Jul 2, 2017
This week William spoke with Maria and Jeff, who are two long
term members of the humanitarian aid group based in Arizona called
No More Deaths. This group does solidarity work with those who are
crossing the border in that region, as well as advocacy, legal
work, and work which runs along many other vectors of solidarity.
We will speak about the group and how each member got involved, the
exact nature of the work and some media myths that the group gets
leveled at them, along with the rise in repression that No More
Deaths has faced in recent weeks, culminating in highly militarized
raid on Bird Camp, a remote outpost that serves as a clinic, on
Thursday, June 15. We will go on to discuss the strategy behind
Border Patrol's surveillance and repression of those who are
crossing and aid workers, and will talk about asks for assistance
that the group is thinking of.
You can visit NMD online at nomoredeaths.org, plus follow
them on Facebook and Twitter if you want to keep up with calls for
solidarity and with updates on their situation.
Those titles that Maria mentioned for further reading if folks want
to learn more about the border and how it got that way are:
- No Wall They Can Build, out
recently by CrimethInc.
- The Insurgent Southwest
- Designed to Kill via CrimethInc
as well
- The Disappeared Report
- Dispaches from the Borderland
thru the anarchist media collective It's Going Down
The first musical track in this episode is by Calle 13 with "Pa'l
Norte". They are a Puerto Rican hip hop group that often tackles
themes that are oppositional to the border, border patrol, and FBI.
The episode closes with a track from an Argentinian atmospheric
metal band called Ruinas/Raíces with Dos Colores Fundiéndose
which is the first track off their title album that just came out
in April. You can find them on the blog Red
and Anarchist Black Metal.