Link farm for mid-May: Somali refugees, French dissidents and the impermanence of race

Here's some quick links that I've recently enjoyed.

Photo-essay on Somali refugees flight to Yemen, gives context for Minneapolis people on the background of our neighbors and what some of them have fled.

The Tarnac9 are kind of like a smarty-pants French version of Minneapolis' own RNC8 (currently charged with conspiracy). The main difference is that French society seems to take the Tarnac9 more seriously, liberal elites defend them. Here, academics and even liberal civil liberty groups haven't jumped at the chance to defend the RNC8's right to dissent (or criticized the state's right to preemptively jail them).

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This is a great story tracing a family's lineage across racial divides since the 1600s. It speaks to how difficult it is to pin down race. It's also a portrait of people's ability to change, profiling a white southern woman who embraced her mixed-race grandkids.

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen. It's a multimedia project showing the lives of women who are trafficked into slavery. For those who think it's only a Eastern European problem, remember the sting on a brothel in south Minneapolis a year or so back?

Studs Terkel audio coming online!