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fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

Man killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge identified by community; vigil Sunday

An off-duty ICE agent fatally shot Keith "Pooter" Porter in a Northridge apartment complex on New Year's Eve; community members demand transparency and accountability.
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fromThe Verge
16 hours ago

Aliro arrives - the smart lock standard is set to launch this year

Aliro launches in Q1 2026 to enable NFC tap-to-unlock and UWB hands-free unlocking across smart locks, smartphones, and wearables.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 days ago

Nora Sandigo, the great mother' who offers refuge to migrant families in the United States

Nora Sandigo legally guardians thousands of children of deported or detained parents, providing education, healthcare decisions and shelter through her foundation amid rising immigration enforcement.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Mendocino County rapid response network launches to monitor ICE activity in the area

Anyone who sees ICE agents in the area can call (707) 621-8220 to report sightings to the Mendocino County Rapid Response Network, which has volunteers trained and ready to quickly identify, verify, and inform the community if ICE is conducting raids or detaining immigrants locally. The network also works to dispel false rumors of ICE sightings, share verified information with local news outlets, and post updates about ICE activity on social media.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Gender Equality Paradox: Equality Begets Stratification

Gender-linked academic strengths (boys in math/science; girls in reading/verbal) contribute to career segregation, and differences increase in more gender-equal societies.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The moment I knew: I was ready to paddle back to shore when she leaned in to kiss me

Two volunteers in Vanuatu formed a romantic connection through shared outdoor activities, paddleboarding, and similar worldviews, culminating in mutual declarations of love in 2015.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

Why I am on hunger strike in solidarity with Pal Action detainees

I learned it in Guantanamo, when the only thing I could control was my own body. We were disappeared. Isolated. Forced into silence. Our words were redacted. Our letters were stamped secret. Lawyers were blocked. Time stretched and rotted. No court dates were given. No real charges were made. I was reduced to a number in an orange uniform, locked in a metal cage.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

South African activist uses history to highlight ongoing injustice

Cape Town's colonial monuments and museums obscure violence, dispossession, and enslaved and Indigenous contributions, prompting activist guides to reclaim and reinterpret the city's history.
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 days ago

Sickened and Outraged': Prosecutors Blast Portland Freedom Fund for Bailing Out Man Who Kills Partner Just Days Later

Prosecutors are blasting the PFF over their decision to step in on the case, noting Adan's long history of escalating violence against Abraham. Adan was born in Somalia and first came to the United States as a refugee. He was also convicted of felony strangulation, domestic violence, and more. The escalating series of attacks by Adan began in 2022, according to prosecutors.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago
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Islamophobia has surged since the Bondi attack. Australia's Muslim community should not have to endure this abuse | Aftab Malik

fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago
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Islamophobia has surged since the Bondi attack. Australia's Muslim community should not have to endure this abuse | Aftab Malik

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fromArtforum
4 days ago

A Tale of Two Cities

Homeless collectives in São Paulo reclaim vacant buildings to create housing, confront displacement, and propose urban strategies against forces undermining equitable inhabitation.
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fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

From education to marriage, major human rights gains of 2025 DW 12/31/2025

Human rights faced global threats in 2025 from conflicts, crackdowns and rollbacks, while some advances occurred, including Thailand legalizing same-sex marriage and Italy criminalizing femicide.
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fromFortune
4 days ago

Erased: what 2025 revealed about America's real economic risk | Fortune

Structural removal of Black women from the middle class drove 2025's labor-market contraction, large job deficits, household solvency collapse, and significant GDP losses.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

A little boy gave her hope for her foster daughter's future

A young boy led peers to include a toddler who uses a walker, learned her sign language, and inspired a supportive, inclusive playground atmosphere.
#disability-rights
fromHigh Country News
6 days ago

We need to talk about the pretendians in our midst - High Country News

The widespread issue of "pretendians" remains under-examined even in Native circles. The topic is politically and socially fraught, with hyper-online crusaders taking up the mantle of pretendian hunting in pursuit of social media clout. The problem is real, but these sometimes vicious vigilante efforts have been known to conflate personal vendetta and erroneous or uneven methodology with rational research and concern for Indigenous communities.
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fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

Despite DOJ Intervention, Portland Police are Still Killing People in Mental Health Crisis

A medical examiner's report concluded Johnson 52, died of a prone-restraint-induced cardiac arrest, with methamphetamine use being a "contributing factor." Prone restraint refers to the face-down position officers kept Johnson in while attempting to handcuff him in his apartment. It can restrict breathing and can also lead to metabolic acidosis. Across the United States, it's been linked with several other in-custody deaths and many police agencies have since stopped using it.
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fromNature
1 week ago

Seeding opportunities for Black atmospheric scientists

Vernon Morris built and led an HBCU atmospheric-science PhD program that dramatically increased Black and Latinx representation and researches long-range particle transport affecting biogeochemistry.
#hate-crime
fromsfist.com
1 week ago
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Petaluma Police Arrest Suspect For Hate Crime Targeting Former Globetrotter and Youth Coach

fromsfist.com
1 week ago
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Petaluma Police Arrest Suspect For Hate Crime Targeting Former Globetrotter and Youth Coach

#racism
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fromAxios
1 week ago

Harlem civil rights museum highlights the North's forgotten history

A new Urban League museum in Harlem will open in 2026 within a $300M Empowerment Center including affordable housing, minority business space, and leadership programming.
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fromAxios
1 week ago

Racist AI content is spreading fast - and swaying political opinions

AI tools can easily produce realistic fake videos that amplify racial stereotypes and outrage, fueling disinformation and monetized digital blackface.
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fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

KFC franchisee given 70k fine over 'slave' comment

KFC franchisee ordered to pay £66,800 after a manager racially abused, forced extra hours, and wrongfully dismissed an Indian employee.
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fromTruthout
1 week ago

In 2025, Educators Didn't Just Endure Repression. They Built Resistance.

Florida's ban on teaching 'systemic racism' in classrooms prompted a community-led outdoor liberation academy, Under the Learning Tree, to continue antiracist education.
fromMission Local
1 week ago

Meet the syndicate printing posters at San Francisco protests

The San Francisco Poster Syndicate originated in 2014, when adjunct instructors at San Francisco Art Institute were forming a union. Art Hazelwood, one of the syndicate's founding members, taught screen-printing there and was part of the bargaining team. He and his students started printing posters using salvaged "slop ink" - everything leftover from a day of art classes, mixed together in a bucket - and put them all over campus. The posters of that era were all gray, Hazelwood, now 64, recalls.
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fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
1 week ago

Iranian Actress Taraneh Alidoosti Praised For Defiance After New Documentary

She appears on camera without the compulsory headscarf for the first time, declaring firmly that she will "under no circumstances" act while wearing a headscarf again.
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fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

When being rich feels wrong: Inside the world of millionaires battling 'wealth shame'

Some wealthy individuals experience 'wealth shame' and moral unease that leads them to hide money-related aspects and even support higher taxes.
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

The Soft Bodies of Memory - KALTBLUT Magazine

Salma Zahore embodies a malleable, stylized identity inspired by foam mannequins that blur object and subject, shaped by context, projection, and gaze.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

In 2025 reparations became central to UK ties with the Caribbean and Africa so how do we move forward? | Kenneth Mohammed

Reparations arguments are clarified and defended, showing slavery's systemic economic role and igniting a global movement despite political resistance in Britain.
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

ICE tore apart families. This immigrant-led group brought back some Christmas joy

The steady drizzle tested the limits of the string of tarps stretched across the backyard of a Maywood home. Beneath them, dozens of boxes, overflowing with clothes, shoes and toys, lay scattered across the pavement. Each gift was destined for one of more than 50 Southern California homes whose families have been caught in the growing immigration enforcement crackdown. This was not charity bestowed from afar, but mutual aid.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

I live in a country that hates me': What's next for trans people in the UK?

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
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from48 hills
1 week ago
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A small piece of land in SF for unhoused people to build their own future ... - 48 hills

from48 hills
1 week ago
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A small piece of land in SF for unhoused people to build their own future ... - 48 hills

fromAdvocate.com
1 week ago

Daily newsletter 12/23

➡️ The University of Oklahoma graduate assistant who gave a student a failing grade on an anti-transgender paper will no longer be teaching at the university, school officials have decided. We also examine the 60 Minutes CECOT story that was spiked at the last minute by CBS News editor Bari Weiss, only to be broadcast anyway on a Canadian streaming service; and we have an explainer on the infamous prison where Trump deported 252 Venezuelan refugees.
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fromActivisthandbook
1 week ago

Activist Handbook

Learn how you can get started as activist. We are here for all green, progressive and social activists. We explain what activism is and how you can make a difference with community organizing.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg to be released from jail this week, group says

Zoe Rosenberg will be released from Sonoma County Jail to serve the final 60 days of her 90-day sentence under house arrest and half-time credit.
fromFortune
1 week ago

NASCAR, the unexpected diversity success story | Fortune

Readers weigh in, quietly, on the gun control debate, retailers are getting the stink eye for commercializing Juneteenth, and nobody's quite sure if Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebration was racist or not. What would reparations for slavery look like? California is getting close to an answer. All that and a surprising look at NASCAR's unlikely win in the race for inclusion. Happy Friday.
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fromAdvocate.com
1 week ago

Massachusetts removes rule requiring foster parents to support LGBTQ+ youth

Massachusetts removed DCF rules requiring foster parents to affirm and support LGBTQ+ youths' identities, replacing them with a general parental-support statement and citing religious accommodations.
fromSCSJ
1 week ago

Update on SCSJ's Edenton Confederate Monument Case

In early 2025, Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a lawsuit in Chowan County Superior Court on behalf of five Eastern North Carolina residents alleging the Edenton Town Council and Chowan County Board of Commissioners brokered an unlawful deal to relocate the Edenton Confederate monument to the grounds of the Chowan County Courthouse in downtown Edenton. We alleged this agreement violated the North Carolina Open Meetings Law and the placement of the Confederate Monument at the courthouse would violate the North Carolina Constitution.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Sixty years ago, the world tried to stop racial discrimination and failed

International legal prohibition of racial discrimination originated from Global South initiatives, yet systemic racial discrimination persists worldwide in policing, migration, and labour.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

No, you can't ban all Native Americans if you own a hotel, jury rules. 'This was never about the money. We sued for one dollar' | Fortune

The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City will pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages to various plaintiffs who were denied service at the hotel. The jury awarded $1 to the NDN Collective, the Indigenous advocacy group that filed the lawsuit.
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fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers

While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running up on migrant workers in Home Depot parking lots, the home improvement corporation has decided to take a stand - against the migrant workers. Reporting by The Guardian reveals a cruel new initiative being rolled out to one high-traffic Home Depot location in Los Angeles' Cypress Park: high-pitched noise machines meant to shoo away day laborers.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Bills keep going higher': community warm spaces' on the rise in the UK

Community warm spaces across the UK provide social connection, meals, and energy-cost relief for low-income people, yet risk becoming a long-term substitute for state support.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Letter: Sir Geoffrey Bindman obituary

Cross-community initiatives like Black, Asian and Jewish gatherings strengthen minority solidarity, address refugee support, and are needed to rebuild social cohesion.
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fromHuffPost
2 weeks ago

The Worst Assumption People Make About Their Single Colleagues During The Holidays

Employers often assign holiday shifts to single and childfree workers based on assumptions that they have fewer personal commitments, a form of singlism.
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fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

ICE Wants to Reopen Notorious California Prison. Locals Are Fighting Back.

Dublin City Council unanimously opposed reopening FCI Dublin for any detention and demanded federal transparency on decisions about the site.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

The Me Too movement in the age of Trump and Epstein

Tarana Burke tells Marc Lamont Hill on Epstein, Trump and how widespread sexual violence is in the United States. In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called #MeToo swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world's most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences?
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fromBuzzFeed
2 weeks ago

I Was The Black Woman In A Mostly White Office. Now I Fear White Liberals More Than Overt Racists.

