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Hollywood
strike may no rush
blend media
landscape to send
Writers and actors turn
to social networks as
missiles
inûuencers join union kyiv wants more
long-range arms
BY D REW H ARWELL
AND T AYLOR L ORENZ
Pentagon says it does not
have enough to spare
the historic double strike that
is paralyzing hollywood could
supercharge the creator economy, BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
the wildly popular market of on- AND M ISSY R YAN
line influencers and video makers
who increasingly rival industry the Biden administration is
titans for money, attention and holding firm, for now at least, on
cultural power. its refusal to send long-range
the fast-growing cast of ama- army missiles to Ukraine despite
teur and professional creators 4 mounting pressure from U.s.
chefs, comedians, models, musi- lawmakers and pleas from the
cians and many others 4 already government in Kyiv, according to
attracts tens of millions of fans on U.s. officials.
platforms such as Youtube and Disappointment at the slow
tiktok without the resources or pace of Ukraine9s counteroffen-
support of more established mass lorenzo tUgnolI For the WashIngton Post sive against entrenched Russian
media. forces and a newly equivocal
Now, as american film and tV tone by President Biden have led
production grinds to a halt, possi- cLEaN caRS, hIDDEN TOLL to widespread speculation that
bly for months, they stand at the the missiles will soon follow the
center of a major shift that could
change entertainment and fur-
ther blur the lines between tradi-
tional and digital fame.
Rich lode of EV S
ayed Wali sajid spent years fighting
american soldiers in the barren hills
and fertile fields of the Pech River
Valley, one of the deadliest theaters
Workers dig
for gemstones
including
kunzite and
path taken by other U.s. weapons
systems that were first denied
but ultimately approved during
the 17 months of the war.
studios and producers are
scrambling to recruit creators to
help fill a content void, stoking
tensions over scab work and
metal could boost of the 20-year insurgency. But nothing
confounded the taliban commander, he
said, like the new wave of foreigners who
began showing up, one after another, in late
tourmaline at
a mine in
northeast
Afghanistan9s
in late May, Biden appeared to
alter his previously firm <no= on
the possibility of ataCMs, the
army tactical Missile system,
changing styles of storytelling.
But striking actors and writers
are increasingly less reliant on
Taliban and its 2021.
once, sajid spotted a foreigner hiking
alone along a path where islamic state
nurestan
province. in
doing so, they
saying for the first time that it
was <still in play.= two weeks
later, Ukrainian President Volod-

Chinese partners
hollywood, too, experimenting extremists were known to kidnap outsiders. unearth ore ymyr Zelensky said that he and
with new ideas on instagram, another time, five men and women evaded containing Biden had spoken about the
Youtube, tiktok and twitch in sajid9s soldiers in the dark to scour the lithium, a missiles at the Nato summit in
ways that could net them lasting mountain. the newcomers, sajid recalled, metal crucial Vilnius, Lithuania, but that no
followings 4 if not steady pay- were giddy, persistent, almost single-mind- to electric decision had been made.
checks 4 that go beyond tradi- BY G ERRY S HIH AND L ORENZO T UGNOLI ed in their quest for something few locals vehicles. But U.s. defense and adminis-
tional industry success. iN ChaPa DaRa, aFGhaNistaN believed held any value at all. tration officials familiar with the
the last hollywood strike radi- <the Chinese were unbelievable,= sajid issue said that despite what one
cally reshaped the media land- said, chuckling at the memory. <at first, they called a growing public percep-
scape by fueling the rise of un- didn9t tell us what they wanted. But then i tion of <some sort of slow, gravi-
scripted content, like documen- saw the excitement in their eyes and their tational pull= toward approval,
tary series and reality tV shows, eagerness, and that9s when i understood the there has been no change in U.s.
that were cheaper to make and word 8lithium.9= policy and no substantive discus-
easier to mass-produce, such as a decade earlier, the U.s. Defense Depart- sion about the issue for months.
<Cops= in the late 980s and <the ment, guided by the surveys of american the officials spoke on the condi-
Celebrity apprentice= in 2008. government geologists, concluded that the tion of anonymity to address the
the ongoing walkout of tens of Correspondent gerry shih and photographer lorenzo tugnoli drove 15 hours vast wealth of lithium and other minerals sensitive subject.
from afghanistan9s capital, Kabul, along boulder-strewn roads to the remote
thousands of actors and writers, northeast of the country to explore its lithium industry, hiking two hours up a
buried in afghanistan might be worth the Pentagon believes that
hollywood9s first double strike in mountain to reach the mine shafts. shih is the Washington Post9s new delhi $1 trillion, more than enough to prop up the Kyiv has other, more urgent
63 years, could have similarly bureau chief, responsible for covering much of south asia, and tugnoli is a country9s fragile government. in a 2010 needs than ataCMs, and wor-
sEE CreAtors oN A10 Pulitzer Prize-winning contract photographer for the Post based in Barcelona. sEE eV MetAl oN A12 ries that sending enough to
Ukraine to make a difference on
In asia: Filmmakers watch U.s. the battlefield would severely
strikes with hope, frustration. a9 sEE UkrAine oN A15

A family9s long struggle to reunite lay in a judge9s hands Alliance on right may test
After being separated at the border in 2017, a mother ûghts to regain custody of her daughter liberal foothold in Spain
BY K EVIN S IEFF that kind of inclusivity is now
iN NashViLLE in the sights of Vox 4 a far-right
Election comes as party that could be propelled into
she sat on the edge of a picnic conservative movements the national government for the
table outside the Comfort inn and first time as a result of sunday9s
waited for the hearing to begin.
gain traction in Europe elections. While Vox isn9t expected
<hello?= Magdalena hernán- to come in first or even second,
dez Pérez said into her phone. polls suggest it could be the king-
<Can you hear me?= BY A NTHONY F AIOLA maker for the far larger center-
on the screen flashed the face right Popular Party (PP).
of a judge in California, the man VaLEnCia, Spain 4 For Family an alliance between the two
deciding whether she would see Day at his 3-year-old son9s pre- would give spain its most con-
her daughter again, more than school, Victor Parral hauled in a servative government since the
five years after they were separat- bag of Barbies and Kens. Using death of its longtime dictator, Gen.
ed by U.s. Border Patrol agents. varied combinations to represent Francisco Franco, in 1975. it would
<hello?= she tried again. she parents, he paired them up for a dramatically swing the pendulum
wore a blue work uniform and puppet show 4 including two in a country that has become an
pink lipstick that she hoped dads, one in a floral shirt, the other unlikely bastion of progressive-
would make her look more amer- in a casual tee emblazoned with ness. it could also noticeably shift
ican. gold lamé. the political balance in Europe,
there was no response. her <We had dolls for all types of where a more fervent brand of
hand trembled, then the screen families 4 lesbian moms, a het- conservatism has begun to take
turned black. erosexual couple, a single mother, hold, challenging forward-lean-
the Biden administration had divorced parents,= said Parral, a ing positions on everything from
brought Magdalena from Guate- 45-year-old Valencia art teacher gender to global warming.
mala to the United states to re- who staged the show with his hus- in spain, voters from the Ca-
unite with her daughter, a rever- band. For students 12 and up, Par- nary islands to Catalonia are go-
sal of the trump administration9s ral has given diversity lessons in ing to the polls with the socialists
policy of family separation that public schools that invite boys to of Prime Minister Pedro sánchez
had torn them apart. paint their nails while girls draw and allied parties on the left seek-
But now a county judge9s ques- beards on their faces. ing to fend off a predicted con-
JohnnIe IzqUIerdo For the WashIngton Post
tion loomed over their future: <the idea is to explore gender as servative wave. the center-right
sEE sePArAtion oN A16 Magdalena Hernández Pérez waits for a hearing to gain custody of her daughter to begin on Zoom. a cultural construct,= he said. sEE sPAin oN A20

