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Help Wanted: Oklahoma’s Immigration Crisis and the Urgent Need For Habeas Counsel

Oklahoma has a growing immigration enforcement crisis.

By Travis Handler

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NextGen Meeting: Find your voice. Create change.

The goal of this program is to provide students with a place to meet other young advocates, connect with community leaders, and learn new skills and information that will allow them to be better advocates in their schools and communities.

The purpose of this first meeting is for students to get to know each other and meet community organizing leaders in OKC. Students will also have a chance to brainstorm ideas on how to approach pressing issues in their communities.

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Nov 18, 2021

We Must Get Racism Out of Automated Decision-Making

Artificial Intelligence systems are developed in ways that don't adequately take into account existing racism, sexism and other inequities. This results in invisible, but very real discrimination.

A 3D Robot staring at an industrial network chain link.
Nov 15, 2021

Guest Blog: Why Oklahomans Should Pay Attention to Redistricting

More than half a million Oklahomans will be living in a different Congressional district by the end of this month, and most don’t even know it. 

By

Andy Moore
Nov 12, 2021

ICE’s Detention Oversight System Needs an Overhaul

Effective oversight and transparency are not enough, we need to shut down ICE's mass immigration detention machine.

Immigration detainees leave the cafeteria under the watch of guards during a media tour at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La., in this Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 file photo.
Nov 09, 2021

Stop-and-Fingerprint Can’t Become the Next Stop-and-Frisk

The Michigan Supreme Court hears arguments in an ACLU appeal challenging unconstitutional fingerprinting by police on the street.

crime investigator wearing gloves fingerprinting person
Nov 08, 2021

The Final Religious Request of a Man on Death Row is in the Supreme Court’s Hands

Texas won’t allow pastor to pray aloud or “lay hands on” John Ramirez as he dies.

Supreme Court in Washington, DC
Oct 21, 2021

My Life Was Derailed By a Traffic Ticket

A minor infraction cost me my driver’s license, my job, thousands of dollars, and over a decade entangled with a system that punishes poverty.

Traffic violation on a windshield.
Oct 21, 2021

Internal Watchdog Finds ICE Violations of Solitary Confinement Policy

Immigration detention is inherently inhumane. It’s time for the Biden administration to put an end to ICE’s detention machine.

Woman holds sign that reads "halt solitary" as demand to end solitary confinement in prisons
Oct 18, 2021

We Need Accountability for Those Who Commit Violence Against Native Women

Law enforcement must be held accountable when officers abuse their authority to sexually assault the very people they are sworn to protect.

Jeannie Hovland, the deputy assistant secretary for Native American Affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, poses with a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women mask.
Oct 15, 2021

How Mastercard’s New Policy Violates Sex Workers’ Rights

Everyone deserves access to financial services and everyone should be able to make a living – sex workers included.

Mastercard symbol on a phone.