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Connecticut Students for a Dream (C4D) conducted a press conference in the Legislative Office Building Wednesday afternoon. The group held the event to urge the Connecticut General Assembly to pass a bill legalizing institutional financial aid for undocumented students, formally calling the movement the “Afford to Dream Campaign 2016.” “Undocumented Connecticut students without immigration status pay full tuition, contributing towards this institutional aid,” a preemptory...

The man, longtime homeless, has amassed roughly $30,000 worth of citations in Madison Municipal Court in a cycle of repeated tickets, arrest warrants and jail. He’s among a small group of homeless people in the city who have received thousands, even tens of thousands, of dollars in citations with scant chance of ever paying them off. Some in the group suffer from drug and alcohol...

On the corner of Lawrence Street sits a tiny white building that houses feisty nonprofit Beyond Toxics, which has advocated for environmental and social justice reforms in the state of Oregon since 2001 — you might remember it as Oregon Toxics Alliance. On Feb. 5, Beyond Toxics will celebrate its 15th anniversary at Capitello Wine Bar in downtown Eugene, as well as introduce a state...

Prison officials rarely allow journalists to walk through their prisons, and even rarer is the warden who lets a reporter into his solitary-confinement unit. The voices of the men and women confined inside these prisons-within-a-prison are often the last ones that any prison administrator wants outsiders to hear. But the potential power of these prisoners’ stories to draw public attention—and propel politicians to act—was on...