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Which side are you on?
From the editors | Issue: May | June 2019
People have the right to migrate and to seek asylum. We must end the militarization of the border and stop the detention and deportation of immigrants.
Testimony: Jennifer Marbury working on the U.S.-Mexico border
Jennifer Marbury | Issue: May | June 2019
Unbearable: Last week I felt like our government reached a point of no return in abusing refugee families.
What is at stake in America today?
From the editors | Issue: May | June 2019
Barriers of borders, gender, race, religion and age don’t mean anything in a society organized around meeting people’s needs.
May Day 2019
Adamarys and Rich Monje | Issue: May | June 2019
In 1886, workers were protesting exploitation and demanded an 8-hour workday. Today, workers continue to protest exploitation but in other areas.
Hunger strike in detention center in Louisiana
From the editors | Issue: May | June 2019
People being held in immigration detention in Louisiana are on a hunger strike to protest their inability to be free while making a case for asylum.
Rap musician 21 Savage targeted by ICE
From the editors | Issue: May | June 2019
On February 1, Atlanta rapper 21 Savage released a video for his hit single “a lot” on YouTube. Two days later ICE arrested him.
Not one more veteran deported!
Salvador Sandoval M.D. | Issue: May | June 2019
Joaquin Sotelo Tarin, a decorated naval veteran of the Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan campaigns from 2001 to 2006, avoided deportation in February 2019.
Historic support for community control of the police
Gabriel Montero | Issue: May | June 2019
Chicagoans usher in a new generation of freedom fighters who understand the time is now to give the people the power to decide how they are policed.
Flint, Michigan: Five years after and the water issue is not over
Regina Pitts Shelton | Issue: May | June 2019
There is currently a health crisis in the city of Flint. This is an environmental genocide. How many years will pass before the real truth is known?
Chicago election results: People want change!
Chris Mahin | Issue: May | June 2019
CHICAGO — The winds of change blowing across America have hit the Windy City with gale force. Chicagoans are sick of the status quo.
Renters Unite in California’s Santa Clara County
Dave Ransom | Issue: May | June 2019
Grassroots members and leaders from six Santa Clara County tenants’ unions convened to organize the South Bay Tenants Assembly in mid-March in San Jose.
The 20/32 movement – the end of labor peace in Mexico
Jose Torres and Manuel Torres | Issue: May | June 2019
Workers understand that they have no ties to capital or to any political party that wants to take over the movement and take it off its natural course!
Mexican autoworkers are not to blame for plant closures
Al Gladyck | Issue: May | June 2019
We must support GM workers, whether in the United States and/or in Mexico and the GM workers need to support one another.
I AM THE BAD HOMBRE
Magdaleno Leno Rose-Avila — Borderangels.org | Issue: May | June 2019
I am the Bad Hombre, Not your nightmare, But a friend … an Amigo who, Wants to dream and live in a better world, Alongside of you and all the others.