▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2015/02/native_americans_say_facebook_is_accusing_them_of_using_fake_names.html
Native Americans Say Facebook Is Accusing Them of Using Fake Names
▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2015/02/native_americans_say_facebook_is_accusing_them_of_using_fake_names.html
Native Americans Say Facebook Is Accusing Them of Using Fake Names
#Video: The War on Drugs and War on Immigrants Are Intertwined
Here’s an all too easily forgotten reality: mass incarceration and the U.S. deportation machine are deeply intertwined. And black immigrants get swept up in both systems. A new video from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration spells it out:
The rate of detention and criminal deportation is soaring. Black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America are overrepresented in immigration detention and criminal deportatiton proceedings by five times their presence in the undocumented community. And all Latino undocumented immigrants are disproportionately affected by a wide margin. Ultimately all forms of crimnalization keeps people divided.
▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/07/video_the_war_on_drugs_and_war_on_immigrants_are_intertwined.html
#war_on_drugs #drogue #migration #détention #renvoi #expulsion #détention_administrative #USA #Etats-Unis
Des milliers d’enfants et d’adolescents d’Amérique centrale fuient vers les États-Unis
▻http://www.bastamag.net/50-000-enfants-et-adolescents
Les États-Unis font actuellement face à un afflux sans précédent jeunes migrants clandestins. Depuis octobre 2013, près de 50 000 enfants et adolescents non accompagnés, principalement originaires d’Amérique centrale, ont passé la frontière. Soit deux fois plus que l’an dernier . Plusieurs entrepôts et bases militaires ont été réquisitionnés pour être transformés en centres de rétention de fortune, dans tout le pays. A Nogales, en Arizona, 900 enfants du Honduras, du Salvador et du Guatemala, attendent leur (...)
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How Mexico’s Cartels Are Behind the Border Kid Crisis
Mexico’s drug gangs have taken over the human-trafficking business along the border, and agents suspect they may have a hand in the unprecedented number of underage migrants stagnating in Arizona’s detention centers.
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html
13 facts that help explain America’s child-migrant crisis
The flow of unaccompanied immigrant children across the US-Mexico border — mostly from Central America — is continuing to gain attention as a humanitarian crisis.
So here are 13 things you need to know to get a handle on what is actually going on along the border right now; what process the US has in place to deal with unaccompanied kids; and what the government can do now:
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▻http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-
Child Detention Centers: A ’Headache’ For The Obama Administration
U.S. officials are detaining thousands of immigrant children who tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone. Two journalists discuss conditions at detention centers, and what’s driving the migrants.
▻http://www.npr.org/2014/06/23/324857970/child-detention-centers-a-headache-for-the-obama-administration
US: No Path to Citizenship for Illegal Child Immigrants
The United States is telling Central American parents there is no path to American citizenship for the thousands of unaccompanied children who are entering the U.S. illegally in hopes of escaping poverty and crime in their native lands.
▻http://www.voanews.com/content/us-no-path-to-citizenship-for-illegal-child-immigrants-/1943193.html
Losing Sleep Over Families in Immigration Detention
There have been a lot of sleepless nights at the Women’s Refugee Commission lately. Despite our best intentions of leaving work at work, our minds have been fixed on the Southern border, where a humanitarian crisis affecting primarily women and children is worsening by the day.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-bran/immigration-detention_b_5509348.html
US plans new Texas holding facility for unaccompanied migrant children
Construction permits reveal plans for four fence-enclosed pods inside corrugated steel warehouse in McAllen
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/us-plans-texas-holding-facility-unaccompanied-migrant-children?CMP=twt_
#carte #visualisation Map: These Are the Places Central American Child Migrants Are Fleeing
A recently produced infographic from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the majority of unaccompanied children coming to the United States are from some of the most violent and impoverished parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
▻http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/map-unaccompanied-child-migrants-central-america-honduras
source des données de comparaison 2013/2014, (graph dans vox.com)
▻http://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-border-unaccompanied-children
In February 2014, WOLA investigators paid a 12-day visit to several points along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. This visit was part of a larger project, begun in the second half of 2013, to monitor border security conditions, migration trends, and recent policy changes affecting this region.
Staff from WOLA’s Migration and Border Security Program have visited six sectors of Mexico’s 1,969-mile northern border with the United States since 2011, and we have reported from several of them. This is our first report on Mexico’s 714-mile southern border zone. It comes after several months of preparatory research—combing official documents, interviewing officials, and paying site visits—followed by our February research trip.
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Young people flee to evade gang recruitment or harassment, and some teenagers we interviewed spoke vaguely of fleeing from gang trouble. Business owners, even those in the informal sector, flee extortion. Corrupt security forces’ inability to protect citizens too often leaves them with no choice but to leave.
