Mia Wong

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast where here is the rapidly encroaching rise of fascism. My name is Mia Wong, and one of the major vectors of fascism that we have been covering on this show has been the increase in just effectively straight-up black baggings by ICE and Immigration Enforcement in general. We have...

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast where here is the rapidly encroaching rise of fascism. My name is Mia Wong, and one of the major vectors of fascism that we have been covering on this show has been the increase in just effectively straight-up black baggings by ICE and Immigration Enforcement in general. We have...

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast where here is the rapidly encroaching rise of fascism. My name is Mia Wong, and one of the major vectors of fascism that we have been covering on this show has been the increase in just effectively straight-up black baggings by ICE and Immigration Enforcement in general. We have...

spent a good amount of time covering a bunch of different angles of this but there is another incredibly distressing angle that we have not covered as much yet which is their targeting of labor organizers and with me to talk about that is mark medina from portland jobs with justice and the coalition of independent unions and yeah mark welcome to the show

spent a good amount of time covering a bunch of different angles of this but there is another incredibly distressing angle that we have not covered as much yet which is their targeting of labor organizers and with me to talk about that is mark medina from portland jobs with justice and the coalition of independent unions and yeah mark welcome to the show

spent a good amount of time covering a bunch of different angles of this but there is another incredibly distressing angle that we have not covered as much yet which is their targeting of labor organizers and with me to talk about that is mark medina from portland jobs with justice and the coalition of independent unions and yeah mark welcome to the show

Yeah, I'm glad to have you on. So one of the most pressing sort of blackbaggings that's happened fairly recently is ICE's kidnapping of Alfredo Juarez de Ferrino, otherwise known as Lalo. Can you tell us about sort of his work and the projects that he's been doing and Familias Unidas por la Justicia?

Yeah, I'm glad to have you on. So one of the most pressing sort of blackbaggings that's happened fairly recently is ICE's kidnapping of Alfredo Juarez de Ferrino, otherwise known as Lalo. Can you tell us about sort of his work and the projects that he's been doing and Familias Unidas por la Justicia?

Yeah, I'm glad to have you on. So one of the most pressing sort of blackbaggings that's happened fairly recently is ICE's kidnapping of Alfredo Juarez de Ferrino, otherwise known as Lalo. Can you tell us about sort of his work and the projects that he's been doing and Familias Unidas por la Justicia?

And yeah, and that's something that, you know, like you can tie that exclusion.

And yeah, and that's something that, you know, like you can tie that exclusion.

And yeah, and that's something that, you know, like you can tie that exclusion.

Like there's a straight line between that and Japanese internment, which also to a large extent is just is about land seizure and the sort of like fusion of racism, specifically racism in the farming sector with with tax and labor rights and with this desire to just sort of seize literally the land and labor from non-white people.

Like there's a straight line between that and Japanese internment, which also to a large extent is just is about land seizure and the sort of like fusion of racism, specifically racism in the farming sector with with tax and labor rights and with this desire to just sort of seize literally the land and labor from non-white people.

Like there's a straight line between that and Japanese internment, which also to a large extent is just is about land seizure and the sort of like fusion of racism, specifically racism in the farming sector with with tax and labor rights and with this desire to just sort of seize literally the land and labor from non-white people.

Yeah. So that's a long and bleak history.

Yeah. So that's a long and bleak history.

Yeah. So that's a long and bleak history.

Yeah, we are going to go to ads, regrettably, and then when we come back, we are going to start talking, I think, a bit more about the repression. We are back. So obviously, this is a part of the story that you've been telling.

Yeah, we are going to go to ads, regrettably, and then when we come back, we are going to start talking, I think, a bit more about the repression. We are back. So obviously, this is a part of the story that you've been telling.