reason.com/blog/2015/10/1…
& reason.com/blog/2017/10/1…
reason.com/blog/2016/04/1…
… The members of K-pop band Oh My Girl reason.com/blog/2015/12/1…
… The interracial couples & famlies detained as part of paranoid airline sex panic reason.com/blog/2016/01/1…
reason.com/blog/2016/03/0…
…. The men arrested in The Review Board Sting reason.com/archives/2016/…
They wound up w/ newspapers in 18 cities -- & pissed off the people in power in each one (including, often, those @ the daily papers)
They fought w/ACLU for the rights of prisoners to read newspapers. They fought DOJ over a deal w/ Village Voice ...
When they got a $3.75 million prize over Arpaio arresting them, they tried to use it to fund a border and migrant studies program w/in the journalism school at ASU ...
So Lacey & Larkin founded the Frontera Fund, which gives money to immigrant rights causes
laceyandlarkinfronterafund.org
"As we sit here … Sheriff Joe Arpaio is blockading the streets of Phoenix and jailing… Mexican immigrants. Here, in this desert, it is Selma time."
What if they were creeps? Not condone-sex-trafficking kind of creeps, but more run-of-the mill skeevy pigs? ...
Was I simply being taken in? Perhaps. But then I'd be one in a long line of reporters.
"He's got this bonkers sincerity about him," Mark Jacobson wrote in New York in '05 nymag.com/nymetro/news/m…
Lacey has HOLD FAST tattooed across his knuckles, & I ask why. Part of the explanation--it is an old sailor tattoo, & his dad had it--appears in my @reason story reason.com/archives/2018/…
Lacey's dad also took his anger out physically on his mom...
“I don’t understand about my own childhood… anger, it never really goes away.”
The AZ school superintendent had been raped & beaten by her husband & was seeking a divorce...
"Were these pieces written only for submission to journalism contests?" phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-bishops…
That they've been cast as villains in our national sex-trafficking panic shows how little changes wrt media respect for women or truth