{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fceb058d7-3015-4fcf-b023-002cc0ebab60","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border","description":"Join us for a discussion about how re-building the international labor movement requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders\n\nJoin Justin Akers Chac\u00f3n, Yanny Guzm\u00e1n, and Magally \u201cMaga\u201d Miranda Alc\u00e1zar for a discussion about the history and function of the US-Mexico border, why we should fight to open it, and the way forward for the migrant justice movement.\n\nThis event marks the release of Justin Akers Chac\u00f3n\u2019s latest book, The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border.\n\nContemporary North American capitalism relies heavily on an inter-connected working class which extends across the border. Cross-border production and supply chains, logistics networks, and retail and service firms have aligned and fused a growing number of workers into one common class, whether they live in the US or Mexico. While money moves without restriction, the movement of displaced migrant workers across borders is restricted and punished.\n\nBut despite the growth and violence of the police state dedicated to the repression of transborder populations\u2014the migra-state\u2014migrant workers have been at the forefront of class struggle in the United States. This timely book persuasively argues that labor and migrant solidarity movements are already showing how and why, in order to fight for justice and re-build the international union movement, we must open the border\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpeakers:\n\nJustin Akers Chac\u00f3n is an activist, labor unionist, and educator living in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. He is a Professor of Chicana/o History at San Diego City College. His most recent book is The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border. He is also the author of No One is Illegal (with Mike Davis) and Radicals in the Barrio.\n\nMagally \u201cMaga\u201d Miranda Alc\u00e1zar (she/they) is a graduate student in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA. Using methods that emphasize the co-production of knowledge with rank-and-file workers, their research explores the contested meanings of care, work and Latinidad in the context of the global economy of care. Maga is also the co-founder of the multimedia platform SAL(T): Xicana Marxist Thoughts.\n\nYanny Guzm\u00e1n is a Xicana living on Lenape land, now known as the Bronx. She is a daughter of immigrant parents indigenous to Mexico and Ecuador. She is a socialist, activist, organizer and rank & file union member. Currently she is a tenant organizer and member of the South Bronx Tenants Movement, a legal advocate for low income tenants in the Bronx, and a member of Southern Solidarity, a grassroots, community-based group of volunteers in solidarity with the unhoused in their quest toward liberation. She previously was a writer, reporter, website administrator, and a graphic designer for the Working Class Heroes Radio.\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOrder a copy of The Border Crossed Us: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1655-the-border-crossed-us\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/IBZi8dVGrZU\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9abc1e23-efec-4a7b-af91-83598daf5068/artworks-ewuzmvzykuh1utqc-yis1ga-t3000x3000.jpg"}