We talk to our friend, Professor Barbara Sostaita, about her recently published book Sanctuary Everywhere, which is out with Duke University Press.

You can buy her book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/sanctuary-everywhere

Also, please watch the incredible trailer for the book, created by Alex Morelli, whose still image was used for cover art for the episode: https://vimeo.com/1004989085

From DUP:

"In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escapes the everyday, Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead."

Outro song: 'Clandestino'

Composed by Manu Chao

Lyrics by Manu Chao

Performer: Lila Downs

We start of with some follow-up to the election, and a critique of the game Bernie Sanders has been running for the last 4+ years before we get into something a little more fun and lighthearted: Yasmine made Ahmed watch Love Is Blind Habibi.

We come to you mid-week for an emergency broadcast.

We briefly give our thoughts on the election results. Overall, I think it's an honest discussion of how we ended up here, the losses and wins, why neither of us is surprised this happened, and how we plan to focus our energy going forward.

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