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Trump Digs In On Separatng Families Why Trump is digging in on separating families at the border. CNN: "Logic suggests that the White House, under crushing political pressure, would be forced to back down on its hardline immigration policy amid outrage over searing...
Children Say NO! to Family Separations by ICE
Every child understands the pain losing one’s loved ones – even for a moment – can cause. So children have plenty to say about the U.S. government’s separation of thousands of migrant families, with no promise to parents or children they’ll ever see each other again....
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Father's Day Vigil At McAllen Detention Center Groups demand Trump administration end separation of families during McAllen vigil. KCBS: "Families from across the Rio Grande Valley made their voices heard during a vigil in McAllen on Sunday afternoon. Several groups...
Where’s that $4,000 Raise the GOP Promised Workers?
When Republicans in Congress passed a big, fat tax break bill in December, they insisted it meant American workers would be singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” all the way to the bank. The payoff from the tax cut would be raises totaling $4,000 to $9,000, the...
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Protests Against Family Separations Spread Nationwide Marches Across the U.S. Protest Separation of Migrant Families. NYT: "Demonstrators in Los Angeles were joined by activists in dozens of other cities across the country on Thursday evening to protest the separation...
Why I’m Going to the Border for Father’s Day
As more reports surface of children seeking asylum at our borders being separated from their parents, there has been much consideration of the impact and effect on children. As Father’s Day approaches, I can’t help but wonder how I would cope if my daughter was taken...
Wage Theft: To Fight the Crime, Address the Motive
The American economy rests ultimately on trust, a mutual understanding between employers and employees that each side, in the end, will behave honorably. A fair day’s wage, as the classic formulation puts it, for a fair day’s work. This covenant gets broken, of...
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DC Civil Disobedience To Protest DHS Child Arrests Democrats shut down Pennsylvania Ave to protest Trump’s child separation policy. ThinkProgress: "Several members of Congress risked arrest Wednesday as they protested the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance”...
SCOTUS Just Took Away Your Right to Vote. Did You Notice?
The Supreme Court just gave a green light to racist voter purges. Their 5-4 decision to allow Ohio to take any voter off the rolls who hasn’t voted in two years and doesn’t return a postcard mailed to their house hands a dangerous new tool to the enemies of democracy...
Congress Hosts Charter Schools Roadshow, Ignores Black Parent
One of the more disturbing aspects of the push to create more charter schools was on full display during a Congressional hearing this week when charter proponents stacked the agenda with biased testimony and completely ignored the lone witness who could attest...
