Alex Rivera

Writer / Director of 'Sleep Dealer,' 'The Infiltrators,' and other trans-border fantasies and nightmares. 2021 MacArthur Fellow.

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

That's why immigrants are targeted by separate agents, courts, & prisons - because immigration control was a ROGUE PROJECT from the start, outside the constitution.

ICE isn't broken - it's doing today what the system was designed to do: conducting racist war.

End it. Now. 5/5

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

ICE is acting like a ROGUE AGENCY because immigration enforcement is a ROGUE PROJECT - and always has been.

There is no power of deportation in the Constitution.

The Framers debated deportation, and intentionally did not include it because they saw it as a form of tyranny. 1/5

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

PLENARY POWER is where the power of the military sits.

Chinese immigrants were viewed in the 1890s as an 'invasion' - sound familiar?

You don't stop an 'invasion' with due process - you stop it with force beyond the constitution. 4/5

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

@PalmerLuckey @elonmusk @peterthiel @PalmerLuckey Globally, migrants send $650 billion/ year to home countries. You think they are opposed to migration? No. Migration is one way the global working class survives the after-shocks of colonization. Tech-fascists want freedom for the rich and cages for the poor.

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

Thanks to @elonmusk @peterthiel and other tech-cowards like @PalmerLuckey we are living in a dystopia of libertarian networks, freedom for capital, while the working-class gets border walls and detention camps. This is the world of 'Sleep Dealer.' It should stay on the screen.

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

@PalmerLuckey @elonmusk @peterthiel @PalmerLuckey An honor to be called 'elitist' by a billionaire who profits from taxpayer-funded government contracts and who uses his brains to develop tech to punish and control the vulnerable. Sorry but you know nothing about 'the working class' - which is global.

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

'Sleep Dealer' is playing at the @AcademyMuseum on Feb 3rd, 2024.

Come on out and join us as we say NO to anti-immigrant anti-worker tech-bro dystopias. Keep that trash out of the White House and in science-fiction.
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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇴 Colombian President Gustavo Petro reciprocates Trump’s tariffs with 50% tariffs on all US goods entering his country.

Full statement:

Trump, I don’t like traveling to the U.S. much, it’s a bit boring, but I confess there are some merits. I like going to the black neighborhoods in Washington. There, I saw an entire struggle in the U.S. capital between black people and Latinos with barricades, which seemed silly to me because they should unite.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller.

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who share my blood, are memorable in U.S. history, and I follow them. They were killed by fascists in the U.S. for being labor leaders, executed in the electric chair, much like the fascists in my own country.

I don’t like your oil, Trump, it will destroy humanity due to greed. Maybe one day, along with a glass of whisky, which I accept despite my gastritis, we can talk openly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race, and I am not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know anyone stubborn, it’s me, period. You can try with your economic strength and arrogance to carry out a coup like you did with Allende. But I will die by my law; I resisted torture, and I resist you. I don’t want slaveholders beside Colombia, we’ve had many, and we’ve freed ourselves. What I want beside Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn’t understand it. This is the land of yellow butterflies, the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom.

You don’t like our freedom, that’s fine. I don’t shake hands with white slaveholders. I shake hands with libertarian whites, heirs of Lincoln, and with the black and white farmers of the U.S., in front of whose tombs I wept and prayed in a battlefield after walking the mountains of Tuscany and surviving COVID.

They are the U.S., and before them, I kneel, not before anyone else.

Kill me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia, stop looking north now, look to the world. Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of that time, from the Roman Latinos of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood carries the resistance of black people made slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory in America, before Washington, before all of America, and there I take shelter in its African songs.

My land is of goldsmithing from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the world’s first artists in Chiribiquete.

You will never dominate us. The warrior who once rode our land, shouting freedom, is Bolívar.

Our peoples are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, naïve, and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us by force. Two hundred heroes from all over Latin America rest in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, before Colombia, whom you killed.

I raise a flag, and as Gaitán said, even if I remain alone, it will still fly with Latin American dignity, which is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the U.S.

Your blockade does not scare me because Colombia, in addition to being the land of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it, and it will offer you its sweetness.

COLOMBIA, FROM TODAY ON, OPENS UP TO THE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS. WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on our human labor’s products entering the U.S., I will do the same.

Let our people sow maize, which was discovered in Colombia, and feed the world.

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, que me pareció una pendejada, porque deberían unirse.

Confieso que me gusta Walt Withman y Paul Simon y Noam Chomsky y Miller

Confieso que Sacco y Vanzetti, que tienen mi sangre, en la historia de los EEUU, son memorables y les sigo. Los asesinaron por lideres obreros con la silla eléctrica, los fascistas qué están dentro de EEUU como dentro de mi país

No me gusta su petroleo, Trump, va a acabar con la especie humana por la codicia. Quizás algún día, junto a un trago de Whisky qué acepto, a pesar de mi gastritis, podamos hablar francamente de esto, pero es difícil porque usted me considera una raza inferior y no lo soy, ni ningún colombiano.