A supervisor's tone-deaf behavior and self-centered framing silenced a Black woman's voice and initiated a prolonged, emotionally damaging workplace dynamic.
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fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

L.A. Home Depot Is Using Noise Machines to 'Torture' Day Laborers and Customers Alike

Home Depot installed high-pitched noise devices to deter day laborers, causing headaches and illness while also disrupting customers and employees despite company safety claims.
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fromIrish Independent
2 weeks ago

Domestic violence services turning women away across the country due to lack of resources, charity boss says

Charity Saoirse cannot accommodate up to 70% of refuge calls because of a severe shortage of refuge spaces.
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fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Churches turn Nativity scenes into protests as immigration crackdowns intensify

Christian congregations are using provocative Nativity scenes to protest U.S. immigration enforcement, prompting vandalism and institutional pushback.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Color of the Year Is an Exercise in Absurdity

Pantone named 'Cloud Dancer,' a white shade, as the 2026 Color of the Year, triggering polarized responses about whiteness, symbolism, and public tone.
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fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

Portland Students Walk Out of Class to Protest ICE Activity

Lincoln High students walked out to protest ICE activity, demanding accountability and awareness after deaths in ICE custody and recent violent arrests near schools.
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Modern-day slaves toil in Lebanon's 'kafala' system DW 12/18/2025

Abang Sharon arrived in Lebanon on April 24 last year, having travelled there from Cameroon. The 21-year-old had a goal in Lebanon to work and earn money so she could support her family back home. An agency organized everything for her to get to Lebanon but later on, in a video published by a migrant rights organization in early December, Sharon talks about how she was working "in a toxic family." No wages, no secure contract, no protection and always this feeling that nobody can really help her.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Shackled, alone and scared: the grim reality for women forced to give birth in prison

Pregnant women in prisons frequently face inadequate medical care, deplorable conditions, and preventable harm including miscarriage, solitary childbirth, and infant death.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Imani Barbarin on disability rights, COVID and the war on Gaza

Public understanding of disability remains outdated despite advocates using social media to push a more accurate, intersectional vision of disability.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 weeks ago

How the Next Set of UN Sustainability Goals Can Center the Solidarity Economy | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

As we move beyond 2030, it is crucial to rethink how we measure progress and development. The current relevance of GDP [gross domestic product] as the dominant indicator of economic performance has been widely criticized for its inability to capture the full dimensions of human well-being, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Recent policy discussions and research, including the OECD's [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's] " Beyond GDP " initiatives, highlight the urgent need to develop alternative metrics.
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fromNieman Lab
2 weeks ago

Protecting immigrant journalists has to be an industry-wide priority

Immigrant and exiled journalists in in-language and community media face escalating threats to safety, legal status, First Amendment rights, and the immigrant audiences they serve.
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fromSFGATE
2 weeks ago

Bay Area faith leaders chain themselves outside SF ICE field office

Faith leaders and community members peacefully blocked entrances to ICE's San Francisco field office, chaining themselves to protest immigration enforcement and recent detentions.
fromMission Local
2 weeks ago

Remove S.F. deputies who allegedly mass strip-searched women in jail, social justice orgs demand

Last month, 19 women filed a claim with the city alleging that, on May 22, sheriff's deputies ordered them to undress in front of each other, laughed at them, and filmed the proceedings with their body-worn cameras. Immediately after Mission Local first reported the allegations on Nov. 20, several members of the Board of Supervisors called for action. Criminal justice, human rights, and women's advocates rallied in front of the jail at 425 Seventh St. the following week.
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fromScary Mommy
2 weeks ago

Scary Mommy's Favorite Badass Mom Moments Of 2025

Take their neighbors, classmates, and community members? Not on their watch. Moms around the country dedicated much of their year to protecting children and families in their communities from unlawful deportation. There was the group of over a dozen moms arrested while protesting outside Broadview Detention Center in Chicago. There was t he mom group who organized a "walking school bus" to get children to school safely if their parents feared being targeted by ICE.
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fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 weeks ago

Envisioning the Future of Cooperatives: A Conversation with Christina Clamp | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

Tech community must play a part in closing the employment gap for blind and sight-impaired people | Computer Weekly

