Last month, we interviewed Professor Bill Ong Hing, founder of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic. Professor Hing had a lot to say about our broken immigration system. He suggested things we can do to participate in the fight against mass deportations including showing up for protests, accompanying immigrants to their scheduled court hearings and perhaps most important, to keep humanizing the issue by sharing the stories of the people most directly affected by the MAGA immigration policies.
So in addition to our usual satire, music and final reflection from Rev. Vanessa, we decided to devote this episode to sharing a few of these stories. We collaborated with Guillermina Castellanos and Francisco Herrera, Co-founders of Nuevo Sol Day Labor and Domestic Worker Center, who introduced us to some friends that generously agreed to share some stories of overcoming, of what it means to hope and dream, and what it takes to build a good life. Our goal isn’t to explain, or argue -for or attempt to prove the worthiness or the humanity of the people whose stories you will hear. What is in question at this moment in our history, is our own humanity.
So breathe, settle and come on in!
Here are a few links in case you want to dive a little deeper:
Nuevo Sol
https://www.instagram.com/nuevo_sol_sf/
“I Cannot Sleep” Jon Fromer and Francisco Herrera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNR2o2DPCrA
Francisco Herrera
https://franciscoherreramusic.com/
https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-immigrant-undocumented-workers-defend/
Jon Fromer
https://www.youtube.com/JonFromer
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
Vanessa Rush Southern
https://vanessarushsouthern.com/
The Tiger Club
The Mike and Mari Show
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