December 17, 2024

This episode focused on migrant justice and prisoner justice. We shared audio from a demonstration that took place in November 2024 outside the immigration detention centre in Laval, Quebec. The demonstration was organized by Solidarity Across Borders in solidarity with a Colombian family who was facing deportation at the hands of the Canadian Border Services Agency. We also shared some audio from the archives including an interview from 2014 with an organizer from the End Immigration Detention Network, an organization that was key in supporting migrants who went on hunger strike in the fall of 2013 in protest of their conditions inside the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario.  We then featured more audio from the archives, this time it was Helen Hudson, a Montreal based organizer, who spoke on a panel in 2018 about how prisons are colonial institutions like borders and how migrant justice goes hand in hand with prison abolition.  The episode ends with more audio from the 2024 demonstration outside the migrant prison in Laval. Speeches are in English, Spanish, and French.