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The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media. But with the tools of creative expression and the power of social media, a new generation of young immigrants is making sure their voices are heard. On this edition, young undocumented artists speak their truth, as the world listens.

Special thanks to the Left Tilt Fund and the Berwick-Degel Family Foundation.

Featuring: Homero Rosas, Deanne Palaganas, Marsh Youth Theater performers; Maija Arriaga, high school student; Gary Soto, playwright; Emily Klion, Marsh Youth Theater Director; Laura Chavez, college counselor; Julio Salgado, visual artist; Jesus Iñiguez, musican and writer; Yosimar Reyes, poet.

For More Information:

“Undocumented & Awkward”

“Legalities of Being”

Jesus Iñiguez/ESL

Dreamers Adrift

Dream Activist

Culture Strike

Aspire Dreamers

Vosimar Reyes

Gary Soto

The Marsh Youth Theater

Undocunation

Undocuqueers

Julio Salgado

Articles:

Undocumented Youth Pay Tribute to the Original Dreamers

Queer Undocumented Youth Set the Record Straight

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The official Day to Commemorate Agent Orange is August 10th and marks the
start of the US military’s decade of massive chemical warfare in Vietnam in 1961.

On this edition: combat, chemicals, and corporations. We’ll look at the multigenerational legacy of Agent Orange — a toxic defoliant used by the United States military in the jungles of Vietnam.
 

Featuring:

Ngo Thanh Nahn, co-coordinator Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and
Responsibility Campaign; Fred Wilcox scholar and author: Waiting for An For

More Information:

Vietnam Reporting Project

 Out of Bounds Radio Show Fred Wilcox interview December 2011

The Tale of An Phuc House

Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange

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Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign  

Agent Orange Record

www.agentorangerecord.com/home/

Remedying the Effects of Agent Orange  

The plaintiffs of a class-action lawsuit argued that Monsanto had polluted their community by burning waste from the production of Agent Orange.

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The alternatives to prison are few and far between. And after serving time, the options for getting back on your feet are even worse. Finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women building their own support network after being released from prison. We’ll hear “A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad” a documentary by Chris-Moore Backman.

Featuring:
Susan Burton, A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project Executive Director and Founder; Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness author; Alika Savage, Yolanda Brown, Renee Levi, Maisha Bailey, Sabrayiah DeMoss, Samantha Jenkins, A New Way of Life residents.

More information:

A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project

The Sentencing Project

Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples Movement

Critical Resistance

Michelle Alexander-The New Jim Crow

Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

Articles & Videos:

Some Thoughts On Mercy, by Ross Gay

The Run On Sentence: Eddie Ellis on Life After Prison

“Susan” – a 20+ minute documentary about Susan Burton and A New Way of Life

Michelle Alexander, speech at Riverside Church

Combating Mass Incarceration – The Facts

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President Obama declared that “we have banned torture without exception.” However, some would take exception to this claim. The practice of isolating a person in solitary confinement for extended periods of time causes severe sensory deprivation and has been denounced as torture by the United Nations. But tens of thousands are locked up in solitary confinement in American prisons. Producer Claire Schoen met nine formerly incarcerated people, who described what it’s like not to talk to or touch another person, for years at a time.

Featuring: 
Hakeem Shaheed, Laura Whitehorn, Robert Dellalo, Bilal Sunni Ali, Munirah El Bumani, Ray Luc Levasseur, Tommy Escarciga, Diano King ArchAngel Rodriguez, and Robert King Wilkerson, solitary confinement survivors; Teresa Vaughn, mother of son who died in solitary confinement.   

For More Information:

Claire Schoen 

Quijerema

Scott Koué

Additional Information:

All of Us or None
1904 Franklin Street, 9th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612

American Friends Service Committee (National Office)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-241-7000

AFSC––Pacific Mountain Region
65 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-565-0201

Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-0484
[email protected]

Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10118
212-290-4700
[email protected]

Justice Now
1322 Webster Street, Suite 210
Oakland, CA 94612
510-839-7654

Justice Policy Institute
1003 K Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20001
202-558-7974
[email protected]

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
1540 Market Street, Suite 490
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-255-7036
[email protected]

The Sentencing Project
514 Tenth Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004
202-628-0871
[email protected]

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Its not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin Americans were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions-which the US often helped create. On this edition, part two of “Harvest of Empire” a documentary film written and narrated by Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez. Today, in excerpts from the film, Gonzalez traces the history of Nicaraguan and Salvadoran migration to the United States.

Featuring:

Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now co-host and  Harvest of Empire author; Anastasio “Tachito” Somoza, Former Nicaraguan president; Maria Hinojosa, Journalist;*Robert White, former US Ambassador; Sister Pat Murray, former Missionary in Central America; Luis Enrique*; Grammy Award Winning Singer and Composer; Father Roy Bourgeois, School of the Americas Watch Founder; Maria Guardado, Salvadoran Immigrant and Torture Survivor; Sister Terry Alexander, Maryknoll Missionary; John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter & Ronald Reagan, Presidents of the United States; Dan Rather & Tom Brokaw, TV news anchor; Melvin Goodman, Former CIA Division Chief:

More information:
 
Harvest of Empire

American Latino Theme Study

Pewhispanic 

The American dreams and Latino Immigrants

Dr Lorenzo Mayer

A look back at immigration

Dream Activist

Maria Hinojosa

Democracy Now

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Its not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin Americans were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Over the next 2 weeks, we’ll hear “Harvest of Empire” a documentary film written and narrated by Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez. Today, in part one, Gonzalez traces the history of Guatemalan, Dominican, and Mexican migration to the United States.

Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now co-host and Harvest of Empire author;Junot
Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Robert White, Former US Ambassador
to El Salvador; Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan Political Activist and 1992
Nobel Peace Prize winner; Melvin Goodman, Former CIA Division Chief; Mariana
Cabrera, Guatemalan Immigrant; Mariana Zamboni; Mariana Cabrera’ Daughter; Lorenzo Meyer, Historian and Political Analyst.

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Parenting has never been easy. Merging your politics with your parenting decisions can be even more challenging. On this edition, fathers… and mothers… on fatherhood and how it’s changing. Traditional ideas about what a dad is supposed to be are slowly disappearing, but what will take their place?

Featuring:
Tomas Moniz, Rad Dad creator; Airial Clark, Sex Positive Parent blogger; Janine Macbeth, Oh, Oh, Baby Boy author; Brent Ramos, Danny Gutierrez, Craig Elliot, Jeremy Smith, Jeremy John, Jason Oppy, fathers

More information:

Rad Dad-A Zine About Parenting
 
The Sex Positive Parent 

Oh, Oh, Baby Boy

The Other ‘F” word

Hip Mama

Father Figures—KPFA radio

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