Ai Jen Poo of National Domestic Worker Alliance is calling all people of conscience together for a Families Belong Together Rally/National Day of Action for Children on Friday, June 1. At 12 – 2 PM your local time. Hi Shaun, This is urgent: Every day that goes by, more kids are separated from their families.… Read More June 1: Families Belong Together Rally
National Day of Action for Children In response to the growing number of children and youth separated from their immigrant families at the border or their homes, the disappearance of nearly 1,500 children, and the abuses committed against many, we are holding a non-violent National Day of Action for Children on Friday, June 1st. We… Read More June 1: Day of Action for Children
HHS Official Says Agency Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Unaccompanied Minors In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) A top official from the Department of Health and Human Services came… Read More Frontline: Trafficked in America
from the website of Detention Watch Network: Immigration Detention 101 The United States government maintains the world’s largest immigration detention system. Immigration detention is the practice of incarcerating immigrants while they await a determination of their immigration status or potential deportation. In 2016 [under the Obama administration] the United States government detained nearly 360,000 people… Read More Immigration Detention 101
Engage! is dedicating it’s space on the web to highlight one cause, and this time it’s Detention Watch Network’s campaign to end family detention, to end the rape and abuse of women and children in immigrant detention centers, to demand justice for the “disappearance” of 1500 children under DHS custody…this brutality and injustice is an… Read More Engage w/Detention Watch Network
I am beginning to explore the parallels and contrasts between Buddhism and Naturalism. This video series on Naturalism is presented by Sean Carroll on ‘Moving Naturalism Forward”, from a workshop held in 2012. Sean Carroll is a physicist who has become a public scholar in the realm of scientific atheism, which he prefers to call… Read More Buddhism and Naturalism
This article was reblogged from my new shingle at Tumblr: Soul Yogi, at https://thesoulyogi.tumblr.com. I’m turning my attention to the music I love—Soul Jazz—and working on a set with my band, The Soul Yogis. Visit thesoulyogi.tumblr often to discover great soul-jazz music of the 60s and 70s, and revivalist soul music of the 90s and today.… Read More Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz and the Art of Protest
