This week, we’re sharing two segments.
First up, an interview with Angel, an ICE detainee currently incarcerated in Otero Detention Center in New Mexico. Angel is a trans-masculine lesbian of Mapuche heritage, whose family moved hir to the US from Chile at the age of 7 and has lived undocumented since, attaining DACA status under Obama. During the 2020 George Floyd Uprising she pled guilty to charges related to arson of police vehicles in Little Rock, serving 15 months before moving to Chicago and where she was detained by ICE. Approaching 30 years old, the majority of which has been in the so-called USA, Angel made the hard choice to waive the right to fight deportation and has been in detention centers since on her way to being sent to Chile to join her mother and family now living there.
For three quarters of an hour, Angel speaks about conditions at Prairieland and Otero detention centers, the conditions of her fellow prisoners, the hurdles they face in access to healthcare, quality food, clean facilities, legal resources, access to communications with their families, ability to communicate needs and demands with staff and guards who only speak English, and other topics. Check our show notes for a link to her go fund me, and some other interviews she’s given during detention.
If you want to learn more about 2020 Uprising prisoners (from 2022 & 2023), you can find our interview with one of the people running the website UprisingSupport.org
Following Angel we’re sharing an interview by Crna Luknja from this month’s episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World about social centers and squatting in Portugal with members of Disgraca collective, a 10 year old social center fundraising to buy it’s location. Check our show notes for pertinent links.
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- Óyeme by Ana Tijoux from Vida
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