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These Boricuas are calling out Promesa and making a different commitment
After such a long history of colonization disguised by pretty little myths and lies, we don’t believe their promises.
ReadHow Hillary Clinton Responds to People Who Bring Up the Coup in Honduras
“I’ll just keep talking,” she said, as activists raised the issue of murdered human rights defenders in Honduras.
ReadJacinta Gonzalez on Democracy Now: Arrested for Protesting The Trump Effect
On Saturday, March 19th, Mijente’s field director, Jacinta Gonzalez, was arrested during the #StopTrump protest that blocked roads leading to his rally in the neighborhood that is home to Sheriff Arpaio and other anti-immigrant officials.
Watch her interview on Democracy Now where she discusses the Trump effect on state policy, her arrest, and the subsequent racial profiling that led to her transfer to immigration authorities despite being a US citizen.
ReadTrump Protester Transferred to Immigration Authorities in Arizona
“As I was trying to defend my rights inside, I saw the faces of two children in one of the holding cell. We’re going to continue to fight, to say #Not1More, and Dump Trump.”
Read5 Electoral and Legislative Fights for Woke Latinxs to Watch this Spring (and their Hashtags)
March 15th, 2016When it comes to legislative and electoral politics, the result has been a new round of policy changes and electoral campaigns in 2016 proposing to make our communities unwelcoming to refugees, erase local protections for immigrants from raids and deportation, increase criminalization of immigration, and hyper-target non-citizens who have any encounter with law enforcement and can be labeled as “felons not families,” as President Obama so eloquently put it.
For your information and general planning this Spring, here is a list of the top 5 electoral and legislative fights to watch:
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