A bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery, offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal—from the acclaimed author of The Whiteness of Wealth.
The idea of reparations is not a new or original one; it is one that is baked into American history.
When the District of Columbia Emancipation Act of 1862 went into effect, wealthy slaveowners like Margaret Barber were compensated for the loss of their enslaved workers. Barber received $9,000—an equivalent to $250,000 today. When a group of Italian immigrants were lynched in 1892, President Harrison compensated Italy a total of $25,000 for their deaths—an equivalent to almost $766,000 today. The Indian Claims Commission, an arm of the federal government, paid Indigenous Americans $818 million for underhandedly stealing their land in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—an equivalent to almost $350 billion today.
Dorothy A. Brown addresses the glaring if reparations can be achieved for others, why not for Black Americans? If lynching can be remedied for Italian immigrants, and slaveholders compensated for losses associated with abolition and emancipation, then the government’s failure to provide such remedies to Black communities harmed by similar violence, loss, and destruction is long overdue. The fight for reparations is truly a fight for the soul of America, to produce the country our founding fathers idealized but never achieved.
Getting to Reparations makes a logical and necessary case for reparations for Black Americans. It lays out a path as to how we might achieve this, built on the frameworks used throughout U.S. history by the government to pay restitution. It is now time to do the same for America’s Black population.
Bruce Springsteen Jan 28, 2026 #20 on music Trending chart Lyrics: Through the winter’s ice and cold Down Nicollet Avenue A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘Neath an occupier’s boots King Trump’s private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law Or so their story goes Against smoke and rubber bullets By the dawn’s early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing through the night And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis Trump’s federal thugs beat up on His face and his chest Then we heard the gunshots And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead Their claim was self defense, sir Just don’t believe your eyes It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Crying through the bloody mist We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis Now they say they’re here to uphold the law But they trample on our rights If your skin is black or brown my friend You can be questioned or deported on sight In chants of ICE out now Our city’s heart and soul persists Through broken glass and bloody tears On the streets of Minneapolis Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis
The Senate will vote on an appropriations bill to give the Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), $770 million more on top of the $45 billion they were given last year.
The money would expand detention and raids instead of investing in what our communities actually need: jobs, schools, housing, and healthcare.
There is a threat of a government shutdown – that is why the senators need to call for a ‘Standalone Vote” on DHS/ICE
Capitol Senate Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Senator Alex Padilla
(415) 981-9369 – SF
(202) 224-3553 – DC
Senator Adam Schiff
(415) 393-0707 – SF
(202) 224-3841 – DC
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There are events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you(many listings in the South, North & East Bays and beyond the bay area)
Throw sand in the gears of genocide and war. Join us in flexing our economic power—the backbone of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) tactics for human rights. We’ll learn how the Trump administration is invading and occupying Venezuela to steal oil and advance U.S. domination. Join us to connect the dots between Big Oil’s corporate profits and U.S. militarism in Venezuela, Palestine, Cuba, across the Caribbean, and around the world. Then, we’ll dive into a training on new tactics developed by the Boycott Chevron campaign that will build the grassroots BDS movement.
The growing world economic crisis and inter-imperialist rivalries are leading to the dangers of world war. University Of Johannesburg political labor economist Patrick Bond has been studying the capitalist crisis in South Africa and the role of BRICS in Africa and around the world.
He will report on the growing threat of trade war and world war and what that means to the workers, unions and people of South Africa and Africa as a whole.
The Trump US military bombing of Nigeria and the likely attack on Iran will also be discussed.
STAND WITH IRAN’S REBELS & AGAINST U.S.-ISRAEL WAR THREATS/MOVES ON IRAN! FREE IRAN’S POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW!
FILM SHOWING—INSIDE THE IRANIAN UPRISING (2022)
These are special events to mark what would be the 104th week of the courageous “No to Execution Tuesdays” weekly hunger strike by thousands of prisoners in scores of prisons across Iran. These selfless and brave prisoner rebels are the conscience of the society and call to us.
Iran’s theocratic regime has executed over 2,000 prisoners in 2025, the most in 20 years, and is now conducting brutal round-ups and street executions amid a new, sustained mass uprising since December 28, 2025. As of January 14th, over 2400 people have been reported to have been killed, thousands injured, and at least ten thousand in custody under horrific conditions. The situation is unfolding as we write. Letters from prisoners vow to continue their struggle amid all this.
Pack the Court for the Stanford Students facing the most severe criminal case brought against US student protesters against the genocide
Closing arguments are expected to last all day Thursday, with jury deliberation to begin on Friday.
