Last month, Responsible Statecraft’s Ben Freeman reported on a provision buried in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that seeks to deepen connections between the United States and Israeli militaries. ... read full post
This week, Graham Platner prevailed in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary. He will take on longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins in the general election. ... read full post
This video by Adam Ragusea (a pretty mainstream food channel) looks at how U.S. hereditary farms often preserve quasi-feudal relationships where large farm landowners exert control over migrant and trafficked laborers, recreating power imbalances similar to feudal lord-serf dynamics. ... read full post
Here is good news, won by the hard work and courage of immigrants and immigrant rights advocates in Milwaukee. Beloved Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Yessenia Ruano, who was forced to take voluntary departure to her native El Salvador with her young twin daughters last June, will be allowed to return to the U.S. ... read full post
At Camp East Montana, in Texas, a coalition of organizations have launched a class-action lawsuit with four detainees named as plaintiffs suing on behalf of themselves and everyone imprisoned in the largest detainment facility in the U.S. We have featured descriptions by detainees of the horrific abuses they have experienced at Camp East Montana before in this newsletter. The allegations in the complaint paint yet another truly horrifying picture. ... read full post
Demonstrators gathered in front of the Edward R. Roybal Federal building in LA are fasting to show solidarity with the detainees who are participating in a hunger strike at Adelanto ICE Processing Center and Desert View Annex. They are demanding: bond reform, improved conditions, adequate medical and mental health care, nutritious food, accountability for deaths, the right to organize and communicate, and to shut down Adelanto. ... read full post
In the past two weeks, people imprisoned in ICE detention centers in Adelanto, CA and Newark, NJ have organized themselves in an effort to get free. Read a letter from striking prisoners inside Delaney Hall. ... read full post
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's decision not to march in Sunday's Israel Day Parade, themed "Proud Americans, Proud Zionists," has been met with an avalanche of condemnation. A wide array of community leaders from former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Jonathan Greenblatt's Anti-Defamation League have joined in to brand his absence as a slight against New York's Jews. ... read full post
California state Sen. Scott Wiener handily won his primary race to replace retiring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Congress on Tuesday, in a race that saw his relationships with the local Jewish community tested. ... read full post
As of the time of writing, detained immigrants are on hunger strike in Delaney Hall in New Jersey, at the Adelanto detention center in California, at the North Lake detention center in Michigan, and at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania. The demands from every group of strikers are, at their core, the same: treat us like human beings. ... read full post
Two court cases that never should have happened have nevertheless provided wins this week and blows to the current administration. ... read full post