Jeanine Cummins identified the gringo appetite for Mexican pain and found a way to exploit it. This article was originally published at Tropics of Meta By Myriam Gurba When I tell gringos that my Mexican grandfather worked as a publicist, the news silences them. Shocked facial expressions follow suit. Their heads look ready to explode...
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Problematic Halloween Costumes Aren’t A Mistake, They’re An Exertion of Power
Wearing a problematic costume is a refusal to recognize the pain of someone else’s experience, and a refusal to acknowledge the harm people can do. By Gloria Oladipo Some people just don’t want to learn. Some people don’t care. Despite it being the year of 2019, hoards of problematic individuals are still dressing in costumes...
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These Are The Companies Profiting From Detaining Migrants At Border Concentration Camps
It doesn’t do migrants and refugees a service to pretend that white supremacy, capitalism and other forms of oppression aren’t intertwined. Today Wayfair employees walked out to protest the company’s sales to the U.S. government and its contractor’s concentration camps (let’s call them what they are) based in Texas. 547 Wayfair employees signed a letter...
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Before You Share Info About ICE Raids on Social Media, Read This
Stop copying and pasting unverified reports about ICE raids. You may mean well, but you’re hurting immigrant communities. Do this instead. If you’ve spent any time on Facebook lately, you’ve probably seen people sharing information about places where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been conducting raids or checkpoints. While the sentiment behind this...
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You Don’t Support Immigrants When You Say This
If you support workers’ rights, that means supporting all labor, including the undocumented people who make your clothes and pick your strawberries. Today, people all over the U.S. are striking in support of “A Day Without Immigrants.” As we now exist under the Trump regime, where talk of a Mexican border wall and a Muslim Ban isn’t...