Immigrant Solidarity in 2025 - with Zafiro Patiño, Aviva Chomsky, & Peter Bohmer

ZNetwork.org is honored to host Zafiro Patiño, Aviva Chomsky, and Peter Bohmer, co-sponsored by CaracolDSA.org .
Panelists highlight the key dangers for immigrants in Trump's new administration, underlying causes of migration, vision and strategy for what a truly just immigration policy would look like, and practical action that can be taken to resist harm and injustice.
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Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She has published over 10 books on labor history, immigration and undocumentedness, Central America, Cuba, and Colombia. She has been active in Palestine and Latin America solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades. Her courses include Race and Racism in the Americas, Indigenous Histories of the Americas, History of Latinos in the United States, Latin American History, Central American History, and Environmental History of Latin America.
Zafiro Patiño immigrated from her native Argentina to the US in 1983 and has resided in the Boston area, Jamaica Plain in particular. She has been actively involved in various social justice initiatives, using her skills in the field of art and culture as tools to educate, to organize, and to fight for basic human rights and against corporate greed. Most recently, the focus of her work has been the struggle for affordable housing-an crisis impacting the working class as a whole but affecting immigrant working families, undocumented or not, with particular virulence.
Peter Bohmer is an active member of Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS), Economics for Everyone and Real Utopia. He has been an activist in movements for radical social change since 1967, which have included anti-racist organising and solidarity movements with the people of Vietnam, Southern Africa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Palestine and Central America. For his activism and teaching, he was targeted by the FBI. He was a member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA from 1987 to 2021 where he taught political economy. He believes alternatives to capitalism are desirable and possible. Peter is the proud parent of a daughter and three sons.

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