A leading LGBTQ organization in Iowa said community members won t back down after authorities in Idaho blocked a planned riot at a Pride event there. Thirty-one members of a white nationalist group were arrested Saturday after law-enforcement officials got word of the plans. Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy for One Iowa Action, said it follows more heated rhetoric in the past year amid a push by some conservatives to adopt policies deemed hostile toward those who identify as LGBTQ. .
INDIANAPOLIS—Sixty-six years ago on Wednesday, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. Her seemingly simple protest helped inspire many more to
INDIANAPOLIS—Sixty-six years ago on Wednesday, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. Her seemingly simple protest helped inspire many more to
Jewish Ledger
These American Jewish activists are trying to make the Uighur cause another Darfur
By Ron Kampeas
(JTA) – When Rayhan Asat attended a Passover seder last month, its contours seemed familiar and different at once – especially the tradition of leaving a seat empty at the table.
It reminded Asat, a lawyer, of leaving a seat empty for her brother, Ekpar, at her graduation from Harvard Law School in 2016. Ekpar, a member of China’s Uighur minority, had been disappeared by the Chinese government.
Jewish World Watch, an anti-genocide group that hosted the online seder for Uighurs on March 30, suggested that families leave a seat at the seder table for the more than a million people whom China’s government has imprisoned or otherwise disappeared.
The next major Jewish action is on behalf of Uighurs
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Protesters against China s policies toward the Uighurs demonstrate outside United Nations headquarters in New York City, March 22, 2021. The protester in the foreground is wearing a kippah.
(JTA) - When Rayhan Asat attended a Passover seder last month, its contours seemed familiar and different at once - especially the tradition of leaving a seat empty at the table.
It reminded Asat, a lawyer, of leaving a seat empty for her brother, Ekpar, at her graduation from Harvard Law School in 2016. Ekpar, a member of China s Uighur minority, had been disappeared by the Chinese government.