[Bloquez l'empire!] Fortress Europe at Ceuta; ICE raid in Postville, Iowa (No One Is Illegal Radio, August 2008)

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[ August 2008 show linked at:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-one-is-illegal-radio-august-2008.html]

On the AUGUST 2008 edition of the show:

*FORTRESS EUROPE AT CEUTA (SPAIN)
interview with David Moffette of No One Is Illegal-Quebec City*

Ceuta, along with Melilla, is a Spanish enclave in North Africa; it's
technically part of Spain, but is geographically located in Morocco. It's
been called a "European gated community" in Africa. In recent years, as part
of the implementation of Fortress Europe, a border fence has gone up in
Ceuta and Melilla, in addition to other interdiction efforts. These
repressive measures have not stopped migrants from trying to enter into the
EU, but rather has forced them to make even more dangerous and longer
journies, getting onto boats further south, in Senegal and Mauritania,
trying to reach the Canary Islands. Spain, with the collaboration of
Morocco, re-inforced the border fence in Ceuta and Melilla in 2005. In 2006,
according to the Red Cross, at least 3000 migrants drowned trying to make
the more precarious journey to Europe from Mauritania further south, a
direct result of the border fence at Ceuta and Melilla. On this month's
edition of No One Is Illegal Radio, we get a frontline report from Ceuta
from David Moffette, a member of No One Is Illegal-Quebec City. For the past
two months, David has been in Ceuta where he's investigating immigration
discourses and the treatment of migrants in Ceuta who try to get into the
EU.  (Notes: Interviews by David with migrants camped out in Ceuta will be
featured on a future edition of NOII Radio; interview begins with the track
"Fortress Europe" by Asian Dub Foundation and ends with "Desobeissance
civile" by Keny Arkana.)


*ICE RAID IN POSTVILLE, IOWA
interviews with members of the Wild Rose Rebellion Network (Iowa City)
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This past May 12, 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents
raided a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. Close to 400 migrants, mainly
men and women from Guatemala, were detained in what is considered the
largest such raid in American history. In the initial days after the raid,
the migrants were detained and processed at a cattle fairgrounds. Many were
charged criminally, in addition to dealing with deportation proceedings.
Several people have not been accounted for, while the very few migrants who
have been released, to be with their small children, are required to wear
GPS tracking devices. On the August edition of No One Is Illegal Radio, we
hear from Ryan Spurgetis and Warren Conatser-Echevarria, based in Iowa City,
and part of the Wild Rose Rebellion Anarchist Network. Both Ryan and Warren
were involved in support efforts after the Postville raid.


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Some selected excerpts from previous shows:

*Fortress Europe:*

- Interview with Abdelaziz Chaambi, of the anti-colonial Mouvement des
Indigènes de la république, from Lyon, France.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/27040 (March 2008)

- Afghan refugees refuse forcible removal from Norway: an interview with
Sverre Pederson, anti-racism activist in Oslo.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/24164 (August 2007)

- An interview with Teresa Hayter, author of "Open Borders: The Case Against
Immigration Controls" (Pluto Press 2004), and an organizer of the Campaign
to Close Campsfield (an immigration detention center near Oxford, England)
for over a decade.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/21175 (August 2006)


*Resisting Apartheid and Border Walls:*

- Border Crossing Intifada in Gaza; interviews with Mohamed Omer from Rafah,
and Rami Elmeghari in Gaza City.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/26498 (February 2008)

- Supporting migrants at the US-Mexico border: interviews with activists and
reporters: Brenda Norrell (Tuscon, Arizona), Mike Wilson (member of the
Tohono O'odham nation) and Jay Johnson-Castro (Del Rio, Texas).
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/26108 (January 2008)

- From the frontlines of indigenous resistance to the US-Mexico Border Wall,
an interview with Ofelia Rivas, an activist, elder and grandmother from an
O'odham village near the US-Mexican border in Arizona.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/25741 (December 2007)


*ICE Raids:*

- An interview with Corinn Williams of the of the Community Economic
Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts about the aftermath of a
recent raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on migrant workers
in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/22676 (April 2007)

- Kavitha Pawria, organizer with Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) in New
York City, about the recent dawn arrest of an entire Pakistani family in New
York City by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), part of the ongoing
"War on Terror" in migrant communities.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/21783 (February 2007)
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migrants, refugees and indigenous people. Our campaign is in public
confrontation with the Canadian state, denouncing and taking action to
combat racial profiling, police brutality, detentions and deportations, as
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