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The Border Wall Crisis – Interview with Laiken Jordahl

An image of cut-down saguaro cacti to build the border wall (from @LaikenJordahl, Twitter)

On this episode, Emily Long and Chelsi Slotten host Laiken Jordahl from the Center for Biological Diversity. Laiken has been witness to much of the ongoing conflict and impacts created with the construction of Trump’s promised Border Wall along the US-Mexico border. We discuss the ongoing destruction of important cultural and ecological sites along the border wall construction zone.

A full transcript for this episode can be found below. All of our transcripts are available on the Episode Transcription page.

Show Notes

Center for Biological Diversity: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/

O’odham Anti Border Collective: https://www.facebook.com/AntiBorderCollective/
Defend O’odham Jawed: Instagram
Indigenous Action: Defenders of Sacred Site Arrests

How QAnon is undermining local antitrafficking efforts in the American Southwest

Quitobaquito Springs Closed ahead of a Cross-Border Ceremony held by O’odham tribal members

O’odham meet from both sides of the order for prayer in the last, closing gap in the wall

Border Wall clash between indigenous groups and federal agents

Laiken Jordahl on Twitter: @LaikenJordahl

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