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Sanctuary Cities Join Forces in First Meeting of Its Kind
On Monday, March 27, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions reiterated Trump’s threats to cut funding to sanctuary cities, local elected officials from across the country gathered to plan how we can fight back together. Seeking Sanctuary: Municipal Policy to Confront Mass Deportation and Criminalization, a national convening hosted by Local Progress, Center for Popular…
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Trump takes aim at 'sanctuary cities' with a proposal to cut more than $200 million in local funds – LA Times
Buried in President Trump’s budget proposal is an opening salvo against so-called sanctuary cities, local jurisdictions that he promised to punish for refusing to cooperate with deportation officers.
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Tiny Town in the Heartland Creates Homegrown Sanctuary by Bian Elkhatib — YES! Magazine
Residents of Iowa’s first Hispanic-majority town don’t need sanctuary city policies to support their immigrant neighbors.
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Experts warn 800 species, many endangered, affected by border wall
Mexico is home to 10 percent of all land species known to science, many of which are shared across North America.
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Theatres to screen Orwell's 1984 to protest Trump | News | Al Jazeera
Nearly 200 cinemas will show the film version of the dystopian classic on Tuesday to encourage political conversation.
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Automakers Urge Trump to Undo One of America’s Biggest CO2 Reductions to Date
Twelve automakers sacrifice the future by urging Pres. Trump to lower fuel-economy standards, which might be the single largest CO2 reduction in U.S. history
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The Superrich Have Profited From a Broken System—And Their Money Alone Won’t Fix It
Giving back requires humility. It will be a true test of learning new skills. Congratulations, you won—you are the last and richest person on Earth. In the security of your sunless underground bunker, you will be the last to die in a dying Earth’s paroxysm of fire and flood.
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How Chicago Became the First City to Make Reparations to Victims of Police Violence by Yana Kunichoff and Sarah Macaraeg — YES! Magazine
The ordinance provides a meaningful model for creating reparations at the local level.
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No surprise. State Department will approve construction of Keystone XL pipeline, probably on Monday
The move by the State Department comes 16 months after Obama blocked construction of the 1,200-mile pipeline, which would ship crude from Canada’s western oil-sands region to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
