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Category: Activism
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Beacon’s Senior Editor Alexis Rizzuto and Associate Publisher Tom Hallock talk about their experiences at the People’s Climate March and why climate change is fast becoming one of the most important issues of our time.
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An indigenous community leader from Oaxaca reports on the struggle against economic policies that drive migration, in an excerpt from David Bacon’s The Right to Stay Home (now available in paperback).
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Immigration expert Aviva Chomsky reveals the true history behind the mass migration of undocumented Central American children to the US. Chomsky is the author of several books, most recently ‘Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.’
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In an excerpt from ‘The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands’, Margaret Regan shows us the sometimes tragic and all-too-real dangers that unaccompanied minors must increasingly endure.
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Immigration activist Aviva Chomsky reveals quite a few surprising facts about immigration and “undocumentedness” in her compelling new book ‘Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.’
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Historian and activist Melinda Chateauvert explores the growing movement for sex workers’ rights in her new book Sex Workers Unite.
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Noliwe M. Rooks, author of White Money/Black Power, explores the complex questions of race and poverty raised by homeless child Dasani, subject of the recent New York Times “Invisible Child” series.
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Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, examines the true legacy—of activism, struggle, and radical transformative change—left by Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela.
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