Beyond Borders's Podcast

This week the Beyond Borders crew starts with our regional round-up discussing news from around the Caribbean and Latin America.  While technical difficulties prevented our interview on Venezuela, we discuss the issue of US imperialism in Latin America with a focus on the School of the Americas located at Fort Benning in Georgia.  We also learn that the School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) will return to Georgia this November to call for tech closure of the SOA.   In the second hour we check in with Uche Onwa who spent about 3 months in detention at the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) after being detained on his way to a human rights conference dedicated to supporting those in the LGBTQ community.  Uche shares his previous advocacy work in Nigeria, his experiences in detention in the US, and his role in pushing the City of Atlanta to end their detention agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).   Uche also discusses his new leadership role at the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QD