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Resist Board
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April 1, 2016

Announcing Major Changes to Resist's Grant Program

Dear Resisters, For almost 50 years, Resist has always tried to figure out how we can resource communities in order to help spark the most radical social change possible. At a recent Resist Board meeting, we discussed the state of the world and had a profound realization. Whether it was the Vietnam War and the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1960s, or the fight...
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Simeon Palomo
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March 27, 2016

We Are Guahan

In 2009, I was tasked by my boss to read 11,000 pages of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in order to comment on the proposed military buildup's impact on the Chamorro people and culture. Of course, it was not an easy assignment. In order not to get overwhelmed, I concentrated on the many summaries and a section titled "Socio-Economic Impact Study" or SEIS. This...
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Minnie Bruce Pratt
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March 27, 2016

Central New York Workers Back Down Bosses

Syracuse, N.Y. — Workers in central New York state are battling wages too low to live on and wage theft with the help of the Workers Center of Central New York. On March 17, Workers Center organizers Rebecca Fuentes and Nikeeta Slade led a dramatic direct action to support a local restaurant worker. Thomas Colabufo had not received his final paycheck a month after leaving...
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Mathew Tonis and Justin Emerson
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March 23, 2016

Anti-Trump Protesters Shut Down Roads in Attempt to Block Access to Campaign Event

PHOENIX – About 100 protesters trying to block Donald Trump’s supporters from reaching his presidential campaign rally in Fountain Hills blocked Shea Boulevard on Saturday, disrupting traffic for about an hour before law enforcement could remove them. Trump, the GOP frontrunner, held two events Saturday in the Valley. Protesters parked their vehicles in the middle of Shea, backing up traffic for miles. One woman chained...
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Bill Bigelow
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March 21, 2016

How Can Public Schools Stop Amplifying Inequality?

Low-income communities continue to look for the best ways to improve their schools as the income gap grows across America. The final quote in Robert D. Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2016) comes from Jay Ash, city manager of what Putnam describes as the “gritty, working-class Boston suburb of Chelsea.” Ash says, “If our kids are in trouble—my kids,...
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Texas Civil Rights Project
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March 18, 2016

Texas Inmates Win Phone Privacy Victory, Legal Groups Say

Jail inmates in Travis County, Texas have secured phone privacy rights with their attorneys in what advocates say is a first-of-its-kind legal settlement in the country, the Texas Civil Rights Project and other legal organizations reported on March 15. The recent settlement requires officials and Securus Technologies, a vendor, to not record phone conversations involving inmates and their attorneys. The Texas Civil Rights Project filed...
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Nick Malinowski
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March 18, 2016

Despite Rhetoric of Criminal Justice Reform, Benefits Are Slow to Come for Those Aging in Prisons in New York State

Fishkill Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in the Hudson Valley about 90 minutes north of New York City, is home to a unique though perhaps prescient housing program - the 30-bed Unit for the Cognitively Impaired , established to meet the needs of people who are incarcerated in New York State while managing dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and similar end-of-life experiences. A similar housing program...
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Joe Pagonakis
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March 18, 2016

Native American Support Group Wants Wahoo Logo Removed

CLEVELAND - Native American support group Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance is once again calling for the removal of the Chief Wahoo logo from all Cleveland Indians uniforms and merchandise. Support group leaders Marjorie Villafane and Ferne Clements believe the logo is a racist, out-of-date logo, and after decades of protests against the logo, it's time for Chief Wahoo to be phased-out...
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Dave Goins
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March 17, 2016

Protesters Rally at Idaho Capitol for Higher Minimum Wage

BOISE — Protesters took to the halls of Idaho Capitol building Monday to urge state lawmakers to increase Idaho’s $7.25 per hour minimum wage. Idaho AFL-CIO President Aaron White said the estimated 40 protesters — many carrying signs — wanted to encourage Idaho legislators to resurrect House Bill 400, a Democrat-backed measure to raise the Gem State’s minimum wage by $2 per hour by next...
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Samantha Melamed
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March 16, 2016

Kids Who Survived Adult Jail Send a Lifeline to Those Still Inside

A dozen slouching teenage boys shuffled into a makeshift classroom just off the juvenile block at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, one of the city's adult jails. They were awkward and reticent at first as Jacob Winterstein, a poet, worked the room, challenging them with tongue twisters, icebreakers, moving to the beat playing from an iPod and a portable speaker. Two hours later, the teens...

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