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3 days ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Sunita Sohrabji
A raucous debate ensued on Capitol Hill May 13 afternoon, as members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee weighed in on proposed legislation that would strip $800 billion from the Medicaid budget. The committee is tasked with finding spending cuts which will be added to an omnibus budget reconciliation bill expected to be voted on the House floor early next week.
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4 days ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Sunita Sohrabji
Late night May 11 — ironically Mother’s Day — House Republicans released the text of a plan that would strip $880 billion from Medicaid, leaving at least 13.7 million people without health insurance coverage. The proposed legislation is scheduled to be heard in the House Energy and Commerce committee May 13 afternoon.
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1 week 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 week ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Selen Ozturk
High-profile deportations, detentions and denials of U.S. travelers are making Americans nationwide wonder who’s safe to enter and leave the country. With these increased stops and searches at U.S. borders and airports, electronic device searches are at an all-time high.
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1 week ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Christopher Alam
Today, the California Civil Rights Department is launching a first-of-its-kind statewide pilot program to help businesses that opt-in to respond to hate and discrimination. Resources to be provided by the department include training on state civil rights protections at businesses, bystander intervention, technical support, and sexual harassment prevention.
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1 week ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Sunita Sohrabji
A South Lake Tahoe man, who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at his interracial neighbors, will not serve jail time. In home security video footage captured last fall, Mark Douglas — former neighbor of Norman Randy Pratt and his wife Kimyoeuth, who is Cambodian American — was seen repeatedly shouting: “You’re a f*****g pussy;” “F*****g g***s;” and “little f****t.”Douglas continued to repeat the slurs, then escalated into death threats. “I wouldn’t go to sleep. I’ll be coming to see you.
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1 week ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Selen Ozturk
With immigrants threatened under the new federal administration, over 100 Asian American organizations rallied outside the capitol to push for state-level protections. The Monday, April 28 morning rally — led by Assemblymembers Stephanie Nguyen and Dr. Darshana Patel and Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty — kicked off the second-ever annual Asian American and Hawaiian / Native Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Advocacy Day, held by the coalition Asian Pacific American Public Affairs.
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1 week ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Agustin Duran
Leaders representing diverse, victimized communities urged California not to end its funding for initiatives aiming to combat hate crimes. “If there is ever a time when we need support, it is now,” said Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the AAPI Equity Alliance. “We have an administration that is openly anti-immigrant, anti-Asian anti-Latino, anti-Black and they are using their power against our communities in multitude ways.
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2 weeks ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Viji Sundaram
BERKELEY, Calif. – Simultaneous protests took place on the University of California Berkeley campus May 1. Dozens of UC employees held signs denouncing the university’s labor practices while nearby students gathered to demand that it divest from the global arms trade. Both protests also took aim at the policies of the Trump administration, denouncing the ongoing crackdown on immigrants as well as its continued support for Israel in the war on Gaza.
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2 weeks ago | 
americancommunitymedia.org | Christopher Alam
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is demanding state detention centers make “significant improvements” to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention standards. That’s after a new 165-page report from the Department of Justice released Monday found that all of the state’s six privately-operated immigration detention facilities are failing to meet basic requirements for mental health care, medical recordkeeping, and suicide prevention.