Join us on May 31st for a panel discussion which is being co-hosted by BAYAN, Migrant Roots Media, and Pax Christi USA. 

Title: Witnessing in Solidarity: A Panel on the Ongoing Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines

Date: PHILIPPINES: June 1, 8-9 AM // USA: May 31, 8-9 PM ET / 5-6 PM PT

Click here to register: bit.ly/witnessinginsolidarity

Join us for a conversation with Agape Karagi and Nteranya Sanginga about the complex web of geopolitical, economic, and human entanglements that have shaped the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The panel will explore some of the root causes of the conflict, the routes journeyed by Congolese citizens who have fled, and the experiences of those who have remained in Eastern Congo. This panel will be moderated by Dubie Toa-Kwapong, Africa Migration Ethnographer at Migrant Roots Media.

Join us for Tertulia Migrante: A Migrant Roots Media Literary circle to read & discuss Border & Rule by Harsha Walia.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/tertuliamigranteborderandrule

Join us this Wednesday, March 24th, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM (ET) for a Conversation with Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas.

We will livestream the last session of Tertulia Migrante, Migrant Roots Media's literary circle, where we discussed Lovato's latest book.

We will take questions from the audience.

Register here: http://bit.ly/tertuliamigranteunforgetting

Join us this Thursday, March 11th, for a panel featuring amazing critical thinkers with roots in Central and South America. They will be discussing Migrant Roots Media's report published on January 13, 2021 and which analyzes the Biden plan for Central America: https://www.migrantrootsmedia.org/reports.

Register: http://bit.ly/analysisofbidenplan

On International Women’s Day, we will hear from women in three Central American countries that have been heavily impacted by U.S. foreign policy: El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Through a video montage of interviews they will share their personal experiences of being caught in circumstances that threatened their livelihoods and their families. The program will also feature a live conversation with social movement women leaders from the three countries who will connect the dots between the impact of U.S. policies on their countries, including trade agreements, land tenure, military intervention, promotion of fossil fuels and agribusiness and the massive displacement of people from their communities.

Join us for our next Tertulia Migrante. Let's keep sharpening our analysis of the systems of oppression that have caused so much damage to many communities, particularly BIPOC. Our next book is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. In order to participate, please sign up here: https://bit.ly/tertuliathenewjimcrow

For each meeting, we ask that you please prepare one question or short reflection to share with the group.

The book readings will be divided as such:

Session 1: August 19th — Intro and Part 1 (58 pages)

Session 2: September 2nd — Part 2 and 3 (81 pages)

Session 3: Setember 16th — Part 4 and 5 (81 pages)

Session 4: Septemebr 30th — Part 6 (41 pages)

Session 5: Watch Lecture and Discussion

Time: 6-7:30pm

Please let us know if you have any questions/feedback.

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become an essential book in bookshelves across the world. It is no coincidence that we have chosen to revise this important text at this moment.

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Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become an essential book in bookshelves across the world. It is no coincidence that we have chosen to revise this important text at this moment.

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Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become an essential book in bookshelves across the world. It is no coincidence that we have chosen to revise this important text at this moment.

Click here to register.

Click here to add to your calendar.

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become an essential book in bookshelves across the world. It is no coincidence that we have chosen to revise this important text at this moment.

Click here to register.

Click here to add to your calendar.

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become an essential book in bookshelves across the world. It is no coincidence that we have chosen to revise this important text at this moment.

Click here to register.

Click here to add to your calendar.

This moderated discussion will examine the consequences and historical antecedents of immigrant detention in the United States. Featuring Andrea Pitzer (One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps), Roxana Bendezú (Migrant Roots Media), and Jonathan M. Katz (The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster), the event aims to shed light on the human toll of the Trump administration's treatment of migrants and asylum seekers at the southern border while also scrutinizing the vocabulary we use to describe such practices. To what extent can America's current system of mass detention-the confinement, on an ever expanding scale, of civilians without trial or due process-be likened to the concentration camps of previous eras, and what are the moral and political stakes of this comparison? What lessons might the longer history of internment and detention, in North America and beyond, offer us in confronting today's sanctioned violence toward those seeking refuge in the United States?

The actions and immigration policy of the Trump administration constitute a humanitarian disaster.  Join us for the next installment of our DFOAction fall forums as our panel of speakers will help answer the question – what would a just and humane US immigration policy look like?

Experts for the forum include:

• Hila Moss – Managing Attorney, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

• Jennie Belle – Community Organizer, Immigration and Refugee Program

• Joanna Gaughan – Immigration Attorney, Mathews & Associates

• Roxana Bendezú – Executive Director, Migrant Roots Media

Have concentration camps appeared on American soil? Or, should we say, have they returned? This event is designed to provide a historical and legal overview of the confusing situation at the Southern border. Historians will provide context to help us understand what a “concentration camp” is, and how it differs from a prison. Other speakers will provide a cogent explanation of what is happening now, and what steps a Duke student might take. There will be plenty of time for Q&A.

Rubén Figueroa, once a migrant himself, has dedicated his life to defending the human rights of migrants traveling to the United States through Mexico and Central America.