This episode contains two interviews. The first is with Shane Burley—filmmaker, journalist, and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How To End It. The second is with RS—journalist and radio host for the Progressive Radio Network. Each of these interviews focus on the dynamics and recent developments within the Abolish ICE movement, and specifically the OccupyICE encampments that have sprung up recently around ICE offices throughout the US, the largest and most prominent being in Portland, Oregon. The formation of these encampments are in response to the increasingly Gestapo-like policies and tactics currently being employed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, in particular the agency’s active role in the detainment of immigrants crossing the southern US border seeking asylum. Much of the anger, and subsequent action, in recent weeks has been in response to the Trump Administration’s policy of separating immigrant families and imprisoning them in privately owned detention facilities along the US border.
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