by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 27, 2017 | News & Politics
The GEO Group wants us to think their Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington is humane and well-run. But the immigrants detained in this for-profit prison beg to differ. At a contentious City Council meeting on April 25, GEO Group attorney Joan Mell sought...
by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 22, 2017 | News & Politics
“I want to be president,” 9-year-old Mari Copeny told Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez from Refinery 29. “I’m going to run for president in 2044.” Lots of kids have big dreams, but this young activist from Flint, Michigan has a good idea of what...
by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 19, 2017 | News & Politics
How many outrageous statements has Not-My-President Donald Trump tweeted, then later changed his mind once he “won” the White House? Let me count the ways. And unlike most people in politics, the man in the Oval Office is utterly shameless about his...
by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 17, 2017 | News & Politics
The media keeps explaining the violence taking place at rallies across the country as a “clash” between Trump opponents and Trump supporters. And they’ve only barely started talking about all those white supremacists who showed up. But the worst...
by Elisabeth Parker | Apr 15, 2017 | News & Politics
Our government’s supposed to serve our people, not force the religion-based values of a strident “Christian Nation” minority onto the rest of us. Yet somehow, right-wing Evangelical “Christians” have taken over the GOP, and now the GOP...
