Tales of Humanity
As I illustrate in Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, there IS a better way to respond to Forced Displacement and Global Migration: Welcome with Dignity. Because hope knows no borders. Cruelty is not okay. And there is no "right" way.
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HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP, or Keep Them From Opening, with Author-Activist John Washington (opens the original)
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Subscribers to this newsletter know that one of my main missions on behalf of the movement is to raise awareness as to how we reached this wretched place as a nation. Another is to invite people to join the resistance by providing strategies for turning your outrage into action in answer to the question, “What can I do?”We focus on how to divest from the Prison Industrial Complex, which is hiding out in most of our pension plans and retirement portfolios.We bear witness to how our deterrence-to-
A Message For US Voters & Democratic Candidates: It’s the Impunity, Stupid! (opens the original)
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Hello Community, There’s still time to register for Dora and my Hope Knows No Borders webinar and workshop with this Sunday, September 20, 5 pm ET. To learn more about the event and register, visit the page behind the link below — and please share it with your allies and friends. But first! Take a look at my simple messaging advice for voters and Democrats. Please pass it on as we
25 Years Later, the Data Are Clear: The US Department of Homeland “Security” Is a Monster That Must Be Slain (opens the original)
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It was a beautiful, fresh, blue-sky day. The fall season and the sense of new beginnings were in the air. As I walked my five-year-old to her third day of kindergarten in downtown Brooklyn, she stretched an arm upward, pointing. “Look, Mama,” she said. “What’s that funny cloud?”“Oh no!” I exclaimed, on seeing the steel-gray streak cleave the firmament like the mark of a wrathful Sharpie. “There must be a terrible fire in Lower Manhattan.”I did not know that just moments before, at 8:46 a.m., ter
Turn This “Uncommon Period” Into Opportunity: Meet John Washington, Author of HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP, and Join the Movement to Build Communities, Not Cages. (opens the original)
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My Labor Day Gift to You to Help to Keep the Resistance Fires Burning While At the Wheel or Barbecue (opens the original)
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Hello everyone, This US Labor Day, as you take the day to trim your trees or cook for dozens or confront that long road trip home following your long holiday weekend away, I’d like to pass on this gift to you: I hope that it will help turn your outrage at what US democracy has become into action. It is one great big Call to Action, and something anyone can do from anywhere. It’s a way of bringing the resistance from the streets to the boardroom. Enjoy! And stay strong, my friends. The only way t
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