Barbara Fister's Blog

• sanctuary

  February 1, 2008

  • Another woman facing deportation has taken shelter at the Adalberto United Methodist Church on Division Street in Chicago. Last year, Elvira Arellano spend many months there with her eight-year-old son (a US citizen) to dramatize the way deportations affect families. ICE avoided the bad press of raiding a church, but snapped her up and deported her as soon as she went to speak at a public event ...
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• help. I can not go

  January 20, 2008

  • I'd like to believe I am much more saddened by people whose lives fall apart than I am by crumbling stones or plaster. Sadly, social decay is just so much more easy to ignore, and not as prettily exposed with the lens of a camera. Dutch @ Sweet Juniper This Flickr set is astonishing. Please - go see it. I can't quite put into words what I feel when watching the entire slideshow. It isn't the ...
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• fear ye! fear ye!

  January 16, 2008

  • The New Yorker will have an article in its next issue written by Lawrence Wright which profiles Michael McConnell and his belief that the government must be allowed unexamined access to everything online. All of it. All of those hundreds of offers to increase the size of anatomical parts I don't have, all the offers for watches which I don't need, and all the web searches I perform when I really ...
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