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TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN – a statement by the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network

Gracias a todos por marchar por los derechos de las mujeres. Me llamo Celia y soy una mujer trans de Honduras y quiero que me conozcan como una mujer con sueños. Mis sueños son aprender inglés, estudiar computación, cocina y maquillaje. También tengo un sueño de algún día poder juntar suficiente dinero para poder comprar una casa para mi familia porque mi familia nunca ha tenido una casa. Ese sería un sueño para mi y para mi familia. En los Estados Unidos y en otras partes del mundo ven a los immigrantes como criminales pero más a las mujeres trans. La sociedad discrimina y criminaliza a las mujeres trans. Nos ven como un peligro pero en realidad somos sobrevivientes de la violencia, la injusticia y el rechazo social. Las mujeres trans también somos mujeres. Es importante saber que la lucha de las mujeres no tiene fronteras y la liberación de la mujeres trans debe ser central para el movimiento feminista. Solo cuando luchamos por una Amnistía para todos ganáremos un mundo en donde todos podemos lograr nuestros sueños. Sigamos luchando hasta que ganemos una amnistía y liberación para todas las mujeres trans y todos los inmigrantes. Que todo esto de lo que está en la frontera solo sea el recuerdo de una pesadilla. Juntos podemos construir un mundo más justo para todos.
Muchas gracias.

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Trabajadores de la salud contra el virus: una entrevista con un conserje del hospital luchando en las líneas del frente

Los conserjes son trabajadores esenciales, pero a menudo son los menos apreciados y menos pagados en la jerarquía del sistema de salud. Aquí, Norell Martínez entrevista a un trabajador de salud que lucha diariamente contra COVID-19, pero es uno de los miles de trabajadores de primera línea, “esenciales”, muchos de los cuales son inmigrantes, cuya labor e historias de sacrificio no se reconocen.

Si bien se presta mucha atención a los médicos y enfermeras que trabajan en la primera línea de la crisis de Coronavirus, se presta poca atención al personal de limpieza que trabaja en las instalaciones médicas. En un entorno

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The Democrats: blood-stained party of imperialism, war, and oppression

That time has come again, it comes every four years, when people tell us it is our duty to vote…to vote for the lesser evil, to vote against the Republicans, to vote for the Democrats. Right now, some people are enthusing over Democrat Bernie Sanders, that great hope for liberals.

Many justify their support of Sanders by stating that he will push the Democrats to the left, take them back to its “progressive” roots. The truth is that the Democrats are not the party of lesser evil and its roots are far from “progressive.” It is not an ally of labor and the oppressed, and it never was. The Democratic Party is the other party of the Anglo-American ruling class, it is a party that enforces mass incarceration and mass deportations, wages imperialist wars, and supports bloody dictatorships abroad. This is what the Democratic Party is – a capitalist, imperialist party.

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Fighting for justice while feeding the nation: Farmworkers at the frontlines

Here in Washington State farmworkers are being asked to continue working. On the east side of Washington where the majority of farms grow apples, cherries, and pears, there are currently about 5000 workers that have come through the H2A visa program. That number is supposed to go up to over 20,000 when they reach peak harvest. We have seen just how exploitative this program is to workers.

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The continental repression of Central Americans: interview with Víctor Interiano

I feel that within the imagination of most people who are neither Salvadoran, of Salvadoran descent, or Central American, El Salvador as a nation, people, and culture is a blank book with only four bookmarks for reference: the civil war, present-day mass migration, MS-13, and pupusas. 

One of the greatest misconceptions and purposeful misrepresentations that has been constructed around El Salvador (and in general, Guatemala and Honduras) is a perpetual and contradictory dichotomy of simultaneous victimhood and criminality. 

In the United States we are either pitiable victims of war, political repression, or poverty as long as we remain within our lands. But the moment we migrate, we become MS-13 terrorists and invaders that merit no asylum. 