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the city9s racial disparities are
stark: The median household in-
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Roxbury neighborhood was once
written off as a slum, she said, but
is now attracting students from
$48,276, compared with $55,592
for Asian households and $65,133
for White households, according
to census data. The bureau did not
As cities and states address slavery9s legacy, lineage and enduring harm are flash points nearby Northeastern University
as well as immigrants from
release data on Latino house-
holds.
around the globe, including many <We think of ourselves as a pro-
BY E MMANUEL F ELTON A California panel has recom- of activists, calling themselves have affected the lives of every Black migrants from Africa and gressive community today,= said
mended billions in reparations for Freedmen, waging a nationwide Black person in America, no mat- the West Indies. Where once stood Michele Miller, who spearheaded
BOSTON 4 When this city an- its Black residents, but it would campaign to keep reparations pro- ter when their ancestors arrived 4 soul food restaurants and barbe- the local reparations effort. <But
nounced earlier this year that it exclude anyone who cannot trace grams limited to descendants of with some even calling for repara- cue joints, now stand Jamaican we knew that there were slave
would consider giving reparations their lineage in the United States enslaved people. tion dollars to be sent to Africa. jerk places and Ethiopian restau- owners in Amherst9s history. We
to its Black residents, it was her- back to 1900. Smaller reparations For the reparations movement <One of the things that actually rants, she said. knew that there was all sorts of
alded as another victory in a na- programs launched by cities in to succeed, it can9t be seen as unites all African people is the <On the ground in Roxbury, discrimination that happened
tional movement to offer recom- Rhode Island and Illinois have not free-for-all for anyone in the Unit- right to reparation, because we people know that their experi- here that we needed to deal with
pense for the legacy of slavery and made a distinction, and Black im- ed States who identifies as Black, were all damaged by this transat- ences are different than say some- the legacies of.=
Jim Crow segregation. migrants are able to apply. these activists say. There should be lantic slave trade and this experi- one who immigrated here from The city has pledged $2 million,
The city had played a key role in Under a proposal being debat- narrowly tailored restitution ence of slavery,= said Amilcar Sha- Africa or the Caribbean,= Robin- so far, for the panel9s reparations
financing the slave trade and was ed in San Francisco, descendants plans for people whose ancestors9 bazz, professor of history and Afri- son-Goodnight said. recommendations, which are ex-
the site of fierce resistance to inte- of enslaved Americans would be labor and property were stolen, cana studies at the University of As the city debated the job of its pected to be released in August.
gration. Now, advocates said, it given more points than others in a they say. Massachusetts at Amherst. reparations committee, Robin- Committee members are still dis-
was time to address the lingering formula to determine eligibility Freedmen activists point to The modern reparations move- son-Goodnight put herself for- cussing how the money should be
damage. for up to $5 million in payments. data showing that Black immi- ment must address the state of ward, seeking and getting nomi- used. Possibilities include provid-
But as the mayor started choos- In Boston, the distinction could grants generally fare better than 21st-century America, said nations from other activists and ing emergency funds, housing as-
ing members for the Boston task drastically impact the reach of the the community overall. Yvonne Mendez, a second-genera- local government officials. sistance and education scholar-
force, the city quickly became one panel9s recommendations. Black Black immigrant households tion Panamanian American. <We But the Freedmen9s agenda ships for Black residents and re-
of the chief battlegrounds of an residents make up 19 percent of have a higher median income 4 have to deal with slavery,= she said. drew opposition from other repa- naming public spaces for Black
adjacent fight playing out within the city9s overall population. But $57,200 4 than U.S.-born Black <But we also need reparations that rations advocates. historical figures. But they have
the Black community: Should rep- 37 percent of that population is households 4 $42,000 4 but one address the issues that all Black <If you relegate reparations to not seriously considered exclud-
arations programs be limited to foreign-born, the highest rate of lower than other immigrant-led people are facing today.= just slavery, then you9ve missed ing the 40 percent of the city9s
people who trace their ancestry any metropolitan area in the households, according to a 2022 As Boston officials began plan- the mark,= said Michael Curry, Black population born outside the
back to American slavery, or country, according to a recent Pew report. In the Boston area, the ning the city9s reparations task chief executive of the Massachu- United States, board members say.
should they include Black immi- study by the Boston Foundation. median net worth for nonimmi- force, Robinson-Goodnight, then setts League of Community That has angered Freedmen ac-
grants who came to the country by grant Black families was $8 com- the project director for the New Health Centers and former head tivists. <This needs to be lineage-
choice? Freedmen perspective pared with $12,000 for Caribbean Democracy Coalition, a grass- of the Boston NAACP. <Because if based,= Jaylynn Conway, a Boston-
The debate highlights tension For decades, activists have been Black families, according to a 2015 roots organization, lobbied for you9re Nigerian or Cape Verdean based activist, said after joining a
within America9s rapidly chang- calling on Boston to atone for its study by the Federal Reserve Bank seven of the 10 seats to go to or Black Brazilian, you9ve experi- December committee meeting
ing Black community and risks history of racial discrimination 4 of Boston. Freedmen activists, including one enced the same things, been over Zoom. <If not, you would be
fracturing a movement that is al- from the financing of the slave <It9s like being in an emergency for herself. stopped by the police, you9ve been giving away our money to immi-
ready struggling to gain main- trade to the bulldozing of Black room, and you see somebody come <We don9t need a task force that denied a job, you9ve been denied grants who came over here will-
stream acceptance. It could also communities. Boston-based trad- in with a paper cut, and somebody is full of academics or politicians that bank loan. This is about repo- ingly. We came over here forcibly
shape the reach and ultimate price ers and investors were responsible else who is having a heart attack,= or people with money,= she said. sitioning a whole people.= because we were sold by our own
tag of reparations programs being for at least 307 separate slave trade said Robinson-Goodnight, a Her family was enslaved in Mis- In February, Wu named 10 people.=
developed in more than a dozen trips, according to the Equal Jus- Freedmen activist. <Who are you sissippi, Robinson-Goodnight members to the city9s nascent rep- Shabazz, the University of Mas-
states and cities across the coun- tice Initiative, a nonprofit that actually supposed to help first?= said, and after World War II arations task force to <release a sachusetts professor and a mem-
try. traces the history of slavery. Freedmen activists are facing moved to Boston, where they study on the legacy of slavery in ber of Amherst9s reparations task
<There is not going to be some The movement was revived in opposition from advocates who threw themselves into the bur- Boston and its impact on descen- force, immediately rejected de-
8Kumbaya9 moment,= said Aziza 2020, after the murder of George say the slave trade and its legacy geoning Black community. dants today.= Robinson-Good- mands that the panel stop calling
Robinson-Goodnight, a Boston- Floyd, when activists called on On a piece of notebook paper, night wasn9t among them. its program reparations unless it
based activist calling for repara- local leaders to apologize for the Robinson-Goodnight recently jot- So far, the newly minted com- was limited to descendants of en-
tions to be limited to descendants city9s racist history and establish a ted down in bright-blue ink the mission has not taken a stance on slaved people.
of enslaved people. <We9re going to
have to fight, and we9re going to
reparations commission.
City leaders agreed. <For four
<You would be giving web of businesses that her family
has lost over the years 4 a variety
eligibility. Joseph Feaster Jr., a
Boston attorney and chair of the
<I won9t back off from the word,
and I9m not going to shift,= Shaba-
have to make the strongest case
possible.=
hundred years, the brutal practice
of enslavement and recent policies
away our money to store, a coffee shop, a bar. At one
point, they owned 10 properties
city9s reparations commission,
said the committee still has a lot of
zz, who says he can trace his ances-
try back to U.S. slavery, said at one
The factions are at odds over
what it means to be Black in the
like redlining, the busing crisis &
have denied Black Americans
immigrants who came around Boston, she said.
There is no trace of that wealth
work to do before starting to dis-
cuss which residents should be
meeting. <This is reparations.
Reparations on a local municipal
United States at a time when that
story is rapidly changing. For most
pathways to build generational
wealth, secure stable housing, and
over here willingly.= left at the corner of Shawmut Av-
enue and Windsor Street, where
eligible for a reparations program.
The issue should not be re-
level to address harms that oc-
curred here.=
of U.S. history, nearly all Black live freely,= Mayor Michelle Wu Jaylynn Conway, her grandfather once owned two solved by government officials, Mendez, who is also a member
Americans could trace their an- said in a statement announcing a Boston-based activist, arguing buildings. In the 1960s, the city said Segun Idowu, Boston9s chief of Amherst9s reparations commit-
cestry back to American slavery. the reparations panel. against Amhurst, Mass., paying used eminent domain to take the of economic opportunity and in- tee, also resisted the Freedmen9s
Immigrants, less than 1 percent of The city soon found itself the reparations to Black residents with no properties for a highway project. clusion. demands.
the Black population in 1980s, target of a loosely organized group lineage of slavery <It9s almost 80 years since we <This is a huge debate within While she traces her lineage
now make up 10 percent. Between the Black community itself,= said outside the country, raising three
now and 2060, about a third of the Idowu. <I don9t think it9s appropri- Black children in Amherst means
growth in the Black population ate for government to make deci- constantly putting out fires, Men-
will come from immigration from sions about what reparations dez said, including worrying how
countries such as Jamaica and should be.= her sons will be treated by police.
Ethiopia, according to the Pew Once, her daughter9s drama
Research Center. Stark disparities, teacher assigned her the monkey
After centuries of a shared his- common insults role in a school play.
tory, the Black American commu- Freedmen9s activists say they <I think it was 8The Wizard of
nity is increasingly hetero- are not giving up. Robinson- Oz,9= Mendez said. <My daughter
geneous. And the division is show- Goodnight has set her sights on at the time was young enough not
ing up in attitudes about the need legislation introduced in June to to know what the message was,
for reparations. According to a establish a statewide reparations but I did, so I went right down to
2023 Washington Post-Ipsos sur- commission in Massachusetts. the school and I said, 8Anytime
vey, 75 percent of Black Americans Activists have also descended you9ve got Black kids in your class
think the federal government two hours west of Boston, where none of them are going to be the
should pay reparations, including Floyd9s death sparked multiple monkeys.9=
77 percent of native-born Black protests in Amherst, Mass., fol- Mendez said that she learned
people compared with 59 percent lowed by months of calls for re- later that another Black parent
of foreign-born Black people. form in the liberal college town. In had the same conversation with
<When we talk about the na- 2020, the town9s council voted to the teacher two years earlier.
tion9s Black population, we have to <end structural racism and <We all have those stories in
understand it is one that is chang- achieve racial equity for Black Amherst,= she said. <And so, for
ing and becoming even more di- residents.= Then, the next year, it me, this reparations program is
verse than it already was,= said formed the Amherst African Heri- about changing it for the next
Mark Lopez, Pew9s director of race tage Reparation Assembly and generation, chipping away at the
and ethnicity research. <Immi- pledged to create a fund. systemic racism we have here and
grants are a big part of that story, About 6 percent of Amherst9s creating a place where there9s af-
and so the immigrant experience population, around 2,400 people, finity and facility as well as pros-
is a growing part of the experience are Black. About two-thirds of perity for people of color.=
of Black Americans today.= them, reparations committee
It is a debate playing out across Yvonne Mendez, right, a member of Amherst9s reparations committee, with her daughter, Aisha members say, are students at one emily guskin contributed to this report
the country. Jordan. Mendez says reparations should <address the issues that all Black people are facing today.= of the town9s three colleges. But from D.C.
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Despite pledge 8to donate every dime9 he makes to veterans, Tuberville has not
<I stand with our can report they are still donation from the Tommy
veterans and I9m operating, she said. Tuberville Foundation in 2019 as
going to donate <With respect to the $174k per the nonprofit beneficiary of a
every dime I year specifically, the 2021 990 golf tournament he hosted, but
make when I9m in Schedule A reflects that the we have not received any
Washington, D.C., charity didn9t report receiving contributions since then,= said
The Fact to the veterans of contributions even close to this Debbie Joyner, chief
Checker the state of amount in any of the past 5 development officer of the
Glenn Alabama. Folks, years,= Styron said in an email. organization. Jamie Popwell,
Kessler they deserve it. <In fact, the charity reports president of Flags for Vets, said
They deserve it a receiving only $218k in the organization has received
lot more than contributions for the past 5 years $500 in 2018, $1,000 in 2019 and
most of us.= combined. If he promised to $2,500 in 2020, but has not
4 Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R- donate his salary to vets, he received any donation since
Ala.), in a Facebook campaign certainly isn9t fulfilling this then.
video, March 9, 2020 promise by donating to this Tuberville9s staff indicated
particular charity.= that thus far the senator had not
As senator, Tuberville has The 2021 filing lists Rodney lived up to his pledge.
made veterans one of his key Williams as the foundation <You are correct that Coach
issues. The former football coach chairman. Williams is an uses the Foundation as the
serves on both the Veterans9 Alabama pharmacist who primary vehicle for donating to
Affairs Committee and the contributed to Tuberville9s veterans9 organizations, but it is
Armed Services Committee. He campaign. He did not respond to by no means the only one,=
is now in a high-profile battle a request for comment. Anna Tuberville communications
with the Biden administration Harris, listed as the registered director Steven Stafford said in
over abortion policy affecting agent in the charity9s filing with an email. <You may have learned
veterans. He has stalled the the Alabama secretary of state9s by now that there were serious
confirmation of more than 250 office, said she had not worked problems with the Foundation
JaBin BoTSford/The WaShingTon PoST
senior military officers over his for the charity for <a couple of for a number of years, and that
objection to a Defense Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), center, waits to be interviewed at the Conservative Political Action years= and could not answer any the Foundation came under
Department policy allowing Conference in Fort Washington, Md., on March 2. His $174,000 salary has yet to benefit veterans. questions. audit. My understanding is that
military personnel and their The foundation9s Facebook during the audit, the Foundation
families to recoup travel veterans via a charitable charitable causes 4 especially filing cited fundraising through page features articles on some paused most of its activities.=
expenses incurred while seeking organization, the Tommy since he became a senator. a golf tournament and speaking veterans9 initiatives sponsored Noting that he was not
an abortion if they are stationed Tuberville Foundation, that he Tuberville moved the charity to engagements. Most of the by the senator since he took speaking for the foundation,
in a state that bans or restricts established in 2014 after he was Alabama in 2018 after he left the donations it reported were office but does not feature any Stafford added: <The audit was
the procedure. hired as football coach at the coaching position in Cincinnati relatively small 4 $8,763 in 2015 fundraising activity since a 2019 recently completed successfully,
Yet there is no evidence that University of Cincinnati. His in 2016. and $13,245 in 2016 for <veterans golf tournament. and the Foundation is resolving
Tuberville has kept a key pledge employment contract, which In 2021, the foundation home renovations= and $4,536 in The Fact Checker contacted its longstanding problems,
he made when he ran for Senate paid him a minimum of reported it had $74,101 in 2018 for Flags for Vets. (The nine veterans9 organizations resuming its activities, and
three years ago 4 that he would $1.6 million a year, stipulated revenue and spent just foundation filed the wrong form represented on the Alabama Coach is resuming his work with
<donate every dime= he made in that he donate at least $5,000 a 12 percent of that, or $9,000, in 2017, so few details are State Board of Veterans Affairs. the Foundation to help veterans
Washington to Alabama month as a gift to the athletics while $32,000 went to provided, while 2019 and 2020 Three state affiliates 4 Vietnam in need.=
veterans. department. For instance, in administrative costs (including were also postcard filings.) Veterans of America, Disabled Asked whether Tuberville has
2016 he paid for 150 season nearly $12,400 to pay off a truck Laurie Styron, executive American Veterans and Veterans failed to donate more than
The Facts tickets for veterans in a section the charity purchased in 2018 for director of Charity Watch, an of Foreign Wars 4 responded $400,000 to veterans, as
A U.S. senator earns $174,000 of the stadium dubbed Tubby9s $27,369). In 2022, the American Institute of and said they have received no promised, and whether he is still
a year. We9re assuming that Troops. The transaction was foundation apparently had gross Philanthropy charity watchdog, donations from either Tuberville committed to do so, Stafford
Tuberville was proposing to billed to the Tommy Tuberville receipts of less than $50,000 and reviewed the Tommy Tuberville or the Tommy Tuberville responded: <Coach is in the
donate only his salary, not the Foundation, whose primary was required to file only a 990-N, Foundation filings for The Fact Foundation. process of reforming the
substantial earnings he makes mission is <assisting our military known as a postcard, providing Checker. She said that because of We also contacted other Foundation. He has already
from his investments. (He has an and veterans.= even less detail. (The test for the postcard filings there was an veterans9 organizations that the completely replaced the Board of
estimated net worth of The Internal Revenue Service filing a postcard considers the <accountability black hole= about Tommy Tuberville Foundation Directors; he is resuming
$20 million.) With Tuberville certified the Tommy Tuberville average of the past three years.) the charity that made it difficult Facebook page has indicated it activities with the Foundation,
now having served 21/2 years as Foundation as a public charity in The charity also filed a <to understand if promises were has supported in the past. For and he will keep his promise to
senator, that would amount to a 2015, making donations to the postcard in 2020, and in its 2021 fulfilled, or monitor a charity's instance, Still Serving Veterans the veterans of Alabama.=
total of $437,000 in potential organization tax-deductible. But filing it suggested it received no grants relative to its overhead is a Huntsville charity that helps Six years of a senatorial salary
donations. a review of IRS filings made by money at all in 2020. The charity spending.= The main reason the veterans transition to civilian would mean Tuberville would be
In the past decade, Tuberville the foundation show that very generally provides little detail on IRS permits small charities to employment. <Still Serving on the hook for more than
has made contributions to little has been spent on how money is raised, but its 2018 file such limited data is so they Veterans received a small $1 million in donations.

