Dolores Huerta, a founder of the UFW, helped expand the meaning of feminism. She showed that women’s equality could not be separated from the fight for fair wages, immigrant rights, racial justice, reproductive freedom and political power.
A new report details how immigration enforcement lowers wages and raises costs for working families, regardless of immigration status
The Minnesota movement still holds important lessons for those working to defend democracy in the Trump era.
Workers and community members gave public testimony at the Convergence for Democracy about the human rights violations they experienced during Operation Metro Surge.
'When I go to their house, they have to make sure it's me before they even go to the door,' Pastor Jean-Daniel Berard, who leads Passionate LightHouse of God, said of his church members. 'The fear is real.'
Masked agents use Milwaukee Police Department lot, conduct violent arrests.
A new documentary connects the life and music of the Depression-era singer-songwriter to today’s struggles for social justice, equality and immigrant rights.
In the throes of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration enforcement was becoming embedded within colleges, with little to no community oversight, legal transparency, or guardrails to protect students, faculty, or staff.
The answer is not just to get rid of an individual official. It's to insist on human rights for everyone, and to create a system in which punishment is not the central and defining feature of government for whole sectors of the U.S. population.
An effort by New Jersey Democrats is seen as a provocative statement of principle in a state with the country’s second largest percentage of immigrants, after California.
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