What is known about Salvadoran history and culture, even among progressive or leftist circles in the U.S., is largely informed from solidarity work around the 1980s civil war and interactions (between mostly white college students) and representatives of various liberation fronts. 

Today, at times, it feels like many of our friends and allies still don’t know us.

This characteristic of being unknowable is not of our choosing or making. It is an unfortunate side-effect of the willful ignorance that comes with being absorbed into and propagating the hegemonic white supremacist culture of the United States. 

Which is unfortunate, because to know us is to understand that Salvadorans are born fighters. Resistance is in our blood, from the anticolonial rebellion led by Anastasio Aquino in the 19th century, to the 1932 Indigenous Uprising, to the 1944 National Strike that brought down a dictatorship; we are a people in continuous mobilization for justice. 

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Against All Odds

Against All Odds is a VR experience that focuses on creating empathy by means of light, sound, and a minimalist approach to materiality. The user experiences this world from a child’s perspective as they attempt to escape from a holding facility, only to walk into a hate speech rally and be followed by menacing, faceless figures. This VR piece embodies the narrative of “children in cages” in an effort to expose the user to an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe at the U.S. Texas border that is fueled by the hate rhetoric of the current U.S. administration.

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AMLO intensifica la guerra contra los migrantes en México

Hace poco más de unaúltima semana, soldados mexicanos atacaron una caravana demigrantes en Chiapas, México, arrestando a casi 800 personas e hiriendo a varios de ellos. Lamayor parte de estos migrantes eran hondureños. Desde el 18 de enero, el gobierno ha deportadoa 2,303 inmigrantes centroamericanos.1 Mientras que decenas de miles de migrantes estándetenidos en campos de concentración sin atención médica, con acceso limitado a agua potable ycomida. Las condiciones en estos campos han sido descritas como antihigiénicas ysuperpobladas.2 El gobierno ha desplegado miles de soldados a la frontera con Guatemala paradetener a los migrantes. Estos son los actos del gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO), quien ha dado continuidad a las políticas migratorias de los presidentes anteriores:deportando a más migrantes centroamericanos que el gobierno de los Estados Unidos.

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Declaración en solidaridad con los refugiados centroamericanos

La semana pasada, el ejército Mexicano, actuando como policía fronteriza, atacó a cientos de civiles migrantes indefensos, la mayoría de los cuales son de Centro Américanos, con spray de pimienta, matando al menos a una persona y arrestando a más de 800 personas que buscaban asilo.

Nosotros, MeXicanos, nacidos o con raíces en México, viviendo en los Estados Unidos, denunciamos el uso de violencia militar por parte del gobierno de Estados Unidos y de México en contra de migrantes inocentes. Además, rechazamos los esfuerzos de Estados Unidos para controlar y militarizar las fronteras de Centroamérica, por medio de acuerdos ejecutivos con México, Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador, que van en contra de la política de movimiento libre que existía anteriormente entre estos países.

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Statement of solidarity with Central American refugees

Last week, the Mexican military, acting as border enforcement, attacked hundreds of unarmed migrant civilians, most of whom are Central American, with tear gas, killing at least one person and arresting more than 800 asylum seekers, more than 350 of whom were deported this tuesday.

As MeXicanos, born in or with roots in Mexico, living in the U.S. we strongly denounce the United States and Mexican government’s use of military violence against innocent migrants. Moreover, we oppose the United States efforts to enforce and militarize Mexico’s southern border and those of Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, going against a policy of free movement that previously existed between these countries.

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Abuelo’s truck

“Babe, what time are your parents coming?” Julian says to me while leaning over my shoulder from the side of the bed, his dark wavy hair falling over his big brown eyes.

He’s been up for two and a half hours already, fed our two cats and a dog, made us coffee, and a to do list for the day. He lays down next to me and waits for me to wake up.

“Too early.” I say half asleep, scrunching my face to the light. “I need to text my dad.”

They are coming at 10am, as in, five minutes away. I brush my teeth and we head down, get in the car and say our hellos.

“Hola Juan. Hola Yka” says Julian as he gets in the car.

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