From NPR’s Latino USA: The Dream 9

Steve Pavey, Hope in Focus Photography, stevepavey.com In 2013, nine young undocumented activists walked from Mexico up to border officials in the United States and demanded to be let in and granted asylum. They were wearing their graduation caps and gowns—a uniform that had become the unofficial symbol of the DREAMer movement. They walked arm in arm, flanked by reporters and cameras. If their plan failed, they risked never being able to return to the United States, the country where they grew up, ever again. All nine were DREAMers—meaning they were brought to the U.S. without papers as children, and grew up considering it their home. Many didn’t find out they were undocumented until they were in their later teens, and were applying to college or a job without a social security number. Six of the Dream 9 had previously left the U.S. because their situation became too difficult, and now they wanted to get back. The other three were members of an activist group called the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, thought of by some as the most radical of the Dreamer groups. They flew into Mexico just to participate. The Dream 9 took activism around youth immigration farther than it had ever been taken before. What they were doing was not only risky, but difficult. In the end, their action landed them in detention and in the national spotlight. During President Trump’s 2016 campaign, he talked about removing DACA—the Obama executive order that shielded hundred of thousands of DREAMers from deportation. Since then, he’s changed position on how he’ll address the situation, and for now, we don’t know exactly what will happen. With DACA and the DREAMers poised to be back in the center of the national conversation, Latino USA revisits “The Dream 9” to explore what it means to be young and undocumented in the United States today. Latino USA first aired this episode in October 2015. © 2017 npr

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Sean Spicer Accuses Immigration Order Protesters Of Being Paid

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday dismissed protests against the administration’s travel ban as being nothing more than “paid” demonstrations. During an interview with Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” host Brian Kilmeade asked Spicer whether people were being paid to protest the order, which banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries into the U.S. “Oh, absolutely,” Spicer said. “I mean, protesting has become a profession now.” He added: “They have every right to do that, don’t get me wrong, but I think that we need to call it what it is. It’s not these organic uprisings that we’ve seen through the last several decades. The tea party was a very organic movement. This has become a very paid, Astroturf-type movement.” Americans took to the streets for a second weekend on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s order, which has been temporarily suspended by a federal judge and is being reviewed by an appellate court. Anti-Trump gatherings were reported in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Salt Lake City, St. Louis and outside the president’s resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he spent the weekend. Last week, thousands of people descended on the White House on Sunday afternoon for a rally followed by a march down Pennsylvania Avenue. Thousands more marched in cities and outside airports across the nation in protest of the order, which had caused families and refugees to be detained or otherwise prevented from entering the country. Hundreds of volunteer lawyers descended on airports to provide free legal services to those in need. If someone had been able to organize a sustained nationwide protest that involved hundreds of thousands of people in dozens of cities and airports across the country, as Spicer claimed, that would certainly qualify as an extraordinary feat. Trump took a similar stance against the protesters last week. “Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the president tweeted, after a protest at the University of California at Berkeley turned violent. A Republican member of Congress even found a way to use the same line. Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) last week complained about the heat he was receiving back home in his district over his desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “There’s paid protesters … paid activists on the far left, not my Democratic friends I go to church with. They’re being paid to go around and raise havoc,” Brat said after the town hall. But there is danger in dismissing the significance of such protests (and bad poll numbers, as Trump did Monday) outright. In 2009, for example, Barack Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs took a stance similar to Spicer’s, referring to tea party-organized disruptions at Democratic congressional town halls as “Astroturf” and “manufactured anger.” We all know how that turned out. How will Trump’s first 100 days impact you? Sign up for our weekly newsletter and get breaking updates on Trump’s presidency by messaging us here.

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10 Promises To My Children From Their Recovered Mother

