Melting Pot Storytelling tonight at the Occupy ICE L.A. camp!
BUSted Los Angeles, A Rrose In a Prose REVIVAL!, and Occupy ICE L.A. are presenting Melting Pot, a storytelling show devoted to immigrants and tales of immigration. It will be held outside The Metropolitan Detention Center (535 N. Alameda Ave) –but actually we’re around the corner on Aliso, the street that borders the 101 highway–just […]
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Help Geo get back to El Salvador!
If Geo wanted to turn himself in to ICE, he could technically go back “all expenses paid!” But we don’t want him to go through the pain, humiliation, and danger of being another piece of flotsam churning through the ICE-y stream. No matter where you stand politically, I don’t think you want that, either.
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Why Are Conservatives Such Whiny Snowflakes, Pt. II: No Criticism, Not Even From Within
I guess when it comes to being a president named Donald Trump, everyone gets a trophy!
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Progressives Need to Run for Office–Any Office!
We spend so much time trying to plead for mercy and understanding from those in political power, when in fact we could be them, in some cases merely by writing our names on pieces of paper.
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If you don’t watch this video of my band playing “I’m So Bored with the U.S.A.” then clearly you hate me and you’re SCUM and I don’t want to know you.
Happy Interdependence Day, everybody! This is a cover of the Clash by the Children of Jack Acid.
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Immigrants (whether “legal” or not) commit LESS crimes than native born folks, says the Cato Institute.
The one thing we agree on, across the political spectrum, is that crimes, including sexual assault and murder, are terrible. I never thought I’d say this, but the Cato Institute has pointed the way towards helping reduce these problems significantly in the United States.
To reduce America’s crime rates, let’s abolish I.C.E. and open our borders immediately!
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Is Trump woke?
Is Trump woke? I just heard him recite a powerful poem, written by a pretty hip African American. In it, a woman finds a snake half-dead from cold and hunger and she takes it home with her and revives it, only to be murdered. Trump asked that we keep “immigration” in our minds when hearing […]
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