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‘Genocidal’: Transgender people begin to flee states with anti-LGBTQ laws

Laws restricting gender-affirming care have prompted some families to move. By Kiara Alfonseca June 11, 2023 Read the full article: https://abcnews.go.com/US/genocidal-transgender-people-begin-flee-states-anti-lgbtq/story?id=99909913 EXCERPT: When Texas officials announced their intentions to launch child abuse investigations involving people who provide gender-affirming care for their transgender children, Susan’s heart dropped. Susan has a 7-year-old transgender daughter, Elsa, whose parents asked that […]

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Is COVID-19 Still a Pandemic?

INVITATION TO ACTION: Wear a mask! Support your local Mask Bloc Is COVID-19 Still a Pandemic? Or is it becoming an endemic disease? A BU virologist, epidemiologist, and physician reflect on the status of the virus as the CDC cuts isolation period to 24 hours WCGTV Editors Note: We believe that the act of choosing […]

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Get Inspired by Protesting for Palestine

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The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Has Become the Face of Starvation in Gaza The harrowing image of a skeletal Yazan Kafarneh circulated widely on social media and has served as a graphic warning about the enclave’s dire food situation.

Aid groups have warned that deaths from malnutrition-related causes have only just begun for Gaza’s more than two million people. Five months into Israel’s campaign against Hamas and its siege of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are close to starvation, United Nations officials say. Almost no aid has reached northern Gaza for weeks, after […]

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I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/28/annelle_sheline  A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Annelle Sheline, who worked as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was not planning on publicly resigning, but her colleagues asked her […]

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Noura Arakat on Middle East Matters- video

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Middle East Matters (MEM) (@middleeastmatters) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C40v9v-RyrK/?igsh=MWExcGV5OGQ2eGhteA==  “The law has been disappointing, so has the media but hasn’t done its job, so has the government, which hasn’t represented the people like it’s supposed to represent them. 80% of registered Democrats have demanded a ceasefire, and yet a […]

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