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Tag Archives: racism
The New Jim Crow (encore, on vacation)
I first saw the title six months ago., “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (1210).” Could it be that the author was comparing our current prison system to the notorious system of … Continue reading
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Tagged "Jim Crow, African American, prison, prison industry., racism, roots of injustice, War on Drugs, welfare
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Environmental Racism
Rose Augustine, born in 1936, leaned toward me and said, “I always lived on the Southside, the part of Tucson that is Mexican American. In 1985 a newspaper reporter did a series on water contamination on the Southside. The Hughes … Continue reading
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Tagged Environmental racism, Latino, Mexican American, people of color, racism, roots of injustice, TCE, Tucson
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Welfare
Many years ago, I was a single parent with three children under five. I worked four part time jobs trying to support them. When I was unable to get child support and my child care fell through, I went on … Continue reading
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Tagged poverty, prison, racism, roots of injustice, welfare, welfare reform, women
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Nativism
On July 22, 2006, my husband an drove across the desert in our air conditioned car. At the same time, eleven-year-old Olivia Luna Nogueda and her older sister, Marisol, seventeen, attempted to cross the Arizona desert from Mexico on foot. … Continue reading
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Tagged Border, Immigration, Latinos, Mexico, nativism, racism, roots of injustice, violence
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God’s Plan for Justice
Maria Elena Lucas, a farm worker and union organizer, found meaning in the everyday work of her people. She saw their hard lives as part of a larger struggle that included God ‘s plan for justice in this world. Nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged crucifixion, drug violence, El Salvador, farm workers, justice, Latina, Maria Elena Lucas, racism, reign of God, roots of injustice, unions
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New Movement
About twenty years ago I knew Catherine McGowen, a retired cleaning woman from a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. A small African American, she had been one of grass roots activists in the civil rights movement. She was raising two young … Continue reading
War on Drugs
Shortly after Ronald Reagan promoted the “War on Drugs” in 1982, I met a young African American woman locked in jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had been arrested in a drug sweep and charged with prostitution. In the background, cells … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, Michelle Alexander, prison, Prostitution, racism, War on Drugs, women
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