeks to map the historical patterns of US #immigration enforcement and #deportationPolicy targeting #racializedCommunities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFFJLrxSL8

#MappingDeportations: https://mappingdeportations.com/
#migrants #xenophobia #racism #USpol #UShistory #AmericanHistory #stateRepression #forcedRemovals #settlerColonialism #racialCapitalism #infographics

#LettersAndPolitics' Mitch Jeserich explores the history of #BirthrightCitizenship, from the #ColoredConventionsMovement to the #14thAmendment, and interviews Pedro Rios, director of the AFSC's US-Mexico Border Program about #Trump's #ExecutiveOrders on #immigration

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-january-21-2025/
#USpol #USpolitics #ImmigrantRights #UShistory #BlackHistory #PauliMurray #BrownVsBoardOfEd #LatinoHistory #xenophobia #RacializedCommunities #AntiMigrantRacism #MassDeportations

"Even before the border was built [..] there were #BorderVigilantes. [..] Monica Muñoz Martinez describes the early-twentieth-century reign of terror carried out by the Texas Rangers [..] Kelly Lytle Hernández argues that during that period, white citizens and law enforcement viewed the violent control of the border as their shared prerogative."

"Death in Nogales"

https://archive.ph/aBFBi
#USpol #USpolitics #vigilantism #BorderMilitarization #migrants #AntiMigrantRacism #RacializedCommunities

#Gaza On My Mind
غزّة علي بالي

#Israel's Mounting Massacres
And a View from London on the Race Riots

Featuring:
#RaedSadi, writer and activist living in Gaza
#IbrahimAbulEssad, UK-based Palestinian researcher and activist
#HudaAmmori, UK-based Iraqi-Palestinian activist and co-founder of #PalestineAction

Host: #BassamHaddad

https://youtu.be/X_Tt0yjcg0M

#Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #WarOnGaza #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKriots #DecolonialStruggles #RacializedCommunities #Jadaliyya @palestine

"For some Texans, the white hats mean justice and protection. But other Texans grew up with haunting memories of 'los Rinches,' and the violence they visited upon #Mexicans and #MexicanAmericans. On the eve of their 200th anniversary, host Jack Herrera explores the Rangers’ true legacy."

#WhiteHatsPodcast

#TexasRangers #Texas #RaceAndPolicing #racism #SettlerColonialism #RacializedCommunities #USHistory #LatinxHistory #Tejanos #StateRepression #PoliceViolence #podcasts

https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcasts/series/white-hats/