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Mar 2025
40m 56s

"Who has the right to have rights?" Mahm...

Rhiannon, Mohammed, and Yara
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Mahmoud Khalil is a political prisoner, but not the first or only one. As we watch students being abducted by ICE and deportations of migrants to prison camps in foreign countries, we reflect on the history that got us here. Mohammed and Rhiannon talk about the repression landscape we find ourselves in--attacks on immigrants, attacks on free speech, and what it all means for how we show up in our movement. 

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