I may have linked this series before but it bears another look if you are interested.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science In America — Redglass Pictures
The Moth | Stories | Unhooked
If you want your country to be better, everyone has to do their part.
Photos: What migrants leave behind on their journeys through the desert | PBS NewsHour
The Things They Carried: Twenty-first Century Migrant Edition.
A Bleak Read: Why Dystopian Fiction Is Popular Now – 1A
When half the world is electing destroyers and imbeciles, it is instructive the figure out what options you may have.
Both in how bad it may get as well as how you might best comport yourself.
Immigrants share their stories, hopes for the future | Minnesota Public Radio News
Heard some of this story and need to listen to the whole thing, while also passing it along.
Photo of Kyoto by Leslie Taylor Makes Internet Swoon
Images of one of my favorite places.
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mexico remembers the Irishmen who fought for Mexico against the US | Public Radio International
My more or less annual entry related to the San Patricios.
Children make perilous journey to Mexico-U.S. border in search of their mothers | Minnesota Public Radio News
Call a person “illegal” and I suppose it makes it easier to be cruel to them.
To separate them from their families.
To, at some level, create the conditions where they can be harmed, possibly killed.
They gambled, and lost: Dozens of migrants braved thousands of miles of jungles, seas and bandits to reach the U.S. Then they were sent home. – Los Angeles Times
People damn immigrants like they are on some kind of lark wanting to break laws for kicks.
No, many are risking their lives to either stay alive or get out of a horrific situation.