Rebecca Centeno: Stalling Game: What’s Really Happening to Asylum Seekers at the Brownsville Port of Entry
This spring, after former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, people watched in horror as children were ripped from the arms of their parents. As public furor grew, the policy’s defenders threw around three words that muddied the reality of the situation: “Just come legally.” To avoid separation, […]
Rebecca Centeno and Alexei Wood: ‘No Existen Fronteras’: Following the Hard Road of Central America’s Refugee Caravan
On November 8, the two of us traveled with Strikecorps, a nonprofit workers’ movement from New York City, and other activists to livestream, record and provide media equipment to the refugee caravan in Mexico City. After weeks of President Donald Trump demonizing the refugees as criminals and invaders, trying to thrill his base ahead of […]
Al Jazeera, “Refugees in Greece work together and build communities”
About one in 10 of the 60,000 refugees in Greece do not live in government camps or NGO shelters, but in squats such as disused schools which operate under the protection of the anarchist movement. Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “A Radical Post-Bernie Cooperative Multicultural Immigrant Manifesto”
Just how could this cooperative-immigrant alliance actually work? One need look no further than Athens, Greece for the ultimate gold standard. There, anarchists have established the so-called Notaria solidarity center in the Exarcheia neighborhood. Eschewing a purely philanthropic approach, Notara asks refugees to attend assembly meetings where decisions are made on a consensus basis. Continue […]
Nikolaos Gryspolakis: When hospitality is not displayed in the media…
When hospitality is not displayed in the media… Nikolaos Gryspolakis, September 21, 2015 Translation by Pavlos Stravopoulos Reprinted with permission “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” and … war crimes and crimes against humanity are generous humanitarian aid. Several thousand refugees arrived in Germany (a country of 81 million inhabitants with a […]