Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 10, 2024
Portside
Fasten your seatbelts
Fasten your seatbelts
Fasten your seatbelts
East German Elections in Thuringia and Saxony
Berlin Bulletin
US media made it seem like German people were turning out en masse to support fascists-when in fact less than a third of the only 7 percent of the German electorate that voted last week cast ballots for the extreme right Alternative for Germany(AfD).
Texas AG Raids Homes of Latino Civil Rights Group Members, Setting Up a Voting Rights Showdown
NBC News
The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in a state with a long history of discrimination against citizens of Mexican descent, which helped give rise to LULAC, founded in 1929.
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Pachinko, Apple TV+’s Unsung Hero, Makes a Remarkable Return
AV Club
Pachinko follows Sunja, a young Korean woman who immigrates to Japan in the late 1930s after marrying a Protestant minister. A mother of two in unfamiliar territory, she strives to take care of her family amid poverty, racism, and political turmoil.
Media Bits and Bytes – August 20, 2024
Portside
What's ahead for Google?
Trump’s Plan for Mass Deportations
New York Times
At every opportunity, Trump has placed the mass deportation of millions of people at the center of his campaign. It is a promise. And the promises a presidential candidate makes while on the trail are the promises a president tries to keep.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 9, 2024
Portside
What the Baltimore bridge disaster taught the nation
No, Immigrants Aren’t More Likely To Commit Crimes Than US-Born, Despite Trump’s Border Speech
USA TODAY
From 2012-2022, undocumented immigrants have a homicide conviction rate 14% below native-born Americans. Immigrants have a 62% lower homicide rate and undocumented immigrants have a 41% lower total criminal conviction rate than native-born Americans.
labor
To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Build From the Bottom Up
Convergence
The movement to defeat the Far Right must include immigrant workers and members of other oppressed groups, working through their own independent and durable mass organizations rooted in workplaces and neighborhoods.
Immigrants Are Not Hurting U.S.-Born Workers – Six Facts To Set the Record Straight
Economic Policy Institute
The economy does not have a fixed number of jobs, and today we see a growing economy adding jobs for both immigrants and U.S.-born workers. Here are six key facts that show immigrants are not hurting the employment outcomes of U.S.-born workers.
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