There Should Never Be Another Parkland: A College Student’s Perspective on Gun Reform
There should never be another Parkland, another Sandy Hook, another Columbine. It’s time for America to change.
Month: April 2018
Weapons for Anyone: Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal
Selling weapons to dictatorships and repressive regimes often fuels instability, war, and terrorism, as the American war on terror has vividly demonstrated for the last nearly 17 years.
Iraq is a Reminder: US Crimes Against Humanity Predate Trump
Source: The Guardian
With all the talk of ‘totalitarianism’ in the Trump era, let’s not forget what came before
People talk a lot about “totalitarianism” in the Trump era. I’ve never really loved the category: it seems to paper over some pretty deep differences between the entities one might call totalitarian. But if there was a “totalitarian” moment in my lifetime, it is unquestionably the period between 9/11 and the Iraq war.
It’s not simply that war criminals enlisted the aid of the press and every other ideological apparatus in our country to launch a massively destructive, destabilizing, and completely unwarranted war of aggression (the principal crime against humanity), although they did.
Stand Up, Fight Back: The Rising Militancy of the Immigrant Rights Movement
Source: Truthout
Activism for immigrant rights may be about to get much more militant.
Some 1.1 million undocumented people — beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) — are slated to lose their protection against deportation over the next two years, along with the possibility of obtaining work permits or aid for higher education. The result will of course be devastating for them and for their relatives, friends and communities, but there will also be repercussions for the society as a whole, especially in areas with large immigrant populations. Meanwhile, the country’s other 10 million or so undocumented people continue to live in fear, with Trump administration policies increasing the pressure. “[Y]ou should be uncomfortable,” Tom Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), warned them last spring. “You should look over your shoulder.”