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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago, and is widely remembered for his speech, ‘I Have a Dream.’ Journalist Gary Younge analyzes the King’s speech, delivered on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, highlighting the day’s tensions, and the importance of remembering the entirety of King’s message and evolution as a critical activist.Guatemala.

Featuring:

Gary Younge, author and journalist  

Credits:

Producer: Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender

Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker

For More Information:

The Speech, by Gary Younge – https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/649-the-speech

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The Seekers, is the first in a two-part documentary series that examines the experiences of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the US.

El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are among the most dangerous countries in the world for women. Each year, thousands of women flee from these Northern Triangle Countries to escape the brutality that stem from drugs and gangs. Now, many Central American migrants are being returned to their countries of origin with their hopes of finding a lasting refuge from violence dimmed.

In this episode of Making Contact, we look at what this means for some women who have tried to flee the violence in one of those Northern Triangle Countries— Guatemala.

Featuring:

Albertina Gutierrez, US asylum seeker, mother of two, from Guatemala; Denise Gilman, San Antonio-based immigration attorney; Alessandra, recently arrived from Guatemala to the US; Sister Consuelo, backpack volunteer with RAICES in San Antonio, Texas; Lynn Stephen, Oregon-based anthropologist and president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association; Lucia, US asylum seeker from Guatemala.

Resources:

Trump’s rigorous asylum proposals endanger domestic abuse survivors, by Molly Redden

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/10/domestic-violence-trump-asylum-immigration-guatemala

RAICES Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services

https://www.raicestexas.org/

University of California, Hastings – Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

https://cgrs.uchastings.edu/

“Assobio”, Z Trigueiros

“Saez”, Z Trigueiros

“Fast”, Z Trigueiros

“Fater Lee”, Black Ant

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Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, RJ Lozada and Anita Jonhson.

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Fifty years ago, the American War in Viet Nam was at its height.  There, people had fought against Japanese and French colonial rule, and now, the U.S. attempt at domination was once again, turning family members, friends, and neighbors against each another.

For the U.S. government, this was just another Cold War battleground, and deaths of 2.1 – 3.8 million Vietnamese people were seen as collateral damage to establishing U.S. rule over the region.  But people of color around the world saw the resistance in Vietnam as a source of inspiration.

On today’s Making Contact, we hear excerpts from an intergenerational teach-in held by the Vietnam Victory coalition in 2015 called The Spirit of Viet Nam is Stronger Than U.S. Bombs.

Featuring:

Thuỳ Trang Nguyễn (VietUnity)

Rabab Abdulhadi (SFSU Ethnic Studies Department)

Emory Douglas (former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party)

Nhàn Thanh Ngô (Union of Vietnamese)

Alex Hing (Rainbow Council of Elders)

Prishni Murillo (Xicana Moratorium Coalition)

Music:

Live performance by Nhàn Thanh Ngô

Photo:

Colonialists, International Traitors, Think Carefully Before You Take Vietnam – To Lien (1978) Courtesy of the Vietnam Victory Coalition

Credits

Host: Marie Choi

Making Contact Producers: Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez, Marie Choi, RJ Lozada

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Special Thanks to Thuy Trang Nguyen and the Vietnam Victory Coalition for their organizing and for allowing us to air excerpts of this intergenerational teach-in on Making Contact.

For More Information

VietUnity

Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign

SPEECH: Martin Luther King Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam

Huey Newton’s Letter to National Liberation Front of South Vietnam

FULL AUDIO The Spirit of Viet Nam is Stronger Than U.S. Bombs: An Intergenerational Teach-In

BOOK: The People Make The Peace edited by Karin Aguilar San Juan and Frank Joyce

INTERVIEW: An Interview with Alex Hing

INTERVIEWS: 40th Anniversary of Ending the U.S. War in Viet Nam featuring Thuy Trang Nguyen (VietUnity), Michael Wong (Veterans for Peace, Chapter 69), Armael Malinis (Migrante SF)

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Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitale’s book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class and racial tensions. Vitale also goes deep into the shortcomings of reform and in contrast, deepens the conversations around meaningful alternatives to ultimately ask the people to consider the end of policing.

Featuring:  

Alex Vitale, Professor of Sociology, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and author of The End of Policing.

Credits:

Host: R.J. Lozada

Producers: Della Duncan, Robert Raymond

R.J. Lozada, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, Marie Choi

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blazin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

Special to Della Duncan and Robert Raymond of Upstream.

Resources:

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