Facts about the so-called caravan of migrants.
From Latino Rebels: http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/10/27/asylumlegal/
Posts
The tech companies behind ICE.
From Latino Rebels: http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/10/23/icetechcompanies/
The latest on the migrants heading the the United States from Honduras.
From The Washington Post : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promises-to-stop-migrant-caravan-his-administration-struggles-with-how-to-do-it/2018/10/24/ecc1ebde-d7b5-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html?utm_term=.85b1e0282f8a
The debate on mass incarceration and the races for D.A.s.
From The New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/texas-district-attorney-race-mass-incarceration.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
This Is Our Place: a new column on the stories behind the faces.
Ana Garcia (left,) explaining the cultural importance of the song, La Llorona, with a translator who is also a friend, at the first Hispanic Heritage Month Festival in Mexico, MO, on Friday, October 12th, 2018. Ms. Garcia, a DACA recipient, is originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, and organized the festival with the help of a few friends in this small rural town in the central part of Missouri, where she lives. As the WE project expands, I have realized the need to tell the stories behind some of the people who came up to be portrayed in the series. In seeing each other in our differences we are all stronger, but sometimes portraits and words are not enough as the issues facing people who belong to marginalized communities are deep and complex. So, after the opening of the WE project exhibit in Columbia this weekend, today marks another opening: a monthly column, in words and photographs, on the lives of some of the WE project participants and the issues they face, as well as the lives t...
What the administration is doing to trans people.
From The New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage&login=email&auth=login-email
The first Columbia We project exhibit is up!
The first local WE project art installation is set to be unveiled on Friday, October 19th, at 5PM in downtown Columbia. It is a 10 by 14 feet banner of one of the project's pictures. This exhibit could not have been possible without the generous support of 700 Cherry Inc., and Sarah Dresser, of the Office of Cultural Affairs at the City of Columbia, and of the countless people who stand behind this project. But m ost of all this installation could not have existed without the help and enthusiasm of Staci Lea Linthacum, John Hooker, Lisa Braman Bartlett and Kristin Nies, who worked hours to set it up, drove across town on various errands, offered countless advice, tolerated my incessant fretting and questions, and cheered. Thank you.
An injustice ending, so many years later.
From The Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/10/02/louisiana-s-taurus-buchanan-wins-parole-after-25-years?ref=hp-3-121
Stories of immigrants in their own voices.
From The New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/lens/refugees-and-migrants-tell-their-own-stories-through-photographs.html?emc=edit_bn_20181004&nl=boletin&nlid=7572093720181004&te=1
Brilliant and essential reporting on how Trump's fraudulent business practices.
From The New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage