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Politics

Testimonio — Natalia

Laundry Workers Center

May 2, 2017 • by International Women's Strike NYC

Click here for the English version. “El primero de mayo, no voy a asistir al trabajo para demostrarles que, sin nosotros, los hispanos, en este país no son nada.” Mi nombre es “Natalia.” Nací en Querétaro y ahora vivo en Nueva York. Me mudé a los Estados Unidos en el 2007. Mi ...

Education

The New School as a Sanctuary Campus

Taking a stance and making our campuses accessible, safe, and truly open

April 28, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Since the election of Donald Trump, like hundreds of universities across the country, The New School has been mobilized. Following the Executive Orders on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements and Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States in January of 2017, faculty, students and staff ...

Multi Media

DC March for Science

April 22nd 2017

April 28, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

One of several hundred marches around the world, the March for Science in DC attracted about 20,000 participants despite a steady rain. People packed the Mall around the Washington Monument in the morning to listen to speakers and entertainers before marching off to the Capitol in the afternoon. Before the ...

Feature

Trump – Show your Taxes

Washington D.C. Protest on April 15th

April 26, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Several thousand protesters gathered on the west lawn of the Capitol on April 15 to demand that President Trump release his tax returns. The DC rally was one of many such protests held around the country on the traditional day for filing income taxes. Organized by several progressive groups, the ...

Feature

Venezuela Under Dictatorship

An urgent note regarding recent developments in Venezuela

April 25, 2017 • by Ricardo Isea

After several months of political apathy, Venezuela is experiencing a massive popular uprising since April 4th. Over the last three weeks, almost daily, a wave of mass anti-government protests has exploded in major cities of the country, reaching its zenith on April 19. Hundreds of thousands of people have poured ...

Feature

In Defense of Sanctuary

The negation of a movement

April 17, 2017 • by Abou Farman

As the lights went out on the administration’s anti-healthcare initiative, Jeff Sessions, like the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, made a sudden appearance out from the darkness to train the spotlight once more onto sanctuary cities and bark about their criminal inhabitants, otherwise known as immigrants. Sanctuary policies, he claimed, ...

Multi Media

Pink Out the Capital

April 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 500 women and a few men gathered on the east lawn of the US Capital building on March 29 to declare that "I Stand With Planned Parenthood." The Senate was due to vote on a resolution to permit the states to deny federal family planning funds to health care ...