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September 6, 2018

Tidbits - Sept. 6, 2018 - Reader Comments: My Lai, Vietnam Remembered; Mollie Tibbbetts, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams; Chicago 1968; New York Farmworker Leader Detained; Resources: Freedomways; 1968 Columbia; Announcements; and more....

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Reader Comments: My Lai, Vietnam War; Mollie Tibbbetts, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, Racism of the Right; Chicago 1968; New York Farmworker Leader Detained; Jesse Lemisch - R.I.P.; Resources: Freedomways; 1968 Columbia; Announcements; and more....

September 2, 2018

From Mollie Tibbetts to Andrew Gillum - Overt Racism: the Daily Shared Currency of Trump and Ultra Right

Huffington Post, Tallahassee Democrat

Donald Trump, Jr. blames Democrats for the death of Mollie Tibbetts. Racist robocalls traced to neo-Nazi group target Andrew Gillum. Open, blatant appeals to racism are now the daily common political currency of Trump and the Ultra Right.

The Fractured Politics of a Browning America

August 24, 2018

The US is getting more diverse. As more Americans realize this new future, it is changing how cultural and political divides take shape.

August 13, 2018

Remembering Haitian Internment in Trump’s America

Miriam Pensack NACLA

For Haitian refugees, Trump is not a new abomination, or even a reincarnation of former Haitian exclusion, but rather a continuation of persecution against Haitians fleeing instability that U.S. empire has itself contributed to...

July 29, 2018

Why It’s Time to Launch the Disability Justice Initiative

Rebecca Cokley TalkPoverty.org

Most years, this last week in July is the only time that the media turns its attention to people with disabilities. But this year has been different.

Mark Ruffalo and Common Speak Out on Humanitarian Crisis at Border

July 27, 2018

Mark Ruffalo, Common, parents and children at the border, and humanitarian workers discuss how kids are still being kept in cages, and parents are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get them back.

July 27, 2018

No, the Government Did Not Make the Deadline to Reunify Children With Their Parents

Stacy Sullivan ACLU

Some 463 parents were deported without their children — and the government isn’t even trying to reunite them — and the administration said it doesn’t know the identities of the parents of 40 children.

July 26, 2018

Tidbits - July 26, 2018 - Reader Comments: Young Voters, New Voters; Obama Nelson Mandela Speech; Uranium Danger, Tar Sands Explosion; Julian Assange; Immigrants, Deportations; Kavanaugh; Israel's Jewish 'Nation State' Law; Cuban Revolution; and more...

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Reader Comments: Young Voters, New Voters; Barack Obama Nelson Mandela Speech; Uranium Danger, Tar Sands Explosion in West Virginia; Julian Assange; Immigrant Hunger Strikes; Kavanaugh; Israel's Jewish 'Nation State' Law; Cuban Revolution; and more..

July 21, 2018

Counties Cancel ICE Detention Contracts

David Bacon The American Prospect

After hearing the news of the impending closure of the immigrant detention center, the families of a dozen detainees and their supporters held a rally outside. But advocates want detainees freed, not sent to for-profit jails.

July 19, 2018

Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry

Martha Mendoza and Larry Fenn / AP TIME

Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade.

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