Blind and sight-impaired people in the UK face a roughly 56% employment gap, with only a 27% employment rate versus 83% for non-disabled people.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Americans Can't Believe How Rich They Are

Exaggerating poverty thresholds conflates the truly poor with the lower-middle class and weakens policy clarity and motivation for practical solutions.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Age doesn't quiet these voices: The Raging Grannies' are growing louder

Every week in Palo Alto, a group of women gathers outside a Tesla showroom, sporting wide-brim hats and carrying anti-billionaire signs. They call themselves the Raging Grannies: a coalition of senior women who use humor, harmony and handmade costumes to protest inequality, social injustice and the lopsided concentration of wealth in America. Every day there's something new with these big corporations, said Sherry Hagen, who goes by Granny Sherry.
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fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago

Faith Leaders Arrested After Dozens Chain Themselves Outside SF Immigration Court

Around 100 interfaith protesters blocked 630 Sansome in predawn demonstration, chaining themselves and staging symbolic actions to oppose immigration detention; at least 12 were arrested.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Midwife of Black Nationalism

Audley "Queen Mother" Moore was a persistent Black-nationalist organizer who championed reparations, Black self-determination, and influenced major activists despite historical omission.
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fromSun Sentinel
2 weeks ago

'Everybody thinks it's shut down.' Why protesters won't leave Alligator Alcatraz

Activists, including Andrea Scherben, continuously monitor and document Alligator Alcatraz to raise awareness and pressure authorities to close the Everglades detention center.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

I spent a month trying to smile like Zohran Mamdani it's no easy feat | Arwa Mahdawi

As a big fan of citizen science, I have spent the past month conducting a very important experiment. While I am not quite as hardcore as the American virologist Jonas Salk, who injected the polio vaccine into himself and his family before large-scale trials, this scientific inquiry has involved some personal pain. You see, I have spent the last month trying to smile like Zohran Mamdani.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia is about scapegoating

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are interconnected forms of scapegoating; opposing one requires recognizing and opposing the other to protect religious freedom.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Our industry has been strip-mined': video game workers protest at The Game Awards

Game industry workers protested at The Game Awards to demand accountability for mass layoffs, alleged union-busting, and accelerating AI-driven changes in development.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks ago

Share the Spirit: Nonprofit offers enrichment for the neurodivergent

A Lafayette-based Social Connection program helps neurodivergent adults build life skills, social connections, and employment readiness through inclusive education and community support.
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fromwww.housingwire.com
3 weeks ago

CFPB's ECOA proposal raises alarms for women

Proposed CFPB rule would remove disparate-impact recognition, tighten discouragement definitions, and revise SPCP standards, reducing credit access for women, communities of color, and rural residents.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

From shoplifting to return fraud, how America became a nation of small-time scammers, cheaters, and thieves

Many consumers commit small acts of fraud or rule-bending against large corporations as a form of retaliation for perceived corporate unfairness and power imbalances.
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fromThe ODI
7 years ago

Agile ethics pioneer Alix Dunn on why 'moving fast and breaking things' must not extend to ethics

Organizations must adopt agile ethics so technology experimentation reinforces social missions, minimizes harm to vulnerable people, and integrates diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

All the horror of Pinochet's dictatorship fits on a mother-of-pearl button

Villa Grimaldi's preserved artifacts, including a mother-of-pearl button from a victim, testify to torture, disappearances, and the murder of thousands under Pinochet.
fromwww.ocregister.com
3 weeks ago

$8.4 million awarded to White California police officer in reverse discrimination case

A jury has awarded $8.4 million to a former White police officer who alleged he faced discrimination and retaliation by Korean-American command staff at the La Palma Police Department. Ross Byer joined the department in May 2022 and completed his training that August with positive performance evaluations, according to court records. His performance remained satisfactory until he was reassigned that year to a different sergeant.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

ALMA, the app that helps Latinos alert others when they are in emergency situations involving ICE

ALMA app gives Latino immigrants an emergency one-tap alert to notify family, organizations, and lawyers with location during ICE detentions or threats.
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