Please join us in packing the court on Thursday to send a strong message of solidarity to the entire court before the jury begins their deliberation process. Wear your keffiyehs!
This is the moment to show up. A packed courtroom sends a clear message: the Bay Area stands with the Stanford 11, no matter how hard the state tries to isolate, intimidate, and criminalize student resistance.
If you attend in person and do not get a seat in the courtroom, please stick around! People will leave at different intervals throughout the day. It is also impactful to pack the hallways of the courthouse and have a large showing outside. “
We invite all supporters to come out strong for Thursday, and to join us on Friday while jury deliberations are ongoing. On Friday, we will gather in front of the courthouse at 9am with food, banners, and more, to be in community with the Stanford 11 as they await the verdict. If jury deliberations continue into the next week, we will show up again on Monday.
We’ll speak with several grassroots organizers who are helping to shape the historic resistance by the Twin Cities to a Federal occupation of and assault on their community.
What are they doing? How are they doing it? What comes next? Learn about their Rapid Response Groups, mutual aid efforts, fundraising for affected community members and much more. Panel discussion and audience Q&A.
7. Friday, 1:00pm, National Day of Action – ICE OUT
Meet at:
Dolores Park SF
On Friday, students and workers across the Bay Area will walk out! We support the call from Minnesota-based Somali and other student organizations — on Friday, January 30, join the national day of action to say ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!
This Friday, January 30, workers and students in the Bay will join thousands of people across the United States organizing walk outs to disrupt business as usual until ICE is out of our cities, towns and neighborhoods.
Now is the decisive moment. After 2+ years of our government committing a genocide, the imperial boomerang is upon us. What happened in Minnesota can and will happen here in the Bay Area if we do not act.
While we as a small business can’t shut down, as our immigrant team’s livelihood depends on your patronage, we will continue to hold space for refuge, gathering, strategizing, organizing, and disrupting status quo.
To all those thinking of walking out and taking to the streets, let us be your deciding factor. We’ll be serving free coffee from 1130-1 pm for anyone heading to Delores Park. Come be in community and let us nourish you.
What happened in Minnesota can happen here in the Bay Area.
Now is the decisive moment. The Minnesota General Strike has opened a historic opening. If we take a stand now, we can stop the killings, stop the kidnappings, and end the war on our communities.
9. Saturday, 12Noon – 1:30pm, We Need Single Payer Healthcare For All NOW!
Harry Bridges Plaza Nr. SF Ferry Building SF
American Healthcare is Broken: National Single Payer Rally
AMERICAN HEALTH CARE IS SICK
ELIMINATE THE PROFITS END THE PRICE HIKES!
PUT NATIONAL SINGLE PAYER ON THE TABLE
End the national disgrace that gives hundreds of billions in tax payer subsidies to ACA insurers who made $71.3 Billion in profits in 2024. Meanwhile, 40% of working age Americans are without any coverage or have junk health insurance.
Millions are set to lose ACA coverage and tens of millions will be saddled with rising employer health insurance premiums. Millions will lose Medicaid due to the “Big Ugly Bill.” This will kill tens of thousands of Americans and add more medical bankruptcies created by our private run healthcare system.
None of the “fixes” by the bought-and-paid politicians will end the crisis of affordability or provide the healthcare Americans need because Washington’s first priority is to maintain the profits of the insurers.
We need to urge our unions, particularly healthcare unions to join in these rallies. 500,000 healthcare workers will be terminated with these cutbacks and our unions need to mobilize their members and those who need healthcare together in this fight.
While both the Democrats and Republicans can pass a $901 billion military spending bill for more war and genocide, they have no money for healthcare for all.
We do not consent to Trump and his billionaire allies taking a chainsaw to our government and our economy for their benefit! San Francisco is a sanctuary city and We the People need to defend the values that make it so. Let’s stand united and oppose the endless assaults on our communities, our civil rights, the rule of law, and our democracy.
Chevron Corporate Station 5500 Telegraph Ave (Telegraph & 55th) Oakland
Signs and chants will be provided. Bring your energy and tambourines!
Israel’s genocide machine couldn’t run without power from Chevron. Israel’s war on Gaza and Occupation of Palestine contributes to the climate catastrophe. Chevron supplies light and energy via its operation and co-ownership of two major Israeli-claimed fossil gas fields in the Mediterranean.
