Earlier this week housing rights advocates from eight different cities met with Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) in Washington, D.C. to voice their opposition to a bill that they say would privatize the nation’s public housing and push what they see as alternatives. Members from the Right to the City alliance, a [...]
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Video-Blogging a Week of Action With the Trail of Dreams
I was invited by SEIU to Washington, D.C. to support the last phase of the Trail of Dreams, a historical 1,500-mile walk undertaken by four immigrant students from Florida to give the undocumented youth a voice. My trip started with a bang on April 27, since on that day the controversial SB 1070 bill in [...]
Immigrant Risks Deportation to Stop Sexual Assault by Cop
Half-a-dozen women have come forward accusing Michael Jackson, a police officer in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (also the district where a school secretary was fired for translating for parents), of sexually assaulting them while on the job. The trigger for all these women coming forward? Abel Moreno, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, called 911 when the officer started [...]









