As the world faces an out of control diversion of energy and human recources into warmaking and with the United States planning a large costly upgrade of nuclear weaponry, Dr. Helfand will outline the work of Back from the Brink.
As the world faces an out-of-control diversion of energy and human resources into warmaking, and with United states planning a long and costly upgrade of nuclear weaponry , Dr. Helfand will outline the work from Back from the Brink. This organization brings communities together to prevent the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to our health, environment, and all we hold dear transmuting fear and anxiety over the threat of a nuclear holocaust into meaningful action.
Please join us on Tuesday, July 7 at 7:00 pm to hear from Attorney Brian Hoffman on the recent decisions on immigration issues made by SCOTUS which will greatly harm the immigrant community.
This article written by Jake Johnson reviewing the upscaling of ICE arrersts throughout the last week dismantles the White House claims to be targeting the “worst of the worst,”. Examplifying with available data with dtention cases such as the detention of a 56 year old kenyan nun on her way to church.
This Wola article is reviewing notable legal victories across the Americas: Mexico, Colombia and Brazil that show a positive trend of improved recognition about gender and sexuality based violence in those counteries...
Rev. Melanie Oommen who is he Minister for Committee on Ministry Development and Leadership with the Ministerial Excellence, Support and Authorization (MESA) Team in the National Ministries of the United Church of Christ is expressing her distress over the Supreme court decision from June 25 that courts should have no say in issues regarding the elongation or cancellation of Temporary porotected status, and wehat consquences that will have on th multicultural nature of the united church of christ's local congregations.
This article by the American Immigration Council serves as a comment criticizing deliberate DHS practices deterring immigrants from going the legal route of seeking asylum at official ports of entry. The practice most elaborately explored here that goes by the name of 'metereing', in which customs officers would stand at the border line and physically block arriving migrants from stepping onto U.S. soil, is here being explained as on one hand deliberate in its purpose for agency's like CBP and on the ortgher hand crucial in its consequences, pushing immigrants trying to immigrate in the most lawful way possible into migration between points of entry.
With burning incense, flowers and tears, Indigenous Maya Guatemalans on Monday buried the remains of 68 victims of the country's civil war years after they were unearthed in mass graves.
In the weeks leading up to the 17th anniversary of the 2009 coup in Honduras, dozens of social movements and grassroots organizations are coordinating press conferences, collecting signatures, blocking roads, and demonstrating in front of the Supreme Court. All of these actions aim to denounce a series of laws that promote and prioritize large-scale private investment in the agribusiness, tourism, and energy sectors, which they claim are returning Honduras to the narco-dictatorship that followed the coup (2009-2022). The resistance of these movements is directly linked to the intensification of US intervention in Honduras.
This article by Honduras Now, attempting to make sense of the current political shifts in Honduras, reviews the political developments from the military coup in 2009 to the imminent developments resembling post coup narco dictatorship, restoring right wing policies and thus becoming yet another functionair fostering trump administrations agenda in central america.
