Tag: immigrants
Nationwide ‘close the camps’ demonstrations announced to protest horrific conditions at...
"We need to fight for immigrant families and stop Donald Trump's racist policies, and we can only do it together."
20 ways you can help immigrants now
Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says...
How the disappearance of immigrant workers created a movement in a...
This rural community might have agreed with Trump’s anti-immigration policies on paper. But it could not abide their neighbors being taken away.
Democratic Senators call for investigation into deaths of detained migrant children
"Unless we truly understand what happened in these tragedies, we cannot fix what went wrong and put the correct policies in place so that it never happens again.”
‘Invasion’ by caravan and the future of mass migration
One thing we can be sure of is that the mainstream corporate press has no interest in covering these issues at all, at least until they can no longer be ignored.
How Yemeni immigrant activists in NYC are changing a whole community’s...
This change, of course, has added a new and different dynamic to the community and, some have surmised, was one of the reasons the bodega strike was unlike anything the Yemeni community expected or experienced prior.
From farm to table, women in the US food system are...
The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.
Unions can protect workers from deportation. This coalition of 3.5 million...
The Teamsters is one of the labor unions taking a stand to protect TPS holders with the message that immigrant rights are worker rights.
Three easy fixes to Social Security and Medicare that Republicans don’t...
Instead of shutting immigrants out, allowing more immigrants into the country will help secure the future of Social Security and Medicare.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, October 10
Judge throws out felony charges against climate deniers, the top immigrant-friendly cities in the United States, Nikki Haley resigns as UN ambassador, and more.
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‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society organizations
From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
Facing Trump’s America
As we experience Donald Trump’s twenty-first-century version of White nationalism, how we dealt with that difficult past should help us remember that we lived through terrible times by confronting them and that we can do so again.
‘Zero care left’: UN says Israel has destroyed Gaza’s last hospital amid mass graves...
Mass graves, targeted killings of medics, and relentless hospital bombings mark the collapse of Gaza’s health system under Israeli siege, UN and forensic reports confirm.
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and climate risks
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.