Sunrise El Paso Podcast

Why should Bernie continue to run? How have Bernie vs. Biden responded to the COVID-19 crisis? Why does our society (and the mainstream media) focus on "imagery over substance"?

In this episode, we discuss the connection between the climate justice movement and the immigration justice movement. As a border community, we are first-hand witnesses of the cruelty of the United States immigration policies. Our community sees kids separated from their mothers and locked in cages, children die under the imprisonment of ICE, the brutality of the Remain in Mexico Policy, and other horrors.

How connected is the immigration crisis to the issue of climate change? What is the relationship between both movements and how can both movements work in solidarity?

To discuss this topic, we have Destiny Garcia on the show. She is an organizer with the Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee and Fronterizx Fianza Fund. We talk about immigrant abolition, climate refugees, climate reparations and more.

Support detained migrant liberation through the Fianza Fund: https://www.fianzafund.org/

Website for the Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee (DMRS): https://dmscelpaso.wixsite.com/dmscelpaso

In this episode, we discuss the two major political crises of our time: the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Climate Crisis.

One exposes the gaping weaknesses of America’s health care systems, the other exposes the destructiveness of our economical model of perpetual growth and land exploitation.

But Both crises share a common theme of “neoliberalism.” Joining us today to make sense of the world through the lens of “neoliberalism,” we have Xavier Miranda--Teacher and local activist.

Book summary and analysis of Naomi Klein's "The (Burning) Case for the Green New Deal." Klein is a author of books such as "No Logo" and "The Shock Doctrine." She is a renowned author and climate theorist.

This is a live recording from a Teach-In Sunrise El Paso organized in January.

Music: Toño Ramos

Young community leaders speak at the 9/20/19 El Paso Climate Strike. The climate crisis in an intersectional issue--the problem contains racial and economic dynamics of oppression.

Local organizations such as Familias Unidas se Chamizal, Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee, Frontera Water Protectors, and Border Peace Presence share their perspective on the climate crisis.

This Podcast will consist of an interview that Sunrise El Paso organizers conducted with Tyson Slocum, Energy Director at Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization.

Tyson has been an immense help for the El Paso community in one of the most alarming issues our city faces: the proposed sale of our community’s electric utility to a private equity fund controlled by JPMorgan, the world’s 6th largest bank.

Water and electricity are fundamental to human life. Our right to each do not carry a price tag. We must block this proposed sale and avoid fundamental repercussions to our community.

On this episode of Sunrise El Paso Media, we interview Lynn Wang, HUB Coordinator of Sunrise Los Angeles, to discuss her experience in organizing for a city-level Green New Deal. The end result was Mayor Garcetti's "Green New Deal LA"--it has its positive and negative aspects but it is definitely something El Paso can learn from.

(No.2) Resisting Pipelines: Frontera Water Protection Alliance and the Indigenous Perspective by Sunrise El Paso