#usa #enfants #drogues #trafiquants #trafic_humain #cartels #checkpoint #corruption #mafia #crime
#qui_sème…
Sur ▻http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/programs/migrant-rights/unaccompanied-children une vidéo, disponible en 5 langues et destinée aux enfants, les aide à comprendre comment la commission d’#émigration_américaine se déroule.
Three Myths of the Unaccompanied Minors Crisis, Debunked
On Monday President Obama asked Congress for an emergency $2 billion to address the flows of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor children arriving at the U.S-Mexico border. Arrivals of children, already estimated at 52,000 this year, are expected to reach a record 90,000. Obama asked for money to fund the addition of immigration judges, detention facilities and enforcement efforts to stem the tides of new arrivals. He also asked that Congress expand Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s powers to allow him to expedite the deportations of youth, many of whom are being held in converted Army bases across the country, the New York Times reported.
▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/07/three_myths_of_the_unaccompanied_minors_crisis.html
“It’s not an immigration issue,” says the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Brané. “It’s a refugee issue.”
“For us to say that that they cannot stay, that we don’t want them because there’s so many is absurd,” says Brané. “Protection standards aren’t about how many people qualify, they’re about whether people need protection or not.”
Mass exodus of migrant children highlights need for regional solution
Stories of gang violence, abuse and persecution told by migrant children fleeing their homes in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico to make the perilous journey through Mexico to the United States have gripped the media this month.
Although these dangers and the children’s desperate search for safety and reunification with their parents in the US have been documented by activists in the region for the better part of the past decade, the dramatic rise in numbers of these children arriving at the US-Mexico border since 2013 has reached crisis proportions.
US government statistics released this month show that from October 2013 and May 2014, the US Border Patrol apprehended more than 47,000 unaccompanied migrant children arriving mostly to Texas and Arizona, culminating in an urgent humanitarian situation, as reception and processing mechanisms were neither adequate nor prepared.
▻http://idcoalition.org/news/regional-need-build-capacity-care-migrant-children
Johnson: Border ’not open’ to undocumented immigrants
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson says the U.S. border is not open to undocumented immigrants and the Obama administration is taking steps to stop the flow of thousands of women and children from Central America.
▻http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2014/07/jeh-johnson-border-not-open-to-undocumented-immigrants-191580.html
U.S. needs ’to do right’ for immigrant children: official
(Reuters) - A top U.S. official said on Sunday the U.S. border is not open to illegal entry into the country, but acknowledged the government does need to be sensitive to the tens of thousands of migrant children flowing into detention centers.
▻http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20140706&t=2&i=921753664&w=580&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=LYNXMPEA65
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/06/us-usa-immigration-idUSKBN0FB0TO20140706
Etats-Unis : une #campagne_dissuasive contre les migrants mineurs
Les Etats-Unis ont lancé une campagne publicitaire d’un million de dollars destinée à endiguer le flux de migrants et notamment de mineurs en provenance d’Amérique centrale et du Mexique. Une campagne pour dissuader les familles d’envoyer leurs enfants vers les Etats-Unis. Depuis octobre dernier, environ 52 000 enfants, non accompagnés, ont traversé la frontière et se retrouvent dans des centres de rétention surchargés dans des conditions humanitaires déplorables. Les autorités américaines ont également prévenu que les mineurs seraient désormais expulsés eux aussi.
▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20140708-etats-unis-une-campagne-publicitaire-contre-migrants-mineurs
‘Flee or die’: violence drives Central America’s child migrants to US border
Obama heads to Texas as the mirage of an open door on the southern border triggers a political storm in Washington
Is it fair to send kids before immigration judges without a lawyer?
In a lawsuit seeking to force the government to supply legal counsel for undocumented minors facing deportation, the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrant rights groups Wednesday filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the federal government of denying the kids due process.
▻http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-aclu-unaccompanied-minors-immigration-20140709-story.html
Statistical Analysis Shows that Violence, Not Deferred Action, Is Behind the Surge of Unaccompanied Children Crossing the Border
A humanitarian refugee situation at the U.S. southern border has been unfolding over the past few years and dramatically intensifying over the past several months, as tens of thousands of unaccompanied children are fleeing their homes in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. In search of a safe haven, these children embark on dangerous journeys, arriving in the United States and neighboring countries throughout Central America. Indeed, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, asylum applications from children are up by 712 percent in the neighboring countries of Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Belize. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has argued that “many of the children apprehended at the border are fleeing unspeakable violence in their home countries.”
