Ombudsperson
Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Grace School of Applied Diplomacy
DePaul University
PHOTO: DePaul Website
Dear Paul,
As we begin Labor Day weekend, I give thanks for the many ways your work and mission seek justice for all.
My latest podcast gives thanks to all of you who have worked to end Title 42 and to all those immigrants who have contributed to the common good.
As I end the podcast quoting Emma’s Revolution’s song, Bound for Freedom, I give thanks that we are not alone, but united in the struggle. Thank you.
Have a great Labor Day weekend and Thank You.
Peace,
Craig
Rev. Craig B. Mousin
DePaul University
(mail) 1 East Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604
(office) Suite 800H
14E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312-362-8707 (voice)
312-362-5706 (confidential fax)
You can find some of my publications at either:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=667812or
https://works.bepress.com/craig_mousin/
You can find my digital story at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VTkjhzIcI
You can follow the podcast Lawful Assembly at:https://lawfulassembly.buzzsprout.com
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Thanks, Craig, for your “practical activism and scholarship!”
Takeaways:
- Grass roots activism works to defeat the forces of darkness and White Nationalism (the defeat of the barrage of White Nationalist immigration amendments was covered on Courtside here: https://immigrationcourtside.com/2022/08/08/%f0%9f%87%ba%f0%9f%87%b8%f0%9f%97%bd%e2%9a%96%ef%b8%8fndpa-activists-help-beat-back-gop-nativist-spoiler-amendments-to-reconciliation-bill-dems-need-to-win-midterms-to-thwart-newest-gop-immi/);
- The John McCutcheon version of Woodie Guthrie’s song “Deportees” shows how deeply ingrained “Dred Scottification” is in our country’s often unconstitutional, impractical, and sometimes immoral approach to immigration enforcement.“De-personification” of “the other’” — treating them as numbers, statistics, even “beds” or “apps” without names, faces or rights — and making up vile myths and lies about them, all while exploiting their labor — is still at the heart of the anti-American White Nationalist agenda!
- Social justice activism is an important multi-disciplinary endeavor — here we see how law, education, religion, civics, history, broadcast journalism, performance art, music, technology, political science, economics, language, culture, & communication all work together to thwart hate and lies;
- More undergraduate institutions need to be making these links and insisting that the true history of American Immigration — with all its triumphs and warts — becomes a staple of education;
- Many of those tone-deaf (or worse) politicos pushing the far right agenda of hate, lies, and racism reflected in the defeated amendments are elitists masquerading as “bogus populists” who got the benefit of education at some of the top law schools and universities in the nation. Whatever happened to the teaching of basic legal ethics and responsibilities to society? The Jim Crow agendas of today differ little from those of the pre-civil rights era of the 20th Century. These are NOT debates between legitimate “differing viewpoints,” but essentially questions of truth vs. lies, hate v. tolerance, integration v. exploitation;
- The White Nationalist Right is taking over school boards and local governance in the false name of “parents’ rights” — actually meaning the rights of far right parents to impose their minority religious doctrines and false social doctrines on others. The fight for social justice begins at the local level where where teaching of truth and legitimate debates are being drowned out by disgruntled, anti-democracy, empowered White Nationalist theocrats who claim they want liberty but actually are trying to impose autocracy and minority rule;
- The fight for social justice never ends!
🇺🇸 Happy Labor Day, & Due Process Forever!
PWS
09-05-22