Chevron’s extraction activities are funneling millions of dollars in tax revenues to Israeli government coffers, directly fueling Israel’s system of settler colonialism and violence against all Palestinians. In 2022, those revenues amounted to over $462 million. BDS is a global nonviolent Palestinian led movement, and we demand that Chevron immediately cut its contracts with genocidal Israel, and end its role in climate devastation globally.
Following in the tradition of the anti-apartheid gas station boycotts of the 60s & 70s, Palestinians and allies are building a global movement to hold Chevron accountable for its crimes through a coordinated boycott of Chevron gas stations and products around the world.
12. Sunday, 7:30pm, “Yintah” film screening & discussion
Long Haul Info Shop 3124 Shattuck Ave Berkeley CA.
Masks required.
there will be a screening of “Yintah” as well as a discussion with Howihkat Freda Huson (on Zoom)!
“Yintah” is about an anti-colonial resurgence – a fierce and ongoing fight for Indigenous and human rights in the face of a colonial government committed to seizing lands at gunpoint. “Yintah” is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories.
13. Monday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Stop Trump’s Racist Deportation of Haitians and All TPS Refugees
San Francisco Immigration Court 100 Montgomery St. SF
(Near Montgomery St. BART)
Protect TPS for Haiti and all TPS countries!End ICE attacks on Migrants! Abolish ICE!Stop the war on Venezuela and all wars for regime change!
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 340,000 Haitian TPS holders expires on February 3rd. It has already been terminated for refugees from Venezuela and Somalia, and is in danger of ending for Myanmar refugees on Jan. 28 and other countries after that. Unless the motion for a stay is granted on Feb. 2nd, Haitians will lose their work permits and be subject to ICE detention and deportation. TPS is supposed to protect people from returning to unsafe conditions in their home countries. Since the 2004 US-orchestrated coup against the democratic government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti has been completely destabilized under US/UN occupation.
In today’s Haiti, paramilitary death squads armed with weapons from the United States control large parts of the country, burning, raping and terrorizing the population. Over half the population – 5.7 million Haitians – are facing acute food insecurity; 1.4 million are internally displaced due to violence. This is the situation Donald Trump and Kristi Noem want to force hundreds of thousands of Haitians to return to. Ending TPS for Haitian refugees is just as much a violent attack on human rights as the ICE raids across the US.
Sponsored by Haiti Action Committee, Myanmar Student Union, NorCal TPS Coalition, Community Liberation Programs
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US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference in the National Response Coordination Center at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters on January 24, 2026 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
“She needs to be fired, resign, or she will be impeached.”
President Donald Trump offered a one-word answer—“No”—when asked Tuesday if Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will resign following her decision to smear Alex Pretti as a violent domestic terrorist immediately after he was gunned down by border security agents on a Minneapolis street, but Democrats in Congress noted that many in the Republican Party have not appeared so confident regarding Noem’s conduct following the killing.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee emphasized that since “Operation Metro Surge” in the Minneapolis area led to the killing of a second US citizen by Border Patrol agents on Saturday, and Noem accused Pretti of approaching officers with a gun and resorting to violence despite the fact that footage from multiple camera angles showed nothing of the sort, “she has been rebuked by Republicans in Congress, by her own senior staffers, and even the president.”
Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) said Noem’s comments “came before all the facts were known and weakened confidence,” while Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called for Noem and the heads of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other immigration agencies to testify before Congress.
Former DHS general counsel John Mitnick, an architect of the agency, said he was “enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty” and demanded Trump’s impeachment, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted on Monday to distance the administration from Noem’s response to the killing.
The Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee posted MS NOW‘s fact-check of Noem’s comments directly after Pretti was killed, along with their demand: “She lied about Alex Pretti… She needs to be fired, resign, or she will be impeached.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) released a statement outlining why—regardless of how—Noem must leave her position leading DHS.
“Taxpayer dollars are being weaponized by the Trump administration to kill American citizens, brutalize communities, and violently target law-abiding immigrants,” said the Democratic leaders. “Dramatic changes at the Department of Homeland Security are needed. Federal agents who have broken the law must be criminally prosecuted. The paramilitary tactics must cease and desist. Taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for Americans, not kill them in cold blood.”
“Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives,” they added. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
On MS NOW, Jeffries on Tuesday called Noem “a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar.”
Hakeem Jeffries: "Kristi Noem is a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar. We've seen her slander not just one, but American citizens, patriotic Americans who were killed without justification on the streets of Minneapolis … we are prepared to initiate impeachment proceedings… pic.twitter.com/MEnBXIJDdt
The GOP-controlled House is not likely to move forward with impeaching Noem, but a resolution to do so now has 150 Democratic cosponsors, with more than two-thirds of the party’s House members backing the call to bring charges against the homeland security secretary and former South Dakota governor. Should Democrats win back control of the House in the November elections, they could move forward with the effort if she is still in office.