Angie Viets Dear Beckett, Sophie and Sammy, This is a special week for your momma and a lot of other people too. It’s a week where people speak up about a sickness that is very serious, but sometimes not talked about very much. You know I’m a psychotherapist (I know, I know, emphasis on psycho) and that I help people with eating disorders. I haven’t talked to you much about my work because it can… be pretty hard to understand. When I come home tired, you make me smile as you remind me of your idea of what I do: “You just sit and talk to people all day! What’s so hard about that?” Daddy’s work is much easier for us to see as we can drive by the houses and businesses he has helped build. My work must seem sort of invisible when all you see is an office with comfy furniture. Since you guys are getting a little older, I wanted to tell you something that’s important about me. For seven years I had an eating disorder. I was very sick for a long time, mostly when I was in college, but I’m all better now. When I married daddy I was slowly getting healthier every day. Finally, I had something way bigger than my eating disorder to help motivate me ― I wanted to be a mom. You see, I had been praying real hard to be a momma. It was my biggest dream since I was a little girl. I told my third-grade class on ‘Career Day’ that when I was all grown up, I wanted to be a mom. When asked in graduate school what I planned to do with my degree, I pretty much answered the same way. I don’t think anybody was looking for that response, but it didn’t matter to me because being your mom is my true calling (the thing I was meant to do while I’m here on earth). But I was really scared that, because I had been sick for so long, maybe my body wouldn’t work right anymore and that my dream might not come true. I promised myself that if I was able to get pregnant, I would lay down my eating disorder and fight as hard as I could, once and for all, to stay well for you guys and for myself. Want to know something really special?? The day I found out I was pregnant with Beckett, I committed to that big promise that I had secretly carried around in my heart. I’ve kept the promise for thirteen years and I’m really proud of myself for that because it means I can really be here for you. Even though it was hard being sick for so long, something beautiful came from it. I learned that I have another very important calling that’s really meaningful to me. When I was sick, I had a hard time finding anyone to help me who really understood how to […]

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An Imam Gave A Sermon About Community At JFK. You Should Watch It.

“We are here this afternoon affirming our commitment to truth and justice but also standing against injustice,” Imam Al Hadj Talib Abdur-Rashid told a crowd at JFK airport Friday. “We are here in a moment of prayer, in a moment of reflection, celebrating our diversity.” Abdur-Rashid of Harlem’s Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood had joined hundreds of demonstrators ― Muslims, Christians, Jews and those of many other faiths ― to speak out against the executive order President Donald Trump signed Jan. 27 that limits travel to the U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Thousands have gathered at the international airport in protest since Trump’s action, which temporarily barred more than 200 million people from entering the U.S., blocked all refugees for 120 days and banned Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely. (The order has since been suspended for further review by a federal judge.) Abdur-Rashid made a heartfelt, compelling case for people of all beliefs and origins to unite against what he sees as “falsehood, lies, bigotry and … extremism of all types being committed by all kinds of different people.” “That which we have in common is that we’re all human beings, and we all celebrate our diversity, and we stand for justice,” he said, before giving a more detailed explanation of just what justice and community are ― or should be ― based on the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. Ironically, in working to keep out immigrants and divide Americans, the Trump administration may have united many disparate groups in their opposition to the ban more effectively than the groups would have united on their own. “We have common interests,” Abdur-Rashid explained to the Los Angeles Times at another rally in New York, one attended by an estimated 10,000 people and at which Jewish delegations played a prominent role. “The same kind of people who bomb synagogues [also] bomb black churches and now mosques.”

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David Bowie’s Red Ziggy Stardust Hair Was Initially A Huge Disaster

The image of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust is etched eternally in the minds and hearts of millions of people around the world. The story of how that hair came to be is less familiar, but it’s equally as captivating. Suzi Ronson took to the stage in April 2016 to talk about how she came to go on tour with Bowie and his band, a whirlwind story that recently aired on The Moth Radio Hour. It all started with a simple haircut. While working as a hairstylist at a local salon in her staid London neighborhood, Ronson met Mrs. Jones, an older woman who came in for a weekly Thursday afternoon shampoo and set and often spoke about her son “David,” an artist who “sings in a band.” That “David,” of course, turned out to be David Bowie, who had just released “Space Oddity.” A series of events landed Ronson in Bowie’s home to give his wife Angie Bowie a last-minute holiday cut. Ronson said Bowie, who had long blonde hair at the time, showed her an image of a female model in a magazine and asked her if she could cut his hair short and dye it red. Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images Ronson said she wasn’t sure she’d be able to pull off the look, though she told Bowie it was no problem. Unfortunately, the result was initially not the stiff, perfectly coiffed look we’re all familiar with. Ronson said Bowie’s hair just flopped over to one side, to the dismay of them both. Explaining that the stylists had “no product in those days,” she ended up trying an anti-dandruff treatment she had previously used on women at her salon that “set hair like stone.” Results achieved, she charged the Bowies two pounds for both haircuts and left. You’ll want to hear the rest of this exciting story i the video above. Ronson’s tale is also featured in the upcoming book The Moth Presents: All These Wonders – True Stories About Facing The Unknown.

