I just published "Chaos or Community? Insights for today from Martin Luther King Jr.'s final book." An opportunity to reflect on MLK's prescient words for the moment we are in today. medium.com/p/chaos-or-c...
From my post to Facebook: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …
The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.
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How can local #leaders advance long-term social mobility and #economic prosperity in their #communities?
A new Toolkit for Increasing Upward Mobility in Your Community from the Urban Institute offers pathways for creating real, community-driven change to increase upward mobility.
Excited to share the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social toolkit our team built to support local leaders working to advance upward mobility. It includes practical tools and examples for local leaders and is live now: upward-mobility.urban.org/toolkit-incr...
ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
Great advice from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues Martha Fedorowicz and Kimberly Burrowes upward-mobility.urban.org/9-tips-susta...
In recognition of Black History Month, Urban experts used the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard to understand changes in Black homeownership and housing wealth at the county level. A new Urban Wire post shares some of these valuable data insights.
Do the math. We have a huge housing shortage and demand for construction workers, a quarter of whom are immigrants.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...
Have you used the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard to explore insights into the key conditions affecting upward mobility across the US? If so, we’d love your feedback!
Please take a few minutes to complete a brief survey: urban.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
At beautiful Union Station, no less
Eliminating the Dept of Education could seriously hamper protections and funding for disabled children to get a free, appropriate education, according to Urban colleagues @alexis-weaver.bsky.social @sjpopkin.bsky.social and Dana Ferrante
www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...
Stonewall National Monument New York Info Alerts Maps Calendar Fees “By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later...1500.” Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Five visitors and one park ranger standing next to an iron fence as they post rainbow flags. Plan Your Visit Located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Stonewall National Monument is one of the many parks in New York Harbor. Educational images of leaning at Stonewall National Monument Education No Matter where you are, we can bring Stonewall National Monument to your classroom. Find teachers resources here. A rainbow flag overlaid with "Stonewall National Monument, Established 2016" with the NPS arrowhead. LGB Flags What are LGB flags and what days should we celebrate them? Click here to find out.
The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument.
Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed.
3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened.
Erasure.
A warning from a self-described "self-respecting conservative"
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
“What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.” - Pope Francis
nymag.com/intelligence...
Millions rely on Treasury payments for Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and public services. DOGE’s access to these systems raises risks of delays, security breaches, and political interference. Here’s what you need to know: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Turner will try to privatize Fannie/Freddie. Privatizing GSEs will give the upside of massive mortgage market to private shareholders & leave downside to taxpayers. It will also unleash massive predatory financial practices, especially with eviscerated CFPB.
For more: prospect.org/special-repo...
in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.
"Local Data for Equitable Communities" is in bold text. Below that, a line drawing shows a vibrant community scene with houses, an apartment building, a bus stop, a playground and people of various ages walking, biking, and playing. The scene has a city skyline in the background and is accented with pastel-colored circles highlighting different parts of the community.
📢 Exciting news as my first Bluesky post! New Local Data for Equitable Communities CFP from @rwjf.bsky.social and @urbaninstitute.bsky.social for #nonprofits using data to advance #equity in the physical, economic and social conditions that affect health. Learn more at urbn.is/localdatagrant
Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963
I'm honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. today by reading and reflecting on his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written over 60 years ago but more relevant than ever.
Key excerpt below and full text available at:
shorturl.at/gnKLS
Any thoughts on the biggest capitalist of them all buying LFC?
Needs your hot takes
My heart aches for the thousands of people who've lost homes and businesses and the millions more who will continue to be affected by these wildfires for years to come. I've lived through a number of these in my 30 years in LA but this could be the most damaging.
www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
I always say that LA is much better to live in when you don't have to drive A LOT
Smoke yesterday over Topanga/Malibu from #PalisadesFire. So much destruction already here and in other areas that are burning. We are safe, but hoping the winds die down soon.