“Secretary Noem has blood on her hands,” Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) who introduced the impeachment articles, said in a statement. “Under her leadership, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good were murdered.”
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An estimated 1,000 protesters joined an action near Oakland’s Splash Pad Park on Sunday, January 11, 2026, to demand accountability for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers and an immediate investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, part of a national day of actions called “ICE Out for Good.” Credit: Jerome Parmer
The fatal shooting of Veterans Affairs Nurse Alex Pretti on Jan. 24 by federal agents has sparked outrage from many Americans, even while Trump administration officials have attempted to claim — in defiance of the video evidence — that the deadly use of force was justified.
In Oakland and the East Bay, the reaction from elected officials and other community leaders has been one of outrage and opposition to the continuing mass deportation operation that set the stage for Pretti’s killing.
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Two other American citizens were killed in the weeks before Pretti. Renee Good was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Jan. 7, and Keith Porter was shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles. The latest round of protests follow a wave of demonstrations that took place earlier this month after Good’s killing.
Two other people have been killed by federal immigration agents since last September: Silverio Villegas González, a father originally from Mexico and working as a cook in Chicago who was shot, reportedly while trying to flee, and Isaias Sanchez Barboza, a Mexican citizen killed in Rio Grande City, Texas, who was killed while agents were detaining him.
“Today’s fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis — the third such incident in recent weeks — is a direct result of enforcement operations that treat American communities as combat zones,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Saturday, shortly after Pretti was killed. “These operations have resulted in senseless deaths and created an atmosphere of terror rather than safety — and we must condemn them unequivocally.”
On social media, Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas called ICE and Customs and Border Patrol’s operations “lawless violence” and “sickening.”
“These agencies must be held accountable and they must leave the Twin Cities and all of our communities immediately,” she wrote. Bas also called on Alameda County residents to support county plans to create “ICE-free zones” and a response plan in case agents conduct similar operations here.
Rep. Lateefah Simon issued a statement hours after Pretti was killed, saying she supports Senate Democrats who are planning to vote against a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. She voted against the bill when it was before the House.
“ICE is killing American citizens,” Simon said. “Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem have enabled a system of abuse of government power, militarism, and unchecked state violence where communities are treated as disposable.”
Simon was in Minneapolis earlier this month for a hearing, “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Deadly Assault on Minnesota,” where she heard from residents about the impacts ICE and CBP operations have had on local communities.
The day before Pretti was killed, an estimated 1,500 people rallied in Fruitvale with the message “ICE out of everywhere,” according to KTVU. Unions including UNITE HERE Local 2, UAW 4811, UAW 2320, the California Nurses Association, UC American Federation of Teachers 1474, Oakland Education Association, the Committee of Interns and Residents – SEIU, and the Alameda Labor Council endorsed the rally.
“The teachers of Oakland stand in unequivocal solidarity with the people of Minnesota as they fight back against ICE agents terrorizing their communities,” said Jessica Papalia, a member of the teachers union, the Oakland Education Association. “Teachers will not stand by while our students’ lives are threatened and their right to an education is ignored.”
The National Nurses Union called for a week of action in honor of Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse in a Minneapolis VA hospital. “ICE messed with the wrong profession,” the union wrote in a statement. “We nurses will fight to abolish ICE and bring about a vision for a healthy society based on nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community.” One nurse protest took place at Oakland’s Kaiser Medical Center on Monday.
On Sunday, a rally also took place at Frank Ogawa Plaza.
Before joining The Oaklandside as News Editor, Darwin BondGraham was a freelance investigative reporter covering police and prosecutorial misconduct. He has reported on gun violence for The Guardian and was a staff writer for the East Bay Express. He holds a doctorate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. He is also the co-author of The Riders Come Out at Night, a book examining the Oakland Police Department’s history of corruption and reform.More by Darwin BondGraham
A man is tackled after spraying an unknown substance at US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) during a town hall she was hosting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 27, 2026.
(Photo by Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images)
“Here’s the reality that people like this ugly man don’t understand,” said the Democratic lawmaker following the attack. “We are Minnesota strong and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was assaulted on Tuesday evening during a town hall event in Minneapolis by a man who squirted some kind of liquid from a syringe on the lawmaker amid heightened tensions in the state and following a series of baseless allegations and intensifying insults directed at her by US President Donald Trump.
