An important key at this point for resisters is to avoid clashes, rioting, vandalism, or looting.

The massive budget for ICE and immigration enforcement and incarceration exceeds the military budgets for most countries.

This is an eye-opening persuasive look at the poverty problem in America. Desmond is saying that poverty is curiously prevalent in America, not because poor people are behaving in self-destructive ways, but because someone is benefitting from keeping their fellow citizens poor.

I'm reading Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. It is terrific and I'm thinking about recommending it for my anti-racist book club.

Interesting that Michael Harrington published his landmark book on poverty in 1962 and LBJ in his state of the union address in 1964 pledged to launch his "war on poverty."