July 2019 - Page 3 of 5 - Toward Freedom

The U.S. Is Quietly Opening Detention Camps for Small Children

Aura Bogado July 16, 2019 Aura Bogado

The federal government is quietly expanding its use of shelters to house infants, toddlers and other young asylum-seekers. One Phoenix facility housed 12 children ages 5 and under, Reveal has learned, some as young as 3 months old, all without their mothers.

As part of this expansion, the government has designated three facilities to house newborns and unaccompanied teen mothers. Records obtained by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting indicate a dozen children arrived at Child Crisis Arizona starting in mid-June, after it garnered a $2.4 million contract to house unaccompanied children through January 2022. read more

Resisting the Wall Industry, From Mexico to Palestine

Chung-Wha Hong July 16, 2019 Chung-Wha Hong

The institutions responsible for harming people operate across borders far more than most people realize, yet many groups are joining forces to gain strength.

Afghanistan: Remnants of War

Kathy Kelly July 16, 2019 Kathy Kelly

The Taliban, U.S. Government, and every other warring party in Afghanistan must be asked: “How many more civilians, including children, are you willing to kill and maim?”

Global Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics

Walden Bello July 16, 2019 Walden Bello

Authoritarian governments have tried to rig elections for ages. More dangerous are the far-right leaders concentrating their power by relatively fair elections.

Why Bolivian Indigenous Movements Draw Their Power from Oral History

Paul Buhle July 15, 2019 Paul Buhle

Benjamin Dangl’s The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia is a vitally important book. Not only scholars and activists interested in the Bolivian struggles, but a wide range of oral historians, ethnographers and others will find the author’s pursuit of multiple hidden histories useful in their own work.

Our Immigrant Prisons are an Atrocity

Lizet Ocampo July 15, 2019 Lizet Ocampo

Since Trump took office, at least 24 immigrants — including six children — have died in government custody. Before last December, no child had died under the care of border protection agents in a decade.