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The GOP’s Hidden, Unspoken “Big Tent” Agenda

Wed, 10/03/2012 - 19:39 — Dave Culver

  • “We Don’t Want No More Niggers in the White House”
  • What's The Matter With White People ~ Joan Walsh

Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duty to Warn, Evergreene Digest

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Anyone who watched the two national political conventions last month couldn’t help but be impressed with the nearly total lack of racial diversity at the (“White’s Only”) Republican National Convention. The large number of racially-diverse delegates at the Democratic National Convention was truly impressive. It should be obvious that white racism will be a huge factor in this November’s elections.  
 
Oh, I admit that there were a few token blacks and Latinos on the Tampa convention center stage from time to time and a proportionally far smaller percentage of non-whites in the audience; but the TV cameras, probably under the direction of the RNC itself, often focused on those few, trying to give the impression that the GOP’s “Big Tent” was something other than a total fallacy.

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What's The Matter With White People ~ Joan Walsh, Joel Whitney, San Francisco (CA) Chronicle

  • The editor at large of Salon and MSNBC commentator pens an enlightening personal journey through the prevailing "us" vs. "them" narrative of US politics. Walsh confronts the vexing divisions that occur when working-class whites are egged on by the GOP to resent what they consider government handouts to minorities advocated for by social liberals.
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What's The Matter With White People ~ Joan Walsh

Sun, 09/30/2012 - 13:58 — Dave Culver

The editor at large of Salon and MSNBC commentator pens an enlightening personal journey through the prevailing "us" vs. "them" narrative of US politics. Walsh confronts the vexing divisions that occur when working-class whites are egged on by the GOP to resent what they consider government handouts to minorities advocated for by social liberals.

Joel Whitney, San Francisco (CA) Chronicle

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August 27, 2012 | Downtown New York may be the site of Occupy Wall Street and the 9/11 memorial. But Salon.com writer and MSNBC commentator Joan Walsh wants you to remember another New York event as a prism of American politics.

By the time the 1970 Hard Hat Riot erupted, Walsh recounts in her new book, "What's the Matter With White People?" GOP tricks had already unglued white middle- and working-class voters from the Democratic Party. Walsh's father, "an unlikely corporate peacenik," left work to attend a rally at Federal Hall to show solidarity with Kent State protesters killed days before by National Guardsmen. There he saw his own brother among construction workers who made up a counterprotest, some of whom shouted slogans like "love it or leave it" and used their hard hats to bludgeon protesters.

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NC Sheriff Accused Of Discrimination And Targeting Of Latinos For Deportation

Sat, 09/22/2012 - 13:16 — Dave Culver

 

  • (North Carolina Assistant Attorney General Thomas E.) Perez suggested the actions of Johnson and his deputies were not only illegal, but impeded the ability of the Alamance officers to solve serious crimes by...making Latinos scared to call law enforcement.
  • Distress spreads in Arizona over “Show-your-papers” law
  • Special Project | Immigration Reform: Week of September 23

Michael Biesecker, Asscociated Press / Huffington Post

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Sheriff Terry Johnson (R), of Alamance County, N.C., participates in a discussion on immigration October 12, 2011 in Washington, DC. The Center for Immigration Studies and the House Immigration Reform Caucus hosted the discussion with law enforcement agencies from local municipalities dealing with crime problems that are direct result from failure to control the border, and from lax enforcement of immigration laws. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

September 19, 2012 | A two-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice has found that a North Carolina sheriff and his deputies routinely discriminated against Latinos by making unwarranted arrests with the intent of maximizing deportations.

In an 11-page report issued Tuesday, the federal agency said Alamance County Sheriff Terry S. Johnson and his deputies violated the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents by illegally targeting, stopping, detaining and arresting Latinos without probable cause.

