
Siding with the Barbarians
Two radical artists have set up an immigration agency, a political consulting firm, a Ponzi scheme for marketing contemporary art, and seven other enterprises. Welcome to the mock entrepreneurial art of Société Réaliste.
Two radical artists have set up an immigration agency, a political consulting firm, a Ponzi scheme for marketing contemporary art, and seven other enterprises. Welcome to the mock entrepreneurial art of Société Réaliste.
David Bacon’s Illegal People illustrates how current immigration laws hurt citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented immigrants whom the laws target.
Debt cancellation, combined with new approaches to trade, investment, and aid, could help many developing countries reduce migration pressures.
Turkish journalist Tan Morgul discusses Turkey’s Kurdish population, and describes a new Turkey born of changes in politics and regional immigration.
E. Ethelbert Miller talks with Edwidge Danticat about her new memoir, U.S. immigration law, and U.S.-Haitian relations.
The grassroots transfer of money from North to South can be a powerful tool of cross-border organizing.
NAFTA is not just about free trade any more. As columnist Laura Carlsen explains, NAFTA has a new and ominous punch as well.
Most undocumented workers come from a region heavily influenced by U.S. foreign policy. It’s not a coincidence.
In his bid to appeal to a conservative base on the road to 2008, John McCain repeatedly urged last week that the United States send more troops to Iraq to get the job done. The military response to McCain’s political appeal demonstrates that military intelligence is no oxymoron.
Do the 2006 elections mark a return of the Enlightenment?
How NAFTA, CAFTA, and other corporate-friendly trade policies displace farmers and create mass migration, and how we can do better.
This op-ed ran in the Baltimore Sun on June 30, 2006.
This op-ed appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on June 11, 2006.
President Bush has yet another supposed “emergency” on his hands. This time it’s illegal immigration.