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I AM A CHILD (Thread):
I am child
escaping harm
Wrapped in the arms of my mother
Searching for a place to belong
#KeepFamiliesTogether
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I am child
escaping harm
Wrapped in the arms of my mother
Searching for a place to belong
#KeepFamiliesTogether
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It took weeks to get here
there was hope in sight
Uniformed men stopped our entry
Hope denied
#WhereAreTheChildren
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there was hope in sight
Uniformed men stopped our entry
Hope denied
#WhereAreTheChildren
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What would Mister Rogers say and think about Donald Trump's evil and cruelty towards refugee and migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border? #WhereAreTheChildren #WhereAreTheBabies #WhereAreTheGirls
My new .@salon
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My new .@salon
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Mister Rogers was not just a kind man. He was a radical truth-teller and philosopher who possessed and lived an ideology of justice. I speak with professor Michael Long .@salon about this vision and also how the new documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" gives it short thrift.
Michael Long has written extensively on the philosophy of Mister Rogers and how his radical politics are a corrective to the cruelty and evil we have seen in the right-ward turn in America and the neoliberal regime more generally.
A few years ago, I taught in a different school where I had many kids from El Salvador. One student in particular was quite troubled. I mean. He was a real pain in the butt. But I never sent him out of class because I'm not that kind of teacher.
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#FamiliesBelongTogether
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#FamiliesBelongTogether
But other teachers were having problems with him and he ended up on the assistant principal's almost every day. He was very disruptive in their classes. Finally, the guidance counselor got permission to share his story.
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#KeepFamiliesTogether
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#KeepFamiliesTogether
It turns out that this boy hid under the bed while his mother was repeatedly raped when he was 4 years old.
He witnessed his mother being raped.
Repeatedly.
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#KeepFamiliesTogetherAct
He witnessed his mother being raped.
Repeatedly.
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#KeepFamiliesTogetherAct
Boy, I'm glad this is being reported, but the bloodless "waiting" here is going beyond the passive voice. It's making the children the active agents. They're waiting. If their patience runs out, will they stop waiting and leave?
No.
Because they're not waiting. They're held.
No.
Because they're not waiting. They're held.
The construction also elides the obvious question: for what are they waiting? I think the obvious conclusion would be "their parents" but there's no mention here about any plan or timetable for reuniting them. So what are they waiting for? Trials? Deportations? A final solution?
Let's please not forget that "concentration camp", now considered too harsh a label to be used lightly, was originally a euphemism. Nothing about the phrase itself speaks of genocide or death. Just a way to... concentrate a population in one area.
"The children are waiting."
"The children are waiting."
WHERE ARE THE PRISON CAMPS HOLDING THE GIRLS?
WHERE ARE THE LITTLE GIRLS??? @CNN @MSNBC @maddow @jaketapper or any “News” organization that can focus on more than the Trump shitshow!
WHERE ARE THE GIRLS???
WHERE ARE THE LITTLE GIRLS??? @CNN @MSNBC @maddow @jaketapper or any “News” organization that can focus on more than the Trump shitshow!
WHERE ARE THE GIRLS???
Here are some ideas!
Trump administration now ripping nursing babies from their mothers shareblue.com/trump-administ…
Undocumented immigrants in the South denied access to water, electricity, and gas thinkprogress.org/undocumented-i… via @thinkprogress #InternmentCamps #DeathPanels #Sociopathy
Four-star general warns Trump's family separation policy echoes Nazis shareblue.com/general-michae… #AmericanSociopath
Trump is thinking about constructing a prison camp to hold 5000 children separated from their parents under Trump’s orders.
Who can we call to stop this inhumane President* from committing this immoral act?
Who can we call to stop this inhumane President* from committing this immoral act?
“Cruelty is both the means and the end. It’s the thread that runs through ICE’s strategy of instilling terror in immigrant communities, Department of Homeland Security’s restrictive approach to refugees and asylum-seekers, the White House’s decision to…”
“Cruelty is [Trump’s reason behind] the White House’s decision to rescind temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of settled immigrants, Sessions’s decision to reopen 350,000 cases for potential deportation, and much more.” #AbolishICE
This #MothersDay we remember OFFICIAL GOP POLICY of Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, and Trump is TO SPLIT UP FAMILIES:
OFFICIAL POLICY HAS LOST OVER 1500 CHILDREN.
OFFICIAL POLICY HAS LOST OVER 1500 CHILDREN.
You are either against separating children from their parents, or you are for it.
Lethal Neglect begins with enforcing cruel laws and cruel executive orders aggressively.
Lethal Neglect begins with enforcing cruel laws and cruel executive orders aggressively.
The Trump administration STILL plans on putting migrant children in warehouses on military bases after separating them from their families.
Donald Trump and GOP re-election slogan: Aggressive Cruelty. #MACA
Donald Trump and GOP re-election slogan: Aggressive Cruelty. #MACA
