Quartering
The Quarry
What it means to bring a war back home is the subject of Seema Reza’s searing poem about our soldiers.
'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Mass Demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport as Kids Ripped From Parents Arrive in New York; Dozens of Parents with their Babies Occupy ICE Field Director Office
Common Dreams
"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them." Parents with their babies occupy ICE Field Director Office. Calling for swift reunification of children with their families.
Nazis Separated Me From My Parents as a Child. The Trauma Lasts a Lifetime
The Guardian
I know from experience that the Trump-sanctioned brutality at the US border with Mexico will scar its child victims for life. What is happening today is as evil and criminal as what happened to me and my siblings as children in Nazi Europe.
Creating a Viable Black Left: Sixteen Lessons Learned in Building the Radical Black Congress
Black Commentator
A viable, active left-wing formation is very much needed in Black America. A formation that has a grassroots membership rather than just a non-profit staff; a formation that is militant, if not audacious, challenging racial capitalism and imperialism
Tidbits - June 21, 2018 - Reader Comments: Trump's Kidnapping and Resistance; Albert Einstein and Racism; Nicaragua and the Left; Study Medicine in Cuba; First Black-Led Union; How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World; Barbara Hillman; and more
Portside
Reader Comments: Trump's Kidnapping, Concentration Camps and Resistance; Albert Einstein and Racism; Nicaragua and the Left; Study Medicine in Cuba; First Black-Led Union; How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World; Barbara Hillman; and more
Perry Anderson's Long Goodbye to Gramsci's Hegemony
The Nation
Perry Anderson based his early Antonio Gramsci work on a reading of ruling class political hegemony based on consent. Now he insists that coercion is at history’s heart, a reading he also ascribes to Gramsci. Both propositions are overstated.
A Shining City on the Hill Treats Immigrants Humanely
USW
Although Trump signed an executive order forbidding splitting of children and parents, separations resulting from ICE raids continue. Yesterday, ICE raided Fresh Mark meat-packing facilities and arrested 140 workers, stranding their children.
Was Albert Einstein a Racist?
The American Prospect
The great scientist was a radical egalitarian—but subject nonetheless to some of the biases of his time.
Trumpism, Realized
The Atlantic
People who would do this to children would do anything to anyone. Before this is over, they will be called to do worse.
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart
The New Yorker
No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or eventually reuniting them. Two thousand children taken from parents.
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