This week, we share the second installment of a talk by Dina Alves, an abolitionist researcher and scholar who is currently visiting the US from Brazil. Her talk is simultaneously translated from Portuguese by Micol Seigel. In this feature, she talks about the findings of her interviews with women prisoners in Brazil. We hear examples of how Black women are …
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November 18, 2022: Blackness and Abolition in Brazil
This week, we share the first part of a talk by Dina Alves. Alves is a Brazilian lawyer with a doctorate in Anthropology, and has been an anchor in the feminist, antiracist legal scene in São Paulo since 2009. She is currently visiting the US, and recently gave this talk, generously translated by Micol Seigel, here in Bloomington. In this …
Read More »Eco Report – August 20, 2020
For the last decade, the DNR has allowed logging during the summer because they had been given the OK from the U.S. Forest Service, or USFS, that there were no bats roosting in the area to be logged. This was the ruling even when bats were caught in mist nets in the area. —Norm Holy Several members of the House …
Read More »January 4, 2019: Healthcare Across Borders- A Conversation From a Women’s Prison in Brazil
We are completing our series on Brazilian prisons by airing an interview between Beny and Rosângela, who wanted to discuss her experiences with health care there. Her account of deprivation of care, along with the over application of psychiatric drugs, will be familiar to anyone who has spent time inside an American prison. She likewise discusses the cuts made to …
Read More »December 28, 2018: Systemic Inequality from Brazil to Barretal
This week, we share an update from the U.S./Mexico border, as well as two more illuminating conversations from inside the Brazilian prison system. First, we hear from Luce, who has just returned to the U.S. after doing legal aid for unaccompanied minors at the Barretal migrant shelter in Tijuana. As we mentioned in last week’s episode, Kite Line contributor Micol …
Read More »December 21, 2018: Life After Prison in Brazil
This week, we have the first of several interviews that were conducted this fall in São Paulo, Brazil. Kite Line contributor Micol Seigel was there to teach a course on American prison history at the state university. Seigel’s academic host introduced her to an activist civil servant at the Secretariat of Penal Administration, who connected her to the members of …
Read More »Interchange – Big Oil, Mickey Mouse, and Fascism in Latin America: The Tango War
Let’s start with the fact that what we don’t know keeps on hurting us. Mary Jo McConahay’s The Tango War fills an important gap in U.S. awareness of World War II history. Beginning in the thirties, both the Allied and Axis powers were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources …
Read More »Hola Bloomington June 29, 2018
Locutora Maria Auxi y Arturo Contreras hablaron sobre Capoeira, una arte marcial de Brasil y Ginga Brasil, una gimnasio de Capoeira en Bloomington, Indiana. Host Maria Auxi and guest Arturo Contreras spoke about the Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Ginga Brasil, a Capoeira gym in Bloomington, Indiana.
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