Summer 2017
Table of Contents
The Sanctuary Issue
In Depth
Explore SectionFrom the Editors
Compassionate Defiance
In the 1930s, a million Mexican people were forced out of the United States across the border into Mexico. It wasn鈥檛 called deportation then鈥攅uphemistically it was referred to as repatriation. About 60 percent of those people were actually U.S. citizens. In 1942, the government incarcerated all Japanese people on the West Coast. Two-thirds were U.S. citizens. The previous century gave us the Know Nothing Party wanting to ban Catholic immigrants. Missouri鈥檚 Extermination Order of 1838 made Mormons enemies of the state. It was legal to kill them.
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When Hospitality Was the Norm and Multiculturalism Was a Good Thing
Despite border walls and travel bans, the Middle East is still a region where the weary traveler is welcomed and embraced.
Ariel Sophia Bardi
This Is Our Best Defense Against Trump鈥檚 Immigration Policies
Even with limited control over ICE agents, sanctuary is a public statement with a powerful political impact.
Mary Turck
In One of the Nation鈥檚 Most Conservative Places, A Sanctuary City
Advocates in Santa Ana mobilize to educate, assist, protect, and inspire undocumented residents.
Josu茅 Rivas
Can Portland Build a System Like the Underground Railroad for Immigrants?
As ICE increases its arrests, 30 Portland-area churches have pledged to offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. Anyone thinking of joining them must be ready to answer these hard questions.
Corey Pein
You Don鈥檛 Need a Sanctuary City to Help Your Immigrant Neighbors
In Greensboro, North Carolina, sanctuary policies are banned. But that hasn鈥檛 stopped residents and local police from supporting immigrants in their community.
Yessenia Funes
Undocumented and Transgender
A creative support system鈥攊ncluding housing, legal aid, and training for detention centers鈥攅merges to address the unique challenges of LGBTQ immigrants.
Norman Allen
Reality Check: More Police Officers Don鈥檛 Equal Safer Neighborhoods
Earlier this year, activists launched a campaign called Freedom Cities to protect and uplift all people of color. (And, no, it doesn't include more police.)
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
The Defiant, Refugee-Loving History of New Mexico
How the state鈥檚 unique and open relationship with Mexico is overshadowing Trump鈥檚 immigration policies.
Michael J. Dax
6 Places Resisting Fear With Compassionate Defiance
Sanctuary city policies can only go so far. The real job of creating welcome and safety falls to ordinary people.
Lornet Turnbull
What Japanese Internment Taught Us About Standing Up for Our Neighbors
First, we must demand justice for ourselves. Second, those who have privilege and power must intervene for those without.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
Solutions We Love
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5 Ways to Take Your Love of the Outdoors to the Next Level
Get outside, roll up your sleeves, and take a stand for public lands.
Melissa Hellmann
Electric Trains Everywhere: A Solution to Crumbling Roads and Climate Crisis
Transportation accounts for nearly a third of the country鈥檚 carbon emissions.
Stephen Miller
Meet the People Whose Job Is Checking Facts
We鈥檝e got enough political commentators. We need more fact checkers.
J. Gabriel Ware
Why We Are Driven to Search for the Truth
It鈥檚 something we struggle to see more clearly, to realize day to day, to make more real in our lives. And that鈥檚 always messy business.
Robert Jensen
Thanks to Amazon, Brick-and-Mortar Stores Have Lost 295K Jobs
And 32 other facts you should probably know.
Stephen Miller
Culture Shift
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How Photography Shapes Our View of Native Americans
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline.
Jacqueline Keeler
How We Can Transition to a 鈥淏ottom Up鈥� Economy
Three ways to rewire the economy for equality and ecological sustainability.
Chuck Collins
What the Insanity of Mass Incarceration Has Done To Us
We have lived with mass incarceration for so long that we do not see that it鈥檚 making even those who are supposed to be free less human鈥攁nd less humane.
Patrice Gaines
Wild Bees Can Help Honey Bees鈥擧ow Your Yard Can Support Them
Although farmers have come to rely on imported honey bees, wild pollinators are hardier.
Lori Panico
