Come Oct. 2, immigrants and foreign nationals in the United States will have to pay substantially more in fees to apply for many immigration and naturalization benefit requests. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published this week a final rule in the Federal Register that details … [Read more...]
Court Case Against Trump Immigration And Visa Ban Moves Forward
On April 22, 2020, Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation to “suspend” the entry of nearly all immigrants to the United States. If the entry bans in the presidential proclamation continues, which might be for another four years if Trump is reelected, then virtually no employment-based or … [Read more...]
Global Food Output Runs Into Migrant Worker Woes
Groups like the Yakima, Washington-based Northwest Horticultural Council are saying they can’t find enough people to pick fruit. The heavily agricultural area has been the epicenter of a breakout in the state. Covid-19 safeguards designed to protect workers have also made it impossible for some … [Read more...]
Fewer COVID-19 cases in agriculture in Yakima County, but advocates remain concerned
Farmworker advocates still feel there is cause for concern, namely because farmworkers, especially foreign guest workers, might not feel comfortable speaking out about safety concerns. During the peak harvest season, the Northwest Justice Project’s farmworker unit does a robust outreach to … [Read more...]
Seattle City Council expected to approve controversial cuts to SPD
Despite pushback from Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, Police Chief Carmen Best, police unions and thousands of pro-police community members and concerned residents, the Seattle City Council is expected to approve initial cuts to the Seattle Police Department in a final vote on its 2020 re-balancing … [Read more...]
‘Not A Person Whatsoever’: Michigan County Official Defends Use Of N-Word Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email
A county official in Michigan is defending his use of the N-word — by repeatedly saying the slur, and insisting that it does not imply he is a racist. Leelanau County Road Commissioner Tom Eckerle has been facing calls to resign since Tuesday, when he reportedly used one of the most taboo words … [Read more...]
Obama Used His John Lewis Eulogy To Condemn Trump’s Response To The Portland Protests
Barack Obama used his eulogy at the funeral for Rep. John Lewis on Thursday to compare President Donald Trump's sending of federal officers to quash protests in Portland, Oregon, to the tactics of George Wallace, the segregationist Alabama governor who sent state troopers to violently break up … [Read more...]
Portland protesters set police building on fire and clash with authorities
Seneca Cayson, a black business owner who helped lead peaceful gatherings in downtown Portland, worries that incidents of vandalism and taunting of law enforcement by a tiny minority of the many thousands of white protesters turning out distracts from the main aims of the Black Lives Matter … [Read more...]
Social and Environmental Justice Activists React to EU Farm to Fork Strategy
The European Commission launched a new Farm to Fork strategy in an effort to reduce the social and environmental impact of the European food system. It is the newest strategy under the European Green Deal, setting sustainability targets for farmers, consumers, and policymakers. "Farmers are … [Read more...]
Indigenous Peoples Hold the Past and Future of Food in Their Hands
August 9 is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples – a celebration of the uniqueness of the traditions of Quechua, Huli, Zapotec, and thousands of other cultures, but also of the universality of potatoes, bananas, beans, and the rest of the foods that nourish the world. These crops … [Read more...]
Court issues mixed ruling on DAPL, letting the pipeline stay open during appeal
A federal appeals court gave Dakota Access a green light Wednesday, Aug. 5, to keep running its pipeline during a long appeals process, granting temporary relief to a North Dakota oil industry that was bracing for the costs of a sudden shutdown. In a much-anticipated decision, a … [Read more...]
Youth-Led Sunrise Movement for Climate Justice Guidance for Age 35+Supporters
We at Sunrise, we know that everyone has something to lose to the climate crisis and everything to gain by stopping it. We deeply respect and appreciate the wisdom, experience, and support of our elders in the organizing community and understand that we can learn a lot about social movements, … [Read more...]
Misleading Name for Anti-Muslim Group: “Alliance of Persecuted People Worldwide” (APPWW).
An important notice from Elizabeth Maupin of the IssaquahSammamishInterfaithCoalition, Friends, deception is a major issue in our times. Sometimes we are presented with legislation with misleading titles, and sometimes with organizations with misleading names. One of those organizations is a … [Read more...]
Interior Department appeals June ruling over Wampanoag land
The Department of the Interior is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that the department incorrectly found that the tribe did not qualify for land-in-trust status. . . . U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman, at the time, said that the department’s 2018 decision that the tribe was not under … [Read more...]
A BAIL REFORM TOOL INTENDED TO CURB MASS INCARCERATION HAS ONLY REPLICATED BIASES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
In 2011, as part of a criminal justice reform package meant to reduce incarceration and its related expenditures, Kentucky became among the first states to require judges to use a risk assessment as part of their pretrial decisions. Similar risk assessments have since proliferated across the country … [Read more...]
HALF OF OKLAHOMA IS “INDIAN COUNTRY.” WHAT IF ALL NATIVE TREATIES WERE UPHELD?
THE U.S. SUPREME Court issued a decision last week that altered the map of Oklahoma. The eastern half of the state, including much of Tulsa, is now, for legal purposes, Indian country. The Supreme Court decision was uncommon — Indigenous people have seen few victories so sweeping in the high court — … [Read more...]
Great Plains Tribes Win Important Legal Fight to Protect Tribal Water and Treaty Resources
NCAI Press Release: The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association (GPTCA), the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and the National Congress of American Indians Fund (NCAI Fund) applaud the D.C. District Court’s decision today to vacate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Oahe easement for … [Read more...]
Advance Notice of Webinars for the Greenhouse Gas Assessment for Projects (GAP) Rulemaking
We will be holding six webinars from June through November 2020 for the Greenhouse Gas Assessment for Projects (GAP) rulemaking. The webinars will be focused on specific topics described in the table below. Each webinar will include a 30-45 minute presentation by Ecology on the topic. Then there … [Read more...]
Washington river dam demolished to open miles of salmon habitat
Crews demolished a river dam in Northwest Washington to clear the way for salmon to reach critical habitat. It’s an explosion years in the making. The blast near Bellingham will make the Middle Fork Nooksack River free flowing for the first time in more than five decades. Read more here. … [Read more...]
26 Organizations Working to Conserve Seed Biodiversity
Collecting and organizing genetic diversity as a conservation strategy emergedin the 1960s and now plays an important role in ensuring the world's collective food security. Seed saving organizations have helped secure over 100,000 seedsduring wartime in Syria, preserve 13 million seeds from over 70 … [Read more...]
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