Before Jan. 6, Trump

chief of stab joked
about election claims
been stolen, people familiar with
the probe have said.
Meadows texted that his The text message is a small
son, a lawyer, found few part of a broader portrait of
Meadows that Smith appears to
Ga. votes by dead people be assembling as he weighs the
actions of not just Trump but a
number of his closest advisers,
BY J OSH D AWSEY, including Meadows.
C AROL D . L EONNIG People close to Meadows have
AND J ACQUELINE A LEMANY said that he was privately sympa-
thetic to those Trump advisers
Mark Meadows joked about who were skeptical of the fraud
the baseless claim that large claims. Yet Meadows also played
numbers of votes were fraudu- both sides, often appearing to
lently cast in the names of dead indulge Trump9s desire to use
people in the days before the those false allegations to try to
then-White House chief of staff remain in office, people who
participated in a phone call in witnessed his behavior have said.
which President Donald Trump A spokesman for Meadows
alleged there were close to 5,000 declined to comment. Blake
dead voters in Georgia and urged Meadows did not respond to a
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia9s request for comment.
secretary of state, to overturn the Since Trump said he was
2020 election there. named a target of Smith9s investi-
In a text message that has been gation earlier this week, his allies
scrutinized by federal prosecu- have been feverishly speculating
tors, Meadows wrote to a White about the degree of Meadows9s
House lawyer that his son, cooperation with the Smith
JaBin BoTSford/The WaShingTon PoST
Atlanta-area attorney Blake probe and whether he has pro-
Meadows, had been probing pos- vided testimony that Smith will Mark Meadows, former president Donald Trump9s chief of staff, joked with a White House lawyer about Trump9s claims of a stolen 2020
sible fraud and had found only a use to build a case against Trump presidential election in Georgia in a text message that has been seen by federal prosecutors, people familiar with the investigation said.
handful of possible votes cast in or others.
dead voters9 names, far short of The Meadows text, which a Georgia, a traditionally Republi- North Carolina Supreme Court witness describing being shown former chief of staff soured after
what Trump was alleging. The person familiar with the investi- can-leaning state that Biden won justice and worked for his fa- a <grid= displaying the communi- Meadows published a book
lawyer teasingly responded that gation said prosecutors have pre- by nearly 12,000 votes, former ther9s campaign for Congress cations. about his time in the White
perhaps Meadows9s son could sented to a grand jury, is a White House officials and cam- and a Republican political group This spring, Meadows testified House last year that generally
locate the thousands of votes reminder that Smith has gath- paign aides said. Meadows lob- called the Alliance Defending to the grand jury about his praised Trump but also included
Trump would need to win the ered documents and witness tes- bied other officials in the state Freedom, according to his interactions with Trump and details about how sick Trump
election. The text was described timony that has not been seen by about the election results and LinkedIn profile. He is now man- others involved with Trump9s became when he contracted
by multiple people familiar with the public despite more than two even visited a ballot-counting aging partner of his own firm in election effort, two people with covid-19 in October 2020, a de-
the exchange. years of congressional and media center in Georgia, The Washing- Tyrone, Ga. knowledge of the appearance scription of personal vulnerabili-
The jocular text message, scrutiny about Trump9s activities ton Post has reported. Witnesses have been asked said. ty that has angered Trump. That
which has not been previously following the election. He will In the weeks after the election, detailed questions about why After leaving the White House, included insider information
reported, is one of many ex- probably offer the public the Trump advisers said they re- Meadows appeared so deeply Meadows joined the Conserva- about Trump9s three-day stay at
changes from the time in which fullest picture yet available of the ceived claims that came from interested in the Georgia elec- tive Partnership Institute, where Walter Reed National Military
Trump aides and other Republi- events that led to the Jan. 6 Meadows that the election was tion results and about his various he has helped the group raise Medical Center recovering from
can officials expressed deep attack. fraudulent, but when they phone calls with Georgia officials money and amass real estate for the virus, where Meadows joined
skepticism or even openly A spokesman for Smith de- checked the claims with outside and other activities in the state, a larger office complex on him.
mocked the election claims being clined to comment. experts paid by the Trump cam- three people familiar with testi- Capitol Hill. He has kept in touch Research for the book, <The
made publicly by Trump, accord- Days after Meadows sent the paign, they could not substanti- mony said. with some of his aides from the Chief 9s Chief,= also appeared to
ing to people familiar with the text, he organized the Raffen- ate them, according to people The Justice Department ob- White House. help a separate Smith investiga-
investigation, who spoke on the sperger call on Jan. 2, in which familiar with the requests. tained hundreds of Meadows9s People in Trump9s orbit have tion into Trump9s handling of
condition of anonymity due to Trump pressed to <find= the votes Meadows, a former member of texts in the summer of 2022, grown increasingly concerned classified documents after leav-
the sensitivity of the criminal in the state necessary to overturn Congress who became Trump9s which were then shared with about what they see as Mead- ing office. Investigators obtained
investigation. Biden9s victory. chief of staff in early 2020, was Smith9s team after the special ows9s retreat from the public audio of Trump talking about
Special counsel Jack Smith, A recording of the call shows viewed inside the White House counsel was appointed in No- scene as a prominent defender of what he said was a classified
who is leading a Justice Depart- that Meadows did not interject and the campaign as one of the vember, according to two other the former president. He has document with ghostwriters for
ment investigation of Trump9s or challenge Trump9s claims biggest propagators of such people familiar with the probe. reduced his public appearances, Meadows, as papers rustle.
activities in the weeks leading up about votes cast in the name of claims 4 though at times he also Meadows subsequently turned particularly on television 4 A person close to Meadows
to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the dead people. Instead, when entertained concerns from other over additional documents to where he was once a frequent said he knows his relationship
U.S. Capitol, has focused on ex- Raffensperger countered that Trump advisers who wanted the Smith9s office in response to a guest. He has not posted on with Trump is permanently rup-
ploring whether Trump and his state investigators had found president to accept his election subpoena, according to people Twitter in five months. tured and has told others he does
closest advisers understood that just two such votes, he respond- loss. familiar with his activities. Trump has repeatedly com- not seek to antagonize Trump
claims of fraud in the election ed: <That may be what your It is not clear how extensively Witnesses who have appeared plained to others about Meadows and his supporters but conclud-
were baseless, even as they investigation shows, but I can Blake Meadows looked for in- in front of a Washington grand and questioned his loyalty, ac- ed he had to cooperate with
pressed state officials and others promise you there are more than stances of fraud in Georgia or jury investigating Jan. 6 say pros- cording to three Trump advisers. Smith9s office as required by law.
to overturn Biden9s victory and that.= what his father concluded about ecutors appear to have an exten- A spokesman for Trump declined
convinced Trump9s millions of Meadows expended particular his findings. sive collection of Meadows9s text to comment about Meadows. Perry Stein contributed to this
supporters that the election had energy after the 2020 vote on Blake Meadows interned for a messages and emails, with one Trump9s relationship with his report.
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fortifying Old Testament verse

from Isaiah.
<No weapon formed against
us will be able to prosper,= Black
prayed.
Just before 4 a.m., when the
joint-session of Congress had
finished in the House chamber,
Pence asked Black to deliver a
closing prayer for which he had
no real preparation. <Whatever
the Holy Spirit puts on your
heart,= Pence told him, Black
recalled.
After blaming Trump9s words
for inciting the riot, Black
thanked the lawmakers for
standing up <against all
enemies, domestic as well as
foreign.=
When he prays, does God ever
explain why the Capitol seems
so screwed up these days?
<In everything, God is
working for the good,= Black
responded, citing the Apostle
Paul in Romans. <It tells me that
God9s primary business is not to
make me happy, it9s not to give
me kumbaya moments
repeatedly. I mean, the
legislative process is adversarial
by nature.=
Most weeks aren9t so
dramatic. Just chock full with
four Bible studies, including two
open to anyone in the Capitol,
along with a Wednesday
bipartisan prayer breakfast with
senators.
Black visits lawmakers and
staff in hospitals, serves at
weddings and funerals. He
appreciates the <pluralistic
ministry= the Navy and Senate
have provided, a sharp reversal
from a childhood and early
JABIn BoTSford/ThE WAShInGTon PoST
adult life spent attending and
pastoring Black-only churches.
<I don9t like silos. I don9t like

After 20 years as the Senate9s chaplain,

denominations,= he said.
Black provides a safe space
for intimate discussions among
senators that sometimes touch
on policy but often focus on the

Barry Black still speaks 8truth to power9 tension in their lives.