White House faces Senate opposition over $3.7bn for child migrant crisis
White House efforts to respond to a wave of child migrants from central America faced growing opposition in Congress on Thursday, as both Democrats and Republicans questioned aspects of the president’s plan to tackle the crisis.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/white-house-senate-child-migrant-crisis
The Children of the Drug Wars
A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis
CRISTIAN OMAR REYES, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out of Honduras soon — “no matter what.”
New Data on Unaccompanied Children
in Immigration Court
The recent surge of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children attempting to enter the country has touched off a heated debate. Some ask whether having Immigration Judges decide the fate of these children only postpones their inevitable deportation since it is alleged that few have any valid claim to remain in the United States. Others hotly dispute this contention.
This special report presents information derived from current and detailed case-by-case Immigration Court records tracing decisions on removal orders sought by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concerning unaccompanied children who have been apprehended by the agency. The data, current through June 30, 2014, was obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act.
The data trace the status of over 100,000 such cases. The information includes every instance over the last decade flagged as a juvenile case currently recorded in EOIR files. In each of these cases, the Department of Homeland Security instituted the action requesting that the court issue an order to deport these children. Because the DHS has authority to screen and then immediately deport unaccompanied Mexican children without any formal hearing, only a small proportion of children from Mexico are referred to the Immigration Court by the DHS. For this reason unaccompanied children who are immediately deported by DHS are not part of the court data examined here. See About the Data for additional details.
#statistiques #détention #détention_administrative #rétention
America’s child migrant crisis, explained in 2 minutes
Tens of thousands of children from Central America are arriving alone at our border, posing a major challenge to humanitarian systems that have been in place since World War II. Vox immigration reporter Dara Lind explains in two minutes.
▻http://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5884077/americas-child-migrant-crisis-explained-in-two-minutes
Bell plans to shelter immigration detainees
Nestor Valencia was 4 years old when he boarded a white van filled with piñatas and entered the United States illegally from Mexico.
Now the mayor of Bell, he sees a little of himself in the thousands of children arriving at the U.S. border and entering detention facilities.
Valencia and other officials in the largely immigrant city are now working with the Salvation Army to create a temporary shelter for detainees who were part of a huge surge of Central American children crossing the border.
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-bell-immigration-20140712-story.html#page=1
Believe It or Not, Kids Don’t Get a Lawyer in Immigration Court
“You have the right to an attorney...If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you at no cost."
Everyone’s heard the Miranda rights read on TV cop shows ... or maybe even in real life. The exact wording varies from state to state, but the meaning is always the same: access to a lawyer is a basic right.
Not so in immigration court. Because the legal proceedings are civil, and not criminal, the government is not obligated to provide most defendants with legal counsel. That goes for children, too.
That’s right. Children who enter the country illegally or overstay their visa can be put before a judge for “removal proceedings” — and get deported without ever talking to a lawyer.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hopes to put an end to that. The group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of eight families where children, ages 10-17, have been left to navigate the immigration system without a government-appointed lawyer. The ACLU hopes the case will serve as a precedent to change the standards of treatment for children in deportation proceedings.
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▻http://fusion.net/justice/story/kids-dont-lawyer-immigration-court-852404
Children trying to sneak into the U.S. aren’t always alone
MEXICO CITY — The “unaccompanied minors” who walked out of the brush on the banks of the Rio Grande and turned themselves into Border Patrol officers last month were not, technically, unaccompanied. In the group of 15 people that we watched that night, about half of them appeared to be adults, including men and a woman carrying a baby, in addition to several children.
Unaccompanied children cross US border
Thousands of unaccompanied children and mothers with babies are coming crossing the US border from Central America. Once inside the US they turn themselves over to authorities in hopes of getting permission to stay permanently. Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds travelled to Nogales in Arizona where the migrants are being held. Subscribe to our channel ▻http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter ▻http://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook ▻http://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website ►http://www.aljazeera.com
Blowback on the Border: America’s Child Refugee Crisis
After three years of relative silence, the U.S. press has finally “discovered” the crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors piling up on the U.S. border. Although the coverage often began with moving stories of the hardships these young migrants faced, it soon turned ugly. For right-wing pundits and politicians, the “humanitarian crisis” has become a crackdown on kids.
The dominant narrative has been that foolish parents, perhaps duped by scheming criminal bands, are sending hapless children north to take advantage of loopholes in U.S. immigration practices.
This is just plain wrong. On every count.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/blowback-on-the-border-am_b_5600425.html
Unaccompanied children are the focus of L.A. annual immigrant’s Mass
During Sunday Mass at a sunlit cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, a 22-year-old woman stepped timidly to a podium and began her story.
