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Immigration


Finding Ukraine in the US

Maks Bondarenko

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I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didn’t work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...

A Nation of Immigrants? Erasure, Exclusion and the Power of Rodney Toy’s Art

Jonah Raskin

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A recent art exhibit in San Francisco got me thinking about immigrants and immigration, which has long been a hot topic in the US. I can relate on a personal level. Rodney Toy, 53, the artist ...

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Lest we forget: the coup in Honduras 2009

Tony Equale

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The following post was initially sent as an email message to a group of close friends.  The author agreed to let us post it on Hard Crackers. Friends, As we read about the visits of Vice President ...

Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories

Darien Acero

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Plunder “No nos toca;” basically, “it’s not our problem.” That’s what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztón after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huét Gómez, a father, ...

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory – Two Short Essays

Mike Morgan and John Garvey

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More Confusion – No Wonder! By Mike Morgan If there was a board game in which the winner would reveal the official historic and current U.S. position towards most of the Far East peoples and their ...

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A Gory Gift to Trump: A Cruel, Militarized, Expensive, and Decades Old, Bipartisan Border Policy

Ron Leighton

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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 ...

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Another Person’s Shoes

Gifford Hartman

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In 2005 I was hired by a non-profit in San Mateo County to design and teach classes in a combined English as a Second Language and Family Literacy program in the community room of a low-income ...

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World of Interconnected Strangers

Curtis Price

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As I parked, I heard a tap on my window. The tap came from a neighbor from the building next door, a 40-ish African-American man with an unfashionable, immaculately coifed Afro and John Lennon-style glasses, radiating ...

Coming to America

Zhandarka Kurti

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I was 12 years old when I first watched the movie Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy, about a pampered African prince who travels to Queens, New York to look for a wife that he can ...