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Opening all Hearts: A Vigil for immigrants in a time of pandemic – June 10th
Bywebmaster June 10, 2020

Over two days from June 9th and 10th, Jesuit Ministries in Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma will host a virtual Vigil (a devotional watching or keeping awake in the Catholic tradition) calling for support of and financial relief for undocumented workers in Washington State during this time of COVID-19. This effort was initially conceived and supported…

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AMID PROTESTS, PHOENIX POLICE SWEPT UP IMMIGRANTS ON MISTAKEN CHARGES. NOW THEY FACE DEPORTATION.
Bywebmaster June 10, 2020

JESUS MANUEL ORONA PRIETO was downtown in Phoenix, Arizona, as demonstrators took to the streets on the night of May 30 decrying the police killings of George Floyd and other black people across the country. But he wasn’t protesting, according to his girlfriend, Corina Paez. They were on a date. Twenty-six-year-old Orona Prieto was playing…

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A POWERFUL PETROCHEMICAL LOBBYING GROUP ADVANCED ANTI-PROTEST LEGISLATION IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC
Bywebmaster June 10, 2020

ONE DAY AFTER West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s shelter-in-place orders went into effect, the governor quietly signed into law the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the law created new felony penalties for protest actions targeting oil and gas facilities, as the state continues to confront opposition to two massive…

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POLICE ATTACKS ON PROTESTERS ARE ROOTED IN A VIOLENT IDEOLOGY OF REACTIONARY GRIEVANCE
Bywebmaster June 10, 2020

Time and again, American law enforcement’s response to dissent has followed a pattern, German explained, with police cracking down on movements for racial, social, and environmental justice, while giving violent white nationalists who beat people in the street a free pass. “We already see that there is this dynamic where the police officers view people…

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Justice for the Reynolds 6
Bywebmaster June 10, 2020

A broad coalition is calling for justice for the Reynolds 6: Six men — Liban Adem, Isaiah Thomas, Daniel Kibby, Abdizikar Mohammed, Anthony Sams, and Zemetrious McNeal — who were kicked out of the Reynolds Work Training Release program by the Department of Corrections just days short of their release and sent back into prison. The…

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