Racial and Gender Justice
Working to combat economic inequality, achieve climate justice, and build peace requires solutions designed to dismantle systemic racism and patriarchy. That’s why all of our projects seek to intersect and achieve justice across gender diversity, and race, in addition to class.
Latest Work
Report: the Detention Drain
The Detention Drain: How Immigration Detention Hurts New Mexico's Economy Karla Molinar Arvizo Introduction: The criminalization of immigration through policies like President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy have swelled the numbers of people in U.S. detention...
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400 Years After Slavery, No More Band-Aids
It’s time to heal the deep wounds of racism — not only to ensure equity for African Americans, but for our entire economy.
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What It’s Like to Grow Up Hunted
When I was just 10, I already knew what it was like to plan for a future without my parents.
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Trump’s Public Charge Rule Is an Attack on Legal Immigrants
After demonizing undocumented immigration, Trump’s new public charge rule targets legal immigrants on the basis of income and race.
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Mass Shootings, Economic Inequality, and a Racist President
Three mass shootings in one week, homelessness abound, and a liar who hurls racist rhetoric from the White House stoop. America needs a course correction.
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For True Climate Justice, Abolish ICE and CBP
Lawmakers say frontline communities should be at the heart of the Green New Deal. They must include current and future undocumented immigrants.
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US Jews on Trump’s Camps: ‘Never again’
I’m not saying the events of the Holocaust are repeating themselves right now. I’m saying that, as a Jew, I carry with me the memory of what can happen when everyday people allow our leaders to scapegoat an entire community.
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In the US Killing Fields, We’re Way Past ‘Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough’
The mass shootings aren’t just symptoms of guns or mental illness, but also of Trump promoting and encouraging white supremacy, racism, and xenophobia.
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The GOP’s Sinister New Nationalism
The party’s assault on “globalists” and “cosmopolitans” pushes against internationalism when it’s needed most.
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What ‘Abolish Ice’ Really Means
It’s about asking whether we need an immigration system that terrorizes the least dangerous people in this country.
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