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“My name is Dunia Cruz,” she said in Spanish. “I came here from Honduras.”
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-immigrants-mass-20140721-story.html
Border crisis: U.S. targets money launderers to track child smugglers
The increasingly costly and divisive border crisis is pushing federal investigators to crack down on money-laundering schemes they say are being used to smuggle thousands of Central American children into the United States.
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-smugglers-money-trail-20140722-story.html
Fewer children arriving at the border unaccompanied, White House says
The number of children arriving at the border unaccompanied has dropped sharply so far this month, according to preliminary data released by the White House.
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-children-20140721-story.html
Children at the Border
More than 52,000 children have been caught crossing the United States border alone since October — double last year’s number. President Obama has called the surge an “urgent humanitarian situation,” and lawmakers have called for hearings on the crisis.
►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/us/questions-about-the-border-kids.html
Border crisis creates discomfort for state, local politicians over housing children
TUCSON — A governor was moved to tears. A mayor fretted about disease and crime. A city councilman accused the federal government of keeping secrets.
Around the country, in statehouses and mayor’s suites, in city council chambers and local police agencies, the challenge of housing tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American migrant children is forcing an emotional, uncomfortable and politically treacherous conversation on policymakers at every level. In the weeks and months since large numbers of migrant children began showing up in the Rio Grande Valley, federal officials have turned to states as far north as New England and many places in between in the search for places to keep the children while the government figures out whether to unite them with family members in the United States or deport them.
Gangs, guns and Judas Priest: the secret history of a US-inflicted border crisis
Visiting El Salvador over the past year, it was hard not to think the country’s number-one job is standing around outside with a gun. In the region from which child migrants are fleeing to the US, personal security is largely a question of what you can afford to pay. #El_Salvador has, by one estimate, 25,000 private guards in a country with 20,000 police officers. In #Honduras, which boasts the highest murder rate in the world and has seen the largest exodus of young people to the American border this year, guards outnumber cops five to one.
#gang
Advocates defend law that guarantees most immigrant children a hearing
Several leading immigrant advocacy groups are warning against changes to a law that guarantees immigration hearings for most unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border.
President Obama and members of Congress from both parties have been pushing for an overhaul to the law, which they say is needed to expedite deportations and ease the humanitarian crisis along the nation’s southern frontier.
Opponents of the changes say they would strip vulnerable children of their right to due process, forcing many to return to potentially deadly conditions back home.
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-unaccompanied-minors-border-20140722-story.html
How the war on drugs drives the child migrant crisis
The child migrant crisis has some roots in a seemingly unrelated policy: the war on drugs.
Since October, 52,000 children from outside the country have come to the US without an adult and strained the US immigration system. Many of them are fleeing a rising tide of violence back home in Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Behind that violence is a massive network of criminal organizations that range from elaborate drug cartels to less sophisticated street gangs.
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▻http://www.vox.com/2014/7/23/5925157/drug-war-child-refugee-immigration-crisis
#war_on_drugs
Child Migration Crisis in the United States
The number of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increased 90 percent between 2013 and 2014, drawing the attention and concern of the U.S. government, media, and public. MPI, which has deep expertise in migration trends and policies in the United States, Mexico, and Central America, is playing a key role explaining the dynamics and trends that have resulted in this spike in child migration. Here, you can find in one place a collection of relevant MPI resources, from analyses of trends and policy developments surrounding this child migration crisis to data and country profiles of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and recent MPI telebriefings and events to discuss the latest developments.
Which states are housing the young undocumented immigrants — in 3 maps
The influx of unaccompanied and undocumented minors across the southern border of the United States has prompted frustration on Capitol Hill, anger in the Southwest, and empathy from — and problems for --- governors.
Many of the children who have arrived in the United States have been released by the government to sponsors across the country. On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services released data showing precisely where those children were sent.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/07/25/which-states-are-housing-the-young-undocumented-immigrants-in-one-map/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
The New Wave: Forced Displacement Caused by Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico
Forced displacement generated by organized crime is a little-studied and poorly understood phenomenon. Based on field research carried out in 2013, this article redresses this situation by analysing the broad dynamics of an alarming new wave of forced displacement sweeping El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras – the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America – and Mexico. It focuses specifically on the role played by three of the main types of organized criminal groups in the region – mara street gangs, Central American drug transporters, and Mexican drug cartels – in provoking this displacement. Structural differences between these groups are shown to influence both the forms of displacement that they produce and the resulting patterns of movement by displaced persons. Consideration is then devoted to the implications for scholarship and humanitarian practice of this new wave of forced displacement generated by organized criminal groups.
