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Maria Inés Taracena

May 17, 2016

Immigration Rights Group Wants Joe Arpaio Arrested for Contempt of Court in Racial Profiling Case

Migrant justice organization Puente Human Rights Movement is demanding a federal judge to charge Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio with criminal contempt of court in a case that proved the sheriff's...

Bruce Finley

May 15, 2016

Hundreds Swarm BLM Auction in Lakewood to Protest Oil, Gas Drilling

LAKEWOOD — Hundreds of Leave It In The Ground demonstrators demanding a tougher response to climate change swarmed a federal public lands auction Thursday and set up a blockade to...

Aricka Flowers

May 9, 2016

Chicago Housing, Police Accountability Advocates Picket Emanuel Fundraiser Over CHA Practices

Police accountability and housing activists are pushing back against city government as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attempts to replenish his campaign coffers at his first fundraiser since the Laquan McDonald...

Migrant Justice

May 4, 2016

Movement to #FreeVictor Secures Human Rights Leader's Release From Immigration Custody

Vermont human rights leader Victor Diaz was ordered released this morning by Judge Paul M. Gagnon at the Boston Immigration Court. Judge Gagnon set bond at $1,500, the lowest level...

Resist Staff

May 3, 2016

“Frontlines of Crises, Forefront of Change”

If you were one of the 300,000 people that marched through the streets of New York City in September of 2014 at the People’s Climate March (or if you read...

Desiree Kane

May 3, 2016

Activists Call for Inclusion of Rights of Indigenous Peoples in UN Climate Agreement

Indigenous leaders, activists, and their allies gathered along the banks of Bassin de la Villette, Paris’s largest man-made lake, as 25 Indigenous activists from North and South America formed a...

Julian Matthews and Saif Rahman

May 3, 2016

“The People” United Can Stop ExxonMobil

Editor’s Note: Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment is a new Resist grantee that is bravely standing up to one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. Once we...

Adriana Candelaria

May 3, 2016

One Organization Works with Border Patrol Agency to Prevent Migrant Deaths

An organization in Falfurrias continues to help families in other countries find their immigrant family members. The South Texas Human Rights Center also works with Border Patrol to prevent migrant...

Patricia Corrigan

April 29, 2016

Protest Planned for LGBTQ Film Festival Over Israeli Backing

Pro-Palestinian activists in the Bay Area will protest in June at Frameline40, San Francisco’s LGBTQ international film festival, because organizers will continue to accept financial support from foreign governments —...

Christina Fialho

April 26, 2016

Poetry Book Fights Isolation in Immigration Detention

Isolation is the key component of oppression. Throughout history, the voices of those who have been colonized, exploited, and marginalized are rarely heard because those who are in power develop...

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Immigration Rights Group Wants Joe Arpaio Arrested for Contempt of Court in Racial Profiling Case

Hundreds Swarm BLM Auction in Lakewood to Protest Oil, Gas Drilling

Chicago Housing, Police Accountability Advocates Picket Emanuel Fundraiser Over CHA Practices

Movement to #FreeVictor Secures Human Rights Leader's Release From Immigration Custody

“Frontlines of Crises, Forefront of Change”

Activists Call for Inclusion of Rights of Indigenous Peoples in UN Climate Agreement

“The People” United Can Stop ExxonMobil

One Organization Works with Border Patrol Agency to Prevent Migrant Deaths

Protest Planned for LGBTQ Film Festival Over Israeli Backing

Poetry Book Fights Isolation in Immigration Detention

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