News Archives: November, 2016

In state after state, legislatures have continued their full-scale assault on the dignity of all Americans, combined with efforts to roll back progress on everything from criminal justice reform and voting rights to LGBTQ equality and women’s health. Underscoring this is a climate of fear in the country, visibly manifest in our most recent Community Organizing grants docket. On the ground groups reported to us they are dealing with fear-mongering and the demonization of immigrants and refugees in their communities at unprecedented levels.