Some picks from AFSC staff this week:
Dark Money Under Fire as Election 2016 Heats Up via Common Dreams
While Democratic candidates are lining up to denounce the huge influence that dark money is having on politics in the U.S., a new report says that 2016 presidential candidates are relying on such secret contributions “like never before.”
Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement via Colorlines
Who gets to tell the story? This is a question implicit in the work I do as a historian. But the question I have been wrestling with lately is more immediate: Who gets to shape the narrative, define the history-makers, and capture the words and images of the current black-led, anti-state violence movement evolving in the United States right now?
U.S. Deports Tens Of Thousands Each Year For Minor Drug Crimes, Human Rights Watch Says via Huffington Post
Tens of thousands of people are deported each year for minor drug offenses, even if they served their time long ago, because of draconian U.S. drug laws, according to a report released Tuesday by the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
