Indómitas: Live Podcast
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021
6pm (PST) Via Facebook Live
Join us for the live monthly podcast, Indómitas, hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists. This month, Chelis speaks with community organizer Maru Mora Villalpando.
Indómitas will be available for viewing on Facebook Live. To watch live, simply tune into Brava Facebook Live or Indómitas Facebook Live on Thursday, December 2 at 6pm (PST).
Please note that the live podcast will be conducted in Spanish.
This is a FREE community event supported by donations. To make a donation to Brava/Indómitas, please click the button below.
ABOUT MARU MORA VILLALPANDO
Maru Mora Villalpando is a community organizer and immigrant from Mexican. Born and raised in Mexico City, at a very young age Maru became involved in protest marches and labor strikes. Since arriving in the United States two decades ago, Maru has dedicated her life to working for racial justice and justice for immigrants.
She is a co-founder of La Resistencia, whose primary goal is to end all detentions and deportations and close the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Maru is also a founding member of MiJente, a national digital Latinx organization.
Maru has been candid about her experience as an undocumented immigrant in the United States for over two decades. Because of her work against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency subjected her to deportation proceedings in 2017. This September, the same agency granted her prosecutorial discretion, and with this recent victory Maru continues the work to end all detentions and deportations in Washington state, where she currently lives.
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Maru Mora Villalpando es organizadora comunitaria e inmigrante. Nació y creció en la Ciudad de México. Desde muy joven en México, estuvo involucrada en protestas y marchas y apoyando paros laborales o huelgas.
En los Estados Unidos, ha pasado más de dos décadas trabajando por la justicia racial y por justicia a favor de las y los inmigrantes.
Es cofundadora de La Resistencia, el objetivo principal del grupo es poner fin a todas las detenciones y deportaciones y cerrar el Centro de Detención del Noroeste en Tacoma, WA. Maru también es miembro fundador de MiJente, un grupo latinx de organización digital nacional. A diferencia de muchos otros inmigrantes, ella ha sido una organizadora abierta y ha sido sincera acerca de permanecer en los Estados Unidos como inmigrante indocumentada durante más de dos décadas.
Debido a su trabajo contra el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas, la agencia la sometió a un proceso de deportación en 2017. A pesar de estos desafíos, Maru, su familia y su comunidad permanecieron imperturbables y continuaron con su trabajo comunitario.
En septiembre de 2021, la misma agencia que intentó deportarla le otorgó a Maru discreción fiscal, y con esta reciente victoria, Maru continúa el trabajo para poner fin a todas las detenciones y deportaciones en el estado de Washington, donde vive actualmente.
ABOUT INDÓMITAS
Indómitas is a live podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring interviews with fierce women artists and activists
Each month in Brava’s Cabaret,* Indómitas will interview female singers, writers, poets, activists, artists, journalists, filmmakers, and others – some well-known and some deserving to be – for live broadcast. These 60-minute conversations will cover the women’s stories of achievement, pitfalls, and hopes for their futures.
Be ready for open and honest conversations, where intimacy fosters the sharing of joy, fear, acceptance, and ultimately, the strength of women. It’s our time to be the ones who narrate our stories of who we are, what we do, what matters to us and how we organized and stand up for our rights.
This event is currently online only, and will return to an in-person event once it is safe to do so.