Greetings everyone! What a time to be alive. A bit has happened since last time Rob asked me to pop in and happy-birthday-blog for LGM. Back then, in the Before Times, my then-17 y/o Liam was heading off to college and I took a beat...
Author: Charli Carpenter
On the last day of my trip, I hitched a ride with a caravan of activists and Seventh-Day Adventists to Juarez to deliver supplies to one of the refugee shelters.
Protest may get the media attention, and direct action at detention sites is crucial in provoking policy change. But more hidden from view are the myriad ways that Americans in.
On my public Facebook page for this trip, a commenter posted this article, suggesting folks wanting to help should not go to the border. But that depends for what. The article makes some good points: a) the goal of any trip should be to amplify...
One of the most interesting conversations with random ordinary Americans I had on this trip was with the Enterprise Rent-a-Car agent who gave me my keys. I won't use his.
First, this morning Border Network for Human Rights will announce a major inter-faith protest event next Monday, July 29 in El Paso, Texas. If you can come, please do, and.
Debating international and constitutional law with guards outside a detention center in El Paso, TX. I spoke to this guard yesterday at Paso del Norte Port of Entry detention center. He asked I edit his face out of the photo I took. (Apparently you can...
On Friday, before I headed to Juarez to meet up with some student service-learners, I stopped off in El Paso for a hike with Neal Rosendorf, the professor I'd met.
On the first day of my Concentration-Camp-Resisting Vacation, I focused on speaking to every possible random American I could about the children being held without parents on the border. It.
Protest sign left-behind at an anti-white-supremacy march in Boston, August, 2018 now hanging in my kitchen Ah, summertime – that fleeting period when tenured full professors like me are freed from teaching and committee work for the luxury of deep thinking, reading, writing, and unstructured...
Awhile back, when I popped in to harp on the Game of Thrones denouement, Commenter "Dogboy" clicked a link in that post to this article by Stanford researcher Scott Sagan.
"Sir, I've played in six countries on three continents. And I believe the purpose of public schooling is to give kids the ability to play on decent fields who.