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Democracy Now
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June 18, 2015

Harlem Residents Say State Failing to Prevent Soaring Rents

Hundreds of Harlem residents protested in New York City on Wednesday over what they call the state’s failure to protect them from soaring rents and neglect. A court monitor was created to oversee Castellan Real Estate Partners, the hedge fund-backed owner of more than 50 rent-stabilized apartments. But advocates say Castellan continues to squeeze tenants with higher rents and to ignore poor conditions at its...
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Dave Roback
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June 17, 2015

Photos:'Springfield No One Leaves' Group Holds Rally in Springfield

See the photographs and video here. SPRINGFIELD - Members of the "Springfield No One Leaves" campaign gathered outside the main gate of Forest Park to make people aware of pending housing legislation in the Statehouse on foreclosures and evictions. The group was to hold a silent vigil at state Rep. Angelo Puppolo's fundraiser at the Carriage House but opted for the rally at the gate...
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Megan Jula and Daniel González
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June 16, 2015

Detention Death Ruled a Suicide; Protesters Disagree

Jose de Jesus Deniz-Sahagun ran into the pedestrian lane at the Douglas port of entry in mid-May, trying to enter the U.S. The Mexican national had been deported before — twice within the last four years, including an expedited removal in April 2013. Customs and Border Protection arrested the 31-year-old on May 15 and transferred him on May 18 to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody...
June 16, 2015

Dear Governor Cuomo: A letter from the families of those killed by the NYPD

Dear Governor Cuomo, We are family members of New Yorkers who were killed by New York police officers during the last two decades. There are too many New Yorkers suffering because of the epidemic of police brutality. We are glad that you have pledged to make criminal justice reform a priority this year and that you are sensitive to the historic failure of District Attorneys...
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Alicia Garza
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June 16, 2015

A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed. It was a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society and also, unfortunately, our movements...
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Dan McGowan
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June 8, 2015

How a Group of Students Took on the City of Providence – and Won

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – It took about 2.5 miles for Zack Mezera to know the group of high school students he was working with were on to something big. Mezera, the 24-year-old executive director of the Providence Student Union, was among the 50 city officials, policymakers and political hopefuls who joined the student activist group on 2.96-mile walk to school from the city’s Wanskuck neighborhood...
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Rucha Chitnis
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June 4, 2015

A Walk to Heal, A Walk to Reimagine

“There are toxic places by the San Francisco Bay. We walk to understand what some frontline communities experience everyday living next to the oil refineries,” says Pennie Opal Plant of Yaqui, Choctaw and Cherokee ancestry, one of the organizers of the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks . “We want to imagine our future beyond fossil fuels to have clean water, air, soil and healthy jobs,” she...
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Matthew S. Bajko
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May 28, 2015

Pro-Palestine Film Festival Sets Schedule

Twenty-four feature films, plus several shorts, will screen at the Outside the Frame: Queers for Palestine Film Festival taking place in San Francisco in June. It is touted as a "radical alternative" to Frameline, San Francisco's international LGBT film festival. As the Bay Area Reporter noted in a story in January, a coalition of groups decided to produce its own counterprogramming during the opening weekend...
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Eliza Dewey |
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May 27, 2015

‘Funeral’ Mourns Lack of City-funded Youth Jobs

Youth organizers staged a ‘funeral’ procession for youth jobs in downtown Boston last week to criticize the lack of significant funding increases in the city’s budget for summer and year-round employment — a flatline that they said reflected misplaced priorities on the part of City Hall when compared to increases in the city’s police budget. “We’re not getting enough youth jobs, and we’re getting a...
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Michael Moore
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May 27, 2015

Store Cleaners File Class Action Suit for Back Pay, Set Strike Date

MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) - Janitors who clean big-box and department stores in the Twin Cities announced two key developments in their campaign for better wages and working conditions: Setting a new strike deadline and filing a class-action lawsuit to recoup wages allegedly lost to wage theft. Members of the Twin Cities worker center CTUL , Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha/Center of Workers United in...

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