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By
Bruce Finley
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May 15, 2016

Hundreds Swarm BLM Auction in Lakewood to Protest Oil, Gas Drilling

LAKEWOOD — Hundreds of Leave It In The Ground demonstrators demanding a tougher response to climate change swarmed a federal public lands auction Thursday and set up a blockade to try to stop new oil and gas drilling. U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials with police support moved ahead with the auction of rights to drill under 7,000 acres in western Colorado, penetrating the human...
By
Aricka Flowers
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May 9, 2016

Chicago Housing, Police Accountability Advocates Picket Emanuel Fundraiser Over CHA Practices

Police accountability and housing activists are pushing back against city government as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attempts to replenish his campaign coffers at his first fundraiser since the Laquan McDonald shooting video was released. The activists are picketing at Emanuel's pricey Monday night fundraiser, which costs individuals $5,400 while corporations are required to cough up $10,000. The event is being held at the home of...
By
Migrant Justice
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May 4, 2016

Movement to #FreeVictor Secures Human Rights Leader's Release From Immigration Custody

Vermont human rights leader Victor Diaz was ordered released this morning by Judge Paul M. Gagnon at the Boston Immigration Court. Judge Gagnon set bond at $1,500, the lowest level allowable by law. Mr. Diaz will soon be released and will return to Vermont, where he will continue his leadership in the farmworker organization Migrant Justice. The hearing came two days after hundreds marched through...
By
Resist Staff
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May 3, 2016

“Frontlines of Crises, Forefront of Change”

If you were one of the 300,000 people that marched through the streets of New York City in September of 2014 at the People’s Climate March (or if you read Resist’s 2014 Annual Report Edition of the Newsletter in which the march graced the cover), you were probably moved by the lead banner that read, “Frontlines of the Crises, Forefront of Change.” The people holding...
By
Desiree Kane
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May 3, 2016

Activists Call for Inclusion of Rights of Indigenous Peoples in UN Climate Agreement

Indigenous leaders, activists, and their allies gathered along the banks of Bassin de la Villette, Paris’s largest man-made lake, as 25 Indigenous activists from North and South America formed a canoe flotilla on the lake. Renowned Indigenous North American climate activists from the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma to the Tla’Amin First Nation from British Columbia to Lummi Nation youth from Washington State, among others, participated...
By
Julian Matthews and Saif Rahman
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May 3, 2016

“The People” United Can Stop ExxonMobil

Editor’s Note: Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment is a new Resist grantee that is bravely standing up to one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. Once we heard how they were physically putting a stop to ExxonMobil “mega-load” trucks that were driving through their community, we knew we had to share this story with Newsletter readers. These trucks were destined for Alberta,...
By
Adriana Candelaria
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May 3, 2016

One Organization Works with Border Patrol Agency to Prevent Migrant Deaths

An organization in Falfurrias continues to help families in other countries find their immigrant family members. The South Texas Human Rights Center also works with Border Patrol to prevent migrant deaths. Adriana Candelaria tells us more on how the center works. Watch the video and read the whole story here .
By
Patricia Corrigan
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April 29, 2016

Protest Planned for LGBTQ Film Festival Over Israeli Backing

Pro-Palestinian activists in the Bay Area will protest in June at Frameline40, San Francisco’s LGBTQ international film festival, because organizers will continue to accept financial support from foreign governments — including Israel. “We will be protesting at the festival this summer, though I can’t say yet in what form,” said Kate Jessica Raphael, an organizer with Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), a group that says...
By
Christina Fialho
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April 26, 2016

Poetry Book Fights Isolation in Immigration Detention

Isolation is the key component of oppression. Throughout history, the voices of those who have been colonized, exploited, and marginalized are rarely heard because those who are in power develop systems of isolation. These systems have taken many forms, such as Nazi concentration camps, Japanese internment camps, South African apartheid, and Jim Crow segregation laws. But we must not make the mistake and assume that...
April 18, 2016

Students Rally To “Afford To Dream”

Proclaiming “Education is an opportunity to success!” and “All human beings deserve equality and dignity,” 30 students held a candlelight vigil to support a state bill that would allow undocumented students access to financial aid at state universities and colleges. The “Vigil for Afford To Dream” took place as sun set Saturday behind Hamden City Hall. Organized by a statewide group called Connecticut Students for...

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