<Look, most of us who spend
time with him are thirsty for an
environment that allows for
vulnerability, for genuine
As a finalist for conversation about family, about
@PKCapitol the position of the stressors in our lives and
Paul Kane chaplain, the Rev. about remaining grounded. And
Barry Black faced he focuses on that,= said Sen.
questions about Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.), a
being intimidated by senators. graduate of Yale Divinity School.
As chief chaplain of the Navy, Black knows that his sessions
Black politely replied, he had provide a balm, however
already ministered to secretaries temporary, from a Senate that
of defense, top admirals and increasingly mirrors the
other senior military. politically polarized outside
Besides, he talks every day to world.
the highest power of all. <It9s very difficult to stand,
<Just because someone has join hands at the end of a prayer
four stars,= Black recalled from breakfast, pray together and
his 2003 job interview, <why then go up to the chamber and
would it intimidate someone insult one of the lawmakers you
who, before commuting to work, just prayed with,= one senator
spoke to the one who created GETTY IMAGES JABIn BoTSford/ThE WAShInGTon PoST
told Black. <Not impossible, but
the stars? So, the connection CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The Rev. Barry Black in his office before a private gathering with senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. difficult.=
with the transcendent certainly His office is replete with photos from more than 20 years as Senate chaplain. Brown gives the invocation at President Barack In late 2004, a young African
takes away the intimidation Obama9s 2009 inaugural luncheon as Obama, Michelle Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) bow their heads. American man walked into
factor.= Black9s orientation session for
Needless to say, Black got the new senators and the pastor
job and more than 20 years admittedly couldn9t see how
later, he has emerged as a non-White chaplain is lost on What drives him is the Bible. lectio continua,= he said, citing <before you say 8you are that quick the star would shine.
powerful institution within the most senators, who due to his The Bible. The Bible. The Bible. the Latin phrases for man in the story.9= <He looked like a teenager to
institution. No one has served a tenure really only know of one <Scripture speaks to certain meditational prayer. <So you The chaplain9s view down the me,= he said, never believing
longer, consecutive term chaplain: The Reverend Black. issues 4 homelessness, poverty, read continuously through Mall on Jan. 6, 2021, looked America would elect a Black
ministering to the Senate, and if At 74, he intends to stay on the value of a life,= said Sen. Jim scripture very slowly.= familiar, but in a menacing way. president, let alone someone the
he stays on another four years, the job for years to come 4 Lankford (R-Okla.), a regular He then took seven long <It looked like an reverend would come to know
Black will be the most tenured technically an elected position, member of Black9s prayer seconds to read from the Book inauguration size crowd was on so well. <God has blessed the
Senate chaplain ever. he9s already served with groups. <Those are things that of Psalms: <The Lord is King, let its way there. And I know doubting Thomas in me.=
His flock extends to the 6,000 complete support from two scripture speaks to, so he9s the earth rejoice.= enough about the military, so Black gave the benediction at
or so staff, police and Democratic and two Republican within his bounds to be able to Yet for all his ministerial this looks like 10-to-1 in terms of Obama9s first inaugural
administrative aides who work majority leaders. All signs point speak out on areas of his own ways, Black moves seamlessly being outnumbered,= Black luncheon, the first Black
on the Senate side of the to a preacher whose clout is only personal faith.= into pop culture, quoting recalled of the moments before a chaplain praying for the first
Capitol, but his bonds run growing. Prayers come to Black any characters from <Casablanca= Capitol Police officer moved him Black president. A formal 65th
deepest with the 100 senators <I speak the truth to power,= time of day, prompting him to and <The Godfather,= the underground and into a secure birthday letter is framed next to
who come from all faiths and he said in an hour-long grab his phone to dictate his cartoon movie series <Kung Fu hearing room across the street. the chaplain9s office front door,
backgrounds. interview. He thought about the thoughts into the collection of Panda,= and country music Inside that room, senators with the presidential seal, but
He has prayed with a young many events over the two audio files that serve as a holy singer George Strait. lined up to talk with Black and Obama inscribed a handwritten
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) decades he9s seen 4 and prayed library. Black has used the prophet pray, almost like a mafia boss tribute to make sure the
deciding whether to run for over 4 from his third-floor Black devotes an hour a day Nathan9s technique to at times receiving line as underlings chaplain knew it wasn9t some
president, and with Vice office with a porthole-like to reading scripture. At one shame senators or military come by to kiss the ring. <I felt auto-pen note.
President Mike Pence as he window that provides a point he paused our interview to officers when they9ve done like Michael Corleone at one <You continue to inspire,= the
faced the most consequential sweeping view of the National walk across the room and collect wrong. Nathan confronted King point,= he quipped. president wrote.
decision of his career as the Mall. his Bible 4 with various sticky David, after his affair with Finally, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) Black believes that his
sitting president attacked him <I have the joy of having to notes and bookmarks serving as Bathsheba and murdering her quieted the room and asked the younger self would have spoken
over executing his constitutional depend upon the wisdom of reminders for certain passages husband, by indirectly telling chaplain to deliver a prayer for <truth to power= about the
role in the transition of scripture and the power of what 4 so he could demonstrate how him the story of a rich, powerful everyone. The extemporaneous Christian-school shooting or the
presidential power. I consider the Holy Spirit,= he he prays and why he speaks so man who murdered a poor offering cited Romans in the Capitol attack, but he
His only mandatory duty said, <to give me clarity on what deliberately when opening the person9s only lamb. It outraged New Testament, thanking God acknowledges that it wouldn9t
comes at the start of each Senate the biblical admonition is Senate. David, just as Black9s own tales for looking after the huddled have been heard the same way.
session, an opening prayer. But regarding these issues.= <You read very, very slowly. anger senators. group of lawmakers and staff, All these years praying with
Black occasionally uses these It9s pointless trying to pin They call it lectio devina and <Tell a story,= Black said, but it also referenced a senators 4 two future
moments to implore action on down Black9s politics. He grew presidents, the current vice
major current events, as he did up in federal housing in the president 4 gives him what
deep into a government projects of Baltimore, benefiting Aristotle called <ethos= in terms
shutdown when he declared from welfare programs and then of how people perceive your
<enough is enough.= government aide to attend words.
In March, when a shooter Oakwood University, a <That takes time to build that
killed six people, including three historically Black Seventh-day kind of trust,= he said. <It can9t
9-year-old children, at a church Adventist college, where he be your first rodeo.=
school in Nashville, Black received his first of many He9s prayed many times
abandoned his planned prayer divinity degrees. asking if, borrowing from one of
and instead jabbed at <I think my inner-city Strait9s famous songs, whether
Republican rejections of more background has made me <this is where the cowboy rides
gun control. appreciate the power of away.=
<When babies die at a church government to make a <No, no, no,= the Lord replies
school, it is time for us to move difference,= he said. <The power each time, Black said. <We9re
beyond thoughts and prayers,= of government to hold in check just getting started.=
Black prayed from the rostrum. pathology.= When he stares out the
And when Pence asked him to Yet after several years in porthole looking across the West
deliver a closing prayer, early on private ministry, he became a Front of the Capitol, Black
the morning of Jan. 7, 2021, Navy chaplain and spent more doesn9t think of the angry mob
following the attack on the than 25 years inside a fairly attempting an insurrection. He
Capitol, Black made clear that conservative institution where looks down past the Washington
President Trump9s words caused he found inspiration from a Monument and to the Lincoln
the riot. beloved conservative. Memorial, where he conjures
<These tragedies have <The Great Communicator, the image of Martin Luther King
reminded us that words matter Ronald Reagan, and at the end Jr.'s <March on Washington= 4
and that the power of life and of one of his little speeches, [I] which his wife of 50 years,
death is the tongue,= he prayed turned to my wife and said, 8I Brenda, attended in 1963.
after Congress certified think we9re going to be okay.9 I <I owe so much to this nation
President Biden9s victory. mean, a shining city on a hill,= and my God,= Black said of his
If he were a senator himself, Black said. <I know the power of JABIn BoTSford/ThE WAShInGTon PoST perch, from which he sees
Black would rank 17th out of 100 government when it is properly Brown9s office offers a sweeping view of the National Mall. <I have the joy of having to depend history unfold. <This is as iconic
in seniority. That he is the first used.= upon the wisdom of scripture and the power of what I consider the Holy Spirit,= Brown said. as it comes.=
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Jets and other travel

costs drain DeSantis
funds amid layobs
according to flight-tracking data.
The plane is a Gulfstream IV, a jet
Fla. governor outspends usually used for private business
most GOP rivals on travel that seats up to 19 people.
<I am running a fully transpar-
flights as he cuts staff ent campaign,= DeSantis said in a
fundraising email Wednesday,
<meaning you9re involved at every
BY I SAAC A RNSDORF step, I keep you informed on
AND J OSH D AWSEY where your every dollar goes, and
I treat you like the member of my
The presidential campaign of team that you are, NOT my per-
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is lay- sonal piggy bank.=
ing off staff and trying to stem A senior campaign official said
dropping poll numbers as it burns the campaign will continue to
through cash, while at the same adapt its travel and events prac-
time spending more than most of tices.
his rivals on an expensive private <Ron DeSantis has never been
plane and other travel costs. the favorite or the darling of the
The DeSantis campaign spent establishment, and he has won
$1.5 million on travel over six because of it every time,= commu-
weeks 4 about 20 percent of its nications director Andrew Ro-
total spending in the second meo said in a statement Friday.
quarter, and a higher amount <He9s ready to prove the doubters
than any other campaign except wrong again and our campaign is
those of Donald Trump and Vivek prepared to execute on his vision
adam glanzman For the Washington Post
Ramaswamy during the quarter, for the Great American Come-
according to a Washington Post back as we transition into the Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) speaks last month in New Hampshire. DeSantis has come under scrutiny because of his reliance on donors
analysis of campaign finance dis- next phase of winning this pri- to provide private planes, sometimes from those with business before his administration.
closures. Other Republican can- mary and beating Joe Biden.=
didates such as Sen. Tim Scott of Candidates often charter pri- One, is now prominently featured by DeSantis and his wife on at able from Air Charter Advisors. a roughly 90-person payroll. The
South Carolina and former U.N. vate planes to keep up with the as the backdrop for many of his least 12 occasions. That suggests at least some of the campaign raised $20 million in
ambassador Nikki Haley have demanding pace of campaign rallies. The Trump campaign paid Hosseini also outfitted the gov- almost $500,000 paid to N2024D, the second quarter 4 second only
been flying commercial. travel, but it comes at a cost 4 almost $500,000 to a Trump Or- ernor9s mansion with a golf simu- the Florida LLC, could also be to Trump9s combined committees
Not all of the DeSantis cam- both in dollars and in image, ganization-related entity for use lator for DeSantis9s use. Hosseini covering jet costs. in the Republican field 4 but only
paign9s travel spending was for opening them up to attacks of of the plane in the second quarter. is one of the state9s major home N2024D was set up in May by a 15 percent came from small do-
private jet flights, and the precise being insular or elitist. <I really Trump9s campaign is spending builders, and last year the DeSan- campaign compliance firm, nors who could consistently give
amount is difficult to pinpoint am smart with how we spend,= more on travel than DeSantis9s in tis administration approved $92 which did not respond to a re- again, and about $3 million was
from Federal Election Commis- Haley said in a Newsmax inter- absolute terms, as is the cam- million to fast-track a highway quest for comment. The name earmarked for the general elec-
sion disclosures because the cam- view Tuesday. <We9re on a lot of paign of Ramaswamy. The former interchange serving one of Hos- corresponds to a potential plane tion and will remain off-limits
paign made some payments iden- JetBlue and Spirit airline flights. biotech executive is mostly self- seini9s housing developments. registration number, which unless DeSantis wins the nomina-
tified for <travel= through an ob- We stay in a lot of Garden Inns, funding his campaign, with more <I can9t remember a single time would allow for a plane to fly with tion.
scure Florida LLC called N2024D. but we9re going to make sure that than $15 million in loans. he took a commercial flight,= said a tail labeled <2024D.= The campaign is gathering top
That company 4 named in the every dollar that9s donated to us is DeSantis has come under scru- one former DeSantis adviser who The plane that DeSantis is us- donors in Utah this weekend.
style of an airplane tail number 4 put towards communicating with tiny because of his reliance on was with him for several years, ing now is flying under a different DeSantis has slid in early primary
received almost $500,000, mak- the people in Iowa, New Hamp- donors to provide private planes, who spoke on the condition of tail number, but 2024D was regis- polls against Trump, and misgiv-
ing it the campaign9s fourth-larg- shire, South Carolina and across sometimes from those with busi- anonymity for fear of retaliation. tered with the Federal Aviation ings over strategy have become
est vendor, trailing only a credit this country.= ness before his administration. With the formal start of the Administration last year and re- public. The campaign offered
card processor, media buyer and Trump has his own Boeing 757, Former aides said that DeSantis campaign, DeSantis has been us- newed in February by Scott Wag- glimpses of a shift this week by
direct mail provider. but it was under repair for at least almost never flew commercial, ing the Gulfstream IV chartered ner, a college friend, donor and granting an interview with CNN9s
The campaign also disclosed a year after he left office, and he and that his team was responsible from Empyreal. The company de- appointee of DeSantis9s. Wagner Jake Tapper, DeSantis9s first sit-
almost $100,000 to a company in often flew on the private planes of for finding private jets to ferry clined to comment. DeSantis an- said the number is not currently down with a mainstream journal-
Houston called Empyreal Jet, others. He grew antsy for his him to events inside and outside nounced his campaign in late in use and denied registering it at ist as a presidential candidate. He
plus $31,000 to a company called plane to be fixed, particularly of Florida throughout his time as May. anyone9s request. also took press questions in South
Avion Aviation that shares the after a small jet he was flying on governor. His team in the past The reported payments to Em- <It9s for a future possible tail Carolina and released a new pol-
same address. Empyreal Jet9s fleet from New Orleans to Palm Beach, had kept a list of donors who were pyreal and Avion 4 totaling about number on an aircraft,= he said. <I icy proposal to eliminate diversity
includes a plane whose coordi- Fla., had mechanical issues over willing to regularly let DeSantis $130,000 4 may not cover the full don9t have any information that training in the military and re-
nates correspond to DeSantis9s the Gulf of Mexico and was forced use their planes, and among the operating costs of DeSantis9s pri- it9s going to be a campaign plane.= voke Biden9s executive order al-
known movements on at least 15 to return to New Orleans. Trump9s most prominent was Mori Hos- vate flights, based on market The campaign eliminated few- lowing transgender service mem-
days since the campaign began, plane, nicknamed Trump Force seini, whose plane has been used rates for a Gulfstream IV avail- er than 10 staffers last week out of bers.

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sunday, july 23 , 2023 . the washington post ez re A9

Asian ûlmmakers watch Hollywood strikes as labor rights remain elusive

BYA NDREW J EONG normally don9t get paid directly outside the United States.
AND K ARISHMA M EHROTRA by Netflix. The streaming compa- Anjum Rajabali, a prominent
ny has no legal obligation to sit screenwriter and a member of
SEOUL 4 When Netflix launched down at the negotiating table to India9s Screenwriters Association,
in South Korea in 2016, it was a discuss wages or residual pay- has been leading attempts at col-
breath of fresh air for filmmakers ments. lective bargaining since last year,
jaded by a local industry notori- Netflix said that it educates including workshops educating
ous for labor abuses and penny- these production companies on writers about legal and contractu-
pinching. The streaming giant best practices regarding contracts al procedures, and a fight for a
didn9t meddle in the filmmaking and production environments. basic minimum fee.
process, offered to invest signifi- But discussions about labor laws Rajabali said by telephone that
cant chunks of cash and provided and industry guidelines should be U.S. streaming companies were
a way for Koreans to show off their between them and the people willing to accept collective bar-
work to foreign audiences. they hire, it added. gaining in the United States, but
Now, with Netflix as the domi- In a visit to Korea last month, not in India.
nant platform in South Korea, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said <There is still a feudal shadow
local screenwriters, directors and Netflix would not mistreat local that falls here,= he said. <We are
actors are expressing concerns talent and would aim to work going to fight those double stan-
about the company9s labor prac- with first-time writers and direc- dards.=
tices in their country. They are tors, he said. Rajabali said contracts by U.S.
watching Hollywood9s biggest The Korean Broadcasting Per- streaming companies operating
strike in six decades with hope formers9 Rights Association says in India mostly give the producer
that it will give them more bar- Netflix has ignored an email re- the authority to determine writ-
gaining power and a precedent to quest to negotiate residual pay- ers9 credits 4 whereas in the Unit-
follow. ments sent this March. <We re- ed States credit issues are arbi-
<We have a love-hate relation- ceived a reply saying a relevant trated by the Writers Guild of
ship with Netflix,= Justin Byung- Netflix department would look America, whose 11,000 members
in Kim, the head of the Screen- into the matter,= Cho Byeong-han, are on strike.
ChunG sunG-Jun/Getty imAGes
writers Guild of Korea, said in a an official at the association, said <If the strike succeeds there 4
recent interview at the offices of The giant robot doll from <Squid Game= is exhibited at Olympic Park in 2021 in Seoul. South Korean by telephone. <But we haven9t and we believe it will because they
the Directors Guild of Korea. On writers, directors and actors are expressing concerns about Netflix9s labor practices in their country. heard back since.= are absolutely determined 4 it
the one hand, Netflix has given Other industry groups like the establishes a precedent that writ-
South Korea9s film workers better previously rare for dramas in Ko- Screenwriters9 Guild aren9t for- ers are unwilling to back down
opportunities, he said. On the rea, Kim said. mal unions, because their mem- from what they reasonably and
other hand, he said that Netflix The catch was that Netflix bers are legally seen as freelancers justifiably need in terms of pro-
has not been paying South Korean would own all copyrights of that or individual gig workers. <Ac- tect of rights,= Rajabali said. <It
workers residuals, which are roy- show. This meant that Netflix cording to current laws, we9d be will definitely have a ripple ef-
alties that directors, writers or didn9t have to pay residuals, even accused of price-fixing if we at- fect.=
actors receive if their work is if the series became a hit. tempted to bargain wages collec- Shubhra Gupta, one of India9s
rebroadcast. Netflix disputes this. Netflix said that its payments to tively,= Kim said. most prominent film critics, said
Korean content is a big money- local studios are high rates that That South Korea9s film work- the U.S. strike might not have a
maker for U.S. streaming giants: surpass what they typically re- ers are scattered among dozens of direct effect on India yet. <But the
<Squid Game= alone contributed ceive from Netflix9s competitors. unofficial unions or groups wors- Indian industry is watching. And
an estimated $900 million to Net- In 2021, Korean producer ens the situation. Even if Netflix, people are talking,= she said. <Be-
flix9s value, and shooting is under- Hwang Dong-hyuk told The or any other major streaming cause writers everywhere suffer
way for a sequel to the Emmy-win- Guardian that Netflix paid him service, decided to initiate pay from the same issues: over-
ning ultraviolent series. Netflix is only for the original contract for negotiations in collective bargain- worked, underpaid, and given lit-
planning to invest more than $2.5 <Squid Game= when it was an ing settings, it has no representa- tle or no credit.=
billion in South Korea. independent project, before any- tive body to talk to, as is the case in Kim, the head of Korea9s
India is also among the fastest- one could have predicted its glob- the United States. There is also no Screenwriters Guild, said he ap-
growing markets for streamed al success. He added that shooting representative body for streamers preciates Netflix9s willingness to
content. Netflix executives said was <physically, mentally and or major studios like the Alliance take risks on local talent. But the
that Indian movies such as <RRR,= emotionally draining.= of Motion Picture and Television frustrations touch on Netflix9s
Chris Pizzello/invision/AP
with its hit song <Naatu Naatu,= Netflix said it rewarded Hwang Producers in the United States. willingness to pay what writers,
were becoming <breakout suc- Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava perform Oscar-winning song with an extra payment in the Set staff 4 the camera opera- actors and directors view as their
cesses in the West.= Meanwhile, <Naatu Naatu= from the movie <RRR,= which streamed on Netflix. contract for Season 2 of <Squid tors, set designers, costume de- fair share 4 especially residuals 4
the India director of Amazon9s Game= that is meant to reflect the signers and makeup artists who which Netflix has been avoiding,
Prime Video, Sushant Sreeram, ing <Korean wave=) productions, nothing, to workers, Kim said. success of Season 1. do many of the physically fatigu- Kim said.
said the company would double any concessions earned by strik- Then came Netflix. The Ameri- <This is where it gets compli- ing but thankless tasks during <I hope Netflix doesn9t view this
investments in India over the next ing workers in the United States can company offered contracts to cated,= Kim said. shoots 4 say the poor labor prac- as a zero-sum game,= he said.
five years, according to a local would not be shared by overseas South Korean production compa- Netflix usually outsources Ko- tices rampant in South Korea9s <Netflix should consider [residu-
report. (Amazon founder and for- creators. nies that involved lump-sum pay- rean production to local studios, film industry have changed little. als] as part of its R&D budget,= he
mer CEO Jeff Bezos owns The For years, South Korean TV ments worth more than the cost of unlike in the United States. This The country already has a long added.
Washington Post.) stations hired studios to produce production, meaning Netflix as- means that most South Korean 52-hour workweek. <It9s a win for Netflix, too, if we
But while U.S. streaming giants dramas on the cheap. This meant sumed all financial risks, and that writers, actors, directors and set Streaming companies have get our fair share.=
have benefited from the populari- studios overworked temporary there would be a guaranteed prof- staff 4 who, on paper, work for been accused of sidestepping col-
ty of Indian and <hallyu= (mean- staff and paid little, or sometimes it 4 something that had been the studios and not Netflix 4 lective bargaining in jurisdictions mehrotra reported from Delhi.

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Strike
links web
creators,
Hollywood
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sweeping ripple effects, by poten-

tially eroding Hollywood9s insti-
tutional advantages and elevat-
ing a new generation of stars.
Creators once saw online virali-
ty largely as a way to break into
established TV or movie gigs. But
some now make so much money
selling sponsored content, mer-
chandise or monthly subscrip-
tions that traditional entertain-
ment, with its uncertain pay-
checks and relevance, can seem
like less of a draw.
Hollywood9s business model
has rarely looked so precarious,
with box office sales, streamer
subscriptions and advertising
revenue all trending down. Strik-
ing actors and writers have also
been enraged over industry prac-
tices, from high executive salaries
and low residual payments to
artificial intelligence techniques
they worry could erase their jobs.
the changing
entertainment scene
The online creator industry, on
the other hand, is exploding.
seaN scheidt for the WashiNgtoN Post
Goldman Sachs research ana-
lysts said in April that the market
probably would double in size
over the next five years, from Picketers outside sprawling digital audience. which he one day hopes to join. group, the Alliance of motion are generally treated as freelance
$250 billion today, thanks to in- Netflix headquarters in When Scheer launched his first <We have so much more in com- Picture and Television Producers, contractors by tech companies,
creased spending from advertis- Hollywood this month. Twitch channel in 2020, after the mon with the 170,000-plus people and not the online platforms not entitled to benefits or health
ers, viewers and tech platforms Striking actors and pandemic froze Hollywood, it currently striking than we do where the creators make most of care.
eager to capitalize on creators9 writers are proved so successful that he and with any of the studio execs who their cash. (The AmPTP repre- many creators burn out from
virality. experimenting with Huebel hosted a two-episode are just hoarding millions,= he sents more than 350 companies, the stress and demands of con-
Streaming services now beat new ideas on comedy game show there called said. including Amazon, whose found- stant production. The relatively
out cable and broadcast TV for Instagram, Youtube, <Celebrity Yard Sale= that won a er, Jeff Bezos, owns The Washing- few very successful creators earn
U.S. viewership and account for tiktok and twitch. sponsorship deal from Hyundai tiktok and Youtube ton Post and whose interim CEO, their money through paid part-
more than 37 percent of all TV use and became a genuine hit. as alternatives Patty Stonesifer, is a member of nerships with clothing lines, en-
nationwide, data from market re- <We had over a million people A decade ago, Hollywood re- the Amazon board.) ergy drinks and other companies,
searcher Nielsen show. But the watch each day for two hours. garded the online creator world But Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, or through subscription plat-
biggest streamer last month That was better than a lot of as a sideshow, and after a disas- SAG-AfTrA9s national executive forms like Patreon and Onlyfans.
wasn9t Netflix or Hulu, the data television,= he said in an inter- trous attempt in the early 2010s to director and chief negotiator, said Strikes at this scale often leave
found; it was YouTube. more than view. <I love that just because jam digital talent into typical act- the guild is working to use the a lasting impact on the industry.
75 percent of American teenagers we9re in a moment where our ing and hosting roles, the two strike to recruit more creators The last dual actors and writers
told Pew research Center last industry is on pause, it doesn9t industries increasingly developed into its ranks for both this walk- walkout in 1960, when the indus-
year they watch the Google- mean that we have to be on pause. parallel spheres of influence, with out and what he expects will be try9s biggest disrupter was TV, led
owned video app every day. We can make our own stuff.= their own stars and styles. coming labor disputes with the to a deal negotiated by SAG Presi-
Beyond Americans9 media con- Several actors said they expect Pandemic-era changes to en- giants of technology, including dent ronald reagan granting ac-
sumption, YouTube and other their social media accounts could tertainment habits and creators9 companies such as Apple and tors payments known as residuals
platforms have lowered the bar- become a lifeline now that tradi- growing influence, however, have Amazon, which have interests in when their movies were licensed
rier of entry for people wanting to tional work has dried up. Brian led big Hollywood players to in- both traditional entertainment for the small screen.
make content themselves, from morabito, an actor in New York creasingly embrace the power of and the creator economy. The most recent big Hollywood
TikTok9s free video-editing tools who has amassed over 600,000 TikTok and YouTube. many stu- Sidney raskind, a creator strike, in 2008, poured rocket fuel
to Twitch9s frenetic live streams. TikTok followers with his comedy dios now build buzz for their known as <Sidneyraz= with 4 mil- into the once-niche genre of reali-
That creative competition has led videos, said he plans to double movies and shows with creator lion TikTok followers, told influ- ty TV 4 and, in some ways, the
to viral hits and marketing deals, down on merchandise sales and partnerships and companion encers in a video Tuesday that his creator economy itself. By swap-
turning what was once an online increase his output on TikTok and podcasts, like those HBO spon- union membership had helped ping professional actors for real
hobby into, for the lucky few, a Instagram reels during the strike. sored for <Succession= and <Game him get health insurance and a people, those productions helped
million-dollar revenue stream. Others are reevaluating which of Thrones.= pension plan and encouraged lay the groundwork for influenc-
Studios and streamers prob- The Creator Economy: business offers the best rewards. In 2021, a year after Netflix told them to consider joining, even if ers by showing how even those
ably will try to fill out their release a series from the Sarah Pribis, a working actor for shareholders in a letter that Tik- they never wanted to be a tradi- outside the realm of mainstream
calendars with new deals for in- Washington Post more than 15 years in New York Tok9s <astounding= growth tional actor, because it would help celebrity could still capture audi-
fluencers9 content if the stoppage examining the industry of who has built a dedicated audi- showed <the fluidity of internet <legitimize this profession in a ences and command fame.
stretches out for months, said online influence and its ence on TikTok, said that while entertainment,= the company way that you never thought possi- reality shows will, again, likely
David Craig, a University of impact on american she still receives paid acting gigs, launched a short-lived, TikTok- ble.= benefit from the strike: SAG-Af-
Southern California professor culture, media and power. the money she makes as a creator like video feature called <fast <We9re producers, we9re actors, TrA has said crew members on
who researches creators and once has consistently beaten her acting Laughs= and signed a multimil- we9re editors, we9re everything,= those productions can keep work-
worked as a film and TV producer. income for the last six months. lion-dollar deal with one of its he said in an interview. <This is a ing because they are governed by
Though some still see creators <I9m seeing actors right now biggest creators, Addison rae. great opportunity for internet in- a separate contract, known as the
as <basically brand ambassadors take to the internet, when they And last year, to drive online buzz, fluencers to actually be a part of Network Television Code, that
for advertising & they9re in fact a normally don9t make content, and Scott Seiss, a TikToker who went something that9s bigger and bet- covers talk shows, game shows,
much more broad and complex it9s really powerful stuff,= she said. viral for his sendups of an angry ter.= soap operas and other non-prime-
class of cultural producers that <Hopefully they find: 8Oh hey, I Ikea employee, showed up in a Josh Cohen, the co-founder of time TV.
preoccupies vast swaths of peo- have a voice here, maybe I can trailer for the Universal Pictures Tubefilter, a media company fo- But the strikes are in their early
ple9s attention,= he said. Holly- turn this into something that horror-comedy <Cocaine Bear.= cused on the creator economy, days, and it9s unclear how con-
wood is still the king of long-form, monetizes for me.9= In an acknowledgment of the said the <us vs. them= mentality sumer viewing patterns will shift
premium storytelling, he said, but Adam rose, a TikTok star with blurring lines between Holly- pitting Hollywood against digital because today9s streaming-media
<if that goes away for the next more than 4 million followers wood and the web, the Screen creators has become less adver- landscape is quite different from
year, there9s less incentive for peo- who9s been a member of the ac- Actors Guild-American federa- sarial over the years, with both the linear model that once domi-
ple to stay on to see old libraries of tors9 guild since he was 9, said he tion of Television and radio Art- sides collaborating across differ- nated American screens.
content,= and the industry <may and other creators have already ists, known as SAG-AfTrA, al- ent platforms in hopes of building The strikes also won9t zero out
start to realize that the creators turned down gigs promoting TV lowed creators to join in 2021 audiences and cachet. new content. Streamers have pro-
are the only ones left to do busi- shows and movies during the through what was called the <in- Liz Hannah, a prominent duced many new movies and TV
ness with.= strike and found the change of fluencer agreement.= screenwriter and film producer, shows that have yet to be released,
The worry that creators could pace refreshing. <I9m able to de- The union recently told its cre- said many in the industry see and they can re-market and rein-
spy an opportunity to break into vote more time to online videos,= ators that they should reject any Hollywood and the creator econo- troduce older titles to help fill the
Hollywood9s turf has led some he said, <because I9m not on set work promoting <struck= compa- my as not mutually exclusive. void. Productions filmed over-
writers and actors to post warn- and I9m not working on-site for nies or content and report any <One influences the other, and seas, such as Netflix9s hit <Squid
ings against undermining the <the Celebrity auditions and self tapes.= new brand-sponsorship deals via both are serving different purpos- Game= and HBO9s <House of the
strike on TikTok, where armies of Apprentice= in 2009. Other creators have called on an online form. Any nonunion es,= she said. <I don9t go on TikTok Dragon,= also won9t be stopped by
fans have started chastising cre- the most recent big their followers to see the unions influencers who worked for one of to watch 8The Bear,9 but I do go on the U.S.-based strike.
ators they believe are considering Hollywood strike, in as their allies. reece feldman, a the targeted companies during TikTok to watch people talk about An exceptionally long strike, or
<scabbing= jobs. franchesca ram- 2008, poured rocket TikTok creator who makes videos the strike, it added, would not be 8The Bear.9= boredom with the status quo,
sey, a writer and actress who first fuel into the once-niche about TV and movies, said in a admitted as members later on. Creators generally offer a very could further nudge viewers onto
gained popularity with her You- genre of reality tV, video monday that his 2 million It9s unclear how many influenc- different product from Holly- their phones. But Jonathan Han-
Tube videos, said in a TikTok which stands to benefit followers should show solidarity ers have joined the union, which wood, reliant less on highly pro- del, an entertainment and tech-
video earlier this month that any from this strike as well. for the Writers Guild of America, is negotiating with a studio trade duced stories than on colorful or nology lawyer who has represent-
new deals with studios would be inventive slices of life. But the ed the actors9 guild, said he sus-
regarded as a betrayal. content is nevertheless quite pop- pects concerns about the death of
<If you are a content creator or ular because it9s quick, free and old-school TV and film are greatly
influencer with any aspirations to easily available. It9s especially exaggerated.
become an actor or a writer in the captivating for the young audi- He thinks the creator economy,
future, now is not the time to take ences the media has long fought like the industry for video games,
a job because the rest of us are on to capture: The parental-control another dominant entertainment
strike,= she said. Doing so is <con- app Qustodio, which tracks user medium, won9t supplant Holly-
sidered scabbing, and it will hurt screen time, said in a report that wood, but instead will fuel a new
your career.= children last year averaged nearly era of crossover successes, like the
But many in the industry ex- two hours a day on TikTok, plus hit game <The Last of Us= that
pect the strike will further nudge another hour on YouTube. became a hit HBO show.
traditional entertainers into be- Unlike major studio produc- Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-Af-
coming creators themselves, al- tions, most creators work by TrA9s chief negotiator, said the
lowing them to use social media themselves or in small teams, and guild sees the Hollywood and
to pursue and help fund inde- their funding generally comes in creator communities as not so
pendent projects, secure greater small installments from ad deals, different, and he expects the gap
ownership of the product and viewers or the platforms them- will only narrow.
profits, and show sides of their selves. many operate like inde- <The talent and skill that9s re-
personality and creativity they pendent media companies, plan- quired to be successful as a con-
hope will secure them audiences ning and making content, track- tent creator is greater than ever,=
that outlast any one production. ing audience metrics and negoti- he said in an interview. <Whether
Since the strikes began, Paul ating brand deals in hopes of people are consuming content in
Scheer, an actor, writer and direc- competing in a crowded market. more traditional forms or in new-
tor known for his TV roles on <The Creators can make a fraction of er formats, the key is that unique
League= and <Veep,= has invested what similar performers might element of human creativity. Each
more time into <friendZone,= a earn on studio work, and many of [creative] is doing something spe-
Twitch channel where he and them cannot afford to make con- cial, whether it9s distributed by
comedians like rob Huebel tell tent full time. Despite efforts in YouTube, TikTok, reels or in a
jokes and perform skits for a Nbc-tv/kobal/shutterstock recent years to unionize, creators movie.=
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Arabia of lithium.= A year later,
concerns, in particular the re-
pression of women, and Taliban
links to terrorism. The tremen-
dous promise of lithium, howev-
Taliban and another leg up for
China in a fierce, strategic com-
petition.
Around the time Kabul fell to
that will ultimately sell it back to
the West, all in a world where
there9s simply not enough lithi-
um.=

but China9s on the U.S. Geological Survey pub-

lished a map showing the loca-
tion of major deposits and high-
lighted the magnitude of the
er, could frustrate Western ef-
forts to squeeze the Taliban into
changing its extremist ways. And
with the United States absent
the Taliban in August 2021, a
boom shook the world9s lithium
market. The mineral9s price sky-
rocketed eightfold from 2021 to
No one knew its value
Nesar Ahmad Safi trundled
alongside the Pech river in a

the ground now underground wealth, saying Af-

ghanistan <could be considered
as the world9s recognized future
principal source of lithium.=
from Afghanistan, it is Chinese
companies that are now aggres-
sively positioning themselves to
reap a windfall from lithium
2022, attracting hundreds of Chi-
nese mining entrepreneurs to
Afghanistan.
In interviews, Taliban offi-
battered Toyota pickup, ex-
pounding on two forces that
have long shaped life in Konar
province: the war 4 and the
But now, in a great twist of here 4 and, in doing so, further cials, Chinese entrepreneurs and mines.
modern Afghan history, it is the tighten China9s grasp on much of their Afghan intermediaries de- <The Americans called it the
Taliban 4 which overthrew the the global supply chain for EV scribed a frenzy reminiscent of a Valley of Death,= he said, nod-
U.S.-backed government two minerals. 19th-century gold rush. Globe- ding toward the broad mouth of
years ago 4 that is finally look- The surging demand for lithi- trotting Chinese traders packed the Korengal Valley. Next to a
ing to exploit those vast lithium um is part of a worldwide scram- into Kabul9s hotels, racing to bend in the rushing river were
reserves, at a time when the ble for a variety of metals used in source lithium in the hinter- the tall gray walls of Nangalam
soaring global popularity of elec- the manufacture of EVs, widely lands. Chinese executives filed military base, once the most
tric vehicles is spurring an ur- considered crucial to the into meetings with Taliban lead- remote outpost in the valley, now
gent need for the mineral, a vital green-energy transition. But the ers, angling for exploration a vestige of the U.S. presence.
TOP: A Taliban checkpoint at an entrance to the Chapa Dara ingredient in their batteries. By mining and processing of miner- rights. In January, Taliban offi- An hour past the abandoned
district of Konar province. Like neighboring Nurestan, 2040, demand for lithium could als such as nickel, cobalt and cials arrested a Chinese busi- base, the valley turned steep and
Konar is rich in lithium, but a lack of paved roads and other rise 40-fold from 2020 levels, manganese often come with un- nessman for allegedly smuggling rocky, and the snow-dusted
factors make it hard to mine. BeLOW: The Taliban9s Sayed according to the International intended consequences 4 for 1,000 tons of lithium ore from mountains of adjacent Nurestan
Wali Sajid governs Chapa Dara. He is already counting on Energy Agency. instance, harm to workers, sur- Konar province to China via came into view. Safi pointed out
Chinese projects to bring the district a new road and bridges. Afghanistan remains under rounding communities and the Pakistan. dozens of small shafts that pierce
Taliban leaders have paused the hillsides like dots of ink on
lithium mining and trading in brown parchment. Since antiqui-
recent months while they seek to ty, the mines have been a supple-
negotiate a concession with a mental source of income for
foreign firm, and the Chinese are farming families, who extract
seen as leading contenders. But precious stones such as quartz,
even after a contract is awarded, tourmaline and kunzite, a glassy,
extraction may not begin for purplish crystal, and sell them to
years because of the challenge of the bazaars of Central and South
bringing lithium to market, in- Asia.
dustry experts warn. There are As they dig out high-quality
no paved roads linking the crag- kunzite, miners routinely dis-
gy, mineral-rich mountains of card heaps of milky rock. Locals
northeast Afghanistan9s Konar called it <takhtapat= 4 waste
and Nurestan provinces to the kunzite. But geologists know it
outside world, while abundant as spodumene, lithium-bearing
and more accessible reserves are ore. <No one knew the value of
found in countries such as Chile waste kunzite until Chinese busi-
and Australia. nessmen started arriving,= said
But what is certain, according Safi, the former head of a village
to Afghans, Chinese and Ameri- council who now works as a
cans alike, is that Afghanistan is representative for local miners.
in the midst of a sweeping transi- <They were excited, then every-
tion after decades of war. And as body got excited.=
long as the Taliban is ostracized Last year, Safi and local Af-
by the West, they say, Afghani- ghans recalled, some Chinese
stan will drift by necessity, if not traders bought as much ore as
by choice, into the embrace of they could, sending brimming
China. trucks down the valley9s bomb-
<In an alternate universe, our cratered road. other Chinese
projects could9ve been generat- prospectors tested the rock with
ing meaningful employment and handheld spectrometers and
tax revenue within years that voiced doubts that the lithium
would provide an economic base content was high enough to
and empower the Afghan people make industrial-scale mining
to govern themselves,= said Paul viable, Safi said.
A. Brinkley, the former U.S. dep- In the 1960s, Soviet geologists
uty undersecretary of defense first reported significant lithium
who oversaw the Task force for deposits in large crystal-laced
Business and Stability opera- rocks called pegmatites along
tions until he left in 2011 and the the Hindu Kush range. After the
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PhoTos by lorenzo Tugnoli for The WashingTon PosT

u.S. invasion in 2001, u.S. geo- efficient only if new roads, rail- istry identified the chinese com- sion. He was 30 years old then, he
logical Survey teams working as ways, ore-processing plants and pany as gochin. said, and arrived with little more
Ch ina
part of the pentagon task force power plants are built around Delawar did not detail the than a basic knowledge of per-
T urKM e n. ventured under Marine escort to them. timeline for awarding any min- sian and searing ambition.
Detail southern afghanistan9s salt- not a problem, say china9s ing concessions. He said a com- today, Yu co-owns afghani-
crusted lakes, where they found strategic thinkers. mission of senior taliban offi- stan9s first steel mill and has
NURESTA
NURESTAN
AN lithium content so high it rivaled <afghanistan lacks an indus- cials led by abdul ghani Baradar, permits for a 500-acre industrial
Chapa Dara KONAR the brine deposits of chile and trial base, [but] they have great the deputy prime minister for park outside Kabul. the china
Kabul argentina, some of the world9s mineral resources, and no West- economic affairs, <will weigh town project he advertises at the
biggest lithium producers. they erners can compete with the whatever good proposals we re- airport is a 10-story tower that Yu
ir a n afghan isTa n also estimated, using aerial sur- chinese when it comes to build- ceive,= adding that the govern- sees as a kind of chinese cham-
veys, that Konar and nurestan ing infrastructure and tolerating ment would welcome Western ber of commerce and showroom
Pa Ki sTa n were rich in lithium-bearing hardship,= said Zhou Bo, a re- and even u.S. bidders if sanc- for imported goods. it sells pow-
rock, but the valleys were too tired people9s Liberation army tions were dropped. u.S. sanc- er tools, diesel generators and
dangerous to visit, said christo- senior colonel who is now an tions currently prohibit all trans- even office tables that chinese
200 Miles pher Wnuk, a former uSgS geol- international security expert at actions with the taliban, with companies might need once they
ogist who participated in the tsinghua university. exceptions for humanitarian aid. enter afghanistan and start min-
pentagon study. Even today, the in a rare interview, Shahabud- <We always said if the united ing. in his office at china town,
exact size of afghanistan9s lithi- din Delawar, afghanistan9s min- States takes its soldiers and kill- Yu showcases chunks of afghan
um reserves remains undeter- ister of mines and a senior ing machines out of afghanistan, lapis lazuli and lithium 4 along
mined. taliban leader, told Washington it too could invest here,= he said. with his political savvy. in one
<as a geologist, i have never post journalists that just <the demand for oil is decreas- framed picture, he9s striding
seen anything like afghanistan,= 24 hours earlier, representatives ing, but the demand for lithium alongside former afghan presi-
said Wnuk, who now works on of a chinese company had been is only going up. We have 2.5 mil- dent ashraf ghani9s brother
private-sector mining projects in in his office presenting the de- lion tons in nurestan alone. Hashmat. in a more recent pho-
asia and africa. <it may very well tails of a $10 billion bid that Extract it, and afghanistan can to, Yu poses with a turbaned man
TOP: Afghan workers eat lunch outside a mine in Nurestan9s be the most mineralized place on included pledges to build a lithi- be one of the richest countries in who helped overthrow ghani:
Parun Valley. As they dig for gemstones, the workers throw earth. But the basic geologic um ore processing plant and the world.= the taliban9s current commerce
aside takhtapat, or lithium ore, because the Taliban has work just hasn9t been done.= battery factories in afghanistan, By 2030, when about 60 per- minister, Haji nooruddin azizi.
banned such mining as it seeks a concession with a foreign Even if afghanistan9s moun- upgrade long-neglected moun- cent of all cars in china, Europe in late 2021, Yu recalled, he
firm, most likely Chinese. BELOW: A miner with machinery tains prove to hold high-quality tain roads and create tens of and the united States will be saw an influx of chinese seeking
that powers a sledgehammer and pumps air into the mine. lithium, the mines will be cost- thousands of local jobs. His min- electric, the world is expected to opportunities in afghanistan9s
face a lithium shortfall, said postwar vacuum, just as he did
Henry Sanderson, executive edi- 20 years earlier. Within months,
tor of Benchmark Mineral intel- according to Yu and other chi-
ligence and the author of <Volt nese residents, more than 300 of
Rush: the Winners and Losers in their compatriots had descended
the Race to go green.= on Kabul. Some carried pass-
<china9s lithium sector is in a ports from pakistan, Sierra Le-
really enviable position: they one or other countries where
dominate the processing, they9ve they had immigrated to mine.
got the battery materials and others showed up carrying a few
factories, but that whole supply packs of instant noodles in their
chain goes defunct if you don9t backpacks, <wanting to get into
have raw material to feed the the battery business,= Yu re-
industrial machine,= Sanderson called.
said. <that9s why they9re going to <it felt like every chinese
afghanistan. they need to secure wanted to come,= said Wang
as much as they can.= Quan, who has been mining gold
in afghanistan since 2017. <there
The Chinese gold rush were articles on the internet
the first message that greets about how the Russians and
every passenger who walks out of americans always said there was
Kabul9s international airport lithium here. at that time, lithi-
isn9t in English or Dari. it9s um prices were truly amazing.=
written in giant chinese charac- Many chinese packed into the
ters. downtown guiyuan Hotel, which
<the Belt and Road initiative had a buzzing hot pot restaurant
is the bridge spanning china and on the ninth floor. Yu xiaozhang,
afghanistan,= reads a massive the chinese owner of a Kabul
billboard facing the terminal, guesthouse, said she had three
referring to china9s global infra- mah-jongg tables running
structure program. <Welcome to round-the-clock in her base-
china town. incubate in an in- ment. the boom even benefited
dustrial park. Let your invest- the community of about 100 af-
ments take root.= ghan interpreters in Kabul who
the billboard was erected by speak fluent Mandarin, thanks to
Yu Minghui, a fast-talking entre- the chinese government-run
preneur who hails from a village confucius institute at Kabul uni-
near the famous Shaolin temple versity. they were enlisted to
in china9s Henan province and help arrange lithium purchases
first came to Kabul in april 2002, in Konar.
shortly after the u.S.-led inva- continuED on nExt pagE
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PhoTos by lorEnzo Tugnoli for ThE WAshingTon PosT

About this series from previous page done so far. mah-jongg at a guesthouse, when the government fell. in a
As the global demand for electric cars begins to outpace the <The big Chinese companies which serves Lanzhou beef noo- poor valley ringed by pine-
demand for gas-powered cars, Washington Post reporters set out Then, late last year, the guiyu- are still very cautious,= pantucci dles prepared by afghan cooks. covered mountains, where farm-
to investigate the unintended consequences of a global EV boom. an Hotel was struck by a bomb- said. <if anything, China-afghan He9s still holding meetings with ing barely yielded enough food to
This series explores the impact of securing the minerals needed ing, which injured dozens. The economic relations will be driven prospective investors. But most- keep families alive, the only
to build and power electric vehicles. islamic state, which has targeted not by the state, but by small ly, he9s killing time until mining option was to go to the moun-
Chinese in afghanistan, asserted private actors on the ground, just begins again. tains. so the men largely taught
responsibility. The attack raised having a go.= <it won9t be frozen forever,= he themselves what types of rock
new concerns about the safety of These days, a small, dedicated said one afternoon in the court- held rich veins, how to set sa-
foreign businesspeople, adding group of Chinese miners is still yard of his home. <i9m happy to chets of ammonia explosives and
to wider worries over the coun- in Kabul waiting for the lithium wait.= where to drill.
try9s investment climate. soon trade to resume. <We want a bigger team and
after, the afghan government one of them is Yue, a gruff, The view from behind proper equipment, someone to
imposed what it said was a chain-smoking native of man- a glacier show me how to use this,= Wa-
temporary ban on private lithi- churia who has mined in paki- in the inky underground dark- famel said, banging an oil-
um sales while negotiating with stan, russia and indonesia. He ness, a miner pressed his diesel- stained machine. <i9d be desper-
mining companies and crafting came to afghanistan in late 2021 powered drill against the hard ate for a foreign company to
new laws to regulate what had and plans to stay, he explained, earth, caking everything 4 hair, come.=
become a frenzied free-for-all. because the Taliban is working clothes, lips 4 in a layer of fine in recent weeks, Wafamel said,
raffaello pantucci, an expert hard to ensure foreigners9 secu- white dust. another stooped to he has pleaded with government
on Chinese-Central asian rela- rity and even assigned him his fill a handcart with rocks, then officials to allow lithium mining
tions at the s. rajaratnam school own bodyguards. afghanistan9s pushed it 70 yards along the to resume. He said he was en-
of international studies in singa- mineral potential is too great to watery shaft, back into the light. couraged by their response that a
pore, said the large-scale Chinese walk away from, he added. Hussain Wafamel squatted deal may be signed with a foreign
investment that the Taliban <after this many years of con- outside, where he examined the company, possibly this year, and
seeks may not be imminent, or flict, afghanistan9s resources are haul. optimistic that peace would en-
transformative. in 2007, afghan- untouched,= said Yue, who did He held up a streaky, green gender investment. <if a villager
TOP: Workers gather scrap metal for steel production at a istan granted a $3 billion, 30- not give his first name. <No stone: tourmaline, the kind of can walk to the next province
Chinese-owned mill in Kabul. It is Afghanistan9s first steel year lease on the mes aynak mining licenses have really been gemstone he and his men were without trouble,= he said, <why
mill. BELOW: Yu Minghui, a Chinese businessman who has copper mine to the state-owned given. There9s no place like it on seeking. Then he picked up a wouldn9t foreigners want to in-
spent many years in Afghanistan, co-owns the mill and runs China metallurgical group earth.= white rock 4 takhtapat, lithium vest here?=
China Town, a resource for the Chinese flocking to Kabul. Corp., yet little work has been Yue spends most days playing ore 4 and chucked it over his a half-day9s drive down the
shoulder, sighing with regret. mountain, not too far from the
Last year, after Chinese buyers valley of Death, sajid, the 38-
first arrived, the price of lithium year-old Taliban commander
ore was driven up to about who serves as governor of
50 cents a kilogram, providing a lithium-rich Chapa Dara district,
windfall, Wafamel said. it was a was even more bullish.
shame that the Taliban had eighteen months ago, sajid
cracked down on the trade, he was flustered by the influx of
said, because the mountains here Chinese prospectors. But these
in Nurestan were full of the stuff. days, sajid said, he9s <desperate=
<We have an entire mine of for them to return and bring jobs
pure takhtapat,= said Wafamel, a for locals and new infrastruc-
squat and muscular former ture. sitting in his compound
afghan special forces soldier with two captured american
who mines with six men from his Humvees in the parking lot, sajid
old unit. <We could be extracting said he was hearing promising
a ton of it a day if it weren9t whispers. a friend, a fellow Tali-
banned. instead, we have to leave ban governor, recently learned
it.= from senior officials in Kabul
in some ways, the remote that a deal may be signed with
mine where Wafamel and his Chinese investors in just a few
men toil day and night captures months.
the practical challenges 4 and sajid was already counting on
the dreams of progress 4 that lie a new asphalt road in his district.
in afghanistan9s lithium wealth. He was looking forward to new
His mine in the parun valley is bridges.
hidden behind a glacier, high and he relished the prospect
above the pech river at an eleva- of america losing again in his
tion of 12,000 feet. outside his remote corner of the Hindu
mine, in a cramped clearing Kush, this time in a contest over
overlooking a sheer drop, Wa- minerals. <sometimes i9m happy
famel complained about his fick- america sanctioned afghanistan
le generator and his shoddy drill because american companies
bits, the need to transport every- can9t invest in our lithium,= he
thing by donkey and the never- said. <actually, i believe it is the
ending struggle to make ends revenge of god.=
meet.
until two years ago, Wafamel Mirwais Mohammadi in Chapa Dara,
and his team were each making Pei-lin Wu in Taipei, Taiwan, and
$280 a month in the afghan rick noack in Paris contributed to
army, he said. They lost their jobs this report.
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War in Ukraine

U.S. in no hurry to HImArS, but only one at a time.

<There9s a very limited number
[of ATACmS] available to export,
and for distances longer than the

send long-range GmLr can reach, the Ukrainians

have been given Storm Shadows
and SCALPS,= the defense official
said. This fall or winter, Ukraine

missiles to Ukraine also will receive U.S. GLSDB, or

Ground Launched Small Diame-
ter Bombs, with a range of 93
miles and the ability to fire on a
360-degree trajectory.
UkRAine from A1 mands for the Biden administra- ATACmS are nearly two-ton
tion to approve the transfer of guided missiles. Each one is 13
undercut U.S. readiness for other missiles. feet long, 2 feet in diameter, and
possible conflicts. Last month, the House Armed costs nearly $1.5 million. first
The number of ATACmS in Services Committee included designed in the 1980s, they were
American stockpiles is fixed, funds to send ATACmS to used in combat by the Army in
awaiting replacement with the Ukraine in its draft of the de- both the 1991 Persian Gulf War
next generation, longer-range fense budget, and the House and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Precision Strike missile, called foreign Affairs Committee The Ukrainians believe the
the Prism, for PrSm, which is passed a bipartisan resolution ground-launched missiles would
expected to enter service by the calling for the United States to provide a capability beyond the
end of this year, officials said. <immediately= provide the mis- cruise missiles, which are
Lockheed martin still manufac- siles. launched from aircraft.
tures 500 ATACmS each year, but <There9s no reason to give The limited number of ATAC-
all of that production is destined Ukraine just enough to bleed but mS is the U.S. military9s most
for sale to other countries. not enough to win,= Committee pressing concern. While the ex-
Ukraine has said that the Chairman michael mcCaul (r- ed ram for the WaShington PoSt
act number in the U.S. arsenal is
ATACmS, with a range of 190 Tex.) said. <If we9re going to be Ukrainian soldiers fire a short-range missile system on July 5 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Ukraine has said classified, Lockheed martin has
miles, is essential for destroying helping them, either go all in or the ATACMS system, with a range of 190 miles, is essential for destroying Russian command posts. made only about 4,000 since
command posts and logistics ar- get out.= The resolution was production began, many of them
eas far behind russian front backed by the committee9s chief has said publicly, would cross a <We are confident that these the Joint Chiefs of Staff. <right used by the U.S. Army in combat,
lines. Democrat, rep. Gregory W. red line. weapons will be used by Ukraine now, [the Ukrainians] are pre- exercises and periodic testing.
<Without long-range weapons, meeks (N.Y.). Whatever moscow9s threats, in accordance= with agreements serving their combat power and At the same time, nearly 900
it is difficult not only to carry out Early this month, Sens. James those worries seem to have abat- <not to attack russian soil,= a they are slowly and deliberately have been sold to allies and
an offensive mission but also to E. risch (Idaho) and roger Wick- ed. The Biden administration has senior European official said. and steadily working their way partners abroad in the past dec-
conduct a defensive operation,= er (miss.), the ranking republi- said it is satisfied with public The recent arrival of British through all these minefields. And ade 4 including 211 since the
Zelensky said at a July 7 news cans on the Senate foreign rela- statements and written pledges Storm Shadow and french it9s a tough fight. It9s a very beginning of the Ukraine war,
conference in Prague. tions and Armed Services com- from Kyiv not to use U.S.-sup- SCALP missiles means Ukraine difficult fight,= milley said after according to the State Depart-
The ATACmS would allow has even less need for ATACmS, Tuesday9s virtual meeting of the ment9s list of foreign military
Ukrainian forces to target the Colin Kahl, until early this 50-plus group of Ukraine9s inter- sales. They have gone to NATo
farthest reaches of russian-occu- month the Pentagon9s undersec- national backers. allies, Persian Gulf countries and
pied Crimea from their own <There9s no reason to give Ukraine just enough retary for policy, said during the <The various war games that as far afield as Taiwan and Aus-
current front lines, including the same Aspen panel at which Yer- were done ahead of time have tralia, usually in conjunction
12-mile Kerch Bridge and the to bleed but not enough to win. If we9re going mak appeared. predicted certain levels of ad- with the sale of HImArS. The
russian naval base at Sevastopol. <The problem now is not their vance and that has slowed administration notified Con-
Asked at the Aspen Security to be helping them, either go all in or get out.= ability to strike deep= into rus- down,= he said. <Why? Because gress in April of the pending sale
forum on Thursday what is at Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), house armed Services Committee chairman sian-occupied Ukrainian terri- that9s the difference between war of 40 of the missiles to morocco.
the top of Ukraine9s list of secu- tory, Kahl said. <They have that on paper and real war. These are To fulfill those and future
rity needs, Andriy Yermak, the ability. They are doing it now. real people in real machines that foreign orders, the Army has
head of Zelensky9s presidential mittees, respectively, joined mc- plied weapons to target russians The russian command and con- are out there really clearing real signed at least three contracts
office, said: <my answer will be Caul in a statement that said beyond the border. Although offi- trol, their logistics, have been minefields and they9re really dy- with Lockheed martin since
very simple. At this point, it9s transfer of ATACmS, along with cials privately concede there disrupted in the deep.= ing.= 2018, totaling about $1 billion,
very clear and understandable. cluster munitions and f-16 air- have been some breaches, <The problem is not a hundred Not only would the ATACmS for ongoing manufacture of
We need and are waiting for craft, was <critical= to Ukraine9s Ukraine is said to have largely kilometers away, it9s one kilome- be game-changers in Ukraine, in ATACmS, which are <currently in
decisions on ATACmS.= success. complied with those promises. ter in front of them with the the view of the administration, full-rate production & at a rate of
Kyiv has asked for hundreds of Since last year, the administra- Britain and france have re- minefields= the russians have but they also would <limit the use about 500 per year= at Lockheed
the missiles. tion has cited several reasons for cently supplied cruise missiles laid, along with rows of trenches of HImArS or the GmLrS,= a martin9s facility in Camden, Ark.,
Ukraine has appealed to its holding back. refusal initially with a range of about 140 miles 4 and tank traps, in defensive lines defense official said, referring to according to a company spokes-
supporters in Congress 4 many centered on concerns that nearly three times as far as what along the 600-mile front line, the U.S. High-mobility Artillery person, who declined to be
of whom have visited Kyiv or met Ukraine might fire the long- was previously available to Kahl said. rocket System and the Guided named. All are destined for for-
elsewhere with Zelensky and range missiles into russian terri- Ukraine, but about 50 miles The minefields are the pri- multiple Launch rocket System eign sales.
other Ukrainian government of- tory, escalating the conflict into a short of the range of the ATACmS mary cause of delay in the Ukrai- it is capable of firing six at a time
ficials 4 and U.S. lawmakers U.S.-russia confrontation. Even 4 after coordinating their deci- nian offensive, according to Gen. with a nearly 50-mile range. The alex horton contributed to this
have made increasingly loud de- supplying the weapons, moscow sions with the United States. mark A. milley, the chairman of ATACmS are also fired from report.
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A long-awaited family reunion depended on a judge9s ruling

SEParatIOn from a1

Was magdalena the right person

to raise her own child?
In between shifts at the hotel9s
laundry room, she had written a
statement to read at the hearing.
She held the paper in her right
hand so it didn9t blow away in the
wind.
<I promise I can take care of my
daughter,= she wrote.
<I have permission to be in this
country legally,= she wrote.
<I have permission to work
here.=
But the call wasn9t connecting.
Somewhere in California,
magdalena knew, strangers were
discussing whether her child was
better off with a foster family.
<In the matter of mildred Analy
Hernández Pérez,= the case file
began.
<fifty-fifty,= is how her social
workers had described magdale-
na9s chances at the hearing.
outside the Comfort Inn,
across the street from the
Tennessee Titans9 massive foot-
ball stadium near downtown
Nashville, magdalena shook her
phone. The screen was still fro-
zen.
U.S. Border Patrol agents had
taken her 9-year-old daughter
from her in December 2017 at an
immigration detention facility in
Arizona. They were among the
first migrant families to be sepa-
rated by the Trump administra-
tion 4 and now had endured one
of the longest separations.
Between 2017 and 2018, the
United States took about 5,000
migrant children from their par- John moore/getty images

ents. In most cases, the children after being separated from her children, Magdalena Hernández Pérez was taken to a detention facility in Eloy, ariz. Between 2017 and 2018, the United States took about
were sent to live with relatives in 5,000 migrant children from their parents. In most cases, these children were sent to live with relatives, but when no family was available children were sent into foster care.
the United States and the parents
were deported. family,= mildred explained.
But in cases such as mildred9s, maria filmed mildred and the
when no family members were other foster children singing
available to host the children, songs in Spanish in the family9s
they were sent to foster homes. minivan. She took them to
Custody was transferred to state amusement parks and Halloween
welfare agencies and private fos- parties and church. She helped
ter services. Some parents were mildred make a hat for a school
warned by immigration officials project. When it won an award,
that their children could be ad- maria posted on facebook.
opted by American families. <my little girl mildred won first
When President Biden in 2021 place,= she boasted.
announced an effort to reunify for career day, when mildred
separated families, Homeland was in fifth grade, she dressed up
Security officials knew it was the as a nurse in a long, white dress.
foster cases that would pose the <She looked beautiful,= maria
greatest challenge. But even they wrote.
were unprepared for how, in such Wendy aged out of foster care
cases, the jurisdiction of state and in 2019 and moved to Tennessee
local courts would leave the feder- to be closer to relatives. In her
al government powerless to bring absence, mildred leaned harder
children and parents together on maria. In time, she also more
again. fully embraced life in California.
It9s unclear how many families She tried sushi. She danced to Bad
have been ensnared by the com- Bunny at a wedding. She started
plication, but cases continue to middle school at river Heights
emerge. In florida, a Guatemalan Intermediate. She slid down a
woman fought to get her preteen waterslide in the Pias9 backyard
daughter from a state foster pro- while maria filmed, as usual.
gram in which the girl had been <Go for it, mildred!= maria
living for nearly five years. In cheered in Spanish. <Go for it.=
North Carolina, a Honduran In the photos and videos,
mother struggled to regain cus- mildred is almost always smiling.
tody of her 14-year-old son. <It was a really fun place to live.
<The separation these families They treated us like their real
experience is even further pro- Daniele Volpe children,= she said. <I started to
longed, the harm further perpetu- Magdalena left Cubulco, Guatemala, above, in 2017 with her daughters Mildred and Wendy. Once she was deported, she returned to believe that I would be there
ated,= said Kelly Albinak Kribs, an Cubulco and lived alone until last year, when she was issued a humanitarian visa for the United States to be reunited with her children. forever.=
attorney with the Young Center maria and moisés Pia didn9t
for Immigrant Children9s rights. hearsed a few lines. to arrange the family9s trip to the ly, she asked that her daughters the girls were now in the custody respond to requests for comment.
magdalena was deported with- <A mother and a daughter de- United States. be brought to say goodbye. But of Crittenton Services for Kendra Tankersley-Davis, the vice
out mildred in January 2018. The serve to be together,= she would mildred wore a pink backpack when she saw mildred looking at Children and families 4 a foster president of Crittenton, said the
Biden administration brought say. But when she practiced, she and tennis shoes on the succes- her shackles, she collapsed into care agency. It9s a transfer that organization doesn9t comment on
her back to the United States in found it impossible not to cry sion of buses, trailers and vans tears. typically is ordered in cases of individual cases.
July 2022 with a U.S. visa. before reaching the end of the they rode through Guatemala <She and Wendy became so extreme child abuse or neglect, mildred and magdalena were
<AUTHorIZED fAmILY rE- sentence. and mexico. In mexico9s Sonora sad. mildred asked me, 8mom, when the government intervenes limited to two 20-minute video
UNIfICATIoN,= read the stamp An hour had passed since the state, when they were a few miles why? What happened?9 = to protect a child from a parent. calls per week. magdalena
in her passport. hearing was scheduled to begin. from the U.S. border, the driver <But there was no time for By the end of 2018, separated doesn9t know whether the limit
on the flight from Guatemala Behind magdalena, in the park- told them to get out of the van. more. They sent me to the bus.= children had been dispatched to was imposed by maria or
City to Nashville, she flicked ing lot of the Comfort Inn, guests from there, they walked. Wendy mildred9s memory of the mo- foster homes in 15 states. But the Crittenton. California law doesn9t
through the stream of photos her were arriving at the hotel, carry- and mildred held hands. ment is hazy. She described it in a Trump administration did not set such limits.
daughter had sent from Califor- ing suitcases from their cars to magdalena believed her asy- recent interview. keep records of where individual maria was on all of those calls,
nia. mildred, with big brown eyes the lobby. lum case was strong. Entering <I remember the officers telling children were sent, or how many magdalena said. She told
and long brown hair, at church The Zoom application on her Arizona, she followed the law: me, 8It9s okay. You9ll be with your separated children were assigned magdalena she was obligated to
with her foster parents. mildred phone was still frozen. She found a group of Border mom soon.9 = to foster programs. There was no monitor them.
at the beach. mildred as she <Are they deciding this without Patrol agents and turned herself The Trump administration had plan to return custody to their magdalena received the calls
turned 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. me?= she wailed. in. The small family was taken to not yet publicized its family sepa- biological parents. back in Cubulco. She was living
mildred had been living with The phone rang. It was her a building with a single cell where ration policy, but along part of the mildred was now, in the gov- alone in the house she had shared
her foster family in riverside lawyer. The judge had weighed in. dozens of migrants waited. Arizona border, agents were giv- ernment9s parlance, an <unac- with her daughters. As time went
County, Calif., for nearly five An agent called magdalena9s en orders to take children from companied alien child.= by, she felt mildred growing more
years. magdalena assumed they 8Do you want to travel name. He moved her against a their parents. It was the begin- distant. She pleaded with her not
would reunite in Nashville, where to the United States?9 cinder-block wall and put shack- ning of one of the most extreme 8they began to feel like my to be angry.
some of her relatives had settled. magdalena left Guatemala in les on her hands and feet. immigration deterrents in Ameri- family9 <They took you from my side,=
But back in California, there was 2017 with her daughters, Wendy, <He said, 8I need you to say can history. The two-story beige house sits magdalena told her child. <It9s not
a problem: The riverside County 16, and mildred. Before their de- goodbye to your children.9 I told Agents took magdalena to a behind a row of palm trees on a that I left you.=
probate judge, Kenneth J. parture, she knelt next to mildred the officer, 8Why are you taking detention center in Eloy, Ariz., neat yard in a quiet subdivision in She could feel herself growing
fernandez, wasn9t convinced that outside their bright teal cinder- my girls away from me?9 He told 120 miles from the border. on her Southern California. It9s where, unmoored. She woke up from
a reunion would be the best out- block house in Cubulco, a town of me, 8They can9t go with you be- first night, she heard the shrieks for years, moisés and maria Pia dreams in which she was comb-
come for mildred. 10,000 about 65 miles north of cause you9re going to adult deten- of other separated mothers. have accepted children sent to ing mildred9s hair. She planted
<I understand administrators Guatemala City. How, she won- tion.9 = Agents did not tell her where her them by Crittenton. two papaya trees next to her
of various government programs dered, do you prepare a 9-year- magdalena asked if she would children were going. Neither did The U.S. office of refugee home and, as they grew, she
want to set arbitrary deadlines old for a journey to the border? see the girls soon. She asked the judge who ordered her depor- resettlement works through the talked to them as if they were
for things to happen, but I take <I asked her, 8Do you want to where they would be taken. final-