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Left Strategy After Charlottesville
"Everything we are seeing stems almost inevitably from the decisions the country made, collectively, last November.
Multi-Racial Democracy
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Going Beyond Romantic Notions of Black Unity
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Nunu Kidane
I write to share something important. We need to start discussing the community I come from and work with are largely first generation immigrants from different African countries. African immigrants are estimated at 3% of the overall immigrant population in the US. While Black, we are not included in traditional African American institutions or communities. And as immigrants, we remain outside mobilization of the large immigrants rights movements.
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The Voter ID Struggle in Pennsylvania: Losing ID Is about Losing More than the Right to Vote
For six years, we’ve believed that the right to speak means little without the right to be heard—and hundreds of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania residents have agreed with us. We’re poor and working people producing media that tells the untold stories of people in Pennsylvania—and developing those people into leaders united to change our city and state. We’re a tight crew, so when folks are having trouble, we come together to help each other out. One young man, Marco (not his real name), is a producer at Radio Unidad, Philadelphia’s only Spanish-language community news show. Andres and Paulita (not their real names) are leaders in another immigrant rights campaign that’s been meeting since January. Even though they work hard, support families, and in many cases own homes and pay taxes--the state has unceremoniously cancelled their drivers’ licenses, saying that the Tax ID numbers they used to get their licenses aren’t proof enough of their right to live in the US.