Homeland Security: Myths and Monsters

About Arun KundnaniMizue Aizeki

Arun Kundnani is a writer based in Philadelphia. Born in London he moved to the US in 2010. His books include What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism (Verso 2023) The Muslims are Coming! (Verso 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto 2007). He is currently working on a biography of Jamil Al-Amin. A former editor of the journal Race & Class Arun has been described by the Guardian as one of Britain's best political writers.Mizue Aizeki is the founder and Executive Director of the Surveillance Resistance Lab. For nearly twenty years Mizue has been organizing to end the injustices at the intersections of the criminal and migration control systems-including criminalization imprisonment and exile. While at the Immigrant Defense Project Mizue led multiple policy and individual case campaigns at the to end the entanglement of local law enforcement and ICE policing and also built community defense programs to combat ICE raids.Mizue is a coeditor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket Books 2024). Mizue's photographic work appears in Dying to Live A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books 2008) and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso 2016).Anuj Shrestha is an illustrator and cartoonist currently residing in Philadelphia after having lived in nearly all four corners of the United States. His illustration work has appeared in The New York Times The New Yorker The Washington Post ProPublica Wired and Playboy among others; and has been featured in the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration annuals. He has won two gold medals for his comics from the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival Awards of Excellence and a gold medal from The Society of Illustrators. His most recent zine is Both/And(Issue Press 2022).