21 Feb, 2019
At a Climate Crossroads: Nonviolence or Violence
“Sixty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King declared, “Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is...
8 Dec, 2018
Undocumented Citizen
“When Jose Antonio Vargas was sixteen years old, he discovered that his green card was a fake. Unbeknownst to the...
28 Sep, 2018
Abolish Immigration Detention
“If you visit a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center northeast of Los Angeles, you’ll turn off Highway 395...
17 Jul, 2018
Chaos or Community in Immigration Policy
“If you scan the Internet for immigration-related news stories following the Trump administration’s May 7 announcement of its “zero tolerance”...
25 Jun, 2018
Of Time and Immigration
“There is a certain tyranny to the 24-hour news cycle, a certain grip on human awareness and attention. We have...
10 May, 2018
Fear and Opportunity in Immigration Politics
“With each passing week, the battle of words over immigration intensifies, as Trump administration officials continue honing their favorite rhetorical...
29 Jan, 2018
Post-Truth and the Dreamers
“”Post-truth is pre-fascism.” This statement closes one chapter of historian Timothy Snyder’s recent book…” Andrew Moss Published in: Donaldsonville Chief,...
2 Jan, 2018
Truth-Telling in Immigration
“As we enter a new year, 800,000 Dreamers await news of their fate in this country. Thwarted by a president...
23 Oct, 2017
Democracy at Stake: Battle Lines over DACA and the Dream Act
“After ending President Obama’s DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in September, Donald Trump announced earlier this month that...
25 Jul, 2017
What is Adelanto?
“If you take Interstate 15 about two hours north from Los Angeles, heading into the high desert of San Bernardino...
23 May, 2017
The Meaning of Trump’s Wall
“Though Donald Trump failed to get his wall funded when Congress passed a recent $1.1 trillion federal spending package, he...
2 May, 2017
Resisting the Politics of Fear
“Some time ago I attended a “know your rights” workshop sponsored by an immigration rights organization near my home in...
27 Mar, 2017
Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
“A restaurant worker and father of four daughters in Southern California is arrested while dropping his youngest daughter off at...
26 Jan, 2017
Reclaiming Our Democracy
“On Saturday, January 21, I joined somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people in downtown Los Angeles as the city made...
19 Nov, 2016
Where Democracy’s Still Alive and Well
“Amid the gloom, apprehension, and anger surrounding the election of Donald Trump, it’s easy to overlook those places in our...