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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Hear the truth about Israel and Gaza - And what could come under Trump : Author Chris Hedges


Chris Hedges "The Genocide in Gaza" (youtube.com)



 Chris Hedges ~ The Greatest Evil is War - YouTube


0:18 The Genocide in Gaza 42:10 Letter to the Children of Gaza 52:27 Audience Q&A Best-selling author, foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges addressed the Middle East crisis with a talk titled "The Genocide in Gaza" on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY. www.mediasanctuary.org Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times bestsellers War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has also taught students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system for a decade, the subject of his book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. This talk was co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, Albany Chapter; Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Palestinian Rights Committee-Upper Hudson Peace Action; RPI Muslim Student Association; UAlbany Muslim Student Association; Women Against War. The presentation was made possible by volunteer labor and thousands of small donations from patrons of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a telecommunications production facility dedicated to community media arts, located in an historic former church at 3361 6th Avenue in North Troy, NY. The Sanctuary hosts screening, production and performance facilities, training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists and independent media makers of all kinds. Eleanor Stein, Moderator CREW Branda Miller, Director Troy Pohl, Audio Dave Publow, Pre-production and camera Jill Malouf, Editor and camera Karsen Cowan, Camera Eee Pee, Camera Eleanor Goldsmith, Post-production and web Mark Dunlea, Promotion Jon Flanders, Photography Jillian Hirsch, House manager Ri Sandel , Door Mid-Hudson Security Consultants, Audience services Victor Max Valentine, Inner Sanctum Jonathan Segol, KitchenSanctuary Dick Sleeper, KitchenSanctuary Jeanie Steigler, KitchenSanctuary Steve Pierce, Producer



Thursday, January 18, 2024

What Will The Texas National Guard Do With The Undocumented They Arrest?

 What Will The Texas National Guard Do With The Undocumented They Arrest? 


Texas National Guard begins arresting migrants along US-Mexico border (msn.com)


Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Olivarez posted videos and images on social media Wednesday night showing migrants being handcuffed and hauled off. 

"Troopers are arresting illegal immigrants for criminal trespass at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass," he said. "Troopers are enforcing criminal trespass on single adult men & women. The State of Texas will maintain a proactive posture in curbing illegal border crossings between the ports of entry." 


4 things to know about Texas’ new law letting police arrest migrants who illegally enter the U.S. | PBS NewsHour





Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Who profits by keeping the people who put food on our tables undocumented?


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Who profits by keeping the people who put food on our tables undocumented?

1. US Agricultural Corporations (paying the lowest wages imaginable without providing any benefits for their undocumented employees).
2. Governments of the undocumented receiving billions of dollars in remittances pumped back into their economies by their undocumented workers living here.
3. Politicians on both sides of the “build a wall/legalization” debate.
4. The entire US Border industrial complex.
5. The ultra rich who profit and live way above what normal citizens have to deal with.
6. US corporations (automobile, clothing, electronics and agriculture) having offices and plants located in the undocumented’s home countries.
Who pays for this decades old, failed, gas lit system?
1. American taxpayers who foot the bills (hospital, education, healthcare) absorbing millions of undocumented into the US.
2. The undocumented workers whose home country governments refuse to provide a standard of living that would keep their own citizens happy and healthy at home.
I’m a retired US Border Patrol/ICE Agent who witnessed this inhumane (sometimes deadly) charade firsthand.
Wake up America!

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Undocumented immigrants and US taxpayers are pawns of our designed to fail immigration system

 California to offer 700,000 illegal immigrants free healthcare as deficit soars and population shrinks (msn.com)


Undocumented immigrants and US taxpayers are pawns of our designed to fail immigration system.

The binational elite who profits not only in the undocumenteds' home countries (remittances) but the elite who profit in the US from the US Border industrial complex (prisons, USPB station equipment, border surveillance equipment) and US corporations who profit from labor either at home or the undocumenteds' home countries. 


One US political party pretends to let them all in, the other pretends to keep them all out.   Meanwhile voters believe both sides propaganda while nothing ever really changes. 

I saw that after working 26 year with the USBP/ICE as a special agent. 

US taxpayers have every right to be furious.  The problem is they have been brainwashed by our duopoly parading as a democracy and never quite see what is really going on.  

And why doesn't the US Government get in the faces of all of the countries that push their undocumented to the US?  As in, you take care of your own people, or we will stop sending you aid and pull all of our corporations out of your country until you do. 

Friday, November 3, 2023