“Our obligation as Jews is to bear witness when we see injustice anywhere,” says Rabbi Bonnie Margulis of Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice. She recently made a trip to the U.S.–Mexico border to visit a migrant shelter in Juárez, a detention center in New Mexico, a criminal court proceeding, and the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy […]
Rebroadcast: Bikes and Migrants with Kimball Taylor
Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from May 15, 2017, during National Bike Month. Patty spends the hour with Kimball Taylor, author of The Coyote’s Bicycle, to learn about the migrants who rode bikes across the Mexico–United States border in one crucial stage of their frontier crossing. Kimball Taylor is a San Diego–based journalist. He is […]
Migrants and Asylum Seekers in 1940s China and Today
For today’s episode, guest host Bert Zipperer spends the hour talking to Helen Zia about her new book, Last Boat Out of Shanghai, and connecting the history of the mass exodus out of Shanghai in the 1940s to events happening today at our own southern border. Helen Zia is a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian […]
