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 Vol. 082 Issue 002 (April 1 2018)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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EDITOR’S NOTE Immigrants’ Song In Every Day We Live Is the Future, a remarkable book that came out last year, Wisconsin author Douglas Haynes writes about the devastating impacts brought by...
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COMMENT
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LUEDERS, BILL
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS Let’s Reject Trump’s Cruelty on Immigration Gilberto Reyes-Herrera was a model citizen—whether or not he had the papers to prove it. He and his wife came to the United...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT
How to Stump the FBI The FBI admits it failed to heed a tip that Nikolas Cruz, who killed seventeen people at a Florida school in February, had access to guns, a “desire to kill,”...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS
Adding Insult to Injury Re: “The New Indian Wars” (February/March issue): I’ll never understand why the Navajo Code Talkers of World War Two helped defeat the enemies of a nation that...
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POEMS
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Zamora, Javier
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The Forgotten People of Mount Sinjar
At the foot of a short mountain range in northern Iraq lies the city-district of Shingal, long home to the Yazidi people, an oftentargeted ethnic minority....
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SMOKING GUN
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SMOKING GUN by BILL LUEDERS
Immigration Hypocrisy When it comes to immigration, journalist Jennifer Mendelsohn wants “to make it personal.” That’s what she’s done through her Twitter hashtag...
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN
The Price of Replacement Heads
I ’ll tell you what gets me worked up into a revolutionary frenzy: buying replacement heads for my electric toothbrush! It’s a...
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FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR
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Rolo, Mark Anthony
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The End of the World as They Know It
By Mark Anthony Rolo O n Sundays, I’ve been attending a small rural church in western Wisconsin. The Prince of Peace Covenant Church of Mondovi has only...
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OVER THE WALL
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Conniff, Ruth
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OVER THE WALL by RUTH CONNIFF
Transforming the Pain of Migration into Art
M arietta Bern storff was pissed off. Leaning on her horn, she shouted at the cars in front of her as a group of...
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The Luck of the Irish
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Higgins, Maeve
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Cue the mournful .ddle music please, and nod sadly as I tell you that when I was a child in Ireland, I stood often upon the shore and squinted across the Atlantic, dreaming of moving to New York...
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Stranded in Tijuana
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Averbuch, Maya
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Nounoune Jules, thirty-eight, and her husband, Fabius Clement, forty, in the house they live in with their fourteen-year-old son in Tijuana’s Zona Norte, known for being one of the most violent...
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Paradise Reclaimed
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Tempus, Alexandra
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Besieged by Climate Change, Marshall Islanders
Are Making Their Way to America’s Heartland
By Alexandra Tempus K ejmen Christine Alfred had another journey to make. The twenty-oneyear-old...
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The Refugees of North Dakota
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Ingram, Mrill
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The Refugees of North Dakota
A newcomer to Fargo explores the natural play area at World Garden Commons. The park features a community garden and hosts regular events welcoming refugees to...
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How El Salvador Won on Mining
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Dinur, Esty
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In March 2017, El Salvador, a country with deposits of gold and silver, became the .rst and only country in the world to ban all metallic mining. The process took twelve years, according to...
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Expelled Salvadorans Could End Up as Forced Laborers
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Miller, Anna Lekas
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A masked and armed policeman patrols a gang-controlled neighborhood in San Salvador, El Salvador. The daily violence in El Salvador has prompted a mass wave of immigration. Expelled Salvadorans...
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The Unforgiven
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Hoor, Stephanie
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Sophea Phea grew up as a refugee from Cambodia; that is where she
lives today. But she never even set foot there until she was twenty-eight.
Phea was born in the sprawling Khao-I-Dang refugee...
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Building Peace from the Ashes in My Lai
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Stockwell, Norman
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Building Peace from
the Ashes in My Lai
By Norman Stockwell
On an early morning in mid-March, Igathered with hundreds of people at thefoot of a large statue created by Vietnamesesculptor H....
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What U.S. Activists Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn
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Jaffe, Sarah
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What U.S. Activists Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn By Sarah Jaffe I don’t know what I expected to see when I walked out of the United Kingdom’s Parliament building, in the shadow of the iconic...
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Gotta Get Out of This Place
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Abbott, Jeff
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Young protesters march to the U.S. embassy in Honduras on December 8, demanding that the United States defend their democracy against alleged election fraud. The protesters connected the migration...
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The Truth About Iran
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Erlich, Reese
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Tehran's Grand Bazaar: The people of Iran are often critical of their government. But they are not fans of Donald Trump. By Reese Erlich W henever I’m in Tehran, I like to visit Friday prayers....
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'Everything I Need in One Place'
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Johnson, Sharon
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In 2003, Barbara Grace of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
found herself without health insurance when she
lost her clerical job. “I was terrified that I would be unable to pay for my insulin and...
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All in the Family
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Richards, Cecile
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All in the Family How My Kids Were Raised to See the Power of Women By Cecile Richards Cecile Richards with husband, Kirk, and children Daniel, Hannah, and Lily. My mother, Ann Richards,...
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An Interview with the AFL-CIO's Tefere Gebre
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Stockwell, Norman
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‘We Are All
Immigrants’
An Interview with the
AFL-CIO’s Tefere Gebre
By Norman Stockwell T efere Gebre came to the United States in 1984 as a teenager. He and four friends had left their...
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BOOK REVIEW
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LUEDERS, BILL
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BOOKS
Laboring the Point Books Highlight the Long Struggle on Behalf of Workers
By Bill Lueders
O n December 30, 1936, workers seeking union recognition at the General Motors plant in...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, KWill
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OFF THE MAP by WILL DURST
The GOP’s Marital Remorse
L ike most arranged marriages, the not-so-blessed union between Donald Trump and the Re publican Party turned stormy even...
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EDGE OF SPORTS
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN
Politics and the NBA
B efore a panel event about sports and activism, a young man asked me a question: “Why do you think the NBA is more accepting of...
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VOX POPULIST
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Hightower, Jim
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Everybody Does Better When Everybody Does Better
M y father, W.F. “High” Hightower, was a populist. Only, he didn’t know it. Didn’t know the word, much less anything about populism’s rich...
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