Social justice

Social justice

Elected leaders and community members in Santa Clara County said they weren't notified in January 2025 when the federal government leased a swath of unincorporated land near Gilroy with the intent to build a detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. " The move to build a detention center in unincorporated Gilroy is an attack on the immigrant community, and it's an attack on Santa Clara County," Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said. He added that his office is coordinating with state Attorney General Rob Bonta as it prepares a legal defense to block the detention center.

Fresh off the seventh forced displacement of his central West Bank Bedouin community since 1948, Abu Najjeh was not in a contemplative mood leading up to Nakba Day. He said he was in a rush, too busy reacting to the crises of the day the continuing third Nakba, as he called it. This is not a proper place to live that's why I'm in a hurry waiting for a car to take me, said Abu Najjeh, the mukhtar, or leader, of the former Bedouin community of Ein Samiya, speaking from a recently erected tent in the outskirts of Rammun before rushing to find his sons amid unfolding violence in Jiljilyya.

“The system is the way that we relate to each other, right? It's the way one group the working class gets exploited by another group the ruling class,” he says. “There's no getting out of it until we overturn this, until we have a movement that creates a whole different system.”

Dan Reed, the director of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, in a recent interview with , compared Michael Jackson to Jeffrey Epstein and, when it came to Jackson, bluntly said, "people just don't care." He is right. And the moment those words were posted, I knew that the arrows would likely start flying at Reed.

Osama Khalid was just twelve years old when he began contributing to Wikipedia Arabic. In the height of the blogging era, he became a prolific blogger, publishing writings on his home country of Saudi Arabia, meetups he attended, and his opinions and observations about open source technology and freedom of expression. He advocated for internet freedom, contributed time and translations to various projects-including EFF's HTTPS Everywhere -and was a thoughtful presence at the conferences he attended around the world...all while training to become a pediatrician.

The Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission, in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle, launched a 12-week Legal Career Pathway Program with a youth empowerment forum on May 8 in New Rochelle.

Just days before the conference was set to begin and as participants had begun to arrive in Lusaka, organizers that RightsCon would no longer proceed in Zambia or online after mounting political pressure and demands that would have excluded vulnerable communities and constrained discussion.

“When you speak about wanting changes for cleaner air, and you have a child who's impacted, it hits differently,” she told the magazine. “It's gut-wrenching, and knowing too that these data centers primarily are using fossil fuels. It's really disappointing and it's scary.”

Elghandour said the engineering school's dean, Alberto Cuiti&ntil;o, had informed him that he was no longer scheduled to give the commencement address after a "few" students told the administration they would not attend the graduation in protest of Elghandour's online advocacy for Palestinian rights.

In his nearly 300-page decision released Tuesday, Justice Clayton Conlan also noted that the actions or inactions of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) had "zero to do" with the guilt or innocence of Hamber and Cooney, who'd been trying to adopt the boys for years. Still, multiple observers say, the case raises concerns about the child protection system and has showcased systemic issues that need to be addressed immediately.

Amputee football, a seven-a-side version of the game in which players roam the field on crutches and goalkeepers have one arm, has grown steadily in Rwanda over the past decade. Players say they have found a community on the field after embracing a sport some never imagined they could play.

Dear Teresa, I'm sorry for not being home with you right now. Unfortunately your father, your mother, and so many people around the world understood the historical task that we have the responsibility to fulfil.

I wanted to start a series of documentaries that tell the stories of incredible black people who never really get to tell their stories.

From 1850 to 1887, the federal government forced Native Americans onto western reservations. Then, between 1896 and 1960, the government forcibly separated hundreds of thousands of Native American kids from their families and enrolled them into over 400 federal boarding schools across 37 states.

I was in a violent marriage for years. I was in and out of it. We had eight children together, so I would go back to him out of fear and wanting to get my children back.

Harm has been felt through the community, and it will not be ignored. The letters contained hateful and racist sentiments targeting the Black and African American community.

The tragic outcome we were all desperately hoping against has occurred, and no words can measure up to the immensity of the grief her family is going through, stated Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Punk is my way of letting it all out so I don't choke to death. It's my voice, Cilirio explained while waiting for the gunfire to subside near the favela where he grew up.

Neidi Dominguez, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, stated that they expect more than twice the number of May Day events than last year, indicating a significant increase in participation and activism.