How ICE Is Using Solitary Confinement to Punish Asylum Seekers, Including LGBT & Disabled Immigrants. #DemocracyNow

                                                             How ICE Is Using Solitary Confinement to Punish Asylum Seekers, Including                                     LGBT & Disabled Immigrants from #DemocracyNow       New documents reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is putting thousands of

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Trump's Wall of Lies Real Time with Bill Maher from (HBO)

                                            If all of aren't free, no one is.  Mercedes Quinn.

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Friday May 17, 2019, U.S. passing of LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill

The House on Friday passed a sweeping LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill that would modify existing civil rights legislation to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, jury service, education, federal programs and credit. “The LGBTQ community has waited nearly 250 years for full equality in our country,” said Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., the legislation’s chief sponsor and one of eight openly LGBTQ members in the House. “Today, we’re one step closer to that goal.” The Equality Act, which was reintroduced in Ma

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26 trans women killed in 2018

26 trans women killed in 2018 Transgender women face disproportionate levels of violence in the US and across the world. The majority of whom were young women of color, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, 42, was found dead in her home on January 5 in North Adams, Massachusetts. Steele-Knudslien organized and produced the Miss Trans New England and other pageants, and was loved and known by many in both the local and national trans community. Viccky Gutierrez, 33, a transgender woman from Honduras was stabbed and had her body

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