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Up to 14,000 Active-Duty Troops to Deploy as Trump-Ordered Racist ‘Caravan’ Campaign Prop

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It’s unclear just why the Trump administration is so absolutely insistent that refugees with the well-established right to seek asylum in this nation are an existential danger, but—oh, wait, it’s not unclear at all. They’re rancid racists who have been stoking anti-immigrant, anti-refugee fear as an existential danger to this country solely as cheap electoral theater; now we are learning that ploy will include up to 14,000 active-duty U.S. military troops, many of them armed, to be deployed to the border to intercept a caravan of unarmed men, women, and children.   [Read more…]

To Once Again Be Whole

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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

A week of horror: Bombs mailed, black people executed, Jews slaughtered at prayer while a well-armed lunatic shrieked, “All Jews must die!”, all as the heedless Nationalist in the White House blathers, “It’s a terrible thing what’s going on with hate in our country.”

There were abundant signs: Michael Moore has outtake footage of a bulked-up Cesar Sayoc yelling “CNN Sucks!” at an early Trump rally, another sorry soul full of fear and anger, looking for someone to hate, “a lost dog with no direction home.”


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Asylum Seekers Aren’t Scary – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Video Worth Watching

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In this week’s Full Frontal Samantha Bee considers the issue of what’s scary, suggests some likely candidates, and identifies some non-contenders.   [Read more…]

Two City Works Press Books Explore San Diego’s Impact on the Psyche | Release Reading at Tiger! Tiger!

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San Diego City Works Press is a project of the San Diego Writers Collective, which is a group of San Diego writers, poets, artists, and patrons dedicated to the publication and promotion of the work of San Diego area artists of all sorts.  Our specific interests include local, ethnic, and border writing as well as formal innovation and progressive politics.

The Collective’s main focus is local, but we have engaged in occasional collaborations with writers from around the world. City Works Press is an all-volunteer non-profit, funded by local writers and friends of the arts, committed to the publication of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art by members of the San Diego City College community and beyond.  

Sunday, October 21, at 4:30 at Tiger!Tiger! City Works Press, in concert with Verbatim Books, is proud to present the release reading for local novelist Josh Turner and San Diego poet, Joe Medina.  Fall 2018 marks 13 years of publication by SD City Works Press, and Baxt and Medina’s works continue our tradition of birthing first books by homegrown authors.   [Read more…]

German ‘Indivisible’ Movement Draws 240,000 to Berlin Rally | Video Worth Watching

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German far-right groups have been growing in numbers, but Germans opposed to racism and hyper-nationlism are in vastly greater numbers and continue to push back with counter-demonstrations. Organizers in Germany that are promoting inclusivity and diversity use the hashtag: #unteilbar (#indivisible in German) in recognition of the enshrinement of this principle in the German constitution. The organizers of this recent event in Berlin were expecting a turnout of around 40,000, but were amazed when participation swelled to around 240,000. Additional coverage at NPR here.   [Read more…]

Trump Administration Sends 1,600 Kids to Texas Tent City as Number of Detained Children Hits Record High | Video Worth Watching

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From the Democracy Now! website:

The Trump administration is transferring detained migrant children from shelters across the country to a barren tent city in West Texas. The New York Times reports that hundreds of children are being sent each week from shelters to the tent city, which currently houses 1,600 children. The facility reportedly has no school, and children have only limited access to legal services. The U.S. government is now detaining a record 13,000 migrant children. We speak with Louise Melling, deputy legal director at the ACLU, who says, “We have more children in detention now than ever before.”

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Immigrant Children Carted Off in the Dead of Night to Trump’s Texas Tent Camp

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By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams

With detention facilities overflowing due to President Donald Trump’s monstrous immigration policies—which have sent the number of children detained by the U.S. government soaring to a record 12,800—the Trump administration is reportedly carrying out dead-of-night “mass transfers” of children from foster homes and shelters to a crowded Texas tent camp, where they have no schooling and limited access to legal services.

According to the New York Times, more than 1,600 “migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas.”   [Read more…]

When I Think of the Wall

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When I think of the wall
I see in my mind,
first of all,
people on my side of the wall,
people who,
when all is thought through,
appraising all of humanity,
live relatively comfortably,
in possession of all kinds of
certificates and degrees
from preschool
to PhDs,
living and/or dreaming
the dream of all dreams,
the American Dream,
that “Keeping Up with the Joneses Dream”   [Read more…]

Trump Admin Targets Immigrants Using Food Stamps & Medicaid & Puts Millions of Children at Risk | Video Worth Watching

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Amy Goodman and Juan González of Democracy Now! talk with Marielena Hincapié of the National Immigration Law Center about a new proposal by the Trump administration to deny Green Cards to immigrants who participate to even a minor degree in a wide range of public assistance programs. This is the same issue that was recently covered in our recent repost from Common Dreams.   [Read more…]

New Immigration Policy: Green Cards Available for the Highest (White) Bidder

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“This proposal says work and family don’t matter—only money matters. And at a time when one-fourth of children in America have at least one immigrant parent, it’s a direct attack on children.”

By Julia Conley / Common Dreams

Angering immigrant rights and economic equality advocates alike, the Trump administration has made official its proposal to deny permanent residency, or green cards, to immigrants who have used public assistance programs including nutritional or housing aid.
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Child Detention Funded with Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women’s Shelters

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By Julia Conley / Common Dreams

Along with tens of thousands of children and families, cancer patients, Americans with substance abuse disorders, and victims of domestic violence are among the casualties of President Donald Trump’s detention of young immigrants—according to government documents outlining the administration’s plan to divert millions of dollars away from programs serving those populations.

Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs.   [Read more…]

Former Senior Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out On Corruption | Video Worth Watching

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The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) has created a new video series which they’re calling “Breaking the Green Line”. It features a former senior Border Patrol agent (1995-2001) who left the agency due to the rampant corruption and culture of impunity. She is now sharing her first-hand experiences to shed light on the Federal government’s most corrupt, abusive, and out of control agency.   [Read more…]

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