Bandcamp Friday is almost over, but this one "will remain up for one month, until December 6, after which it will be taken down". Buy it and contribute to a great cause. Also: GY!BE fans, take notice!
Children in Cages
by Marisa Anderson and Sophie Trudeau
All sales from this track will be donated to No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The mission of No More Deaths is to end death and suffering in the Mexico–US borderlands through civil initiative: people of conscience working openly and in community to uphold fundamental human rights. Their work focuses on the following themes:
Direct aid that extends the right to provide humanitarian assistance
Witnessing and responding
Consciousness raising
Global movement building
Encouraging humane immigration policy
No More Deaths maintains a year-round humanitarian presence in the deserts of southwestern Arizona. They work in the remote corridors into which migration has been pushed, where people are walking 30 to 80 miles. Volunteers hike the trails and leave water, food, socks, blankets, and other supplies. Under the direction of their medical team, volunteers provide emergency first-aid treatment to individuals in distress.
In northern Sonora, No More Deaths provides phone calls and first aid to deportees and northbound migrants. They have an informal check-cashing service for those deported with an uncashable prison check. To those planning to cross the desert, they distribute simple tools for reducing damage to health.
Volunteers research, document, and expose patterns of abuse against people crossing the border at the hands of Border Patrol and other government agencies.
They minister to incarcerated migrants and their families by helping them recover their personal effects from the US Border Patrol, belongings that would otherwise be lost. No More Deaths picks them up, safeguards them, and mails them home.
No More Deaths responds to emergency calls and mobilizes search teams when Border Patrol and local law enforcement refuse to respond and they work in coalition with border communities to resist militarization.
released November 6, 2020
Guitar and keys-Marisa Anderson
Violin-Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt Zion)