Today our host Minerva Sosa is welcoming Javier Rosales, who shares his personal story moving from Mexico to Bloomington along with his family. Besides working in the private industry, he serves at the Commission of Hispanic and Latino Affairs at the City of Bloomington.
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On tonight’s show, we re-air a show from September 24th, 2018. This show features an anonymous Dreamer and Christine Popp of Popp & Bullman Attorneys-At-Law. She is an expert on immigration issues. This is a lead-up to a live interview that we are planning for next Monday to talk with her about her recent trip to Tijuana, Mexico. CREDITS Our …
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Founder of the Bloomington Refugee Support Network, Diane Legomsky joins Civic Conversations to discuss the issue of refugee support in Bloomington and nationally. In the podcast, we talk to Diane about the mission of Bloomington Refugee Support Network and how it interacts with other refugee resettlement organizations like Exodus Refugee Immigration. Diana breaks down for our audience the differences between being …
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Interview with Maru Moro Villalpando of La Resistencia, a project that organizes against the Northwest Detention Center. In this conversation, Maru passes a kite along on behalf of immigrants housed in the facility. As they point out, facilities like this are “black boxes” where extra effort must be taken to shed light on conditions inside. Maru discusses some of the …
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For this week’s episode,Bella Bravo spoke with Johana Bhuiyan, a journalist and author of a powerful series of articles about immigrant surveillance. She covers the vast program called “intensive supervision appearance program” which purports to be “humane alternative” to immigration detention. Managing the program on behalf of ICE is BI Inc, a subsidiary of the Geo Group, one of the …
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The global pandemic has exacerbated an already-simmering crisis of food insecurity, itself rooted in growing populations pushed outside of formal labor markets. This exclusion, often implemented along racial lines, leads to precarity and a struggle for survival, which has only grown more bleak with the pressures of COVID-19. The economy simply cannot produce enough jobs, and even those existing jobs …
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En este programa Josefa Madrigal entrevista a Brenda Espinoza-tesorera del Indiana Latino Democratic Caucus 9th District, Dyna Kristine Martinez-Member del Indiana Latino Democratic Caucus, National Representative Indiana Young Democrats y Vice-Presidenta de Young Democrats of America Hispanic Caucus. Tambien escucha a Valeria Juarez-Martinez member of Rising Rainbow Coalition, Inc. Ellas comparten sus experiencias el día de las elecciones. Las emociones …
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El inicio del Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx consiste en un foro de Mesa de Colaboración Latin@. A pesar de la pandemia de COVID19, el objetivo es celebrarnos y difundir información valiosa a nuestra comunidad. Este foro reúne a expertos que discuten diferentes temas, pero no se limitan a actualizaciones de salud, seguridad pública, educación e inmigración. ¡Escucharemos al …
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ICE detainees are a week into a hunger strike at Pine Prairie, Louisiana. This week, we broadcast audio of a call between an anonymous Pine Prairie ICE detainee, and a member of Perilous Chronicle. More information on the struggle there can be found at perilouschronicle.com. The strike at Pine Prairie is not an isolated incident, but the continuation of a …
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Hosts William Hosea and Roberta Radovich are honored to welcome Nordia McNish, whose story was recently featured in The Herald Times. She is a young single mother who has managed to overcome the odds. She was an undocumented immigrant from Jamaica who has managed to pursue her bachelor’s degree at Indiana University (Bloomington) while also enduring homelessness. She now holds …
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