BONUS: ICE is Coming to a City Near You feat. Memo Torres
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Will interviews Los Angeles reporter Memo Torres, whose site L.A. TACO shifted from covering food and culture in the city to some of the most indispensable and horrific coverage of ICE raids available. Memo tells us about what happens to people when they get kidnapped, covering the horrors of fortress America, and practical advice for those who might find themselves in ICE’s crosshairs.
Read more at L.A. TACO: https://lataco.com/
And follow Memo Torres on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/el_tragon_de_los_angeles/?hl=en
Comments (31)
Thanks memo. Great advice for documenters of ICE raids. witness.org also has practical tips for filming immigration and law enforcement (en español) and many other useful resources for documenting human rights abuses and ensuring that video can be used as primary source evidence.
Anyone have a link to share with an otherwise smart idiot of what the fuck is happening here?
uh what part ya having trouble with slugger?
Rapid response groups has been DC's strategy too. I live across the river in Virginia but my tenant union (a union of tenant associations and tenants' rights support) has been working with other tenant associations & unions and Free DC to get people crisscrossing neighborhoods on bicycles when kids are going to and from school because ICE has been kidnapping parents taking their kids to school. Also, Latino parents have been coordinating groups of kids to get to and from school so that they don't have to risk it. Just offering more ideas...
I see this backfiring bc it will bring communities together instead of breaking them up. This will also make all the hero’s illegal and Americans love nothing more than breaking the law…
I've always figured that the average ICE agent is some schlub who couldn't cut it in the armed forces or even a police department. Seen enough fatties in tactical gear chasing folks down
Thanks memo!!!!
If you are in Massachusetts and want to do this work, join the LUCE team. It varies city to city but there is really good work happening and there's already a state wide hotline up
MS13 was created by navy SEALS, bin Laden was CIA and all these maggots with badges love "cleaning up" their messes
It's not hypocrisy, it's pure evil. The Republicans love to yammer about how the Democratic Party was the slave party 160 years ago, but the GOP has always always ALWAYS been a friend of the Nazis for the entire lifetime of the Nazi movement.
Mad Max world, but not at all cool
I really enjoyed this episode & I’d love to hear more from Memo on future episodes as things progress
All this is really terrible, but at least the Democrats learned their lesson and stopped supporting Israel
It's cuck anxiety. All of it: from anti-blackness to xenophobia. Our boys in green jerk off to stags and cucks who are not too craven to live their truth and then experience intense post-orgasmic feelings that are susceptible to manipulation. They are submissive little sissys who wag their flat bottoms for Daddy who in turn rewards them with the oppurtunity to Dominate thus feeding into their need to be dominated while resolving the contradiction between their gratification and their egoic craving for gender euphoria. I think there's also a pheromone element where group cohesion is undergirded by the men smelling one another. This is why LGBT+ tolerance is an existential threat to fascism because sexual liberation equips one with the tools to process these very intense feelings rendering them inert from a statecraft perspective. Never again shall the revolution employ firing squads. Force femme-ing will set them free and they shall fear it worse than any gallows.
I don't arrive at this 100% serious analsys merely because it's funny. There are ten million things conservatives say on a regular basis that wrest me into it.
I hate this stupid country.
Thanks Will.
Thank you for covering this, Will and Memo. LA Taco is doing great work covering these fascist pieces of shit.
Thanks will! Any way we could play this episode on a community radio station in chicago that’s covering ice here?
Open the episode up
Yeah this is a PSA you should be blasting this from a PA speaker in the streets tbh
Idk why you have a photo of Adam Friedland as the pic for this upload, but dope interview regardless.
Punching in at the podcast factory
Jesus Chapo, slow down, you're spoiling us
Not justifying their behavior they lost their humanity because these corporations have treated us and have us treat each with no humanity. Much easier to lose it when you are treated without it especially with healthcare
I love LA Taco!!!
awesome thank you for this!
i hope both of you guys can link up with your turkish friend sometime soon.
Hes still on a Zoom call with Ross Douthat
Thank you Will! Very cool
The slop overflowth
