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Jul 2025
1h 18m

F*ck ICE, Free Gaza! w/ Abraham Marquez

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
About this episode

Longtime friend of the show Aalex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) returns to guest host an episode with journalist Abraham Marquez (@abemarquez3) about the recent intensification of the war on racialized communities and undocumented people.

Check out Abraham's article, "Paramount and Compton rise up for undocumented workers"
on his Substack

Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel

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