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A dream does not automatically lead to its realization — but much of what we know as reality today began as a dream in the minds and hearts of particularly sensitive people. Martin Luther King had a dream, John Lennon imagined something, and our author, too, does not want to settle for a deeply flawed status quo. “Keep dreaming!” We can repeat this call: Let's keep dreaming!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2025 10:48am PDT
“I have a dream.” Martin Luther King spoke these words almost 60 years ago at the March on Washington. He outlined a vision for the future of the United States. Isn't it high time to create new visions for the future and summarize them under the heading “I have a dream”? In our present day, many things have gone off the rails. Countless injustices burden our lives....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2025 12:55am PDT
September 11, 2025 - The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today denounced the Senate Education Committee’s vote advancing AB 715 (Zbur & Addis) and reiterated its strong opposition to the bill....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 11:40am PDT
AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 6:18pm PDT
Florence, AZ, September 4, 2025 — The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and Detention Watch Network are mourning the tragic loss of Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, affectionately known as "Lenchito,” a beloved son, brother, and friend who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on Sunday, August 31, 2025. ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, Arizona and has reported that the cause of his death is currently unk...
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2025 1:32pm PDT
ICE detention, the largest detention system in the world, will double capacity to detain more than 100,000 people this year...
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2025 6:10pm PDT
Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as a crime, will make homelessness worse...
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2025 10:49pm PDT
In March 2025, a local chapter of the Proud Boys in Kentucky, known as the “Green River” Proud Boys, announced their plans to host a summer gathering on July 5th to commemorate the one-year anniversary of their founding, declaring it would become an annual event....
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2025 8:08pm PDT
okmana is a record & resource for subversion & resistance to oppression in the ohi:yo' valley....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2025 6:24am PDT
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2025 4:02am PDT
FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
In this column, It's Going Down presents a monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:56am PDT
Residents of the Cincinnati area confronted an armed hate group waving Nazi flags on a highway overpass. When confronted by the people, the nazis fled in a U-Haul.
video: 1m 27s...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2025 1:54am PST
Palestine Legal: Trump's Executive Order Aims to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, Promotes Anti-Palestinian Discrimination...
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2025 1:59pm PST
The journalist, human rights defender and founder of the media platform “Electronic Intifada” was violently and forcibly taken by two individuals in civilian dress, who claimed to be police, but refused to identify themselves, when he was walking on the streets of Zurich this afternoon. They refused to disclose alleged grounds for sequestring him and where they would take him. Abunimah was scheduled to speak this afternoon at a teach-in on the history of Palestine, organised by local groups. ...
Posted: Sun, Jan 26, 2025 2:22pm PST
Protect the decent and hardworking members of your communities who are undocumented or whose parents are undocumented
This is an urgent moral call to action. As Donald Trump’s Ice begins roundups and deportations, many good people are endangered and understandably frightened. One of Trump’s new executive orders allows Ice to arrest undocumented immigrants....
Posted: Sun, Jan 26, 2025 4:03am PST
Leonard Peltier’s sentence is commuted! On such a dark day for the US, a bit of good news. Hope he is home very soon....
Posted: Mon, Jan 20, 2025 11:45am PST
The reelection of Donald Trump has raised concerns for those who remember the heightened climate of fear and hostility that followed his first election in 2016. Under his presidency, we witnessed rampant Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism, which fueled one of the largest waves of hate targeting American Muslims in the last 30 years. The next four years will be a challenge. We must brace ourselves for the resurgence of discriminatory policies and attacks on our freedoms; but CAIR-LA is commi...
Posted: Sat, Jan 18, 2025 9:36pm PST
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Posted: Thu, Jan 16, 2025 2:16pm PST
“Our courageous staff members in Gaza witness daily horrors and continue to provide vital support despite Israel’s relentless attacks on their homes and families,” said Joyce Ajlouny. “Our ad campaign aims to shed light on these atrocities while urging people in the U.S. to pressure the President and Congress to halt weapons shipments to Israel and advocate for an end to the genocide.”...
Posted: Thu, Jan 9, 2025 6:10am PST