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From NPR’s Latino USA: The Dream 9

Steve Pavey, Hope in Focus Photography, stevepavey.com In 2013, nine young undocumented activists walked from Mexico up to border officials in the United States and demanded to be let in and granted asylum. They were wearing their graduation caps and gowns—a uniform that had become the unofficial symbol of the DREAMer movement. They walked arm in arm, flanked by reporters and cameras. If their plan failed, they risked never being able to return to the United States, the country where they grew up, ever again. All nine were DREAMers—meaning they were brought to the U.S. without papers as children, and grew up considering it their home. Many didn’t find out they were undocumented until they were in their later teens, and were applying to college or a job without a social security number. Six of the Dream 9 had previously left the U.S. because their situation became too difficult, and now they wanted to get back. The other three were members of an activist group called the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, thought of by some as the most radical of the Dreamer groups. They flew into Mexico just to participate. The Dream 9 took activism around youth immigration farther than it had ever been taken before. What they were doing was not only risky, but difficult. In the end, their action landed them in detention and in the national spotlight. During President Trump’s 2016 campaign, he talked about removing DACA—the Obama executive order that shielded hundred of thousands of DREAMers from deportation. Since then, he’s changed position on how he’ll address the situation, and for now, we don’t know exactly what will happen. With DACA and the DREAMers poised to be back in the center of the national conversation, Latino USA revisits “The Dream 9” to explore what it means to be young and undocumented in the United States today. Latino USA first aired this episode in October 2015. © 2017 npr

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HUFFPOST HILL – 2017 Already Shaping Up To Be The New 2016

Daily Mail Like what you read below? Sign up for HUFFPOST HILL and get a cheeky dose of political news every evening! The Patriots came back from a major deficit to win Super Bowl LI, a win that will be autopsied at length by the Falcons at a David Brock-hosted retreat. John Yoo took a break from exsanguinating puppies and using their blood to write “Dexter” fan fiction to say the Trump administration has gone too far. And President Trump delivered a highly politicized address to service members, attacking the press and praising the troops’ support for him in November. This reminds us, mark your calendars for our July, 2025 inmate production of “Oklahoma!” at the Eric Trump Center for Re-Education and Tying Pastel Sweaters Around Your Shoulders. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Monday, February 6th, 2017: OH DEAR – Once the president starts offering veterans choice farmland north of the Po River, then it’s really light’s out for our civilian-controlled military. Rebecca Kheel: “President Trump on Monday kicked off his first speech to U.S. service members by touting his election win and highlighting the support he had from troops. ‘We had a wonderful election didn’t we? And I saw those numbers, and you like me and I like you,’ Trump said at the start of his speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. Trump was popular among service members during the election, with active-duty military and veterans voting for Trump by a larger margin than for his rival, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.” [The Hill] WHEW, THANK GOODNESS OBAMA AND HIS EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE GONE – Also, thank goodness we are finally letting Congress do its job and change the rul―- oh. Jonathan Cohn: “[T]he Trump administration is considering using its executive authority to tweak some of [ACA’s] rules for insurers. Many of the changes under discussion track closely to recommendations from the insurance industry…. Insurers would have more leeway to vary prices by age, so that premiums for the oldest customers could be 3.49 times as large as those for younger customers…. People who want to apply for coverage mid-year, outside of open enrollment, would have to provide documentation of a qualifying life change ― such as a divorce or lost job ― before coverage begins…. Insurers could cut off coverage for people who are more than 30 days late on premiums. Presently, lower- and middle-income consumers who qualify for the law’s tax credits get a 90-day grace period.” [HuffPost] ICYMI: “President Donald Trump seemed to suggest on Sunday that the Republicans’ replacement for the Affordable Care Act might not materialize until 2018.” [HuffPost] TEAM TRUMP GUNNING FOR CFPB – Great news for people who don’t mind it when their airbags expel nothing but confetti. Lorraine Woellert and Josh Dawsey: “Allies of President Donald Trump are building a legal case for ousting Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau who one court called ‘the single most powerful official’ in government after the president. Cordray […]

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