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Make America Racist Again
Make America Racist Again by Robert C. Koehler 984 words Basically, everyone knows that “making America great again” means making...
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9 Oct, 2020
What comes next is up to us
What if we stopped separating the looming national chaos into separate categories —racism, climate change, war, vote suppression, election theft, pandemic, science denial, white supremacy, police brutality, etc. — and tried looking at it all at once?
3 Jan, 2020
Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex
“In the past year, the struggle over immigration rights continued along a broad array of fronts. There were significant setbacks,...
22 Nov, 2019
Raising the stakes in the struggle over immigration detention
“As the struggle for immigrant rights continues to be fought across America, new battlegrounds may come into view, then fade...
30 Aug, 2019
The many faces of immigration resistance
“For the most part, major news organizations like the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles...
26 Jun, 2019
Revisiting morality in the Age of Dishonesty
“If Donald Trump actually follows through on his recently tweeted promise that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will begin deporting...
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...
15 Mar, 2018
Breaking the ice
“Perhaps the best political news of the Trump era has been the emergence of sanctuary cities — city governments valuing...
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...
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...