Student demonstrators Reflect on RNC, Gear up for DNC
NORWALK — It took the death of her 16-year-old brother for her parents to obtain residency here. Her father, from Ecuador, and mother, from Mexico, were undocumented immigrants struggling to...
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How a Queer Liberation Collective has Stayed Radical for Almost 40 Years
On May 22, some 80 people filed into a press event for the largest gay culture event in the world, the Frameline Film Festival, held every June in San Francisco...
Area immigrants add voices outside RNC
A microphone was thrust into his hands, and for one bright moment, the words he yelled were chanted hundreds of times over, the sounds reverberating in the air and echoing...
Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now
"Back when we started, recruiters were just blatantly lying to the kids," said Susan Quinlan, the co-founder and volunteer coordinator of the peace and justice group, Better Alternatives for Youth–Peace...
Resist Expanding Emergency Grants #BlackLivesMatter
"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people." - Huey Newton Dear Resist Community, In the wake of bombs and bullets that have...
1,000 Activists March In Flatbush For Racial Justice
On the one year anniversary of Sandra Bland, a Texas woman killed in police custody, nearly 1,000 activists took to the streets of Flatbush Wednesday night to demand justice for...
Black, Old and Locked Up
The research dates back more than a decade: Americans are aging in prison. But what has been done about reducing the elderly population in prison or what to do with...
‘Black Lives Matter’ Is More Than A Hashtag in West Hartford Monday
DeLisa Dixon turned to social media to help process her grief over recent shootings and violence directed at black people. After waking up to news of a second day of...
In Wake Of Police Shootings, Group Marches In Hartford
Bishop John Selders woke up Thursday morning to learn that halfway across the country a police officer had reportedly shot a black man dead. The second time in a week...
Why Philly is holding kids on $500,000 bail
Though he had no record, and was 15 years old, he was charged in adult court. Bail was set at $75,000. The required 10 percent of that, $7,500, was more...