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Every Friday we want to offer a collection of media pieces that we’re finding provocative, vital, persuasive, prophetic, genius, infuriating, mind-blogging, and other adjectives that gesture at all things thought-provoking. Some of these posts will, of course, focus on immigration, but some will not. Some of these posts will represent the foreground of our national attention, but others will have sunk far into its background. Regardless, we hope to pass on a bit of what we’ve been reading, and what’s been capturing our attentions. If you’d like to pass on any media, please contact us at [email protected]. Enjoy!
- Occupy Wall Street ‘Media Blackout': Journalists Arrested, Roughed Up, Blocked From Covering Clearing (from Huffington Post)
- Cameroonian farmers in anti-rape protest (from BBC)
- Same-Sex Couple Fights DOMA To Stay Together In US (from Huffington Post)
- Chicago Latinos pay more in taxes than they get from government, study finds (from ChicagoBusiness.com)
- Stories of America’s Jim Crow Past (from Duke University)
- Occupy Nashville Takes Aim On CCA With Mock Human Auction (from NewsChannel5.com)
- Herman Cain Criticizes Arab Spring At Republican Debate In South Carolina (from Huffington Post)
- 5 Occuprint Posters Tell the Tale of Global Solidarity for 99 Percent (from Colorlines.com)
- Top 10 Reasons Alabama’s New Immigration Law Is a Disaster for Education (from Center for American Progress)
- Poll deconstructs Pearce recall election (from The Colorado Independent)
- Commentary: US immigrant detention system is costly, inhumane and undemocratic (from The Palm Beach Post)
- Immigration from Mexico in fast retreat, data shows (from Los Angeles Times)
- FBI: Hate Crimes Against Hispanics on the Rise (from MyFoxPhoenix.com)
- ALEC Exposed: Voter ID (from Main Street Insider)
- Undocumented immigrants descend on Alabama to protest controversial immigration law (from New York Daily News)
- Chicago Undocumented Worker and Parent Arrested in Alabama Civil Disobedience (from Immigrant Youth Justice League)