During public remarks to local constituents—just as she called for ICE to be abolished and that Secratary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem should “resign of face impeachment”—video footage of the attack shows a man wearing a black jacket sitting in the front row abruptly rise from his seat and lunge toward Omar’s podium as he sprays something at her with a syringe in his right hand.
While apparently unharmed, Omar first backs away before charging at the man, before he is tackled by security, and other bystanders intervene.
Watch:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) assaulted during town hall meeting: "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand; we are Minnesota strong and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." pic.twitter.com/Ud5l3yP4lQ
“Oh my god,” someone off camera can be heard saying, “He sprayed something on her.”
Maintaining her composure after the man was subdued, Omar said, “Here’s the reality that people like this ugly man don’t understand; we are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
Minneapolis police said officers saw a man use a syringe to spray an unknown liquid at Omar. They immediately arrested him and booked him at the county jail for third-degree assault, spokesperson Trevor Folke said in an email. Police also said forensic scientists responded to the scene.
Omar continued the town hall after the man was ushered out of the room by her security detail, saying she would not be intimidated. Journalists said there was a strong, vinegar-like smell when the man pushed on the syringe.
Walking out afterward, Omar said she felt a little flustered but was not hurt. She was going to be screened by a medical team.
Over recent weeks—as Minnesota has been the focus of nationwide outrage due to the authoritarian tactics used by federal immigration agents deployed and the killing of two observers, Renee Good and Alex Pretti—Trump, a racist, has repeatedly targeted Omar with false suggestions that she has perpetrated fraud due to her personal financial disclosures and used her Somali heritage to insult her as a “garbage person.”
“I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work,” Omar said in a post shortly after the incident. “I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.”
Many credited Omar for her fortitude in the face of the attack, both during and after.
“llhan is toughest lawmaker in Congress,” said journalist Pablo Manríquez. “No one gets more hate, then goes right back to doing the work.”
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The fast, organized by the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, began at a demonstration at San Francisco City Hall and lasted 24 hours.Ella Reed | Staff
Two hundred Bay Area faith leaders representing more than 45 faith-based organizations participated in a fast Thursday to raise awareness in the wake of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, activity in Minneapolis and around the country. Other clergy traveled to Minneapolis to partake in large-scale protests last Friday.
The fast, organized by the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, began at a demonstration at San Francisco City Hall and lasted 24 hours. Berkeley churches, such as First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, took part in the fast along with other Bay Area places of worship.
The fast ended with a demonstration at the San Francisco ICE field office to prevent a community leader from being detained by the agency. According to the Rev. Ranwa Hammamy, congregational justice organizer at the Unitarian Universalist Association, they think many of the fast participants “are folks who have either been activated or had their awareness raised as a result of what they witnessed with Renee Good.”
Following a national call for clergy from Multifaith Antiracism, Change and Healing Minnesota, a group of clergy and faith leaders based in the Minneapolis area, the Rev. Drew Paton of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley traveled to Minneapolis to take part in the Jan. 23 protests against ICE. Paton said he thinks the clergy’s presence calmed the tensions at the protest.
“Our main objective is really just letting folks know that they are not alone,” Paton said. “I think sometimes having clergy present helps to create a bit of a buffer and slow things down and de-escalate things a bit.”
According to the Rev. Leah Martens of Haven Berkeley Faith Community, about 20 Bay Area faith leaders came to Minneapolis as part of the call, joining hundreds of faith leaders nationwide.
Along with attending the protests, Paton said he went on patrol with local activists to observe ICE arrests. While he didn’t see ICE detaining anyone, Paton said he did see the tactics ICE agents used against protesters.
“I witnessed with my own eyes these roving bands of masked, heavily armed men in body armor in the streets, deploying tear gas against nonviolent protesters and spraying bystanders in the face with pepper spray,” Paton said.
Paton joined protesters at a Minneapolis federal building, a flagship Target store in downtown Minneapolis and a large march downtown, which tens of thousands of people attended.
He added that his church is new to this kind of activism, and that many of his congregants’ first protests were in the past year.
“The good news is that how we beat this is, it turns out, the oldest, simplest things that we have always done: To care for each other and to keep each other safe,” Paton said. “It’s just making sure that we’re fed. It’s just caring for each other when we’re hurt.”
