From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): You can make a huge difference. Right now, your state representative is deciding how to vote on a bad budget bill (HB 542 ) that would put important environmental protections in major jeopardy. The … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): This weekend, we watched in horror as white supremacists and Nazis marched through the streets of Charlottesville, VA, inciting violence that caused the death of at least one peaceful anti-racism demonstrator. There’s no question that the … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/14/federal-agencies-warned-white-supremacist-threat-may Published on Monday, August 14, 2017 by Common Dreams A memo by the FBI and DHS said white supremacist groups pose a bigger threat to the U.S. than other extremist organizations By Julia Conley, staff writer White … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): Right now, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is under an immediate, existential threat. Ten attorneys general have threatened to sue President Trump if he doesn’t terminate the DACA program by September … Continued
JOB TYPE: Full Time PUBLISHED: 07/19/2017 ADDRESS: Harrisburg, PA, United States DESCRIPTION The ACLU of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) seeks a Campaign Director to lead its statewide multi-year Smart Justice campaign to drastically reduce the commonwealth’s jail and prison populations and to combat racial … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): On Saturday, August 12 in Charlottesville, Va., we saw the face of hate and racism on our streets. Neo-Nazis, the KKK and white supremacists of all kinds marched and brought violence to a town … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): As the GOP pushes to pass tax reform, policymakers will begin debating whether the corporate tax rate—which is set at 35 percent—is too high or too low. But in a new Economic Snapshot, EPI’s … Continued
From Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (http://www.papartnerships.org): Each year PPC releases county-based “State of the Child” profiles that provide a snapshot of child poverty, health care, educational opportunities and other important measures of children’s well-being in all 67 counties. Find statistics … Continued
(Criminal justice news deserving of an in-depth look.) How ‘smart’ are the arrangements behind predictive models and algorithms in city government? Photo via Flickr. Robert Brauneis (George Washington University Law School) and Ellen P. Goodman (Rutgers Law School): “Algorithmic Transparency … Continued
From Repairers of the Breach (http://www.breachrepairers.org/): Elected officials have been using fear of the stranger to ban Muslims and refugees, militarize our borders, and target black and brown immigrants (including children and families) for detention and deportation. As people of … Continued