podcast friday
May. 9th, 2025 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby I'm once again lagging behind on podcasts, not in the least because ICHH is reviewing Andor episodes faster than I can watch any TV show, and also I have negative amounts of time in May. But anyway, my pick for the week is their episode "Who We Talk About When We Talk About Borders."
Lost in the discussion about "hey is it bad to deport little children with brain cancer?" and "is it constitutional to offshore a concentration camp?" is the fact that the border is part of land that does not belong to the US. I mean, none of the US belongs to the US any more than Canada or Mexico is a real thing. This episode focuses on the damage done to Indigenous communities whose traditional territory encompasses both sides of the imaginary line, and the horrors they face, from harassment by the regime's Gestapo, to grave desecration, to environmental war crimes. It also looks at the differing news coverage under the Biden and Trump regimes, and how the plight of both migrants and Indigenous communities can be ignored when it's inconvenient for media to cover.
Lost in the discussion about "hey is it bad to deport little children with brain cancer?" and "is it constitutional to offshore a concentration camp?" is the fact that the border is part of land that does not belong to the US. I mean, none of the US belongs to the US any more than Canada or Mexico is a real thing. This episode focuses on the damage done to Indigenous communities whose traditional territory encompasses both sides of the imaginary line, and the horrors they face, from harassment by the regime's Gestapo, to grave desecration, to environmental war crimes. It also looks at the differing news coverage under the Biden and Trump regimes, and how the plight of both migrants and Indigenous communities can be ignored when it's inconvenient for media to cover.
