Belabored Podcast #118: Fighting for Sanctuary and Solidarity
Rosanna Aran and Christina Fox of #SomosVisibles join us to talk about immigrant organizing in New York under Trump.
Spring 2025
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A Call for Sanctuary
The American public does not support mass removal of immigrants. And by turning cities and campuses into sanctuaries against raids and deportations, we have the power to stop it.
Belabored Podcast #116: Facing Labor and Politics Under Trump
We look at some bright spots from the election, including the story of how a unique labor-community coalition in Arizona helped defeat the reelection bid of the infamous bigot Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Statelessness: A Forgotten Crisis 
The Nubian community has lived in Kenya for over a hundred years, yet many became stateless after Kenya’s independence in 1963. For years, Nubian youth had to go through a nationality verification process called “vetting” in order to obtain a …
Latinos and the New American Majority
Pan-Latino identity, once the result of a sort of strained political imagination, is increasingly real—and recognizing its potency will be central to building a new progressive movement in the United States.
How the British Far Right Went Mainstream
From the National Front to UKIP, the British far right has a long history of linking social and economic grievances to immigration, while Conservatives play along. The left’s job is to unpick this connection.
The Right-Wing Roots of Britain’s EU Referendum
Crazed free-marketeers and unashamed racists have brought the UK to the brink of leaving Europe. Despite the EU’s neoliberal character, only a Remain vote will allow us to take responsibility for the future political direction of a continent that we cannot escape.
Belabored Podcast #103: Get Ready for Struggle, with John Nichols
A live conversation with John Nichols, co-author of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
Justice Deferred
Obama’s executive orders on immigration, currently pending at the Supreme Court, would relieve millions of immigrants of the worst burdens of undocumented life. But no matter how the Court rules, even the immigrants who qualify for DAPA and DACA will remain in legal limbo.
How Kids Talk About Donald Trump
While adults worry Trump’s bullying style sets a bad example, white kids are pointing to their classmates and saying, “Donald Trump will send you away.”
Belabored Podcast #98: Teachers Mobilizing for Migrant Kids
Following the arrest of six children in immigration raids, public school teachers in North Carolina are rallying to protect their students from deportation.
A Lost Boy in Louisville: One Refugee’s Story
In 1986, Deng Manyoun left his southern Sudan town to escape civil war and famine. Nineteen years later, he was shot dead by a white police officer in Louisville, Kentucky. Manyoun’s story illustrates not just the alarming scale of U.S. police violence but the dramatic failure of our refugee resettlement policy.
Trumping History
The Trump phenomenon is best understood as an amalgam of three different, largely pathological strains in American history and culture.
Trump’s Monstrous Call
In Donald Trump’s campaign, a new kind of unapologetic brutality is coming to the home front.
Booked: A Suitcase Full of Passports
An interview with journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about her new book, The Cosmopolites, and the buying and selling of citizenship.
