Listen here: https://isarnpodcast.podbean.com/e/we-dont-want-any-more-war-the-children-of-border-conflict/
Recorded February Guest: Molly Todd
Molly Todd is an activist and historian of the movement to support victims of border policies and human rights violations at the US border. Her book Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. In addition to her research, she has engaged with living history museums, youth theater, “theater of the oppressed,” and oral history projects. Across all her work, she draws from her experience as an actress, creative writer, and historian to bring hidden stories to life and bridge divides between people and nations. As a scholar and practitioner, she has accompanied the repopulated communities of El Salvador, CRIPDES, and US-El Salvador Sister Cities since 1999 as an interpreter, researcher, and collaborator.
Links:
- Of Lives Uprooted (very short documentary from 1980s re: Central American refugee children, featuring their own drawings and words)
- Palestinian children in Gaza (from 2024)
- Migrant Children in US detention centers (drawings/story from 2019)
- Waging Peace (Darfuri children’s drawings, the first collection to be used as evidence by ICC, which I mentioned when we spoke)
- Drawings from Terezin Ghetto during the Shoah
- Children’s drawings during Spanish Civil War
Music:
Intro music: South Pause, “Blaze Out” (via Epidemic Sound)
Crowander, “Humbug” https://freemusicarchive.org/music/crowander/from-the-piano-solo-piano/humbug
Crowander, “Suspicious Strings” https://freemusicarchive.org/music/crowander/cinematic-indie-filmtv-music/suspicous-strings
Outro Music: Pearce Roswell, “Work Undone” (via Epidemic Sound)
Image: https://time.com/5619800/drawings-migrant-children-border-detention-aap/ American Academy of Pediatrics