Family reunions allowed us to catch up, reenact rituals of domestic living, and build new memories. Were they enough? For a child who sincerely wanted to express his love and gratitude, they were agonizingly inadequate.
A multiracial community organization in the US seeks to counter their recent election’s anti-immigrant tide through art.
For those of us who are committed social justice activists or organizers, the sheer scale of this march was awe-inspiring.
The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported in mid-October, having spent five months in federal prison. Their crime? Giving a bad Social Security number to the company to get hired. The Postville raid was one of the many recent immigration operations…