1. The Lasting Trauma of Japanese American Incarceration
Sunday marks 75 years since the signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the mass incarceration of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans. A look back, and lessons for today.
2. The Ancient City ISIS Is Destroying, Preserved Online
A new digital exhibition, “The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra,” features prints and photographs from the pre-Islamic metropolis.
3. Trump Says He Wants to Prioritize Christian Refugees. Middle Eastern Christians in the U.S. Respond.
The reaction to Trump’s statements among Assyrians living in the U.S. is far from uniform.
4. Detained Dreamer’s Lawyers Say Government Doctored Legal Document to Try and Prove False Gang Affiliation
The document filed to the court bears clear signs of erased words. See the image at the link.
5. The Melancholy of Race: A Conversation with Singer-Songwriter Amy León
Black womanhood, race, and mourning are just a few of the subjects León ponders in her debut album Something Melancholy. A singer-songwriter featured on Democracy Now! who has toured throughout the U.K. and is the author of two collections of poetry, León spoke with Sojourners about her latest project — how it came about and why “four little girls,” a common reference to the children of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, is inaccurate.
6. In California Farm Country, Trump’s Deportation Threat Looms Large
Undocumented workers make up between 50 and 70 percent of hired farmworkers. The sheer number in California makes mass deportation nearly impossible, but the psychological effects on families living in fear takes its toll.
7. Wolves in Nationalist Clothing
“If conspiracy thinking wants to increase people’s dependence on a strongman leader, the antidote lies in empowering people to find the solutions to their problems themselves. For the media this could mean focusing on what some are calling 'constructive' or 'solutions-based news,' a kind of journalism that, while remaining true to evidence-based research and reporting, is also informed by positive psychology and dedicated to proposing real, practical counter-measures.”
8. Sikhs Open Their Temple Doors to California Evacuees
Evacuees from the Oroville Dam flooding found sanctuary this week in the Sikh temples throughout the Sacramento area. “Our faith teaches us to help everyone. The poor, the hungry, it doesn't matter who you are.”
9. The Global Playbook of the Extreme Right
“One of the bitter ironies is that the extreme right the world around are remarkably similar in the way they operate and in their worldviews. They believe in a certain purity of identity. They often use similar tactics. … There’s no doubt that the right in the U.S is less violent than in India or Indonesia, but I don’t think that has much to do with religion, but in how routine violence is in and out of politics.”
10. Faith Leaders Stand Outside ICE Offices Demanding Answers for Six Detained Near Church
Watch their statements here.
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