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Authors John Washington and Justin Akers Chac\xf3n discuss how to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities in a time of crisis.\n\nGet a copy of The Dispossessed: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3171-the-dispossessed\n\nGet a copy of Radicals in the Barrio: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/987-radicals-in-the-barrio \n\nFor more books on resisting empire at home and abroad: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/99-haymarket-books-for-resisting-empire\n\n ------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAs coronavirus rages on, immigrant communities are being left to fend for themselves.\n\nBarred from most financial assistance, scapegoated as harbingers of disease, and facing dire conditions in detention; the Trump administration is seizing upon a pandemic to further its nativist agenda.\n\nHow can we build a movement to resist the racist attacks on immigrants and demand not only an end to ICE but justice and relief for all immigrants?\n\nJohn Washington writes about immigration and border politics, as well as criminal justice, photography, and literature. He is also an award winning translator, having translated \xd3scar Martinez, Anabel Hern\xe1ndez, and Sandra Rodriguez Nieto, among others. His book, The Dispossessed, on the global story of asylum, is forthcoming from Verso Books in 2020.\n\nJustin Akers Chac\xf3n, a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California, is the author of Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class (Haymarket 2018) and, with Mike Davis, No One is Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2006).\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/3Z7SKGTgYqQ\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks