255 / Raising The Temperature / Arun Gupta

In this episode, I speak with journalist and activist Arun Gupta. We discuss several of his recent articles published at The Raw Story, addressing the rise of far-right violence by counter-protesters and agitators at dozens of Black Lives Matter protests over the past several weeks. In particular, we discuss what he addresses in his piece, Trump supporters are attacking and killing Black Lives Matter protesters — and getting away with it. After describing the severity of these acts of terror and the conditions that have given rise to them, Arun discusses the labor conditions of migrant farmworkers in the U.S. Along with living under constant threat of detainment and deportation by agents of the Department of Homeland Security, farmworkers and meatpacking plant workers are extremely vulnerable to infection from Covid-19. Arun discusses these exploitive conditions in detail, and how the explosion of infections is impacting food production and distribution across the nation. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/arun-gupta // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast