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California Communities Are Making the Promise of Democracy Real
September 13, 2024
Read the stories of poll monitors who play a crucial role in safeguarding California voters’ ability to cast their ballot and protect their hard-won rights to language and disability support.
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‘It’s not a safe place’: the California families taking on ICE detention abuse
September 05, 2024
ICE holds people in facilities rife with abuse, medical neglect, moldy food & facilities and solitary confinement. In protest, people detained in Mesa Verde-Golden State Annex launched a labor strike.
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Q&A: How ALC's Housing Rights Team Keeps People In Their Homes
August 20, 2024
Read how ALC's staff work to address the need for safe and affordable housing in San Francisco.
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ALC Builds on a Legacy of Community Lawyering
July 15, 2024
Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus, reflects on the power and opportunity of community lawyering to advance racial and economic justice.
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The No Fly List and its Alarming Civil Rights Concerns
June 27, 2024
Every year, the U.S. government places thousands of people on the No Fly List, an opaque list that operates under an impossible veil of secrecy.
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Broken Stems: A Story of How California Prisons and ICE Tear Families Apart
March 20, 2024
Broken Stems is a comic project that tells the story of how California prisons tear apart families by voluntarily colluding with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Learning from Civil Rights Legacies: A Trip to Alabama Steeped in History & Reflection
March 18, 2024
Since their immersive trip to Alabama, ALC staff members have been sharing what they learned, the civil rights exhibits & sites that left a lasting mark, and the questions they are grappling with now.
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Community Lawyering & My Journey to Self-Love, Healing, and Justice
March 12, 2024
ALC attorney Eileen Kim vulnerably shares experiences and insights she has garnered over the years that makes her the community lawyer she is today.