When it first appeared in 1936, Bread and Wine stunned the world with its exposure of Italy’s fascist state, depicting that regime’s use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of Pietro Spina, who returns from fifteen years of exile to organize the peasants of his native Abruzzi into a revolutionary movement, this courageous work bears witness to the truth about any totalitarian regime—a warning as relevant today as it was in Mussolini’s Italy.
Surprisingly tender and rich in humor, this twentieth-century masterpiece brings to life priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, simple girls and desperate women in a vivid drama of one man’s struggle for goodness in a world on the brink of war. Ranked with Orwell and Camus among writers who insisted upon linking the hope for social change with the values of political liberty, Silone is one of the major voices of our time, and Bread and Wine is his greatest novel. As Irving Howe notes in his Introduction, “ Bread and Wine will speak to anyone, of whatever age, who tries sincerely to reflect upon man’s fate in our century.”
Translated by Eric Mosbacher, with an Introduction by Irving Howe and an Afterword by Barry Menikoff
Figlio di una tessitrice e di un piccolo proprietario terriero, perde assai presto il padre e la madre, nel terremoto che nel gennaio del ‘15 distrugge gran parte della Marsica. Interrotti gli studi liceali, si dà alla politica quale socialista attivo e prende parte alle lotte contro la guerra e al movimento operaio rivoluzionario; nel 1921 partecipa a Livorno alla fondazione del Partito Comunista (che rappresenta a Mosca, con Togliatti, nel Komintern), ma se ne stacca nel 1930, in disaccordo con le purghe staliniane. Antifascista, resta in esilio in Svizzera dal 1930 al 1945, anni durante i quali matura la sua vocazione di scrittore. Pubblicato in traduzione tedesca a Zurigo nel 1933, “Fontamara” è il suo romanzo d’esordio, che lo impone all’ attenzione generale: oltre ad essere una straordinaria analisi della cultura centro-meridionale, “un documento su una civiltà ormai definitivamente morta” (Fofi), è pure con ogni probabilità il più bel libro sui contadini italiani che sia mai stato scritto. Il successivo “Pane e vino” del ‘36 riprende, in una chiave più sentimentale, meno ironica, i temi del fortunato predecessore, laddove “Il seme sotto la neve” (1942) sembra stazionare tra manierismo e ritualità. Frattanto, nel periodo 1932-’34 egli è redattore del mensile in lingua tedesca, edito a Zurigo, «Information», cui collaborano artisti ed intellettuali del calibro di Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Musil. Fiorente, pure, la sua attività saggistico-culturale, che annovera il saggio “Il fascismo, le sue origini e il suo sviluppo” (1934) ed il trattato di filosofia politica “La scuola dei dittatori” (1938). Nel 1944, rientrato in Italia, si stabilisce a Roma, ove aderisce al Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria. La sua produzione letteraria continua con il lavoro teatrale “Ed egli si nascose” (1944) e con i romanzi “Una manciata di more” (1952), “Il segreto di Luca” (1956), “La volpe e le camelie” (1960): meno originali dei precedenti, più legati ad un modello di letteratura tardo-ottocentesca, esprimono una sorta di conversione del nostro, che approda qui ai lidi di un socialismo ibridato col cristianesimo. Di grandissimo interesse, invece, “Uscita di sicurezza” (1965), raccolta di saggi politici in cui egli racconta il doloroso travaglio che lo condusse infine a distaccarsi dall’ ideologia comunista, e “L’avventura di un povero cristiano” (1968), sua ultima fatica apparsa in vita, un intrigante romanzo – saggio incentrato sulla figura di papa Celestino V, in seguito trasformato in testo teatrale. Ebbe a dire di lui Albert Camus: “Guardate Silone. Egli è radicalmente legato alla sua terra, eppure è talmente europeo”.
National Sorry Day is held annually in Australia on May 26 to acknowledge and remember the Stolen Generations—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families. First observed in 1998, it is a day of healing, reflection, and reconciliation, marking the anniversary of the “Bringing Them Home” report.
Key Details About National Sorry Day
Date: Observed annually on May 26.
Purpose: To commemorate the Stolen Generations, acknowledge the intergenerational trauma caused by forced removal, and support the healing process.
Significance: While not a public holiday, it is a crucial, widely recognized day in Australia that initiates National Reconciliation Week.
History: The first Sorry Day was held on May 26, 1998, following the 1997 report that exposed the forced removal policies of the 20th century.
2008 Apology: In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a formal apology to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Australian government.
Activities: Events include memorial services, marches, “sorry books” to sign, and planting native hibiscus flowers, which symbolize the day.
National Sorry Day plays a key role in the ongoing reconciliation process between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
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