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Gabriel Thompson

Gabriel Thompson is currently working on a biography of legendary community organizer Fred Ross. He is the author of “Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do,” just released in paperback from Nation Books.

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How the Right Made Racism Sound Fair – and Changed Immigration Politics

In June of 2009, Sen. Charles Schumer took the stage in front of a capacity crowd at the Georgetown Law Center. The event was billed as “Immigration: A…
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Gabriel Thompson,
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September 16, 2011
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