by Jeanne Gallo
The United States government maintains the largest immigration detention system in the world. This barbaric practice did not begin with Donald Trump, though he has magnified its cruelty to extremes. Over the last four decades, US lawmakers have helped create a multi-billion-dollar industry for the incarceration of immigrants. Forty years ago, this system did not exist. Why are people from Central America seeking asylum here? Their answer: “We are here because you were there.”
Originally published in Truthout Latin America’s groundbreaking experiment in 21st century socialism has suffered another devastating setback with the recent right-wing coup which ousted President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who was democratically elected for a fourth term in October, when he defeated his right-wing challenger 47 percent …
This book talk features the author Steve Striffler and his fellow activist intellectuals, Aviva Chomsky and Jose Aleman. José Alemán is a public high school teacher in northern Mass. He is a former Consul General of El Salvador for the New England region and a …
Author and professor Greg Grandin will join us via Skype on Friday October 4th at 7 PM for a discussion of his latest book, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. This timely book explores …
In 2019, Jeanne Gallo and Sunny Robinson have given a series of talks on mass migration in the Americas and the US border crackdown, including one sponsored by Mass. Peace Action in Cambridge on June 27. Their presentation addresses the current mass migration from …
Sunday, April 22, 1pm Friends Meeting at Cambridge 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge A Talk with Oscar A. Chacón, Executive Director, Alianza Americas Oscar A. Chacón is a co?founder and executive director of Alianza Americas, a Chicago- based national network of Latin American immigrant?led …
The Massachusetts Coalition to Cut Aid to Honduras is an informal, newly formed coalition of individual community members and folks from different organizations like Grassroots International, Proyecto Hondureño, The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, U.S. El Salvador Sister Cities, UFE, etc, We are working on …
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