The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
The Border Chronicle Podcast
The Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, we interview fascinating fronterizo/as, community leaders, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Episodes
Acts of Resistance and Faith: An Interview with the Rev. John Fife on Founding the Sanctuary Movement, and the Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights in the Borderlands
"Climate change will be the first time we realize that nation states can't solve this problem by themselves."
“Lines of Life and Death”: A Podcast with Geographer Joseph Nevins on Global Apartheid and the Right to the World
Lauded border scholar Joseph Nevins dissects the global border apparatus, shows its parallels with South African apartheid, and calls for both freedom of movement and the right to stay home
On Challenging Racism, and Creating a New Narrative about Border and Immigrant Communities: A Podcast Interview with Linguist Otto Santa Ana
An expert in critical discourse analysis, Santa Ana is a professor emeritus at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he’s spent decades analyzing political speech and media representations of Latinos and immigrants.
On the Border Watch List: A Podcast Interview with Erika Pinheiro on the Chilling Impact of Surveillance
Al Otro Lado’s Tijuana-based litigation and policy director examines the border, past, present, and future, through the lens of the invasive and futuristic surveillance apparatus that is already here.
I Was a Performer In the "Spectacle" of Border Enforcement: A Podcast Interview with Police Expert Eric Gamino
The former South Texas police officer talks about working a “surge” on the Texas-Mexico border, and playing a role in “border theater.”
Blockading the Border Bulldozers: Amber Lee Ortega on Hia Ced O'odham Resistance
In this audio interview Ortega discusses why she chose to face a judge in order to protect a sacred spring on the Arizona-Mexico Border.
Standing Up to Armed Militias in the Borderlands: Author Patrick Strickland on Arivaca and Community Resistance
The author on his new book "The Marauders," the rise of far-right extremism in Europe and the American borderlands and what communities can learn from Arivaca, Arizona
On America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants: An Audio Interview with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on the Politics of Immigration and the Road Ahead in 2022
The legal scholar and author of "Crimmigration Law" and "Migrating to Prison" on immigration detention reform, midterm elections, and what he’s watching for in 2022.
The Most Beautiful Place in the World: An Audio Interview with Isabel Garcia about What the Border Could Be
Southern Arizona’s legendary human rights champion rates the Biden administration’s first year at the border and suggests the time has come for a “quiet revolution.”
On 'Remain in Mexico' and Leaving the Biden Administration: A Podcast Interview with Stephanie Leutert
"There’s no clearly articulated vision of what the next two years is going to look like at the border," says the border policy expert of the Biden administration.
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: An Audio Interview with Author Oswaldo Zavala
Author and scholar Oswaldo Zavala challenges the cartel narrative anchored in a "national security storytelling machine," and opens up a whole new way to think about the drug war.
“Under Occupation”: A Discussion with Amy Juan of the Tohono O’odham Nation
Tohono O'odham cultural activist Amy Juan discusses the US-Mexico border from the perspective of people who were here long before it existed.