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January 18, 2020

The Virginia Gun Rights Rally Raising Fears of Violence.

Jane Coaston Vox

Why an annual Lobby Day has resulted in a state of emergency and online calls for a civil war.

January 18, 2020

Planned State Voter Purge will Negatively Impact the Black Vote

MCJ Editorial Staff Milwaukee Community Journal

A voter purge in Wisconsin will disproportionately impact black voters, undermining the right to vote.

January 18, 2020

The Drive to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment, Explained

Anna North Vox

Virginia has voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Although obstacles still exist, it bolsters activism for gender equality. And it marks a profound change in Virginia, a state that in the past had often been on the wrong side of history.

January 18, 2020

Hindu Nationalists are Transforming India into an Israel-style Ethnostate

Abdulla Moaswes +972 Magazine

Indians protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act

The Citizenship Amendment Act is the latest repressive step the Indian government has taken against the country’s Muslim minority. By making religion a condition of citizenship, the act is devised to transform India into a Hindutva version of Israel.

January 18, 2020

‘We Are Still Here’: Native Americans Fight to be Counted in US Census

Rebecca Nagle The Guardian

Lizzy Hawley and her sister Ella Hawley in Kivalina, Alaska.

For Native Americans, the census ‘impacts everything,’ from federal funding to political representation. But Native Americans have historically been undercounted; an estimated one in seven Native Americans were not counted in the 2010 US census.

January 17, 2020