Emancipated

In this episode, Marta Valier talks with Ada Trillo about her latest exhibition, La Caravana del Diablo 2020. Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, born and raised in the bi-national border region of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. In her work, she focuses on the violent impact of the U.S. border policy on migrants. Trillo is the most recent affiliate to the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, and in this episode, she explains how she set up to fly to Honduras to join the caravan in January 2020, where she joined the migrants fleeing violence and poor economic conditions and documented their travels through Guatemala and into Mexico.

Trillo’s work is in the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and several other collections. She is the recipient of the British Journal of Photography’s Female In Focus 2020 Best Series Award and has been featured in The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She has also been awarded The Me & Eve Grant from the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe and received First Place in Editorial in the Tokyo International Foto Awards. Trillo has exhibited across the world in New York City, Philadelphia, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, England, France, and Germany.

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Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.

In this episode, Marta Valier talks with Todd Miller about his newest book, Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders, 2021. Miller has more than 20 years of reporting and writing about borders and in his latest book he exposes their fragility and debunks all of the typical justifications we hear about their legitimacy, making the case for their dismantling and abolition. #BradleyCenterCSUN #Border

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In this episode, Marta Valier presents segments of an oral history interview with Todd Miller, conducted by José Luis Benavides and Pilar de Haro for the Bradley Center. Miller has more than 20 years of reporting and writing about borders—from their massive expansion in the U.S. (Border Patrol Nation, 2014), to their role in preventing climate refugees to migrate (Storming the Wall, 2017), and their central role in protecting the international imperial system (Empire of Borders, 2019). In part 2, we will bring you a conversation about Miller's newest book, Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders, 2021.  #BradleyCenterCSUN #Border   

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Marta Valier talks to Guillermo Márquez about the visual anthropology work that photographer Richard Cross did in Colombia, where he was invited in the late 1970s by anthropologist Nina S. de Friedemann to visually document life in the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque. #BradleyCenterCSUN #Palenque #SanBasilio #Colombia

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Marta Valier talks to Keith Rice and his granddaughter Taylor Walker. Keith is the historian and archivist at the Bradley Center, and last summer he and Taylor decided to document the BLM protests in our serving area for the Center. Some of their images are now part of a digital exhibition depicting protestors occupying intersections, marching in the streets, delivering valiant and inspiring speeches, and displaying thought-provoking signs that collectively demanded equality for the lives of Black people. 

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Panel discussion “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with filmmaker Ebony Bailey, Historian Jayson Maurice Porter, and Anthropologist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Event: February 5, 2021. California State University, Northridge. Episode produced by Marta Valier.

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Q&A with filmmaker Ebony Bailey about her documentary "Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico," followed by the panel discussion, “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with Ebony Bailey, Historian Jayson Maurice Porter, and Anthropologist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Event: February 5, 2021. California State University, Northridge. Episode produced by Marta Valier.

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Our podcast, Emancipated: Voices and Images from the Archive, continues with the third chapter of Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador, a series produced by our archival researcher Marta Valier and co-hosted by Rosie Rios and Marta Valier, using oral histories with people who lived in El Salvador during the Liberation War (1980–1992). This chapter centers on El Rescate human rights representative Linda Garrett’s encounter with Salvadoran political prisoner Héctor Bernabé Recinos Aguirre, illegally detained for more than four years for organizing the first national strike in 1980. Recinos Aguirre co-founded the Committee of Political Prisoners of San Salvador (COPPES) while Garrett worked on the Index of Accountability, a database used by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador, linking military officers to human rights violations committed during the war. This episode discusses the significance of accountability, reparation, and the weight of impunity on both the old and younger Salvadoran generation.

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Our podcast, Emancipated: Voices and Images from the Archive, continues with the second chapter of Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador, a series produced and hosted by our archival researcher Marta Valier, using oral histories with people who lived in El Salvador during the Liberation War (1980–1992). In the second chapter, we keep following Linda Garrett on her trip to San Salvador as a human rights representative for El Rescate and we meet Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, known as Santiago, who also traveled to San Salvador from Nicaragua with the intention to establish Radio Venceremos, a radio station that operated in areas controlled by the insurgency and that he kept clandestine for 11 years (episode hosted & produced by Marta Valier). Both of them traveled to San Salvador after the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero in March 1980, a time where thousands of Salvadorans were fleeing the country.

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In this first chapter, we hear from Linda Garrett, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Democracy in the Americas; and Toña Rios, who migrated to Los Angeles from El Salvador in 1981 and is now a pastor at Baldwin Park United Methodist Church in Los Angeles County. Marta Valier produced and hosted this series based on oral histories with people that lived in El Salvador during the liberation war (1980–1992). The 1970s brought to El Salvador increasing government repression, including the creation of government-organized death squads to combat opposition movements and in 1980 a series of failed military juntas took power. By 1981, leftist guerrillas and political groups joined forces, forming the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the FMLN. Then, throughout the 1980s, a civil war was waged between the FMLN and the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military forces.

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