{"id":368266,"date":"2018-07-06T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/america-on-thin-ice\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:43:52","slug":"america-on-thin-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/america-on-thin-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"America on Thin ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to \u201clifestyle\u201d themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken any sense of community helpful to civic life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman,\u00a0Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media<\/em><\/p>\n

These Dreamers are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Barack Obama<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This weekend hundreds of thousands marched to protest Donald Trump\u2019s zero tolerance immigration policies. I was grateful not to be marching in Washington D.C. where the creator of \u201cHamilton\u201d serenaded the crowd. I mean seems pretty American, but yeah. For all those at risk of being deported, the obnoxious nature of liberals hardly matter. People turned out to march. What else will save immigrants from this atrocious administration? As a privileged American citizen though, I must say liberals still aren\u2019t my cup of tea. In Saint Paul, out came the strollers and the (almost) clever signs, including one with the Statue of Liberty saying WTF. An unnecessary sign I thought. She\u2019d be in full approval of Trump\u2019s actions. The only immigrants she has ever liked were the Europeans who slaughtered the Native Americans en masse.<\/p>\n

Separating families at the border. Can we get lower than that? The Trump Presidency continues to get more appalling. How is this possible? When there is no memory, the only moment is the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair \u201cThe culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to \u201clifestyle\u201d themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken any sense of community helpful to civic life.\u201d \u2014 Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman,\u00a0Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media These Dreamers are Americans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}