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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco A grassroots environmental and social justice news journal, collaboration of WERU and Sunlight Media Collective. Learn more at sunlightmediacollective.org. Today we speak with Somali American community organizer Safiya Khalid with Community Organizing Alliance in Lewiston on the ICE surge and the community’s reaction. We hear some of the speeches by Somali American community leaders at a rally against ICE in Lewiston January 24th. And we hear some of the public testimony before the judiciary committee on LD 2106, a bill that would prohibit immigration agents from entering healthcare facilities, schools, libraries and daycare facilities or accessing records from those institutions without a judicial warrant – a protection that had been in place nationally prior to the Trump administration’s rollback last January. Guests: Safiya Khalid, founder and director of Community Organizing Alliance in Lewiston. Speakers at January 24th Rally in Lewiston: Amran Osman, founder and director of Generational Noor. Shukri Abdirahman, Androscoggin County Commissioner. Ifraax Saciid-Ciise, founder and director of IFKA Community Services. Testimony given on LD 2016, including: Sponsor Rep. Ellie Sato, Gorham. Ashley Ward, Maine Nurses Association. Alysia Melnick (Attorney with Bernstien Shur) reading for the Maine Nurse Practitioners Association. Taylor Trease, RN Augusta. Jane Makela, Unitarian Universalist, Falmouth. Susan Kiralis, Vassleboro. FMI: www.communityorganizingalliance.org www.Ilapmaine.org www.maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resource-hub/ www.aclumaine.org www.Presentemaine.org www.ifkacommunity.org www.generationalnoor.com To contribute to the Maine Solidarity Fund offering financial aid for legal and family support: www.mainesolidarity.org Ilap and Maine ACLU now have a form to apply for detention attorneys: www.ilapmaine.org/detention

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