11. Voices at #StatusForAll protest, journalist Isabel Macdonald on US gov deportations during COVID

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Free City Radio podcast 11. Featuring sounds from the Solidarity Across Borders protest in Montreal to support the #StatusForAll campaign for the rights of all people to have equal access. Recorded voices on the street, including filmmaker Mary-Ellen Davis, Guinean community activist Lamine, cultural workers Mars Zaslavsky from Suoni per il Popolo, community activist Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain and a speaker from Ekens Foundation International who is an asylum seeker from West Africa. Info on Solidarity Across Borders http://solidarityacrossborders.org Also an interview with investigative journalist Isabel Macdonald who addresses the policy of the Trump admin. in D.C. to forcibly deport asylum seekers from the U.S. to Caribbean and Latin America, including refugees who got impacted by the COVID-19 crisis within immigration detention centres run by the federal gov. in the U.S. Read the article Isabel worked on for The Intercept : https://theintercept.com/2020/06/26/coronavirus-ice-detention-deportation-haiti-guatemala/ Music on this episode : "Orient Trip" by Okay Temiz & Johnny Dyani also music by @pjs11 from Conduits info : https://kudatah.bandcamp.com/album/conduits produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff