This month, Janis Lodermeier talks about having George Morrison as an art professor.
When I was going to the U – I am not Native American, but the AIM Movement was very active right up here. The Native American Center was just built and the Native artist George Morrison, who did the beautiful mural, he was one of my art teachers at the U. He didn’t pick me. I didn’t pick him. It was just the luck of the draw. I did not know until years later, he was like a member of the Art Students League, I think in New York. He lived in Paris. He was…somebody…
… I started not coming to class because the models, for that class, we had to pay separately, and they would frequently be standing out in the hall smoking, and then when they saw him coming down the hallway, they’d jump back up, and that really made me mad. It didn’t seem to bother a lot of other people, but I thought… they’re supposed to be up there. We’re paying them to do that stuff, and so I started not coming all the time, and I didn’t think he even noticed I wasn’t there.… Read the rest “Oral History Project: Sept. ’26”
President Trump’s order of the day continues to be bald faced corruption. He appointed former GEO Group executive David Venturella to run ICE. A la one hand washing the other, GEO Group and subsidiaries donated just under $2 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign. GEO Group, in fact, holds numerous government contracts for detention facilities and saw serious profit increases as the administration ramped up mass deportations.
GEO was more than $250 million in the green for 2025, up almost 700% from 2024. They certainly aren’t spending that profit on justice advocates, journalists and investigators documented substandard ICE conditions. Added to which, their snout is deep in Trump’s trough. Half the corporation’s conflict of interest revenue is ICE contracts, a clear all for Trump’s mass deportation agenda: it runs nearly two dozen detention facilities and provides transportation services and electronic monitoring through a subsidiary, BI Incorporated. Indeed with Trump’s return to the presidency, the dinner bill rang, outfits racing to gorge themselves at that trough, cheek by jowl. This includes CoreCivic which owns or manages more 70 prisons, jails, detention centers and halfway houses – roughly 80,000 beds. While the plan to exploit abandoned Minnesota warehouses was thwarted, CoreCivic got around that, investing a million dollars in reopening Appleton, the state’s 1,600-bed private prison Prairie Correctional Facility, shuttered since 2010.… Read the rest “Who is the GEO Group?”
Who is the GEO Group?
from the series Something I Said…
By DWIGHT HOBBES
President Trump’s order of the day continues to be bald faced corruption. He appointed
former GEO Group executive David Venturella to run ICE. A la one hand washing the other,
GEO Group and subsidiaries donated just under $2 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign. GEO
Group, in fact, holds numerous government contracts for detention facilities and saw serious
profit increases as the administration ramped up mass deportations.
GEO was more than $250 million in the green for 2025, up almost 700% from 2024.
They certainly aren’t spending that profit on justice advocates, journalists and investigators
documented substandard ICE conditions. Added to which, their snout is deep in Trump’s trough.
Half the corporation’s conflict of interest revenue is ICE contracts, a clear all for Trump’s mass
deportation agenda: it runs nearly two dozen detention facilities and provides transportation
services and electronic monitoring through a subsidiary, BI Incorporated. Indeed with Trump’s
return to the presidency, the dinner bill rang, outfits racing to gorge themselves at that trough,
cheek by jowl. This includes CoreCivic which owns or manages more 70 prisons, jails,
detention centers and halfway houses – roughly 80,000 beds. While the plan to exploit
abandoned Minnesota warehouses was thwarted, CoreCivic got around that, investing a million
dollars in reopening Appleton, the state’s 1,600-bed private prison Prairie Correctional
Facility, shuttered since 2010.… Read the rest “Who is the GEO Group?”