Below is a post from the “Look Out For One Another” FB group in Huntsville, Alabama. Most of the responses gave specific information about who to contact, but a few made larger points such as the responses here below JC’s original post. JC: “I just saw a post on here about the Madison County Jail. […]
Archives for August 2019
A Gory Gift to Trump: A Cruel, Militarized, Expensive, and Decades Old, Bipartisan Border Policy
A review of John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border, New York: Bold Type Books, 2019, 243 pages. John Carlos Frey’s Sand and Blood relates the roughly 140-year history of U.S. anti-immigrant racism and policy on the southwest border, and highlights its mostly pre-Trump, bipartisan intensification over the last […]
After El Paso and Dayton
1. praise for the first responders; 2. exhortations from local political leaders that “this will not affect who we are” and “we will recover”; 3. a promise of thorough investigation; 4. detailed speculation about what charges the shooter might face (if he’s still alive); 5. a commitment to notify victims’ families as soon as possible; […]