Welcome back to The NERVE! Conversations With Movement Elders a podcast from the National Council of Elders featuring intergenerational conversations between elder and younger organizers about important topics in our movements today.

This episode features a conversation about Federal Abuse of Power: ICE Violations and Militarized Cities. We'll hear from organizers based in NYC, Arizona, and North Carolina about the work they are doing to support migrant communities who are under attack. They'll share strategies from their organizing and ideas for how listeners can get involved in helping protect and support immigrant communities in these times.

This episode is hosted by Aljosie Aldrich Harding (she/her) a member of NCOE, a community organizer, a memory worker, and a strong believer in political education and spiritual healing.

Joining Aljosie in this conversation are:

• Reverend John Fife, co-founder of the Sanctuary Movement which protected Central American refugees from deportation in the 1980's. He is a founding volunteer with No More Deaths, which provides humanitarian aid to migrants in the Sonoran Desert borderlands. In 1992 Fife was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

• Emanuel Gomez-Gonzalez is the Communications Strategist at Siembra NC

• Mateo Guerrero-Tabares is the Trans Justice and Leadership Program Manager at Make the Road New York

CREDITS: Created and produced by the National Council of Elders podcast and oral history team: Aljosie Aldrich Harding, Frances Reid, Eddie Gonzalez, Sarayah Wright, alyzza may, and Rae Garringer.

RESOURCES:

• Defend and Recruit - Workbook produced by Siembra NC about developing local ICE Watch groups, organizing 4th Ammendment Workplace Trainings and more.
• Don't Be a Copogandist: Migration Edition - produced by Migrant Roots Media and Interrupting Criminalization for media makers and journalists