HITJ has an in depth conversation with accomplished labor organizers, activists, and educators Camilo Viveiros at the University of Massachusetts Labor Education Center and Humberto Da Silva a prominent Toronto labor organizer. We speak about the difference between labor organization theory and practical organization, they talk about their experiences organizing immigrant community workers, how their upbringing in working class Portuguese immigrant communities shaped their outlook and their approach.

In their opening segment Miguel and Gil talk about their own first protests, protesting in Portugal vs North America, Portuguese festas and social activism, and the joy of protesting.

Miguel and Camilo recorded at the WJFD Radio station, the oldest Portuguese radio station in New England and an important community institution. Gil and Humberto recorded from Toronto.

with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz

Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America.

Websites: miguelmoniz.com | gilbertofernandes.ca

Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil

For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com

Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com

All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes

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HITJ talks about ICE raids, kidnappings, detentions, and deportations in Portuguese immigrant communities in New Bedford and other parts of Massachusetts with the Immigrants' Assistance Center's President Helena daSilva Hughes and Immigration lawyer Jennifer Velarde. Helena and Jennifer update us on what is happening to Portuguese and other immigrants at the hands of ICE; how green card holders are being arrested and deported; attitudes in the Portuguese immigrant communities about what is happening; and give practical advice on immigrants' legal and civic rights and how to protect themselves, their families, and loved ones if ICE tries to arrest them. They also provide a brief history about the importance of the Immigrants' Assistance Center in New Bedford and what the organization is doing to protect immigrants today.

Helena daSilva Hughes is the President of the Immigrants' Assistant Center in New Bedford and has been a key immigrants' advocate helping Portuguese and other immigrant communities for 40 years. She is also the host of a weekly talk show on the Portuguese Channel "Vida Luso Americana". Jennifer Velarde is an immigrants attorney with a practice in New Bedford.

with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz

Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America.

Websites: miguelmoniz.com | gilbertofernandes.ca

Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil

For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com

Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com

All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HITJ journeys to Portugal's Carnation Revolution of April 25th, 1974, in conversation with the "Captain of April" Col. José Fernando Santos Coelho. One of the leaders of the revolution, Col. Coelho played a major role in planning and executing the occupation and command of the radio stations from which the revolutionaries communicated the operationalization of the military coup to overthrow the Estado Novo fascist dictatorship. Historian Annarita Gori joins Gilberto and Miguel for the opening segment.

Col. Santos Coelho developed the plan to broadcast songs whose verses were choreographed to signal troop operations across the country and initiate the revolution. The Colonel talks about how he became politically radicalized, the early stages of planning for the revolution, and his role taking over the radio stations. He also reveals that José "Zeca " Afonso's "Grândola Vila Morena," the song that became synonymous with the Carnation Revolution and remains the central protest song in Portugal, was not the initial choice but rather another Afonso song that had to be changed at the last minute for reasons explained in the interview.

The conversations ends with the April Captain's reflection on the meaning of liberty and his continued vigilance against current-day illiberal regimes and political leaders.

This episode was supported by the Portuguese National Science Foundation project ExPORT “Export Portugal. Cultural Diplomacy and the Rebranding Strategies of the Estado Novo in the United States (1933-1974)” (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia-2022.08653.PTDC, Annarita Gori, PI), ICS, Universidade de Lisboa. https://export.ics.ulisboa.pt/index.php/en/home-en/

The English dub of Colonel Santos Coelho's interview was done by Jorge Anacleto. As mentioned in the episode, Anacleto recorded an album of original songs inspired by Fausto Bordalo Dias with the band Boemia (Géneses, 2023) and recorded in studio arrangements with the great singer songwriter José Mario Branco, one of the leaders of the Portuguese music protest movement (Musica de Intervenção) that challenged the dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.

See Anacleto's recording with José Mario Branco at: https://youtu.be/VYiz2x79UQ4

with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz

Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America.

Websites: miguelmoniz.com | gilbertofernandes.ca

Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil

For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com

Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com

All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.