Así que si conoce alguien terco, ese soy yo, punto. Puede con su fuerza económica y su soberbia intentar dar un golpe de estado como hicieron con Allende. Pero yo muero en mi ley, resistí la tortura y lo resisto a usted. No quiero esclavistas al lado de Colombia, ya tuvimos muchos y nos liberamos. Lo que quiero al lado de Colombia, son amantes de la libertad. Si usted no puede acompañarme yo voy a otros lados. Colombía es el corazón del mundo y usted no lo entendió, esta es la tierra de las mariposas amarillas, de la belleza de Remedios, pero tambien de los coroneles Aurelianos Buendía, de los cuales soy uno de ellos, quizás el último

Me matarás, pero sobreviviré en mi pueblo que es antes del tuyo, en las Américas. Somos pueblos de los vientos, las montañas, del mar Caribe y de la libertad

A usted no le gusta nuestra libertad, vale. Yo no estrecho mi mano con esclavistas blancos. Estrecho las manos de los blancos libertarios herederos de Lincoln y de los muchachos campesinos negros y blancos de los EEUU, ante cuyas tumbas llore y recé en un campo de batalla, al que llegue, después de caminar montañas de la toscana italiana y después de salvarme del covid.

Ellos son EEUU y ante ellos me arrodillo, ante más nadie.

Túmbeme presidente y le responderán las Américas y la humanidad.

Colombia ahora deja de mirar el norte, mira al mundo, nuestra sangre viene de la sangre del califato de Córdoba, la civilización en ese entonces, de los latinos romanos del mediterraneo, la civilización de ese entonces, que fundaron la república, la democracia en Atenas; nuestra sangre tiene los resistentes negros convertidos en esclavos por ustedes. En Colombia está el primer territorio libre de América, antes de Washington, de toda la América, allí me cobijo en sus cantos africanos.

Mi tierra es de orfebrería existente en época de los faraones egipcios, y de los primeros artistas del mundo en Chiribiquete.

No nos dominarás nunca. Se opone el guerrero que cabalgaba nuestras tierras, gritando libertad y que se llama Bolívar

Nuestros pueblos son algo temerosos, algo tímidos, son ingenuos y amables, amantes, pero sabrán ganar el canal de Panamá, que ustedes nos quitaron con violencia. Doscientos héroes de toda latinoamerica yacen en Bocas del Toro, actual Panamá, antes Colombia, que ustedes asesinaron.

Yo levanto una bandera y como dijera Gaitán, así quede solo, seguirá enarbolada con la dignidad latinoamericana que es la dignidad de América, que su bisabuelo no conoció, y el mio sí, señor presidente inmigrante en los EEUU,

Su bloqueo no me asusta; porque Colombia además de ser el país de la belleza, es el corazón del mundo. Se que ama la belleza como yo, no la irrespete y le brindará su dulzura.

COLOMBIA A PARTiR DE HOY SE ABRE A TODO EL MUNDO, CON LOS BRAZOS ABIERTOS, SOMOS CONSTRUCTORES DE LIBERTAD, VIDA Y HUMANIDAD.

Me informan que usted pone a nuestro fruto del trabajo humano 50% de arancel para entrar a EEUU, yo hago lo mismo.

Que nuestra gente siembre maíz que se descubrió en Colombia y alimente al mundo

[Jean Guerrero @jeanguerre]

The @washingtonpost and @latimes decisions reveal a complete indifference to Latino communities, who would bear the brunt of a Trump return with his assault on mixed-status families across the country.

[Ahilan Arulanantham @ahilan_toolong]

Predictably awful decision in Muñoz today. SCOTUS kills off all claims--that had been brought for years--by spouses separated through the visa denial process, saying the citizen spouses have no right to any explanation as to why their partners have been denied admission. 1/6

[UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy @UCLA_CILP]

Very concerning to see 2 more Trump-like proposals from @JoeBiden admin this past week that walk back longstanding asylum protections at the US-MX border & will cause deep harm to people seeking safety in the US.

We'll start w/ the 1st, which will further criminalize migration🧵

[Alex Rivera @Alex_Rivera]

Friday 5/10 in LA & virtually:
Meet visionary immigrant leaders who were deported and who are now calling for a process to reunite families.

Around the world, borders are violence.

Migrant leaders are envisioning a better world.
RSVP: https://t.co/MvuxPL9aG9
@nayna_gupta

[Nayna Gupta @nayna_gupta]

Deported. Returned. Speaking Out.
Join me VIRTUALLY (or live in L.A.) for 🎥 screening & 🔥 event with two deported advocates fighting for a #ChancetoComeHome + award-winning filmmaker @Alex_Rivera + legal expert 🧠 @ahilan_toolong. RSVP👇🏽, 5/10, 3 pm EST @NIJC @UCLA_CILP

[Nayna Gupta @nayna_gupta]

Deported U.S. veteran Howard Bailey, filmmaker @Alex_Rivera, immigration law expert @ahilan_toolong & 🔥 sister of deported advocate Tina Hamdi in this POWERFUL Town Hall event live from L.A. as we discuss reclaiming the narrative on immigration @UCLA_CILP @NIJC #ChancetoComeHome

[Doron Weber @DoronWeber]

At the @SloanPublic @sundanceorg panel at @sundancefest w/ moderator & neuroscientist @heather_berlin, 2024 Sloan Feature Film Prize winners Sam & Andy Zuchero, writer/director @Alex_Rivera, @UCLA neuroscientist Martin Monti & cognitive scientist Monica Lopez

[E. Lee Zimmerman 🇺🇸 @ELeeZimmerman]

2008's "Sleep Dealer" turns 16 years young today! https://t.co/T1SruGvukb
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