New York City Bodegas Will Shut Down To Protest The Immigration Ban
Days after New York City cab drivers went on strike to protest President Trump’s executive order on immigration, another community of immigrants central to the life of the city are planning a strike of their own. Bodega owners — a trade where Yemeni Americans are well represented in New York City — plan to close […]
New York Taxi Workers Alliance: When “rhetoric of hate is spewed from the bully pulpit, hate crimes increase”
On Saturday night, January 28, thousands of people demonstrated at the JFK Airport in Brooklyn, New York against Trump’s executive order to ban Muslims from traveling to the United States. To show their support for the protests, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance refused to pick up passengers while the protests were going on and they […]
Don’t Think It Can’t Happen Here
My father was born in a small town in Germany, in 1922. The times were very uncertain and his father, my grandfather Alfred, had trouble finding work, but by the early 1930s Alfred and a partner, a man named Lache, had opened a garage where they fixed cars and motorcycles from England and the United […]
Protesting Trump in London
About 1000 people demonstrated in front of the US Embassy in London as Trump was inaugurated, and then took to the streets of central London in an impromptu unauthorized protest to shut down the streets. The next day up to 100,000 people, a majority women, assembled in front of the US Embassy and then marched to […]
Chicago: Rally to Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet and to Say #NOBANNOWALL!
Chicago, January 31: About 200 people protested Trump’s cabinet picks, particularly Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos – a Christian fundamentalist who is anti public education. At the end of the rally, over 50 people marched up State St. with chants like “No Muslim Ban, No Border Wall! No Fascist USA!”
Fascism on the March, Sharpening Crisis, and the Urgency to Act
Download PDF of this article. by Sunsara Taylor On January 27, Donald Trump issued a vicious ban on immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries and a ban on all refugees. With the stroke of a pen, the lives of thousands were destroyed and shockwaves of terror and fear were sent into entire countries and communities. […]
¡A detener al régimen fascista de Trump y Pence!
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Trump’s Weekly List of Crimes Committed by Immigrants is Straight Up Fascism
by Ben Cohen Make no mistake about it, this is straight up fascism and a shocking department from America’s historic tradition of being one of the most immigrant friendly nation’s on earth. The Trump administration’s first week in office has been so surreally bad that it is becoming impossible to accurately describe just how appalling […]
“Forceful” Response From Academia To Trump’s Attack on Muslim Immigrants
“The Trump administration’s entry ban triggered wide condemnation from colleges, associations, faculty groups and others in higher education,” described in an article by Paul Fein, writing at at Inside Higher Ed on Monday, January 30th. Fein pointed out that, “The speed and volume of the response by the large number of colleges and academic groups […]
Student Protests Against Muslim Ban at Ohio State, Texas A&M
Columbus, Ohio, January 30 – 2,000 people, largely students from Ohio State University, protested Trump’s anti-Muslim restrictions. Police responded by pepper spraying hundreds blocking a downtown intersection College Station, Texas, January 30 – over 1,000 Texas A&M students held a campus protest against Trump’s attacks on Muslims.