PRINCIPAL
I will be periodically reminding everyone that the United States has concentration camps, not only outside but also within our borders. Today’s featured post, Xicano Power’s Privatized Prisons for Immigrants, addresses this issue. Note also that there is a huge immigration sweep underway in Santa Fe.
OTRAS
In other news, my favorite quotation for today is from Hugo Chávez who said, Those who want to go directly to Hell can follow capitalism.
In news both whimsical and macabre, I see that if you Google the term “hunger strike,” you can discover quite quickly how many people are on such strikes right now, and why.
SOCIALES Y PERSONALES
The reason I keep putting up all of these fragmentary notes is that I am still cleaning out files. It is boring, heartrending and inspiring by turns, because there is so much in my files that is truly stellar. It is amazing and shocking to see that Reeducation was able to convince me that I should not be working on all of these things. I am going to finish every manuscript I left languishing, so there.
All of this is not just the fault of Reeducation, however, it is also the fault of the stuffed shirts of academia. I wish I had a dollar for every minute I have spent listening to a man go on and on about what I needed to do, or a woman go on and on about how I was not feeling enough fear. I do not know what price to put on the times I have asked actual questions of these same speakers, and not received an answer. I am venting because I have only recently come to understand how much this had to do with the enforcement of sexism.
This is one reason why I think the blogs, and the academic blogs, are so educational. We got e-mail at my institution around the time I came up for tenure, and I can remember how wonderful and de-isolating it was to be able to start the morning with a message from a mailing list, or from an individual at another institution. I think the blogs are a great leap forward.
ARTES
Essential reading today is Morphological Confetti, on the very interesting, living painter John Holyfield.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Thanks Cero
About that media visit, guess was a show. Don Hutto Detention Center was renovated for media trip – Despite mounting criticism and calls for its closure, immigration officials tonight continue to defend conditions at their family detention center near Austin. But according to former detainees and others, the government made big changes just prior to allowing the public to see the inside.
It gets worse too, women are getting sexually assaulted each time they receive visitors.
This is what is happening in our country and we talk about morality.
i agree. there is a very particular kind of learning one can do, it seems. at least it seems to this one. 🙂
Strange my comment did not appear, but I think I know why, I provided two links and I forgot that comments with two + links are sometimes seen at spam.
Don Hutto Detention Center was renovated for media trip.