Looking at Migration from Honduras Up, Rather than US Down

ACORN International Ideas and Issues Immigration Reform Organizing

London   Draft rules being prepared by the US Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency for ICE, Immigration and Custom Enforcement, would provide for expedited procedures for anyone in the US over two weeks, rather than two years, immediate deportation at the border, and potential legal action against parents sending unaccompanied minors. Honduras, where ACORN …

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Blockadia May Not Be a Place, but Could be a Tactic Everywhere

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Immigration Reform Organizing

New Orleans   I read Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything, in November 2014, but had forgotten her notion of “blockadia” until I was listening recently to the Bioneers broadcast on KABF following our new public affairs show last week. She was giving a speech to their convention along with other Canadian activists. She was trying …

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