1/8 I grew up in Somerville, MA, on one side of a big old duplex home adjacent to Tufts University. Across the street, a high impressive chain-link fence topped by 3 rows of barbed wire enclosed a 6-hole golf course as well as a small sports stadium.
2/8 The fence--the barbed wire in particular--was intended to deter youngsters like myself from intruding on University property. The University powers underestimated my determination.
This is my story.
2/18
It began on 1/25/2018 after I'd been watching TV for 3 weeks as the Senate debated a rider which would have given legal status & a pathway to citizenship to DREAMers, young people who came to the US in the 1990’s & early 2000’s as minors; their average age was 3 years old.
Jun 21, 2019 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
1/8. At a meeting tonight, an Immigration Attorney told us that the next 4 months will be a reign/rain of terror on undocumented immigrants in America. Why?
2/8. Because the fiscal year ends on September 30th and the funding that ICE offices will receive next fiscal year depends on how many immigrants they deport prior to the end of this fiscal year.
Oct 16, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
#resist Day 264-10/15/18 Below is text of a talk I was honored to give last night to 77 courteous and attentive high school sophomore Confirmation students @ the Saint James campus of St Josephine Bakhita Parish in Rocky Hill. Connecticut. I wrote the text yesterday afternoon.
I would like to thank Carol Rizzo for inviting me to speak; she is a gift to her community.** “I don’t like to speak from a paper but I want to be sure that I, an old man who is in the last phase of my life, make maximum effort to connect with you, a group of teenagers with the
Oct 6, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I watched Washington Week earlier this evening and what struck me most was the complete absence of any moral component in the conversation about the Supreme Court nomination. It reminded me of a bunch of high school students dissecting frogs in a Biology lab; no emotion,
no feeling. Am I among the last of a dying breed--we who believe that right and wrong do exist in this world, we who know that we sometimes do wrong things and we feel some guilt about it, we who sometimes help others out just because it's the right thing to do,we who believe
