In four days, Nebraska is scheduled to execute Carey Moore by lethal injection. Moore murdered two taxi drivers in Omaha in 1979. He is not fighting his own execution, saying he believes he will be forgiven by Christ upon his death. Because he is not fighting it, the main legal avenue that typically delays or […]
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O’Neill ICE raid
On Wednesday Aug 8, 2018 one of the larger raids in ICE history took place in O’Neill, Nebraska and surrounding areas, sweeping up 133 people and ripping them out of their communities. There are many news sources out there that can report the details better than we can. However, we at Seeing Red want to […]
You may have noticed we at Seeing Red held a protest this past Sunday at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Omaha. The Omaha World Herald sure did! You, too, can plan a protest and make your voice heard. As a follow up on our post about how to hold your very own die-in, we […]
It isn’t nice to block the doorway, It isn’t nice to go to jail, There are nicer ways to do it, But the nice ways always fail. Non-violent civil disobedience is about moving from nice to good. It’s not nice to sit at lunch counters when the restaurant owner wants you to leave. But good […]
This piece was co-authored by Amanda Gailey and Julia Schleck, both of whom have interest in free speech and academic freedom. Ron Brown is returning to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as Director of Player Development under new head coach Scott Frost. In 2012, when Brown used to work at UNL, he made anti-gay comments at […]
This an open letter to Congressman Jeff Fortenberry written by Seeing Red Guest Contributor George E. Wolf. George is a Professor Emeritus of the English Department at UNL, book review editor at Western American Literature, and a longtime Lincoln activist. July 6, 2018 Dear Congressman Fortenberry: Thank you for sending me a soundtrack of […]
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Save Your “Zero Tolerance” for ICE
Last month, Seeing Red Nebraska wrote that Democrats Need to Commit to Dismantling ICE and we meant it. Last night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the NY-14 primary after she campaigned on a platform that included abolishing ICE. Since our first post on the subject in May, many new details have come to light about this full-on humanitarian crisis. […]
What’s happening to immigrants and undocumented in this country is a shameful abomination future generations will judge all of us by. The practice of turning away asylum seekers at the border has suddenly become routine, in defiance of U.S. and International law. In a six week period, 2,000 children have been taken and imprisoned. The […]
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These Children are Not Our Enemies
If the image of toddlers being ripped from their parents’ arms and kept in cages does not convince us that refugees, whether political or economic, are human beings and not criminals to be further brutalized by armed military enforcement, what will? People who try to immigrate to the US by physically arriving at our borders […]
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Child Loss is Torture
Pretty much every single one of us at Seeing Red has been going back and forth from grief and despair to just unadulterated rage for the last few weeks. And no, the executive order didn’t make shit better. And since this is a blog, we are doing our first blogathon where we each emote all […]
