The Dig: Real Sanctuary Means Ending Mass Policing with Kade Crockford

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🗓️ 25 March 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority countries, and those nations he deems "shitholes." But what's seldom reported is that one of the key mechanisms the administration has used to target immigrants was rolled out under Barack Obama. It's called Secure Communities, and it's the culmination of decades of policy-making and politicking that have intertwined the US systems of mass incarceration and immigrant enforcement — facilitating the growth of both. To fight both mass deportation and mass incarceration, localities and states must move beyond what's currently defined as sanctuary, as a new report by Kade Crockford from the Century Foundation and ACLU of Massachusetts argues: tcf.org/content/report/beyond-sanctuary. Also: Check out Dan’s essay on Trump’s proposal to execute drug dealers: slate.com/technology/2018/03/trumps-call-to-execute-drug-dealers-is-a-natural-progression-of-american-policy.html. And thanks to Verso Books. Check out the FREE e-book Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo versobooks.com/blogs/3635-where-freedom-starts-sex-power-violence-metoo and also Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:11.0	One that you might like is Where freedom starts sex power violence hashtag me too it's a
0:18.6	Verso report available as a free ebook that you can find at Verso Books.com.
0:25.0	The powerful wave of rage fueling Me Too has finally refocused public attention on sexual harassment and sexual violence, and starkly posed questions of power, of feminism, and of politics.
0:39.2	How do we define violence?
0:40.9	How do we discuss and experience sex? Who gets to tell stories of sexual assault and who gets to be heard?
0:48.0	How impoverished is our language for describing the intersection of power, desire, and violence?
0:55.6	What is the relationship between individual struggles and collective protest?
1:01.1	What do we do with the abusers? In short, this moment has recalled a much older question.
1:07.0	How do we get free?
1:09.0	In this collection of new and previously published writings, leading activists,
1:14.4	feminists, scholars, and writers describe the shape of the problem, chart the forms refusal
1:20.1	as taken, and outline possible solutions. Importantly, they also describe the longer
1:26.2	histories of organizing against sexual violence that the Me Too moment obscures.
1:31.9	Among working women, women of color, undocumented women,
1:35.3	imprisoned women, poor women, among those who don't conform to traditional gender roles,
1:40.4	and discern from those practices of freedom that is more than notional, but embodied and uncompromising.
1:48.0	Contributors to this book include Tarana Burke and Elizabeth Attita, Lauren Burlant, Tidi Badacharya, Stephanie Kuntz,
1:57.0	Melissa Jira Grant, Laura Kipnis, Gabriel Thompson, Larissa Fam, Alex Press, Jane Ward, and Tarion L. Williamson.
2:07.0	Where Freedom Starts, Sex Power Violence, hashtag Me Too.
2:12.2	A Versa Report available as a free ebook that you can find at Verso Books.
2:17.0	com. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
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