Not Enough Color In American Art Museums
The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum’s African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an...
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The Resistance is Winning and...
...You Are Fueling It Dear Resister, We've endured over a year of Trump together, with plenty of fight still in us. Muslims were targeted, young Dreamers faced deportation, white supremacists...
Yesterday's April Fool's Email...No, We Are Not Changing Our Name!
...You Are Fueling It Dear Resister, We've endured over a year of Trump together, with plenty of fight still in us. Muslims were targeted, young Dreamers faced deportation, white supremacists...
Announcement! Resist is Changing Our Name
Dear Resist Community, Fifty years ago a group of brave individuals came together, drew up a plan to support the resistance to the Vietnam war, and founded this organization in...
Experts concerned Contra Costa sheriff tipping off ICE by posting release dates of detained immigrants
In early March, Sheriff David Livingston banned volunteers from CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) from entering the West Contra Costa jail, alleging it “poses a security and...
From Chiapas to El Barrio, Connecting Global Women’s Struggles
Led primarily by immigrant women, Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB) is a grassroots community organization based in East Harlem. Since 2004, the organization has been leading the fight...
Civic Groups File Suit Against Orleans Parish Sheriff
On March 14, the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Committee (OPPRC) and other local groups filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Marlin Gusman, Darnley R. Hodge, Jared E. Munster, and the city...
Rally-goers Protest Trump Budget, Aim to Protect Housing
More than 40 people gathered in front of the Tip O’Neill Federal Building Friday afternoon, despite below-freezing wind chill and light snow, to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed 2019 budget...
Demonstrators call on Faso to protect Dreamers
This afternoon, local organization Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson and allies held a protest at Congressman John Faso’s office in Kingston. The protest called on John Faso and Congress to pass a...
On DACA Expiration Date, Connecticut Immigrant Youth Say "Enough Is Enough"
With the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in limbo, dozens of undocumented Connecticut young people and supporters gathered at the Capitol to demand that lawmakers take...