“I am 15 years old and am facing the possibility of losing him permanently. … In 2005, when he was a young man, he had a drug conviction. He was one of the millions affected by the War on Drugs, which disproportionately incarcerated Black and Latinx people. …” Read the full article here.
Hulissa Aguilar, 15, of San Leandro, is a ninth-grade student at Arroyo High School. She is also a youth leader with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, a statewide organization working to end the criminalization of people of color in our immigration and incarceration systems.
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KPFA Women’s Magazine broadcast: “Today, the topic is the incarceration of migrant children in California detention centers, a horrifying direction for our state. Unaccompanied children are held in detention centers on both sides of the US-Mexico border. … Rev. Deborah Lee, Executive Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, has worked at the intersection of faith and social justice for over 25 years …” (58 mins.)
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — A group of faith leaders made their way to Oakland’s City Hall Friday morning to get involved in the budget process. The group had a letter for Mayor Libby Schaaf, demanding that she reimagine the city budget. …
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