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Emancipated

Emancipated

By Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

Voices and images from the archives of the CSUN Tom & Ethel Bradley Center. We have over one million images produced by photographers that document the social, cultural, and political lives of the diverse communities of Los Angeles and Southern California. The archives contain one of the largest collections of African American photographers west of the Mississippi. We also have collections on the Farm Worker Movement, Central America, Mexico, the U.S.–Mexico border, and Africa.
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14. Tijuana, ¿estación de tránsito?

EmancipatedNov 19, 2021

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19. The criminalization of journalism in El Salvador, Ángela Aurora interviews Julia Gavarrete. EPISODE IN SPANISH.

19. The criminalization of journalism in El Salvador, Ángela Aurora interviews Julia Gavarrete. EPISODE IN SPANISH.

In this episode, Ángela Aurora, a Salvadoran journalism professor and visiting scholar at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, interviews Julia Gavarrete, a Salvadoran journalist working for the digital newspaper El Faro. They discuss, in Spanish, the growing criminalization of journalism in El Salvador, the use by the administration of the current Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of spyware to monitor journalists' phones and computers, and more broadly about the present state of emergency that, in the name of the war on gangs, has justified the repeal of basic rights. Since April the state of emergency has allowed authorities to intercept communications, suspend constitutional rights, including freedom of assembly and due process, and has granted broad powers to arrest hundreds of people without evidence. In the last eight weeks, authorities claim to have made over 31,000 arrests. Aurora and Gavarrete explain how this lack of accountability and unchecked executive power is having particularly grim consequences for those living in the most impoverished communities.

This episode was produced by Marta Valier.

You can take a look at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center’s photos on El Salvador by Richard Cross here and you can watch two video clips of the Center’s oral history interview with Óscar Martínez, one of the founders of El Faro on our YouTube channel. One clip is about his experience covering politics for La Prensa Gráfica and why he abandoned the newspaper, and in the second clip, he explains how the Zetas operate in Mexico.

Jun 03, 202232:16
18. Deported Veterans, a discussion on deportation of U.S. noncitizen service members and immigration law.

18. Deported Veterans, a discussion on deportation of U.S. noncitizen service members and immigration law.

In this episode, Marta Valier discusses deportations of immigrants from the U.S., more specifically about the deportation of veterans, with Héctor Barajas, director and founder of the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mexico, ACLU immigration attorney Andrés Kwon, and photographer Joseph Silva, author of the photographic exhibition Deported Veterans at the Museum of Social Justice of Los Angeles, which will stay open until July 17. 

Visit our webpage, CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, explore our Border Studies archive, and see some of the digitized images of the Julián Cardona Collection.

Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.

May 13, 202218:10
17. Abecedario de Juárez, a conversation with Alice Leora Briggs.

17. Abecedario de Juárez, a conversation with Alice Leora Briggs.

In this episode we present a slightly edited version of a conversation with artist Alice Leora Briggs, as interviewed by professor José Luis Benavides and Marta Valier. In her newest book, Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon, she and Mexican journalist Julián Cardona, bring to the forefront life in the Mexican border city of Juárez during the Six Years of Death, from 2006 to 2012, when Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched the so-called war on organized crime sending federal forces into the city and violence exploded. This book decodes and visually represents the new language that rose from a city at war, using Cardona's interviews, definitions, and Briggs's drawings, leaving a strong mark on a much disregarded war.

Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.




Apr 09, 202230:34
16. The indigenous resistance against megaprojects in the Guatemalan Ixil region, a discussion with anthropologist Giovanni Batz.
Dec 17, 202135:58
15. A student presenting clips from the The Black Power Archive Oral History Project.
Dec 03, 202152:43
14. Tijuana, ¿estación de tránsito?

