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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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This week we are sharing a dope episode from James Stout over at It Could Happen Here, focusing on migrants trying to make their way to the US.
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In the first of 5 episodes, James describes his journey to the Darién Gap in Southern Panama, and the journeys that thousands of migrants take each week on one of the most dangerous land migration routes on earth.
Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAaDkSwh1Jk/?igsh=bmgyanBteW10czd5
https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/darien-gap-feature/
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/18/panama-darien-gap-jose-raul-mulino
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/10/27/the-darien-gap-a-deadly-extension-of-the-us-border
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources/jmhs.pdf
https://www.strausscenter.org/publications/asylum-processing-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-august-2024/
https://www.msf.org/lack-action-sees-sharp-rise-sexual-violence-people-transiting-darien-gap-panama
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0:00.0 | QuosalZo Media |
0:03.3 | Hey, so look, contractually I'm allowed one more rerun. |
0:14.1 | So the one I want to run, though, is something from the It Can Happen Here series of shows that my man James did on |
0:26.9 | the Darien Pass down at the Mexico border outside of San Diego. I got to go down there |
0:35.5 | with him and meet up with some of those folks out there doing mutual aid |
0:42.5 | and meeting people at the border providing these vast buckets of like beans and rice and |
0:49.7 | like ways to charge their phones and warm clothes. It's, it's the realist. It's like simultaneously the most |
0:59.6 | beautiful and tragic thing you'll see. I mean, every language was spoken there. They're just, |
1:08.2 | it ain't, it's just a hole in the fence and people just walked in there's no this no man's land |
1:17.3 | of asylum seeking and james james lived down there and james pulls up on them people and is really |
1:27.3 | about that life. |
1:30.5 | It was so inspiring to me. |
1:33.8 | It reminded me of this story. |
1:36.1 | It's all just intro when I was in Cameroon. |
1:42.7 | Performed at this maximum security prison believe it or not but maximum security |
1:49.3 | prison for you know developing country Africa means there is no security it's just overrun with |
1:59.7 | inmates I mean it's just peoplerun with inmates. |
2:04.6 | I mean, it's just people sitting in the office just like on the floor. |
2:08.0 | And I'm like, yo, who are these people just sitting here or they're prisoners? |
2:10.3 | There's just no space for them. |
2:11.9 | Some of them butt-ass naked. |
2:14.9 | And part of it was you'll learn why later. |
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