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Jax, Kendra, Ravi, Saif, and Seth
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December 14, 2015

Who Should Be Thanking Who?

“Thank you.” We hear those two words from grantees almost every- day here at Resist. But this is backwards. They should not be the ones thanking us; we should be the ones thanking them. We have the easy job. Though our fundraising model is extremely rare and can present challenges, we believe it is the right one. We ask for donations, large and small, from...
December 9, 2015

Protesters Call for Mayor Emanuel's Resignation in Citywide Walkout

Hundreds of protesters demanding an investigation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration flooded downtown Chicago streets Wednesday afternoon as part of a citywide walkout just hours after Emanuel publicly apologized for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald and vowed to fix broken Chicago police practices. The group chanted "Whose city? Our city," "Who's got to go? Rahm's got to go," and "No more killer cops." Demonstrators...
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Anirvan Chatterjee
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December 8, 2015

"Best Check I Write All Year"

Dear Fellow Activists, Donors, and Resisters, As one of the curators of the monthly Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour , I research and share histories from a century of South Asian American movements for justice in Berkeley, California, using storytelling, visuals, and street theater. Some of the stories we share on our walking tour are grand epics, like the history of the Ghadar...
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Saif Rahman and Tomás Rivera
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December 8, 2015

How Chains Break in Sante Fe

Resist speaks with Tomás Rivera of Chainbreaker Collective Saif: Chainbreaker Collective has been a Resist grantee since 2011, but a lot has changed since then, hasn’t it? Let’s start off by giving a little bit of background information on Chainbreaker. – a “who-what-when-where” of the organization if you will. Tomás: Sure. Chainbreaker is a membership based economic and environmental justice organization. This is our eleventh...
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Shira Schoenberg
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December 8, 2015

Prisoners' Rights Advocates Say Pregnant Inmates Still Being Shackled During Labor

group of prisoners' rights organizations is pushing for increased enforcement of a new state law prohibiting the shackling of pregnant inmates while in labor. Prisoners' Legal Services and the Prison Birth Project were both major advocates of the law signed by former governor Deval Patrick in 2014 that prohibits the restraint of a prisoner in labor and requires a pregnant inmate to be transported in...
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Saif Rahman
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December 1, 2015

Hoperaising

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. -Raymond Williams As a member of the Resist family, you understand that we do things a bit differently around here. For 48 years, we have never tried to take the easy or obvious road. That is because we are committed to walking our talk by always striving to live out our politics...
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Andrea Olson
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November 29, 2015

Missoulians Rally Together for Global Day of Action

MISSOULA, Mont. - On Monday, a global summit on climate change kicks off. President Obama will join more than 100 other world leaders for the largest gathering of diplomats in Paris since the 1940's. They'll try to work out a binding agreement among nations to battle climate change, and they are being pressured by groups across the globe who staged demonstrations urging a resolution. Nearly...
November 27, 2015

Citizens Concerned About Water Contamination from Old Ammo Plant

SAUK COUNTY (WKOW) -- Some state lawmakers are urging Department of Natural Resources officials to help a Sauk County citizens group looking to identify potential hazardous chemicals in their drinking water. An environmental group petitioned the DNR in July to ask the Department of Health Services to look at the human impact of groundwater contamination coming from the former Badger Ammunition plant. The chemical DNT...
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Ellen Abbott
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November 25, 2015

Getting the Word Out About 'Wage Theft'

According to recent statistics, 2.1 million New Yorkers are cheated out of $3.2 billion in wages and benefits. Activists are trying to get the word out that this wage theft is happening here in central New York. Rebecca Fuentes is an organizer with the Workers’ Center of Central New York. She says wage theft happens when employers underpay workers, don’t pay overtime, or classify them...
November 25, 2015

Alliance for a Green Economy Applauds FitzPatrick Shutdown

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The announced closure of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant sparked both political and community backlash, but one group applauded the decision to shut down operations on Tuesday. The Alliance for a Green Economy says FitzPatrick is a financial burden and an environmental danger. Advocates raised concerns about the plant’s lack of a viable containment strategy in a case of an accident. They...

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