The Next Move - Season 1
Episode 7: Make a F*@&ing Play with Marisa Franco
Episode Summary
We are becoming an America we’ve never been. The Latinx community has been hit hard by COVID 19. Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, talks with George about organizing infrastructure to support progressive leadership in the immigrant rights and broader Latinx and Chicanx community. This brutal moment of recovering, unlearning, and remembering is teaching us that we are only as safe and healthy as the most vulnerable among us — and that through inclusive collectivity, we can move from respectability politics to strong, multiracial alliances and people power.
Guest Bios
Marisa Franco
Marisa Franco is the Phoenix-based Director and Co-founder of Mijente, a hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing and movement-building.
Twitter:@marisa_franco Facebook: @marisa.franco.35
George Goehl
At age 21, George Goehl walked into a soup kitchen to eat. Over time, he became an employee – first washing dishes and eventually helping run the place. Three years later, he was struck by seeing the same people in line as when he first arrived. He began to organize.
Today, George is the director of People’s Action, a multiracial poor and working class people’s organization. He leads one of the largest race-conscious rural progressive organizing efforts in the United States.
Following the financial crisis, George and National People’s Action mobilized more people into the streets than any other organization to demand accountability, help win Financial Reform, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and secure mortgage relief.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC and others have covered George’s organizing work.
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- Mijente’s April 2020 report, “The Impact of Covid-19 on Latinos.”
- If you want a quick read that can help you go deep on immigration in the U.S., pick up a copy of Naomi Pak’s “Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary.”
- When the New York Times sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for federal data about Covid-19, the numbers confirmed that Blacks and Latinx people have been harmed by the disease at higher rates. Further reporting by the Associated Press reveals that in many areas nationwide, Latinx populations are experiencing a “dramatically higher percentage of positive COVID-19 tests than other racial and ethnic groups.”
- In the Washington Post, Theresa Varga writes that, “What ‘Defund the Police and ‘Abolish ICE’ share is an acknowledgment that bad law enforcement practices, no matter what the badge looks like, unjustly separate families.”