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Alice Embree :
Activism in the Trump era

10,000 in Austin rally to ‘Keep Families Together’; Many Texas victories to celebrate. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | July 1, 2018 On Saturday, June 30, 2018, a Keep Families Together rally at the Texas State Capitol drew … Continue reading

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Elaine J. Cohen :
METRO | The heartbreak of children behind bars

The children we have come to know during our regular visits to detention centers have now spent an enormous part of their short lives behind walls. By Elaine J. Cohen | The Rag Blog | May 30, 2015 This is … Continue reading

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Alice Embree :
METRO | Remembering Oscar Romero with a ‘Day of Action’

Demonstrators mark the anniversary of Archbishop Romero’s assassination with calls for an end to refugee detention. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | March 25, 2015 AUSTIN — On March 24, the anniversary of Archbishop Oscar Romero’s assassination in … Continue reading

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METRO | Alice Embree : Grassroots Leadership takes on the prison profiteers

The group helped end immigrant family detention at T. Don Hutto private prison and is challenging Travis County Sheriff Hamilton’s deportation policies. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 22, 2014 AUSTIN — Grassroots Leadership says that Texas … Continue reading

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Barbara Hines is a famed immigration attorney and a clinical law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-director of the immigration clinic at the UT School of Law. A two-time Fulbright scholar, Hines has practiced immigration … Continue reading

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Lily Keber : Putting Families in Jail in America

Putting children in jail:T. Don Hutto and family detention in America As hope for change in Obama immigration policy dwindles, activists speculate on the fate of family detention. By Lily Keber / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009 See … Continue reading

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Bob Libal :
Si Kahn : 44 years of music and social justice

Activist, musician, and executive director of Grassroots Leadership:  four decades in the struggle. By Bob Libal | The Rag Blog | July 28, 2009 I read in the paper, I watched on the show They said that it happened a … Continue reading

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Dick Cheney : Assassination Nation

Dick Cheney: More tales from the dark side Peter Berger, a security analyst at the American Enterprise Institute thinks that, judging from Congressional reaction, the program must have involved much more than killing some Al Qaeda people. By Sherman DeBrosse … Continue reading

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James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO

J. Edgar Hoover and friend.Part IWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2009 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?— Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 [A version … Continue reading

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Prisons : Why Texas Still Holds ‘Em

Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants.By Stephanie Mencimer This article appears in the July/August issue of Mother Jones. In 1997, with the private prison business booming, the Corrections Corporation of … Continue reading

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March for the Women — And the Children

International Women’s Day March on Hutto Detention Center in Taylor Texas. There will be a rally on Hutto Saturday, March 8, as part of International Women’s Day activities at T. Don Hutto. The peace walk will begin at 3:30 p.m., … Continue reading

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The Rag Continues to Change the World — a Little !

Seeking Asylum: Law faculty, students at Immigration Clinic work to free detained families at controversial facility Amid the idyllic Americana setting in a small Texas town is a place where young children lived surrounded by razor wire fence with the … Continue reading

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