Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates

Alum Jada-Amina Named Lead Curator of Black Harvest Film Festival — Read on http://www.saic.edu/news/jada-amina-named-curator-black-harvest-film-festivak

Conservation Protected Areas Are a Disaster for Indigenous People — Read on foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/01/western-nonprofits-african-rights-land/

SF Chronicle staffers will be picketing outside at noon, pushing the management to sign a union contract after negotiations have stalled. — Read on missionlocal.org/2023/05/san-francisco-chronicle-writers-walk-off-the-job-in-lunch-out/

MSF teams are providing medical aid to people who were seeking safety in Europe, but instead found violence and inhumane treatment — Read on msf.org.uk/article/eu-migration-four-deadly-policies-being-pushed-european-leaders

Asylum seekers who come to ports of entry are supposed to be screened under the new, restrictive asylum rule, according to the Department of Homeland Security — Read on http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2023-05-20/border-asylum-seekers-turn-backs-ports

Prior to the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a state agent, I was aware of people and organizations that described themselves as abolitionists, but promoted policies and goals that contradicted abolition. Abolition and Co-optation

City council to vote on giving taxpayer money to controversial project as state characterizes opposition as work of ‘terrorists’ — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/20/atlanta-city-council-cop-city-funding-vote

The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody says agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk. Mabel Alvarez Benedicks said in an emotional phone interview Friday with The Associated Press that authorities decidedContinue reading “Mother of 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody says pleas for hospital care were denied | AP News”