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SUMMARY:The Business of Borders
DESCRIPTION:Feinberg Series Panel with Aviva Chomsky\, Julio Flores and C
 ecilia Guerrero Corporations have played major roles in shaping US immig
 ration laws. Some capitalists\, such as weapons makers\, surveillance\, 
 and private prison companies\, profit directly from anti-immigrant polic
 ies. Others have a more complex position\, needing workers but wanting t
 o limit their rights. Policies toward immigrants go hand in hand with im
 perial intervention abroad\, with roots in centuries of colonization and
  displacement. Even as capitalists and governments have insisted on a “s
 trong border\,” they have selectively ignored national borders when layi
 ng claim to foreign resources\, labor\, and markets. Panelists will illu
 minate the relationship between national borders\, capitalist profits\, 
 and workers’ well-being while suggesting pathways for worker resistance.
  Panelists Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Lati
 n American Studies at Salem State University. Her research focuses on la
 bor history\, immigration and undocumentedness\, Central America\, Cuba\
 , and Colombia. Her forthcoming book\, “Extractivism on the Periphery: C
 olombia’s Wild Northeast” examines the history of Indigenous peoples and
  globalization from one region’s perspective. Other publications include
  Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution\, Violence\, and the Ro
 ots of Migration (2021)\; Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (
 2014)\, A History of the Cuban Revolution (2011\, 2nd ed. 2015)\, Linked
  Labor Histories: New England\, Colombia\, and the Making of a Global Wo
 rking Class (2008)\, They Take Our Jobs! And 20 Other Myths About Immigr
 ation (2007)\, and West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in C
 osta Rica\, 1870—1940 (1995). She has been active in immigrant\, Latin A
 merica\, and Palestine solidarity since the 1980s. Julio Flores is a for
 mer leader of the Salvadoran teachers’ union\, ANDES 21 de Junio\, and o
 f several organizations in the 1970s and 1980s\, including the Bloque Po
 pular Revolucionario (Popular Revolutionary Bloc)\, the Coordinadora Rev
 olucionaria de Masas (Revolutionary Mass Coordinating Council)\, and the
  Frente Democrático Revolucionario (Democratic Revolutionary Front). He 
 lived and organized in the US from 1991 to 2015. More recently\, he co-f
 ounded the Escuela Política para un Nuevo Proyecto (School for a New Pol
 itical Project) and is currently a political and social organizer in El 
 Salvador. Cecilia Guerrero is the chair and founder of A Luta Sigue\, an
  organization that identifies working-class leaders and supports them in
  building organizations\, with the overarching mission of instilling a w
 orking-class identity through education and class struggle. Through A Lu
 ta Sigue\, she has supported groups including the Tennessee Drivers Unio
 n\, Poder Popular (Nashville People Power Committee)\, Southern Youth So
 lidarity Network\, and the Workers’ Unity League. Guerrero is a third-ge
 neration organizer from Northern Mexico\, raised in a family of steelwor
 kers. Organizing in the US for over a decade\, she supports thousands of
  working-class people in labor\, neighborhood\, and immigration struggle
 s. For more on this event and the 2026-27 Feinberg Series\, including de
 tails about the more than a dozen university partners\, see the Feinberg
  Series website. Register for streaming information.\n\nMore info: https
 ://events.umass.edu/event/the-business-of-borders\n\nhttps://findlocal.c
 ommunity/event/c65e25ae-a694-436e-b607-7f89742265cc
LOCATION:UMass Amherst\, Amherst\, MA
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/c65e25ae-a694-436e-b607-7f89742265c
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