In this episode, Honduras Program Co-Director, Allison Lira talks to historian and activist Aviva Chomsky about the settler-colonial legacy that shapes the U.S. migration debate and her new book Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolutions, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.

Aviva is a professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books and has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues for over twenty-five years.

On Tuesday June 29 at 4:30 PT/6:30 CT/7:30 EST, the Solidarity Collective will be hosting a virtual event with Aviva Chomsky to continue the conversation. If you’d like to join in register for the discussion using the link below.

https://zoom.us/.../tJcocOGrpz0pGtRSpR6shvtzsfmUhuiOOE5S

Resources:

-https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bruised-by-border-politics-some-biden-officials-cling-trump-restrictions-2021-06-10/

-https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-honduras-mexico-immigration-border-patrols-917c0fea87c0a807b371da207d34c8cc

-https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/title-42-strict-border-enforcement-policies-put-migrants-in-harms-way-title-42-is-no-exception/

-https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/kamala-harris-central-america-guatemala-visit-us-imperialism?fbclid=IwAR1NjUJrqJz6L1pwBmhZbbWzcufXk3Yt2tTmn9vuggX0xjwzsALytPvN6gs