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Distress spreads in Arizona over “Show-your-papers” law, Natasha Lennard, Salon
Immigrant rights activists prepare concerned citizens now that SB 1070 is in effect

Special Project | Immigration Reform: Week of September 23, David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

  • "Show me a thirty foot high wall and I'll show you a thirty-one foot long ladder." --Molly Ivins
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    • Distress spreads in Arizona over “Show-your-papers” law
    • Police in legal minefield on Arizona  immigration law
    • Federal Court Blocks Most of Georgia and Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Laws
    • Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the Common Good?
    • Obama Memo Deferring Some Deportations Not a Victory For Latinos, Immigrants or Human Rights
    • Justice Dept. Sues Arizona Sheriff Arpaio for Civil Rights Violations
    • Border Patrol chief unveils new plan to address illegal immigration
    • Two Immigrants Killed in Ambush by Arizona Gunmen
    • Arizona's Immigration Legislation Undermines Christian Values
    • The Facts Behind the Government’s New ‘Hospitality’ Guidelines for Immigrant Detainee

 

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Adam Zyglis | Romney Ryan Crossing / media.caglecartoons.com

Wed, 09/19/2012 - 14:04 — Dave Culver

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Strikes at South Africa’s mines show economic inequality persists for blacks

Mon, 09/17/2012 - 20:17 — Dave Culver

  • “Government has not and will never take away the constitutional rights of our people that they worked so hard for during the struggle for liberation,” said (South Africa's President Jacob) Zuma, responding to accusations of heavy-handedness against the striking miners.
  • Angry South African strikers allege police brutality

Rohit Kachroo, theGrio.com

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Women protest against the police near the scene of the shooting of miners Thursday at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Frantic wives searched for missing loved ones, President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit and some miners vowed a fight to the death Friday as police finally announced the toll from the previous day’s shooting by officers of striking miners: 34 dead and 78 wounded. Placard reads: 'Come Zuma'. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

(September 17, 2012) Giant water cannons circle the shacks of Marikana’s squatter camps. Lines of armed police form, preventing the mine workers from marching. Many stay huddled in their homes, too frightened to emerge, after the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets during the weekend.  Soldiers arrive to help enforce a government order to settle disruption and end the intimidation of colleagues who want to break the strike.

The windswept meeting points on the hillside near the Marikana mine have fallen silent. For more than a month, it has been the scene of a so-called “worker revolution.” Thousands of men, some carrying machetes and sticks, have held frequent marches from the township where they live to the vast mine where they worked until they put down their tools several weeks ago.

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Angry South African strikers allege police brutality, Michelle Faul, Associated Press / NPR

  • The strikers said all they want is a monthly minimum wage of R12,500 ($1,560).
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What's Race Got to Do With It? A History of Child Care in America

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 14:28 — Dave Culver
  • A new book looks at the historical impact of race on child care options in the United States.
  • The For-Profit College Racket

Jessie B. Ramey, AlterNet

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(August 29, 2012)  It is a problem that has plagued parents since the dawn of the industrial age: who is going to care for my children while I participate in the workforce to put bread on the table? Today, that question remains as fraught as ever, as millions of parents struggle every day to cobble together enough dependable, affordable child care to keep their children safe while they are at work.

Now, a new book is shedding new light on the history of child care in America, unveling some rarely discussed truths about the choices parents routinely made regarding care for their children, and the racial disparities that impacted those decisions. Set at the turn of the last century as industrial capitalism was wrecking havoc on America’s working families, Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages, by Jessie Ramey, tells the story of families who used orphanages as an early form of child care in times of family crisis. The book explains how private charities struggled to make a dent in massive social problems long before there were any public safety nets, and compares “sister” agencies founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the same person – the United Presbyterian Orphan’s Home (which served white children) to the Home for Colored Children (which served children of color) – to reveal the gender, race and class inequalities built into the very foundation of our modern child welfare system.  Ramey spoke with her publisher, University of Illinois Press, about some of the more important findings of her research, as well as her inspiration for writing the book.

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The For-Profit College Racket, Suzanne Merkelson, Moyers & Company

  • This is an industry that is by and large exploitative to its students and useless to the public good. But business seems to be going just fine – for-profit universities have an average profit margin of 19.7 percent. They just won’t tell you that those profits are coming from our taxes – and at the expense of some of the most vulnerable among us.
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  • The Perversion of Scholarship
     
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