Over the past weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested eighty-three people across Wisconsin. On today’s episode, Lilada Gee takes a close look at the effects of this most recent immigration raid on the local community. She is joined in the studio by Veronica Figueroa from UNIDOS of Wisconsin and Mario Sierra of Centro Hispano, […]
“The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo”
Anyone who has read Hunter S. Thompson knows it is often difficult in his works to separate reality from fiction… or from drug-induced hallucination. So, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, when Thompson described his attorney as “a 300-pound Samoan,” we should all know to take that with a grain of salt. In fact, […]
Charlando Con Mis Hermanas Latina: Talking with My Latina Sisters
“Cuando la oportunidad se presenta, agárrala. Agárrate fuerte y no dejar ir!”—Celia Cruz Today’s guest features leading Latina women in the Madison community. Guests include Araceli Esparza, Nancy Saiz, and Karen Menendez Coller. Araceli Esparza. She is a writer, poet, and a community activist.And a good friend to the work of Lilada’s Livingroom. Nancy Saiz is a […]
Centro Hispano Organizing for Immigrant Rights
President-elect Donald Trump claims that there are 2 million of what he calls “criminal aliens” in the United States. He has promised to deport them all, establish a zero-tolerance policy for any criminal infractions committed by immigrants, and to triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He has repeatedly promised to build “an […]
