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2 weeks ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
With additional reporting by Christopher AlamProtestors marched peacefully in San Francisco’s Mission District Monday evening denouncing the Trump Administration’s militarized mass deportation efforts. The marchers were cheered by residents and onlookers in the heavily immigrant community. The march comes as National Guard and U.S. Marines have been deployed in Los Angeles to quell protests there, sparking fears of yet further escalation.
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2 weeks ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
In light of events over the weekend in Los Angeles, where the Trump Administration deployed some 300 National Guard troops to quell protests against ongoing ICE raids, we are re-publishing this 2024 interview with Joseph Nunn, counsel with the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. Trump has warned that he may invoke the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that grants the president the power to deploy the military or National Guard to put down domestic rebellions or civil unrest.
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3 weeks ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
In May Florida passed a law making it illegal for non-citizens to participate in signature gathering efforts as part of the state’s initiative process. Immigrant rights groups have now joined a lawsuit arguing enforcement of the law violates constitutional protections. HB 1205 is the latest in a series of efforts by GOP lawmakers in Florida to curtail the political and civic participation of immigrants in the state.
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3 weeks ago | 
lapost.us | Peter Schurmann
In May Florida passed a law making it illegal for non-citizens to participate in signature gathering efforts as part of the state’s initiative process. Immigrant rights groups have now joined a lawsuit arguing enforcement of the law violates constitutional protections. HB 1205 is the latest in a series of efforts by GOP lawmakers in Florida to curtail the political and civic participation of immigrants in the state.
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1 month ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
Every so often you encounter a story that opens doors and opens imaginations onto previously unimagined or unrecalled realities, to the way things were or might have been, and things that still can be. If only by sheer dint of will. It’s that power inherent in story that so rattles authoritarians, who seek to close those same doors, to be the gatekeepers over which doors are opened and which shut.
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1 month ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
Every so often you encounter a story that opens doors onto previously unimagined or unrecalled realities, to the way things were or might have been, and things that still can be. If only by sheer dint of will. It’s that power inherent in story that so rattles authoritarians, who seek to close those same doors, to be the gatekeepers over which doors are opened and which shut. In the photo there’s a young adult, eyes intent, staring through wire framed glasses, hair closely cropped.
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1 month ago | 
epatoday.org | Peter Schurmann
Updated: Dec 28, 2024A new report finds that gaps in election legislation including the Voting Rights Act excludes many Limited English Proficient communities across the country. This story was first reported by Jesús García of La Opinión. Nearly 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. With election day less than two weeks out, this population — nearly one in four Americans — continues to face significant barriers to voting.
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1 month ago | 
lapost.us | Peter Schurmann
For Richard Rodriguez there is nothing abstract about faith. It is grounded in the concreteness of his lived experience, in the priests who nurtured his intellectual growth or offered mass to his aging mother, in the Latin phrases that sounded “sort of Spanish” to his childhood ears in Sacramento, where he grew up, and in the kneeling African parishioner who attends morning mass and, for Rodriguez, embodies the future of his faith.
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1 month ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
For Richard Rodriguez there is nothing abstract about faith. It is grounded in the concreteness of his lived experience, in the priests who nurtured his intellectual growth or offered mass to his aging mother, in the Latin phrases that sounded “sort of Spanish” to his childhood ears in Sacramento, where he grew up, and in the kneeling African parishioner who attends morning mass and, for Rodriguez, embodies the future of his faith.
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1 month ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann
For Richard Rodriguez there is nothing abstract about faith. It is grounded in the concreteness of his lived experience, in the priests who nurtured his intellectual growth or offered mass to his aging mother, in the Latin phrases that sounded “sort of Spanish” to his childhood ears in Sacramento, where he grew up, and in the kneeling African parishioner who attends morning mass and, for Rodriguez, embodies the future of his faith.
