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| Convictions of the Heart : Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement
ISBN: 9780816546787
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Arizona Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Religion;
Because the United States supports the repressive regimes of El Salvador and Guatemala, the immigration service deports, to almost certain imprisonment or execution, political refugees from these countries, charges the author. In an engrossing history of private efforts to rescue these illegal aliens, in defiance of government policy, Davidson, a freelance writer, recounts the suffering that drives them to flee and to risk dangers in crossing our border and persecution by American authorities. She focuses on Quaker Jim Corbett, a retired rancher and cofounder of the Sanctuary Movement, who, despite crippling arthritis, has worked incessantly since 1980 to recruit rescue support and funds, and to establish what has become a national network of shelters among churches of all denominations. The movement's activities led to the trial in 1986 of Corbett and seven other Sanctuary workers by an Arizona federal court whose convictions are under appeal. Sanctuary, writes Davidson, continues to operate underground on behalf of victims of the Central American wars. (September) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Miriam Davidson is a Tucson-based writer whose work focuses on border issues. Her award-winning journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the AARP Bulletin, the Arizona Republic, the Nation, the Progressive, and many other outlets. She attended Yale College and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. |
