CHICAGO (AP) — A Polish woman whose family was separated after the U.S. denied her a green card and deported her returned to the U.S. Monday with her American-born son, reuniting with the husband and father they’d been away from for four years. Janina Wasilewski’s case was unusual not [...]
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Where are the African American organizers? I’ve been hearing this question a lot of late. I’ve heard it from grantees, executive directors, activists and others who have been observing that there are too few Black organizers in the field. For the last few years, Liberty Hill’s program staff [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Ethel Gist bought her dream house and planned to retire to Antioch, Calif. Instead, the 70-year-old lost the house during the height of the foreclosure crisis, and now rents a place with her daughter and two grandchildren. After he lost his three-bedroom home in East [...]
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ILLINOIS – They are lost in limbo, their lives on hold, and their contributions sidelined while politicians debate their value to society even as they excel at school, volunteer in their communities and serve in the U.S. military. Their crime is having been born on different soil – Mexico, [...]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The debate over how to fix the $1.4 trillion shortfall and rein in $14 trillion in national debt has become less about money and more about government’s role in caring for the poor, the vulnerable, and the growing number of unemployed and underemployed. President Obama is [...]
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ALABAMA – Despite soaring deficits, cuts in social services, worker layoffs and tornado-devastated communities, Alabama’s first Republican-controlled government in 136 years has turned its focus on undocumented immigrants, raising questions about policymakers’ priorities. Governor Robert Bentley recently signed a tough anti-immigration law, the latest in a patchwork of similar [...]
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Idell McShan sits outside her broken trailer home, her 3-year-old great-granddaughter playing at her feet. A slight breeze kicks up, rustling leaves and sending a scrap of paper scuttling across the ground. McShan glances toward the treetops – a hint of worry crosses her face, her body tenses. Her [...]
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Keith and Elaine Davis lived simply and quietly for years in the modest house Keith’s father built in the 1950s in a low-income neighborhood of Tuscaloosa that some just call “behind the water tower.” Their home, furniture, car and pickup were destroyed by the tornado that plowed through Alabama [...]
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Lack of communication technology and infrastructure slowed recovery assistance to Alabama’s most rural communities the first week after the April tornadoes. Many people didn’t hear that shelters were open, or about the need to register quickly for federal emergency aid. Few families have cellphones in the rural corners of [...]
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The tornado damage in Alabama is far more devastating than can be imagined by just seeing the images on TV and YouTube. In Tuscaloosa, full neighborhoods and communities have been obliterated as if a bomb was dropped. Two weeks after the tornado roared through the town of 90,000, bulldozers, [...]
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Apr 17 2012
Michael Seifert | Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network Compañero. The word means “companion,” and is from the Latin, meaning “the one I share bread with.” A compañero, then, is someone with whom you share the bread of life—be it the bread of the day’s hopes and dreams, struggles and disappointments, or blessings and bounding happiness, which, experienced alone, remain Read more →
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