14. Tijuana, ¿estación de tránsito?

En este episodio, Marta Valier habla con Aída Silva Hernández, una académica de Tijuana que ha estudiado y trabajado con migrantes durante los últimos veinte años. Ella habla de cómo la ciudad fronteriza mexicana al sur de San Diego ha cambiado en el último siglo, de una ciudad donde los migrantes iban y venían cuando entraban y salían de los EE. UU. para encontrar trabajo, a una ciudad en la que se quedaban atrapados durante años, esperando. mientras trataba de solicitar asilo en los EE. UU. La espera, diseñada específicamente por las políticas de inmigración de EE. UU. para disuadir a los migrantes de ingresar legalmente al país, explica, es demasiado agotadora tanto para los migrantes como para la sociedad civil local que se compromete apoyarlos.

In this episode, Marta Valier speaks to Aída Silva Hernández, a scholar from Tijuana that studied and worked with migrants for the last twenty years. She talks about how the Mexican border town south of San Diego has changed in the last century, from a city where migrants would come and go as they entered and exited the U.S. to find work, to a city where they get stuck for years, waiting while trying to apply for asylum in the U.S. The wait, specifically designed by the U.S. immigration policies to deter migrants from entering legally into the country is, she explains, way too grueling for both the migrants and the local civil society that is committed to supporting them. En español.  

Visit the Bradley Center website.

Also, visit our digital collections and our border studies collection.

Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.

Nov 19, 202123:29
13. From migration to movement, a discussion with anthropologist Amelia Frank-Vitale
Nov 05, 202130:52
12. Laura Gottesdiener on her report, A drug-trafficking mayor ravaged a local economy, fueling the flight from Honduras.
Oct 22, 202125:40
11. Douglas Oviedo on his play, Caravaneros.
Oct 08, 202127:07
10. Ada Trillo on documenting the caravan in 2020
Sep 09, 202130:08
9. Todd Miller on Borders (Part 2)
Jun 17, 202132:41
8. Todd Miller on Borders (Part 1)
Jun 03, 202139:21
7. Richard Cross's anthropological work at Palenque de San Basilio
May 07, 202122:36
6. Documenting the 2020 BLM Protests in LA
Apr 22, 202131:26
5. Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism, and Black Place-Making in Mexico (Part 2)
Apr 08, 202123:19
4. Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism, and Black Place-Making in Mexico (Part 1)
Mar 25, 202133:07
3. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 3)

3. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 3)

Our podcast, Emancipated: Voices and Images from the Archive, continues with the third chapter of Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador, a series produced by our archival researcher Marta Valier and co-hosted by Rosie Rios and Marta Valier, using oral histories with people who lived in El Salvador during the Liberation War (1980–1992). This chapter centers on El Rescate human rights representative Linda Garrett’s encounter with Salvadoran political prisoner Héctor Bernabé Recinos Aguirre, illegally detained for more than four years for organizing the first national strike in 1980. Recinos Aguirre co-founded the Committee of Political Prisoners of San Salvador (COPPES) while Garrett worked on the Index of Accountability, a database used by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador, linking military officers to human rights violations committed during the war. This episode discusses the significance of accountability, reparation, and the weight of impunity on both the old and younger Salvadoran generation.

Visit the Bradley Center website.

Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.

Mar 11, 202127:11
2. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 2)

2. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 2)

Our podcast, Emancipated: Voices and Images from the Archive, continues with the second chapter of Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador, a series produced and hosted by our archival researcher Marta Valier, using oral histories with people who lived in El Salvador during the Liberation War (1980–1992). In the second chapter, we keep following Linda Garrett on her trip to San Salvador as a human rights representative for El Rescate and we meet Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, known as Santiago, who also traveled to San Salvador from Nicaragua with the intention to establish Radio Venceremos, a radio station that operated in areas controlled by the insurgency and that he kept clandestine for 11 years (episode hosted & produced by Marta Valier). Both of them traveled to San Salvador after the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero in March 1980, a time where thousands of Salvadorans were fleeing the country.

Visit the Bradley Center website.

Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.

Feb 25, 202118:42
1. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 1)
Feb 04, 202109:24