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This week, you'll hear from Juan and Fatima, who people who've been organizing and thinking about the southern US border for a long time to speak about the escalations in border force violence and kidnappings by ICE and CBP around the US (including Minneapolis where Fatima resides), an explosion in proposed immigration detention (including near El Paso where Juan resides), the expansion of low intensity conflict and counter-insurgency in the southwest since the mixing in of language of the War on Crime, War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror and how autonomous mutual aid provides opportunities for scaling up community defense and prefiguring the world we want to see.

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• https://www.immigrantsurvivors.org/statement-sw-key-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/31/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppression
• Fatima's essay: The Insurgent Southwest
• Grey Is The Color of Hope Book
• No Friends But The Mountain Book

• Casa Carmelita
• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy
• Estrella del Paso

• Our recent interview with Donna Mae about resistance in Minneapolis
• Interview on Life During Wartime book
• Past interviews concerning immigration, including with people held on Manus Island

• https://www.immigrantsurvivors.org/statement-sw-key-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal
• https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/20/shutdown-stalemate-deepens-as-white-house-dems-dig-in-on-dhs-funding-00789614

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