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May 2021
41m 31s

Not Your Opportunity Zone – Fighting Dis...

WG Film
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This week, Puerto Rico’s Ariadna Godreau Aubert – founder & executive director of Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, human rights lawyer, and activist – joins the Filmmaker and the Advocate to discuss the ways Puerto Rico’s status as an unincorporated territory of the U.S. impacts the human right to housing and access to justice. Five years before Hurricane Maria, ... Show More
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