The impact of Trump’s rapid-fire signing of executive orders is overwhelming. The US-Mexico border emerges as a site of civilization-ending crisis one day, then disappears altogether on the next, as our attention boomerangs from Ukraine to the Post Office to the...
The COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vast inequities in society and has generated much talk about the need for a stronger focus on equity in the vaccination roll out, especially for those who were placed at a greater risk due their employment or status....
Post-Trump Trade Deals? In 2019 Trump got his new version of NAFTA (2.0 or USMCA) passed by Congress. It was a strong bi-partisan vote in an otherwise politically divided government over the issues that ultimately produced two articles of...
In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...
I wanted to point out the contradiction. This country purports itself to be a safe haven for LGBTQ people, but it routinely tortures and harasses trans and gender nonconforming migrants in detention. I had known about the case of someone named Roxsana Hernandez, a...
Comments of WOB Board member, Donna J. Blevins, J.D., MPP I really don’t get the extreme, overwhelmingly negative reaction by so many in the white community to the simple phrase “Black Lives Matter.” When I see it, I think “yes, they do!” And I am...
