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End Law Enforcement Violence Against Trans Women

The federal government has designated the Santa Ana City Jail in California as the ideal site nationally to imprison transgender immigrant women. But if this is the best we can...

Beyond Toxics Celebrates 15 Years of Enviro Activism

On the corner of Lawrence Street sits a tiny white building that houses feisty nonprofit Beyond Toxics, which has advocated for environmental and social justice reforms in the state of...

Growing up in Compton: A Woman’s Story

I grew up in Compton, California, a city where law enforcement was not on your side. I can remember times when our house would get shot up and my mother...

James Ridgeway’s Solitary Reporting

Prison officials rarely allow journalists to walk through their prisons, and even rarer is the warden who lets a reporter into his solitary-confinement unit. The voices of the men and...

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