New York Schools Are the Nation’s Most Racially Segregated
▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/03/new_york_schools_are_the_nations_most_racially_segregated.html
According to a new report released Wednesday by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, in 2009 black and Latino students in New York state went to the most racially segregated public schools in the country. The numbers are heavily influenced by the racial segregation in New York City Public Schools, the nation’s largest public school district, where nearly all black and Latino students attend schools that are majority-students of color, but where typical white students attend schools where fewer than 10 percent of the students are black, even though across the district black students are 30 percent of the district.
In New York City the numbers are more stark when broken down by type of school. In New York City, 73 percent of charter schools were classified by researchers as “apartheid schools,” meaning that they had under 1 percent white enrollment, and 90 percent were classified as “intensely segregated,” with under 10 percent enrollment. New York City has one of the nation’s most highly racially segregated school districts, due largely to the high degree of residential segregation for blacks, Latinos and whites. UCLA researchers said that the high degree of school segregation in New York City was also due to the fragmentation of the school system in New York, where even in New York City the district is split up into 32 Community School District. Nineteen of those CSD’s have a white enrollment under 10 percent—including every district in the Bronx, two-thirds of Brooklyn’s CSD’s, half of Manhattan’s CSD’s and fourty percent of the districts in Queens.
What’s more, the steady dismantling or near absence of federal desegregation plans in New York and the proliferation of school choice plans have exacerbated racial segregation in New York schools.
The numbers are so serious that “the apartheid conditions are similar to those that existed in the South before Brown v. Board of Education,” the report’s authors write.
Attacks, Arrests and Deportation for Immigrant Hunger Strikers
A little over a week ago, six immigrant detainees at the Eloy Detention Center began a hunger strike to demand their release from one of several privately owned facility that has holds immigrants in Arizona. Among them was #Jaime_Valdez—who was suddenly deported in the middle of the night late Tuesday, despite the fact that his immigration case was in appeal. Valdez, who had been held at #Eloy for more than a year, was entering the ninth day of his hunger strike, and his body was undoubtedly weakened as he was deported to Mexico. Five of the original hunger strikers remain at Eloy, and say they have been placed in solitary confinement as a result.
▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/02/attacks_arrests_and_deportation_for_immigrant_hunger_strikers.html
#migration #détention #rétention #détention_administrative #grève_de_la_faim #USA #Arizona #renvoi #déportation
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
"So racism went underground. Sure, you can’t say racist things anymore, but you can pretend to say them! Which, it turns out, is pretty much the exact same thing. There are a couple of strains of “ironic racism” making the rounds right now, and a couple of typical defenses."
►http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism
Understanding Hipster Racism: Lester Bangs’ 1979 “White Noise Supremacists”
►http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/04/hipster_racism_isnt_new_read_1979s_white_noise_supremacists.html
“But why is hipster racism, bigotry as an edgy joke for white people (and other people), so persistent? For answers, ThinkProgress’ Alyssa Rosenberg points us toward an 1979 Village Voice article by influential music critic Lester Bangs, titled “The White Noise Supremacists” [PDF] — and it’s sickeningly familiar. Bangs was an integral part of the late ’70s / early ’80s CBGB’s scene in New York City, a scene which has been posthumously hailed as a high point for racial harmony in which punk, rap, reggae, and new wave all came together. Bangs describes it less charitably as a place where white punks rebelled against everything, and quickly forgot why they’d gotten started. The result? What he refers to as “racist chic,” the employing of swastikas and epithets to get a rise out of some authority or other, and the resulting deeply homogeneous scene that offers no trouble to the actual-racist CEOs of the record industry.”
►http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar/Readings/BangsWhite.pdf
NYC Muslim Leaders Encourage Residents to Know Their Rights - COLORLINES
►http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/11/nyc_muslims_less_like_to_collaborate_with_police_after_one_too_many_unde
Leaders in New York City’s Muslim community are warning people to be watchful of potential undercover NYPD and FBI informants. So they’re holding teach-in’s to help members of the community diagnose the problem and understand their rights.
[...] The news comes after the AP released an investigation that revealed the NYPD dispatched plainclothes officers to eavesdrop in Muslim communities. The report found hundreds of mosques and restaurants were infiltrated to build a database on what the department later called “daily life inside Muslim neighborhoods.”
Today’s Love: 100-Year-Old Indian Man Breaks Marathon Record - COLORLINES
►http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/10/todays_love_100-year-old_indian_man_breaks_marathon_record.html
The best part of the story is that Singh is relatively new to running, having taken up the sport 20 years ago at the ripe age of 80. These days, he’s running about 16 kilometers each week.