Join Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and John Washington as they discuss Washington's latest book, The Case for Open Borders. 

Ortiz and Washington will discuss why restrictive borders cause great human suffering and death—as many as 60,000 people have died crossing a border in the last five years alone. They will deflate the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins. Washington and Dubar-Ortiz will discuss and counter the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences. The event will also uplift the multitudinous voices of people on the move, and attempt to show what a world with open borders will give to our common future.

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Speakers:

John Washington is an award-winning investigative journalist and translator. He is currently a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. His first book, The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond, was published in 2020 by Verso Books.

A historian, writer, anti-imperialist activist and professor emeritus at California State University, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is author or editor of fifteen books including: Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, and Not “A Nation of Immigrants” Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, as well as 3 volumes of literary memoir. She is at work on a book of essays on Christian/White Nationalism in the US to be published in 2024.