Cover Story
‘We cannot lose our humanity’
Sister Norma Pimentel | Issue: July | August 2019
It’s important that people see the truth, what we see here at the border. We don’t see criminals. We see families, who are in desperate need of help.
‘We’re behaving criminal … violating our laws
Jennifer Marbury | Issue: July | August 2019
We are not only in violation of our own laws, U.S. laws and treaties that say you can’t send them back to danger. We’re behaving criminally.
‘You pay me, or you die with your daughter!’
Interview by Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: July | August 2019
‘You pay me, or you die with your daughter!’ ‘No choice but to leave’: Why a mother and her baby fled Guatemala all alone.
Not from here, nor from there
Gloria Meneses-Sandoval | Issue: July | August 2019
The hype about terror, drugs, national security is catering to the U.S.-born and uninformed persons. It is a blatant disregard of fairness and human life.
Has Obrador and the Mexican government turned its back on migrants?
Margarito Días | Issue: July | August 2019
Collusion with Trump is far too evident. It is incredible that Obrador uses the same tactics of oppression that Trump uses against immigrants here.
The right to housing vs. profit
Andy Willis | Issue: July | August 2019
Overtaxed homeowners, threatened renters and the homeless unite in common cause. Housing is a human right that all deserve, and it must come first.
Proposed law forces fossil fuel companies to pay public fee
Rose Gómez, Volunteer, Citzens Climate Lobby | Issue: July | August 2019
Families would have a strong incentive to make cleaner and cheaper purchases while pocketing the extra dividend money each month.
The Etowah Visitation Project: Supporting the needs of ICE detainees
Katherine Weathers, Etowah Visitation Project, and Hy Thurman, Young Patriot Organization | Issue: July | August 2019
The Etowah Visitation Project is a member group of a national network which visits and monitors approximately 55 immigrant prisons in 23 states.
The unimaginable journey to the southern border
Alejandro Rosel Arreola González Corral – High School teacher | Issue: July | August 2019
They flock their way, to get to the promised land. They come seeking economic opportunities only to face disdain, hatred and, in many cases, death.
Nativo López: A Warrior of the people
Francisco Duarte | Issue: July | August 2019
Nativo López, an excellent speaker, was not intimidated by anyone. His greatest virtue was his passion to achieve goals for the benefit of the people.
‘Do not mourn, organize!’
Fatima Garcia, SEIU-United - Service Workers West | Issue: July | August 2019
Nativo López was intelligent. He taught me the importance of reading and writing and learning. He had ideas and he struggled to make them come true.
A fearful dilemma
Dave Ransom | Issue: July | August 2019
Automation and robots will change the face of manufacturing. We will have to wrest control from the capitalist class and manage the transition ourselves.
Lionizing Workers, robotizing vineyard
Dave Ransom | Issue: July | August 2019
Vineyard workers will be automated out of their jobs in the near future. Pruning, leafing, thinning, and picking will be done by machine.
After 15 years of mass detention in Washington state, resistance grows
Marú Villalpando Mora | Issue: July | August 2019
As we grow our movement, we ask our community to join us in stopping all deportations across the entire United States.