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This week, we're sharing a recent chat with Devi Machete, an anarchist involved in the Tijuana mutual aid project known as Contra Viento y Marea Comedor Comunitario which distributes clothing, medical supplies, meals and stable food boxes throughout the week at the border with the USA. The project, known for short as El Comedor is launching a free school and art laboratory in June. For the hour, we talk about the migrant caravan in 2018 that gave rise to El Comedor Comunitario, the self-organized work around the project and resisting the dehumanization of the border through solidarity and community.

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Since the US allowed the Trump-Era Title 42 Covid-based restriction on immigrants entering the country to expire and has moved back to Title 8, so in a post-script Devi talks about concerns of a surge at the border and the further difficulties this change creates for migrants and refugees seeking asylum in the north.

• Facebook: @ContraVientoYMareaComedor
• Instagram: @ContraVientoYMarea_ElComedor
• Venmo: @TJRefugee-support
• Youtube Channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCFY2Pmih9n1hN1b5-6JVq9A/videos
• Email: contravientoymareacomedor@gmail.com
• GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/migrant-organizers-of-tijuana-need-covid-support
• soon-to-be-relaunched website: http://www.contravientoymareatj.com.mx/

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