NPQ is reminded at times like these how critical nonprofit legal advocates are to preserving our civil and human rights. We remain impressed at their capacity to have cases ready to go in the face of an unpredictable presidency.
We believe this message lays out the danger embedded in the moment more succinctly and powerfully than anything else.
When a US congressman claimed that saving people from “illegal alien” attacks with a border wall was a higher priority than stopping mass shootings, two fathers of slain children called BS.
The Trump administration considers tapping into money set aside for disaster recovery in Puerto Rico, Texas, California, and across the country as a possible source to provide “emergency” funding for constructing hundreds of miles of fencing along the US-Mexican border.
The absurd attempt to use a crowdfunding site as an alternate means to fund the president’s wall on the southern US border has become more convoluted.
Been there, done that, says Arizona to the bright idea of raising billions on GoFundMe from presidential supporters in the wake of yet another refusal by Congress to bend to government-shutdown ultimatums.
Two small paintings and a demand to oust the vice chair of the board popped up on an exhibition wall in the museum, and then the staff sent a letter. This has turned into a stakeholder revolt at the museum.
Described as “the largest binational metropolitan region in the world,” the cities of San Diego and Tijuana are a study in contrasts. Still, 42 artists are doing their best to foster a cross-border dialogue that underscores historical injustices even as it celebrates human connections.
Trump made his case for deterrence in a televised interview: “When you don’t do separation, when you allow the parents [and children] to stay together, okay, when you allow that, then what happens is people are gonna pour into our country!”
In the great tradition of transforming social barriers into canvases comes a provocative proposal.
