For our 17th episode, it’s an ALL Blackity Black pod. We chop it up with Maraky Alemseged from Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and speak on a wide variety of topics centered on Blackness.

This pod covers some of BAJI's groundbreaking reports on CBP’s policing of the George Floyd uprising and the Darien Gap. We also speak on the difference between a sanctuary city and a freedom city, the relationship between abolition and mushrooms, and why Black people should care about Palestine (and beyond)

Maraky Alemseged is a queer nonbinary Black woman (yes, both) and BAJI’s Los Angeles Organizer. They are a first generation Ethiopian-American abolitionist & Pan-Africanist organizer passionate about approaching social justice from an intersectional lens. BAJI fights for the rights of Black migrants and African Americans through organizing, legal advocacy, research, policy, and narrative building to improve the conditions of Black communities by advancing racial justice and migrant rights.

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hosted by Jason Reedy

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recorded at the Robinson S.P.A.C.E @RobinsonSpaceLA

editing by Jason Reedy

sound mixing by Phillip Kim

mentions of mushrooms: clusters and troops!