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Anyone who loves an undocumented immigrant and, yet, still feels they should be dehumanized, detained and deported. Visit www.alternacommunity.com. To contact us, email [email protected].

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Out of the Mouth of Jairo

Written by Anton Jesus said to them... "Have you never read, `Out of the mouth of babes... You have perfected praise'? " (Matthew 21:16) This summer, I got a glimpse of Jairo's own internali...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:38:00 GMT

STEWART VIGIL II DRAWS 100 ADVOCATES

Written by Mario Guevara of Atlanta Latino and Anton On September 15, 2007 one hundred American citizens, mostly Anglos and African Americans marched to the gates of the Stewart Detention Center,...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:50:00 GMT

MEET GERONIMO, An Alterna Scholar in Guatemala

Written by Mike Honderich (Mike is a Goshen Collage (IN) student who studied at the Central American Study and Service (CASAS) program in Guatemala this past summer.  CASAS is a program of the L...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:40:00 GMT

Reflections on walls

Reflection essay 1 written June 13, 2007 by Anton The efforts of our religious institutions, government, businesses, NGOs and individuals should be toward eliminating the issues of structural violence...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:16:00 GMT

Leave No Trace Missions

by Anton   As someone who loves spending time in the outdoors, I am well aware of the principles of the environmental ethics known as "leave no trace."  If I leave trash in the woods and no ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:31:00 GMT

Anton challenges University System of Georgia Board of Regents through song & strong symbolism

Below is an aricle from the Gainesville Times.  Anton recently spoke before a panel of the Board of Regents voicing, as an alum of Georgia State University and the University of Georgia, his stro...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 17:32:00 GMT

Excerpts of Bush's remarks at Virginia Tech Memorial Convocation

blogged by Anton Among the victims of this week's senseless expression of violence at Virginia Tech was the son of former co-workers and friends.  Rest in peace, Professor Jamie Bishop, son...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:47:00 GMT

ALTERNA PROTESTS PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT PRISON USED TO "DETAIN" 1200 IMMIGRANTS

Written by Diane Mathiowetz of the Atlanta International Action Center, Mario Guevara of Atlanta Latino and Anton.   On April 14, Alterna along with the Prison and Jail Project, an advocacy minis...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:20:00 GMT

THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THAT NAME

During a recent broadcast of CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer a pre-commercial preview confused America's "number one enemy" with one of America's most popular presidential candidates.  Su...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:09:00 GMT

ON GETTING JESUS OUT OF JAIL

On Getting Jesus Out of Jail  Written by Anton (October 2006) I have been called to live in engaged exile.  With my new life I often feel like a novice Daniel pleading the cause of the opp...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:07:00 GMT