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July 18, 2018

Poughkeepsie Becomes First City in US to Create Municipal ID with Republican Mayor in Office

As protests against ICE and the separation of immigrant families continue across the country and calls to #AbolishICE go mainstream, it’s not always clear what policy can be done at the local level to support the undocumented. That’s where municipal IDs come in. On Monday, the City of Poughkeepsie Common Council unanimously passed a law to create a municipal ID. The vote follows months of...
July 11, 2018

Resist Donor Privacy and Security Policy

Resist Donor Privacy and Security Policy Resist is committed to respecting the privacy of our donors. Each staff person, with access to donor contact information and donation history, signs a confidentiality statement. Resist is also committed to inform you of how your information is used. Donors can at any point ask that we remove their name from our mailing list. Personally Identifiable Information. Resist collects...
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NewsOne Staff
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June 16, 2018

Group Bails Out Incarcerated Black Fathers For Father’s Day, Juneteenth

Low-income Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately affected by the cash bail system and a group of activists from Denver is on a mission to change that. Just in time for Father’s Day, members of the Denver Justice Project and Black Lives Matter 5280 bailed out Black men so that they could be reunited with their families; an effort created to spread awareness about bail reform,...
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Samantha Melamed
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June 5, 2018

Should Philly Keep Holding Kids in Its Adult Jails?

David Harrington was 17 when he was charged as an adult and held in Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, a city jail. Then, after 8 months — basically his entire sophomore year of high school — a judge sent his case to the juvenile justice system. Legally, he was a kid again. He was moved to the Juvenile Justice Services Center, where he noticed many differences...
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Isabel Darmon-Weiss
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June 5, 2018

Activist Gather in Springfield to Support Poor People’s Campaign

Historic Court Square was filled with almost 200 people on Monday, June 4, in downtown Springfield, where one of many rallies for the Poor People’s Campaign was launched . The campaign is doing a six-week launch which they’ve titled “ A National Call for Moral Revival ,” and made its way to the Valley after campaigning for about three weeks in Boston. Khalil Saddiq, a...
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Steve Ahlquist
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May 25, 2018

We Need Nurses, Social Workers and Mental Health Workers in Our Schools, Not Police Officers, Testifies Student

“Students, including myself, don’t feel safe around police officers because they carry guns and I have to constantly watch my back instead of feeling safe,” said Aleita Cook , a Junior at Providence Career and Technical Academy ( PCTA ) and a member of the Providence Student Union ( PSU ). Cook was testifying before the Rhode Island Senate Education Committee on three bills, S2773...
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Ana Radelat
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May 23, 2018

Connecticut Advocates Blast DeVos for Saying Schools Can Welcome ICE

Immigration advocates in the state and the Connecticut office of the ACLU blasted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for saying that a school can chose to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on students believed to be undocumented. “Children should be able to trust and learn from their teachers, not face the prospect of educators becoming deputized informants for ICE,” said David McGuire, executive director of the...
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Issie Lapowsky
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May 22, 2018

How the LAPD Uses Data to Predict Crime {Editor's Note: Features Work by the STOP LAPD Spying Coalition}

IF YOU’VE EVER been incarcerated, it’s never easy to escape your past. In Los Angeles, it may be even harder. The Los Angeles Police Department is one of dozens of cities across the country that’s trying to predict where crime will happen—and who those future criminals will be—based on past crime and arrest data. One effort, known as Operation LASER, which began in 2011, crunches...
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Kendra Hicks
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May 14, 2018

Until They're All Free: Mothers and the Prison Industrial Complex

Happy Mother's D­ay Resisters! Every year, people from all over the country take this day to honor the mothers in our community. Birth mothers, adoptive mothers, caretakers, neighborhood mothers, and mothers in prison. In the United States, half of the women in prison and eighty percent of the women in jails are mothers. Most are the primary caretakers for their children. Six out of ten...
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Karen Grigsby Bates
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April 13, 2018

Not Enough Color In American Art Museums

The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum’s African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, “There are very few of us in the field.” Read the entire piece which features Resist grantee Equality for Flatbush here.

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