“We Are Just Money to Them” : The Impact of COVID-19 in Otay Mesa Detention Center

“We Are Just Money to Them” : The Impact of COVID-19 in Otay Mesa Detention Center

A new Podcast by Detention Resistance

Music by Eric Ralston

A transformative space for movement-building alongside invisibilized voices as part of a transborder struggle with the goal of abolishing colonial walls, by exposing the violences, oppression, and exploitation experienced by our community in and out of prisons/detention centers and across nations, with the aim of empowering ourselves and each other to reclaim our right to free movement and life.

For this first episode, we’ll be sharing recorded testimonies from our compas inside Otay Mesa Detention Center and their experience with COVID-19. We’ll go over the medical neglect they are experiencing; food insecurity, ways compas have organized to slow the spread of the virus, and we’ll also be sharing bits of a pre-recorded interview with Monika Langarica a lawyer with the ACLU San Diego, sharing on the Class action lawsuit against ICE and Otay Mesa Detention Center.

Kummeeay Territory  aka (San Diego)

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