Sunday, September 9, 2012

CD: Serious Courage

In general it's hard to learn about civilly disobedient actions and arrests when they happen; they normally don't make the national news. If you dig around, though, quite a few people are regularly risking arrest -- and in this case deportation -- trying to make their concerns heard. This one took some guts:  http://truth-out.org/news/item/11409-no-papers-no-fear-undocumented-immigrant-activists-arrested-outside-dnc

2 comments:

macromom said...

It takes a lot of courage to place yourself in a position to deliberately face arrest. Especially if you're not a celebrity

Matt Silliman said...

And, of course, if you additionally face potential deportation.