On Tuesday police in Washington DC arrested six people
during a protest against the detention of undocumented LGBT immigrants. Officers
took the activists into custody after they refused to leave the intersection of
16th and H Streets in front of Lafayette Park.
With chains wrapped around their waists they stood and sat in the
intersection near the White House for roughly two hours before police arrested
them. Joining me today to talk all about
the protests and how undocumented LGBT immigrants are treated in the country is
Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez, the Deputy Field Director of United We Dream the nation’s
largest immigrant youth-led organization.
Felipe is one of the activists arrested at the protests on Tuesday. You can also follow Felipe on twitter.
In his new book Arms and The Dudes: How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became The Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History,
investigative journalist Guy Lawson tells
the story of how three men named Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex
Podrizki with no real qualifications managed to fool the United States
government and get hired by the Pentagon to overlook a $300 million Department
of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghani military. However,
instead of purchasing new ammunition they repackaged and sent millions of
rounds of ancient Chinese Ammunition to the country, only to be eventually be
caught and sentenced to prison. Guy
joins us today to talk all about the book and explain how the U.S. military
came to use these private contractors to secure weapons in the dangerous world
of global arms dealing. You can also follow Guy on twitter.
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