https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/united-nations-u-s-is-violating-human-rights-1249135171882 MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell, The Last Word: “At the order of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, children are separated at the border from their parents and are being put in cages in detention centers.” The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that this new immigration practice (never done before under previous… Read More UN: US is Violating Human Rights

twitter.com/jeffmerkley/status/1004182037132136449 Sen. Jeff Merkely (Dem) Oregon, visited a border detention center in McAllen, Texas. Families, mothers with babies, and children separated from their parents were kept in cages; toddlers as young as 4 or 5 and older children were held without their parents in cages that looked like dog kennels. Three hundred of the five… Read More Children in Cages, Concentration Camps

Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission… The United States Supreme Court has just ruled that it is LEGAL for the owner of a private business, otherwise open to serving the public, to refuse to serve a gay (queer, trans, etc) person based on the business owner’s religious beliefs. There’s a lot more legal… Read More 7 to 2: No Cake for You, Faggot

How Cooperation Richmond is empowering marginalized communities to build an equitable economy Cooperation Richmond is a really good example of what we call trans-local organizing — autonomist, place-based organizing with a unifying vision, shared strategies, and common frames. We are connected with many other organizations who are doing or supporting cooperative development and who are… Read More Eco-Democracy: Cooperation Richmond

I want to participate in Families Belong Together: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/families-belong-together Marches, vigils, and rallies currently taking place in 43 states and over 1,200 cities on June 14th, 2018. Families Belong Together opposes the cruel, inhumane and unjustified separation of children from their parents along the U.S. border with Mexico and at other ports of entry into the… Read More June 14th: Families Belong Together

Guardian: UN: US inequality reaching a dangerous level due to Trump’s ‘cruel’ measures At the other end of the spectrum, 40 million Americans live in poverty. More than five million eek out an existence amid the kind of absolute deprivation normally associated with the developing world. Scorching report on poverty finds ‘systematic attack on welfare… Read More Welcome to Trumpistan

150 More Photos: Inside Border Patrol’s Detention Centers: posted by Russ Kick @ AltGov2 @thememoryhole2 In 2016, a court unsealed photos & video frames from inside Border Patrol’s holding facilities for immigrants. The public had never seen the inside of these places before. Media outlets ran only a few images, so I posted all 190. The facilities are… Read More Migrant Families on ICE